The last couple of weeks have been pretty historic. I can only hope we don't have to face this in our life time again and I can only hope that it disappears as quickly as it hit. That is why we have made the decision to stop classes effective immediately. We plan to resume in person training on Monday, March 30, 2020. 

The country was declared in a "state of emergency" on Friday. On Sunday afternoon the Governor closed all schools for the next THREE weeks! This is serious stuff and our number one concern is and always will be your safety and our team safety. 

Luckily, one of the two weeks we are choosing to close is already a scheduled recovery week. Adam will be sending email invites to our online coaching platform. TruCoach. Be patient as we are working hard to get this plan rolled out and ready to use for all of you. 

Once you get your email (give us 24 hours) you will have an invite to create your account. Once your account is created you will have access to training for the week of March 16th. The system allows us to see who completes the training! The guess work of, "what should I be doing?" is done for you and furthermore the accountability piece is taken care of as well. If your training is not complete we will be reaching out to you to see how we can help you keep moving!!! We recommend that you complete your training at your normal training hour to stay in your routine. 

The week of March 23 is a scheduled recovery week so please take that time to recover. Enjoy some time outside! Go for a hike, a walk, a bike ride. 

We will be here for you virtually, you can count on that!

Thank you for understanding and we will see you back Monday, March 30, 2020

Coach Meagan

We have received a lot of questions about what we are doing to keep the gym a safe place as the world is faced with Coronavirus...

Here are things you may not know that do regularly:

• Disinfect floor between each class
• Wipe down benches with disinfectant wipes between each class (when used)
• Wipe down TRX handles, ski erg handles, bands, dumbbells, kettlebells, foam rollers and knee pads. THIS IS NOW A DAILY REQUIREMENT FOR OUR TEAM!
• Vacuum after each morning session and evening session
• Professional cleaning twice per week
• Dust (with antibacterial polish) twice per week 

With recent national concerns we have definitely upped our cleaning game and we are asking that anyone with a flu like symptoms or fever steer clear of the gym. We also ask that if you have or plan to travel to Italy, China, Iran or South Korea that you steer clear of the gym for two weeks per recommendation of the CDC website.

I think we can all agree that we can take some personal responsibility and make sure we

• Wash hands frequently. There is a bottle of hand sanitizer on the gym floor and in the lobby. 
• Avoid touching your face
• Cough and sneeze into your elbow 
• We also have Clorox wipe and sanitizer wipes on the bench which you are welcome to use to wipe down something you are questioning using 

We are doing the best we can to keep Get Fit NH a clean and safe space.

Strength and power Pt. 2 and Golf mashup

I have 7 clients in the class who love it so much they want to continue another session! Since this is the case I am only opening up 5 spots, act fast!

One round of the strength and power class is in the books and I am happy to report it was a great success!  So I have decided to open up the class for a second session. I have also decided that I will mashup this class with the golf class I did last year.  Formatting will be the same but the training for those who are looking for more rotational based sports training will have different training written more specific to their goals.  Reminder: I am only opening 5 spaces! So space is very limited! Due to the nature of the class more than 12 people in the room can get congested and coaching suffers, to get everyone the coaching they are looking for I am only opening space for 5 people to join the class! Act quick because space is limited!

What you get;

• Personalized training (everyone has their own individually written training based on their goals)

• More hands on coaching (a maximum of 12 people will be in the room which allows for more one on one coaching)

• Different exercises

• The smaller class size allows me to do some things that are different than in normal group training sessions.

This class is for you if;

• You are a rotational sports enthusiast (Golf, Softball, ect)

• You like a challenge.

• You want to pick up heavy stuff.

• You want to move fast, jump, and throw stuff.

This class will consist of individualized training written for each participant, which will progress over his or her time in the class.  While this is a challenging class this format allows me to work around any pain or movement restrictions you may have in an individualized manner.  This is a class that builds on itself therefore there will be no drop-ins, however we are offering the class in 4 weeks blocks so if you find that you are unable to make 4 weeks in a row there will be opportunity to make up the class in the later weeks.

