BOOTIES AND BELLES RAISE OVER £200!!
Evening ladies!! Just want to talk about this week because it has been a PHENOMENAL week for Cambridge Bootcamps and Cambridge Kettlebelles.
Last weekend we were asked to organise a charity bootcamp to raise money for theArthur Rank Hospice and raise awareness for the 2012 Gold Challenge (See CEN report here:–> http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge/Challenge-gets-kickstart-from-bootcamp-20012012.htm ) We had over 30 women show up and burpee, lunge, squat and hop their way through 2 hours of training to raise just over £200 for the charity :O)
This weekend we organised our second ‘SUPER WOMAN SUNDAY’ which is a day event where you can taster all the classes we have on offer at the BELLES studio, or stay for the whole day #onlyforthehardcore and complete 4 hours of total body strength. We used kettlebells, Sandballs, TRX, BenderBalls, our trusty Gymboss, Bodyweight exercises, Pull-up bars, bands (for resistance when doing pull-ups or chin-ups), and finally we had relaxing Yoga with the lovely Rachael Moore. We were booked up within 48 hours of announcing this event which just shows you how popular they are, and many of our ladies achieved PB’s today with the Kettlebells or tried something they had never experienced before (Think Mountain Climbers on the TRX!) LOL!! 
We are extremely LUCKY to be surrounded by such positive, strong, focused women, who continue to make fantastic choices about Nutrition and exercise, and support us in whatever we put out there!! Watching all those amazing women achieve pull-ups today was the icing on the raw carrot cake for me this week!!!
Thank you all BELLES and BOOTCAMPERS for inspiring me and making it a pleasure to keep this business alive :O) Strong IS the new skinny! Find me on twitter with the hashtag #SINS2012 https://twitter.com/#!/purplefitness
Lots of love
CHARLIE :O) xxx
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GOALS+ACTIONS FOR 2012 ;O)
Are you ready for this?
2011 was actually a pretty AMAZING year – one of the best for me. I became CROSS-FIT certified (Level 1) (Major achievement for me!!) I got a STUDIO with the lovely Donna-Belle so that I could finally launch ‘CAMBRIDGE KETTLEBELLES‘ which had been an idea in my mind for about 2 years. The studio is AWESOME!!! I know that Donna and I have put our hearts and souls into this, the website and creating an online presence to be able to spread our fitness love around the globe. We expanded the Cambridge Bootcamp to 9 camps with 4 SUPERB TRAINERS. My mum beat Breast Cancer , whilst I also had my own introduction into cancer cells, and within that we both learnt a whole lot more about Nutrition and its impact on the body to be able to heal itself 
)
) My boy started senior school (is it still called that these days?) 
and I finally paid off ‘most’ of my credit card debt!! I got myself a new car that has my logo all over it and ran several races this year including the intense Spartan Race.
and I finally paid off ‘most’ of my credit card debt!! I got myself a new car that has my logo all over it and ran several races this year including the intense Spartan Race.The cherry on the cake was winning an award for Cambridge Bootcamps –> We won “Highly commended for Diet and Fitness” This was an incredibly proud moment for me, as I am sure it would be for anyone and I am still so proud of all the women who make this dream job possible for me to do.
Given that we are already in 2012, I thought it may be an idea to look at what I hope to achieve this year. I have no desire to write a list of resolutions as I know only too well that I normally ignore them within one day, feel like a failure and become negative towards myself (a lesson i learnt a few years ago). So, given my experience, I am hoping to write a list of my goals with an action plan beside them. I am doing this, as I hope as you are reading this you may be thinking “I’d really like to join bootcamp this year BUT……..” Or, “I’d really like to run that 5k BUT……. “
So, let’s do this together……
My list:
I am going to run the Cambridge Half Marathon in March and therefore achieve my goal of running a half marathon before I am 40! Eeek! It’s that number again ;o) So, my training needs to include long runs within my weekly schedule over the next three months. My action plan will be to keep a training log in my little book, and schedule in long and short sprint runs during my week.
