Adding Yoga to Your Fitness Routine

This is a Fitness Guest Post by Katrina Ariel who Teaches a Kamloops Yoga boot camp in Canada
Empowering Your Fitness Practise

Here’s my take on strength training and working out: It can be an incredible way to get in shape, lose weight, and maintain a healthy body. When you build muscle you feel more capable, and that muscle burns calories for you even when you’re sleeping.

But, for me, fitness has to be balanced with yoga so it doesn’t become a harsh routine of physical force. It should be fun and feel good, not be a form of torture. And, by bringing the two together, you find your yoga practice evolving as you become more in tune with your body. There’s also the fun of discovering what aspects of your practice are more available to you when you’re stronger, and to see yourself in the mirror and think, “Wow! I look great!”

Let every practice be an offering to yourself; a dance of strength and sensitivity led by your breath. Always listen to your body.

FIRST: The first thing is always to connect with your breath, center in and set your intention; envision yourself strong, healthy, happy, and full of energy! Call it in with an Om.

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New Orleans Boot Camp Challenge

Learn how to Over come the Challenges in losing weight.

Click Here To Register for the 2 week Mini Boot Camp

Class Starts Dec 6th!

Click Here To Register for the 2 week Mini Boot Camp
Locations in Metairie, New Orleans (UPTOWN) , Lakeview (City Park Area), Gretna (Westbank)

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Win a New IPod Touch at New Orleans Boot Camp

Yes you herd it Right! We are giving away a Brand New IPod Touch to the woman who Loses the Most Pounds and Inches!

Ok so here are the Rules..

1.-Must be registered for the Nov. 1st boot camp at any of our 4 locations. (Uptown,Met.,Lake view, Gretna)
http://www.nolabootcamp.com

2.-Must attend the Pre and post evaluation held on Oct 30th and Nov.27

3.-Must take simple before and after pics(wearing clothes your feel comfy in)..
we can do this at the Pre and Post evaluations.

Thats It! Register Now!

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Best Alcoholic Beverage to drink for Fat Loss in New Orleans

Are you going out with your friends in New Orleans and hitting the bars? With a little planning and foresight you can somewhat avoid this diet disaster, and below i have listed some low calorie alcoholic drinks you should look at.

However, Alcoholic Drinks seem to be always overlooked as a culprit of weight gain…especially when you go out and consume them back to back.

Some Alcoholic Drinks contain just as many unhealthy calories as a McDonalds Hamburger… can you image what eating 4-6 of those in a couple hours will do to encourage some weight gain?

Ok Now onto the list…

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New Orleans,Vampires,Eclipse, True Blood and Fitness Tips!

Hey – Jonas here, and I’m about to see the movie “Eclipse”

I love vampire movies, I think they’re Awesome…Especially since a lot of them are shot in New Orleans or in the bayou.

Actually, One of my friends is always Photo-shopping my face into Twilight movie posters because he thinks it’s pretty funny to post them on my face-book profile when I’m sleeping lol! These photos are his handy work! What you think pretty funny right?

I think it would be kind of cool sometimes to be a Vampire or a Werewolf
Btw… Do you watch “True Blood” on HBO?
I LOVE that show too!

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Why Steady State Cardio Actually Sucks in New Orleans(as a primary fat loss tool)

There are 2 major reasons in my book why standard cardio is a big loser for fat loss.

Reason 1

The first is EPOC. EPOC stands for Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption. Basically what EPOC does is tells us how long it takes the body to return to its pre-exercise metabolic rate. So after a bout of intense exercising your body will continue to burn extra calories for a certain period of time. From a fat loss perspective, the longer the EPOC the better. Some activities like weight training have an EPOC of 30 plus hours. The EPOC for steady state cardio is approximately zero. Yessir, give or take when you step off that treadmill or bike you are done burning calories – done.

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Making the Invisible, VISIBLE!

A Fitness Blog Post by: Jonathan Kaufman( New Orleans Boot Camp Instructor in Lake view)

I moved to New Orleans to find myself spiritually and wound up living in, of all places, a Zen Temple. Here in New Orleans, city of fun, festivity, and frolic, a place exists where I could go to get in touch with my true self, whatever that was.

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Don’t Drink Yourself Fat in New Orleans

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