Water is the best beverage there is. It has no calories, it drenches thirst and it is guilt-free. It plays an important in all of your body functions: it helps your blood circulation, plumps up your skin, improves digestion, and it keeps your organs in optimal condition to perform other tasks.

Unfortunately, most people don’t drink water as often as they need to. We usually wait until we feel thirsty, which already indicates dehydration. Just so you have an idea, our body is more than 50 % water and we get rid of it through sweating, urinating and your metabolism. Even though it feels like you aren’t sweating as much as you do during the summer, your body still loses a lot of water during the winter. If you don’t replace that water you’re losing, your bones and muscles cannot perform well and you may start feeling more tired and less focused.

Also, a dehydrated body will try to keep water in, no matter what, and you will start retaining water, which can lead to water weight gain.

The amount of water recommended to drink is 3 liters a day, and even more if your work out a lot. We are not talking about drinking it all at once, which may actually be dangerous. The goal is to drink water throughout the day, even when you don’t feel thirsty. Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that we are hungry when we really are thirsty, so it’s time to learn how to read our body and be more aware of the importance of drinking water.

At boot camp, we always recommend that you bring sufficient water to sip between breaks to replace your fluids. Modu says “Drink 16oz of water before workout and 20 to 40 ounces for every hour of workout. Water is an essential source of minerals such as magnesium and calcium that prevent our muscles from cramping up.” Also, we strongly recommend carrying a bottle of water with you at all times.

Try not to replace water with soda or other sugary beverage. This may take some discipline, but it’s for your body’s sake. If you don’t like to drink water because it’s tasteless, try adding a little bit of lemon or orange slices. It will freshen it up and the taste is very nice, without adding any artificial chemicals.

“Water is the only drink for a wise man” Henry David Thoreau.

One of Modu’s favorite daily rituals is drinking green tea. And it’s not only one cup: he drinks it all day long. He loves the taste of it, but more importantly he likes it because he knows it’s very healthy.

Modu says ” I love Green Tea so much! When the time to drink it comes, I feel like I’m having the best thing in life! Totally addicted!”.

Green tea has always been known to be good for you, but why is it so popular? Since ancient times, people from the East have known of the healing powers of green tea. It improves heart health, reduces cancer risk, and the brew has disease-fighting antioxidants. The content of flavonoids in green tea is higher than any fruit or vegetable! And flavonoids have anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. It also helps you burn more calories because it boosts your metabolism.

The list goes on and on and with all of that being said, the benefits of drinking green tea are too great and too many to pass on!

Green tea is better for you than many other beverages, especially if you like to have something hot in the morning when you wake up in this cold.

And how does Modu like to drink his green tea? “In the morning, I drink it with raw honey to get my energy going for bootcamp”. He usually
drinks about 2 to 4 cups a day. “My favorite is Jazmin. And the company that makes the best Green tea is Teavana. I have some greats clients and friends all over the world who hook me up with different types of green tea. I could say I have a collection” says Modu.

There are many kinds depending on the place and the way it’s been grown, but always prefer the one that comes in its natural form and not too crushed. In Cabo, you can find it at Manoma, where they have the best quality tea. For more information, go to www.manoma.com.

This is one of the best small little things you can do to improve your health on a daily basis. We will be sharing more of these with you in the future and we would love to get more healthy tips from all of you!

A lot of people don’t understand the importance of stretching. We believe that a regular stretching routine before and after working out can actually make other activities and movements easier to perform.

Stretching can help you:

1. Reduce muscle tension.
2. Improve flexibility.
3. Decrease your risk of injury.
4. Improve athletic performance.
5. Increase blood flow to your body parts.
6. Lengthen your muscles.
7. Increase range of motion in your joints.
8. Enhance muscular coordination.
9. Increase energy levels due to an increased circulation.
10. Decrease muscle soreness.

Make sure you include some stretching after your warm-up and at the end of your workout. It will make a big difference and it will make you feel good!

All of us have heard of the multiple benefits of exercise. It can help you lose excess weight, reduce the risk of getting sick, strengthen your body, look great and improve your overall health, among many others great things. But also, working out is a fantastic way to help you clear your head and dedicate time to yourself.

