Your body is my business!!

There are excuses. Then there are RESULTS....
TRAIN HARD!!

I have a new teammate!!

Sharon Philbrick Intrafitt's new bootcamp instructor

First off I (Michael) have to say Sharon is one of the most determined and committed athletes I've ever trained. She is extremely passionate about fitness and a perfect match for Intrafitt style of training.

Sharon's Bio:

Sharon is an inspiration to anyone looking to become healthy and active. She is a welcome addition to personal training. Her infectious energy, and encouraging approach stems from her own personal journey towards wellness.
Sharon’s own personal struggle with weight loss began in childhood. She ate whatever she wanted and was very inactive. It wasn’t until high school when Sharon, a high achiever, realized that this excess weight was literally weighing her down. She took control and began exercising and eating well. With this approach, Sharon reached a healthy weight and excelled at school and in various ‘activities’.
This confidence led her to aspire for more. She was accepted to Carlton University as a economics major and decided to pursue a career in modeling. She was signed immediately with a modeling agency but was told that she must lose 20lbs, well below a healthy standard. Poor eating habits ensued as she ate very little to compete for work in the super skinny industry. She continued with her modeling and poor eating habits for one year after completing her degree.
Sharon left modeling for a desirable position in the financial industry. During this time, she received her Canadian Securities Diploma. She joined gyms and focused on cardio to maintain her svelte, model-esque physique. She continued to eat what she though was healthy.
Sharon married her husband, Michael, a professional athlete and had two beautiful girls in the years that followed. It was the addition of weight training, in conjunction with cardio and healthy eating that helped Sharon return to her pre-pregnancy form although she continued to struggle with her mommy-tummy.
Sharon joined Michael Grayer’s Intrafitt Bootcamp. After following his meal plans and exercise regimen, she lost 20lbs of pure fat and said goodbye to her muffin top. She is newly educated on the importance of fueling your body, and how to eat healthy. She was so inspired by Michael Grayer’s style of training and fitness etiquette that Sharon decided to become a trainer herself. Sharon is ready to inspire others who are willing to work to achieve their wellness goals.

Sharon 1 year ago
Sharon today

Hey bootcampers watch this video this guy is a real inspiration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0DRk8dFjI

yours in fitness

Michael

The food industry has no interest in how you look

Any trick they can find that will get you to buy their product, you can rest assure they will use it. That includes adding ingredients to once thought healthy foods to make them more desirable to your taste buds. This also allows them to lower the price of foods giving them the perceived affordability factor. In their mind there are two scenarios they are expecting to happen: you will be in a rush to grab the cheapest food available and not look at the nutrition label; or you will look at the nutrition label and not know what all the ingredients are (or be able to pronounce them) and will become frustrated and buy what looks like is healthy.

Deciphering a nutrition label can be a science in itself. However, there are three ingredients which you want to watch out for and avoid as much as possible. These foods are lethal to your fat loss goals and I call them the anti-fat loss foods.

Anti-Fat loss food #1: Hydrogenated Oils

These oils are saturated fats, plain and simple. You have heard of saturated fats I'm sure. They are responsible for obesity, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, and the list goes on and on. There is nothing good about this food and should be avoided at all costs. Hydrogenated Oils can be found everywhere too, not just in obvious areas; breads, condiments, wraps, cereals, and peanut butter are some of the lesser thought of sources. They can also be found in potato chips, desserts, and candy.

Anti-Fat loss food #2: High Fructose Corn Syrup

High Fructose Corn Syrup is a sugar substitute that registers as zero calories. Sounds good doesn't it? It's not. High Fructose Corn Syrup actually shuts off the satisfaction switch your body usually gets when consuming food, so you never have that full feeling with foods that contain this evil ingredient. So while you may think you are eating less, your body will begin to crave more and more food, thus increasing your chances of eating unsupportively.

Unfortunately High Fructose Corn Syrup is found everywhere. Some of the obvious sources include: candy, ice cream, cereals, soda, and fruit juices. But it is also found in less obvious sources such as: low fat dressings, low fat options of most foods, fat free options of most foods, breads, condiments, diet sodas, and many low calorie alternative foods.

Anti-Fat loss food #3: Enriched flour

Enriched flour is a fancy word for flour that has been stripped of its nutrients for processing then nutrients were infused back in. Enriched flour is masked sugar when it comes to what it will do in your body. It takes nothing to digest this food and if it isn't used instantly as energy, your body will store it as fat. You can find this food in pastas, cereals, breads, crackers/chips, cookies, and most other foods that required dough to make.

Bonus Anti-Fat loss food: anything ending in ose

Sucrose, fructose, galactose, glucose. These are all fancy words for sugar. Added sugar can be considered instant fat when it enters your body. Fruit juices, cereals, desserts, breads, canned fruit, salad dressings, and packaged deli meat are a few sources of this processed sugar.

Once you start to look for these foods in the ingredients list, they will start to pop out of the list and signal an alarm in your head to step away from that food. It can be quite eye opening and a bit frustrating as you will discover actually how many foods have these ingredients. But by eliminating one food per week that contains just one of these ingredients, will yield tremendous results in your energy levels and in your physical appearance. If it will do that, a few extra minutes spent making sure your food choice is supportive is definitely worth it.

fail to plan... plan to fail

I've been helping people transform their bodies for over ten years now.
 
And I can tell you the #1 problem I see over and over and over.
 
You're not going to like it, but I'm going to tell you anyway. 
 
You FAIL to plan your meals.
 
All the little clich?s are true. And in this case when you fail to plan,

you plan to fail.
 
Here's just one scenario:
 
You wake up knowing full well your metabolism will be firing on all

cylinders the entire day IF you eat a proper fat loss breakfast.
 
But you can't do that because there's nothing to eat in the house. 
 
Or maybe there's some sugary cereal or pastry.
 
You get the point.
 
So you skip breakfast and off to work you go.
 
Congratulations. You have just sabotaged your metabolism

for the day. All because you failed to plan out your meals. 



Yours in fitness,



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This time of the year gains you an average of 12 pounds of fat...

Canadians gains an average 12 pounds of fat between
Halloween and January 1st.  
 
This was a statistic that a fellow fitness professional
pulled from a magazine article.  

Now I don't know if this is true or not, but when you
think about it this could be very true. 

You eat a little candy on Halloween then the holiday
parties start appearing.  

Your life gets busier with holiday shopping and parties
and then there are the holidays themselves.  

Needless to say your focus on proper exercise and nutrition
has been pushed to the wayside.  

So I don't know if the 12 pound average is accurate or not,
but it makes a lot of sense and quite possibly is accurate.

So what are you going to do about it?

Don't wait until the first of the year to make those new years
resolutions.

Don't wait until mid-december to start complaining about
gaining weight.

Act now and make sure that when everyone else is complaining
about their weight going up you are losing weight and creating
different new years resolutions instead of the normal
"I am going to lose weight" resolutions. 

Take action and get these types of results before January 1st. 
 

Motivational Quote of the Week

"Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure."

Johnetta Cole