This week, the green team took the win for total weight loss and blue team won the balance fitness competition on Sunday morning. Check out some of the training that these teams endured, as well as the progress of all other teams. Congrats to the green team, blue team and to everyone on their continued efforts to a more healthy lifestyle!
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| The blue team won this week's balance fitness competition! |
The Blue Team:
Congratulations Team Blue on a job well done during the
first competition. All of those planks,
wall sits, and running have been good practice for preparing us to successfully
take home a win. Shouts go out to all of the team members. Individual recognitions go to:
- Colby, Kathy, Shelly, Jasmine and Joe for rocking out on the Wall Sit
- Joe, Lenny, and Shelly for planking it out and holding on to the plank no matter how bad their arms shook
- Danean, Melissa, Shelly, Kathy, and Lenny for balancing as if they were gymnasts walking across the balance beam
In the end, each
and every team member was amazing in helping us to complete the competition.
Team Blue…Winning as a Team!!!!
The Orange Team:
This week was busy! As part of our fitness homework, the Orange Team was
encouraged to get into the pool, and many of us did. Tuesday and
Thursday's workouts kept us moving with the Bosu, TRX, stairs,
treadmills and more! There was also a workshop at Wheelers Cafe that
gave us tricks to spice up our food and tips about what to look for when
eating out. The Orange Team is keeping up with their homework and
journals and got great results on the scale today. Be sure to add your
fitness homework to your routine this week- lots of core work.
Great lecture today by Amy Plano, RD. Congratulations to the Blue Team
for winning today's competition and to all that participated. This
program is not only about losing the weight, but it is also about being
physically fit. This is one more way to measure success, and we are on
our way there!
The Yellow Team:
Sunday, March the 9th lecture proved prophetic as several members used the "7 questions technique" to talk themselves out of that sixth and seventh chicken wing sample at the Wheeler's Café buffet on Wednesday, March 12th. The discussion at Wheeler's Cafe was excellent, and the food samples were better than the lecture. All in attendance want to thank Pam Hutchinson for those prodding questions that were asked of the lecturer, a staff member at the Café.
The Wednesday night, March 12th, workout showed increased intensity and fervor as no one wanted to be a slacker in front of our new trainee trainer Courtney! Weight loss at the March 16th weigh-in was such that the Shadow team stepped out of the shadow and posted the largest weight loss (percentage wise) of all the teams. What a riot!!! Too bad we are not eligible for the JCC bucks that are handed out!
The Red Team:
Week 2 down, onto week 3 and we are motivated more & more each day!! Although our weigh-in was not as high as week 1, we are happy with our success.
The team is learning how to recalculate and design food plans to better serve our fitness/weight loss needs. We enjoyed being a part of the competition and look forward to the next challenge!!!!
Congrats to the Shadow Team!!! :-)
Some of the Red Team are joining in on the Savin Rock Half Marathon 2014 on March 22 -- in case anyone wants to join in on the fun!
The Green Team:
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| Green team bonding by the Wheelers Light & Local menu. |
- Most weight lost: Robert
- Biggest food accomplishment: Logging into the journals..both good and bad, but taking ownership of the 'bad' and making positive changes!
- Biggest Food challenge: Reducing salt, peer family pressure during a traditionally high salt/celebratory week of corned beef , cabbage and green beer!
- Biggest workout accomplishment: Most of us consistently wore our pedometers and aimed to reach over 10,000 steps.
- Team vow & mantra for week: Log the food, make healthy choices and log 10,000 steps daily
