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SpiroFIT: Workout Wherever and Whenever You Want

Welcome to your new fitness friend, SpiroFIT. This fitness phenomena lets you get in shape, on your own time. See how you can download your favorite workouts and start sweating in your own space.

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Fitspiration

It’s hard starting something new.  New job, new school, new city, new friend circle…

But I think making and keeping good habits is even harder.  Unlike your job where you have no choice but to follow a schedule and finish your work, developing positive habits requires you to consciously  make good decisions so you don’t revert back to your old ways.

That’s where I stand. About four weeks ago, I finally decided that I was ready to feel fit and healthy again. I’m not just talking about keeping the lbs off through the holidays – we all know that would be short-lived.  Instead, I’m taking a lifelong journey that will include some wrong turns, some results, but most importantly a different approach to taking care of myself.  The only way I know how to do this is by incorporating health and fitness into all aspects of my life. In the past, I used to go long periods of time where I didn’t eat anything. When I did eat, I would workout to burn twice the amount of calories I consumed. It was a very scary and unhealthy cycle I never want to go back to . I need to use food for energy so I’m able to maintain my high stamina while I workout every time I workout.

Easier said than done.

And I say that with all sincerity because it’s way easier for me to encourage others than it is to encourage myself. I know I’m not alone when I admit this hypocrisy either. Starting a new lifestyle on your own isn’t easy and there’s no reason to pretend that it’s going to be a smooth ride.

So here I am, not afraid to admit that I went searching for someone to change their life with me and I found the perfect person. This woman is amazing and I have always had the utmost respect for her. Like me, she decided to change up her ways and live a much healthier lifestyle. This person, my sister, has gone through a lot and like everyone in the world, deserves to feel good in her own skin.

Growing up, I always remembered my sister being on the more petite side. During her young adult years, her weight would fluctuate but she always managed to average 130 lbs. Ten years ago however, she developed a very strange illness. Over the next two years she was practically mute and became rather frail. I was 14 when doctors finally knew what she was suffering from. They diagnosed her with Myasthenia Gravis, a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that is characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal muscles of the body. At the time of her diagnosis, she had only been the 4th person in the US to ever be recorded with the type that she has. Aside from getting painful treatments at the hospital every month, she is required to take very powerful steroids to keep her muscles from “shrinking.” With steroids come weight gain. A lot, of weight gain.

Fast forward to today and you have a person who is determined to get her weight back down to what it used to be, and keep that lifestyle for as long as she lives. And she wants that to be a long time. I mean, who doesn’t?

She always eats organic and stocks her fridge with plenty of fruits and veggies.  In the 5 weeks I’ve been living with her, I’ve made sure she has kept to a clean eating regime. But I knew the biggest challenge was getting her to use the food as fuel to help her become active. Her muscles are weak so it’s important that she strengthens them through weight training and exercise. Otherwise, she will be reliant on a wheelchair much earlier in life than expected.

Which is where SpiroFIT comes in.

I need a gym partner to keep me motivated, and she needs one to do the same. She’s wasted hundreds of dollars in the past on a gym membership that she was too lazy to use. But she has all this equipment in her apartment, a nice TV, a computer, an iPad…you know where this is going. I told her to workout to SpiroFIT with me. There are so many different options and fitness levels that it’s much easier for her to keep up. Once she realized the gym was now actually in the palm of her hands, she realized all of her excuses are used up.

I’m really excited. It’s been a week since I approached her with the idea and we’ve already done two workouts. Yes two –not three, or five, or seven. This is the beginning of a new lifestyle and I want to move at a pace she’s comfortable with. I’m glad I can keep her motivated throughout the workouts when she feels like quitting, and she’s the one who sets the schedule and swears on me sticking to it. We started with pilates then the next time with yoga. She wasn’t happy with her performance for both sets, so she wants to repeat them again until she’s satisfied with her progress. I’m not complaining, her determination is inspiring.

I’m happy to have found someone to take on the journey with me. I hate traveling alone. 

-Talia Marcelin

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Random Act of Fitness

The other day I was stopped at a red light, in a hurry to get somewhere when two women stepped into the crosswalk in front of me. One woman looked about ten years older than me and her hand supported the elbow of an elderly woman, probably her mother. The mother was stooped over with both hands on her walker, her head down, and she shuffled her feet as she inched ever so slowly across the street. It was sad to watch and for the first time it occurred to me, in ten years I may be walking with my mom like this.

