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This is an inspiring story to anybody who thinks they are old at 40 !

Dara Torres who at 41 is competing with and beating girls who on average are in their early twenties !

She finished with an olympic silver medal in the 50m sprint @ Beijing Olympics so read on below ladies and let it inspire you to achieve your goals-no matter what your age !

If you think you can you can and if you think you cant you cant ...................

Dean Piazza
Your Online Personal Coach
www.getfit.com.au

Beth Walsh is swimming laps again at age 57. Stasi Turrell has returned to walking, 13 weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. And Geralin Thomas is lifting hand weights and skipping rope at 47.

Until recently, all three women had fallen off their fitness programs.

That was before Dara Torres

Torres, 41, became the oldest Olympic swimming medalist Sunday when she anchored the U.S. women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay to a silver medal finish. She has now won 10 Olympic medals and will go for an 11th when she competes in the 50-meter freestyle.

Make that 11 medals - she finished with a sliver medal in the 50 m sprint !

click here to read the full story

Posted by Dean at 12:10 AM | Permalink

This is a good article which encourages the use of email support and motivation to help people achieve
their goals. Online coaching programs are really gaining in popularity which is great as after helping
thousands of people over the last 10 years as an online personal trainer I have seen some amazing
transformations - all from people having that little bit of accountability, support and motivation .

Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

Studies find that regular nudges help keep fitness on track

Kimberly Thomas-McPherson likes to walk for exercise. But as a single mother of two who works a full-time job at night and goes to college during the day, physical activity isn’t always high on her priority list.

So when Thomas-McPherson, 43, heard about a pilot study aimed at getting people to stick to their exercise routine, she signed up — and was pleasantly surprised when it gave her program a boost.

What was the secret? E-mail.

Continue reading "You’ve got mail - now get moving !" »

Posted by Dean at 12:29 AM | Permalink

Could you keep it down? Can't you see we're trying to get a little shut-eye?

Sleep. It rejuvenates. It refreshes. It restores. And while it may seem as if sleep renders us inactive, the truth is quite the contrary. Our bodies, our brains, our minds are accomplishing great things while we slumber.

Dr Nilesh Dave, medical director of the Sleep and Breathing Disorders Centre at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, says: "When you get good-quality sleep and enough hours of it, it is amazing how much better patients' moods are, how much better they're functioning. They're truly happy."

During a series of studies in the 1980s, rats were forced to stay awake. After five days, they started dying.

Continue reading "Happiness is ... sleep" »

Posted by Dean at 10:36 AM | Permalink

Below is a great article on celebrities and the workouts they do to stay in shape.

It proves there is no magic exercise to stay in shape - just do what you enjoy and do it
regularly and it wont feel like a chore - just something you do to feel good about life
and help you look great along the way !

Below is a list of stars who do yoga, boxing,weight training, jogging, pilates, surfing,
cycling and swimming.

Stars are always on the lookout for new ways to challenge their mind and body so if you
are bored with your current routine sont be afraid to try new ways to mix up your training.

Stay Strong
Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

Continue reading "Celebrity Workouts" »

Posted by Dean at 07:42 PM | Permalink

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper, and studies suggest you could lose weight, says Terry Robson.

Each week, a new diet offers you the ultimate weight loss miracle. But, finally, one that is achievable has arrived. Having a big breakfast every day is the way to lose weight and keep it off.

If you can live off clear vegetable soup (or gruel for that matter) for three meals per day, every day, then you will lose weight. The question is how long can you eat that way?

Continue reading "Breakfast of slimming champions" »

Posted by Dean at 09:05 AM | Permalink

Everybody needs inspiration and who better to inspire and motivate you during winter than our Olympic athletes.

These athletes are world class and have been aiming for this goal for at least 4 years so take a leaf out of their book and learn to apply yourself over the long term to be the be a champion in whatever you would like to do.