Stay sober for 3 months (Jan, Feb and March) — action? STAY AWAY FROM BOOZE and the lovely wine shop on Cherry Hinton rd!
Sort out my bootcamp and work schedule so that I am not working 18 hour days!! Action plan –> I am currently working with new potential trainers to take over the Cherry Hinton evening camp, AND starting a new one evening a week HARDCORE outdoor class near my new studio (Harvest Way)
Be happy in my own skin, and not get caught up in the view that “I will be happy if I could just change ….” I can action this by looking at how I treat myself every day! I am aware that a lot of us look for that answer of happiness outside ourselves.. I hear the above A LOT when I work with people, either in a counselling situation or within the bootcamp setting. The solutions have to come from within, SO, I will personally start by drinking and eating foods that nourish me. I have already been researching recipes on the internet, dug out the slow cooker, and invaded the local farm shop! I will also only read things that enhance my well-being and learning. Not absorb others negativity, and understand that there are some things which I just cannot change 
I actually have quite a lot of aspirations for this year, but that would mean going on forever, but you get the general gist of what I am doing here right?
Tell me about your goals for 2012, what IS it that you would like to change TODAY??
HAPPY 2012 HOPE ITS A GREAT ONE FOR YOU X
CAMBRIDGE BOOTCAMP HAPPY NEW YEAR NEWS :O)
Good day to you people, and a very happy new year to you all )
)I hope you have had a splendid time over this christmas and new year period as I have, and very much enjoyed the break of chilling out and eating sumptuous foods
I have a few things to tell you about as its the start of another brilliant year for Cambridge Bootcamps:
We are starting our new FREE TRIAL WEEK for Cambridge Bootcamps on the week commencing the 9th Jan 2012, which involve all our camps. Please see below for dates & times for each camp location. HERE is the link to book yourselves into our FREE WEEK )
) http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F44AEA62CA64-january You can attend ANY camp and ANY location, as many times as you would like next week!!
Parker’s Piece: 6:30 am W/F
Cherry Hinton: 6:15 pm W/F
Coldham’s Common: 7:30 pm W/F
Girton Village: 6:30 am Tu/F
Histon Village: 6:15 pm M/Th
Histon Rd Rec: 9:30 am F
Burwell: 9:30 am Th/F
Newmarket: 6:30 pm Th
Histon Village: 6:15 pm M/Th
Histon Rd Rec: 9:30 am F
Burwell: 9:30 am Th/F
Newmarket: 6:30 pm Th
Our Cambridge Bootcamp Netball team is going from strength to strength BUT we still need some players to fill the squad . If this is something that interests you, please contact Sharon Roberts via her Facebook or calling her at 07900583346. She is the manager of the team, and an amazingly friendly and encouraging bootcamper who may even begin to start teaching for us as well ;0)
Our very own Jenny Cattier has launched her clean eating food delivery service this week! ”CAMBRIDGE SUPERFOODS”
This is so exciting for Jenny, and for the bootcamp girls as we get ours slightly cheaper ;o)) She has her own Facebook page here
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Cambridge-SuperFoods/ 111315342313617 or website is here http://www. cambridgesuperfoods.com/ I had my food delivered this morning, and it was YUM!!!!
As some of you may or may not remember I put out before christmas a request for two women to come and ‘work’ for Cambridge Bootcamps. I was asking for someone who loved to cook, wanted to talk about their journey publicly, and in return I would give 6 months free bootcamp. I was inundated with emails from amazing women who all wanted this prize. I then whittled it down and interviewed a few of those women. In the end, I really struggled to keep it to just two places, SO, we have THREE winners!!!
