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 Slimzone Results
14 year old Kim Gath is now £100 better off after losing 1st 2lbs in our 10 Week Xmas Challenge- keep up the great work!!
2010 Slimzone starts on Monday 18th Jan so come on girls lets kick start the year as we mean to go and get in shape ready for your yellow poka dot bikini!!
Baby Bumps
Congratulations to Emma Harvey who had a gorgeous little girl on Christmas Day called Holly.
We wish your new family all the best for 2010.
Get your hands on a Ladyzone goody bag for FREE this month
An offer not to be missed…. as January is a fantastic month to join a gym to kick start those New Year Resolutions there is no better place to join than Ladyzone, simply refer a friend and when then join you will receive a Ladyzone goody bag….so get referring now!!! |
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A little Poem by Paula!
Overnight the snow it fell,
What a pretty sight but for many pure hell,
Slips and slides...
Some even fell on their behinds
But through it all the Ladyzone crew
Did everything they could to push on through
They walked on foot...
And even risked their lives
When the Ladyzone car slid down a hillside...
For a while things looked uncertain...
Indeed we all thought it was curtains...
But in a final act of determination...
One staff member known as the ‘Terminator’
Battled the elements and arrived on the scene
To ensure that our members could maintain their regimes...
Who is this person? They call her Marie with an ‘E’
And she has proven to us all you see...
That it is always possible to exceed our limits
Indeed at Ladyzone we will do anything to ensure that our members get their 30 minutes!
 SLIMZONE – Due to the weather Slimzone has now started a little later than planned, the first session of 2010 is Monday January the 18th. If you want to join the club speak to a member of staff as soon as possible!!! We can try and get you into this session straight away. If you have missed the boat this time around our next 8 week session will start on Monday 15th March. |
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DONT LET THE WEATHER STOP YOU!!!
The weather has brought Sheffield to a holt in the past couple of weeks but Ladzone are still going strong, hopefully we have seen the end of this now and we can all get back on track. A well done goes to all those members who have still got in to do their bit.
NEW CIRCUIT
Have you seen our new circuit yet? If not why not give us a call to get booked in to come and test it out for yourself, we have had a fantastic response to it, having removed the waiting times at the busy times throughout the day. It would be good to see all the old faces back in the gym.
SHEFFIELD FC LADIES
Ladyzone have become proud sponsors of Sheffield FC ladies, you may see some of the players on a Thursday night making use of the equipment here. So if you see a group of Ladies arriving on a Thursday night you all know who it is! Oh, and can you recognise who the star midfielder is?!
SLIMZONE - DON’T forget we have
our own slimming club now which took off well in December. We are starting another one this month so take a look at our posters in the gym for the exact dates and times. |
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Slimming Club
After the great success of our 12 weeks to Christmas weigh in the winners are:
Most Inches Lost - Joanne Connor lost 29cms (11 and a half inches)
Most Weight Lost – Karen Beesley lost 1 Stone (don’t forget the quarter of a pound!!)
And... I am pleased to announce that our new 10 week challenge starts on the 20th January, so be early and book your place!!
Let it Snow...
Now that the snow has cleared, and it’s a fresh new year, get yourself back in the zone! Ladyzone yeh yeh in the zone yeh yeh yeh!! |
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How we at Orpington help you maintain your motivation after the good start to the New Year?
1. Book a mini review
Having a review with one of us here will help you get back on track and progress!
2. Set achievable Goals
Set a time frame to you goals. Maybe a holiday or wedding in a few months’ time. Remember all short term goals must be realistic and achievable.
3. Exercise with a friend
Bring a friend, when exercising with a friend it’s great for motivation.
4. Nutrition
So you're back on track and all is going well but your progress has slowed down, well it’s probably time we take a look at what you’re eating. That’s why we have started our exclusive FREE Slimming Club starting on Monday 18th at 10am and Tuesday 19th at 6pm.
Many thanks to Meena Britten!
Thanks goes to Meena for inviting us to her fantastic traditional Tapas restaurant – Tio Pepes – for our first ever Ladyzone Orpington Christmas meal... It was fun and delicious and we will definitely be returning next year! Thanks to all of the members who came along and made it such an enjoyable time, we hope you enjoyed the night too!