When: 7:30 am Saturday morning for 12 weeks, April 4th-June 20th 2020

Where: Get Fit NH Concord NH

Cost: 4 weeks- $167, 8 weeks- $279, 12 weeks- $357

If you have any questions please contact Coach Adam: Adam@getfitnh.com

This is a general rule that I try to employ when trying to make any sort of change.  Make the habit or thing I'm trying to get away from harder, and make the one I want to replace it with easier.  Now what exactly do I mean by that? Lets use food as an example because that is often what I am always trying to make a change to.  What I try to do is make it as difficult as possible to get myself unsupportive foods and make it as easy as possible to get/eat supportive ones.  What exactly do I mean by that? Well for example if there is unsupportive food in the house (I don't have complete control over that comes into and out of the house) I put it somewhere far off.  Usually it's up high, down low, buried behind other stuff, anything I can do to make it more challenging to get to. For those of you with the ability, maybe keeping it in another closet at the opposite end of the house.  

The nice thing is that this strategy works for everything!  Let's say you want to keep a room more organized/area/whatever it may be.  Make it take as little effort as possible, chunk the tasks associated with that together.  Let's say you want your bed made, clothes folded, bedroom floor clear, and who knows what else.  You know what will make that a lot more daunting? Make the bed...go down stairs and eat, do “x,y,z” else, come back up grab clothes, go to drop in the washing machine, come back ect.  That's a lot of extra time and effort, an easier thing to do would be to do it all in one fell swoop and not have to come back again. Make bed, pick up stuff off floor, whatever else, grab laundry then go to put it in.  That whole room is taken care of. Same sort of stuff can apply to making cooking easier. Get everything you need measured out from the very beginning, get everything you will need out first, utensils, bowls, ingredients, if it is something that needs the oven turn that on first.  Get the ingredients measured out in their own bowls etc. Then just run straight through the steps. You will be surprised at how much time it saves you over grabbing the spice, putting it in the bowl, then going to grab an egg, coming back and putting it in the bowl. Or getting to the end and having to wait for the oven to heat up.  Find ways to do as little “moving” as possible, more trips=more time=less likely to do it (which is why adding more trips and more time to something you are trying to stay away from helps on the flip side) and overall that will help you out!

Coach Adam

I happened to be thinking back on my road trip to Indiana last year, when I went to the winter classic.  When thinking back I realized something I learned that was a pretty good metaphor for fitness, weight loss, pretty much success in general.  The small stuff matters but it's difficult for us to see in the short term, we only see success when we focus on doing the small things over a long period of time.  

We were following directions on a GPS of course, and remember thinking how crazy it was the time you chop off on a long road trip.  I didn't really put it together at the time but think about it, when you are going somewhere that's 100 miles away, you put it into your GPS at 10:00 am and it say you’ll be there at 11:30am (90 minutes).  So then you get in your car, and you get on the highway and instead of doing the speed limit of 65 miles per hour (what that gps is basing it taking you a half hour on) you do 75 mph. You do 10 miles per hour over the speed limit the course of the entire trip, expecting you’re going to shave a ton of time and when you pull in it's...wait for it...11:27...you went well over the speed limit for the entire trip just to arrive 3 minutes before when you thought you would.  

Now let's expand that, like I found with our road trip, to a thousand miles.  I was amazed at how going 10 MPH over the speed limit and just watching the arrival time drop, every couple of minutes the GPS shaved 5-10 minutes off until we had shaved off 2-3 hours of time (based on the GPS’s calculations of course, this isn't including stops, bathroom breaks, things like that).  In thinking back I realized a real life example of what compounding growth/success looks like laid out in a very helpful way. You won't see the impact from the small things over a short time, a day, a week, a month. Those small things add up though, so that over a year it ends up bringing much larger change.  That's why not only does doing the little things matter, but it also takes time for them to create major change. Just stick with it!

