Next stop.....2010!

Christmas snuck up on me and then just like that is behind us...

.....next stop 2010!

I love January because in our industry it is so much fun- everyone is motivated and focused and it is such an exciting time of year for many people to have a fresh start. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a planner and yesterday I filled out my new planner for 2010 and I am so excited for the year ahead!  

• With our Counting Reps to Counting Revenue Tour  - Click Here to Find out when we will be in a city near you.

• And our coaching group and mastermind meetings who are an amazing group of trainers that Alwyn and I are so excited to work with this year to help them take their businesses to the next level.  www.resultsfitnessbiz.com
  

• And then my book
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  which has been selling really well and I am so excited to get my message out to so many women who need it. I plan to be very active working with the community in my website this year- www.thefemalebodybreakthrough.com and speaking and meeting women to help as many women as I can have a breakthrough! If you are in the Chicago area or anywhere near come and meet me on January 14th at 6pm at the West Loop Gym. I will be doing a discussion, Q and A and book signing- come out and meet me!  
  

• And ofcourse our gym, Results Fitness (www.results-fitness.com) which is going to be celebrating 10 years in business this year! And will be so much fun with the new added space and our awesome team in place who do such a great job! I can't wait to do a workout in the new room! We will continue to "Keep Leading" as one of our core values.

If you are ready to plan out your year (Remember If you Fail to Plan, you should plan to fail) start by getting one of these fabulous calendars my friend Krista Scott Dixon made- 
http://www.stumptuous.com/schwag

It is full of inspiring pictures sure to keep you focused all year long!

And get 2010 off to a great start!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope to see you at an event in the new year!

The Exercise Encyclopedia has arrived- Released Today!

Years ago at our gym we started an exercise encyclopedia to have every exercise picture and description in one book. The book is still lying around the gym somewhere but was never finished because this task of thinking of every single exercise and getting pictures and descriptions became overwhelming and the book got shoved aside never to be finished....

But thank goodness - Adam Campbell took on the project and made a BEAUTIFUL book that will now be the Exercise Encyclopedia.  The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular YOU! will now be our Encyclopedia at Results Fitness and will be the "Go To" book for anyone we work with including new employees, our Results Fitness Biz coaching members and online clients.

Adam thought of every possible exercise you can think of....Believe me - I was there for the photo shoot helping him and I couldn't believe the exercises we were shooting - EVERYTHING! Click Here to read about my experience on the photo shoot. I am honored to have been a part of such an amazing book!

Plus he included some of the best minds as contributors (including myself :), the women's version has one of my skinny jeans workouts) putting together programs along with information on how to train, nutrition and what works. This book is the complete guide to every exercise and how to use the exercises to get results.

You still have time to order and get it here before Christmas from Amazon. There are two versions(I'll be ordering the Women's version,The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Sexier, Healthier YOU! for all of my online clients to save me from ever having to create pictures and descriptions again which is the most time consuming part of writing a program for an online client- thank you Adam!)

Order Today!

Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas

9 Days until Christmas!!!!!!

If you are anything like me you still have more than a few people on your list to get gifts for and time is running out. Is it just me or did Christmas sneak up faster this year? Well, I have a few last minute gift ideas for you or ideas that you may want to hint to someone near to you....

Under $5.00

• Fit Female Credo Poster - If someone in your life has been reading The Female Body Breakthrough a great stocking stuffer is The Fit Female Credo Poster for Only $2 bucks.

Click Here to Purchase Now

Under $20.00

• If you have a female in your life you have to get her a copy of The Female Body Breakthrough. For less than $15 you can change her life with the information in this book.

Under $50

• Pick up Training Jill not Jack DVD or The Body Weight Training DVD

Under $100

• One Month Membership to The Fit Female Community

for only $97.00 you can give the female in your life me as her coach for one month inside TheFemaleBodyBreakthrough.com along with access to exclusive content and a community of fit females.

Click Here to Sign Her Up for one month Now

Happy Holidays everyone! I hope Santa brings you everything you desire!

Excerpt from US News &World Report- 6 Stupid Holiday Diet Tips you should Ignore

This is an excerpt from an article by Katherine Hobson-

Click Here to see the article.

Make "healthful" versions of holiday favorites—like nonfat, no-sugar cheesecake.

OK, I made up that example; I'm not sure such a thing exists. But, says Cosgrove, substituting ingredients or making "lite" holiday dishes is rarely a good idea. "Usually, it still isn't very healthy, and now it just doesn't taste as good," she says. "Life's too short not to have my grandmother's sweet potato pie." Her suggestion for the holidays (and the rest of the year): Eat healthfully 90 percent of the time, and then give yourself the freedom to splurge during the other 10 percent. Rather than taking the fun out of all your holiday meals, pick the ones at which you want to indulge, and, at the rest, pass up the goodies.

What are your core values?

In our company we have core values that we live and breathe by as a team. These are core values that Alwyn and I have in our personal life and as a company they define who we look for in people we hire for our company. Everyday, any decision that gets made gets filtered through these core values.

I wish I could say we had these in place from day one when we opened our business(10 years ago) but we didn't. It would have kept us from making some of the mistakes we made like hiring the wrong people at times. We had core values but it wasn't until I started studying the company, Zappos that we redefined our core values and really started to use our core values in everything we do. We are always learning from businesses outside of the fitness business to make sure we "Keep Leading" which is one of our core values.