In these hectic times when most of us have an active lifestyle and a busy schedule, we tend to neglect our bodies’ needs. Sometimes we don’t stop until we are sick and have to stay in bed. We prioritize other things over exercising because we are scared that our energy level will go down, when actually it allows you to have a more focused mindset and to perform other tasks more effectively. It also boosts your mood, making you feel happy not only because of the production of endorphines, but because once you’re done with your routine you get a sense of accomplishment that comes from reaching your personal goals, making you feel like you can conquer anything.

It is time to change our attitude towards fitness. Start by trying different activities. Anything is valid! Whether it is joining a gym, spinning, doing yoga, walking or swimming, it will be fun to find out what you like and dislike. Once you have discovered what works best for you, try to stick to it and think of it as caring for your body and your health. You can also vary the activities to make things interesting and to target different parts of your body. The important thing is to keep moving. Once you start feeling better physically and mentally, you will not want to stop! Treat your body well: it will respond to your care right away with a bunch of positive reactions.

Remember that happiness is a feeling we can cultivate by making the right choices. And believe us, this is definitely one of them!

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In this Cabo weather, we are pretty sure you want to wear less to stay cool. We all love those tank tops and sleeveless dresses! Are you just not sure you are ready to show them off yet? Well, let’s moduvated them and you will definitely want to show them off!
First, a quick anatomy walkthrough: Your biceps are the prominent muscles in the front of your upper arms, these help you bend your arms, and they assist the muscles of your upper back in pulling and carrying. Your triceps are the horseshoe-shaped muscles located in the back of your upper arms. The triceps muscle’s primary function is to extend the elbow and straighten your arm, but the triceps also assist the chest and shoulder muscles in throwing and pushing
Here are some awesome do-it-at-home exercises! You don’t have dumbbells? Grab some soup cans!
Dumbbell Biceps Curls
1. Start in a standing position with your feet shoulder width apart and your knees relaxed.
2. Grab both dumbbells, one in each hand, with your hands also shoulder width apart.
3. Your palms should be facing your sides, rotating as your wrists lift, so your palms end up facing your shoulders.
4. Bend at your elbows to curl the dumbbells to shoulder level.
5. Pause momentarily at this top position. Focus on squeezing your biceps.
6. Slowly lower the bar back to the starting position; repeat!
Important!
• Ensure your elbows remain stationary and to the sides of your body during the entire exercise.
• The dumbbells should be moved with a smooth action with no jerky movements.
• Remember to Breathe! Inhale while you’re going up; exhale while you’re going down.
Triceps Kickbacks
1. Grab a dumbbell in one hand and put the other hand and one knee on a flat bench
2. Point your elbow as high as you can towards the ceiling while leaving the dumbbell hanging by your side
3. Slowly extend your arm until it is as straight as it will go (DO NOT change the position of your elbow!)
4. Pause for a second, and then lower back to starting position
5. Repeat and Breathe!
IMPORTANT:
Your upper arm and elbow should not move at all during the entire set. Keep your elbow as high as possible throughout the whole movement. DO NOT move your elbow as you move the dumbbell! Also, make sure you extend your arm fully – no cheating! To hit your tricep muscles that little bit harder, pause for 2 seconds at the top of the tricep kickback.

Keep it up Guys! No Excuses! Stay Moduvated!

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Health tips to help you stay focused, help you reach for the right foods, and to help you in your transition to the best and healthiest you!

Food, including what you drink, counts for 70% of your progress and transformation.  Your body is like Ferrari, if you don’t give it the right type of fuel for strength, energy, vitality and to build a strong body, it will not perform the way you want to, no matter how many times you train it!

Our approach is a “nutrition-based body composition program” which focuses on the quality of what you eat and drink (high nutrients versus diet food) for optimal health, while bringing your body’s fat-to-lean ratio (fat mass versus muscle mass) to a healthy range.

Whether you are overweight or of normal weight, you should be aware of the impact body composition has on your health!  Even if your weight is within a normal range, you can still have unhealthy or altered body composition, which refers to carrying too much fat in comparison to lean tissue (muscle).  The scale on it’s own doesn’t tell much!

