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About Louise ...After just finishing my training as a lawyer I met & married the man I fell in love with at first sight. My friends and family all thought I was mad! Nine months and one day after our wedding we had our first baby, & we felt truly blessed.For me though I also had to deal with the fact that I had always considered myself a fat girl in a skinny girl's body!My mother had never given me a good image of myself and my dad was a food addict; after four heart attacks his afflictioneventually took him.Sadly, my dad & I bonded & self-medicated together over food which gave me the same addiction.I was not in a good starting position then to get rid of my baby weight!Luckily for me though I had the support of my husband~ but it was still a journey I had to under take for myself.That was when I first started exercising, which by the way at the time I hated!Quite honestly it was a battle for many years because not only was I trying to learn how to eat healthy and exercise right, I also kept having babies & nursing them for a year!15 years & 6 children later, I know everything there is to know about not only eating right & exercising, but I also know all the tears of fustration, the self loathing & the trying to find a balance between being a mom & being a women in this modern age.I can honestly tell you that I have never had any plastic surgery, nor have I ever used a dieting supplement or any dieting product although I have researched into them all (& at times have been tempted!!)I changed my diet to simply ( I say simply but as you & I know there is no simply when you have food issues!) to learning how to eat properly. Why did I do it this way? Because I knew that if I was going to successfuly live a healthy life with a body that was slim & without food issues & yo-yo dieting , that I would have to do it right with no food crutches or gimicks.Now forty I have never been healthier despite the fact that several years ago I went from being very wealthy to having only $5 in my pocket with my 5th baby on the way.As a family we lived on $26 dollars a day for food. Nothing stopped me even through these very hard times , eating right & exercising, & being a good role model for my children & a support for my husband.So! when I say that I can teach any one how to change their lifestyle I mean it!Through my teaching & books I have helped & inspired men & women, families & children on how to get their power back & take charge of their life.My passion to share this knowledge led me to founder with my husband, the global online magazine Weight Loss Solutions 360 & also to set up the charity SCON! (Stop Child Obesity Now!)I hope that through my journey so far that I can touch & connect with you in some way to not settle for second best but always to aspire to be a better version of yourself everyday.Wishing you all the joy & happiness in the world, Louise XO

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Our program is specially designed for mama’s to be and their hormonally changing body right through to birth. Whether you are in your 1st, 2nd or even 3rd trimester, or planning to conceive we have the perfect individualized plan for you to not only get or keep fit but to prepare you and your baby for birthing seamlessly together.

Essentially you will train to ease and work with the strong sensations of labor as exercise itself releases endorphins [the body’s natural pain killers which are 200 times stronger than any man made substitute!]

The medical statistics support this as women who exercised during their pregnancy had a 35 percent decrease in the need of pain medication and a 75 percent decrease in maternal exhaustion.

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It is a specially devised program done in the comfort and privacy of your own home incorporating our maximum interval training model to increase both lean muscle and stamina and to burn fat, the teaching of proper breathing techniques and flexibility routines all put together to strengthen you from the core outwards.Each session is personalized for your safety and comfort and to sculpt your body back into shape. We also teach you sensible meal planning and nutrition that will fit into your hectic Busy Mom lifestyle. There is no need to travel, to be stuck in traffic or to deal with weather conditions. All equipment is provided by us, all you have to do is be taken under our wing and coached. You will be empowered to become a stress-free, well balanced super mom.

