March Madness was such a success last year, we just knew we had to roll it out again this year for everyone at Get Fit NH. Whether you’re a veteran of our challenges or brand new, you’ll want to get involved, because who doesn’t like a little madness?

The Concord and Epsom gyms do things differently, which we will highlight below.

Get Fit NH Epsom

We know how much you love to push that sled so we’ll be breaking up into training time teams and go after it on the green. It’s a great feeling to push a 135 pound sled for the first time or for the fifty first times. Last year we about wore out the turf, and Coach Nancy loves to see those laps rack up. The prize for all this hard work? Your very own dinner party from the Carlson’s kitchen

Get Fit NH Concord

We are going to break into teams of 4, so look for the sign up sheet on the desk. The deadline to form a team will be March 8th, so you only have about 10 days to get it together We will go head to head bracket style, most MEPS wins the round and moves on.

We’ve put a few new rules in place for this year’s challenge. Since we never want to put anyone in harm’s way and overtraining can lead to injuries and other complications, we’ve added a MEPS cap of 1200 per person for each week. If there is a tie for MEPS at the end of the week we will use tiebreakers (most Meps in the yellow zone, then red as a second tiebreaker if needed) in order to decide who will advance to the next round. Also new this year, only MEPS earned between Monday and Friday will count towards the challenge. Last year the carry-over of not getting the results from the week before until Wednesday or Thursday because of weekend MEPS detracted from the competition. So in order to get your MEPS in you will have to make sure you are in at some point by Friday night before we close.

Want to participate but don’t have a belt?

We got you covered!

For this challenge we are selling the new MZ3 MyZone belts for LESS than what we pay! That’s right- $60! If you have one of the older belts, those are great and work fabulous, however the upgraded belts (MZ3) record activity in real time. So let’s say you are out skiing – if you have you belt on then your MEPS will update immediately rather than recording on your bean until the next time you return to the gym. Also you will be able to see your effort stream (meaning your tile) in real time rather than going back to see how you did.

And the Prize. A sweet custom Get Fit NH tee designed by the winning team!​

This contest will run the 13^th of March through the 14^th of April (last two weeks of March and first two weeks of April) with recovery week smack dab in the middle. MEPS earned during recovery week will not count for the challenge, as the purpose of recovery week is to, well, recover.

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Let’s get ready to have some fun and kill it for March Madness Round 2!

-Coach Adam

March Madness Challenge

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Start Date: Monday March 13, 2017
End Date: Friday April 14, 2017
Cost: Just a little Blood, Sweat and Tears
Registration deadline: Wednesday March 8, 2017

“One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.”

So here's how it's going down.

We will have dinner, watch the movie, and have a few minutes of feedback, comments, and Q&A afterwards.

We (Get Fit NH) are going to provide the main dish, which will be absolutely amazing because I am cooking it. (A healthy dose of humility is good for the soul).

What we want you to do is bring in your favorite "sugar free" side dish to share. This is optional, but if you don't we may all go hungry. Just kidding. I think.

Anyhoo, please sign up and let us know you are coming. RSVP is March 10th, and then we are cutting you off like a Boston driver in rush hour. BOOM!

Hope to see you there - Coach Dean

Dinner and A Movie

Saturday March 18th, 2017

Get Fit NH Concord

Dinner at 5:00pm

Film starts at around 6:00pm, or whenever we are done eating. 🙂

Please RSVP Below

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Sign up before you're too late

Our "Essentials Nutrition Course" has been an active online nutrition coaching source for several years. Focusing on creating a food plan that leads to health for busy moms, career workaholics, professional dieters, and self proclaimed fitness enthusiasts.

Now, I am thrilled to announce we are going LIVE.  ​

In person, "hands" on nutrition coaching from our expert nutrition coaches, in a small group coaching format. Winning!

Did you ever feel like you have a good guy on one shoulder and a bad guy speaking in your ear on the other side? I know it leaves me feeling stressed out. Who do I listen too? How do I make the bad guy go away or at least be quieter? How do I make the good guy easier to listen to? 

That is how I often feel. I'm with you. Its hard to discern through each day what is the best plan. Its hard not to give into that negative talk and therefore the negative behavior. ​Sometimes its just hard to be good all the time. 

During the 10 weeks, you will begin to see and feel dramatic changes with your body, and not just the obvious physical changes, you will also notice the psychological and physiological changes as well. We'll work together to find a way to tune down the bad and increase all the good stuff. Things like: increased sense of well-being, an abundance of energy, weight loss, a sense of control, and the most important change of all… increased self-confidence.