Two foods you should never, ever eat after exercising!

I have recently sent this very valuable information, but it is so vitally important for anyone looking to improve their body composition, and loose excess fat.

“If you miss reaching HGH(human growth hormone) release during working out, you will still receive the calorie burning benefit from the workout. However, you’ll miss the HGH “synergy bonus” of enhanced fat burning for two hours after working out…if you eat sugar!

Please read on:

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So it is very important to eat carbohydrates before your workout, for increased energy and performance, and protein after to feed your lean muscle mass.

Here are some examples:

Some of you have asked me what I eat or drink to have so much energy at boot camps, my secret I drink “a green juice” 1 hour before boot camp.  The best highly nutritional pre-workout drink I know.   The only think you need is a juicer (the extractor kind), and the following ingredients:

1 cucumber (peeled if not fresh since they bring them in waxed)

4 branches of celery

1 green apple

4 big handful of spinach (Kale and Swiss Chard in season)

1 big handful of parsley

1 small carrot

1 small sweet red pepper

I juice everything, and I like to add 4 cubes (2ounces) of Jose Lima’s flash frozen wheat grass (clients@wheatgrassloscabos.com to order), the world’s most perfect food.  Makes for a powerful green elixir; my serum for longevity! Enjoy and see the difference in both your performance and the health of your body!

Modu also likes to eat oatmeal one hour before working out, another great option.  A research done on women runner who ate oatmeal prior to their run, have been seen to burn more fat mass then the women who didn’t. It can be taken in a Tupperware to work, and eat before an evening boot camp.   Oatmeal is also beneficial for the heart, and great for gastro-intestinal healthy!

And for energy drink, I would definitely suggest skipping the “Gatorade”, not only because it gets in the way of the fat burning effect, post workout, but most important because of it’s unhealthy content.  Gatorade was originally developed for high performing athletes who burn so much energy and calories, that the amount of sugar and artificial content for the most part doesn’t affect them too much.

However, with the overweight-obesity and diabetes epidemics growing at alarming rates, most of us need to not only look at the quality, but also the amount of sugar we consume.

Following is the list of ingredients in Gatorade, compare to the naturally healthy “fresh coconut water”; one of the World’s best sports drink!  We are so lucky here in Cabo to live in a country where fresh coconuts grow in abundance.  Just stop at one of the trucks we can see at different places around town.

I apologize for the length of what is following, but I strongly encourage you to read it all.

Filtered Water

Brominated Vegetable Oil

Brominated Vegetable Oil

BMV or brominated vegetable oil is added to certain beverages that contain citrus oils. BMV helps prevent the oils from rising to the surface. It also ensures the stability of the flavor mixture. It is derived from soybean.

Sucralose

Some sugar free varieties of Gatorade contain sucralose, a non-calorie artificial sweetener. Sucralose is added simply to enhance flavor and provide sweetness. Sucralose is sold as Splenda.*Health concerns with Splenda and artificial sugars are http://www.naturalnews.com/024543_health_Splenda_weight_gain.html

High Fructose Corn Syrup

The high fructose corn syrup in Gatorade is a combination of two to three carbohydrates. The high fructose corn syrup contributes glucose, sucrose and fructose to the sports drink *http://nutrition.suite101.com/article.cfm/highfructose_corn_syrup

Citric Acid

Citric acid is added for flavor and to act as a preservative.

Natural flavors

Natural and artificial flavors are added to enhance the flavor that cannot be supplied if fruit juice or certain spices were to be used.

Salt

Salt, also known as potassium chloride, is used to enhance taste. It is present in Gatorade to help regulate fluid balance in the body.

Sodium Citrate

Sodium citrate is added to Gatorade to enhance flavor and maintain the stability of active ingredients.

Monopotassium Phosphate

Monopotassium phosphate is added as a source of phosphate and has been approved by the FDA as a heart healthy food.

Glycerol Ester of Wood Rosin

Glycerol ester of wood rosin is used in products that contain citric oils. It prevents the oils from floating to the surface of beverages. It is harvested from the stumps of pine and purified to beverage grade gum.

