Greek Summer Salad Recipe

Salads and summer go hand in hand. Often the sun’s heat makes cooking dinner just too much.  Instead of heading out to your favorite take out, take time to make this dish. By adding it with grilled chicken, it can easily become an entire meal. Voila! You’re a summer sensation!

Greek Summer Salad

  • 1/2 red onion, cut into small rings
  • 1 tomato, diced (I use cherry tomatoes, cut in half)
  • 1 green pepper, chopped
  • 1 small zucchini, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 cup feta cheese
  • 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon basil
  • 1 teaspoon oregano
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • Pepper to taste

In a glass bowl combine the onion, tomato, zucchini, and feta cheese. Add in vinegar, oil, basil, oregano, salt and pepper. Stir and then refrigerate to allow the flavors to develop.

Every time I make this recipe, someone asks me to send it along to them. Give it a try. But don’t say I didn’t warn you – you’ll be sharing this link constantly!

Make it happen,

Coach Nancy

Come Support Team “Get Fit & Don’t Quit” This Saturday at Market Square Days

On Saturday July 21st, during Market Square days, team “Get Fit & Don’t Quit” will participate in the Concord Public Safety Foundation’s (CPSF) Inaugural Fire Truck Pull.

This event is for a great cause, as the CPSF is raising funds for a LUCAS hands free CPR device for Concord Fire, and also seed money for a future Concord Police K-9 program.

The team is assembling at the corner of Pleasant and Main at 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning, and we would love to have as many of the Get Fit NH family as can go and cheer them on starting at 10:00 a.m.

The team and alternates are listed below. Congratulate them for stepping up to the plate and Making It Happen!

For more info on this great event click here...

Nutrition Knowledge: S3 and Beyond

The Sizzlin’ Summer Slimdown might be over, but eating healthy is here to stay.

Join certified Precision Coach Dean Carlson, PFT, YFS2, Pn1 as he shares the why’s and how’s of eating to live instead of always living to eat.

This seminar covers how Coach Dean earned “Former Fat Boy” status by dropping over 80 pounds and shares how to keep making steady progress toward your goals, even after the thrill of losing the first 10 pounds wears off and real life sets in.

Nutrition Knowledge: S3 and Beyond
Get Fit NH Bootcamp Concord
Tuesday July 31, 2012
6:45pm to 8:00pm


 

Ice Cream, We Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream

It’s hot and it’s summer, so of course we are thinking of dipping up some of the cool stuff to enjoy.

Guess what? It doesn’t have to be bad for you! Try this delicious and easy to make recipe next time you need a cool treat.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream

  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 Tablespoon Cocao nibs
  • 2 Tablespoons Natural peanut butter
  • 3 Scoops of Chocolate UMP
  • 4 Cups of ice

Add all the ingredients into a powerful blender. (we use a Vitamix) Using a dampe,  blend for 30-45 seconds. Going longer will melt your ice cream. Scoop this out and enjoy – it is really good!

Look for more new recipes soon. The S3 winners are going to enjoy their cookout, served up by none other than Coach Dean and I, on July 28th. At the cookout we are going to serve Peach Melba Sundaes with a recipe I created. Watch out, it is fantastic!

Enjoy your summer,

Coach Nancy

 

 

Judy is Stylin’ and You Can Too!

Remember this fantastic photo? Just two pieces of clothing but they tell a whole story, a transformation story. 

In fact you could be the next transformation story told in clothing. Our “Win A New Wardrobe” contest  runs until July 27th. Be creative as you tell your story. Don’t wait. Enlist the help of family and friends to help tell your clothing story. Take a look at Judy stylin’ in the new jacket she chose for inspiring this contest. Hey Judy, don’t forget to take the tags off of it!

AnyWay is a great way

Passing this on from an email I got this week from strength coach Mike Boyle.  The “Paradoxical Commandments” were written in 1968 by a man named Kent Keith, and are contained in the book “Anyway”.

Life doesn’t always make sense, Live it to the fullest anyway. – Coach Dean

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The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot
down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

 

Professional Grade

Have you counted your blessings lately?

If you are anything like me you probably find you don’t do it nearly as much as you could, and should.

Sure, we all have challenges that we face on a daily basis, and it would be trite not recognize that fact.

But I dare say for most reading this note, if you really sit down and think about it, the blessings far outweigh the things that weigh us down if we let them.

Here’s one for you – If you trained with us on Tuesday aren’t you glad you could walk out of the gym?

Just sayin’…  🙂

Anyway today I was reflecting on how grateful I am for the coaches we have at Get Fit NH.

They are Professional Grade, as coaches and as people.

Like in many industries there is an ongoing debate in the fitness industry when it comes to building a team.

Do you hire for skill or for passion?

Do you hire the training genius with the personality of a brick or do you hire the people person who doesn’t know their IT band from their scapula?

I am grateful that is not a problem at Get Fit NH, because the coaching team here truly is second to none.

Each member of the team brings not only passion for helping people be the best they can be, but the skill to assess and evaluate how our clients are moving and what special attention might be needed to help them get just a little better that day.

There is a lot more to successfully training clients than getting up in front of a room and cheerleading or throwing together a mish-mash of exercises and calling it cross training.

