“BEST OF” Award Voting Is Here – We Need You!

Hi Get Fit NH Family! It’s hard to believe, but the Annual Hippo Press “Best Of” Awards are here again, and we need your help.

For the last 5 Years in a row, Get Fit NH has been honored as a “Best Of” in the Best Gym category, with the last 2 years as “Best of the Best” in the region.

Last year Coach Nancy took top honors as the “Best of the Best” Fitness Instructor for the 3rd year in a row, and we are grateful and humble that the Get Fit Family continues to support us.

These are truly team awards, and would not be possible without our coaching team – Erin, Meagan and Adam, as well as the pro who makes it all run in the background, our office admin Stephanie.

I know y’all have a favorite coach, but it hurts more than helps if we split the vote, so we are asking that you spread the word and vote in the following categories:

#8 Best Gym: Get Fit NH Concord

# 95 Best Fitness Instructor: Nancy Carlson Get Fit NH

Please Click Here to Vote, and thank-you for being part of the Get Fit NH family!

Coach Dean

Get Fit NH Closing Tuesday January 27, 2015

High Performance Hips 6-Week Seminar Series – Starts February 4th

We had a great response to our High Performance Hips seminar and as promised we are offering an extended workshop starting February 4th.

This 6-week hip health and mobility workshop will take you through the 9 flexibility factors that were introduced at HPH, but even if you weren’t there we want to see you at this one.

If you have ever experienced hip, knee or low back pain then you need to invest in yourself and experience what a difference healthy hips can make.  Even if you have never had pain before but you sit all day or you enjoy running then you will also greatly benefit from these 6 weeks.

We will explore how the body compensates for poor movement patterns – ones you might not know even exist.  By allowing the body to function properly and not have to compensate you can decrease your risk of injury and reduce pain.

This is a limited enrollment workshop series, so please don’t delay signing up!

Coach Erin

High Performance Hips 6-Week Seminar Series
Date: Starts Wednesday February 4, 2015
Time: 6:00p to 7:00pm
Place: Get Fit NH Concord
Seminar Tuition: $127.00

Holiday Hold Em’ Results are in!

Congratulations to all of our Holiday Hold Em contestants.  We are so proud of everyone who took on the challenge and held their weight through the holidays. Maintaining your weight through the holiday season is without a doubt a big challenge. We even had a bunch of you lose weight! Now that is impressive. Great job to all who participated, you are all winners!

We did hand out prizes to three of those winners. These winners won the luck of the draw. We promised that anyone who maintained or lost weight over the holidays would be entered in to win some great local prizes so congratulations to:

Kelly Gauthier: Congratulations to her and we hope she enjoys her gift card to Things are Cooking (donated by the fabulous owner and Get Fit NH’s own, Diane Beauregard)

Rebecca Baccotti: Great job and we just know she will enjoy her massage from Chichester Massage.  (Donated by Get Fit NH’s own, The Great, Amy Troy)

Jennifer Kretovic: Congratulations Jennifer! We are sure that you will enjoy your gift card to the Co-Op!

Keep up the great work! We are so proud of your accountability and dedication to yourself!

You really did make it happen!

Coach Meagan

Special Guest Coming to Epsom!

Do any of these apply to you?

• You have questions or concerns about back pain or spine health
• You have experienced back pain in the past
• You want to know how to maintain your healthy spine

If you answered yes then we have great news for you! We have invited Epsom’s own, Dr. Chelsea Doughty from Archeus Chiropractic and Wellness, to come answer your questions! Dr. Chelsea will be talking to you about how to keep your spine healthy. She is excited about leaving plenty of time to answer your questions and concerns.  In fact she is highly encouraging anyone and everyone to come out and throw some questions her way.

We hope to see you in there!

When: Wednesday February 11, 2015

Where: Get Fit NH Epsom

Time: 6:00 pm sharp

Let’s Make It Happen!

Coach Meagan

Another Motivating Student Spotlight

The success stories are rushing in and we can’t help, but share them all with you. This week’s Student Spotlight  is going to Heidi Coen. Heidi has been training with Get Fit NH for almost 4 years! The success you are about to read was earned and well deserved. Heidi is always pushing herself, she never quits and she is always looking for ways to get better and get stronger. It is a pleasure to coach Heidi. I am so proud of her success. I want to encourage ALL of you to take advantage of the body composition we offer. We often refer to it as the truth-detector and it truly is a fantastic way to measure. If you are not having your body composition read regularly you can afford to step it up (I say that with love as always!)

