5 Fitness

As a trainer, I strive to have a positive, strong impact on my client's lifestyle. I want and will do everything in my power to make sure my clients benefit from every aspect of training with me. I’m always asking myself, “how can I add more value to my client’s sessions?”. With this guiding thought, my creative side kicked in and thus Living Amped was born. On July 1^st, 2011 I filed a DBA with the city and made it official. Living Amped, my training company, is dedicated to helping educate, encourage and motivate others in the benefit of leading a healthy lifestyle by providing beneficial and essential coaching to those of need. Living Amped offers a variety of different training options.

About the time Living Amped all started to come together, a friend of mine asked me to be a core coach for his new gym/facility, 5 Fitness Training & Yoga. I told him about my company and my desire to make it a well known program, not just in Austin, but any where. I want to help coach people to lead a healthy lifestyle no matter where they live. We talked about my goals and core values of Living Amped. He quickly offered space in his facility so can not just launch Living Amped, but host it there. Pieces where coming together so perfectly it was scary!

Using Zum as a visual guidance, the owner is building a fabulous training facility in the Mira Vista Medical Park off Bee Caves Road. 5 Fitness’s mission is to provide the Westlake area with an elite Personal Training and Yoga Stuidio, run and managed by the area’s most experienced personal fitness coaches, who specialize and excel in the five core foundations of health and fitness; Strength Training, Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition, Flexibility, Recovery and Rest. This training facility is going to be nothing short of top notch, atmosphere included. I cannot think of a better place to host Living Amped.

Mid September 2011 I was presented with a non-compete from The Hills. In my decision not to sign it, October 3^rd, 2011 quickly became my last day at The Hills; 3 weeks short of my 5 year anniversary. The Hills took a chance on me out of college and for that I will be eternally grateful. However, sometimes it just takes a little shove to confirm that you are doing the right thing.

5 Fitness is currently in the process of being built. The building/space is there, we are waiting on permits so we can make bigger moves, but it is moving right along. Once the permits are approved, it will be a quick 4 week build out. Until then, the owner has secured a space just down the sidewalk for us core trainers to train our clients. I will be training out of this temporary space starting October 4^th, 2011.

Run For The Water 2011

On Sunday October 30th, 2011 1500 runners, including myself took on the Run For the Water race. My training went like this. On a few (more more than 5) pretty days in the past few weeks Duker and I ran 3ish miles around the neighborhood to take advantage of the day. However I continued to do my normal .com crosfit workouts withe the 1pm crew. According to Jen (in pic above) we finished in 1:23 with negative splits! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! Notice there was no 8-9mi run during the week. I will have more pain after I eat my treat (Amy's icecream) they I did post race. I owe it all to the crossfit style training. It is without a doubt the best way to train for anything that life dishes to you; "train for the unknown".

Huge thanks to fellow corssfit coach Jen Cardella who met up with me and ran this race. She did a great job at pacing me as well as keeping me mentally in the game. Every mile she would look at her watch and check to see how we were doing. My request was not to tell me numbers, I wanted to listen to my body. Therefore she would say "we are doing perfect", and that is all I needed to hear to keep going. She too has a past love with the endurance and running. It was nice to prove that we can crossfit and still get our endurance high!

Are you training for a race and need a new style of training? I suggest you check out Crossfit Endurance. It is without a doubt the BEST way to train for running!

Strictly Strength

Coach Travis Holley, founder of Strictly Strength is bringing the world 365 Days of Strength. Travis began CrossFitting to gain strength and is now returning to those roots to discover and implement unconventional training methods. Travis began his blog project hoping to reach athletes interested in true strength training and to show the lifestyle that accompanies it. As a coach, Travis understands that he must uphold the same standards which he expects of his athletes. He never designs a workout or asks his students to do anything he is unwilling to do himself. He takes this serisouly and has been known to ask new athletes to sign a contract to be sure they recieve the most from each training session. Day 26 of his project is dedicated to the team with which he trains at CrossFit Central. Travis led the 1pm Coaches WOD and put them through a gruelling test of strength. See if you can find your favorite coach suffering in his video! There are 338 Days of Strength still to come, guranteed to change or inspire your training each day.

This workout was so much fun! I don't know if it because it involved strength "stuff" or it wasn't about time just completion. Or I got to use the Yoke for the first time, either way it as AWESOME and alot of fun! If you are looking for a GREAT strength program, this is a FANTASTIC one and Travis is a WONDERFUL coach!

