MyFitness Suites

🔥 HOW TO BURN BELLY FAT WHILE YOU SLEEP?

No, weight training doesn’t magically target belly fat—but here’s why the headline matters:

🏋️ Build muscle. Resistance training gives your body a reason to maintain and build metabolically active tissue.

🔥 Increase energy expenditure. Your body continues using energy after the workout as it recovers and repairs. More muscle also modestly increases the calories your body uses at rest.

💪 Get stronger—fast. Some of your earliest strength gains come from your nervous system becoming more efficient at recruiting the muscle you already have.

🦴 Build stronger bones. Progressive resistance training places healthy stress on the skeletal system, helping support bone density as we age.

And yes—your body burns calories and uses stored energy 24/7, including while you’re sleeping. Overall fat loss, including belly fat, comes from consistently expending more energy than you consume—not from spot reduction.

You don’t have to live in the gym.

Start with 2 days a week of strength training.
Get stronger. Build muscle. Improve how your body ages.

MY BODY. MY MIND. MY LIFE.

WELLNESS WEDNESDAY | SWEET OR SALTY?

Healthy living doesn’t mean never having a guilty pleasure. Life is about balance, moderation, and sometimes getting a little creative with your cravings.

SWEET go-to: 🍓🫐
Light angel food cake topped with strawberries, blueberries, coconut, and whipped cream. Simple, refreshing, and hits the spot.

SALTY go-to: 🍠🧂
Slice up a sweet potato, toss it with a little olive oil and sea salt, and bake until crispy. Homemade sweet potato fries without making it complicated.

The goal isn’t to eat perfectly 365 days a year. Build healthy habits most of the time, enjoy the foods you love in moderation, and find better ways to satisfy those cravings when you can.

Now we want to hear yours…

🍩 SWEET or 🥔 SALTY?
And what food is your ultimate weakness? 👇

Week one is complete and a big CONGRATS to all on the leaderboard! And let’s hear it for the members completing the trifecta, one class in each room (studio, strength, cycle)!
Competition is heating up and still a few weeks to get your name on the board.
REMEMBER, Class Crave Challenge has been extended and will end October 2. DOUBLE points still available to those who can hit the trifecta!

💚 TUESDAY TIP | FOOD + EXERCISE = MENTAL HEALTH

We spend a lot of time talking about exercise for our physical health—but what about our mind?

Regular movement can help improve mood, reduce stress, build confidence, and give us something incredibly important: forward momentum.

And what we eat matters too. 🥗

Building meals around whole, minimally processed foods while limiting things like refined carbohydrates, heavily processed foods, and excess added sugar can support both physical and mental well-being.

The goal isn’t perfection.

MOVE YOUR BODY.
FUEL YOUR MIND.
BUILD BETTER HABITS.

Sometimes feeling better starts with something as simple as moving today, eating a little better, and doing it again tomorrow.

At MyFitness Suites, fitness is about more than changing your body.

MY BODY. MY MIND. MY LIFE 💙

And week one results are in!
We will extend the Crave Challenge through October 2, giving everyone 2 extra days to rack up those points!
Keep signing up and showing up! DOUBLE points still available to all who take at least 1 class in each room (studio, strength, cycle).

💧 FUN FACT FRIDAY | FASTING EDITION

Think fasting means your body immediately runs out of fuel?

FUN FACT: Your body was built to store energy for periods when food isn’t available.

When food intake stops, the body gradually shifts away from relying on incoming glucose and increasingly taps into stored energy—including body fat.

Research on fasting has also explored potential benefits involving:

🔥 Fat utilization & weight management
🩸 Insulin sensitivity
❤️ Blood pressure & metabolic health
🧬 Cellular stress-response and repair pathways
🧠 Metabolic flexibility

And here’s the wild part…

One of the most extreme medically documented cases involved Angus Barbieri, who underwent a 382-day fast under medical supervision, going from about 456 lbs to 180 lbs.

⚠️ That’s an extraordinary medical case — NOT a fasting recommendation.

You don’t need extremes to learn something valuable from fasting.

Sometimes giving your body a break from constantly eating can teach you a lot about hunger, habits, discipline, and how your body uses stored fuel.

🔥 And with THE FALL CUT coming to MyFitness Suites, we’re going to be learning a lot more about fasting, nutrition, insulin, and our relationship with food.

Save the date on your calendar! Saturday Oct 10th will be our second annual wooded warrior! This was a HUGE hit last year and we will be doing it up bigger and better. You won’t want to miss!