It’s time to Do This!  Let’s get off of our tushes and Spring Into Shape!  This challenge is short and sweet.  Just 2 weeks to give you a kick in the start back into moving your bodies and eating right. This challenge is 100% FREE.  We are giving you everything you need to do this, FREE!

Here’s a recap of what we are asking you to do to keep you accountable and motivated!

How to Join The Challenge:

This Spring Into Shape: 2 Week Challenge is absolutely FREE! We all like to know that we aren’t alone.  Right?  We like to believe that we are a part of something greater.  I know I do.  We all could use support right? This is why I’m going to ask you to do a few things to keep us accountable and connected for success.

1.  In the comment section leave me a little note saying you are joining me!

2.  Invite your friends via Facebook, Twitter, or email to join you! (Seriously, Do this)

3.  Subscribe to the blog on the right side of the page where it says “Get the latest news sent straight to your email inbox” so that you won’t miss anything.

4.  Take the Fit Moms Fit Kids Club pledge. It’s free, and you’ll get an ebook, for FREE, with meal ideas and workout plans on the download page that you can use anytime. Sign up where it says “Download The Pledge Now” on the right side of the page. Plus, we can keep you posted on any important news here on our blog.

5.  If you have a Facebook or Twitter account, everyday of the challenge you must leave a comment on our Fit Moms Fit Kids Club page (or tweet us @FitMomsUnited) telling us that you completed your workout (what you did briefly) and one healthy meal you ate that day.  Here’s a link to Fit Moms Fit Kids Club Facebook page .  Our twitter name is @FitMomsUnited, hashtag for this challenge is #SpringIntoShape2012.  If you are not on FB or Twitter you must come back to the site and “check in” by writing in the comment section, telling us that you completed your workout, and tell us one of your healthy meals you ate that day

Let’s Do This!

There are 2 tracks to this Spring Into Shape 2 week challenge. There’s a beginner’s track and an intermediate/advanced track.  You will have to decide which track is best for you.

Download the plan of your choice below.  Below you’ll find week 1 of the Spring Into Shape Challenge.  You will come back next Monday, April 2 for week two.  The challenge includes a workout plan with links to short tutorial videos that show how to do the exercises.  The cool thing about this workout plan is that you can do it without weights (or just one set of dumbbells or resistance bands).  So you can do this from the comfort of your home! (You’re welcome)  I’m a busy mom too, so I know a lot of you appreciate this. You also get nutrition tips (like calculating calories, correct hydration, correct portion sizes, etc…), and special notes that you must read before beginning.  Click on either Spring Into Shape 2012 Beginner or Intermediate/Advanced to download the challenge now.  You can print out the PDF that you download for your convenience.

Spring Into Shape Beginner Week 1

Spring Into Shape 2012 Intermediate/Advanced Week 1

If  you would like to follow our meal plan, click here. You don’t have to follow our plan, it’s optional… Just make sure you eat healthy this week.  It’s mandatory that you make a meal plan of your own if you are not using ours. Plan to succeed at your goals!  You can print out a free meal plan template here.

Again, plan to succeed by asking a friend, spouse, neighbor or relative to join you!  Check in with us on Facebook, Twitter or here on the blog to let us know how you are doing!  Let’s Spring Into Shape and become the Fit Moms we’ve always wanted to be.

Spring Into Shape Giveaway!!!

Don’t forget we have a Spring Into Shape Giveaway going on!  Click here for more info and to sign up for your chance to win a Sportline Cardio 660 monitor an almost $70 value!!  (We also have The Gruffalo giveaway going on!)

Click here to enter the Spring Into Shape contest

Don’t forget to let us know you completed your workout on FB, Twitter, or comment below.  Let’s do This!

It’s the first week of spring!  We are 3 months into our new year. How are you doing? We started off the year with A Better Me Challenge which was a 28 Day launch party into a better you. For 28 days in the month of January we examined and worked on ourselves body, mind and spirit. It was tough at times, liberating sometimes, and it got us thinking differently and moving our bodies. (If you missed it you can always START HERE, and start your 28 days anytime.)

I’m a realist. I know that many times we get on the fitness bandwagon at the start of a New Year only to drop the ball a month later. I’m hear to motivate you (and me) and get us back on track! Will you join me?

Overview-

Exercise:

This challenge will be short and sweet so that we can get moving and eat right, and not feel too much stress/pressure in the process. Each participant will need to print out the beginner or the intermediate/advanced workout plan to help you get moving.  This will be posted on Sunday, March 25 so that you’ll be ready to go without any excuses on Day 1 which is Monday March 26.  If you are already going to a trainer or already have your own plan, that’s fine you can still do that. For the exercise part of the challenge we are all going to commit to get moving 6 days a week, for the next 2 weeks (whether you use our workout plan or your own)!

