Get Fit Reaches Its Halfway Mark – Time To Celebrate!

More than 300 people signed up to participate in Hello! Daniel Island’s first ever “Get Fit Challenge” just six weeks ago! Now that the group is at its halfway point, it’s time to celebrate everyone’s hard work so far and get revved up and ready for the next six weeks. Keep up the good work!

And, They're Off… the Pounds, That is!

Hello! Daniel Island’s Get Fit Challenge is in just its third week, but enthusiastic participants are already posting impressive results. The 12-week program is an island-wide initiative designed to encourage residents to have fun while getting in shape.

More than 300 participants are taking advantage of a jam-packed schedule of free fitness classes offered by the community’s diverse array of health, wellness and fitness professionals. With a list of activities that includes karate, hip hop dance, water aerobics, tennis, yoga, badminton and more, there’s plenty of fun to be had. Just see what Charleston’s ABC affiliate WCIV had to say about the effort:

Competing individually or in teams, participants weigh in weekly at the City of Charleston’s Recreation Department office on Daniel Island to track their results. The individual or team with the highest percentage of weight loss at the end of the 12 week program will be the winner. Alesya Macatol is the current individual leader with a total collective weight loss of 8.163%. The current team in the lead is the “Flabulous 6,” who have already posted a collective weight loss of 4.595%.

Congratulations to everyone for their hard work so far. Keep up the good work!

   

HEALTHY LIVING: A Formula For Success!

The Daniel Island Club’s Bo Taylor shares his tips on fitness & weight loss goals.

Set a goal. Write down three to five nutrition/fitness related goals that you would like to achieve and a time frame in which to do so. They must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. Why is that, you ask? If you set a goal to simply lose weight, you set yourself up for simple success and ultimate failure. If you lose only one pound you have succeeded, yet I imagine it’s not where you truly want to be. The other extreme would be to set a goal to lose 20 pounds in a week. Can it be done? Probably, but it would not be from fat loss, and it would only set you up to gain it back. Set specific goals such as: I will lose 10 pounds of fat in 30 days; I will improve my walk/run mile time by one minute in 30 days; or I will eat six nutritious meals each day for the next two weeks.

Make a plan. Sit down and write out how you plan to achieve your goal. Find a place where it can easily be found – whether it is at work, home, in your phone or organizer.

Execute the plan. This is where many people falter. If you take the time to plan your work, then you have to work your plan!

Evaluate how you’re doing. Everyone completes this step, but we are our own worst critic. In some cases, even though we are on track, we think we aren’t meeting our own expectations and give up. On the other hand, we may see little success and fall off the wagon. The third scenario is whatever plan we are executing; it isn’t meeting the goals we set, so we wonder why we should continue. In any case, you have given up.

Adjust! How badly do you want this goal? How long would you push your little boy/girl to learn to ride a bike before you gave up on them? Never, I would hope. Adjust your goal and/or your execution to be able to attain your goal(s).

Be a copycat. Do you know someone who is in the shape you want to be in and has reached the goal you are chasing? Find a mentor, a trainer or a nutritionist. Find out how they did it or how they showed someone else. Copy their road map to success!

Be stubborn. Some people call it committed or determined but I call it stubborn. You have to be able to face temptations and obstacles when training and dieting. Make your goal something you truly desire. Then your motivation to attain it will not waver.

What are your tricks to staying healthy? Share them with other readers below.

By Bo Taylor, Fitness Center Manager, Daniel Island Club