Artificial Colors

Artificial colors are listed in the ingredients as various dyes or a color with a number.

Here is some information about Coconut Water:

“It’s a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It’s the fluid of life, so to speak.” In fact, during the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used coconut water – siphoned directly from the nut – to give emergency plasma trasfusions to wounded soldiers.

Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas – once exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of its organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, and begins to ferment.

• Coconut Water is More Nutritious than whole milk – Less fat and NO cholesterol!
• Coconut Water is More Healthy than Orange Juice – Much lower calories
• Coconut Water is Better than processed baby milk- It contains lauric acid, which is present in human mother’s milk
• Coconut water is naturally sterile — Water permeates though the filtering husk!
• Coconut water is a universal donor– Its identical to human blook plasma
• Coconut Water is a Natural Isotonic Beverage – The same level we have in our blood.
• Coconut water has saved lives in 3rd world countries thru Coconut IV.

“Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue… and is the next wave of energy drinks BUT natural!”, according to Mortin Satin, Chielf of the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization.

Coconut water contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg) and most energy drinks.

Coconut water has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and energy drinks have about 200 mg!

Coconut water has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.

Coconut water is very high in Chloride at 118mg, compared to sports drinks at about 39mg.

Data is based on a 100ml drink.

Please feel free to e-mail your questions or comments.

Yours in vibrant health,

Isabelle

Isabelle Gagnon

Professional Health Coach and Lifestyle Educator

Blogsite:  I-healthblog.over-blog.com

“Small daily progress…over time…produces outstanding results!  Robin Sharma

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Routine# 1: Perform each exercise for 1 minute. Do as many reps as possible during that time except for plank which you will hold for 1 minute. Take a 15 second rest after each exercise. Repeat 3 times, rest for 1 minute and move on to the next set.

Set #1: Jumping jack                                Set#2: Jumping jack           Set#3: Jumping jack

Set #1: Burpees                                          Set#2: Burpees                    Set#3: Burpees

Set #1: Plank                                               Set#2: Plank                          Set#3: Plank

Routine #2: Perform each exercise for 1 minute. Do as many reps as possible during that time. Take a 20 second rest after each exercise. Repeat 3 times, rest for 1 minute and move on to the next set.

Set #1: Squat                                    Set#2: Squat                                      Set#3: Squat

Set #1: Pushup                                Set#2: Pushup                                  Set#3: Pushup

Set #3: Floor Sweeper                  Set#2: Floor Sweeper                   Set#3: Floor Sweeper

Routine #3: Perform each exercise for 1 minute. Do as many reps as possible during that time. Take a 15 second rest after each exercise. Repeat 3 times, rest for 1 minute and move on to the next set.

Set #1: Side lunges                       Set#2: Side lunges                  Set#3: Side lunges

Set#1: SLBTD                                 Set #2: SLBTD                            Set#3: SLBTD

Set#1: Mountain climber          Set#2: Mountain climber       Set#3: Mountain climber

Follow with 10 minutes of static stretching.

How to Perform Each Exercise

Jumping Jacks

Stand with your feet together and your hands at your sides.  Simultaneously raise your arms above your head and jump up just enough to spread your feet out wide. Without pausing, quickly reverse the movement and repeat.

Burpees

Begin in a squat position with hands on the floor in front of you. Kick your feet back to a pushup position and immediately return your feet to the squat position. Leap up as high as possible from the squat position and raise your arms into the air! Repeat moving as fast as possible.

Plank

Assume a pushup position but with your elbows bent and your weight resting on your forearms. Your body should for a straight line. Brace your abs as if you are about to be punched in the gut.

Squat

Stand upright with your feet shoulder width apart. Lower your body by bending your knees until your thighs parallel the floor. Excel by pushing up with your glutes to your initial starting you are pushing the floor away from you

Pushup

Assume a pushup position. Your hands should be slightly wider than, and in line with, your shoulders, your feet slightly wider than hip width apart, and you arms straight. Keeping your back flat, lower you body until your chest nearly touches the floor.  Pause and push yourself back up to the starting position.

Floor Sweeper

Lay face up. Lift your legs and up and out to the left, keeping them straight. Then return to center and repeat to the right. Return to center, and bend your knees, place your feet on the floor, and do a sit up keeping your arms straight above you.

