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Weird Wacky Way To Lose Weight

5 Sep

What If You Could Talk To Your Body &                                                                           Have It Tell You How To Lose Weight?

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OMG!! You have to read all this post..it’s so inspiring and interesting!

Here’s a portion of an email I got after our Four Week Online Course:

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Victoria, Okay, I have lost seven pounds since Tuesday!! What did you say to make my body respond so positively? I have no idea, but I love your processes!!! A. R.

How weird is this? After I listened on Tuesday and took some notes, no big deal and on the very next day, every craving I ever had went away and I swear I am thinner. Is that really possible?   Now I am fired up to start working out. What should I do first to really get the fat off? J.Q.

Dear J.Q.

Congratulations! That’s fantastic that you understood the breakthrough principle I taught.  It is truly a simple thing, but it is powerful! And you should begin getting the rest of the life robbing fat off your body and improve your heart, lungs, respiratory and immune system by doing fat burning cardio which I will cover in a minute.
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5 Fast Tips For A Sexy Hourglass Figure

22 Aug

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Is Your Hourglass Too Empty or Spilling Out Over the Edges?

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Did you know that this year has been declared the beginning of a new era of
The Hourglass Body?

YES! It is Hot in Fashion and Health!

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Victoria’s Sexy Pink Skinny

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CORSETS and Waist Trainers and Cinchers are Spanx on steroids!

They are designed to help reshape the body also known as Body Modification and has ben around since women.  The use to be made with real animal bones, that’s why even today the technology that is more advanced still call the shaping inserts “bones”.  Thank goodness they refined the technique and made it more comfortable.

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Tired of Being FAT – Get Your Free AB Program!

4 Apr

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My gift to you for being such loyal followers, A FREE AB PROGRAM. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MESSAGE YOUR FRIENDS! AVAILABLE JANUARY 7, 8 & 9! Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday only!

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New Years Question….

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Victoria,                                                                                                                                        I am so tired of carrying around all this extra body fat.  It is making me feel sluggish and unattractive.  I went to one of those strip mall weight loss programs and they told me it would take me longer because I’m older. I’m only 35 years old.  Is that true?  Is my metabolism too slow to lose weight and why do we gain weight as we age?                                                                Signed, Frustrated

Answer…This is a popular question I get from men and women all over the world. No culture or country is exempt.  It’s quite interesting to know that all over the world people are struggling with the same issue. It really shows that we are more alike than we realize.

The answer is no, you don’t have to look at age as a limitation or barrier to losing weight.

There are many master body builders and fitness competitors who are over 35 and look absolutely amazing.  They train regularly, eat properly, get good sleep and regularly set new fitness goals. They have learned how to master their biochemistry.

Check out Anne Pirson from Belgium.

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She’s Miss Figure over 35, she’s 39 years old. You don’t have to get this muscular. I just wanted you to see someone who is older than you that is lean, fit and has low body fat. Still not convinced that age doesn’t matter?

NOW.. Check out Ernestine Shepard. She is 75 years old. She started bodybuilding at 71!

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So you see that it is possible to lose weight and get fit at any age.

Solid Life Long Program                                                                           You can begin by:

  1. Getting on a solid nutrition program that balances your body chemistry and
  2. Performing a consistent resistance-training program that increases your muscle mass 3-4 times per week.  Solid muscle increases your body’s basal metabolic rate and that makes your metabolism faster.
  3. Do some moderate intensity cardio four to five times per week or 30-60 minutes.  It will increase your oxygen uptake and help melt the excess fat off your body. This type of a complete program is the only way to permanently lose weight and stay healthy.

Here’s why you have to do a complete program and not just the diet in a box method.

Exercise Calorie Expenditure: Just exercising alone is not enough to get down to your perfect weight. Although you might think that physical exercise accounts for most of the calories you burn, it actually accounts for only about one third. In general, your calorie expenditure depends on three things:

1) Your Basal Metabolic Rate is determined by your lean body mass, the active part of your body. This accounts for about 60 percent of all calorie expenditure. Basal (or resting) metabolic rate is the amount of energy or calories your body consumes while at rest, in order to power the thousands of chemical reactions required to maintain health – such as, temperature, cell-repair, cardiovascular system and so on. Put simply, basal metabolic rate is an estimate of how many calories you would burn if you were to lie asleep for 24 hours, with measurement beginning 12 hours after your last meal to ensure that your digestive system was inactive and not burning calories digesting food. The more you increase your lean (active) body mass, the higher your basal metabolic rate. That is why you have to train properly, eat a good balanced diet and drink sufficient water. Your lean body mass is over 60 percent water.