Slimzone – Unfortunately our slimzone club has been put back a week due to the adverse weather we have had recently. We will now be starting our sessions on Monday 18th January We have 2 weekly weigh-in sessions planned... every Monday at 10am & if you can't make that session you can come to the evening session on a Tuesday at 6pm.
Each club will run for 8 weeks at a time with an optional £1 per week payable with all monies returned as prizes to the ‘biggest losers’ at the end of the 8 week period. |
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 New Face at Shipley
Those of you who have ventured into the gym during the last couple of weeks will have spotted the new girl on the Ladyzone staff. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Karen Halifax and I’m now managing the Shipley site. I am the owner of the Pudsey site, which has been growing nicely over the last 2 years and will be spending time at both gyms. I hope my experience at Pudsey will be an asset at Shipley and I look forward to getting to know all the Shipley members. Besides looking after two gyms, I also have two young children (three, if you include my husband) so if I’m looking haggard, you’ll understand why!
Don’t worry, Corinne, Michelle and Alyson are still valued Ladyzone staff members so hopefully you’ll be seeing plenty of all of us.
Karen
Ladyzone Eskimos
Just wanted to thank all the hardy ladies who braved the arctic conditions to still come to the gym. Just to name a few and sorry if I have forgotten anyone: Barbara Slingsby, Filomena Meola, Karen Griffin, Shida Yeadon and Sara Lount.
Hopefully the wintry weather is behind us so no excuses ladies, it’s time to get back to it! If you need a bit of motivation or a new programme, just get booked in.
Slimzone – The New Year Weight Loss Challenge
We shall be launching Slimzone, a New Year Challenge, on Tuesdays between 5.00pm and 7.00pm, starting on the 26th Jan. Get your free Ladyzone Weight Management Nutritional Plan and Eating Diary (members only) to kickstart your weight loss and keep your motivation going by coming to the weekly weigh-ins. There is an optional £1 per week and the money collected goes in prizes to the biggest losers at the end of the 8 week period. Also bring a healthy food item and the weekly biggest loser wins the hamper.
If you have any friends or family who would also like to take part, they are more than welcome. It’s £2 for non-members and £7 to purchase the Weight Management Plan and Eating Diary. Talk to a member of staff to book your place. |
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WALL PUSH UPS!
"A great exercise for increasing strength in the upper body, effectively toning the chest and triceps. It is the perfect solution for those who find floor push ups too difficult or are unable to perform them due to joint problems/injuries."
Stand in front of a wall with straight legs hip distance apart with your arms shoulder width apart touching the wall in front of you. Start to bend the elbows and lower your body to the wall until your nose almost touches it. Straighten the arms and return to the starting position. Repeat the exercise 15-20 times (1 set) increasing to 3 sets or moving your feet further away from the wall as you improve.
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HEALTH & LIFESTYLE COACHING
Who do you think you are?
by Karen Halifax |
Who do you think you are?
I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I firmly believe that in order to change your weight, you first need to change how you think. Any self-defeating thought patterns will automatically set you up to fail. However believe that you will succeed and you will have mastered the first key necessary to overcome your struggles with weight.
You hold powerful beliefs about yourself and these influence you, good or bad, and affect how you approach your weight. You might not be aware that you have a choice and control over your thoughts. But we all choose how we react to things and if you are overweight, it’s a sad fact but one that you need to face up to that you are choosing behaviours that encourage you to put on weight. If you want to change, you need to take responsibility for both being in the situation you’re in and also creating the body that you want. By accepting your role in your weight problem and acknowledging that you are accountable means that you understand the situation. It means that you comprehend that the solutions are within you. Because you cannot change what you do not acknowledge, I want you to think about the stories you tell yourself. Some people for example blame their weight issue on their genes, their metabolism, or on their food pushing relatives. They tell themselves that their
families would suffer if they imposed a healthy eating plan on them. Others believe that the power to lose weight and stay fit resides solely within themselves. And some people have the fatalistic mindset – it’s just my bad luck. These three different perspectives on weight loss control are characterised by:
Internal
You feel you have a direct bearing on your results through your own actions and you accept responsibility as well as credit for how things turn out. If you’re overweight, you’ll admit that you got that way because you did not eat right or did not exercise enough. You tend to make the majority of accountability for correcting your condition, including
making lifestyle changes. Beware however that if you are too internally controlled, you may tend to internalise your failures and dwell on them. Recognise that there will be events over which you have no control.