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The First SessionAt your first session we will discuss where you are with your pregnancy and how it has been so far, as well any previous births. From there we will go on to the type of birth you are planning and what your expectations and goals are for this program.We will then run through some simple exercises in order to make an assessment of your present physical condition to both enable us to create your safe personalized plan as well as for you to be able to measure your progress in the weeks to come. Yep! Progress! Despite being pregnant you will be surprised how much progress you are going to make! We will then discuss the importance of vocalization and visualization. It has been scientifically proven that by visualizing what you want, brain-neurons form reflecting that action, meaning that when the body is actually called to perform the action your body will naturally follow that very same sequence make the outcome you want more likely to occur.We will then teach you the set of 15 Joint Mobility exercises. In actual fact many of them can be done sitting down but they are essential to prevent ailments like stiff neck and shoulders common towards the end of your pregnancy. Even more importantly, they will be able to keep you feeling good after you have been through the endeavor of birth and will prevent you getting stiff during the first weeks after the birth when you have disrupted sleep and are constantly feeding your precious bundle.We will then introduce you to the basic core exercises that will be at the center of all your exercise sessions. These are profoundly important because [other than getting you fit and toned!] they will enable you to get the best out of your body and to empower you to have the best birth possible. We will then cool you down and take you through the basic flexibility practices ending in a relaxing visualization pose.A Typical Session From Then OnWe will run through how you have been feeling since our last session, what your routine has been like and what you have been eating. Your mental state is an important aspect to having a happy healthy pregnancy and a trouble free birth.Joint Mobility Exercises:Next we will run through the Joint Mobility Exercises, as well as a few minutes of warm up movements to get your body ready.Deep Abdominal Breathing Techniques: We will then work on and practice our deep abdominal breathing techniques as taught by well respected expert Pavel Tsatsouline. There are numerous benefits for you and baby from learning these proper techniques particularly in assisting an easier and even possibly a painless labor as well as assisting in the final pushing stages of delivery of your baby.Interval Labor Training:The session will then move on to labor training where you will perform three exercise for between 30 seconds to 1 minute with brief rests in between thus mimicking the contractions in labor. You will run through this set a second time before you go onto group two. Again group two will consist of three different exercises performed through twice just as before. There are usually three groups in all.The program is designed to be a full body challenge to both strengthen your muscles and to raise your heart rate and tire your body physically for the duration of 30-90 seconds, the same time a contraction may last. Within the rests we will teach you to visualize your preparation for the next set just like a contraction or surge enabling you to ride the wave.It is our ethic to workout smart! We use body weight exercises, dumbbells and kettle bells in our routines, this way we ensure a fast efficient workout because it combines cardiovascular and strength and flexibility training all in one hit which means less time having to work out. Perfect! More time for you to enjoy your pregnancy.The added benefit of our training technique is that you will be in fantastic shape after you have had your baby ensuring that you get back to your pre-baby body, and in many cases an improved physic than before. Also, a subject not always openly discussed, is that our core exercises are a more advanced kegel thus preventing tearing during the pushing stage, as well as urinary incontinence after the birth and ensuring that the vaginal muscles bounce back to their firm taught self enabling you and your partner to be able to enjoy satisfying love making. Flexibility/ Stretching:Your hard work will be rewarded with a fluid stretching routine incorporating gentle yoga poses.Relaxation And Visualization:You will end our session in a yoga relaxation pose where you will be taken through a guided visualization which will relax you and teach you not to fear your impending birth. According to Susan McCutcheon (Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way), “Relaxation not only diminishes our responses to pain but reduces and eliminates the sensation itself”.Your visualization also serves to open your heart to your child, establishing a bond before birth. You will have now met your baby through your mind's inner eye, you can turn your attention to the days and weeks following the arrival of this new family member. Visualization is effective in calming your mind and resolving fear. When labor begins you will be able to call upon the metaphors used in your visualization to help you.I