All of this is included with your Essentials Nutrition LIVE ​

• 10 Weeks of In Person Coaching with our Nutrition Experts
• Bi-Weekly Progress Check-Ins using our state-of-the-art Fit3D Scanner
• Beautiful Full-Color Printed Lesson Manual
• Goal Setting and Tracking

• Discover and Practive Your "5 Why's"
• 10-Weeks in our Private Facebook Group to ask questions, share ideas, and help each other out - this is ALWAYS a favorite part of the challenge.
• Strategies to stop dieting and start to learn and practice the habits that will help you get and live lean - for life!

In a nutshell you get Accountability, Access To Expertise, and Association with a group of Like-Minded Rockstars committed to success - EVERY WEEK!

Essentials Live Meets at 9:00am Saturday Mornings starting on March 11th at Concord Get Fit NH (unless otherwise announced)

Nancy Carlson

 As the creator of the Nutrition Essentials online course, I am thrilled to bring this life changing teaching live and up close. With the help of those on my team we've helped hundreds of clients lose thousands of pounds. Essentials Live helps create the habits you need to live lean for life!

You Asked For It - You Got IT!

Our "Essentials Nutrition Course" has been an active online nutrition coaching source for several years. Focusing on creating a food plan that leads to health for busy moms, career workaholics, professional dieters, and self proclaimed fitness enthusiasts.

Now, I am thrilled to announce we are going LIVE.  ​

In person, "hands" on nutrition coaching from our expert nutrition coaches, in a small group coaching format. Winning!

During the 10 weeks, you will begin to see and feel dramatic changes with your body, and not just the obvious physical changes, you will also notice the psychological and physiological changes as well. Expect a decreased body fat percentage, increased lean muscle mass, increased metabolism, increased sense of well-being, an abundance of energy, and the most important change of all… increased self-confidence.

All of this is included with your Essentials Nutrition LIVE ​

• 10 Weeks of In Person Coaching with our Nutrition Experts
• Bi-Weekly Progress Check-Ins using our state-of-the-art Fit3D Scanner
• Beautiful Full-Color Printed Lesson Manual
• Goal Setting and Tracking

• Discover and Practive Your "5 Why's"
• 10-Weeks in our Private Facebook Group to ask questions, share ideas, and help each other out - this is ALWAYS a favorite part of the challenge.
• Strategies to stop dieting and start to learn and practice the habits that will help you get and live lean - for life!

In a nutshell you get Accountability, Access To Expertise, and Association with a group of Like-Minded Rockstars committed to success - EVERY WEEK!

Essentials Live Meets at 9:00am Saturday Mornings starting on March 11th at Concord Get Fit NH (unless otherwise announced)

Nancy Carlson

 As the creator of the Nutrition Essentials online course, I am thrilled to bring this life changing teaching live and up close. With the help of those on my team we've helped hundreds of clients lose thousands of pounds. Essentials Live helps create the habits you need to live lean for life!

Nutrition and Physical exercise go hand in hand in regards to health. We all know if we sit on the couch, after a few short weeks, we’ve gained weight, we move slower and maybe even ache a bit more.

The same is true with nutrition. A couple of weeks of ignoring any semblance of healthy eating and you’ve gained weight, you move slower, and maybe even ache a bit more.

The Grateful Plate Jumpstart Nutrition Coaching Workshop will get you started in the right direction. At this seminar you will recieve a Jumpstart manual full of information on what to eat, how much to eat, meal planning, grocery shopping, measuring yourself and your food, and much much more.

The Grateful Plate website already contains great recipes and a blog to get your journey started. Don't settle for feeling like a coach potato. 

Begin Your Jumpstart

Get Fit NH Epsom 

Wednesday, February 15th 

6-7pm

Our crockpot freezer meal workshop is so popular that we are offering it again! This time with ALL new recipes. Mark it on your calendar and sign up now for February 25th at 9am in Epsom. As you may have learned from our last workshop- you cannot delay on this!

Spots fill up FAST!

I love cooking, but there are times (recently quite a few times) when I don’t have the opportunity to cook each night. 

These meals are another way to make dinner quickly and easily AND a different way to plan and prep your meals for the week or the month.

You could:

1.) Find 5 recipes using only ingredients that can be frozen
2.) Write out your grocery list (don’t forget the freezer bags, herbs, spices, oil, and vinegars)
3.) Go shopping
4.) Chop, cut, prep the ingredients and add them to the freezer bags
5.) Freeze
6.) Thaw slightly and put in a crock pot to cook while you are busy with other things

But wouldn’t it be better to avoid Steps 1-3?

This Workshop Sold Out!

I thought so!

Sign up for Crockpot Freezer Meal Workshop on February 25th and we will do the hard lifting for you.

