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“I am doing 100 reps for each leg exercise, can I continue with these?”

To be very honest, when I first received this question I cringed.

Initially because this is by far not an effective method for fat loss plus this approach will only lead to hours of working out with little to no results.

Then I had a flashback. It was not that long ago, that I too was doing the exact same thing!

Yep -My biggest exercise mistake:

High Reps, Low Weight

I did not care for the way my thighs and butt looked so I joined a gym and made my rounds on every single leg machine available. I remember being so proud of myself that I could pump out 100 reps on the leg press and hey - after 75 reps on the “inner outer thigh machine” I was really feeling it!

Then I discovered the truth and now just look back and shake my head at myself.

If you can imagine me for a moment, yelling this message to you…..

“More is not better!!”

Doing more repetitions of any given exercise will not cause you to shed the fat any faster.

Endless repetitions with a weight that can be lifted, pushed or pulled hundreds of times is only
Wasting your Time.

Still hard to wrap your mind around it?

Let me ask you, How long have you been following this type of routine?

Even more important….What type of body shaping results have you achieved?

Despite disappointing results, time after time this is the approach women choose to take. Why?

Fear!
The fear of “bulking up”.

This is a myth and it is a strong and powerful myth that is holding women back from achieving the body they desire.

The truth is, we simply do not have the hormones to build muscle like men.

Plus, any muscle you do put on - only causes you to shrink! Yep, the more lean muscle you have, the higher your metabolism and the more fat you burn.

Increasing your lean muscle is the fastest way to get back into your skinny jeans!

To achieve this result however, you must be willing to pass up the “light weight, high rep” toning fallacy and choose a more Challenging weight.

Wicked Weight Loss Tip #2: Use Challenging Weights

Plain and simple:

No challenge => no new muscle => your body shape will not change.

Sure you may “lose weight” from the pure fact that you have changed what you are eating as well and have found yourself in a caloric deficit.

You may be a skinnier version of who you used to be, yet your body composition has not changed…the fat remains.


Do you really want to just be a smaller version of who you are today?

And this was totally me - I was one of those “skinny fat” girls. No matter how slim I appeared….I had no energy, no strength, my arms and legs shook like jello. I just didn’t like the way I felt about myself.

My body and my life changed when I discovered that the solution lied in using more challenging weights and exercises with a new intensity. Not only was my workout time cut by over half - but my body finally took on a lean, toned shape!

The purpose of using any resistance-based exercise or move is to improve or increase your lean muscle. And yes, this does take work and effort!

Choose to use High Reps Low Weights and your are essentially working out to improve your endurance – but going longer is not the most effective way to burn fat.

In fact the more your body adapts to these endurance based exercises, the more you will have to do just to maintain – and how much time do you have, really?

Below an example of a Workout that DOES work – high intensity, less reps all in 10-15 minutes - put together in a Fun Halloween routine, using Pumpkins!

Ladies, do not settle!

It’s time to Get Results!!!

Challenge yourself and discover who you really are!

I have no doubt you will be pleasantly surprised!

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Are you getting a jump start on your Holiday Weight Gain?
Yes, I wanted to give you a bit of a scare - I need to grab your attention – for did you know the typical holiday weight gain is 5 and even up to 10 pounds through the holidays and into the New Year?

And guess what, it all begins with Halloween!

How could it NOT with all the sugar laden treats! Candy just isn’t around for one day. Halloween treats at home, Halloween treats at the workplace, and Halloween treats beneath our car seats. And it’s around for weeks!

Halloween is quickly approaching….How much more frightening can it get?

Fear not!

You can lose fat and look and feel your very best over the holidays!

All you have to do….is start now.

I have created a fun Halloween Pumpkin workout to kick off a healthy and fit holiday season ~ I even dressed up for the occasion, after all, this is all about making fitness fun!

CHECK out My Halloween Video - what do you think of my Costume?

Experience the fat blasting power of a pumpkin.

“Pumpkin Attacks Fat” – a simple solution to your lack of workout time this holiday season. Discover how to use a pumpkin with 4 full body exercises to help you get in the fastest, most effective workouts you’ve ever done!

Follow a circuit style workout that engages in muscle movement like no other. Full body moves using a pumpkin that target every muscle in your body, fire up your metabolism and burn fat!

BONUS: It’s FUN - the real reason why we exercise.

