For Immediate Release

local fitness pro linda gottlieb

helps the AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE^® (ACE)

reach ONE MILLION HOURS OF pledged FITNESS TRAINING SERVICES

TO NATIONAL GUARD & MILITARY RESERVISTS AND THEIR FAMILIES

Milford CT January 11, 2012 — Linda Gottlieb, Master Fitness Trainer and owner of FIT Training, today announced her commitment to Joining Forces, a comprehensive national initiative created to provide U.S. service members and their families the support they respectfully deserve. Joining Forces supports activated National Guard and Reservists and their immediate families by encouraging industry fitness professionals, businesses and organizations to recognize the need and devote time to enrich the quality of life and the health of military members and their families’ through fitness. FIT Training pledged professional personal and small group fitness services to this worthwhile campaign.

Linda commented “I am thrilled to be able to share my expertise, energy and enthusiasm about fitness with members of our military.  It’s because of folks like these that we are able to enjoy the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.”

 The American Council on Exercise^® (ACE) is facilitating pledges. Fitness services from all fitness professionals, organizations and businesses, ACE related or not, are encouraged to support Joining Forces. With a collective goal to pledge 1 million hours of fitness services at no cost to activated military Reservists and National Guard members and their families, Fit Training has joined an elite list of fitness service providers around the nation in support of this important initiative.  Those interested in joining ACE in its effort to facilitate one million hours of pledged fitness training services can visit www.acefitness.org/joiningforces.

About FIT Training

Setting new trends in training and motivation, personal trainer, cancer exercise trainer, wellness educator and active lifestyle coach, Linda Gottlieb has an extensive career in the fitness industry.   A popular speaker and the author of No Ifs Ands or Butts, Turning Your Top Ten Exercise Excuses into Fitness Triumphs, Linda helps people get fit and stay that way. www.FITTraining.net   www.MovingThroughCancer.com  www.FitChicksRule.net  www.NoIfsAndsOrButts.info

About Joining Forces

With the backing of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and in the spirit of Let’s Move!, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden are spearheading the Joining Forces campaign and recently wrapped up a cross-country tour to meet with communities, businesses and organizations that are supporting the nation’s military families. The American Council on Exercise representatives joined First Lady Michelle Obama and several military families at the White House in May to formally announce their pledge facilitate 1 million fitness service hours to benefit these military families.

About the American Council on Exercise® (ACE®)

The American Council on Exercise (ACE), America’s premier fitness education, certification and training organization, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of physical activity and protecting Americans against unsafe and ineffective fitness products and instruction.  ACE sponsors university-based exercise science research and is the world’s largest nonprofit fitness certifying organization.  For more information on the American Council on Exercise, its Joining Forces efforts and other fitness and health campaigns, please visit www.acefitness.org.

Why wait for a resolution?  Try these 5 tips counting down to FITmas!

1. Make a plan- be sure to fit fitness into your crazy day of shopping, visiting and celebrating!

2.  Rise and shine- for most people the day only gets more hectic as the hours progresss…take a few minutes each morning to move- even marching while you brush your teeth counts!

3. Take it on the road- travelling for the holidays?  Pack your workout gear! Just packing it signals to  your brain that you mean business- the business of fitness- while holiday travelling

4. HIT IT HARD- Grab a heavy weight or kettlebell and do a few reps.  No Barbie Weights! When you are short on time, heavy workouts work!

5.  Phone it in- On conference calls or long catchup gab sessions with family and friends?  pace, walk outside or do stairs while on the phone.  You’ll do something great for yourself while listening to your best friends stories about her office party.

Whatever you do this holiday countdown, make it a MOVEMENT! Enjoy!

I love this time of year, especially this week, when gratitude and thanks are all around.  Of course, so is pumkin pie, stuffing and mashed potatoes! Go ahead, indulge and enjoy, but take a walk after dinner, or at half time while watching the game. 

