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1. Exercise Boosts Brainpower - Not only does exercise improve your body, it helps your mental function.2. Movement Melts Away Stress - As much as it may stress you out just to think about exercising, once you actually start working out, you'll experience less stress in every part of your life.3. Exercise Gives You Energy - When you improve your strength and stamina, it's easier to accomplish everyday tasks like carrying groceries and climbing stairs. This also helps you feel more energetic over the course of the day.4. It's Not That Hard to Find Time for Fitness - Recent U.S. government guidelines say that to lose weight and keep it weight off, you should accumulate at least 60 minutes of exercise a day.5. Fitness Can Help Build Relationships - Think of what exercising with a partner can do for a relationship, whether it's with a spouse, a sibling, or a friend. People who have exercise partners stay with their programs and reach their goals more often than those who try to go it alone.6. Exercise Helps Ward Off Disease - Research has shown that exercise can slow or help prevent heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis (bone loss), and loss of muscle mass.7. Fitness Pumps Up Your Heart - Not only does exercise help fight disease, it creates a stronger heart -- the most important muscle in the body. 8. Exercise Lets You Eat More - Pound for pound, muscle burns more calories at rest than body fat. So the more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolic rate. And, of course, you also burn calories while you're actually exercising.9. Exercise Boosts Performance - After a few weeks of consistent exercise, you may feel your clothes fitting differently and see that your muscle tone has improved.Source: WebMD
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I joined Rondeau’s Biggest Loser program with the goal of getting smaller – I never realized that in the end I would actually grow. Of course, if you measure my waist, my hips, my arms, my thighs, my chest, they are all smaller – 19.5 inches to be exact. And in the beginning I thought that was what is was all about. I thought Biggest Loser was going to be a regimen of grueling exercise challenges to help our group lose weight, nothing more. I was stunned on the first day to learn that there would be Nutritional Education as well, and that I would actually have to CHANGE my diet to win the week’s nutritional challenge! I couldn’t leave what I learned within the walls of the gym – I had to incorporate the Biggest Loser program into my daily life. Going to the supermarket after Week 1 was overwhelming to say the least. Standing in the organic aisle I looked like a deer caught in the headlights of a Mack truck. That first week I was on the hunt for foods that are whole grain and fiber-enriched. The girls in class (strangers at that point…) had tossed around words like “quinoa” (whatever the heck that was…) and “bulgur” (sounded gross…). I wasn’t ready for that. So I swapped my Minute white rice for Minute brown rice, and my Honey Bunches of Oats (with freeze-dried Strawberries!) for Total. It was a small step but I felt I made the effort. I was curious about what the other girls would come back with on Thursday – what new foods they had discovered and if anyone else had struggled with what to choose. From that moment on I was part of a Group! The whole grain hunt was NOT the most difficult challenge that first week, or the 100 sets of stairs I had to climb. The most difficult challenge was Spiritual, a part of the Biggest Loser program I had never even considered! I never thought about how the body and mind work together during a weight loss journey – I always just assumed it was exercising and cutting calories that brought results. I didn’t consider the possibility of transforming the WHOLE PERSON. Decluttering – if I could only describe the Biggest Loser program with one word it would be that one. In addition to being our first Spiritual Challenge, the elements of decluttering appeared frequently during the subsequent 12 weeks. Ridding ourselves of energy zappers, feng shui, finding our zen – these are just some of the Mind, Body & Spirit Coachings that challenged us to declutter at least some aspect of our lives, either tangible or intangible. Since I’m a person who likes to “hang on” to everything, decluttering proved to be the hardest part of the program! Now I often have to repeat to myself “love it, use it or lose it” which was said in class on the first day and I will never forget! That was one of the roadblocks that kept me from losing weight before. Another was thinking it was a process I should go through alone. I’ve always heard that when you’re trying to lose weight it’s good to have a “buddy” for motivation. Before Biggest Loser I never gave it much thought – I figured weight loss was something to be embarrassed about and not shared with others. I didn’t realize that sweating alongside people going through the same experience would make me push harder and feel better about myself. I liked when my team cheered me on during workouts, and I liked praising them when their hard work was showing! I remember the entire group groaning when week 4 came around and our physical challenge was to run the distance of a half-marathon in a week. “I HATE running,” many of us admitted to the group, myself included. If you had asked me then if I could picture myself signing up for the Amica Half-Marathon about 6 weeks later I would have said “NO WAY – I HATE running, remember?!” But I did it, and I can’t wait! Running makes me feel peaceful now – I have the ability to clear my mind and just focus on putting one foot in front of the other. A few weeks ago I went for a 3 mile run and then stopped at a farmer’s market in the park. I felt so good about myself I couldn’t stop smiling, because I was really nurturing my WHOLE PERSON in