Enjoy~

If you are interested in more fun holiday videos and a FREE Pumpkin Workout Log, be sure to stop by ClubFYM.com

Your Friend and Coach,

Holly Rigsby

Christi Kendrick iminates Cellulite and Drops from a size 9/10 to a size 5/6 in just 12 weeks!

“Even after trying other diet/weight loss/workout plans, it’s taken me over two and a half years to find the way to get the baby fat to melt.

I’ve tried other major high profile fitness programs with limited success. Nothing ever put all the pieces together or put all the key elements in one basket so it’s easy to comprehend and execute. The key to my success has been, and will continue to be, Fit Yummy Mummy."

Christi Kendrick

On October 5, 2008

Christi Kendrick was one of the two hundred and seventy-seven returning Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Alumni who performed at the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Farewell to Texas Stadium performance during halftime of Sunday’s Bengals-Cowboys game this past Sunday.

Christi reaches her fat loss goals just in time to attend the DCC Alumni Event in a Farewell to Texas Stadium looking and feeling her VERY best.

Christi was Monday’s Featured Fit Yummy Mummy - sharing how her experience with the 12 week Transformation Challenge has changed her body and her life as she was able to relive her experience one of America’s Sweethearts!

~~~ Christi's Fit Yummy Mummy Transformation~~~~

"When I got pregnant in early 2005, I wanted to eat right and make sure I fed my growing baby properly. Then I got an undiagnosed lung affliction (the doctor I saw didn’t know), which I think was chemical pneumonia from cleaning our bathtub (while 3 months pregnant). I had this problem for three months, and couldn’t eat very much (or breathe, or sleep, etc). Then, when it leveled off, my eating was off the charts. I gained about 65 pounds before it was all over.

Over the next couple of years, the weight trickled off, mostly with missed meals and low caloric intake.

I didn’t feel good, didn’t like myself, and I felt like I was just barely getting through the days. I knew enough about nutrition to eat right, but I had no willpower or emotional strength to start the process.

Then, along comes Fit Yummy Mummy and Holly Rigsby!

My 12 Week Success:
The key for me has been Consistency. My workouts - I haven’t missed one
yet! And the eating, I have eaten clean, naked food as much as possible, and cheated as little as possible. I’m seeing results faster than anything I’ve ever tried in the past."

Initial Goals:
I don’t want to be yucky anymore - I want to me YUMMY!!! My number 1 goal is to get my body back to where I’m proud to be seen in public again, and to have a little inner peace with myself. I’m so uncomfortable and insecure with how I look that I’m stressed out most of the time just worrying about what other people think. How embarrassing!

I’d love to win this thing, but I’d love to be confident with my body even more, and this will be my tool to accomplish just that.

My Stats:

Before - After - Difference

Bust - 36″ - 35″ - 1″
Waist - 31″ - 29″ - 2″
Hip - 36″ - 34″ - 2″
thigh - 18″ - 17 1/2″ - 1/2″
Arm - 11 1/2″ - 10 3/4″ - 3/4″
Weight - 144 -139 - lost 5 pounds

Total Inches Lost: 6 1/4″ ~ didn’t measure mommy belly (darnit!), but I’ve lost several inches there without a doubt!

I’m not at the end of my fat loss road, obviously, but I have come a very long way in a very short period of time. I am just thrilled with how things have turned out.

I hope to be an example to all my family and friends for the right way to get fit and toned. Really, starving won’t get you toned - just the opposite - it makes you flabby!

This - Fit Yummy Mummy - this is the ONLY way to get fit and toned.

Plus, is it just me or does the eating every few hours make cellulite disappear? When I started eating right it’s like my cellulite just went away, even before I really got into the exercise plan!

My Husband is a man of few words, but I’ve seen that gleam in his eye. I know he likes what he’s seeing. I truly want to be the lady he married, but also want to be healthy and stick around for awhile. I want to be around a long time to see my baby have her own babies, and their babies too!

This is really a lifestyle change, a very pleasant and enjoyable one, that’s easy to maintain – with a little effort.

If I have one thing to say to anyone still not sure about trying the Fit Yummy Mummy program, it’s that “It Works, and Fast!”

Holly – I know I’ve said this before, but thank you again from the bottom of my heart. I’ve paid for a personal trainer to train me for a lot more money than your Fit Yummy Mummy ebook costs, and gotten nowhere near this much input, information, discipline, and support. You truly are doing God’s work here. We are all so blessed that you care enough about all of us strangers out here to provide such great support.

See you next Challenge!”