Diet:

First of all let me say this again (I know I say this often) but for anyone new I must repeat it.  We NEVER go on a “diet” here at Fit Moms Fit Kids Club.  We consider everything you put into your mouth your diet.  So if you eat chocolate bars, burgers and soda that’s your “diet”.  If you consume veggies, lean protein and water, then that’s your “diet”.  Some of you who follow this blog are trying to lose weight (so maybe you eat less of the foods in your “diet”), others of you want to gain weight (so you eat a little more in your “diet”) others like me are not trying to lose or gain weight but just want to eat a healthy “diet” which is what we all should be doing anyway.  So whatever your end goal is, for the next two weeks we’ll ALL be challenging ourselves to eat a healthy clean diet. I will post what I will be eating for the upcoming week with links to recipes (if it isn’t self-explanatory.) I will post it the Friday before the week we’ll use it so that you can shop for your groceries. The first meal plan will post tomorrow March 23, and the second one March 30.

***If you do not plan to use my eating plan, you will be required to make your own meal plan schedule this weekend and shop for your groceries. Why meal plan??? It will help you stay on track eating the right foods, and making sure you are prepared to eat for success (whatever your goals may be).  Without a meal plan you may be tempted to stop by a fast food joint, or eat a candy bar instead of a yogurt with granola for your snack.  Let’s plan for success ladies!

Requirements:

This Spring Into Shape: 2 Week Challenge is absolutely FREE! We all like to know that we aren’t alone.  Right?  We like to believe that we are a part of something greater.  I know I do.  We all could use support right? This is why I’m going to ask you to do a few things to keep us accountable and connected for success.

1.  In the comment section leave me a little note saying you are joining me!

2.  Invite your friends via Facebook, Twitter, or email to join you!

3.  Subscribe to the blog on the right side of the page where it says “Get the latest news sent straight to your email inbox” so that you won’t miss anything.

4.  Take the Fit Moms Fit Kids Club pledge. It’s free, and you’ll get an ebook, for FREE, with meal ideas and workout plans on the download page that you can use anytime. Sign up where it says “Download The Pledge Now” on the right side of the page.

5.  If you have a Facebook or Twitter account, everyday of the challenge you must leave a comment on our Fit Moms Fit Kids Club page (or tweet us @FitMomsUnited) telling us that you completed your workout (what you did briefly) and one healthy meal you ate that day.  Here’s a link to Fit Moms Fit Kids Club Facebook page .  Our twitter name is @FitMomsUnited, hashtag for this challenge is #SpringIntoShape2012.  If you are not on FB or Twitter you must come back to the site and “check in” by writing in the comment section, telling us that you completed your workout, and tell us one of your healthy meals you ate that day.

Spring Into Shape 2012 Giveaway!

***We have 1 amazing prize for one lucky Spring Into Shape 2012 Challenge participant. This will help you take your fitness to the next level!  If you want to be entered to WIN a Sportline Cardio 660 you must do all of the above requirements (1-5), And you must report on your own Facebook page or tweet daily that you have completed your workout and successfully followed your healthy meal plan using the hash tag #SpringIntoShape2012 (to @fitmomsunited or on your Facebook status mention Fit Moms Fit Kids Club). Only the participants who follow steps 1-5 plus the daily FB status or daily Tweet will be entered into the giveaway.

To sign up for the giveaway fill out the survey below by clicking on the survey link below.  Winner will be selected via random.org at the conclusion of the Spring Into Shape 2012: 2 Week Challenge has ended. Winner will be notified by email and will be announced also on our Facebook page. Please check your email and our Facebook page the week after the challenge ends. You will have 48 hours to reply before another winner is chosen.

Click here to take survey

Disclosure

Before starting any new workout plan, or changing your diet you must talk to your health care professional.  We are not doctors, and we are not offering you medical advise.

If you are like me when you are getting ready to do something new you can be a little nervous at first.  I feel you!  I’m that way too.

I’m a “lists” person.  I use an App on my iPhone to help me to stay organized called Cozi for everything from to do lists, to shopping lists.  I LOVE it!  (no I’m not getting paid for this…lol)

I find that lists help me to keep things in order, to get ready for the events in my daily life.  I want you to be prepared for “A Better Me Challenge” and to be without excuse, so I’m going to give you a list of things you may need to do the challenge.