Team Pursuit....

Playing
Unstoppable &
Realizing
Strengths
Under
Intense
Tenacity

You Better Believe It! Crossfit Central is taking Leadership to a whole new level! With the help of Aly of Rx Star and Strength Finder 2.0 (My strengths are: Futuristic, Discipline, Positivity, Includer, Activator) we, Crossfit Central and Relentless Bootcamp Coaches WILL Change the world. We have split up into different teams. I'm VERY lucky to be a part of "Team Pursuit" along with Meg Parsons, Heather Reed, Jessie Clark, Chelsea Ross, Kat Grosshaupt, Lindsey Spurck.

Follow them on Twitter:

Heather- @hreed07

Jess- @jessclarkie

Chels- @Chels_Ross

Lindsay- @lindsEblue

Kat- @KGrosshaupt

Meg - @ShowoutMeg

We have already set goals and started making steps towards them. Team building is non stop. This is a VERY exciting time for each of us coaches. We are working in ways we have never worked before as well as taking steps towards goals that will blow you out of this world. I'm very excited to be a part of this community and what is to come!

Words to live by---

I will Trust. I will then become Trustworthy. Credible over Smart. Love based Intentions not Fear. Relationships first, opportunities second. Become Significant in Your Impact- Develop your presence. Give yourself away- Serve others.

Go Big or Go Home!!!

What: Relentless Kettlebell Exchange Program

How: Clients can purchase new and used RBC kettlebells and sell back gently used RBC kettlebells. The RBC kettlebells are from Troy and are painted with the RBC logo.

Why: We are doing this as a way to promote the purchase of kettlebells by our clients, making it affordable for them to go up in weight when they out-grow their lighter bells.

Who: Coaches and CC Front Desk Crew. We will keep a small stock of new bells on hand (these are currently being shipped to us now), and will begin buying bells back from clients this week. We will only buy back the RBC bells previously sold to clients.

NEW STOCK:We have ordered the following NEW bells that we will store in the back room at CC: 2-15lb, 3- 20lbs, 5- 25lb, 2- 35lb. Once the new bells have arrived (next week), we will paint the RBC logo on them and then they are ready for sale (new bells will have white paint)You can inst go to CC to buy/sell bells.

BUYBACK: We can buy the following number of USED bells: 8-15lb, 7-20lb, 5-25lb, 8-35lb, and 5 of any heavier weights than that. Not to exceed 10 bells of any one weight at a time. RBC Kettlebell must be in good condition. No marks, tape, etc. - ready to be re sold immediately. When a client sells their RBC kettlebell back, we will give them credit (see amounts on attachment), or discount the sale of a new bell by that amount. Credit can be used toward purchase of a new/used bell, or RBC merchandise. NOT classes, merch, or anything from CC.

USED STOCK:We will store the stock of used bells in the back room as well, separate from the new bells. Old bells have red paint. Questions? Please don't hesitate to ask or call/email with questions as they come up.

Let's move some bells!!

Did you know...

LOTS going on with Relentless Bootcamp...Did you know about the following:

Go HERE for more info on the Teacher/Student discounts...

AND

We are working with CC and CC ATX to promote our boot camp programs as a complement to indoor programs to accellerate fat loss, endurance, stamina, and cardiovascular conditioning. We will begin promoting the ability for indoor clients to add on boot camps, with blog posts on CC and CC ATX sites next week. There are special rates for CC/Boot Camp clients who take classes 4 and 5 times per week. Pricing looks like this:

4 Classes per Week = $225 per Month - Save $45!
$135 for CrossFit + $90 for Boot Camp

5 Classes per Week = $275 per Month - Save $55!
3x week CrossFit adding 2x week Boot Camp
$195 for CrossFit + $80 for Boot Camp
-Or -
2x week CrossFit adding 3x week Boot Camp
$135 for CrossFit + $140 for Boot Camp

This also works in the reverse if a boot camp client wants to join indoor. Let me know how we can help you reach your goals!

Who Is Relentless?

Relentless...never ceasing...Unyielding in severity or strictness...unrelenting: relentless persecution...steady and persistent...unremitting. This is the kind of attitude these people bring to the playing field each time they attend Relentless Bootcamp. They work hard EVERY time...they are eager to learn and true go getters. They ARE Relentless...

Dave in the T/Th Jack and Adams

Tara from the T/Th Brentwood Class