week 1

I found the Nutrition Seminar really informative last night. Even if I didn’t like everything they were saying, I am willing to give it a go. Have made an appointment for Blood Analysis and Nutrition Consultation on the 15^th of June.

Good workouts this week. Have done Intervals almost everyday and am definitely feeling it today. Went for run/walk intervals on the treadmill, first time since I hurt my knee. Did I mention I really hate running? Ahhh well, felt good to conquer it though, much like Ares must have in many battles.

Going to meet with Brendan tomorrow for a new weights regime and then MC2. I am scuba diving on Sunday (yikes!!) and then going to go to the 7am Boxing with Johnny on Monday. Full weekend.

Gotta be in it to win it. We will see how motivated I am NEXT week. But this week has been good.

If any of the team members are interested in some 2 person personal training, I am totally down.

Happy Friday, Connor

Anyone for spin or yoga?

Hi All,

 

How’s the training going? Make sure you book in for classes in advance, as they’re going to be more popular than ever- I had four people from other teams in MC2 this morning and they all found it really hits the spot! I’ve got one of you booked in for 10am Saturday so far; anyone else going to join us? 3 spots left at 10 and four still to fill at 10:30. Or get yourself booked into the Monday and Wednesday evening classes next week.

 

Make sure you swipe in with your barcode whenever you come to the gym too, whether it’s for your own workout or a class, and be sure to sign the class registers too- we don’t want to miss out on those points! I’m booked in for spin at 6 tonight if anyone wants to join me. Be quick and give the gym a call on 520 3455 as it’s booking up fast! And Connor’s going to yoga at the same time so feel free to get booked into that, or kickboxing.

 

Don’t forget the nutrition seminar tonight at 7; an extra 2 bonus points for everyone attends, and most importantly lots of really useful info to help you achieve your goals, so really make an effort to be there if you can.

 

See you this evening,

Brendan

Our great start just keeps getting better!

Good going guys- really good to see you using the blog already :-) You're right, temptation is hard to avoid, but it sounds like Connor's got it cracked- half the battle is being prepared. So long as you have an alternative it's much easier to stick with that than have nothing at all, and just like the intervals, it might be more difficult at the time but you'll feel really good afterwards.

 

That said you don't have to be a complete martyr- I generally use a 90% rule, which means you can treat yourself the remaining 10%, but make sure it is just 10%, and make sure you really savour the treat. It's amazing how good just one square of chocolate tastes if it's really good chocolate and you just close your eyes and let it slowly melt in your mouth :-)

 

It'll be good to see what Discover Health have to say tomorrow and feel free to ask them for ideas on coping strategies for situations like these.

 

Good work on the research too Jeremy- you beat me to it. I'm loving the big silly hat theme, but we might have to tone down the public displays of nudity for our acceptance speech at prize-giving! ;-)

 

Keep up the good work folks!

Brendan

My first contribution

Wikipedia defines Ares as the god of Bloodlust - nice!

Ares is a major deity and a member of the Twelve Olympians, a son of Zeus and Hera, in Greek mythology. Though often referred to as the Olympian god of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."  He also presides over the weapons of war, the defence and sacking of cities, rebellion and civil order, banditry, manliness and courage.

It's also implied by the picture that he has a penchant for big silly hats, toboggans, and public displays of nudity..

I'm looking forward to getting some more group classes in this week. Have been doing bootcamp as well as some boxing last night. I'm keen to do something tomorow morning or evening if anyone else wants a buddy (prefer Cardio or HIAIT) - leave a comment or contact Brendon/Anna/Gym for my number.

I've been eating healthy so far this week. I sat down with my workmates and ate chicken salad while they scoffed gourmet pizza today! Now i'm craving all sorts of of junk food. Not quite sure how I'll manage to stay on track over the long weekend, but hopefully tomorrow's seminar will sort that out - right?

 

Good luck everyone, lets kick some butt.

Jeremy

 

 

Some guidelines around the blogging

 

1 more thing folks

 

The team blog is a great way to let the team know where you are at with your training, how you are managing your food etc.  It is a forum board to let the world know how you are doing.  Sometimes there can be no greater motivation to avoiding that takeaway hit than knowing you will have to confess to your team on your weekly blog..  Talk with your team members and find out how you want to use it and how you can make it best work for you. 

 

One of the great features of the blog is the ability to post comments against a post.  This means that someone can post an idea, and then everyone can make comments against that post.  To do this, simply click the comments link under a post on the blog site.

 

We will also use the blogs to post information about the challenge, so check it regularly. 

 

Finally some tips on posting... make sure you remove any auto signatures on your email before posting otherwise these will be posted as well and make the blog look a little scrappy.  Because of the way that we have the posting working, you will not be able to email pictures or videos directly. These will need to be uploaded to youtube or picassa (or other online media hosts) and then we can link them in..  any questions just flick us an email at bloghelp@genesisfitness.co.nz and we will get back to you.

 

Hope this helps

 

Juddy

GM

 

P.S the seminar is 7pm Thursday 3^rd May in the ballroom

 

 

Hello and welcome everybody to the Genesis Evolution Challenge!!

Hopefully last night was an informative introduction to the challenge and answered any questions that you may have been wondering. Remember this is designed to fun yet competitive, hard but enjoyable, and don’t forget a laugh at times aswell as make you angry!!

If you have any questions or queries direct them to your trainer. They are there to push you thru and be your mentor so to speak.

I will also post challenges and bonus points tasks opn this blog to all teams so keep an eye out!!

 

Bonus Points for first week!!

Everyone who attends the nutrition seminar will gain a bonus 2 points for there team in the first week!! Attendance will be monitored

You gotta be in to win people!!!

 

Peace out Scouts

Juddy

GM

The A Team!

Hey Team,

 

Awesome turnout today- what a way to kick things off! Four people at boxing class as well as Anna and I, and nine of our ten members made it to the training seminar. Way to go!

 

I hope you all found the seminar interesting and useful. I’ll be sending out a summary tomorrow, so if you have any more questions then drop me a line (brendan@genesisfitness.co.nz)

 

Keep up the good work people!

 

Cheers,

Brendan