Side Lunges

Stand upright with your feet shoulder width apart. Step to the side while stretching out with your groin muscle. Once the stepping foot is planted, the upper body and the straightened leg should not move forward during the lowering and raising of the body.  Do not bend your knee out beyond your toes Keeping the upper body vertical, dip your lower body straight down by bending the opposite knee and lower your straight leg as close as you can to the ground. Hold the tension in the bent leg then raise your body straight up and return to starting position. Repeat the side for 1mn before switching.

Single leg balance Touch(SLBT)

Bend at the waist while keeping your back flat and hips pushed back and extend your right leg behind you. Reach down, moving your right hand across your body and toward left foot. Then raise your upper body to the starting position without touching your right foot. That’s 1 rep. Complete all your reps on one leg and then switch sides and repeat.

Mountain climber

Assume a pushup position with your arm straight. You body should form a straight line from your head to your ankles. Brace your core. Lift your right foot off the floor and slowly raise your knee as close to your chest as you can. Touch the floor with your right foot. Return to the starting position. Repeat with your left leg. Alternate back and forth

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Welcome to my “Know more about ModuVated Boot Camp” blog! This will be written over several parts so stay tuned to make sure you don’t miss any of this educational and motivational series!!

For me there are many reasons behind writing this blog. Some of those reasons are that I wish to share with you the history behind “Moduvated Boot Camp”, explain what the various exercises I put you through are actually doing for you and why we perform them in a certain order.

It is my observation that people tend to join boot camp to shed weight and that there are not many who initially realize what this kick-ass, rigorous training, that you may sometimes have to drag your reluctant body to, is actually doing for you!

This training will give you the ability to move through life’s daily challenges, both mental and physical, with a new-found ease! And yes…you will lose unwanted body fat along the way!!

For the last 15 years I have been in the fitness industry from a soccer player, basketball player to a fitness trainer. I am constantly studying and testing all of the various fitness training areas and methods. To date, working out on the sand is the most superior workout of them all and I explain my reasoning behind this below.

After 2 serious knee injuries (ACL) from playing basketball and a hernia as the result of weight training, I had to completely change the way I applied fitness to my life. Had I known then what I know now, things would be different today.

This change began when I was living in Los Angeles where almost every guy that I knew in the gym was trying to get bigger and bigger while I concentrated on obtaining more definition. I knew that the best way to get there would be to increase my cardio and so I made a decision. From then on, every weekend I would do some intense cardio & strength workouts at UCLA by running stairs, using the monkey bars and training with the resistance bands (which some guys referred to as a “girl’s workout”).

Less than 6 months into it my body fat reached its lowest and therefore my body was more defined than ever.  A day would not pass without someone asking me my training method. “How was I doing it?”, “What was I doing?” and finally “Could we join in?” So much for a “girl’s workout”. Slowly but surely people joined me and then, along with word of mouth, I suddenly found myself training together with this large group of people with a common goal! What a great feeling to have this wonderful team all motivating each other for an entire hour and 45 minutes!!

This LA boot camp was amazing and a long workout but that is nothing compared with exercising in the sand in Cabo’s Boot Camps. You definitely should feel fortunate to be able to have access to such beautiful beaches where you get to work out in the soft sand. It offers not only incredible resistance but boosts your cardio workout and, unlike the stairs, it’s low impact on your joints. Also you work on your core even more as the uneven surface will force you to focus on balance

Now that you know a little background about the program, also know that I am doing this program not only because I believe in it and have seen the results for myself first-hand, but because I love it!

Now let’s move on to the structure of the program.

I approach body transformation like one would approach building a house. If you have a good, strong foundation you can design and build something sturdy and long lasting. That is why I always spend a significant amount of time focusing on the core though balance, stabilization exercises and focus on strengthening the heart through cardio when I train my clients. The heart and the core is the foundation of your “house”! In the fitness world that’s what they called functional training meaning workouts that challenge the body to work collectively as a whole, firing up the muscles in a sequential pattern. Rather than like the old days when it was more about how much weight you could lift or focusing on one single joint muscle, now it’s to first effectively control your own body weight through a range of traditional pushups, pullups, burpees, squats, planks, etc.