These 3 women are Stef Barker; Karen Enright and Alex Oliver So a MASSIVE congratulations to those three women and I look forward to watching their lives transform over the coming months x
You can follow their journeys here if you wish–>
ANOTHER DATE FOR YOUR DIARY IS JANUARY 14th, 2012 at 12 noon – 2pm
******CHARITY BOOTCAMP********
Cambridge Bootcamps/ Cambridge Kettlebelles has joined forces with the Arthur Rank Hospice and the 2012 Olympic Gold Challenge to do a 2 session Charity Bootcamp at Christ’s Piece. Starting at 12 noon for 45 minutes and again at 1.15pm for another 45 minutes. We need as many of you fabulous ladies to come down and take part and help show the rest of Cambridge what we are all about. We will not only be helping to raise awareness and money for the Arthur Rank Hospice but also showcasing the benefits of a healthy and fun lifestyle. Spread the word, and come along and meet us all
) I really hope this will be a fabulous day.In our quest to maintain motivation and goals for ourselves, Donna-Belle and myself have made vision boards, with our ‘not so new year’s’ resolutions on them. As you can see below (mine is the purple one), I will be turning 40 this year! This will be a milestone and a half!! I am looking forward to it in some ways as I am fitter, stronger and faster than I have ever been in my adult life, and very proud of what I have achieved and the amount of lives we change here. But there is also a part of me that is slightly worried, but `I am going to leave that in it’s box for now, whilst I enjoy the last three months of my 30′s ;o) I will undoubtedly write a whole blog post for you about this (see one of my goals!) but until then, have a look at our visions for this year and have a think about the things you would like to achieve this year.
So as you can see from my little board, I am hoping to make some more entries on this blog, and keep making a difference as I hurtle into my 40th year )
)Have a great day x
Charlie Wall
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HOW DOES NEGATIVITY IMPACT ON YOU?
I am going to write a blog from my heart this morning, as there are a few things that have been bothering me recently. In the last few months, I have received a few emails/ texts/ Facebook messages telling me what a horrid person I am. One of these has been from a particularly good, (now) ex, friend. The others have been from two unhappy bootcamp girls. The main opinion is that I am selfish, only after money, do not give enough attention to that individual person. I have been called de-motivating and un-empathic.
These people, have used the forum of Facebook, mobile phones, or email to write an attacking message to me, and therefore do not have to take responsibility for what happens when I read it at the other end, or potentially what their words may do to me, or anyone else they feel the need to vent to in a negative fashion.
I feel like I live in world where its OK to abuse electronically but no-one has the courage to come to my face and tell me what it is they are unhappy with me about.
If like me, you have suffered with any form of low mood, deep-rooted insecurities, then these random and seemingly uncalled for attacks do deeply impact on you. I really don’t feel its just me that gets attacked, I do genuinely feel that many of us have used these forums to impart negativity to another person —- press SEND, and then its gone. You don’t have to deal with what comes next.
But these messages DO have an impact. Without going into too much detail, I have had A LOT going on these last few months. This has had a huge impact on my energy, and motivation to train myself , or eat well. As a result, my own mental health has suffered and I know only too well, having experienced burn out in the past, that I was getting the warning signs again…
Broken sleep, weight gain, lethargy, sleepy in the day, lack of motivation to take care of myself, tearfulness etc. A need to work and work as escapism from my reality. This also impacts on my son who needs me to be a mother to him.
I was getting into a rut, and I know that many of you can identify with that feeling.. Nothing is ever good enough, self-critical language, and subsequent sabotaging of any clean eating efforts. How many of you have been in this position before?
I needed to take a long hard look at myself. Was I all those things I was being attacked for? Was I letting all these negative statements /messages effect everything I believe in? You see for me, exercise has always been my saviour. It has got me through some REALLY bad times in my life, and over the last few months I have just let that slide, either because of injury or because just plain and simply, I believed the ‘You are horrid’ messages as that resonated deeply within my psyche.
It seemed easier to believe the few who had written negative statements about me, than to believe that I am achieving something with my life, and affecting many other women in a very positive way.
Then something happened, I received a random text from someone who said this “Hi Charlie, just thought of you and wanted to tell you I think what you do is amazing, you turn so many people’s lives around and actually make them care about themselves again….” When I received this message, I was at my lowest point that I have been for a good few years, and without knowing it, this particular lady changed my mindset.
I got up, chose to eat the right foods, booked my training in for the week, actually did the training(!), and felt much better for it. When I received the attacking messages in the last few days, I was able to look at them for what they are. Women attacking me because they themselves feel unhappy.