For years I have been asking, prodding and pleading with my mother to start an exercise program. And for years she has resisted. Her excuse has been that she gets enough exercise walking up her stairs with groceries. “I think I don’t like to be reminded that I have a body,” she once said to me. She joined a gym but quit when she realized all the movements she was doing she could do at home, in her garden. 

My mom is 80, a world traveler, avid reader, always up for adventure, a great cook (she flew across the country to Martha Stewart’s house in Connecticut for cooking classes long before Martha was famous) and curious about most things. She is also very set in her ways and exercise has never been a part of her life. Although she encouraged me in all of my athletic endeavors (softball, volleyball, basketball, track, cross country) she has never been an athlete or played sports. I once convinced her to throw a Frisbee with me for a half hour but even that was a disaster.

Yesterday I decided to gift her with a “random act of fitness” and this time she had no more excuses. I told her I would work out with her to SpiroFIT on her computer, at her home, and for just 30 minutes. And she said yes. Could it be that easy? 

Remembering she liked the idea of Tai Chi, I cue up David Weck’s first class on her computer in her office and prop it up high for both of us to watch. My mom is wearing her new Ralph Lauren pajamas, (exercise clothing can come later) which look much like the crisp, loose fitting clothing the elderly wear in China, where my Mom first became interested in the idea of learning Tai Chi. She liked the romance of all of those people in one place moving in unison, slowly, like they were under water (it didn’t look like exercise at all), and they hung their birds in cages on the trees.

 Reality sets in five minutes into the workout. David asks us to “sweep the floor” but my mom can’t bend over and reach the floor. “I can‘t do that,” she says. She wants to give up already. “Don’t take it so literally,” I say, “just sweep your knees.” She does that and relaxes a bit. “This is the beginning, you need to start somewhere,” I remind her. “I wish he wouldn’t talk so much,” she says halfway through the workout. “I’m too easily distracted and I’m listening to what he’s saying instead of following what he’s doing.”  My mom is a visual learner. “You can turn down the sound,” I tell her, and I lower the volume. That makes her happy and she continues on, bending and moving her arms and raising her leg. I bend and move along with her, purposely keeping my movements slow and less flexible so she will feel encouraged that we are in this together, starting at the same level. When David says that with practice we will become like martial artists, able to defend ourselves against an attacker, my mom and I have a good laugh.

When the class is over my mother surprises me by saying she liked it and wants to take more. I liked it too. This is something we can do together that’s good for both of us. “I think this could be a good thing,“ she says. Maybe she is just trying to make me happy, but I am encouraged.

Before I leave I show her more classes in the Active Aging category. “Senior Shape Up” interests her. I tell her to keep it up and next week I will come again to have another work out with her. And then, I can’t find my keys. I look for them everywhere. I turn the house upside down. They’ve completely disappeared. “This started happening to me when I got to be your age,” my mom says. “You start to forget where you put things.” I look in unlikely places, in the laundry room, under the bed, in the refrigerator. And then I look in my mom’s purse. “I’m sorry,” my mom says. “I thought they were mine.” So here’s hoping my mom keeps exercising, because not only might she be able to scoot across the crosswalk at a reasonable speed when she’s 90, she might also start to remember where she put things.

-Sara Jaqua 

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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

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Getting Started

Welcome to the official SpiroFit Tumblr! For those of you already signed up with SpiroFit.com, use our blog to extend your fitness journey even further. If you aren’t signed up yet, hopefully when you stumble upon this blog you will get inspired to join the latest trend of online fitness!

SpiroFit has already created quite the buzz. We’ve been featured in SHAPE magazine and Fit magazine, as well as on fitness sites like Active and SheKnows.

So why choose SpiroFit –or better yet, what is SpiroFit?

SpiroFit is a live and on-demand fitness network designed to help you live the healthiest physical and mental lifestyle you’ve always wanted.

Imagine working out with a trainer in your hotel room or watching a cycling class on your phone at the gym?

