Tiazza Rose - Certified Personal Trainer and sports nutritionist - Dance and Fitness classes in Ashland, Medford and Central Point. cardio belly dance,cardio kickboxing, women's fitness boot camp, core express, ab workout, total body sculpt n Ashland, Medford and Central Point in Southern Oregon 97520, 97501, 97504

STAY TUNED FOR THE JUNE 2012 CHALLENGE

Every month, Tiazza challenges her students to stay committed. Challenges are usually either max workouts (attending as many workouts as possible) or perfect attendance challenges ( attending all the classes students sign up for) or a weight loss challenge or a no weight gain challenge .... etc

These challenges are meant to motivate so you do not go back to old habits and risk to lose what you worked very hard for.

Stay tuned for the upcoming challenge in June

MARCH 2012 CHALLENGE

Attend as many classes as you can in the month of March. Whoever attended the highest number of classes will be the winner.
The winner will get a top line pair of running shoes to get you ready for the April challenge :) Sign up for the March classes here

FITNESS & WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE WINNERS

Congrats to the winners of the 2012 fitness and weight loss challenge!

- Alyssum Barber wins the weight loss category with 9% weight loss percentage. Broock Herring Staley comes second with 7.02% and Laura Hamilton Mercier thirs with 6%!

- Lucky Linda Sheeley wins the fitness challenge with 390 point and Cindra Vargas second with 300 points!

Good job everyone! Read what the winners have to say about their experience and what helped them win ...

Alyssum Barber

Weight loss challenge winner

Alyssum is a busy mother of a two. In her words, here is what helped her lose the weight:

What I changed to lose weight for your challenge:
1. Started eating breakfast and four more small meals a day
2. Cut sugar and fake sugar out of my diet except for a teaspoon of honey in my morning tea.
3. Gave my exercise sessions 100% of my effort.
4. Told other people about the challenge and that I was going to win it.
5. Made sure I slept at least 7-8 hours a night
6. Drink about a gallon of water a day.
7. Weighed myself every morning
8. Didn't let a slip-up ruin my whole day.
9. Signed up for a marathon for a long term goal.
10. Thought about how good it feels to feel beautiful when that cheeto called my name.

Lucky Sheely

Fitness challenge winner

Yay! So excited to have won the fitness portion of the Fitness Challenge! It was a great incentive to step up my work out and stay on a healthier path for 2012.

I was able to rack up the points by setting a personal goal to try to do, at minimum, a class a day (mon-fri), but often I did 2 classes a day. I started strong with taking advantage of extra boot camp classes in the evenings and trying the sculpt class, but found that it caused me a little muscle exhaustion to keep up that kind of pace. So I decided the healthy balance to a rough work out like Boot Camp 3x a week was to take the yoga classes. This was a great combination for me! The gentle stretching of yoga was/is a wonderful compliment to any high impact work out! I plan to make yoga a regular addition to my health and well-being even after the challenge. Besides the well-needed stretching, it also helps with balance, alignment, and just plain old clearing of the mind!

In addition, I chose to do a few of the weekend challenges like completing my first ever 5K run and taking the Cardio-bellydancing workshop! These events, while giving some extra "bonus" points, also challenged me to try something new or something I might not have thought about trying!

I discovered that Yes I CAN run 3.1 miles (my long time answer to anyone who asked if I ran was "only if something menacing is chasing me" ha ha). I chose the Chinese New Year Fun Run to try (with "fun" being the operative word) and even gave myself "permission" in my mind to walk it if I couldn't keep up a steady jog. What I discovered was, that I could keep up a steady easy jog and finished my race in 32.41 minutes! While I was nowhere near 1st place, I was so proud of myself for attempting and finishing!

I also discovered that belly dancing can be fun and quite a work out! It was never something that had really crossed my mind to try, and now I am looking into regular classes!

I didn't even get a chance to try the Zumba, Kickboxing, or Salsa, but I am sure that those are fun and maybe a future challenge will inspire me to try those classes. That's the great thing about fitness....there is so many ways to get your body up and moving! Just keep trying things until you find what you LIKE to do!

One of the hardest things about working out is just doing it! Getting out of bed, or off the couch, or out the door is really the hardest part, but once you do, you feel great! I rarely leave a class feeling more tired than when I walked in. It's really the mindset of getting there which is the toughest for most people! I even worked out through a knee injury and tail bone injury. I just adjusted what I did to not make things worse, but any good trainer (like Tiazza) will give you an alternative movement or softer impact movement to continue even if you have something wrong.

Thanks Tiazza for giving us a goal to work towards! The prizes are wonderful to receive, and were a great motivating force, but the true prize is in looking and feeling better about myself!!