We all have insecurities, whether that be about your looks, weight, how you perform at work, how fit you think you are, how bright you think you are, whether or not you are a good parent, coach, role model, whatever it may be. If someone happens to hit ‘that button’ then it seems very easy to stop focusing on all the good we have and do, and become insular.
The key is to KEEP FOCUSED on all the people who love and believe in you, focus on TODAY, not yesterday, as this wastes energy and time. We can change the story of our own lives, we don’t have to have a script of the person we were 2, 5 or even 20 years ago.
Find something that you hold dear and work hard to get it. For me, that is running my business and continuing to inspire women to be the BEST that they can be, and also to take care of my own body/ mind, for what we are on the inside tends to depict what we are on the outside.
I have learnt a lot over these last few months and hope that I will continue to learn and grow. I am not perfect and have never said that I am. I muck up, and hopefully learn daily from the mistakes that I make. It does take a lot of practice to stop those negative feelings taking hold, but hopefully if we continue to look inside ourselves, it will get easier.
The women that I work with every day continue to inspire me to be the best that I can be, and I am not sure they realise that
Have a great day.
Charlie x
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CAMBRIDGE PERSONAL TRAINER DOES KETTLEBELLS AT #GYMFREE WORK-SHOP
This weekend, I was invited to attend a #gymfree work shop run by two PT friends of mine, Mark Raynsford and In-Kilter Fitness as they came to Cambridge just for one day. I have known Mark for a while via various PT support sites/ Facebook and Twitter. We have studied with many of the same inspirational PT’s in the UK and so I knew his training idea’s would be similar to mine. Through Twitter, Mark had met Stuart of In-Kilter fitness, and they had got together to deliver a days work-shop educating many people about body-weight training/ Kettlebell training and Nutrition. They are currently touring the UK delivering their innovative work shop and I was very excited to be meeting both the boys, and spending the day with my Histon bootcamp trainer Laura Banks, and my dear PT friend Natalie Summers
We began the day looking at our own personal goals, and the boys spent a lot of time giving us useful tools to address each goal with guts and belief. This was quite a difficult exercise for me to do I spend MUCH of my time going through goals with clients, and (surprisingly or not) have not looked at my own for some time. We were encouraged to share our goals with the group, and then address each barrier to our ‘problem’ so that we had a ‘do it’ attitude and some accountability via twitter to move us forward. So if any of you are twitter fans – look out for #operation …. to see our progress ;O)
We were then taken through a tabatta style bodyweight work out which was great fun, and yes this did include burpee’s :p
Discussions on Nutrition followed which of course I LOVED as this is my passion, and as both the boys share the same belief system as I do for my clients and bootcamp girls, I knew that this would be reaffirming my nutritional beliefs.
The kettlebell technique class, and work-out in the sun was my favourite part of the day. My new business partner Donna and I have just recently set up ladies only Kettlebell studio in Cambridge (http://www.cambridgekettlebelles.co.uk) where we will look to start offering Kettlebells for beginners; Kettlebells for Intermediates; Yoga + Abs classes. #kettlebells in cambridge#
I picked up some very useful tips for teaching kettlebells to our women – and actually, following the ‘Dirty 30′ work-out at the end of our full on day, can actually only now walk properly after 2 days ;o)
If you would like any information on our new Cambridge Kettlebell classes, please have a look at our website here –> http://www.cambridgekettlebelles.co.uk
All in all, I had a fabulous day with Mark, Stuart, Laura and Natalie –> I have blisters on my hand to prove I worked and video’s of my loverly trainer Laura getting her ass whuuuped hehehehe!! (I am wondering how much her Histon+Girton bootcamp ladies will pay me for those vids? )
Our Cambridge Bootcamp empire is expanding to cover Newmarket and Exning, and we have a free trial week this week for ALL locations (see sign up link here –> http://www.signupgenius.com/go/free60)
Have a great week, stay clean and stay healthy )
Charlie Wall
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CAMBRIDGE BOOTCAMPS WINS AN AWARD!!