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Dr. Clapp, a leading pregnancy fitness researcher, reviewed 75 studies on maternal fitness and fetal outcomes in 1989 for an article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In Dr Clapp’s book [ he is a leading pregnancy fitness researcher] Exercising Through Your Pregnancy, research has proven the following benefits that exercising moms can give their unborn children:Increased physical health scores as measured immediately upon birth and up to five years later Increased intelligence scores for life Exercise Increases Baby’s Nutrients and Removes Baby’s Toxins Fewer fetal interventions Fewer pregnancy complications Benefits to mommy exercising during her pregnancy:Less maternal weight gain Less maternal labor pain Less maternal pregnancy discomfort Fewer fetal interventionsMoms who exercise were rewarded by “a marked decrease in the need for all types of medical intervention,” says Clapp. Dr Varney [Professor in the Yale School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery Specialty] reports similar reductions in medical interventions. Both studies show that exercising moms, and their babies, enjoyed these specific benefits:“A 35 percent decrease in need for pain relief” “A 50 percent decrease in need to artificially rupture the membranes” “A 50 percent decrease in need to induce or stimulate labor” with the drug, Pitocin “A 50 percent decrease in need to intervene because of abnormalities in fetal heart rate” “A 55 percent decrease in need for episiotomy” “A 75 percent decrease in need for operative intervention (forceps or C-section)” Fewer pregnancy complicationsThe exercising pregnant woman decreases her chance of:Gestational diabetes Excessive weight gain Pre-eclampsia “Overgrown” babies In short, the medical reports have illustrated that women told to bed rest for three weeks or more suffered higher levels of physical, emotional, and familial hardship. In these cases, lack of movement actually caused the problems.Lets Just Review The Facts!Children born from mothers who exercised were found later on in life to have a lower body mass index, in short they were carrying less fat.Children born from mothers who exercised were also found to be more likely to take regular exercise themselves throughout their lives and have better self body image.Girls from mothers who were over weight are more likely to get breast cancer.Type 2 diabetes can now be transferred from pregnant over weight mom to her unborn baby.Other studies show that the endorphins released into the bloodstream from aerobic exercise cross the placenta to the baby. This is one way mom can share her feeling of well-being with baby. This positive news prompted the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology to change its recommendations for exercise during pregnancy in 1994. Now they encourage all mothers (excluding some with certain complications) to exercise regularly and moderately to enhance health for mom and baby.

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BMEPFBP Gold Star Package -$775.00 Initial Pregnancy Fitness Assessment Food Diary Individualized exercise plan prescription 12 personal training sessions + 2 FREE sessions = 14 Sessions Telephone/E mail supportReassessment upon completion Sessions will be used within 3 months unless otherwise agreed.Get started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO
BMEPBP Starter Package - $535.00 Initial Pregnancy Fitness AssessmentFood Diary Individualized exercise plan prescription 8 personal training sessions plus 1 FREE session = 9 Sessions Telephone/E mail supportReassessment of Individual Needs and Requirements upon program completion All Sessions to be used within 2 months unless otherwise agreed. Get started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO
MMP - 20% DiscountResearch has proven time and time again that the majority of people are more successful in their endeavor to loose weight when they have support of a loved one or a good friend. Enlisting a “Buddy” for extra support and motivation is a great way to go.Your Buddy will undertake to exercise with you as a team, this makes you both more accountable and its way more fun! You will both re-organize your kitchens together, clear out the junk together as well as arranging meet ups once or twice a week to shop and cook some food in preparation for your week.If you join a Buddy or a small group of Buddies to our exercise sessions then you will all receive a 20% discount.And don't forget...Your husband or baby dadda makes a great buddy promotes bonding, unity and closeness.All muti-mamma sessions are with two trainers ensuring that Buddies who are not pregnant get to be worked out target specifically to them and this is at no extra cost. Get started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO

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Our plan is specially designed for mama’s to get their bodies back whether they have just had a baby and are dealing with all the crazy hormones or whether its been some time. The fact is that you can get an even better body after a baby too! Our program teaches you to not just get in to fabulous shape but to also how to do it, apply it and keep it up in the real world.

Particularly after a couple of weeks of giving birth, you can start to feel frustrated with the way you look, wondering if you will ever get your pre baby figure back, or perhaps if you had weight issues before whether you will ever achieve your goal of a fit healthy body. Even moms who have exercised consistently throughout their pregnancy will start to feel the pressure that they are too tired and to busy to exercise.

However, by committing just a small amount of time each week you will be rewarded beyond your expectations, and much to your surprise you will have fun- we guarantee it! Remember, our bodies are designed to move and to move vigorously. Exercise changes the way we metabolize oxygen; the oxygen infuses our cells enabling them to their job properly and efficiently. Unfortunately if our bodies don’t get this many of our cells and body parts become very sluggish they start mutating making a perfect home for deadly diseases including breast cancer.

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What Is The Busy Moms Plan

What Is The Busy Mom's Easy Weight Loss Plan?

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What Does The Plan Consist of

What Does The Plan Consist Of ?