As I mentioned before, this program is structured to more than just shed pounds!

1)     We always jog for about 10 minutes to increase our body temperature. It’s probably equal to 15 minutes running on the hard surface.

2)     We then start with dynamic stretching (Jumping Jacks, Heismans, hHgh knees, etc.) because they perform all the functions of warming up your body that the static stretches don’t.  Dynamic stretching helps to reduce muscle stiffness, increase your heart rate and body temperature and puts your body through the same range of movement it is going to perform during your session. If you just do traditional static stretch for say 10 to 15 minutes you will still be cold and your muscles won’t get fired up the way they should have been because they were only held in a stretched condition. We saved static stretch when we are cooling down.

3)     Now we move along to the resistance exercises which work by using our own body weight. We always mix up this part up with squat thrust, pushups, burpees, lunges, plank, etc.  There are 2 things I always make sure we include which are plyometric and transversal exercises. Firstly the plyometric exercises such as jump squats, jumping over hurdles, etc. which are also called reactive exercises. They help develop muscular power and performing them on the sand is one of the best surfaces as they can be hard on your joints.

Secondly, transversal exercises such as side to side exercises like the ice Skater, jumping side way over the hurdles and side lunges. Statistic shows that 100,000 people in the US tear their ACL every year and 80% of these injuries are not sports related. Most people tend to move only forward and sometimes backwards but never side to side so the knees weaken and then you move the wrong way in day to day activity and – boom – you tweak your knee and tear the ligaments; my story 11years ago.

Another exercise I’m really big on is the plank. Very basic yet found to be one of the most effective ab exercises out there. It not only strengthens the abdominal muscles but works all the core muscles too. Unlike crunches, where you only focus on your rectus and oblique abs, doing something like plank or side plank helps to strengthen your transversus abdominis which is the deepest layer of abdominal muscles. It helps facilitate forceful expiration of air from the lungs, stabilizes the spine and helps compress the internal organs. A lot of people tend to have back problems because their transversus abdominis is weak.

4)     Next and always fun….sprinting!!  It not only burns HUGE amounts of calories but keeps your metabolism flying for days after. Sprinting gets your heart rate up to the roof so you tend to burn more calories even while resting.

5)     Agility ladder training will improve your speed, co-ordination, timing and balance. Plus, it will set your calves on fire! I’m not a muscle isolationist, but this is seriously effective calf training because it engages the fast twitch muscles.

6)     Obstacle courses can include running over the hurdles, single leg jumping, crawling and balancing elements with the aim of testing endurance – which I think you will all agree it does very effectively!

7)     We next move to the resistance band and when you are talking about definition, I don’t think there is any better tool than the resistance band. It target specific muscled groups or smaller muscles more easily than with weights and it is low impact on your joints. They allow you to move more freely and achieve a greater range of motion (as opposed to a machine which controls where you start and stop). This allows you to create resistance from all directions and yes, some resistance from the team when I move them to a tougher colored band! I TAKE THE RESISTANCE BANDS EVERYWHERE I GO IN THE WORLD.

8)     We now go back to the strengthening of the core. By now you all know that I’m really big on core training and you will hear me say again and again during the boot camp “abs tight!!”. That is your center of gravity and where the force is generated that stabilizes the body to permit other musculature to produce force. It is also called upon to transfer energy (ie. during jumping).

9)     To finish we do 5 to 10 minute of static stretches. As I mentioned previously, unlike dynamic stretches they are more appropriate to the cool down as they help muscles to relax and increase their range of movement.

Joining a workout group can keep you motivated, hold you accountable and help you develop a sense of camaraderie. A healthy dose of friendly competition along with a supportive community-like environment encourages you not only to show up but to push yourself more. You are likely to meet people with common interests outside of boot camp and this means making new friends as well as finding opportunities to network for business reasons also. We truly become a team and even worry when one of our team members does not show up!

