Dean
Dean
The Scenario: an all day conference in Chicopee Mass on Friday.
The Problem: there are oh so many problems! The biggest, was no time to fit Bootcamp in to the schedule. I had to be up and out of the house by 5:30am to travel to Chicopee Mass for an all day conference 9-5p, with a 3 hour drive home. I’m gonna miss every single Bootcamp class- grr!
Another problem for me was waking up before the sun! that just isn’t right in my world.
Once at the conference, we were packed in like sardines into a tiny room filling it past its capacity. Feeling a little claustraphobic, please don’t put me by someone smelly. You laugh however, I have a very big aversion to overwhelming perfumes, and body odors… well who doesn’t really?!
Next, I had to sit in a chair for 8 hours and get this… pay attention?! Two things wrong with that picture: me sitting still and paying attention. We all know from Booty that I have a little trouble paying attention. So there I sat, or some would say squirming and twitching… now what was this conference about?
Oh and did I mention… it took place in a… shhhh! Library… really? could I be anymore tested than that? Within the first five minutes of having to be silent, I wanted to scream, or break out in song. We did eventually get to break for lunch and they provided it for us… ooh this could be bad. So many problems so little time.
Heck, who am I kidding I had 8 hours of time to come up with solutions to all my problems. Did I mention I have trouble paying attention?
The Solution: Well, first of all… the sun does actually rise, eventually, when normal people get up out of bed; which just happened not to be me this morning. By the time I hit Brattleboro VT the sun was up, about darn time. Patience is not one of my virtues.
As far as sitting, my well thought out plan of sitting in the back of the room enabled me to sit, squirm and twitch. I was able to stand and stretch without too much disruption. I could also sneak out of the room and walk around the library belting out show tunes. As for lunch, it was about making healthy choices. It was actually quite easy. There on the table was a veggie platter, turkey rollups, as well as cookies and chips. Nix the junk, hit the veggies, pick apart the wraps for the meat.
Then I laced up the sneakers and powerwalked my lunch break! Of course I texted Nancy, (shoot I should have photo-op’d it!) for a “Yeh, ME!” and to text my satellite positioning should I end up missing in Chicopee (it wasn’t the best part of town I was galavanting.) Even though I missed Bootcamp, i was still able to get some form ofexercise in for the day and made some pretty remarkable eating choices (for me anyway). I call that a good day.
Blog you later.
gretchen
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Make It Happen!
Coach Dean
Your health and well being is our primary concern!
If you are a current client who registered before December 2010 and have not filled out an updated health history form this month, please go to http://getfitnhbootcamp.com/health-history-update/ like, right now! 🙂
It will take most of you less than two minutes – really!
Thank-you for choosing to train with us, and keep Making It Happen!
Dean
We are finding that the Concord school district is making the call to close school a little late for our purposes, so we are making a change to policy.
You will receive an email by 4:00am if we are closing morning training and by 3:00pm if afternoon training is cancelled. We will also post on the blog and Facebook.
Hopefully this will clear up any confusion. Thank-you for your patience and thank-you for choosing to train with us!
Dean
Superintendent of Bootcamp
We highlighted a few weeks ago how Karl reached his goal of losing 100 pounds (or more) last year. Now we get to hear from the man himself.
Karl’s Transformation
Karl before Get Fit NH Bootcamp
I was too fat and not happy with the way I looked or felt. The only problem was that I didn’t know what to do or how to go about changing that. I knew I didn’t have the will power to get a gym membership and work out on my own every day. I have been down that road too many times with exercise equipment at home. The first few week’s goes great then I tend to fall into the “Tomorrow night” routine, and before I knew it three more weeks had past and I hadn’t thought about working out.
It was always easier to buy bigger clothes then do anything else.
Bootcamp experience
I was hesitant to come to bootcamp. I didn’t know what to expect, and I’m not one for new things. The first two weeks was painful, but it was a good pain. It was sore muscles that I didn’t know I had. Once I was into the swing of things it has been great. Dean and Nancy are positive and encourage us to go a little further but you aren’t pushy about it. I know when I heard it was bootcamp I was picturing a strict drill instructor. As I quickly found out that is not how it is at Get Fit NH Bootcamp. I have found everyone involved in class to be positive and encouraging. I guess it’s hard to say my experience has been anything but good, especially with the results we have seen. I like the variety of exercises, and finding new limits.