The First SessionAt your first session we will discuss where you are post pregnancy. Whether you are still nursing, what your routine is, what you eat and drink and your general level of health. We will then workout what your expectations and goals are for this program.You will then carry out four simple exercises in order to make an assessment of your present physical condition to both enable us to create your safe personalized plan as well as for you to be able to measure your progress in the weeks to come. This exciting because you will be surprised how much progress you are going to make! We will then discuss the importance of vocalization and visualization. It has been scientifically proven that by visualizing what you want, brain-neurons form reflecting that action, meaning that when the body is actually called to perform the action your body will naturally follow that very same sequence make the outcome you want more likely to occur.We will then teach you the set of 15 Joint Mobility exercises. In actual fact many of them can be done sitting down but they are essential to prevent ailments like stiff neck and shoulders common not only after the endeavor of birth, nursing and disrupted sleep but also just from the pressures of every day life.We will then introduce you to the basic core exercises that will be at the center of all your exercise sessions. These are profoundly important because [other than getting you fit and toned!] they will enable you to not only loose weight but they will strengthen your inner core that you can not see protecting you from urinary incontinence common after birth.Next, depending on your fitness level, we will run you through a warm and then into your first maximum interval session. We will then cool you down and take you through the basic flexibility practices ending in a relaxing visualization pose.A Typical Session From Then OnWe will run through how you have been feeling since our last session, what your routine has been like and what you have been eating. Your mental state is an important aspect to your success in achieving optimal fitness and achieving your goals.Joint Mobility Exercises:Next we will run through the Joint Mobility Exercises, as well as a few minutes of warm up movements to get your body ready.Deep Abdominal Breathing Techniques: We will then work on and practice our deep abdominal breathing techniques as taught by well respected expert Pavel Tsatsouline. There are numerous benefits for you and your baby if you are still nursing baby from learning these proper techniques. Your understanding and execution of these breathing technique will also elivate your success in performing your exercises leading to even better results. Maximum Interval Training:The session will then move on to labor training where you will perform three exercise for between 30 seconds to 1 minute with brief rests in between to encourage the natural production of human growth in your body. You will run through this set a second time before you go onto group two. Again group two will consist of three different exercises performed through twice just as before. There are usually three groups in all depending on your personalized plan.The program is designed to be a full body challenge to both strengthen your muscles and to raise your heart rate and tire your body physically for the duration of 30-90 seconds. It is our ethic to workout smart! We use body weight exercises, dumbbells and kettle bells in our routines, this way we ensure a fast efficient workout because it combines cardiovascular and strength and flexibility training all in one hit which means less time having to work out. Perfect! More time for you and your family.An added benefit, a subject not always openly discussed, is that many of our core exercise that we get you to perform incorporate more advanced kegels thus preventing urinary incontinence after the birth and ensuring that the vaginal muscles bounce back to their firm taught self enabling you and your partner to be able to enjoy satisfying love making. Flexibility/ Stretching:Your hard work will be rewarded with a fluid stretching routine incorporating gentle yoga poses.Relaxation And Visualization:You will end our session in a yoga relaxation pose where you will be taken through a guided visualization to promote a sense of well being and a vision for you success in your aims and goals. You will feel refreshed balanced and confident ready to take on the challenges of the day.

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What Are The Benefits Of The Plan ?

Exercise is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful ways to improve your health. In a 2011 study reviewing 40 papers published between 2006 and 2010, researchers found that exercise reduces the risk of about two dozen health conditions, ranging from cancer and heart disease to type 2 diabetes, stroke, dementia and depression. Exercise also slows down the rate of aging itself, providing perhaps the closest example of a real life fountain of youth that we will ever find. Essentially exercise produces an anti-aging effect at the cellular level of your body.Exercise Benefits:Improving your brainpower and boosting your IQLowering your risk of heart disease and cancerBuilding strong bones Losing weightIncreasing your energy levelsSlowing down your aging processLowering your risk of diabetes and reversing pre-diabetesBalancing your mood and fighting depressionCuring insomniaRelieving painAcquiring fewer coldsIn fact, a study from 2008 concluded that fitness is a far better indicator of overall health and longevity than even body mass index (BMI). What this means is that even if you're overweight or obese, exercise will still provide you with measurable benefits, as well as weight loss.Remember also that as a mother your are your child’'s role model. Children born from mothers who exercised were also found to be more likely to take regular exercise themselves throughout their lives and have better self body image. That is a wonderful gift to pass on.And Don't Forget!You can exercise in the comfort of your own homeWe bring all the equipmentYou can choose to workout with the support of friends or familyYou can have your kids with youNo travel!Safe and guaranteed resultsFun & inspirational

