"Fit-Ful" Fridays blog for 7/24/09

I saw this quote the other day and it really touched me:

"The only people you need to get even with are those who have helped you".

To everyone who has ever helped me,

Thank you.

I owe you :)

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful" Fridays blog for 7/17/09

Food For Thought

Sometimes people tell you, "you can't do that" because THEY "can't do that". Don't believe everything you're told.

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful" Fridays blog for 7/10/09

Deck of Cards Game:

Ok---Here is a fun game to try. This was an idea of Jillian Michaels, from the Biggest Loser:

You have a deck of playing cards. Keep all cards in, but shuffle.

On a separate piece of paper, assign an exercise to each of the following:

• King
• Queen
• Jack
• Joker
• Spade
• Club
• Heart
• Diamond

Each time you pull a card, read the amount and the type, ie: 7 Hearts.

If you decided that Heart would be push ups, you do 7 push ups.

Make the King, Queen, Jack and Joker cards something challenging to you!

Those can each be exercises done for 30 secs or 60 secs. Up to you!

*When I play this game with my students, Ace is a 60 sec. rest.

You're welcome!

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful Fridays" blog for 7/3/09

What is:

The Mix Technique?

Coming this Summer...Exclusively offered at
MIX...

The Mix Technique™A 60-minute workout class blending elements of Ballet barre, floor barre, Pilates and Yoga. Created by professional dancer, certified personal trainer, certified Yoga instructor and author, Lesa G. Williams, The Mix Technique (trademark pending) is a class that combines the essential techniques of dance and fitness. This class is exclusively offered at LMG Dance and Fitness' studio, MIX. The goal is to achieve the lean, toned muscles comparable to dancers while also receiving cardiovascular exercise and achieving flexibility. Clients will notice improvements in core strength, flexibility and will gain the toned, lean muscles of dancers and Yogis/Yoginis.

"Fit-Ful" is a term created by Lesa which means, the union of fitness and beauty from within (FITness and beautiFUL). Working on fitness to incorporate improved health and self-esteem along with working on internal beauty by developing connections to self image, spirituality of life and society's connection. Beauty from within is much more important than external beauty. How we treat ourselves and others speaks deeper than what clothes we wear.

This is truly beautiful.

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful Fridays" blog for 6/26/09

It's how you feel

Ladies and gentleman,

When working out and eating healthy (remember, always BOTH) it's how you FEEL...not solely what the scale says. The scale is only going to tell you how much you weigh. It's not going to tell you what is muscle and what is fat. You can tell if your clothes fit differently, if you feel better in your own skin and notice the benefits to working out regularly and eating healthy.

Get a body fat percentage taken if you want to know your breakdown.

13-20% is considered Athletic (for men it is lower, 7-13)

21-29% is considered Average

Be aware of how much your muscle vs. fat ratio breaks down.

40-50% + is considered obese.

Clients can get body fat percentage reads at LMG Dance and Fitness.

Like G.I. Joe says, "Knowing is half the battle!"

"Fit-Ful" is a term created by Lesa which means, the union of fitness and beauty from within (FITness and beautiFUL). Working on fitness to incorporate improved health and self-esteem along with working on internal beauty by developing connections to self image, spirituality of life and society's connection. Beauty from within is much more important than external beauty. How we treat ourselves and others speaks deeper than what clothes we wear.

This is truly beautiful.

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful" Fridays blog for 6/19/09

Try this on for size:

1 minute each exercise

*Jumping Jacks
*Mountain Climbers
*Push ups
*Crunches
*Plank hold
*Tricep dips
*Full sit ups
*Lunges
*Jogs in place

1 minute rest---catch your breath, sips of water (do not sit down)

Repeat. Challenge yourself. Try to do 2 sets. Then add another. And so on, and so on...

WORK!

Peace and health!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/

"Fit-Ful Fridays!" blog for 6/12/09

Customer Service...Where Did It Go?

Recently, I have run into several situations where, as a customer, I am baffled and perplexed by the behavior of people working in today's society.

I started working in high school, so I remember learning about customer service and how important it is. I do not believe this same message is being portrayed to our current generation. However, wake up call: Most of this extreme behavior is being done by people my age (the 30 group) and older.

In the last year: I have been ignored at registers, passed from one worker to another, made to feel like my business was not important, that I was a disturbance to someones cell phone conversation/colleague conversation, not greeted (even after I did the greeting or asked them how they were doing), chastised for asking a question...the list goes on and on.

I even had an employee tell me that she preferred real candles and wouldn't help me when I asked a question about their stores fake candles...Not sure how the creator of that store chain would have felt if he/she heard that conversation.

So-what am I going to do to change it?

I am going to do what I do best, and that is to teach.

People treat you the way you teach them to treat you.

I am passing on a quote by Mahatma Ghandi on "The Customer":

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption on our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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It is my hope that there are many of you out there who can spread this amongst your friends. Customer Service should not be a dying art. It blows my mind how people can't even say "hello" to a guest before they ring them up or assist them. Those of you who know me know that I have had every job under the sun. I liked experiencing different tasks and atmospheres.

I think everyone should have a job in customer service, at least once, to understand the magnitude of it all. I also think everyone should have a job where tips are either all, or, a portion of their income to appreciate the magnitude of tipping. I also believe that if your customer service is extremely poor, not receiving a tip should not come as a surprise.



MIX, my new studio location, will have Mahatma Ghandi's quote posted...I still believe in customer service.

Educate!
Lesa

http://www.lmgdanceandfitness.com/