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Christi’s transformation is just one of hundreds of women who have experienced such amazing body shaping results ~ results that not only make you shine, but results that can be attained in less than 90 minutes a week.

..getting FIT, reshaping your body is a little more involved than many would like to believe.

I love this video - sent it out in my newsletter yesterday - so just in case you did not see it, PLEASE do take a look.

Great points about this video -

There is no "video game" solution that has been designed with your best interest in mind. Do not lose sight of the fact that this is a hugely successful gaming company. And just like we have seen with certain examples in the Food Manufacturing company - money is the #1 priority.

With rising obesity rates, what better product to create - especially when video games have been blamed for the reason our children are suffering from weight gain.


As I did a little research into Wii Fit - I came across this interesting statement:

This was made in regard to the release of Wii Fit in America

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Nintendo has shipped approximately 500,000 copies of Wii Fit to North America, and about 2 million units to Europe. By sending four times as many units to Europe, they are maximizing profits, which at the moment are pretty incredible.

Besides, it's not as if those American waistlines are going anywhere anytime soon. "They know that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now when Nintendo will have more units available," Pachter said.
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Really makes you reconsider, right?

Taking responsibility for our health and fitness - and most importantly the health and fitness of our children - requires not just the know-how but also the ability to recognize trends like these and taking a moment THINK about the consequences of relying on them as THE solution.


Disclaimer:
IF you choose to use the Wii Fit - please do so for entertainment purposes. You simply cannot get an effective fat burning resistance training and interval session out of playing a game in front of your TV. This is just something Fun to do in Moderation.

Like the video sarcastically points out - which I love - there simply is no substitute for getting OUTSIDE, moving freely, breathing the fresh air, soaking up the sunshine, appreciating life - real life.

I feel especially strong towards the use of video games in our children's lives especially after Tyler's seizure in the spring.

He is now quite well versed that such activities are of little to no use to him...and not just for health reasons. He KNOWS what true play is all about, what the benefits are and thus has adapted to the "physcial culture" - a term Brian Grasso, the world's Youth Fitness Expert has coined and is now on a mission to introduce this vital concept back into the lives of our children.

Tyler knows that once homework is done - it is time to Play! Do you remember what REAL play was about?

Last night we even decided to leave the house and go hit golf balls - watching Tyler put his all into that club, making contact with the ball and getting it into the air - PRICELESS.

Oh and I MUST share this video....(I recieved a Flip video camera as a gift when I went to Orlando - so I have been filming left and right)...2 nights ago, Tyler ran into the house - almost too excited to speak...."Mom, you gotta come out here and see this!"

There is tremendous benefit through the act of discovery when free play is an option.


There simply is no substitute for these types of experiences.


As the holidays approach, some admitted to having this on their gift list.

Well if you have an extra $100 (depending on where you live) and wish to add to the entertainment center - go for it. I am not at all saying there is zero benefit to some of the offerings Wii Fit packages up for you.

However, if you find that you - and more importantly your children - are spending more time in front of the TV than you are getting outside, reading a book, taking or playing with your loved ones - then please reconsider this approach.


Bottom Line: The solution to our health and fitness needs is not found by spending hours in front of our TV each day.

Your Friend and Fit Yummy Mummy Coach,

Holly Rigsby

Author FitYummyMummy.com

Founder ClubFYM.com

April shed nearly 5 Inches off her Mommy Belly in just 12 weeks!

‘If someone had told me a few years ago that I could get in an effective, fat-burning workout in just 20 min. a day, I would have thought they were crazy!

But that was back when I was working out like a fiend, for an hour and a half in the gym at least 4-5 times a week, I had one child, I was in my late 20’s, and had a little more energy……

Fast forward about 8 years later.