Here is what Heidi has to say about her success:

“Real Results…

I have pretty much exercised in some way for the majority of my adult life (walking, body building (free weights), aerobics, kick boxing, ellipticals/treadmills, cable machines…). But, I never found a workout regime that I got the results I was looking for.

Then in May 2011 – I had heard about Get Fit NH training and signed up for the free two weeks at the Concord Get Fit, attended my first 5:00am class — and have been hooked ever since!

What I have learned is that with all my previous exercising attempts the workouts were all the same routine and none included anything about nutrition. At Get Fit this is not the case! After participating in the first detox – I discovered that I have a sensitivity to gluten. I had taken Prevacid for years because of acid reflux and Excedrin for headaches every day for years. With my changes to my diet (majority of which is now vegetables and protein), my acid reflux completely resolved and I rarely have headaches. In regards to the training, I really like the varied workouts.

But – how do I really know that what I have learned about nutrition and that the training really works? When I had my very first body composition test done in 2012 my body fat was 29.7%. Two weeks ago, I had another body composition test – and my body fat  is down to 20.5%. I have lost almost 10% in body fat! This is results! This is success!

Today – at age 51 – I am in the best shape of my life!!! I feel GREAT – inside and outside!

It’s not just the training that makes Get Fit so great – it’s also the people! The coaches are awesome and I have made the most special friendships!  I love the 5am group!!!

So Meagan and Dean to answer your questions after every class – Do I have fun? Yes! Do I challenge myself? Yes! Do I learn something? Yes! And, I plan on continuing to do so for many years to come!

Heidi”

We loving hearing about your success! The day you realize that nutrition and training go hand in hand is the day you will change your life. Heidi is a perfect example of someone who learned how to fuel her body and train to succeed. I must add that we are super proud of Heidi, who attacked the chin bar and cranked out some jumping chins for her first time this morning. We couldn’t be more proud of her!

Thank You for choosing to train with us, Heidi!

Make it happen,

Coach Meagan

30 Challenges in 30 Days – The Finish Line!

Here is your planner for the last 9 days of our challenge – You Got This!

January 22: Eat Veggies at your first meal

January 23: Share your dinner plans on our Facebook Page or email them to your coach

January 24: Eat only raw vegetables today

January 25: No Caffeine today. – (big culprits: coffee and chocolate)

January 26: Eat 2 cups of vegetables at any one meal (salad doesn’t count)

January 27: Replace your bread/pasta/rice with a vegetable at dinner

January 28: Make a salad a main course for lunch or dinner today.

January 29: Eat lean protein and a veggie every time you eat today

January 30: Don’t eat any “sugar added” foods – check EVERY label

Get Fit Games are back!

We are LONG overdue for our famous Get Fit Games! For those of you who have never even heard of it, prepare to mark your calendars and for those of you who have participated, get ready to beat your score!

On Saturday February 7, 2015 we will host a series of competitive events at our Concord location. There are 7 different parts to this event and they include:

1.) 3 repetition maximum Deadlift

2.) Front Plank for time

3.) 4 minute Push Up challenge (from the floor or incline)

4.) Vertical Jump

5.) Long Jump

6.) Chin ups/inverted row

7.) 1000 M Ski Erg Sprint

If there is a piece of this puzzle that you are currently unable to participate in due to an injury then we would encourage you to STILL participate, but skip that part. This is a FANTASTIC event to measure progress. We promise to hold these quarterly from here on out so that you can see where you are getting better. Everyone has a little competitiveness in their heart so come on out and show us what you’ve got!

When: Saturday Feb 7, 2015

Where:  Get Fit NH Concord

When: 8 AM

Make it happen!!!

Coach Meagan

Introducing Training for Warriors Small Group

Get Fit NH has been the leader in Group Personal Training for almost 7 years now, from our humble beginnings as a backyard “bootcamp” to now having a world class training team serving clients all over Southern New Hampshire, and even being the official gym of New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

We are working hard every day to help you be the best you can be, and I am pleased to share our latest training offering – Training for Warriors (TFW) Small Group Personal Training

Our large group (Smart Group Training) is as popular as ever, and is arguably the best program of it’s type that can be found anywhere. We continue to work hard to bring you the most effective fat-loss training through this format, and are looking forward to continuing to do so for a long time to come. And while Smart Group helps you lose fat, get lean, and look and feel great, we can only load you up so far.