We’re here to give you something different.  We want to give those seeking better health (and those who are already workout fiends!) a tool that’s unlike anything out there. We want to help you approach fitness from another angle; one that ensures a healthy lifestyle with long-term success. We know changing your lifestyle isn’t something that happens over night, so we will take you step-by-step from the beginning of your transformation to beyond your goal. This isn’t a workout DVD you play over and over again. Its personal and its effective. New classes are posted all the time, and are added to an ever-growing archive. You will never be bored. 

Our production company, headed by an Emmy-nominated producer, utilizes state of the art HD production equipment. The video player we use allows us to broadcast live videos to you in HD without the pain of buffering. That’s right, none of our videos require any loading so your workouts will never be interrupted –just hit play and watch!

Going along with the theme of quality, SpiroFit classes are led by 9 world renowned trainers. From the inventor of the BOSU® ball, David Weck, to Buns and Abs of Steel star, Tamilee Webb, our classes are led by instructors that have helped millions of people achieve their fitness goals.

This blog will keep you up-to-date with what SpiroFit has in store. Our team is always coming up with innovative ways to continue making SpiroFit your best option. We’re going to provide you with food tips; recipes that are going to help you sustain your new healthy lifestyle. Keep you in check with new contests. Let you know when and where our next convention appearance will be. And allow you to get better connected with other SpiroFit users.

And we want to hear from our users as well! If you have any suggestions or just want to let us know how you’re doing, tell us! We’re catering to you and want to make you as satisfied as possible.

This is the future of online fitness. 

Now there’s no excuse NOT to get active! Join us today!

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Tamilee Webb

Tamilee Webb has helped millions lose weight and develop her famous “Buns of Steel”.

What Should SpiroFIT Viewers Expect From Your Classes?

Please expect a 20 or 30-minute workout that will target key body parts: abs, buns, arms and more. I'll be offering fun, safe exercises for all fitness levels -- including warm ups, stretches and verbal education. You need very little space to take my classes, unless I'm doing some dance with you. You'll need 6X6 feet for traveling movement or 3x3 feet for resistance workouts. If you don't have dumbbells, steps, bands or other equipment I’ll be suggesting alternatives. I’ll also encourage you to do the exercise even if you don’t have the equipment to get used to the movement.

What is Your Personal Story?

I grew up on a farm in Northern California with a father that played semi-pro baseball as a young man, a mother that dropped out of high school to have me at age 16 and two younger brothers. My father died at age 37 of a heart disease when I was 14. My father's biggest dream was for us kids to go to college. I’m the only one that did. I love helping others and found that through exercise I could do that. My other passions are animals and music. I thought I would grow up to be the next Tammy Wynette; yes I love country music! I feel very fortunate to be able to have made such an impact on the fitness and health of so many people.

What Is Your Philosophy as a Trainer?

I believe health and fitness begin from the inside out. It’s really about having a strong heart, muscles, lungs, healthy liver, spleen, GI track and more. If we could unzip our body and take a look at the inside, it really would tell us more about how healthy we are. Skinny doesn’t always equal Fit! I have a quote I love repeating “If you don’t take care of your health now, you’ll pay for it later”.

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David Weck

David Weck is the inventor of BOSU® - a favorite of Olympians, MMA fighters and featured by Oprah.

What Do You Bring to SpiroFit Viewers?

All my life I have loved to exercise and explore better ways to get more from my training. I've been called a "mad genius" (fortunately it was said as a compliment) and also a "visionary" in the fitness world. I'm certainly not afraid to think outside of the box which has led to some profound discoveries like creating the BOSU® Balance Trainer and other innovative products. I look forward to sharing my fitness energy and philosophy with you.

Who Are Some Of Your Fitness Influences?

I'm a voracious reader and used to be a full fledged anatomy & physiology geek. I draw tremendous influence from the works of Moshe Feldenkrais, Ida Rolf, and F.M. Alexander, all of whom were pioneers in somatic (body) education. I've continued to expand my knowledge in diverse areas including Traditional Chinese Medicine and Tai Chi Chuan. I've been fortunate to have studied or worked with many incredible teachers, coaches, and mentors all of my life and still to this day.

Can You Sum Up the BOSU Philosophy?

BOSU® - “Both Sides Utilized” - is how the human body is designed to move and function most efficiently. It is the common thread in crawling, walking, and running. One of the reasons it is so refreshing and meditative to simply go for a walk – something many people do far too little of these days - is the rhythmic harmony it promotes in your entire body.