If you have NO idea of what I’m talking about as far as A Better Me Challenge, please click here and read this post.  It’ll tell you about the challenge and how it will work.

Below is a list of things you may need depending on if you are taking Baby Steps or Big Steps (see yesterday’s blog post about baby or big steps). Can you still do the challenge without the things below?  SURE! You’ll just have to improvise.  I do it all the time. 

• juicer
• great blender
• resistance bands (light, medium, heavy)
• exercise ball
• workout DVDs (optional)
• free weights (like 3, 5, 8, & 10 lbs dumbbell)
• journal
• fitness journal
• pedometer (or pedometer app on smart phone)
• exercise or yoga mat
• (note if you go to a gym you don’t need the weights, DVDs, ball, or bands)

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More tips to help you get ready for A Better Me Challenge coming soon.  Come back, or better yet, subscribe so you won’t miss the details!

Annett Davis, Olympian & Founder of Fit Moms Fit Kids

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Good Day Ladies!

If you are like me you ate way too much over the holidays, and maybe didn’t exercise as much as you should have.  I LOVE to bake and you better bet I sampled everything I made.  Cookies, cakes, butter mochi, pecan tassies, pumpkin pies, you name it I probably made it and I definitely ate it!

It’s time to push the reset button and get back into gear again.  “Get your mind right” as my hubby likes to say.  This year I don’t want to do this alone so I’m asking Y.O.U. to join me!  Will you?  We all need support, and encouragement, so I’m asking you to band together sisters and let’s get fit together. Teamwork is what will make the dream work.

Next week we’ll have our first annual A Better Me Challenge!  This will be your 28 Day launch party to a better you.  The idea is simple:

For 28 days in January A Better Me Challenge will empower you to be intentional about making better choices for a better life in 2012.  These choices are small, but can be powerful if you let them be.  Our challenge is not just limited to fitness goals either; it will include physical, mental, and spiritual choices that you’ll be asked to make. One choice per day.  That’s it!

Why all 3 aspects?  As human beings, to be healthy and whole we must not neglect the mind, body, and spirit.  If we were to leave one out, we’d be compartmentalizing ourselves, and we need to be Whole Women.  Happy and healthy,  on the inside and the outside.

Beginning Wednesday January 4, 2012, for 28 consecutive days, I will be posting 1 new “A Better Me” choice for the day.  Some days you will be challenged to make a little change for better health physically.  Other days I’ll help you challenge your mind to keep it sharp and healthy.  And, on other days I’ll help you re-connect and expand your spirit.

There will be two tracks, “Baby Steps,” and “Big Steps.”  The Baby Steps track is for those who want to take small steps that will add up to big changes in their life over time.  I know everyone isn’t ready to make full blown changes.  Some of you will want to take baby steps.  You will have simple action steps that will tell you what we are doing, why you are doing it, and how to make it a regular part of your everyday life.  I’ll give resources to help you achieve it.  Your steps will be basic and simple.  You will still be making steps to be “A Better Me.”

The “Big Steps” track is for those of you who, like me, are fed up with the way you’ve been doing things, and want to make a night and day shift.  I’m talking do or die change in your life.  As Yoda says, “Do or don’t do… there is no try!”  You realize that life as it is needs to be better NOW.  You aren’t making excuses any more, and you want to be A Better Me today, right now.  Some days there will be a second shorter post just for you that expands on the Baby Steps post of the day that gives you instructions to go a little deeper.  You will read both posts, and do both of the exercises/activities.  Your assignment will just be kicked up a notch.

I know some of you are in between.  You don’t necessarily want to take baby steps, and you aren’t ready to go all out either.  For you, I’d suggest reading both daily posts and deciding to do baby steps on some days, and on other days go all out.  It’s up to you.

Remember the challenge begins next Wednesday, January 4 so email this to your girlfriends, and share this on Facebook and/or Twitter (easy share button below) to let them know you will be joining A Better Me Challenge, and you’d LOVE to have them join you.  We all need accountability.  We all could stand to make changes in our life for the better.  Let’s make this challenge huge ladies.  Imagine what if all your friends and family members decided they too wanted to be better, how would their lives change?  How could their world change?  Let’s do it!

(More info about the challenge tomorrow to get you ready)

Annett Davis, Olympian & Founder of Fit Moms Fit Kids

P.S. Bloggers feel free to blog about this challenge!  I’d LOVE for you to join me!  I’ll have buttons for you to grab next week if you like.  Inspire your friends and followers to join us.  Please email me with any questions.  I’ll give you an opportunity to link up too next week.