One of the great benefits of TFW Small Group is the ability to get under the bar and up your horsepower. Some of y’all really enjoy the barbell courses we offer, and this will allow you to do that more often. Foundational in this training will be the deadlift, squat, and bench press.

Another advantage of Small Group is that it is, well, small. Five students at a time will be the limit. This will allow more personal attention from your coach and a laser focused environment. Some of us quiet type of people 🙂 just like that better!

So here is how it is going to work.

We are going to do a small scale roll out of TFW Small Group starting Monday, February 2, 2014.

TFW Small Group will meet at Get Fit NH Concord on Monday and Thursdays at 4:15pm and 5:30pm, mirroring the times of our Smart Group Training. For training Tuesdays and Fridays you get to join back in with Smart Group – giving you the best of both worlds!

We also are keeping the price very low for this intro. For current students the investments is only +$60 over your current contract.

As mentioned before, spaces are very limited. We are taking a maximum of 10 students into TFW Small Group at this time, so please don’t be disappointed, and reserve your spot today. Please fill out the form below, and we will get back to you ASAP. If you have any questions, let us know!

Who is in the Spotlight?

This month’s student spotlight is going to Garrett Lovell. Garrett has an inspiring story and a dedicated heart to push on. I am so proud of how far he has come. Over the last three months I have had the honor to coach him and watch him change both physically and even mentally. His movement patterns have improved drastically and because of that his form has seriously improved. And because of his solid form he is now able to load a whole lot more. His results were earned, because he is dedicated to himself and committed to making a change. His wife, (almost) 5 year Get Fit veteran (Becky Lovell) keeps him on his toes and challenges him to lift something heavier each training session. This is what Garrett has to say:

“My wife, Becky, has been a member at Get Fit for over four years.  Knowing that I have struggled to find something I could stick to in order to maintain my “health” (ranging from Weight Watchers to that somewhat questionably “judgment-free zone” we all hear advertised), she had suggested and encouraged me to try Get Fit on multiple occasions.  I would regularly tell her that what I was doing was working ok for me (it wasn’t).  Sometimes I would say that I didn’t have the time or we didn’t have the extra money (I/we did).  Finally one morning I woke up and realized that I am 35 years old, I work for Under Armour, a company whose mission is to make athletes better, and here I was gaining weight, making poor eating choices, and probably in the worst shape I’ve ever been in.  By now I think Becky had given up on me ever considering trying Get Fit (which was largely validated by her reaction when I told her I wanted to try it), but I knew that she enjoyed the classes and had certainly achieved some great results and what I had been doing, or not doing, certainly wasn’t working.

It didn’t take long for me to realize how truly unhealthy I had let myself become.  My initial functional movement screening must have been somewhere between comical and soul-crushing for Coach Meagan to administer.  I quickly dubbed myself “Rainbow Bright” with the colorful collection of four limitation bands I had earned for myself.  That first week of classes was a real ego-bruiser, too.  Exercises that I had been able to do fairly easily a number of years back now seemed a lot like what I imagined were advanced CIA interrogation techniques.  When I filled out my questionnaire before starting my two week trial, I had rated my fitness level as a 2 out of 10 which in hind sight felt like I may have been giving myself a little too much credit.

Monday will mark my third month at Get Fit.  While I’m still not satisfied (and I admit that I’m one of those people that rarely is), I am pleased with the results I’ve been able to achieve with the support of my coaches, classmates, family, and friends.  I’m lifting heavier loads, have increased my flexibility, and have quite a few sweatshirts that are a lot looser fitting than I remembered them being last winter when I wore them last.

The coaching staff at Get Fit and the people in my most regularly attended 7:25am class time have been fantastic and frankly the sole reason I kept coming back at first.  They’ve been patient, supportive, and certainly not judgmental.  Now that I’ve started to see some progress and results (and friends, family, and co-workers have too), I have a whole new source of motivation.  I have a red band that I still have to test out of and I’m not fit enough to take up the mantle of Captain America yet (yes, you read that right, I’m 35 and I still want to be Captain America when I grow up), but I’m working on getting stronger and healthier and figure that I can make at least one of those two things happen in the near future.”

We look forward to the transformation. Whether that be to Get Fit NH’s very own Captain America or Garrett’s best version of himself- we’ll take either one with open arms 🙂

You too can make it happen!

Coach Meagan