Last week, I graduated 15 lovely women from my 10-Week Best Shape of Your Life Challenge….

Sarah Watts, from Cranbrook, joined the Challenge after hearing about it from her sister-in-law, a Challenger Graduate herself.    

“I love lifting weights. This Challenge has been exactly what I needed. Not only do I fit into my ‘skinny’ pants, but my confidence is going way up again too! Plus, I love the muscle tone I am developing and I’m looking forward to continuing the process!”

Misti Miller from Florida found out about the Challenge through Facebook, and brought her tenacity and passion to the process, with great results. 

“I have LOVED every part of the challenge.  I am proud that I have completed it and stuck it out!  One thing that you helped me on during this challenge is realize that this is only the beginning, and 10 weeks is NOT enough time.  I will continue working on and having a love affair with me!  I LOVE how I feel, I am STRONG! I am a warrior!  I AM ME!”

My next 10-Week Best Shape of Your Life Challenge starts January 9th, and it’s on SALE NOW. Only 20 seats! And I’ve added on an Advanced 12-Week Best Shape of Your Life Challenge too…for the serious woman wanting serious results. 

They say 2012 is the year of all years. So get on the path today…and join us!

Because it’s all about YOU!
Karen

PS Why not Give the GIFT OF HEALTH this Christmas and purchase a Xmas Gift Certificate for a family or friend to take part in a Challenge or my Healthy Living Program.

How? It’s easy…I’ll send them a Healthy Gift Certificate at Xmas (see sample below) or you can print it off and pop it under the Xmas tree for them, and voila…they’re on the road to a healthy, fit, shapely 2012!

Best Shape Challenge XMAS GIFT Certificate SAMPLE.

Healthy LIving Program XMAS GIFT Certificate SAMPLE

Email me with any questions. Until then, stay well! (PS Remember, only 20 seats in each Challenge!)
Karen

Last night, I attended the Fit Life Fitness Competition in Victoria, with guest speaker / clean-eating guru Tosca Reno. Her and her hubby, Robert Kennedy, had just flown in from Toronto to support the show. I was excited to finally meet my mentor…and I don’t mean Tosca.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Tosca like everyone else. She has done so much to help educate us all about the necessity of clean eating, and she’s a great ambassador for women wanting to get lean, shapely and healthy, and she herself epitomizes health, grace and beauty. But I was after her husband…in an honest kind of way!

See, when I first started lifting in my home-made gym 30 years ago, It was Robert’s pictures that graced my gym wall – pics of Arnold, Franco, Rachel and Carla. (He was the physique photographer at that time).

And when I got deeper into training, I leafed thru issues of MuscleMag Magazine, the industry’s first mag on hard-core training, still in publication today (He is also the creator and publisher of Oxygen Magazine). Robert was the first-ever to tell women to lift heavy and lift hard, in order to lose weight, tighten, tone and to create sexy, shapely bodies.

It was a special night for another reason too – the show was being held at the Royal Theatre, where I did my first-ever competition 20 years ago – the Gold’s Classic – which I won. Unknown to me, my now-husband was sitting in the crowd with his then-wife, cheering on that girl from Whistler in the tiny black bathing suit (me). Ten years later, we would meet and marry.

We talked about his work, and we laughed about the fact that my husband still has dozens of MuscleMag magazines from thirty years ago sitting in our basement that he won’t get rid of (I’ve tried, believe me!).

As we turned to leave, I asked for one more picture of us. As we hugged, he reached over, squeezed my waist and said, ‘Not bad….about 17 percent?’

Bang on, Robert. You always were the best!

Karen