HIIT 4 Less
1375 Hopkins Street L1N 2C2 Whitby, ON, Canada

"Health & Happiness" is what we all wish for, but it's tough getting started let alone being consistent and not falling off. Here are some tips to get in the groove and stay in the groove: Step 1 - Sleep Before Exercise Get into a good sleep routine. Adequate sleep is more important than a workout! If early morning workouts are for you (trust me they will give you energy for your day) then force yourself out of bed at 5:00 AM Monday - Friday for a week or 2 before getting ...up at that time to workout. Enjoy the peacefulness of the morning with a book or newspaper to adjust your body clock. For more tips on sleep hygiene http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu//getti/overcoming/tips Step 2 - Food Don't try to take big leaps, long lasting change happens in small steps with a solid foundation. I love the Eat Right Now app to identify emotional triggers and overindulging patterns without depriving yourself https://goeatrightnow.com/ Thank you Odeen Probert for the recommendation! For simple, healthy recipes visit https://hiit4less.com/simple-home-cooked-meals-4-busy-pare/ Step 3 - Be Nice to yourself! Do it to be healthy, to live a better and longer life. Stay off the scale, you'll feel better mentally, emotionally, and physically AND your clothes will fit better by following the above steps. Losing weight and toning up is an inevitable result of achieving your Health and Happiness goal. Lastly, life gets in the way sometimes - cut yourself some slack. If you fall off, start at step 1 again!

Pants are getting tight so I rearranged my home office!

Free online course from Yale on happiness & well-being. Thank you Amanda Elizabeth! https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

And some yoga from a seriously amazing instructor!

Between all the balls we have to juggle with this madness, I thought I'd take a "vacation" week from working out to focus on my kids and the changing demands of my job as a Clinical Therapist. I've been meaning to send at-home workouts to the members and then I saw a few posts from this incredible lady Lesley Hawke killing it with home HIIT workouts. I thought I'd share them with the group until I got my head above water. I loved her workouts so much, I thought THESE are w...hat I should always be sharing. She inspired me so much and I realized how gross and lazy I felt, I forced myself to go for a jog. I'm not really into jogging but I thought I'd get some air and told myself I could at least go for a few minutes, listen to a song or two, maybe a fast paced walk. If I set my goal to an hour long jog I never would have gone. I also had purpose - to pick up the neighbour's dog that's home alone and take him for a run. Once I got started, I told myself, one more song, which turned into a 45 minutes jog in the rain (Steff Moh-Lue I got Milo at the tail end when it stopped raining). It's no different than our HIIT classes. As a wise woman Renée Hyde once said, your mind doesn't know the difference between fantasy and reality. I didn't think I'd be motivated without my ladies, but then I pictured Carolyn Ouellette just behind me (because she was pacing herself to beat me in the end lol), Katherine Ng huffing and puffing like the warrioress that she is, Brooke Ashleigh Sophie smiling while she's pushing herself to the absolute max yet not one complaint uttered, and Jayde Suleman and Lacie Galloway silently competing with one another. The mind/body connection is powerful! My overall goal is to stay healthy, my immediate goal was to run the dog. I chunked what turned out to be a 45 minute jog down into 3 - 4 minute intervals and after each song I wanted more. We may be physically apart, but we can still motivate each other in different ways! If you ever needed a reason to have healthy lungs, heart, body, and mind this pandemic is it! Check this page out regularly for new at-home workouts from Lesley Hawke. Find your purpose, motivation, and your goals. Chunk them down into manageable baby steps. If you don't think you can make it 5 minutes through a workout, what can you do? 1 minute? 2 minutes? So build on that. At the end of the day all we have is our health - physical, emotional, mental, social. They're all connected and it's all in the mindset!