I am grateful that our coaches get that, and that each one of them works hard to hone their craft and get better, day by day.

In the past few months:

Coach Erin earned her Functional Movement Screen credential, which has allowed her to further understand human movement and apply corrective techniques to her training arsenal. She has taken on the lead role in Athletic Revolution, and I look forward to seeing that program grow. Erin has been an integral part of Get Fit NH’s success in Concord with her enthusiasm, hard work, and willingness to go the extra mile.

Coach CJ had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Charlie Weingroff as he traveled to NY and studied how to bridge the gap between the rehabilitation and training landscapes. CJ’s work with Dr. Brett Coapland has been a real bonus and I am grateful to learn from both these pros and watch our clients benefit as well. CJ’s quiet demeanor belies a ferocious competitiveness and desire to excel.

Morgan Parker is recently graduated from Colby Sawyer with her degree in exercise science and has been a great addition as she interns with us this summer. I have greatly appreciated Morgan’s willingness to learn and never leaving without asking “Is there anything else you need me to do before I go?” I have enjoyed seeing Morgan’s skill (and loud voice) grow as the summer has progressed.

What can I say about Coach Nancy? She has not been named “Best of the Best” Fitness Instructor two years in a row for nothing. In the past year we have had the opportunity to travel to numerous seminars and events and it is not an overstatement to say she is one of the best in the business. Her ability to lead, motivate and inspire is equaled only be her knowledge of how the body works and how to coach to make yours work better. Nancy’s practical knowledge of how to bring healthy meals to the table in a crazy busy world has proven invaluable to our bootcamp families and our own. Me without Nancy is like the sky without the sun – not very bright!

I am also grateful for each client that has walked through our doors, past and present. Get Fit NH doesn’t exist without you, and that is never taken for granted. You inspire all of our your coaches to want to get better, to dig deeper, and continue to work hard to help you reach your goals.

Thank-you for choosing to train with us!

Coach Dean

 

 

A Fashion Show at Get Fit NH? You Could Be A Winner?

Contest Extended Until August 3rd – Get Those Pics In!

Did you see “A Bootcamp Story: The Tale of the T-Shirts? (Click the link if you haven’t)

A quick synopsis – Judy showed us her amazing transformation in pictures of her training wardrobe over the last 3 years.

Well Judy got us to thinking…(Dangerous I know, but in this case it could be very profitable, and fashionable!)

How many other Get Fit NH success stories are there out there willing to share their wardrobe updates?

So we decided to do the logical thing to get that question answered – bribe you.

Ok not really, but we are going to offer you a pretty cool prize if you are the winner of our latest contest – a gift certificate to put toward some new, well, whatever you want. Training clothes (can you say FoxFancePants?), footwear, a new dress maybe (what do you say, I think Shawn Claude is in now!)

Here’s how it’s going to work:

For every client that sends us a “Before and After” of an article of clothing before they started training with us and one they currently wear we are going to put $5 in the pool.

The Get Fit NH coaches will then go through each entry and choose the top 5.

Then it’s your turn to vote.

We will post the top 5 entries online and you will have the opportunity to choose which transformation you think is the most dramatic.

The top vote getter will then get a gift certificate for the total value of the prize pool toward some new duds.

How cool is that?

Be creative with your pics, you never know what is going to make the difference.

The contest will run from today through the 27th of July.

Contest Extended Until August 3rd – Get Those Pics In!

Send your entries to getfitnh(at)gmail.com today!

PS – Thank you Judy for inspiring this contest.  In order to keep Judy stylin’ in Get Fit NH garb, she’ll have her choice of a clothing item in stock. Can’t wait to see what she picks out!

 

Sizzlin’ Summer Slimdown 2nd Place Winner Frank

Sometimes you gotta do what you don’t really want to do. As Frank shares, having a great support system makes all the difference. Frank’s transformation over the 8 weeks of S3 really is amazing, and we look forward to hearing the results of those races!

“I wasn’t planning on entering s3, but my wife (the amazing Kate Fox – ed.) talked me into it.

Having both of us in the contest helped keep the right foods in the house, plus we kept each other honest.

By rigidly following the s3 habits a surprising thing happened, I started to lose weight. I am competitive so being able to track other people’s progress helped motivate me to keep losing. The chance to win an iPad didn’t hurt either.

Towards the end of s3 positive feedback from family and friends, plus improved performance on the bicycle, kept me going strong. Now, I am looking forward to training for and entering some mountain bike and nordic ski races.

Thanks Nancy and Dean for Making It Happen!” – Frank Muller

 

A Bootcamp Story: The Tale of the T-Shirts

This just might be the coolest way any client has ever shown us their progress at Get Fit NH!

Judy from 6:15am Epsom sent us this “T-Shirt” History in pictures.

These shots documents just how much her body has changed as she has worked her way from her Gray Shirt, to her 1 year “Red Shirt”, to the 3 year “Black Shirt”. These incredible pictures are a testament to Judy as she has totally shifted her mindset and habits to create the results you see before you.

Judy also showed us a picture of what she wore to training when she started and what she wears now…Amazing!

 

From Gray To Red

Gray to Red to Black

Training Shirts – Then & Now