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BMEWP Value Package - $ 875 Initial Fitness AssessmentFood Diary Commitment ContractCustomized Weight Loss and Exercise Plan Prescription Free copy of “The Busy Mom'’s Easy Weight Loss” Plan12 personal training sessions + 2 FREE sessions = 14Sessions Telephone/E mail supportReassessment of Individual Needs and Requirements upon program completion All Sessions to be used within 3 months“Baby Mama Transformation” Portrait Packages by Valerie Joy Photography 1 hour shoot plus Digital Images for purchase.Get started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO
BMEWP Gold Star Package $1295 Initial Fitness AssessmentFood Diary Commitment ContractRefrigerator CheckNutrition AdviceCustomized Weight Loss and Exercise Plan prescription Free copy of “The Busy Mom’s Easy Weight Loss” Plan12 personal training sessions + 2 FREE sessions = 14 Sessions Telephone/E mail supportReassessment of Individual Needs and Requirements upon program completion Feature Story in Weight Loss Solutions 360 Magazine All Sessions to be used within 4 monthsBaby Mama Transformation” Portrait Packages by Valerie Joy Photography 2 hour Photoshoot including Digital Images on DiskGet started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO
MMP - 20% DiscountResearch has proven time and time again that the majority of people are more successful in their endeavor to loose weight when they have support of a loved one or a good friend. Enlisting a “Buddy” for extra support and motivation is a great way to go.Your Buddy will undertake to exercise with you as a team, this makes you both more accountable and its way more fun! You will both re-organize your kitchens together, clear out the junk together as well as arranging meet ups once or twice a week to shop and cook some food in preparation for your week.If you join a Buddy or a small group of Buddies to our exercise sessions then you will all receive a 20% discount.And don't forget...Your husband or baby dadda makes a great buddy promotes bonding, unity and closeness.All muti-mamma sessions are with two trainers ensuring that Buddies who are not pregnant get to be worked out target specifically to them and this is at no extra cost. Get started call now:[941] 926 5218 or email us at6kidsnfit_gmail.comSee you soon! XO