I am very pleased to tell you guys, that Cambridge Bootcamps won an award at the Velvet awards on Friday night. Laura, Adrijana and I went along nervously in our posh frocks (YES, no trainers ) and were very happy and proud when they called out our name. I have never won anything before (apart from a fluffy donkey when I was 7!!) So, this was a real achievement given that we have now been going since 2009. The award that we won was ”HIGHLY COMMENDED IN DIET AND FITNESS” which is a REAL honour. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150301775469161&set=a.10150199374714161.325896.145954914160&type=1&theater
I would like to say a massive THANK YOU to all who voted for us, and for your loyal, valued support. It really made all the hard work worth it, and we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you lovely ladies!! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.
We would REALLY like you to come and celebrate in style with us at the BootCamp Ball, in aid of Parkinson’s UK. As you know we are supporting the phenomenal courage of the Oar Raisers, two young men who will be rowing the Atlantic (Tom and Chris) – Not only that we will be celebrating your achievements in confidence, health and strength, promoting our mantra ‘Strong is the new skinny’ ) The ball is open to everyone, and the tickets have now been reduced to £40 per head. For this you will receive reception drinks, 3 course meal, wine on the table, and the amazing band Bijoumiyo. It would be the icing on the raw carrot cake if you could join us on what promises to be a spectacular evening — PLUS you will see Laura, Donna, Adrijana and I in our posh frocks again!!! A rarity!! Burpees on the dance floor anyone??
Thank you for all the amazing testimonials that have come in the win two free tickets for the ball. Keep ‘em coming though, closing date August 31st.. It will be very very hard to pick a winner; some of the stories are overwhelming. This is why I LOVE my job, you girls really do ROCK my world and embody all that we encompass here at Cambridge Bootcamps – Fit, feisty, fierce females who support, encourage and embrace each other (and us)
We are missing Donna, and wishing her all the best in Canada, and congratulations to Adrijana who has worked very hard to get the Coldhams Common bootcamp off the ground.
Next phase is Girton early morning camp with our Banksy http://www.laurabanks.co.uk/lauras-blog/ and a new location is being talked about either at Cherry Hinton or Shelford for 9.30 or 10am. Not to forget our new studio launch in September ‘Cambridge Kettebelles’ with new Kettlebelle work-shops, 1-2-1 training, and semi private training.
Lots of exciting things to look forward to, and all this with you lot right behind us.
As we are growing, there may be a place for a good admin person to come in and work with us. If this is something you would be interested in, please do email me at CambridgeBootcamps@gmail.com
Have a great Sunday,
Charlie x
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MORE CORE??
Many women ask me what are the best ‘exercises’ to get rid of tummy / thigh/ arm fat. We do A LOT of exercises at the bootcamps, which cover all these area’s and I have designed the work-outs to provide the maximum fat burning effect for women. Despite this, we still get request’s to do MORE CORE work!! The first point I would like to make is that we work the tummy at every single session. Full body. functional movements ARE core excercises, and whilst you may not necessarily feel ‘the burn’ you ARE working your core. For those wondering what the ‘core’ is –> All the muscles from your chest to your pubic bone, and from your bum to your upper back.
Squats, Lunges, press-ups, sprints, burpee’s, mountain climbers, renegade rows, plank’s, lateral lunges, (I could go on, but you get the point) ALL these exercises work the core mucles effectively, as well as the BUM which is the largest muscle in the body. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism burns FAT.. Therefore, it makes sense to get the BUM fired up at each and every session.
I am going to make a point here that may cause controversy for some of you, BUT getting rid of the TUM (or any fat sites that you are unhappy with) is 75% NUTRITION. You have all heard the saying “You cannot out train a bad diet”, you also cannot out train a bad endocrine system, which means, no matter how much exercise you are doing, if your diet is shite, your hormones will be out of whack and you WILL have fat stores on all the places you do not want them. Particularly tummy and thighs.
To put it very simply if you clean up your diet, especiallly Alcohol and grains, you will see and feel huge health benefits which in turn will help you lose weight. HEALTH should be your goal, and if you are healthy, you will be the weight you are genetically determined to be.