Eating Habit changes
This is probably the area that I have had to change the most in. I love to eat and drink. It wasn’t unusual for me to drink 4 or more beers a night, snack, and eat a huge dinner. I wouldn’t eat much of a breakfast, usually a bagel and a coffee. Lunch was typically a sandwich, or left over’s from the night before. I would load up on dinner till I was stuffed. I would eat lots of carbs during the day. I wasn’t concerned with what I ate or how much. Now I follow a lower carb diet, making sure I get the right amount of protein and it seems to work well. I have cut back on the beer and snacking. It was difficult at first but after a few weeks it wasn’t too bad. By not having certain things on a regular basis it makes them taste better when I do. We don’t typically buy junk food now. If it isn’t in the house it is easier to avoid. I find myself looking at food and asking if I need it or just want it. Before bootcamp everything was a need, now most things are a want. I still eat the “wants” but not as often. The more weight I lost the easier it has been to stay away from the junk food, especially as goals became close. We still go out to dinner, and eat what we want but we are a lot smarter about it. We work it into our meal plans.
Karl (and friends) Now - 102 pounds lighter and counting!
Other Changes
This has been a huge area for me. I need a whole new wardrobe. I am fitting into clothes that I haven’t worn since high school. I am planning a ski vacation this winter. I haven’t been skiing for 7 years because of ski gear not fitting and not being in shape for it. I see small changes in my day to day activities. I can take the dog for a mile walk and not be out of breath. I’m not ashamed by the way I look anymore. I can easily bend over to tie my shoes. My mind set is a little different also.
I never would of believed that I could lose this much weight in any amount of time, let alone one year.
The more weight I have lost the more I want to see how much farther I can go. I am looking for another 25-30 pounds and then I believe I will be at a maintaining weight. It’s fun to see the reactions of people we haven’t seen in a while. They are amazed at what we have accomplished. I also believe that if I/we could do this and be as successful as we have, anyone can do it.
Be Like Karl. Become part of the fitness revolution that is truly creating change – Mind and Body. At Get Fit NH Bootcamp results are not automatic, you have to work for it. But our clients are proving every day that you don’t have to settle for second best.
Start Making It Happen Today!
Did you know that there are over 11,500 trips to the Emergency room every year from snow shoveling related injuries?
Here are three tips to keep you from being one of them:
1) Warmup – no really. Even just a little light stretching can help loosen you up.
2) Drink Plenty of Water – Shoveling is exhausting exercise. Tuck a small water bottle in your jacket and take breaks every ten minutes or so to get a drink. The combination of cold weather and exercise can dehydrate you very quickly.
3) Use Good Form – Just like when training in the gym, sloppy form leads to injury. Bend your knees, life with your back, and avoid twisting and/or throwing over your shoulder.
Fun Fact to Know and Tell: a 150lb person will burn over 400 calories per hour shoveling snow!
January 18, 2010
Please forward this to your training partners!
We have regretfully decided to close afternoon and evening classes at both locations today, January 18th. After evaluating the storm, the high probability of freezing rain and busy road crews, staying off the road seems to be the best course of action.
Many of our evening …clients have already called us to say they are being sent home early – please drive safely!
Tonight’s New Client Orientation Rescheduled to Tuesday January 25 @ 6:45pm in Concord
On May 8, 2008 we held our first training session with 9 crazy people (some who are still with us) out in a grassy part of our backyard. We had an absolute blast getting our face in the dirt, getting wet when it rained, running around our house – good times!
Get Fit NH Bootcamp was born.
It really was like military bootcamp in a lot of ways. Back in the “early days” we had a training manual from our friends Cynthia and Keith down at Cynergy Crossfit in Hanson, MA, the couple who introduced us to the “fitness bootcamp” concept in the first place. Although our training philosophies are not the same, we owe them a debt of gratitude for so freely sharing their time and knowledge with us. This is the phase I would call “Get Fit NH Bootcamp 1.0”. Back then the training was mostly calisthenic based – very little equipment, body weight intensive. Effective, but as we learned, limited in long range effectiveness.