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My Weight Loss Journey

MY JOURNEY TO BECOMING A FIT MAMMA

Twitter bird Facebook Linkedin Dear Friend,Firstly Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to visit…I want to briefly share my story with you, in order to inspire you that despite what setbacks you may have experienced in your life you too can break free of those shackles and torments so you too can change your life. To feel great about yourself, too love and respect yourself and as a inevitable consequence rid yourself of those unwanted pounds.I want you to feel so PROUD of yourself!So, this is not your typical story of a fat girl becoming thin. In fact, for many years I was not taken seriously when I was asking for help because, not that I realized it at the time but I had a gorgeous figure.Now your thinking what the heck am I reading this for?! However, I was a fat girl in a slim girl’s body. You see going back to when I was little the bond I shared with my father was through food. I hardly remember sitting around a dinner table, I was always in a café or restaurant. I even thought that one of the wait staff at my favorite Italian eatery was my surrogate nana!My mother, who constituently told me that she never wanted me, and that she wished so hard that I had never been born would always demand my father’s full attention. I knew not to speak unless she wanted me to cheer her up or to tell her how marvelous she was. Daddy then, would compensate me, as I sat there silently with all the food I could possibly consume to the point that I would feel desperately sick.Years of repeating these patters led me not to feel satisfied and full without getting to this point of nausea. Without it, strangely I did not feel that warm, cozy feeling of being loved.I am a firm believer, and after counseling so many others, plus raising my own children that this is the stem for the majority of people with weight issues- lack of the “right” love in our childhoods.Now in one respect I was fortunate because I was as thin as a stick no matter what I ate, and remember my childhood was in the 1970s in England where everyone was far more active I did not put on a pound of unwanted weight.However, after going through the most awful four years between the ages of 12 to 16 at a school that was like the gangland I went into a post traumatic stress, and for a year I hardly left the house other than to go and eat with dad. Left in this state, I would just order takeout all day long, sometimes four pizzas at a time and then just gorge on them.Inevitably for the first time I put on weight, not by the standards of day but a good fourteen pounds, of which my mother took absolute glee in. I realized that I had a problem. I felt depressed, ashamed, out of control, alone and stuck in a cycle.I went to a book store and started studying diet, exercise and nutrition. It was so hard I had never eaten a salad in my life! I had not been really active since I was twelve. I bought an exercise video and tried to do it tree times a week as well as taking walks. I went back to college and set my mind on studying law, I think as a way to exercise some sort of control of my life. On the face of it my life seemed ordered but I could not stop my addiction to food and I was not consistent and did not progress with my exercise. I worried about my weight all the time, I felt sluggish, needed naps frequently and suffered from paralyzing headaches.My best friend at the time shared my same food issues, and later on it became clear how she managed to keep slim, a path that thank goodness I never went down. On top of that my father had a spate of heart attacks and his health declined rapidly. My mother had always had a habit of gorging on food. So it was that I was surrounded by negative influences, and it became clear to me that the reality was that none of these people in my life wanted me to escape my unhealthy lifestyle. However, at the end of 1995 an incident happened that was going to change my life forever that would start the processes of setting me free…I can not emphasize enough the importance of this event, and how everyday since then I count blessings. This was when I met the most amazing individual, so incredible in fact that I thought such a not humanly possible! This fellow shortly after, very shortly after! was to become my husband. You see the fact is that we all need a rock in our life, someone or something that enables us to reach within ourselves and connect with our inner strength to change ourselves for the better. I know that as you read this you are feeling these words because you too have felt alone, even amongst people who you love and love you back, because they cannot offer you that support that you need right now. Now for me this was a pivotal point in my life journey because within a couple of months we were married, and eight weeks after that we found out we were pregnant. We were ecstatic, overjoyed!Harrison - Baby Number 1However, I did not expect my past demons lurking in my inner consciousness to jump out at me so aggressively! My body was changing and I felt excited but out of control. I also must confess that I totally indulged in all my favorite and not so healthy treats!The weight pilled on but I just deluded myself that it was natural with first baby! Meanwhile, Jim put some weight on to. Always a natural health nut, three months to the birth we bought a Nordic track which I would sit and watch Jim workout feverishly!I told myself that would be me after the birth!To my utter shock and horror after starting at 120 pounds at the beginning of the pregnancy, after the birth I had gone up to 154 pounds ahh!!So my journey into the world of exercise, health and nutrition begun. The first thing I did was to get on the Nordic track, within five minutes I freaked out calling my husband, I was convinced that I was having a heart attack! He assured me of course that I was fine, that I was just working my body as it was designed to do.I felt ashamed at how unfit and unhealthy I was. I was resolved to change but little