Your Physical Activity. Typically this accounts for about 30 percent of calorie expenditure. You have to become more active every single day. You have to become a motion machine. Physical activity has to become your lifestyle. You want to return to that playful place you were at when you were a kid. You jumped, danced, ran, jumped rope, played sports, ran all over the house and you walked everywhere.  The more active you are, the more calories you burn and the more anti aging oxygen your body will process.

Dietary Thermogenesis. This is the calories you burn while digesting food. It accounts for about 10 percent of the total calories you burn. This is why you cannot skip meals. When you eat properly, you raise your metabolism.  When you skip meals, you reduce your metabolic rate. Starving is worse for you when you are trying to lose weight permanently.

To sum it all up, metabolism is the amount of energy or calories your body burns for maintenance.  It is the rate your body burns calories for all it’s bodily functions: breathing, sleeping, cleaning, working, and for internal functions such as digestion and respiration.

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Your body’s metabolism is affected by your body composition.  Your composition is determined by the amount of lean muscle mass you have versus the amount of fat.  Muscle uses more calories to maintain itself than fat.

After about age 30, the body gradually begins to lose its muscle mass from inactivity and hormonal imbalances.  If you eat the same and your activity level stays the same, you will gain weight.  You don’t have the same muscle mass you had in your younger years, so weight gain is the result.  For this reason, strength training is vital for losing weight and increasing the rate of your metabolism. As you gain healthy muscle, age is no longer the predominate factor preventing you from reaching your goal weight.

If your muscle mass verses fat ratio improves, your metabolism increases.  A biochemically-balanced fat burning diet and weight training in combination with aerobic activity will result in a body that has more muscle mass and less fat.  So, increasing healthy muscle mass is a vital key to permanent weight loss along with a healthy diet and regular cardio.

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Victoria

SUPER FAT BURNING SECRET!!!

7 Mar

 

Wooohoo!! You Guys ROCK! Let’s Take It To The Top One More Time!!!

 Another Fun Free Book on Amazon.com   Mark these dates.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday September 23, 24 and 25!

Go get your free copy and tell your friends and family to get theirs too!

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HOW DO I LOSE WEIGHT Using LSD CARDIO

Fat Blasting & Stress Busting Program!

 My New Book Is About The New Trend of Exercise That is

Sweeping The Globe and Driving Gym Owners Crazy!

 All things old, become new again. It’s so popular again that they have to post signs to limit the time people use their equipment to meet the demand!

 How about you? 

Are you doing it?

Are you in?

What’s it about? 

It’s about Cardio Baby!

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Not just walking your dog to make sure he or she gets to get some potty relief, it’s about you getting your body in shape and getting some major stress relief.

 This is serious business. This is not some fad movement that sells you some rub on cream or eat only greens program. This is about your heart. If your brain stops, you can still live, if your heart stops, it’s over. LIGHTS OUT!

 YOUR HEART IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSCLE IN YOUR BODY!

 Why should you be so concerned about the heart regardless of your age?

Your heart is more than a muscle; it’s the first organ to form in your body.  It creates it’s own balancing and regulating hormones.

It is a powerful generator of electromagnetic energy in the body.  It actually produces the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs.

This is so cool. Here is what the Institute of HeartMath Research has found:

This magnetic field is more than 5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected a number of feet away from the body.

The electromagnetic energy of the heart not only envelops every cell of the human body, but also extends out in all directions in the space around us

The cardiac field touches those within 8 – 10 feet of where we are positioned (and perhaps in more subtle ways at greater distances)

The heart’s field is an important carrier of information.  A person’s heart signal can affect another’s brainwaves, and heart-brain synchronization can occur between two people when they interact!!!!

Check out these phenomenal facts about  your heart.

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*Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day which would mean an average lifetime would work out to be… over 2 and a half billion times!

*Even though we are taught to put our hand over our heart on the left side of our chest, it is actually tucked away between our lungs in the middle of our chests. Think of it as being protected

*All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.

*Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you’re an adult, it’s about the same size as two fists.

*The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime—that’s enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.  GET YOUR HEART IN SHAPE NOW!   How?

With LSD Cardio, you feel amazing.  Heart pumping blood moving through your body.  Muscles flexing and your body starts toning.   LSD is an acronym for Long Steady Duration or long slow distance (aerobic) fat burning, heart regenerating and heart healing cardiovascular activity.

Finally, I have come up with a program that gives you a permanent solution for long term fat loss and total fitness. This program gives you the body you want and the energy you seek.

Serious complications can arise if you do not learn the details in this book to help you train correctly.  If you leave one key element out, you can damage your body. If you use this key element correctly, you can become a fat burning machine, lose unsightly body fat and add more life into your years! 

Here’s a brief excerpt…

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What is LSD CARDIO? “Long Slow Distance, Life Saving, Life Extending & Fat Burning”

Our body is our vehicle to life, survival and existence on this planet.

Our body is designed for continual movement. It is built to compensate for various motions for long periods of time.  Activities like fast walking, running and jumping as well as dancing, cycling and swimming are all forms of aerobic (using oxygen) cardiovascular (heart pumping) movements. This type of movement is common to us as a species. It is also necessary if we want to lead a healthy, happy long life.

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The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) defines these movements as any activity that uses large muscle groups that can be maintained continuously and is rhythmic in nature, and by doing them, our heart rate is elevated beyond it’s resting state.

There are many different cardio exercises that are considered the best to help you to lose weight as long as it is performed for a longer, slower amount of time or for a longer distance, thus LSD Cardio, one of the best forms of fat burning activity there is. That is why when you see distance runners they ‘re usually lean and thin. In running circles, it is also known as “long, slow distance endurance training”. It is exactly as it sounds.

LSD CARDIO is a form of aerobic endurance training. It is commonly associated with sports such as running and cycling. Long, slow distance training is a form of continuous training performed at a steady, slow pace using low to moderate intensity over an extended distance or duration.

You can experience euphoric feelings while doing LSD cardio. It is facilitated with the release of brain chemicals called endorphins. They are believed to improve your mood, give you a euphoric state if being and can keep you feeling motivated, energized and feeling good before, during and after working out. When I first began training for weight loss, it was extremely difficult.  What I found was more enjoyable than being heavy.

The state of accomplishment I experienced when I finished a 1-hour power walk was so intense it became addictive. It became a part of my life that felt more important than eating. I went on to start running again like I had in high school and college and even did two marathons, a few half marathons and several 10k runs etc.  Victoria Johnson

This is my most important book. Its can totally revolutionize your health and it can literally save your life. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share it with you. I want the best for you!

Mark your calendar! It will be available for you to download FREE on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday September 23, 24 and 25!  Lets take it all the way to the top again.

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Victoria

I Hate My Scale! Help For Your Weight Loss Plateau

23 Nov

How To Break a Plateau

It’s six weeks after american new year’s resolution and I am starting to get emails asking “How to Break My Weight Plateau”.  I have some ideas for you.   But first of all I want to thank all of you that made my “How Do I Get Abs” book launch on Amazon.com a global hit!  It was amazing, I made it to number 1! I even got a great screen shot of it for my Goals Accomplished wall.  I am getting so much positive feedback. It’s awesome.  I could not have done it without you!

I Hate My Scale! How To Break a Weight Loss Plateau

Check out this excerpt from a Special Science Report

Cutting Carbs Is More Effective Than Low-Fat Diet for Insulin-Resistant Women,Study Finds; Science Daily (June 21, 2010) — Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study.

Time for some new ideas.  If you are experiencing a stall or plateau in weight loss efforts, you are not alone. This occurs from time to time to almost all of us trying to get thinner. However, you first must make sure that you have actually reached a plateau point.

A plateau means that you have gone an extended period of time without losing weight or inches. It’s important to take your measurements before you start your weight loss plan, in addition to your weight. On some weeks it may not seem like you are not losing any weight at all on the scale. But a quick look at your measurements could prove otherwise.

On a higher protein diet you are replacing fat with muscle, which is denser and heavier. You might actually gain a little weight because you are building muscle. The result will be an increase on the scale, but a decrease in your inches. Your body will be smaller and leaner, but you may weigh the same.