Aside from cleaning up your diet you should be doing the following things too:—>
1. Getting adequate SLEEP. You should aim to be getting to bed for 10pm, as this is when your bodies delicate system repairs, rest’s and detoxifies you. This won’t happen if you eat late, sleep late, or drink into the early hours and promotes fat stores. If you get a good night’s sleep this can actually aid weight loss and manage cortisol levels (High cortisol = tummy fat)
2. Cut out all alcohol and grains – (Cereal’s and sandwiches!!). Your system cannot deal with the amount of grains we eat in our society, nor can it healthily metabolise all the alcohol we drink. In fact, the body will use the alcohol above any other food or fat source to fuel your system. We really are what we eat!! The more alcohol we drink; fags we smoke; OTC drugs we take, the more our liver has to work, and the more our liver is detoxing our systems of this crap, the more it makes fat stores to keep the ‘acid’ from harming us. This also impacts on our hormones and in turn leads to tummy fat, and also worse PMT.
3. Start drinking herbal tea’s to work WITH your endocrine system. Ideally, liquorice tea in the morning until 2pm, and Tulsi tea from 2pm until bed time. If you drink the stimulating tea’s in the morning whilst your cortisol levels are at it’s peak you start to work WITH your body rather than against it. Tulsi tea relaxes and calms you as your cortisol levels go down and you prepare for rest. Of course hydration is important – Water with added Himalayan salt is hugely beneficial.
4. Avoid long duration moderate intensity cardio sessions. Stick to short and intense interval training type exercise.
5. Do NOT starve yourself. EAT plenty of good fats ie. Coconut oils/butters = Increases DHEA in us which has a profound fat burning effect. Coconut butter can be a lovely snack and research has shown over and over again that we lose fat when we eat GOOD fats. (*See article here)
6. Supplement with a good quality fish or krill oil. This again increases our DHEA and turns ON fat burning enzymes.
7. Hydrate!! Add himalayan salt to your water, and good quality sea salt to your foods.
8. Supplement with good quality Zinc and Magnesium (avoiding Oxide forms of both) SUPER minerals which most of us are deficient in, and HUGELY beneficial to our systems. Both 5,6,7 + 8 can be bought from Revital in town where we have a discount.
I hope this little article helps you to understand the importance of a clean diet, and awareness that if we have highly stressful lives, eat badly, and drink alcohol, we do become sluggish, tired and unhappy with our bodies. It does not take a long time to clean this up, and a little thought goes a long way to making us smile and possibly see those abs ;0)
See you soon,
Charlie
Cambridge Personal Fitness Coach
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Hurtling into week three..
Good afternoon guys, my posts have been pretty sparce since day 10? I think? I have been tremendously busy, and it turns out I WAS extremely pre-menstrual, and therefore was a BITCH for double reasons that first week haha!!
I know that many of the Cambridge Bootcamp girls are still going strong with their nutrition plans, and some may have fallen by the way side ~ However, I do know the encouragement and support from everyone regardless of their current detox status is amazing :0)
I have now completed 3 weeks, and had my minor op on Thursday of last week. This was a fairly unpleasant experience, but the Nurse specialist who looked after me was kind, calming and considerate. They gave me a local anesthetic (internally) whilst performing the procedure, and it just was not as bad as a. the first time I went in for the biposy, and b. I thought it was going to be.
I know when I have had operations in the past, I go into meltdown and take on a true addicts personality (smoking, drinking, over exercising, over working) But this time, I was much more in control and adult about the whole affair ~ (my inner addict was speaking to me that day A LOT, but I just ignored her and concentrated on healing myself). This is a BIG change for me, and an important step in moving forward and taking control of one’s health.