In case you are not sure this is for you here are some of the comments from students who participated in our last crockpot workshop:

THANK YOU so much for sending these. I just loved the workshop and look forward to the next one. What a great way to prepare healthy meals quickly.

I LOVED the Saturday class on crockpot freezer cooking. My husband and I had the balsamic chicken last night and it was great.
I thought the class ran smoothly. I liked the set up, and it was fun to work with people I had never met. I really had fun.

Just to remind you, here are the 5 meals we will be making together and you will be taking home:

Queso Chicken Chili
Scrumptious Coconut Chicken Curry
Cinnamon Pork with Parsnips
Yummy Italian Chicken
Slow Cooker Taco Chicken

Each meal feeds 4 to 6 people, and they are Yum-Mee!

Space is limited to the first 15 that register, so get in on the Crock Pot Freezer Workshop by clicking the “Register Now” button below.

Crock Pot Freezer Workshop
Date: Saturday February 25, 2017
Time: 9:00am to 10:00 am
Place: Get Fit NH Epsom
Cost: $85 (Wow! what a deal)

This Workshop Sold Out!

There’s no doubt there are many mixed messages on the food labels, fad diets, and in the media about how to eat healthy. Combine that with today’s hectic lifestyle that makes “grab and go” a lot more likely than “sit and relax” and you’ve got a mess.

“A Smooth Way to Eat – Smoothies 101” is being hosted by Coach Nancy at Get Fit NH Epsom on Saturday February 11th from 9:00 to 10:00am. Registration closes on Thursday, February 2nd, so don't put this off. 

This “Hands On Smoothie workshop’ will introduce you to the basic points of nutrition and what key elements our bodies need. We’ll be sampling a wide variety of your favorite recipes, from “Melissa's Mean Green” to “Chocolate Peanut Butter in a Cup” to "Almond Joy".

You’ll walk away with enough smoothie information and recipes to fuel your body properly, plus all participants will get a choice of a 2 pound container of UMP, SFH, or PlantFusion Vanilla or Chocolate so you can start creating your own quality smoothies right away. (Make sure you check out the bonus recipes below)

When your register we will immediately send your "Smoothie Building Guide", which you can print and post for reference, AND a beautiful Smoothie Recipe Book. These are worth the price of admission!

A Smooth Way To Eat 2.0

Location: Get Fit NH Epsom
Date: Saturday, February 11th
Time: 9:00am to 10:00am
Cost: Just $49 (includes your choice of Ultimate Muscle Protein or SFH Pure Whey in either chocolate or vanilla flavors and loads of recipes) You'll need to sign up by February 2nd.

Try These Awesome Recipes!

Chocolate Cherry Bliss
Serves 1

• 8 ounces unsweetened chocolate almond milk
• 1 scoop chocolate protein
• 1 cup frozen dark sweet cherries
• 1 Tablespoon milled flax seeds
• 1 Tablespoon cacao nibs
• 2 Tablespoon walnuts

Mix all ingredients in blender until smooth and creamy. Pour immediately into a large cup. Eat with a spoon or a large straw.

 Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
Serves 1

• 1/3 cup pure pumpkin, canned
• 1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice
• 2/3 cup water
• Ice

Mix all ingredients in blender until smooth and creamy. Pour immediately into a large cup. Eat with a spoon or a large straw.

Salads are great, but without a good dressing, you’ve just got a pile of raw veggies, right? Healthy, but not always exciting. But store bought dressings usually have a bunch of sugar, use low grade oils, and have ingredients most of us can't pronounce.

Because of all that, I’ve made a habit out of making my own tasty and healthy dressings. With a bit of tweaking I have figured out how to turn classic dressings like Ranch and Caesar into ones that my whole family can enjoy!

On January 25 at 6:00pm at Get Fit NH Epsom, come learn how to make your own healthy, delicious dressings. During the workshop I’ll show you how easy it is to make your own salad dressings, with healthy oils and without a bunch of sugar and artificial ingredients.

In fact you’ll walk out of the workshop with a jar full of a dressing you made to start using right away. You’ll also receive a mini-cookbook over 20 salad dressing recipes. I love oil and vinegar as much as the next girl, but I like a bit of variety too!

Check out just one of these delicious recipes:

But wait, there is more! 

Many salad dressings use mayonnaise as their base, right? But do you know how easy it is to make your own?

There’s a trick (there usually is), but I’ll show you how to make a mayonnaise you can use in dressings, in marinades, in dips, and more. Bonus Points!

​The investment for this workshop is only $15, and you will walk away with a dressing you can go home and share with the whole family! 

Don't be shy, sign up now - it's going to be a lot of fun!