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 Transformation Winner!

Last month I put on a transformation contest with my boot camp locations in New Orleans , Metairie, Lakeview and Gretna! The Person who made the best transformation won a Ipod touch And…

The Winner is.. 53 year old Debbie Studard

Before———-(4 Weeks)———-AfterDebbie did what some call the impossible..she found the fountain of youth and turned back the hands of time and literally became 10 years younger looking and feeling!

As you can see from her before and after pics, in just 4 short weeks she lost inches all over her body (Face, Waist, Hips, Thighs) and increased her confidence and DROPPED 4 PANTS SIZES!

She did this all without dropping one single pound in bodyweight..

How is this Possible?

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New Orleans Boot Camp Home Workout

Hey there! Here is a Quick little workout you can do at home or when you’re on vacation.
Just do sections 1-5 and follow the direction for each section. Feel free to repeat the whole workout again if you get
finished in under 20 minutes.

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The Glycemic Index

A unique tool for achieving a healthy weight in New Orleans

This is a Guest fitness Blog post by Laura Kalina, RD, MAdEd, a registered dietitian and author of Low GI Meals in Minutes Cookbook

The obesity epidemic is the greatest health care crisis to hit the modern western world. Even more alarming, it is now predicted that over 30 per cent of the next generation will develop diabetes sometime in their lives. We have become an overfed, undernourished nation because of poor lifestyle habits. High glycemic index (GI) diets and lack of exercise are largely to blame.

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The V.I.P. New Orleans boot camp Membership Details
Save 33% off the Price of Your Boot Camps!
New Orleans Adventure Boot Camp announces a new feature!
Our Inner Circle VIP Boot Camp Membership!

I am always thinking about how to make New Orleans Adventure Boot Camp a better experience and better value for our dedicated members.

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The New Year renews hope for your dreams.

And if you are like most people then your dream for the New Year has everything to do with losing weight.

It makes sense, doesn’t it? What better time is there than now to transform your body into the one that you’ve always dreamed of?

To get you off to a great start I’d like to share with you some food for thought:

Why do you eat?

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Are Cocktails Calories causing Weight Gain in New Orleans?

Let’s be temperate about temperance. Alcohol as a moral problem. But alcohol as a food, or at least as an article of dieting, is a big subject to New Orleans reducing weight.

It must be conceded that a great many alcoholics are spindling and cadaverous in New Orleans. They get that way because they use alcohol instead of food.
For a so called “Normal people” , who drinks only as an occasional accessory to food, must look upon alcohol as a potential builder of corpulence.

Alcohol is funny stuff, as the night-clubber said when he found two wives waiting up for him. It provides plenty of calories and burns with a lovely light, especially on plum pudding.

It burns within you with the same intensity-at the rate of 7 calories per gram, nearly twice the output of protein or carbohydrate and within a couple of calories of the high-heat level of fats.

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Speed your Metabolism to burn fat in New Orleans

Are you looking for foods that speed metabolism in New Orleans?
This will probably surprise you. All foods speed metabolism.

“How is that possible?” you ask.

Let’s take a quick look at just what is metabolism and how does it works. This explanation might help you to better understand the process and how it can affect your body in New Orleans.

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