In Fitness and In Health Progress

This month has been a whirlwind of events.  All good ones.  Goodbye winter blues, hello spring fever ❤

I am now halfway through my Fitness Instructor Specialist course and loving every minute of it.  Two more in-class sessions, a written and practical exam and I am officially certified 🙂  My business partner Brittany and I are taking the course together and really love being able to travel together and partner up to help one another.  Such a fun experience.  I love having to step outside my comfort zone.  I am at my best when I have to step outside of it and do things I could have never imagined me doing.  Like for example, teaching a class.  Never in a million years would I have ever thought I was capable of getting up in front of a group of people, all eyes on me, and teaching.  Now, I know that is not only possible, I am super excited for it.

You know how sometimes you just know things are meant to be because the universe just keeps making good things happen.  Well we have been offered so many great opportunities in the process of getting our bootcamps up and running I just know that this is going to be awesome!

Today Brittany and I stopped in to buy some chickens from a local farm on the way home and the owner offered us a spot on his radio show!  Amazing.  We get a 15 minute spot to talk about our business and what it is all about.  It’s a local radio station that does a segment on different communities including ours.  Such a great opportunity for us to get our name out there and what we are all about.

If anyone reading lives in our area, we buy the chickens from Blue Barn Farms and they are delicious.  Here is the link to their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Barn-Farms-180981041924660/

I just feel like there is so much happening for us.  I know it is going to be a great year!

Hopefully I will get an opportunity to blog a little more in the coming weeks, I miss sharing 😦

 

 

My Ducks Are Lining Up

Don’t you just love it when a good plan starts to come together ❤  It is the best feeling ever!  I have been searching and searching for the perfect space for our evening and weekend bootcamps.  Somewhere we would have the opportunity to expand into morning classes as well if there was enough demand for them.  We needed a place with a green space, a playground, ample parking and close to a trail or low traffic neighbourhood for running drills.  Well, I found it!  And they are going to let me use it at NO CHARGE!  Seriously, the community we are a part of is pretty amazing.  I am learning that more and more as I dive deeper into all of this.

We moved into this area three years ago and I thought at the time the fitness community was lacking.  Boy was I wrong.  There is so much going on here.  Lots of different styles of classes, running groups, yoga, trail runners, you name it.  It’s here.  And I am only just seeing the tip of the iceberg still.  I can’t wait to get the bootcamp classes started and meet more people.  It is going to be such an awesome year!

I am about halfway through my Fitness Instructor Specialist course.  It is a lot of anatomy and biology right now, which is great because I recently did both of those courses while working on my nursing.  I find it hard to study much while my husband is away, nap time is filled with other chores and by the time the kids are asleep at night my eyes are barely open.  It is much easier to blog or write out bootcamp drills than it is to get through a chapter of anatomy.  It’s interesting, don’t get me wrong, it’s just hard on my eyes.  They want to close.  But I love knowing that I am building a great foundation for my bootcamps and I can’t wait to take other Canfitpro courses this year.

I designed and ordered my flyers and business cards this week.  Pretty exciting!  I can’t wait to share them, I am pretty happy with how they turned out.  I used photographs from previous bootcamps as backgrounds for them.  I hope to put a few of them around at local businesses.  I know everything is online now, but I know some of the local business owners and it can’t hurt, right?!

I hope to have everything posted for registration early next month as I am offering a discounted rate to those who sign up early.  I want to make sure our classes are filled, especially for the first session or two since we are new in the fitness business.

Lots going on for In Fitness And In Health these days.  All pretty exciting stuff for me.  As I said before, this has been my dream for a very long time.

My running is going great, I am doing two 7km runs through the week and one longer run on the weekend.  I am still focusing on strength training until the end of February.  March is going to be kind of a mishmash month of both and at the end of March I start training for a half marathon, so my focus will be on running and getting my speed up a bit.  I got 7km in yesterday in 40 minutes.  That was probably working at about 80% of what I could do.  Not leisurely but not hard either.  I was on the phone with my husband for most of it.  I only get to chat with him a few times a week so I didn’t want to miss our conversation ❤

By the way if you are looking for great running ear buds, check out the Monster ClarityHD High Performance Wireless earbuds.  I love mine!  The sound is great, they stay put and no dangling wires while you are running. Bonus.  It’s the little things that drive you crazy when you are running.  Like ear buds slipping out.  Grrrr.  These don’t do that, they are awesome!