cold turkey

 
How to go cold turkey from chocolate
To help you start your month giving chocolate the boot on the right foot, here are our top tips to prepare for your break-up.

Clear out any chocolate stashes (including emergency ones). If it’s not there, it can’t tempt you to relapse with its sweet, chocolate'y ways!

Practice your break-up speech in front of a mirror. That way, you’ll be less likely to cry when the moment comes.

break up with chocolate for a month

It's not you, it's me.

Could you break up with chocolate for a month to help change the lives of people battling mental health problems, addiction and social isolation?

real benefits

fit·ness / ’fitnis

The state or condition of being physically sound and healthy, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.
A state of general mental and physical well-being.
I am amazed regularly that I am in a most wonderful position everyday of assisting people to create positive, life changing habits for themselves.  In turn however, the people I get to train also affect me in a most positive way. I am continually uplifted, inspired and motivated by the journey’s of many individuals and the life altering changes that people choose to create that transformation for themselves.
I absolutely love virtually every aspect of being a trainer. It’s incredibly rewarding. I get great satisfaction everyday training and conversing with interesting people who own powerful life stories.

everyday ways to burn calories

To burn calories we need to expend energy. And to expend energy we need to move! Here are ten every day ways you can burn calories ...

1. Take the stairs

At every opportunity, take the stairs over the lift or escalator. Next time you’re at the train station, a shopping mall, a friend’s apartment block or work, pick the stairs to get to your destination. You’ll be using big muscle groups of the lower body, which burn a higher amount of calories, so keep moving.

obstacle challenges

so many obstacle events to choose from ... and all look pretty exciting .. below is a full list of all the events that are planned or in the pipeline over the next 12 months ...

Date	Event	Location	State
22 & 23 Sep 2012	Tough Mudder	Sydney	NSW
30 Sep 2012	Stampede in the Valley	Perth	WA
13 Oct 2012	Raw Challenge	Central Coast	NSW
27 Oct 2012	The Stampede	Melbourne	VIC
10 Nov 2012	Warrior Dash	Brisbane	QLD
17 Nov 2012	The Stampede	Sydney	NSW
17 Nov 2012	Viking Challenge	Melbourne	VIC
01 Dec 2012	Mud Run	Sydney	NSW
02 Dec 2012	MS Mud Run	Adelaide	SA
01 & 02 Dec 2012	Hidden Warrior	Melbourne	VIC
19 & 20 Jan 2013	Tough Mudder	Melbourne	VIC
02 & 03 Feb 2013	Beach Bash	Central Coast	NSW
09 Feb 2013	Warrior Dash	Sydney	NSW
09 & 10 Feb 2013	Tough Mudder	Sydney	NSW
23 Feb 2013	Kings of the Sand	Sydney	NSW
02 & 03 Mar 2013	Spartan Race	Melbourne	VIC
03 Mar 2013	Samurai Challenge	Melbourne	VIC
16 & 17 Mar 2013	Raw Challenge	Barrington Tops	NSW
16 & 17 Mar 2013	Spartan Race	Sydney	NSW
TBA Mar 2013	The Kokoda Grunt	SE Qld	QLD
TBA Apr 2013	The Stampede	Adelaide	SA
17 & 18 Aug 2013	Tough Mudder	Brisbane	QLD
26 & 27 Oct 2013	Tough Mudder	Perth	WA

a must read

everyone should read and understand this ...

why you're still fat ...

weekend warriors #10

     

'mixing it up!!' 
pioneer park, proserpine. (front end)

oh. what fun :D introduce a rope and anything is possible! and some good ole fashioned tug o' war at the end - friendly like. right?!

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weekend warriors #09

             'circuit breaker!!'  island drive park, cannonvale
             a few away this week doing the stampede down in brisbane but a great session regardless -
             hard and fast and some tired bodies at the end ... :) perish or persist? indeed :) they persisted!
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the right time to start?

I started writing this column back in January, aiming it at those who were sedentary, hopefully encouraging them to become active and those who were overweight, hopefully encouraging them to become healthy. Spring is now upon us with summer knocking on the door. The layers of clothing that have been protecting us throughout the winter are already starting to be peeled off. Do we like what we see? Are we enjoying how we feel?

I don’t believe in focusing on a ‘number’ weight. It can be detrimental to an extent and very limiting as there are too many factors it doesn’t take into account. Yet most wanting to ‘shed fat’ are focused on losing ‘x amount of kgs’ rather than saying they want a healthy and functional body. So based on that, do you realise since I started writing, if you had taken change on board, losing weight at the rate of half a kilo a week, right now you would be 16 kilograms lighter.

weekend warriors #08

              'let's get wet!!' rotary park, proserpine

              after last week's tough session a more fun approach this week. still warrior worthy training.
              but water involvement. oh what a ton of fun!
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weekend warriors #07

'burning butts!'
cannonvale beach / beach rd hill

97, 98, 99 ... yeah we love 100's! we love lunges. we love ANYTHING - specially with a hill involved.

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