JJ Virgin & Pete Cerqua Help You Shape Up & Slim Down for Summer

Greetings Gorgeous!

I’m feeling flabby from one too many hours behind this computer screen, but summer is here and it’s time to shape up and slim down for summer, so I’ve decided to do something about it.

On the WISH blog this month we’ve invited celebrity fitness coach, JJ Virgin to come and give us a boot in the right place.

JJ Virgin is known as the fitness coach and nutritionist to the stars. That’s why we wanted to bring her in to give YOU a few tips for trimming up this season. We had a fabulous interview. It started with her in the bathroom (the gardeners were making too much noise) and ended up with her wriggling about under her son’s bed doing some de-cluttering. That’s the life of multi-tasking, single-mothers and self-employed dynamos like JJ.

The shocker on this call was learning the effects of what JUST ONE NIGHT of insufficient sleep can do to pack on the pounds and cause you stress. You might think it’s all about barbells and pushups, but as you’re about to learn, there are a few other things to put on the priority list before you start busting a move to lose a few this summer.

Here are a few of the things that came up in this call:

• Women under stress are 10-years older than their non-stressed counter parts?
• Discover what just ONE night of insufficient sleep can do to your sleep, stress, eating habits and weight gain potential.
• How stress can cause you to become weight loss resistant (meaning you cannot lose weight!)
• The first thing to do to get sexy, slim arms is definitely NOT what you’d expect!

You can access the call HERE.

Now,  since JJ’s got tips for overall heath and a hot upper body, we decided to get Pete Cerqua to join us for a quickie.

Pete is a no-excuses fitness expert and if you can’t get fit in 90-seconds, then you’re not doing it right. Join us for an upcoming teleseminar with Pete next Monday. The call will be broadcast live at 3pm Eastern on June 21st, and you’re invited to send in any of your questions. Pete was one of our special guests for WISH this year.

Pete Cerqua owns and operates the 90-Second Fitness Flagship Studio in New York City. He has been helping people get stronger and lose weight since 1985. Peter is the author of the hot new best-seller The 90- Second Fitness Solution, a how-to release weight, improve mood and memory, eat and sleep better in minutes a week. We’re invited him here to inspire busy women like you to fit fitness in more easily this summer.

You’ll be able to ask him all your questions and listen in for a no-excuses fitness boot camp when you click the link here. Be sure to take note of the time of the call and we’ll catch you on Wednesday! If you’re catching this late, YOU CAN ACCESS THE CALL HERE.

Next week I’m committing to getting in shape. To burst training, to squatting, sitting, crunching, crawling my way to feeling tight, toned and ready for bikini season. Care to join me? There’s nothing like the power of print to put intention into action! Make your commitment below for next week’s fitness targets and join me in a flabby arm-busting, bun-loving boot camp!

Squeezin’, squatin’ and smilin’,

Tera

Slim Up for Summer with JJ Virgin and Pete Cerqua

Greetings Gorgeous WISH-Makers.

Summer is here and it’s time for tank tops, short skirts and bikinis.

*gulp!*

It’s time to reveal the arm flab, belly blubber and cellulite you’ve been sitting on! Let it out and let it go!

While we love all shapes and sizes around here, I have to admit that it feels great to be fit and after one too many hours behind my computer screen this month, I’ve decided it’s time for some inspiration to slim up for summer! We’ve invited celebrity fitness and nutrition expert, JJ Virgin and WISH 2010 special guest, Pete Cerqua. for some sleeveless summer lovin’.

JJ Helps Us Get Sleeveless and Sexy in Six Weeks

JJ Virgin is known as the fitness coach and nutritionist to the stars. That’s why we wanted to bring her in to give YOU a few tips for trimming up this season. We had a fabulous interview. It started with her in the bathroom (the gardeners were making too much noise) and ended up with her wriggling about under her son’s bed doing some de-cluttering. That’s the life of multi-tasking, single-mothers and self-employed dynamos like JJ.

The shocker on this call was learning the effects of what JUST ONE NIGHT of insufficient sleep can do to pack on the pounds and cause you stress. You might think it’s all about barbells and pushups, but as you’re about to learn, there are a few other things to put on the priority list before you start busting a move to lose a few this summer.

