KAAA-RAZY CLIFTON PARK NY!!

JANUARY 28, 2007

What a FUN bunch! We had a great time and I had such a great group of ladies who offered such enthusiasm as well as great input! Training day's are that much more fun and FLY by even faster when a group is as interactive as this bunch.

They worked really hard on learning their choreography for the group presentation:

They have surely caught onto the TURBO Fever! I'm sure you will be able to find a lot of Turbo Kick(tm) classes in the Albany area since this group is HOT! They have accepted the challenge to be better, do better, and to work hard so that they can share this format with others.

Congrats ladies!! Thank you so much for an awesome day! And I truly hope you are as sore as I am!

GET ON THE BALL- TURBO BALL!

If you haven't tried this yet, you need to! BeachBody has released a ball workout with Turbo! What a great direction! We have changed the Tuesday/Thursday Turbo classes at Greece Women's to be Turbo Kick(tm) Turbo Ball!
Basically, we work a Turbo Round up through TURBO. Then it's tme for the ball! Oh no no no NO! Don't you sit down on that thing. GET UP! We work it with intervals! This new addition is sculpting the shoulders and abs of many turbo followers. It's a great workout and what a nice change of pace! You can still get a full Turbo round on Monday and Wednesday's just 1 /2 mile down the road at Greece Co-ed with me...but work this into your schedule. You will be thankful you did!
Some comments I have heard following class:

* It forces you to work on your form with your kicks!

* I was doing the wheel all wrong until we did it with the ball!

* I never liked ball workout classes until we did it in Turbo!

* I was so sore 2 days later and couldn't figure out why- then I remembered- Turbo Ball!

* It carves out your midsection really hitting your core!

(Turbo Ball is not affliated as a workshop of Powder Blue Productions. This is a video release from BeachBody's series Turbo Jam(tm).)

ORANGE COUNTY TRIP

John, Johnny, and myself headed out to Orange County CA on Wed Dec 13th. Johnny's first airpane trip! We were very lucky as he was such a good boy! I thought to myself as I got on the plane, oh boy, I'm "one of them" now. Ya know, the "one" where everyone crosses their fingers and toes that they don't sit next to them because of having a baby. ( self tanner on ready for the video shoot)

We arrived to immediately film Round 29. Whoah, this one is going to be HOT! Some cool moves in there, things we haven't done before and changes to the standard. I found out from Chalene some of the awesome music that will be in this round. It's going to be a favorite FA SURE! We had a great time, and did really well! We were done filming in about 3- 4 hours! Below is a group shot of the R29 Cast:

Summer, Anna Rita, Chalene, Me, and Lana

Camera Eye viewJohn and I took Thursday to run around to Laguna Beach to take our Xmas Card photo as well as went to Fashion Island. Friday was the employee Xmas party. John took Johnny to Disney Land. Got his Mickey ears and everything. We all met up for dinner. I swear if they had an award big enough for Bret and Chalene- it's not out there. Can't even put into words how great these two are for employers. They truly know how to keep their staff happy. Here's a couple pics of our excursion:

Toronto Here we Come! 12-2-06

We headed out to Irish RoBBIe a.k.a Rob Abramowitz's Turbo PAR-TAY! Lynn Swanger, Heidi Aberi, and I jumped into the car and took the 3 hour trip to CAH-NI-DAH! Hooked up with Heather from Arizona (AZTLGRL), Heather Abramowitz ("My Heather"), and Robbie on Friday night for a little chattin!
What a morning! Robbie told us to park at the green "P"...first green P we saw, we took it! Found out it was about 8 blocks away from the actual gym, and not the correct Green "P". What a sight, for downtown Toronto, 3 gals hauling up the brisk ligt snowing streets lugging 2 huge rolling suitcases, a disco light, and disco light stand. We had our hands FULL...and we're dying laughing with how crazy this was to be doing. I could never imagine doing that in NYC. But we cwazy! ;-)
Got to the gym, or so we thought, and busted in to find a guy shocked at our intrusion. Wrong gym....next blocks up! Finally- 3 flights up and we finally make it. Rob and Heidi setting up...

Before Class Starts

We didn't plan to dress a like- it just happened! Lynn, Heidi, and myself.

Post Class at the Mongolian Grill- YUMMY!
Car ride home! We crammed them into the Nissan!

My Journey Continues...

