A friend of mine told me about two women who recently started up their own fitness studio up in Mason, Keep it Tight Fitness. She told me to check out their site because the two owners - Tawnia and Melissa - post a ton of videos and it's a great way to get to know their personalities to see whether or not I'd like their coaching style. So, I did. And boy do they have videos! They have exercise videos, nutritional videos and even some funny/blooper videos. 

After watching the 4,000th video on their site, I felt like I was best friends with them already and I booked my first appointment this past Saturday. Now, let me just say that I'm in no way out of shape. I teach spinning two times a week and try to get in a couple good runs or walks in throughout the week as well. These things were keeping me from being out of shape, but they just weren't getting me IN shape (hence the increasingly "tight times" I'm having in my closet right now). 

Seeing as how Tawnia and Melissa both look like they're Greek goddesses chiseled out of stone (and might I just add that Tawnia - who is as thick as my pinky with washboard abs - is a mother of SEVEN), I figured they could teach me a few things about getting in shape. I walk in and I fell in love. Across the entire wall in the back of the studio was one of my favorite quotes by Eric Kwan: "Instead of giving reasons why I can't, I give reasons why I can." 

Feeling right at home immediately, I talk with Tawnia and Melissa and some of their other students (including 2009 Maxim "Hometown Hottie" contestant, Amanda Bentley) who were super nice. At this point, I made the following mental note: "If this is where Amanda gets her Maxim-worthy-body, you must come here more often."

We started off with a warm up on the treadmill. But I quickly learned that this wasn't just any treadmill warmup. On an incline, we faced one side (I'm embedding a video below so you can see an example) kind of galloping from side-to-side for a minute, running facing the treadmill regularly for a minute, and then facing the other side and galloping. And with each transition, we increased the incline a bit. So, after experiencing what they called a "warm up," I was intrigued to see what they called a workout.

So we walk over to the workout floor where everyone has a chair. I thought "How nice! They gave everyone a chair to sit and take water breaks in." I have never been more wrong in my life. These chairs were stepped on, lunged on, curled on, dipped on and thoroughly sweated on for the next 40 minutes. I can never look at a chair the same after this class! Click here to check out all the videos of exercises you can do with a chair! I really liked these exercises because you can do them at home or even on vacation. You don't need anything but a chair stable enough to step on! 

After all the leg chair exercises we did tricep dips, abs and used this contraption called the TRX (Click here to check out videos with the TRX). One thing I found interesting is that never once in the entire 60 minutes did we pick up weights. I asked the ladies about that after the class and they explained that women don't want to bulk up, so they do high reps and body weight resistance, which I thought was interesting.

As if all those exercises weren't torture enough :) they then did the body fat testing, took my measurements and had me get on a scale. I clocked in at 143 (I'll let you know all my other measurements when I get them). I'll keep you posted over the next few months on my progress as I go from tight jeans to a tight body!

Last update: 18-08-2009 08:04

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