Bootcamp 2.0 came about 6 months later. We built and opened the first of our two training facilities in October 2008. With the winter months ahead, we revamped our training, shortly after that introduced “Sven”, and over the next couple years added more tools (such as resistance bands, TRX, Kettlebells). We opened a new location in Concord and thanks to our incredible clients outgrew that and moved into a larger facility in Concord. One of the things that our clients continue to tell us is that they love the fact they never get bored, and our training philosophy was largely built around keeping the training constantly changing. Our clients have seen incredible results and the training has proved incredibly effective.
So if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
Toward the end of last year Nancy and I began to have discussions regarding our training, not because it is necessarily broke, but because we wanted to make sure it was the best it could be!
We sat down and crunched the numbers; since May of 2008 we have approximately 40,000 training hours (that’s a bunch) with our clients. We have attended numerous conferences, earned additional credentials in both training and nutrition, read dozens of training books, listened to CD’s and have an ever expanding library of training resources and DVD’s. We have added staff (CJ, Tyler and Dennis) and gathered their input and viewpoint. We have learned and continue to learn how to design the most effective training for our clients. We have collaborated with and mentored under some of the finest coaches in the country and even world. As we have grown, our training has changed to reflect both the latest science AND (sometimes more importantly) the proven real world effectiveness as shown with our clients results. Our long time clients have seen this shift, sometimes noticeable, sometimes not so much.
Hi Dean & Nancy,
Last June when I signed up for my 2 week trial of Get Fit NH Boot Camp I really did not know what to expect. There was a girl I worked with that encouraged me to try it out. I would hear her come up the stairs ever so slowly, then pause outside my office door (she looked like she was in a lot of pain from something). I asked her if she was okay?
A few days later the same thing happened and she told me that she was going to boot camp. She said she had lost 20 pounds and I should try it out. So I took her advice and tried it. The first week was painful but I did not let it discourage me. I went the 2nd week – still painful but not as much. I was determined I was going to keep going. I find myself getting stronger and stronger. Accomplishing things I never thought I could.
I felt very good about the whole thing when I got on the scale for my 2nd fitness evaluation and I had lost 15 pounds. I had been trying everything and it just wasn’t working for me. I really do enjoy going and I even look forward to it. I find myself with a lot more energy and just happy again. I have a wedding to attend next September in Oregon for my niece and I have already bought a dress – 1 size down from what I would normally wear. I really hope that about a month before the wedding that I will either be bringing that dress to be altered or getting a new one in a smaller size. Keep pushing me – I have goals to attain!!!
Terry Reed
So here it is…
Bootcamp 3.0!
In fact our clients are experiencing it already. A radical new philosophy? Not at all, but rather the culmination of what we have learned to date about training, human physiology and performance, body composition and just plain having fun training!
We are committed to delivering the most effective group personal training anywhere, and to the concept of continual and never ending improvement (Kaizen).
And here’s the best part – you still won’t get bored! 🙂
We are excited about these changes, and are confident that our clients, who already get tremendous results, will crank their training up to a whole different level.
We look forward to seeing what you are going to accomplish this year.
Make It Happen!
Dean, Nancy, CJ and Dennis
In honor of Dr. King we are going to exercise our rights with a full Get Fit NH Bootcamp schedule on Monday.
Make It Happen!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Dean,
I now feel confident that I will live a much longer and healthier life. Below is a copy of my blood work results just 6 weeks or so after I started boot camp. Today (about a year later) I received my latest blood work results:
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Start | Now | Variance |
| Cholesterol | 212 mg/dl | 165 mg/dl |
47 mg/dl Favorable |
| Triglycerides | 157 mg/dl | 79 mg/dl |
78 mg/dl Favorable |
| HDL Cholesterol | 49 mg/dl | 54.2 mg/dl |
5.2 mg/dl Favorable |
| LDL Cholesterol | 132 mg/dl |
95 mg/dl | 37 mg/dl Favorable |
How awesome is that? If you are able to offer a 5:00pm or 5:30pm class in Concord in 2011 (DONE! 🙂 I will definitely go back to 4 sessions/week and make an even bigger difference in my health. I have also committed to quit smoking on November 18th of this year, National Smoke-out Day, I have no doubt that will impact my health even more!
Thanks so much for your help, support and patience in this past year. As you can see you have made a real impact on my overall health. My Doctor even wrote a comment on her note to me about keeping up with my boot camp.
Dee
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