I’m 37, have an active 15 year old, very active 2 year old (ahhh, those terrible two’s!!) and an 8-1/2 month old (I had 2 babies and 2 c-sections just 19 months apart).

I’m out of shape and 75 lbs. overweight…

I have NO extra time at all–especially to go to the gym. I’m suffering from selenium poisoning, my body aches, my hair is falling out by the second (literally). I feel horrible. And I’m afraid I am just doomed to be fat forever….my mother was overweight, her mom was overweight, etc., etc.

I start wondering if it’s maybe in the genes…

And then I found Fit Yummy Mummy in June 2008. It really was a chance encounter, so I know I was divinely led here (there truly are no coincidences)! I consider Fit Yummy Mummy a gift from God. Really. Because it has been an answer to my desperate prayers…

As soon as I started reading all the testimonials and seeing the amazing results that ladies like Mary, Sheri and Susan had achieved, I immediately purchased the program!

I thought, ‘This is something I CAN do.’ I didn’t have much time, but if these ladies lost fat, working out for under 20 min. a day, eating every 3 hours, I surely didn’t have anything to lose by
trying it!!

When I found out about the 12 Week Transformation Challenge, I was so excited to get started! I was a woman on a mission!!

My Goals
To lose body fat, gain muscle, love the reflection that’s staring back at me in the mirror, have tons more energy and be healthy–inside and out. I’d love to be a size 6/8 again. Although my husband loves me as I am, I know he secretly wants the girl he married back, so I want him to benefit from this as well (woo-hoo ;)! I want to be around for my children. I want to feel better–I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired! I want my husband and children to be proud of me. I WANT TO BE PROUD OF ME!!! I truly believe that I can and WILL achieve all of this through the Fit Yummy Mummy program.

Sure enough, week by week, the inches started falling off~

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing!!!

First a total of 6-1/2′…
~ then 10′
~ then 14′
~ then 16′!!!!

Age: 37
Height: 5′8″
Starting Weight: 200

Inches Lost:
BEFORE ………….AFTER ………DIFFERENCE

Chest: 42″ …………39-1/2″ …….2-1/2″

Waist: 41″ …………36-1/4″ …….4-3/4″

Hips: 46-1/2′ ………43″ …………3-1/2″

Arms: 13-1/2″ ……..12-1/2″ ……..1″

Thighs: 25″ ………..20-1/2″ ……..4-1/2″

TOTAL LOSSES: 16-1/4″ and 7 lbs.!!!

My confidence soared, my body was getting firmer and smaller and I WAS HAPPY for the first time in a long time…

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Favorite Saying:
Your workout partner IS YOUR WORKOUT

That is so true….your workout is your best friend, because it is the catalyst to get you to where you want/need to be health wise (along w/proper nutrition, of course). But you can’t do one w/out the other! I feel so strong and empowered while working out, but especially afterward. I feel like I’ve really accomplished something and feel so good about myself….that I’m actually making myself a priority as well as how awesome I feel physically. Even though the Summer Transformation Challenge is now over for me, my RESOLVE is still going strong!!

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I’m not where I’d like to be yet, but I’m on my way!

That is the key….to always be changing for the better.   I haven’t felt this good about myself in quite some time.  I can echo the words of Kathleen in this…that I’m definitely changing from the inside out.

This is it!!!!!!!!!

I finally fit into my skinny jeans with ease!

Dani's Journey began in March 2008:

"Now it took me 9 months to put on my baby fat so I am going to allow 9
months to get it off! It's already been 2 months since joining Fit Yummy Mummy and
4 months after having Oscar (and I have finally been able to pull them
up over my hips).

However the muffin man appears if I take a deep breath and pull the zip!

Soooooo........I want to fit into them comfortably, a little loose around the thigh area and no bulge over the waist area. My goal has been changed toAugust now (as so many of you think I will achieve it way before November)...wish me luck!"

I took the before picture 20th March 2008 to share with you my skinny jeans journey.

My stats from March 2008 to August 2008:
Body fat was 30% - now 26%
Bust was 37" - now 35.5 (I know it's sad when they go.... :(
Waist was 33" - now 31.5"
Hips were 40" - now 38"
Mummy Tummy muffin was 37" - now 34.5" !!!!!!!!!!!!

GRAND TOTAL OF INCHES LOST WITH FYM PROGRAM = 7.5 inches!!!!!

I felt my supportive foods were critical during my trip overseas even
though I couldn't fit in my workouts as often as I would have liked to.
Now that I am back, my primary focus will be my workouts as I am
comfortable with what I am eating now....

Love to you all and those that believed in me.

Good luck with your FYM journey!"

xxx Dani, Mom of 2 sons and proud member of ClubFYM.com

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