External
This is characterised by a high dependency on powerful others or influences for your success. For example if you have been on a diet and lost a lot of weight, you would credit a particular diet rather than your own determination for your success. When you succeed, you tend to take little or no ownership for the positive outcome. However by the same token, when you fail to lose weight, you tend to take little ownership. You feel your weight has nothing to do with your own choices. The diet ‘stopped working for you’. You will struggle to lose weight if you persist in this thinking. You can’t change a situation if you don’t acknowledge any responsibility. But when you recognise that your particular weight struggles may have little to do with anything outside yourself, your power to change is enormous.
Chance
With this mindset you are basically telling yourself that you have little or no belief in yourself or anything else. You probably don’t see any point in changing your diet, exercising or taking any personal responsibility for your health because you believe your situation has nothing to do with your behaviour or your choices. Every outcome is due to
fate. This mindset has nothing to do with self-discipline. It’s different from not wanting to change your habits because you don’t want to discipline yourself. Chance is a feeling of powerlessness: you don’t see the point of discipline and have no motivation to change. If this is how you are thinking, you have little chance of losing weight
as you don’t believe you have any control over it.
Think about your thought patterns and try to identify where they tend to fall in the above categories and whether they need nudging in a different direction.
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Best Review Results – The award goes to Maurin Bi who lost 9lbs and 49.5cm. Well Done!
Best Attendance Awards – Well done to Barbara Slingsby with 19 visits. Very impressive during December! |
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Member of Month - Judith Fudger has been awarded member of the month for December. Judith has worked extremely hard over the last month, accomplishing an amazing weight loss. She’s an ideal example for Ladyzone, striving to achieve her goals no matter what the weather! We hope she continues and other members feel encouraged to follow her example. Judith has lost an amazing 56.5cm and 5lbs since joining Ladyzone. In her recent 6 week review, Judith is continuing to lose and has lost a further 26cm in just 6 weeks! Well Done Judith keep up the good work!
Other Biggest Losers:
December is usually a worrying month for most! But our ladies have worked hard to achieve some amazing results. Keep up the hard work
Sarah Oliver –Lost 6lb, 20cm. and Louise Newman lost 3lbs and 16cm in 8 weeks Judith Fudger lost 26cm, in just 6 weeks. |
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Member of the month – is Hazel Stringer. She has lost 10lbs and 27cm in just 8 weeks. Well done Hazel for achieving such fabulous results. Keep up the good work.
Other biggest losers: -
Tracey Corker – 6lbs, 19.5cm and 3.5% drop in body fat in 10 weeks.
Barbara Robertshaw – 4lbs and 26cm in 10 weeks.
Christine Gillott – 10lbs & 22cm in 8 weeks.
Alison Warner – 6lbs & 22cm in 7 weeks
Top Attendance – Dil Mangat managed to brave the cold December weather and attended the gym 20 times! A fantastic effort as always. Others not put off by the icy temperatures were Ruth Mellors and Alison Warner who both managed to attend 19 times each, closely followed by Stella Jockel, Julie Carrick and Sandra Hardie who attended 17 times. |
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Slimming club winners
Week commencing 3rd January 2010 Jane Elliott was the winner and to say she still shed a few pounds over the festive period is fantastic, keep up all of your hard work Jane. It won’t be long till you get to where you want to be.
Week commencing 10th January 2010 Pamela Turner was the winner this week with a loss off 2.1kg
Top attendance
As you can imagine attendance was a little lower than usual in December due to the weather but here are our ‘hardiest’ top three!
1st Place – Susan Leger
2nd Place – Megan Allen
3rd Place – Linda Moss |
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Member of the Month;
Joanne Connor lost 8lb, 0.5% body fat and 29cm - A big well done with more to come!
Best of Rest;
Michelle Burgess lost 10lb, 1.9% body fat and 9cm
Gina Connor lost 8lb, 1.4% body fat and 15cm
Brenda Boyd lost 9lb and 14cm
Debbie Woodhams lost 5 ½lb, 1.9% body fat and 30cm
Marie Patrick lost 4lb and 13cm |
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