You can listen to this interview here:

I hope you enjoy this interview as much as we enjoyed chatting with each other. You can learn more about JJ’s programs and her newly released book, Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy: The 5-Step Plan to Sleek, Strong, and Sculpted Arms here.

JJ talked a lot about burst training and other important tips for overall health and metabolism. We don’t necessarily share the same point of view on food,;-) but she’s got sound advice for staying healthy and is a smokin’ hot example of the sleeveless and sexy lifestyle she’s trying to teach.

We’ve Got the Arms Covered, Now How ‘Bout Those Buns!

I wouldn’t let you go out in bikini season with toned arms and a flabby caboose. Pete Cerqua is back to give us some quick fitness tips for summer. The thing we love about Pete is Read more »

Jumping Like A Kid!

When attending the 10-day Healthy Lifestyle program at the Living Foods Institute, bouncing on the rebounder is one of the daily recommendations of that program. This information peaked my rebounding interest, and now I’ve become so in love with the concept of rebounding that, recently, I’ve been jumping — like a kid — many times throughout the day.

In fact, last week Friday after returning home from my son’s 6th-grade graduation (or “Empowerment” ceremony as someone referred to it), I entered the door, kicked off my shoes and jumped — in brown dress and all (pictured here). I was jumping for joy about the heart-warming, unique graduation we had just witnessed. Another part of me was simply jumping as a form of celebrating life. Additionally, of course, I was jumping for health……jumping to cleanse my lymphatic system.

“Your heart circulates your blood continuously, delivering nutrients, oxygen, and hydration to your cells. But what about your cell’s waste products?” asks Don Bennett, DAS, in his book Avoiding Degenerative Disease — under the section Jump for Joy! Bounce your Way to Better Health.

“Unlike your blood,” Bennett continues, “your waste system’s fluid (lymph fluid) does not need to be moving every second, so it doesn’t need a ‘continuous duty’ pump. But it does need to circulate. And that’s your job! As you move around, the lymph fluid is moved from the cells, to the lymph nodes, and on to the ‘dump’. But if you don’t move enough — if you are less active than children — your metabolic garbage container isn’t being emptied on a regular basis. And that can spell trouble (lingering waste products are a major contributor to degenerative disease),” says Bennett.

“Although running is good for the lymphatic system,” Bennett explains, “over time it can take a toll on your joints (and on your heart believe it or not). So, on balance, running is not the best way to move your lymph fluid around. Skipping, ‘spirited walking’, and rebounding are your best choices. Time to take a cue from kids — jump!” he says.

And to think that only a few minutes a day gently bouncing on a rebounder are needed to really put this lymphatic-flushing system into motion!

Bennett states that rebounding is “so gentle when compared to running’s forceful pounding that it’s the exercise of choice for astronauts returning from the weightless environment of outer space.”

How does it work?

According to Bennett, “At the top of each bounce, you are momentarily weightless, and at the bottom of each bounce, you are actually resisting the Earth’s pull more than you usually do. This alternating weightlessness and multiplied gravity produces a pumping action which pulls out waste products from the cells, and forces into them oxygen and nutrients from the bloodstream.”

Although I’ve been bouncing on my rebounder a few minutes at a time off and on throughout the day, I realize I probably haven’t been jumping on the ideal rebounder since “all rebounders are not created equal,” Bennett informs his readers. Perhaps I should have waited until I could get the one of choice, but one day I got such an urge to jump — rebounder-style — that I darted out and got the first one I could get my hands on. I keep it centrally located and find myself making pit-stops at it regularly.

Since it is so easily transportable, I’ll be off to carry my rebounder outdoors and delight in jumping under the great blue sky and bright, warm sun as soon as I’m done with this post. Oh how fun! How fun!

And, by the way, not that my active pre-teen son doesn’t move his body enough already, but the rebounder is yet another body-moving tool for him, too. Although he was initially disappointed that the rebounder doesn’t bounce the way a standard trampoline does, that certainly doesn’t stop him from using it.

Well, it’s my turn to use it now. So off I go…….

In Rebounding,

Penny