did I know what a difficult battle I had ahead of me. This is something that I have brought our children to know, that its easier to go through the challenges of learning to eat and exercise properly before you damage yourself and have to deal with the extra struggle of weight loss.Jim and I, as well as running the law practice, now also renovated properties that we lived in and then would sell them. This meant that we were permanently living in a construction site for the first three years of our marriage. This just made it harder, but I kept going. I would use a heart rate monitor to check if I was exercising in my optimum fat burning range, and get on a piece of equipment called a Health Rider with Jim next to me on his scary Nordic Track and our little baby in his chair!Of course we knew that we only had twenty minutes before he would start to fuss and want to be picked up, so it was very stressful. However, Jim and I wanted to do everything as a team so we just stuck to it. I saw some results but not enough and I could not get back to where I started from. On top of that I hated, and I mean hated exercising. I could not for the life of me understand how Jim would look forward to it and his capacity to push himself so hard.Hand in hand with this I still struggled with my diet. I still loved big portions even if what I was consuming was getting healthier. I still loved restaurants and cafes, this was just a constant point of self-recrimination I would get so mad with myself.Not feeling that I was progressing as fast I wanted and just generally still feeling like a “fat cow”! I enlisted the help of a personal trainer twice a week. This took me on to a new level of progression. She started working me very hard on my core and on training with weights, and then I committed to thirty minutes of cardio 2/3 times a week. Isabelle - Baby Number 2 A month in though, we found out that we were pregnant with our second baby. Again, we were so overjoyed and I felt a new level of optimism of how I was going to deal with this pregnancy.As good as my word I trained through to the very last days up until the birth. I felt so proud and I felt so much better for it but my diet still had many indulgences which I told myself I deserved more than ever!However, soon after our little daughter was born (an all natural homebirth) and I restarted gentle training, my trainer promptly told me that she was able to train me any more because she had a celebrity client!I was broken, devastated; I had relied so heavily on her and she had become a close family friend. I resolved to continue but initially I would find myself crying with frustration that I was not achieving the dramatic results I was looking for. I had dreamt that when over with the pregnancy my trainer and I would kick it up several gears and that this time I would get back to my weight of 120 pounds. With the continued support of my hubby we found new ways to exercise cardio kick boxing, jump rope, circuits but still it was not my first love!Along came our baby number three. Sophia - Baby Number 3This time there was no trainer involved I had learnt enough to take me through. We bought an elliptical machine which I used for the full nine months. Many times I was bored out of my mind I also continued to work out with free weights all the way through.The third birth was now even easier. I stood up the entire time holding on to my bed rail and just visualized that I was on that damn machine! The labor was only four hours and really smooth. Still though those last pounds eluded me.Xavier - Baby Number 4By 2004 we were now on to baby number four! Initially, I was in good shape due to teaching cardio kick boxing four times a week up to six months in the pregnancy. [ I had gone to L.A to train Billy Blanks and had fallen in love with Tae Bo!] In fact I had started to shed the nagging extra pounds much to my absolute delight.Unfortunately, we moved, I longer taught the classes, and we had moved into a stop gap property whilst our new home was being finished. You could not even swing a cat in this place, our furniture was stored all around us.Also it was around Halloween, I relapsed into terrible chocolate eating habits and no exercise. After another wonderful home birth, I felt so frustrated that I had taken five steps forward only to take ten steps back.It was such a crazy situation. I knew so much about fitness, diet, exercise; I could help so many people around me and yet when it came to myself I could not achieve my personal goals.Many around me did not understand my angst either because as a whole I presented reasonably well for a mother of four. Still I battled on!Seraphina- Baby Number 5 Now in 2008 with baby number five I did an hour an a half of a hot yoga class three times a week right up until my due date. Our little girl was born in two and a half hours flat, again at home with all her loving family around her.During this pregnancy I had started to work very productively on cleaning up my diet. I realized that I had fallen behind with incorporating any weight barring exercises into my regime, which I knew categorically the human body needed to protect itself from all sorts of diseases as well as preventing the aging process. I made a pact that once I had had the baby I would re-evaluate my regime just as I would do for my clients. Once I had our little girl I went back to scratch. I completed a food diary. I came up with a weekly exercise calendar that would have to be filled in with the exercise type and the duration of the exercise on the days I did it so that I could no longer fool myself, and I stuck on the front of my fridge to remind me everyday!I bought Insanity, Shaun T’s Beachbody package. I committed to exercising five, if possible 6 days a week. I alternated 45 to 50 minute cardio/plyometric routines, and I incorporated three times a week my secret weapon!I also re-introduced kettle bells back into my program. A Kettlebell is a cast iron weight that look somewhat like cannonball with a handle. It is a form of weight training exercise that is based around