There are no medals for losing weight but we can all learn from their discipline, goal setting, motivation and the way they think .

Being successful at anything you do requires you to think like an Olympian and be positive and focussed.
Check out our Aussie Olympians below and the stories behind their journey.

http://www.olympics.com.au/

Do you need Motivation ? Support ? Direction ? Plan of Attack ?

Complete the form here to get the ball rolling

https://www.getfit.com.au/registration.html

Stay Strong
Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au

Posted by Dean at 10:36 AM | Permalink

IF BOOK sales are anything to go by, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller's GI revolution is here. "At one time there was only one book ahead of us on The New York Times bestseller list, and that was Harry Potter," she says. "So I'm pretty pleased with that."

Based on the glycaemic index and co-authored by Kaye Foster-Powell, a nutritionist, and Professor Stephen Colagiuri, Brand-Miller's books have sold 3.5 million copies worldwide. A fourth edition of two of the most popular titles in the "glucose revolution" series was published this month.

Continue reading "Now for the glucose revolution" »

Posted by Dean at 07:03 PM | Permalink

Where do you go for help if overeating has become a habit that's hard to control?
Overeaters Anonymous www.oasydney.org with its 12 Steps approach is one option, but now there's another.
SMART Recovery, a free self help group program established in Sydney three years ago by St Vincent's Hospital Drug and Alcohol Service, is now open, not just to people wanting to overcome problems with alcohol and other drugs, but also to overeaters and those with other addictive behaviours. SMART (it stands for Self Management and Recovery Training) has meetings in a number of locations in Sydney and NSW, and began its first Melbourne program this month at Turning Point, the drug and alcohol service based in Fitzroy.

Continue reading "SMART help for overeating" »

Posted by Dean at 09:50 AM | Permalink

I am currently in the US at a fitness conference so I was surprised to read the article below that we are now officially the Fattest nation in the world.

Who would have thought we have gone from fit and healthy bronzed aussies to a nation of over worked , over stressed and over weight people.

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Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults now rated as obese or overweight, according to an alarming new report.

The most definitive picture of the national obesity crisis to date has found that Australians now outweigh Americans and face a future "fat bomb" that could cause 123,000 premature deaths over the next two decades.

If the crisis is not averted, obesity experts have warned, health costs could top $6 billion and an extra 700,000 people will be admitted to hospital for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots caused by excess weight.

The latest figures show 4 million Australians — or 26% of the adult population — are now obese compared to an estimated 25% of Americans. A further 5 million Australians are considered overweight.

smh.com.au

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Everybody knows we have to eat less and eat healthy and move more and stay active as we are bombarded with these messages on a daily or weekly basis depending on how many magazines you read or Television shows you watch.

Its obvious we need to focus more on mindset and teaching people how to get motivated and being positive and focussed as this will make it a whole lot easier to get in shape.
learning how to deal with stress and time management or being organised will also help greatly as alot of people lack these skills.

Once you feel good about yourself, your self esteem improves , your energy levels go through the roof and this makes it a whole lot easier to exercise more and reach for heathy food, not fatty food.

My online coaching focuses alot on motivational topics with regular videos and emails and combined with the day by day , week by week program it makes it easy for people to stay on track and get results they couldnt achieve on their own.

I pride myself on personal interaction and answer all emails with 12 hours so people feel like their hand is being held the whole way.

Click here to get started today and we can work together to help you slim down and tone up .

You can also email me at dean@getfit.com.au

stay strong

Dean Piazza
www.getfit.com.au - Your Online personal trainer

Posted by Dean at 11:40 AM | Permalink

Heart disease is the number one killer in Australia, and it's strongly linked to lifestyle. That means there's scope to prevent it if you do the right things. But what if you've been doing all the wrong things? If you've been a chain-smoking, junk-food addict for years, can you turn your life around and catch up with all those virtuous vegie-eating types?

Continue reading "STARTING LATE TO A HEALTHY LIFE" »

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