Before you start your program, measure your chest, waist, hips, upper arms, thighs and calves. You never know where you may be losing inches, so it’s important to have these measurements to refer to.

It is normal to go through periods where you body is readjusting. Remember that you are reforming the composition of your body and this process will take some time. Check your measurements once a week, just like your weight, and you can track your overall progress.

What Is A Plateau?

There may be periods of 3 to 4 weeks where you have a plateau in weight loss, but a loss in inches. Or vice versa. Using both methods to track your fat loss is the best assurance for an accurate measure of your progress. These stall periods are not a reason to quit or to give up. They are biochemical parts of the weight loss process.

Plateaus may occur more frequently if you are 5 to 10 pounds away from being at your goal weight. By following a low-carb, higher-protein way of eating you have created a lot more muscle in your body. Your muscle-to-fat ratio is higher than ever before, so your body might be resisting losing anymore fat. It may be time to rethink your goal weight. Perhaps your body is trying to tell you something and its time to start maintaining your weight loss rather than trying to lose more.

What Causes Your Scale to Get Stuck?

There are some other possible causes of  plateaus on the road to weight loss. If you’ve gone four weeks with no change in weight or measurements and you are nowhere near your goal weight, you can try a few different methods to get yourself out of the rut. First, make sure your carbohydrate level is in check. If you are eating too many carbohydrate grams per day, your weight loss will stall. Look for hidden carbohydrates in your coffees, alcohol, packaged foods, snacks, dressings and sauces to make sure they aren’t the culprits in your plateau.

 Check your daily water intake. When you are dehydrated, your body will retain water and that can mimic a plateau. Water will also help flush ketones from your system and make more room for new fat burning ketones.

It may be time to eat more.

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Under eating can also be a cause for weight loss plateaus. Make sure not to let yourself go hungry and eat smaller, more frequent meals. Remember, you are on a carbohydrate-restricted diet, not a calorie-restricted diet. Make sure to have some protein with every meal and snack. Never go more than 4 hours without eating something (except overnight of course). Also, eat freely from the acceptable foods. Don’t try to count calories or restrict your calorie intake. When your body gets too few calories, it goes into starvation mode and will hold onto fat cells. AAAHH!!

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Pump It up!

Increasing your exercise level or adding more slower systemic fat burning cardio can help get you through a plateau as well. As your muscles get used to working out at a certain level, you’ll have to increase the duration or the intensity in order to keep challenging your body. Add a new exercise into the mix, or try increasing more reps into a light weight resistance training circuit.  You don’t need to go to a gym to do cardio. You can so it anyplace.

Trying one of these suggestions will most likely get your weight loss back on track. Remember that occasional stalls are normal, but they do not have to last.

See you on the step mill!

Victoria Johnson

Your Fitness Celebrity Trainer

 

 

Plateaus and Pitfalls Part – Re-Engineer Your Genes For Skinny Jeans

15 Jun

 Re-Engineer Your Genes For Skinny Jeans
Developing your best body is a science, and cannot be left to chance. I’ve spent over a  decade of my life researching and helping people achieve their mental and physical goals. Genetics are a factor but can be manipulated to help you succeed.
When I was tipping the scales at 170 pounds plus, I was told  had big bones and would always be heavy because others in that bloodline were heavy. NOT! I went on to lose over 60 pounds of ugly life sucking fat and have NEVER gained it back and never will. I am a permanently lean person now because I choose to and will always choose to. So can you!

Been There, Still Here!

I know there are a sea of experts out there. I happen to be one who has been so fat I couldn’t see my feet and tried every diet under the sun. If you are ready to break thorough a plateau of stagnant fat and take your body to the next level, then you want to revisit the low carb fast fat loss methods.

Tap into the years of experience I have and use it for your advantage to take away any guesswork.  Use it to make your dream body a reality in record time. Don’t waste another minute complaining and excuse making, keep reading and start achieving.

I am giving you some tips that help you get started today. You have nothing to lose except fat!

How many times have you said this to yourself?

I’m eating a low-calorie, low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. I’m exercising 5 times a week. I’m doing everything right and I’m still not losing any weight. Why not?