Well, My journey continues. I am down 42 lbs from my delivery date. It's a struggle to schedule in weights along with the rest of.....life. But again, it has to be a priority! I tend to run around a lot- seems like poor Johnny and I are always packing up to go to the gym, go to the gym, go to the gym...
We had a spot on 13 WHAM's news on Monday night the 13th with Christine Webb. She came to Greece and filmed some TK to spotlight it. It wasn't a real class, we just got a few ladies together to do this for her. She really enjoyed it, and is hooked on TURBO! Yahoo! Here's the link of the video:
http://www.13wham.com/health/local/story.aspx?content_id=AB719407-7EA4-4653-9797-BAEFC0CEED98&gsa=true

Concord NH Master Class!

I headed out to the Boston area on Nov 10th for a TK master class in Concord NH at Gold's Gym. This group was GREAT! We will be holding our 2nd ever TK cert in NH in March! I was actually out in this area for my TK Westborough MA event on Saturday. I forgot to take pictures on Saturday at my certification. It was a fantastic group that gave me back TONS of energy! Can't wait to go back for PiYo in MA in March! BUT, I did however grab a picture of Jodie Gregory-Blood and Laura Jacobi right following Friday night's master class. So I was a little bit successful!

ROCHESTER NY - My Homies!

TurboKick Certification- Rochester NY - November 4, 2006!

What a F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C Group! We had such a blast! This is my home club- Greece Co-Ed at Greece Ridge Mall! What a freezing room but we surely warmed it up! These guys worked hard! We turned the lights off, turned the disco lights on! It was Fiesta Party time!

Hmmm...what, Heather (a.k.a "My Heather") and RoBBIe (a.k.a Irish RoBBie) must not like taking class next to each other! We have NEVA in the middle!
The Canadians are spreading the Turbo Love!!! Me-Maria- Susana-Annisa- Heather- and Robbie!

SYRACUSE NY: Eats Up TK! 9-30-06

Headed out to Fayetteville NY (Syracuse) to kick it up Turbo style with some AWESOME people!! Rose Capurro (new APD 2006) worked as the APD on this event! She did such a great job bringing in so many folks to this certification!
They were like PROS! They were so good with form and energy!! Here's Rose teaching!:

Syracuse will be known now for it's TURBO KICK rather than it's Dinosaur B-B-Q!!!

THANKS GUYS!

BOSTON EVOLUTION-TK & PIYO - 9/23-24/06

WOW! What a fun weekend!!! Mindy Robison and I traveled to Boston MA on September 22, 2006 to take part in Powder Blue's FIRST Evolution Fitness Conference! We started with a pre-conference certification (s). Arriving late on Friday night, we headed over to the gym and decorated FIESTA theme!

This group was HARD CORE ready to learn!! 52 People Getting TK Certified! Check out how close they paid attention!

They also worked their BOO-TAY off!!

THEN it was Time for PiYo!!! We had 27 people get PiYo Certified!! Check them out learning form and technique:

Then it was time to head over to the World Trade Center in Boston to set up our booth for the start of the conference bright and early SUNDAY Sept 24, 2006.

Sunday started off with a big "GULP"! I darted out of my hotel room to go catch the elevator to find Patrick Goudreau and Jeffery Scott waiting on the elevator as well! OMG!!

I said Hi- but not until Mindy came out wearing the same Turbo Track jacket as me that they read her "PiYo" pants and started the conversation about TurboKick and Chalene with us. Wow- just crazy!

This convention had SO many great presenter's! Patrick Goudreau, Jeffrey Scott, Mindy Mylrea, Robert Sherman, Julianne Arney, and MORE! Such an honor for Powder Blue to be a part of! Mindy snuck in to take a pic of me teaching about the powerhouse in our Strength Fusion Workshop:

We presented: PiYo, TurboKick 101, Strength Fusion, and Turbo HOUSE Party!

By the end of Sunday- we were tired! The excitement and energy of everyone at this event brought us through like animals!! But, in the end...we were Ty-URD!

LOL!!!

25 lbs gone! Thank you Turbo and PiYo!

Just a quick note, it can be done!! 25 LBS gone because of Turbo and PiYo! 35 Lbs from my delivery weight to now. I still have a bit to go, but I thought I would document my journey. I have vowed to try to eat more often. That is my problem, the day ticks by too fast, and I don't eat enough.
The areas I NEED to improve on: Weight Training and timing my eating.

So in just 4 1/2 months time, I have lost 25 lbs SOLEY due to the fact of TurboKick and PiYo. With having a C-section, I think this is pretty good considering I couldn't work out until 2 months in. I do Turbo 5x a week and PiYo 3x.
So not the most flattering before pics, but hey, that's what I have: