The Great Spring Clean

I am guessing that it is the warm weather that motivates one to clean closets, dust every surface and re-organize files. The Great Spring Clean is almost like a mid-year New Year's Resolution... but in action... and with result!

My Great Spring Clean came more out of disgust at how messy my life had become rather than a romance with a new season. The winter made me unmotivated and sluggish, especially after a long, drawn out cold. Procrastination took hold and dug roots. It wasn't until I returned from my Florida vacation and walked into my apartment that I got a good look at myself. Some serious weeding would have to take place.

That next Friday I took a day off, rolled up my sleeves and got to work. THREE DAYS of purging, tossing, piling for Goodwill, scrubbing, vacuuming and filing ... I was sore, exhausted ...and elated. I felt cleansed. I could leave my house in good conscience. I could focus on my new business, schedule classes and open a new business account. I could actually find things and felt like a good little girl end of the day. I rewarded myself with a cocktail.

To date, I have made my bed every morning and hung up my clothes every evening since my Great Spring Clean three weeks ago.

The key, of course, is to stay that way.

Happy Spring!

New -NEW weekly MELT Classes!!

Come experience the MELT Method for one hour!

Using a foam roller and MELT Hand and Foot Balls, this one hour class will include various MELT Method techniques. Each class is different, exploring different MELT Maps to reconnect & rebalance the core system, while releasing compression and rehydrating connective tissue. The body becomes relaxed and balanced, back to its ideal state.

The added plus? You just may sleep like a baby that night!

Cost:
* One intro class FREE for first timers.
* $20.00 per class or $150.00 for a series of 10 classes


The below schedule will begin this Saturday, May 9th, both studios in Norwalk, CT:


SCHEDULE

1. Monday evenings from 6:15-7:15p at Step N' Out Dance Studios - 14 Strawberry Hill Avenue. Norwalk, CT 06855

2. Saturday mornings from 10:30-11:30a at Step N' Out Dance Studios - 14 Strawberry Hill Avenue. Norwalk, CT 06855 (no class on Saturday, May 30th)

3. Sunday afternoons from 4:00-5:00p at Jazzworx Dance Center -61 Main St # 2Norwalk, CT 06851


Email me to let me know which day you would like to attend & please feel free to suggest a day & time that might be even better.

Happy MELTing!

New Weekly MELT Classes

It looks like it is official... I will be teaching a weekly MELT Class on Sunday's from 3:30-4:30pm at Jazzworx Dance Center, 61 Main Street in Norwalk CT. (more details from the 'find MELT' section of the new MELT website: www.meltmethod.com).

This is exciting stuff...

Short but Sweet

Well, I must say that last week I fulfilled the parting message from my last post and got three workouts in last week... wish it were five, but three will do. However, the last two workouts felt good and my muscles are still talking to me a bit. Now it is Tuesday, 5:30am... I am blinking, yawning and drinking coffee, with the plan to get on the roller and MELT a bit. Maybe I will even get on my spin bike!

Next week will definitely prove to be a success... I am ON VACATION!! IN FLORIDA!! My motivation, aside from wanting to be outside, breathing clean citrus air in my lungs, will be to 'keep-butt-in-bikini-bottom'. There is nothing better than an early morning Florida run and a loooong walk on the beach.

On another note, the new MELT Method website will be up on Thursday. The site looks amazing, so be sure to check it out... and register for classes, of course!

Tonight: Erg 3000 meters and start packing!

Another week gone...

Today has been a lazylazylazylazy Sunday. I was in pj's until 2:00p. I felt like a dirty sloth. However, I shouldn't feel too bad as I am happy to report that I did manage to succeed in a few workouts this past week as well as teaching two MELT classes. Success!! There is nothing better that the feeling of mildly sore muscles from an honest workout. A good thing I MELTed myself or I would be in a lot worse shape (If you are reading this and are scratching your head asking "What the heck is MELT??", please see the side bar or go to www.meltmethod.com.)

Tomorrow starts a new week and the last before I go to Florida for vacation (hooooraaaaahhhh!!). Now, more than ever, I must focus on consistent fitness so that my butt will stay in my bikini bottom.

Happy week all... and may we all record at least 3 workouts this week!

On and Off the Fitness Wagon

There is a reason why I have named my business, and thus this blog, "Consistent Fitness." Mostly, it is to show my potential and current clients that in order to live well, you have to do so consistently. Yet, the other reason is to hold myself accountable and shame myself when I do indeed fall off the wagon, ending any consistent streak.

This is one of those times. A time of shame and accountability (sigh.....).

If you saw my last post, you know that I had a terrible cold that extended a good three weeks. Now, doctors and fitness experts (including myself!) will tell you that you can work out with a cold, so long as you do so with in your body's current limits. If your body says 'no way', it is best you listen.

My body NEVER says 'LETS GO PULL A 10K ON THE ERG!!' when I have even a drop of the sniffles. I took that to be the devil whisering in my ear, so I swatted him away and got on the rowing machine any way... and made my cold worse (big sigh............).

I truly cannot stand how sensitive my body can be and yet, it is the one the Lord gave me, so who am I to argue. However, the cold is gone, but the motivation has yet to kick in. Of course there was a time change recently, so I can blame that, but really??

I think I am the best example for my clients because they can look at me and say "Trainers are people, too." If I were always perky and energetic, I would be someone else. No, I get attacked with the lazies and fall hard off the fitness wagon. Then, I slowly get back on, as I did today, weak as a kitten and wishing I were taking a nap. But I did it all the same!

Tomorrow, my plan is to go to the pool and swim before work. Pray for me!

Gratitude in the form of a cold

Well, it happened... and nearly a week after my last post. I got a cold!! A full blown, knock-you-on-your-butt cold that lasted two and a half weeks... and my first in about six years. It got me the night I babysat my sisters boys (ages 6, 4 and 7 months). The baby didn't sleep so well, ergo, neither did I. My body, being accustomed to the precious 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep I get daily, was completely vulnerable to receive any and all germ in my path... and as much as I love children, they all tend to be little bags of viruses.

So, I followed all of my own advice and alas had to suffer (while enjoying a few hot toddies, I might add). I tend to get quite depressed when I am sick and unmotivated to get well. Isn't that silly? Yet, I also do come out of a nasty cold with a giant feeling of gratitude, and a bit of shame at being such a baby. After all, I did come out of it, and eventually got well and I don't, as far as I know, have cancer or any other terminal illness. Perhaps it is a good thing to get a cold every now and then, to be humbled and able to relate to other cold stricken folk... to be able to look at one another with sympathetic eyes and say 'I've been there...'. Then, I don't feel as though I were a failure in taking care of myself... that even the healthiest can fall to the mighty wrath of the common cold.

Here's to recovery!