The day after the procedure, I actually felt AWFUL. All day, aching, bleeding, lethargy, however, I had two deliveries of raw chocolate by two separate amazing women, and I was happy and thankful for their thoughtfulness. And slept most of the day in a raw chocolate haze
The second day (Saturday) was the day of Polly Nobles bootcamp raw food worshop . I am happy to say that I felt a lot better yesterday and very much enjoyed attending Polly’s workshop for my girls . Luckily, I had only consumed a green juice prior to the work-shop, as Polly makes a huge array of raw food delights, and the audience gets to taste these beautifully made foods. I know that my girls LOVED the work shop, and I know that Polly gave a fantastic presentation of her knowledge and wisdom about living with cancer. Polly does not like to be known as Polly with cancer, but as Polly who kicked cancer’s butt, and that is exactly what she is doing. She has a tremendous amount of knowledge about Nutrition, and this message compliments the message that I give the girls who attend the boot camps that I run. Education and information is the key to a healthy body, and this is what we pride ourselves on giving at Cambridge Bootcamps Thank you to all the lovely ladies who attended the work shop yesterday, I am sure we may well have been the most ‘lively’ bunch of women that Polly has ever presented too )
Polly has kindly agreed to add another date for the bootcamp raw food work-shop, so IF you are interested in sampling ‘Hemptastic chocolate’ , ‘Blueberry cheesecake’, or ‘Pasta pomodoro’ for the cheaper price of £30, take a look at the link here ——> http://pollynoble.com/boot-camp-class/ The date is the 4th June 2011.
Health and happiness really CAN be achieved just from looking at your Nutritional intake, even if you just add one glass of green juice per day, this can have a profound affect on your well being.
As for me, I hope to continue on this journey, and look at going one week completely raw (once Polly’s 7 day meal planner comes out) and I have taken my week off. This next week, I won’t be blogging, as I am under strict instructions to take the week off and REST . I really hope the boot camp girls go into week 4 all guns blazing and I will see you all on my return.
I will come back to a trial week for ALL the bootcamps, and we will also be in Velvet magazine this month :0) Go US!!!
For any information relating to the bootcamps, nutrition or 1-2-1 training, please contact us at cambridgebootcamps@gmail.com
Blog on PMT and Estrogen Dominance WILL come soon
Charlie Wall
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Cambridge Personal Trainer and Fitness Coach :0)
NOT.a.BITCH
Days 8 + 9+10 :0) Cambridge Personal Trainer is NOT pre-menstrual )
Hah! So, it turns out that last weeks BITCH was literally due to the detox, and not entirely my hormones… Well, I say that but hormones play a BIG part in how we are on a day to day basis, and if they are out of whack, it causes ALL SORTS OF ISSUES.. – Including weight gain, depression, lethargy, brain fog, sleeplessness, Infertility, abdominal fat to name but a few.
I will be talking about these issues, but learning so much about the PMS and female hormones I need more time to write it all down. I will hopefully get this written at the w.e
As for the detox, I am feeling A LOT better.. One of the girls was asking me what I am eating, so I will give you a basic outline of what I had today, which is fairly similar to most days.
I wake up early (for camps) and have a pint of water with lemon and chlorophyll in. Sometimes I have a green juice or a smoothie when I finish camp, and then breakfast (Chia seeds and nut milk; scrambled eggs, salad) OR, if I am training after Zak goes to school (like today), I had a hemp protein smoothie ~ coconut milk, hemp powder, chia seeds, PB and raspberries. I will then train and have mackerel and avacado afterwards.
If I train I use mainly bodyweight TABATTA training which I LOVE as time is precious to me, and this type of training burns fat more effectively that long state steady cardio. This article by Rachel Cosgrove explains this phenomenon really well, so I will link to it here http://figureathlete.t-nation.com/free_online_article/training/the_final_nail_in_the_cardio_coffin
This evening I will have organic salmon cooked in coconut butter, with loads and loads of greens :0)
I look forward to working out tomorrow, and beginning another day.
If you need another good resource, please do look at Polly Nobles site too. Polly has kindly offered to do a work-shop for the bootcamp girls at a reduced rate (£30) link here ->http://pollynoble.com/boot-camp-class/ The first class sold out in one day, so this day is being held on the 4th June. She is an inspiration and a very wise young woman.
See you soon bootcamp chicks, hope you are all still going strong
Charlie Wall
Cambridge Fitness Coach
07545284928
http://www.purplefitness.co.uk
http://www.cambridgebootcamps.co.uk
