Fitness Together

Single Leg Lats kinda morning. Rock it, Jen.

Healthy St. Patty's Day recipes.....try a healthier version of your fav classic meal.

Mini Shepherd's Pies In EatingWell's take on Shepherd's Pie, we replace the potato topping with convenient, delicious frozen squash puree.

Private Fitness Training- Lakewood Ranch Grab your family and friends and enjoy this night of free entertainment and great food all for a local cause. All benefits support a local charity. Concerts are free to the public and held on the first Friday of each month from 6 to 9 PM. Each concert will feature a different style of music and will...

What are you doing for exercise on your President's Day day off!? Lauren's in here tearin it up and already shredded off 22 pounds!! Go Lauren!!!

So proud of Tommy!!! Down 25 pounds!!!! Keep up the great work.

February newsletter......lots of great events coming up!

Private Fitness Training- Lakewood Ranch Join Fitness Together and Clark Endurance Athletes to help raise money for Athletes for a Cure!! Great cause, great raffle items and lots of fun! Hope to see you there!

Ask any one of our Fitness Together clients on how often they perform these exercises in their weekly training programs.

Avoid Injury with Prehab Avoid pain and stay in the game with prehab, or prehabilitation, a proactive way of training the most often-injured areas of the body.

Healthy Super Bowl Appetizer Recipes | Eating Well Discover eating well - with healthy recipes, healthy eating, healthy cooking, healthy diet recipes, weight loss recipes and healthy menus from EatingWell Magazine.

What do you plan on making this weekend for the Super Bowl??

Sweet Potato & Black Bean Chili Make a double batch of this quick vegetarian chili, full of black beans and sweet potatoes, and eat it for lunch the next day or freeze the extras for another night.

Healthy and delicious recipe ideas for Super Bowl weekend.....

Eight-Layer Mediterranean Dip | WholeFoodsMarket.com This healthy dip will be a hit at your next party. Layer it in a glass bowl or small trifle dish, if you like. To avoid the dip becoming watery, be sure to drain the wet ingredients well.

This is one way to get out of a workout.....

Creating REAL CHANGE:
How to form positive habits and a NEW YOU!

Ever wonder why some people get great results from their workouts or their normal eating routine? What makes them different? How do they do it? Usually it’s 1 or 2 simple habits.

All of us face two choices in life and it usually pertains to what we control and what we don’t. Sometimes in life, we have challenges beyond our control, yet we allow the challenges to influence the things we do have control over. When it comes to regular workouts and healthful eating, many people feel they have barriers, which prevent them from regular workouts. These can be work, schedule, the need for more time with family, long commutes, even boredom and fatigue. Some can’t be helped at all: personal injuries or illness, caring for elderly patients, feeding the teenagers each evening and there are many more. But barriers should not stop you from implementing positive changes to secure a long and healthy life.

What is a ‘fence sitter’? That is a person who only puts their foot halfway in the water, or half way to a commitment. Well, now’s the first of the year and time to make some positive changes to your lifestyle.
You can surely find 1-2 things that YOU DO CONTROL and attack those. Make them positive habits that you always think about. Then pick two more! Before you know it you are on your way to a new you.
I knew a nurse who said that her challenge was eating cake at work. With 40 fellow staff members, seldom did a week go by without a cake or party celebrating a birthday, wedding anniversary or birth. What did she do? She found a few charities that the staff could get behind and at every party they decided to donate $1 in that person’s name instead of buying and eating cake. At the end of the year they had over $1000 for charity and celebrated an end to eating cake!

It’s hard to change your diet overnight, but you can form one or two new habits every month and change your life. Try eating healthier, tips such as these: ½ a sandwich instead of a whole at lunch. Swear off fried foods. No soda. One piece of fruit per day. Cut-back or eliminate the alcoholic drinks. Lower fat dairy products. Less processed foods.
Maybe you can’t workout every day, but an easy way to start is to find a buddy or co-worker and walk together at lunch. Then make sure you go out every day. If the weather’s bad – look for an indoor mall, the local YMCA or other enclosed facility (FT). After you’re in the habit of going 5 days a week, carve out some time each Saturday when you take a walk. Select a time of day (maybe first thing in the morning) when you don’t have conflicts or distractions and you know you can always get it done. Before you know it you’ll be out walking 6 days a week. Then, find that special time for walking on Sunday.

There are indeed things that you can control in life that will make you healthier and ultimately happier. Start with only 1-2 things that you can control and then go to work on them. You’ll soon see your world change!