And speaking of team members, we must make mention here of Isabelle Gagnon, the Moduvated Team’s Health & Lifestyle Coach. Isabelle provides Body Composition testing to boot camp members, which allow us to truly track our progress. These tests will tell you the exact amount of muscle you have built and fat that you have lost; remember that the scale tells us only part of the story. That along with her amazing dietary tips and recipes helps to complete our mission which is your total fitness for Body, Mind and Spirit! Isabelle is a shining example of someone who lives as she teaches, and is a truly ModuVated boot camp member. Thank you Isabelle!!

And now, please take a look at what people have to say about ModuVated Boot Camp:

“For someone who does not know how or what they should do, boot camp is a team effort for a total body work out in a short period of time. Instead of pattering on a treadmill for an hour and trying to figure out how to use weights in the right way to target the right spot, getting to go to the  beach, enjoy a beautiful sunrise, and know that if you put effort to follow direction , this program is heaven sent! Its fun and its demanding which keeps me on my toes and ready for the challenge. I believe that to be a part of the Moduvated Program is to have already made a choice to have fitness become a part of your lifestyle. Not thought of as a chore, not something to do when you don’t have to go to work after, but more a program where everyone is on the same path of improving themselves and coming together to help each other and relate and inspire one another.”  Raquel Viksten

“Looking at myself every day and seeing the improvements keeps me going. Even today I saw pictures of what my body looked like before I started boot camp, I notice the big change, and I do not want to go back to the way I was ever again.  I like the way I look and feel today and I always want to feel this confidence!”  Ilda Erickson

“Although I hate the feeling at the moment of jumping the hurdles I end up talking to myself through it and saying YES, you can do it. One More!!” I’m happy and like it and have met some nice new people… even clients.” Monica Markeset

“Since the beginning, I saw a serious and friendly organized group of people working together with one target. Working out together during the first hours of the day, next to the beach, is a unique experience that you won’t get in any gym or fitness center. Modu and his professional team lead by example and guide and teach you how to get involved in a healthy lifestyle, and you learn that there is NO secrets, just work out and eat a well balanced diet. That along with some discipline and ModuVation will get you in really good shape, with a well balanced body!” P. S. If you haven’t work on the sand before… just get ready…”  Ram Puente

“Last night was great. Hot and humid but one of the best camps yet “ Chris Erickson

“I tested Fatima Falcon tonight for her second body composition test so she can see her results before she goes on holidays…..and we have a rising rock star!! After only 3 weeks of boot camp, and healthy eating, she has lost 2 pounds on the scale but most importantly 5 POUNDS OF FAT MASS LOSS!!! This represents a 2% decrease!!!…Isabelle Gagnon, Health & Lifestyle Coach

CONGRATULATIONS again Fatima for your commitment and hard work! Keep it up girl…you rock!!!)”…Isabelle Gagnon

Stay ModuVated!!!!

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Tuesday night’s ModuVated Summer Evening Boot Camp #5 was blessed with cool breezes keeping everyone perky and fresh! As I took photos and observed the class from the side-lines, it really allowed me to see just how focused these bootcamp members are! Everyone’s faces seemed to reflect competitiveness against themselves to improve from the week before….and what a difference that week made. Last week’s grunts and groans were replaced with looks if fierce determination. As a spectator it really appears as a team with everyone’s form and stamina so much improved. Well done!!!!!

Some interesting comments of the night were:

“Modu, I don’t know why I love you!”……..”We are sick people!!”……..”I am just trying to make it out of here with my dignity” …….. “Can I photoshop those photos before you put them on the web-site?” and at the end of the day……..”Please take me to the Hospital”

And from our fearless leader:

“Good job, good job, 10 more“……..”Keep moving”……..”9, 8 more, push it, push it”…….. “6, 5, vamanos, vamanos” ……..”4 more, don’t walk”……..” last 3…this is where it counts, right here is where we try to make a difference”……..”2 more laps, come on guys we are almost done”……..”last one last one…WELL DONE!!!”

And from one of our team members whose progress we follow:

“Last night was great! I have 2 new recruits that are committed to boot camp

and I like the entire group of evening boot campers more each time we work

out. Last night was especially great as it was very intense, but also light

hearted with some jokes and comments. Wonderful.”….Chris Erickson