Fitness Together Launches The Great Jeans Challenge!
"Now is the time to start a reasonable fitness and nutrition routine that will allow you to achieve your weight loss goals before summer," said Pete Piranio, owner of Fitness Together in Brookfield, Delafield, Wauwatosa and Milwaukee's Third Ward. "That way, you aren't forced to resort to a crash diet or aggressive workout routine that won't produce healthy, long-term results."
Piranio offers the following tips for developing a healthy, eight-week fitness and nutrition program:
1. Find a support system: It's proven that people are more motivated to work out or stick to a healthy nutrition program if they know that a close friend, spouse, or peer are going through the same motions. Knowing that your friends or peers are relying on you to show up to your group exercises creates a deeper level of commitment, and remember to celebrate results along the way.
2. Ease in to new eating habits: Instead of making rash decisions like cleaning out all of the food in your pantry and exercising seven days a week when you have rarely made it to the gym once a week, set up a schedule of small behavioral changes that support your overall fitness goals. This will help break up your goal into small incremental changes so that your new active lifestyle not only becomes more manageable but provides opportunity to celebrate successes.
3. Keep it simple to start: The secret to success is a three-pronged approach:
- Strength-train a minimum of three times a week.
- Get in at least 30 minutes of cardio most days of the week (and preferably daily).
- Eat healthy, eat light, and eat often.
4. Switch it Up: While you do need a fitness and nutrition regimen, it is important to switch up your equipment, type of exercises and meals. If you do the same thing every week, or each similar foods every day, you won't be excited about your eight week plan and less likely to stick to it.
Fitness Together is challenging Milwaukee residents to drop two jeans sizes in eight weeks through PACK Small Group Personal Training and the Great Jeans Challenge. During this challenge, participants will work out three times a week for eight consecutive weeks with certified personal trainers in a small group personal training environment of like-minded individuals with the same weight loss and waistline reduction goals.
For more information about the Great Jeans Challenge and small group personal training at the Fitness Together, please call 888.968.7462 or visit http://www.fitnesstogether.net/start-jeans-challenge