Coach Adam

The marketing for the Rock N Race has begun! This is always my warm and fuzzy reassurance that spring is coming! This race is such a special community event. This is a family friendly 5K that raises money for the Payson Center here in Concord. This is such an important cause and we are known to fill a team of 60 people or more. We all know someone who has been affected by cancer and this is an opportunity to get behind the center that sees it all. If you are a survivor or still fighting this is an opportunity to see and experience THOUSANDS of people who support you. If you have never done this race before it is the perfect intro to 5K. You can walk or run and there are bands throughout the course playing music. The community involvement will give you chills. It is like no other event I have seen in Concord. We invite you and your people to join our team ,Get Fit NH & Beat Cancer. The Rock N Race is Thursday, May 14th at 6pm. We close afternoon training to participate in this event so there is no reason not to join us! We will send the extended details as far as meet up and time when we get closer to the race date. Don't wait to sign up though! The early bird registration is only $25 and you will want to register early so you get a team shirt that says "Get Fit NH & Beat Cancer" on the back. Sign up here and join our team.

The next community event we are getting behind is the Best Buddies walk! This is a 1 mile walk that also starts on Statehouse lawn. This is a perfect walk for adults and kids. There is a lot of community engagement along the walk which has included food, face painting. bubbles and more! If you have grandchildren or young kids then this is a great opportunity to get them out there and encourage the importance of INCLUSION! I have not participated in the walk yet, but I have gone to Best Buddies events and they WILL steal your heart! Mark yourself BUSY on Saturday, May 9th at 10AM and join the Get FIt NH team here

We are excited to continue to support our community in 2020. Please join us for the fun!

Coach Meagan

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I was truly amazed at how many life lessons there were in the podcast I listened to that interviewed Colin O’Brady.  After racing for 6 years with the USA Triathlon Team, O’Brady decided he wanted to take on a new challenge which was crossing Antarctica.  O’Brady describes that the journey was extremely challenging because there are no opportunities to resupply food. He had to pack everything he needed for the journey on his sled which weighed 375lbs.  O’Brady’s desire was to step into something unknown because growth happens when you are outside of your comfort zone. O’Brady states that the journey broke him to his core. He walked 12 hours a day for over 50 days without taking a rest day.  Right before the finish line, O’Brady wanted to quit. On the 53rd day he realized he was only 77 miles from the finish.  O’Brady was broken physically and mentally but found a place inside himself that said he was stronger than ever.  He ended up walking the last 77 miles for 32 hours straight. O’Brady believes that everyone has the ability to push themselves, their body and their brain in ways they never thought possible.  When you can look back on something immensely difficult that you accomplished or achieved in the past, it can fuel you and be the motivations to get through your current challenge.

O’Brady believes that life experiences are on a continuum of 1-10, 1 being the worst day or the most pain and 10 being the best day.  He believes that most people are staying within the comfort zone of 4-6 because they are trying not to experience the 1’s. However, to experience the 10’s you also have to experience the 1’s.  You can learn many lessons from the 1’s that help you reach the 10’s. The definition of 1’s and 10’s may change throughout your life. Making it through hardships allows you to look at challenges differently.  You may think this is hard right now but remember you have made it through worse. For many years my 1 was having to go through shoulder surgeries and give up playing soccer. Fast forward 20 years and my new 1 was admitting I was in an incredibly dark place and spending 2 weeks in a hospital.  When I am faced with challenges now, such as the 21-day nutrition challenge, I am reminded that I was able to tackle and survive some huge challenges in my life. If I made it through that then I can make it through 21 days of giving up food that is not good for my body. What are your 1’s? Use the lessons from that time to remind yourself that you are stronger thank you think, and you can make it through any challenge you currently face.

Coach Erin