every way! The theme song to the Biggest Loser TV show asks “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” I never really got it before but after going through the Rondeau’s Biggest Loser program I do. I’ve done so many things during the past 12 weeks to make myself proud! In the beginning I would push through back-to-back kickboxing classes, huffing and puffing and chugging water, to earn extra points for my team. Now I do back-to-back classes just to get my adrenaline rush because my body needs more of a challenge! When I catch a glimpse of my back muscles in the mirror I’m proud of them, because I workout with 8 or 10 pound weights now since 5’s are too light! I’m even proud of my lunch-bag because it contains 2 water bottles, nuts from Whole Foods as a snack, fresh berries & Greek yogurt, and a meal I’ve weighed and measured beforehand. And, yes, I’m proud of my bedroom floor because now there is room to walk across it without tripping over things. So yes, it is possible to lose and grow at the same time. Thank you, Trish, for welcoming me into the Biggest Loser family and for guiding me through my transformation! With love, Andrea
I keep seeing the posts on Facebook about “Why am I a fighter?” And I thought, why am I a fighter? I don’t think of myself as a kickboxer. I never had that Ah-Ha moment that made me say “hey, I want to get in the ring and fight”. So, why do I fight?? I am a nurse. I have to be strong when others are weak. I have to detach my mind from the emotions of what is happening in the room. If someone does not have the ability to do that when they are in an emergency or stressful situation, then they will let their emotions cloud their decisions and clear thinking. Think now, act now, feel later. I am a mom. I have been challenged in motherhood beyond any other way in my life. I have to be their everything, even if that means losing a piece of myself. But it has also has taught me, blessed me, and given me incredible strength. Motherhood has made me whole, by losing a piece of who I was. You can not give up as a mom, too much depends on you. I am a girl that grew up with boys. I have a brother who didn’t care that I was a girl. If we were going to play, we were going to play rough and tough. The boys did care that I was a girl, there was to be no crying unless there was blood. I had to be tough, or go inside and play alone. I was a quitter. And I was the worst kind of quitter. I was the quitter that quit before even trying. I didn’t like to try new things. I figured, why try when I am sure to fail. But then I started on the swim team. I went from the worst on the team to making it to the state championships. That was the little bit of self confidence that I needed to start to try new things. I began to realize that you only fail the things you do not even try. So, I figured I would try just about anything once. I was not going to be a quiter anymore. I might not succeed in all that I do, but at least I tried. And I now have tried a lot of amazing things in my life and don’t regret any of it. So, I don’t think of myself as a kickboxer. I am many other things before I would even think I was a kickboxer. I take all of the other parts of my life into the ring with me. When I am in the ring, I am a nurse who can deal with the stress of the fight in a calm manner. I am a mom in the ring, knowing that I can’t give up because that is not an option. I am a little sister that knows that if there is no blood, then there are to be no tears. And I am not a quitter. I will get in that ring and try, even if I don’t win the fight, I did not fail. I joined Rondeau’s kickboxing to lose the “baby weight”. My “baby” was FOUR years old, but I still called it my baby weight. I had tried many other gyms, did the treadmill, weights, and spin classes; all the right things to lose the weight. But I never lasted more than a few months. I lost motivation. It doesn’t matter if you know exactly what to do in the gym to lose the weight, if you stop going you will not lose the weight. I have now been at Rondeau’s for a year now. And I have never had a day where I thought that I should cancel my membership. I think because it is not just a gym, it is so much more. When you enter the doors, you become a friend. People notice when you are not there. You take an interest in your classmates, and they take interest in you. The workouts are never the same twice. The trainers give you so much support and motivation that you begin to believe that you really can do anything they ask. Then you begin to prove to yourself that you really can do anything that they ask. (Even when the trainers ask you if you want to be a kickboxer, you realize that you can do it). It is the only gym I have been to where you can actually see yourself growing physically, mentally, and emotionally. You accept and accomplish challenges that had seemed impossible in the past. You push your body to limits that you never knew existed and it becomes true that your body can do things that you didn’t dream it could ever do. I want to thank Nicky D’Abrosca for seeing something in me and challenging me to try something new. I would have never stepped into the ring if it wasn’t for her asking me to just try it. And for her believing that I could fight and fight well. I also want to thank Christina Rondeau for creating such an amazing place. I can’t say that you created an amazing gym, because this place is so much more than just a gym. You have pushed me, wouldn’t let me give up and had faith in me, when I sure didn’t. Not only have you proved to me, but you made me prove to myself that I really can go beyond anything I ever thought I could have done in the past. Thank you to all the trainers for the amazing work they do. Their work goes far beyond just the 45 minute class they teach. You don’t just transform bodies, you transform lives. Julie W.
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