"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Hebbel quotes

This weekend I attended Dallas Mania, a 4 day fitness conference. What an absolute blast for me! I had the opportunity to take three days of fitness classes and educational lectures, ranging from Booty Camp, Medicine Ball Madness, The Integrated Core, Scientific Shoulder Integration, Zumba, IndoRow, and AthleticKinix. Yes, I am sore, but today I am more energetic and committed to my career as a Personal Trainer and Group Instructor. My passion is health and fitness. I, with great fervor and motivation, enjoyed every minute of exercise that I did. At one point in the middle of Zumba, when my legs did not want to do any more squats and lunges, and my arms were cranky and tight from lifting a 4lb medicine ball for 75 minutes without a rest earlier that day, I stopped and turned around and took a look at the scene. 150 girls dancing to latin infused hip-hop, sweating, digging deep, and gritting their teeth when fatigue also ran through each muscle of their bodies. It was at that moment that I knew with confidence that I was born to do this, that this is what will bring me joy and fulfillment each and everyday of my life. I suddenly had an epiphany that brought peace to the thousands of thoughts that run through my head daily about what will be the next step in my fitness career and how do I motivate my clients to reach their goals.

PASSION, COMMITMENT, INTEGRITY - Without these, accomplishing our goals in life and in fitness will be halfhearted, lack luster, and intensely disappointing.

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."
Earl Nightingale

Urban X Training: September 14th - October 7th, M and W 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Pre-registration: $145 members, $190 non-members
"Take it to the streets and find your strength"- An outdoor boot camp designed to use the streets as our playground for fitness. Intense core and cardiovascular training. Lose weight and Gain strength.

Check out Pure Austin's new Group X schedule for Fall starting September 1st at www.pureaustin.com. (Will be updated this week.)

Now teaching at Town Lake:
Weight Circuit -12 noon on Mondays
Cardio Core - *New Class* - 5:30pm - 6:10pm on Mondays
Pump - 12 noon on Thursdays
Pump Express, 5:15-6pm on Fridays

Everybody's life is their sport.

We are athletes, whether in the gym, on the field, at work, in school, or at home. Each day we engage in a variety of sport. We require strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and recovery. There are days we play alone. There are days that we have several team members. It is our reaction that will determine our direction.

Communication is key to effective strategy. Consistency is fundamentally necessary to achieve desired results. Motivation and passion will create focus and drive and enable each one of us to follow-through with our short and long term goals.

What sport are you playing today? What will be your training? Do you have a strategy, a game plan? What effort will you exert in order to achieve results?

Define your passion
Establish short and long term goals
Commit to achieve
Be honest, realistic, and consistent
Live with integrity

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch

What are you working for this week:

4-6 30-70 minute workouts, combining both resistance and cardiovascular training.
Intensity level - 65-85%

Having trouble working out on your own? Check out the various classes that Pure Austin has to offer. Also, do you have a friend who would like to train with you? Group training is an effective method to getting a work out in and cutting the costs of personal training.

Exercise Challenge:
Do circuit 1-2xs this week
Stair Master: 10 minutes
Squats: 25 (no weight)
Forward lunges: 20 each leg (no weight)
Assisted Pull ups on machine: 15-25
Plank hold: 45-90 second hold
Treadmill incline walk: 5-10 minutes, 7.0-15.0 incline, 3.0-4.0 speed
Forearm plank Knee out to the side: 20-40 total reps

Feeling good? Run through this circuit 1-3xs. Challenge yourself! Be more than you think you are.


I leave you this week with one thought:
What will keep you working hard to stay in shape?

My motivation is:
1. Very expensive new jeans that I would like to fit into for more than one season
2. A sub 23 minute 5k by the end of the year
3. To run for my father whose health is playing tricks on him
4. To feel vital, confident, and emotionally secure