fluid functional movements, and therefore uses all ranges of motion so that your muscles and joints are strengthened from all angles.Add to that that you are using all major muscle groups simultaneously, your heart rate gets up into the fat burning cardio zone so that you get a full body workout in one. No having to do cardio and then weight training separately. Most importantly for me was that it utilized my core muscles unlike any other exercise regime I had ever done. After all my pregnancies my tummy was the hardest area to target and pull into a super shape. I could not believe the results I was obtaining, and I mean my whole core, right the way around. No flabby muffin top, no bra squelch, fat just burn off- I was in heaven. I could have kicked my own butt that Jim had used them all this time and I had not bothered since we first bought them! Between carefully studying my food diary and realizing that although on the whole I was eating clean I was eating too much! So I cut down my portions, although I still ate five to eight times a day. I implemented my new exercise routines and by heck, the battle I had fought since the birth of our first baby nearly 12 years ago, and a battle for health that I had waged all my life was won! The weight dropped off, I felt elated and I was proud, as was my whole family who could not complement me enough. I felt such a great role model for them, and for myself to write down each week my new weight was just a piece of heaven!Best of all I had done it whilst nursing our fifth for the year. On top of that, we found out that we are on baby number six! Jim Jnr. - Baby Number 6I continued my hard core training program right up to the day I gave birth, much to everyone’s amuzement and amazement! I managed to maintain all my good habits, and believe me this was not easy through seven weeks of terrible morning sickness! But I had the best pregnancy of my life despite being 38 and delivering a just under 11 pound baby naturally!Heck the delivery was so fast that the midwife didn’t arrive in time and my husband had to catch him! Jim Jnr’s cord was so thick that not even the midwife had seen one that size the placenta was luscious. I was so fit and healthy that I stopped bleeding after just 4, at 7 days the temptation was too much and I started exercising again! Gently at first but it was very easy to get back into it. Just Not Enough Time!The baby weight continued to drop off me but the problem was that committing myself to up an hour 4 or 5 times a week was becoming more and more difficult with the growth of our business and family commitments.I had also been reading some recent research showing that if you want to loose weight it is not how long you exercise but the intensity with which you exercise.At McMaster University in Ontario, researchers compared two groups of volunteers in an exercise comparison. Both groups used stationary bikes. The first group were asked to cycle at moderate intensity for 90 to 120 minutes. The second group were asked to cycle for 20 to 30 minutes. However, their exercise included four to six 30 second sprints.The Result?!~ After two weeks the group who worked out for the shorter time were equally as fit as those who had worked out four times longer! They also gained more shapely muscle tone.They also found that the ladies who performed the interval training for those two weeks boosted their ability to burn fat by 36%. Now I don’t know about you, but I like those type of figures!In Australia, in a similar study researchers again had two groups work out on stationary bikes but this time for a period of fifteen weeks. The first group were made to exercise three times a week for 40 minutes at moderate intensity.The second group were made to work out for only 20 minutes but had to perform interval training. That was eight seconds of sprinting followed by 12 seconds of gentle recovery, this was performed throughout their entire workout.Neither group was allowed to diet.Guess What?!~ The first moderate group actually GAINED a pound of fat during the fifteen weeks!The interval group lost on average 5 ½ pounds, and two of the heavier women dropped 18 pounds!Maximum Interval Training- Tried & Tested!I decided to test this out on myself and some willing participants! I put together a program of maximum interval training. That is alternate bursts of all out intensity going as hard as you can go with short periods of rest. During the bursts I performed varying exercises incorporating:Body resistance moves~ that is where you use your own body weight to increase and maintain lean muscle. Plyometric drills~ exercises involving repeated rapid stretching and contracting of muscles (as by jumping and rebounding) to increase muscle power, and of course weight training movements with dumbbells and kettle bells.The duration of the exercise session was never longer than 21 minutes. Within that session each exercise was performed for 1 minute with a 15 second break twice with 3 sets. I was blown away with the results. All of us increased our fitness radically [both in terms of stamina and lean muscle] at that is an understatement. We all became more sculpted than we had ever been.Best of all we only had to do 90 minutes of exercise a week to see results~ yeah!! Think about it! Short bursts of interval training can so easily be combined to fit your busy schedule.Results To Be Proud Of!Everyone wanted to know my “secret”! I put together similar exercise plans for friends, family and client’s and I have now been asked to design down loadable versions so that I can help people far and wide in their journey to get fit and healthy. I am so honored and amazed at my own journey. Now I want give you the tools to succeed, the way I have, tools that I wish I had years ago.Remember, you have read my story and I have been where you are and now you can be where I am today free of what has held you back. We can’t wait to work with you on achieving your personal goals - nothing is out of you reach,We have your back,Blessings,Louise XO

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