What are your core values? whether you have a company or simply have them for yourself it is a powerful exercise to sit down and decide what do you stand for? What drives you?

Our Core Values-

Bring your best Be Professional Integrity, honesty and transparency Only good days and great days! WE, not ME. Constant learning and never ending improvement. Fun and Humor. Strive for profitability. Exceed expectations. Keep leading. Starting with a solid base of core values to build your company on is one of our secrets to unlocking your success as a business. We will be teaching a TON of fitness business success secrets at our upcoming seminar. We are in Rhode Island this weekend. Don't miss it- Click Here

Attention Trainers- Fast Track to Fitness Business Success

Have passion for what you do.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Work Hard and success will come.

Dream big, think good thoughts and life will fall in to place.

All great ideas....but all LIES.

I know that some of you reading this blog are a lot like me- love what you do, very passionate about helping people and would do it for free. No matter how passionate you are, no matter how much heart and soul you put in to each and every day....when it comes to business you HAVE to learn a system to make it work. And if you are in the fitness industry as your career long term and want to help as many people as possible, you HAVE to learn how to run a business. Business skills not only help you with your career but will help you in life.

Alwyn and I opened our gym 10 years ago and we had passion. In fact, when we first opened we decided we wouldn't focus on sales, numbers or selling anything because if we got people in shape and were good at what we do our business would be successful on it's own. Love what you do and the money will follow.....right?

Very quickly we realized....we weren't making enough to pay our bills, we were working insane hours, working VERY Hard, and there was no end in sight unless we changed a few things. We started to read every business book we could, hire business consultants and attend seminars and conferences on business and started to learn how to run a business. In addition we learned from every single mistake we made (and there were a lot of them, 55 Mistakes at least- read about them in our book and don't make the same ones)

If you learn how to run a business, you can help a lot more people and fulfill your passion even more. But you have to get your nose out of the exercise and training books and get yourself off of learning new exercises(You know enough exercises by now...) and on to how to run a business!

At this point our business does not depend on us. We have 250 people who come through our doors weekly who we are changing their lives with the systems we have in place. We have an amazing team who follow the system. Alwyn and I don't have to be there. Not only that but every month we are in the magazines with editors calling us monthly as fitness experts and Alwyn and I each have published books with major publishers and speak around the world on our passion- fitness. Not only that but recently we were quoted by IHRSA as Business Experts (this is a huge milestone for a couple of trainers:)) - check it out.

We have built a very successful fitness business that supports the life we want to live and you can learn EVERYTHING from us- every mistake, every secret, how to start and build your own fitness facility, how to become a highly sought after expert in the industry and how to reach and change as many lives as possible.

We are now teaching the exact system we use at our gym. We are teaching EVERYTHING we have learned over the ten years in business. We can save you so much time and so many mistakes.

Alwyn and I feel that at this point the way for us to help even more people is to reach out to the other trainers who are where we were ten years ago and help them to create businesses where they too can have hundreds of clients changing their lives. We want to give you what we call "Aha moments" where you have one idea that completely changes your life and your business. We have been in your shoes and we want to help you to build a successful business.

We guarantee we can fast track your business and you success in this industry!

If you are a trainer (or thinking about switching careers) who loves what you do and wants to be the best at it, Do Not Miss this opportunity! If only we had something like this when we first started out!

In two weeks we will be in Rhode Island. If you are anywhere near the area DO NOT MISS THIS. Or check out the flight deals on Virgin America- only $39 bucks from a lot of places to Boston(about an hour drive to RI)- No excuse! And you can get CEU's too! And it is a tax write off- so basically it is Free!

Start 2010 armed with the information you need to fast forward your career and

CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Click Here to Sign Up Now and we will see you in 2 weeks!

The Female Body Breakthrough Vs. Afterburn

I have had this question in my inbox more than once this past week so thought I should address it.

"What is the difference between Afterburn and The Female Body Breakthrough? Both of them have workouts to do and nutrition to follow? Which one should I get?"

The Female Body Breakthrough is the most up to date product we currently have of what we do in our gym. Afterburn when it was written was exactly what we do in our gym and it still works very well but since then we have changed the way we do our warm ups and our core exercises. We have also changed the way we do interval training with our clients. We are constantly upgrading what we do sticking to one of our core values as a company which is to "Keep Leading."

They are not the same program. I wrote The Female Body Breakthrough Program from scratch but based on the same philosophies as After burn so the similarities will be there. If you have done Afterburn and are looking for more then check out my book. Plus my book is written very specifically for women.

But they are both based on the same principles- full body programs, using bang for your buck exercises in a circuit fashion, changing the reps and exercises every 4 weeks. A program that works and has been shown to work over and over and over again.

Wouldn't you be skeptical if you picked up my book and it looked nothing like Afterburn which is what we have been saying works? The products we produce are based on real programs that were done with real people and the principles of these programs, what makes them effective is exactly the same so the actual programs are not going to be too different from each other.

What's the decision- get both! My book is less than $15.00.

Click here to buy now and take advantage of Amazon's Black Friday sales!