You won’t miss anything, I promise! If  there is a wardrobe malfunction, it will be on YouTube before your sneakers can round the last turn in your neighborhood.  Get up, get out and get fit!

Happy Turkey Day!

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“You won’t get to where you want to go if you only travel on sunny days”

I saw this anonymous quote recently and smiled in its truthful simplicity.  For many of you your travels may have been through tumultuous storms not only a cloudy day or two, but the message remains the same. 

You have got to move through troubled times to get to the other side.

A fellow student and Ovarian cancer survivor in my yoga class and I had a conversation around this very topic today.  She shared, thinking back to the midst of her surgery and chemotherapy, that just getting out of the bed was a momentous goal.  She gave herself credit for doing that one thing. 

But today, here she is, sans bandana and with a full head of hair, doing the downward dog pose on the beach on a glorious summer morning.  She got there by getting up from bed those days that were the stormiest.

How can you apply the essence of this message to your personal fitness plan?  Move as much as you can when you feel your best, whether it’s in the morning or in the late hours of the night.  Take the time to stretch and breathe mindfully the times when physical activity seems out of the question, but reach for your loftier goals as you get stronger. 

Don’t have a fitness plan?  It’s OK; it’s a new thing for many!  Talk to your doctor about your abilities to walk, and begin a simple strength program- don’t worry about weights, just use good old isometric exercises like tightening your biceps muscles or getting up from your chair without relying on the arms. 

Start by taking it slow, but make the move to exercise daily. It will help you travel on many sunny days ahead.

If you are like me, you have researched the destination hotel with the best price AND the best fitness options for  you as you travel.

Here is a great reference for you! http://tinyurl.com/3jc3qd9
Enjoy!

You may agree that weight gain is too easy.  After all you can eat 100 calories in mere seconds that can take you 15 minutes to burn off (and that’s if you’re trying to).  Often we want a quick solution for excess weight, but even a healthy, effective weight loss of 2 pounds a week requires more work than we’re often willing to put in.  Does that mean there’s no hope – it’s all or nothing?  Accumulate a 100 calorie deficit per day – burn 100 calories more than you consume – and you will lose 10 pounds by the end of the year.  If that sounds more manageable than 1,000 calories (the deficit you would need to lose 2lb a week) then let’s get to work!

Do you ever eat something just because it’s there?  You can eat a couple hundred calories and not even realize it.  The mayo or dressing on a deli sandwich, the butter served with the bread basket or a cookie from the office lunch room… before you know it you’ve eaten 100 calories.  Pay attention to condiments and cheese that are added to most sandwiches.  If you can take it or leave it, leave it.  Watch out for snack plates at the office or home.  It’s easy to eat 100 calories or more when you’re not even hungry.  Look at your eating habits to see where you can carve unwanted items.  My motto is, eat when you’re hungry and make it worth the calories!

Next look at calories burned.  Use step counter (a pager-like device that accurately measures your footsteps) to measure your activity.  To burn an extra 50-100 calories park farther away, take the stairs, walk the dog an extra block and do a few jumping jacks.  What you measure and put intention to, you can change!   

Start measuring your steps and paying attention to “hidden” calories coming in.  You will quickly see how to manage a daily 100 calorie deficit.  You just might have a new body next year!

I know what size I really am, do you?  GOSH it’s really hard to gauge sizes these days, due to the Marketeers changing them up so we feel all so slim!   It’s called Vanity Sizing in the “biz” and it increases our spending dramatically…how? 

You see a nice pair of trousers in a size (less) than you usually wear.  “Your” size isn’t on the rack, so you try on these others. THEY FIT! YOU BUY.  And are Oh So Proud of that size tag, so much so that you might want to wear IT on the outside of those pants!  OMG

Let’s all get real and acknowlege that it ’s NOT about the SIZE

Be your fit self, whatever the label says!   check it out on: http://tinyurl.com/3srfrq3