That’s the million dollar question asked by plateau campers (people whose scale has camped on a certain number and no matter what you do it will not go down) everywhere. You seem to be doing everything right… and yet it’s not working. There are several factors that can trip up your best weight loss efforts. If you can identify and conquer them, you’ll be well on your way to life of healthy lean living.

Let’s start with your exercise program...

Been doing the same thing for a while? Getting bored maybe? When your routine becomes ho-hum, your body quickly adapts to it and your results are less dramatic. So, if you always do the same aerobic activity at the same intensity, or you always do the same circuit of weight machines in the same order… Stop and change it up. Variety is a good way to shock your metabolic system and spike your fat burning fires.

When I had the joy and luxury of teaching private classes, I would always change up the intensity of the workouts so that my awesome clients would keep their bodies guessing and that would keep their fat burning at a high level.

Do Challenging Cardio

Whether you’re trying something new or just spicing up the old routine, progressively increase the intensity. This might mean incorporating an occasional hilly route into your bike rides, intervals of slow jogging into your walks, adding some free weight exercises to your machine workouts, or signing up for a spinning class instead of reading magazines on the stationary bike. Just remember to keep it interesting and keep it going.
If you love pilates, but your butt is still covered with fat, skip a few classes and do some cardio instead. You must do cardio along with your low carb fat blasting eating plan to burn stored body fat and help your skin shrink as you lose.

To keep seeing results you need to present your body with new challenges. It’s important to try new things. Please choose activities that you genuinely enjoy, and exercise at an intensity that challenges you. If you don’t enjoy it and it makes your body change, do it anyway!

Pump it up!
Light weight resistance training is the cornerstone of a woman’s lean body and a fast metabolism. The more lean muscle you have, the more calories your body burns throughout the day. If you’ve been doing tons of cardiovascular activity, but slacking on the light weight for sculpting and shaping your body, that could be one of your sticking points. On the flip side, if you’ve been faithfully pumping heavy iron but you can’t get shed the fat; perhaps add more aerobic activity.

The two types of exercise perfectly compliment each other. The weights sculpt and shape the body, and the cardio helps you blast the fat so that your defined muscles become visible as the fat is burned away. Together with elongating stretching, they form the basis of any well-rounded program so that you can build a beautiful lean body.

Food is the Foundation
The critical factor in successful weight loss is your diet. Success of any body changing and health-increasing program is that success is mostly nutrition with the secondary factor being physical training.  Basically you can have the best personal trainer on the planet with the best training routine ever, but if you’re not eating right, your results will suck. You will never have the body you want without the right fat burning diet.

To change your hips, abs and butt, you have to look at what you are eating, how much you are eating and when you are eating it. You have to analyze everything and become the master of knowing your metabolism and your metabolic response to the foods you decide to eat every single day.  You  know what you are doing don’t you? Have you been taking in too many calories? Have you not been eating enough healthy, anti-aging, anti-cancerous and fibrous calories? Do you start off fired up to diet on Monday morning and deny yourself all day only to binge on Wednesday night?

Sugarholic Carbo Queen?
Are you consuming an overabundance of highly processed carbohydrates? Is your protein intake adequate for your size and activity level? Have you perhaps gone overboard by trying to eliminate all fat from your diet? Do you eat large quantities of “good” foods without ever feeling truly satisfied? Can you remember the last time you ate a huge serving of fresh vegetable every day?

Whichever eating plan you choose, be sure to adjust it accordingly depending on how you feel and how your body responds. Don’t ever blindly follow a rigid “diet” based on massive media hype. Be informed and focus on powerful positive changes. That is why I created my Quick Start Low Carb Fat Blasting Program. When I was obese, I know that I needed a program that I could see and feel positive results immediately. That is what gave me the motivation to continue and still use today myself and my clients of all levels.

Plateau Breakthrough Tips

➢    Drink 8-12 8 oz glasses of water per day.

➢    Graze – Eat several small meals and snacks a day (3 – 6) to keep your metabolism elevated and your blood sugar stabilized. This will in turn help you cut out snack attacks throughout the day. Don’t go more than 5 hours without eating something healthy.

➢    Protein Power – Make sure that your protein intake is adequate. Your protein needs to be a minimum of 20-30% of your total dietary intake.  Choose lean protein sources such as white fish, chicken without skin, egg whites, protein powders and protein shakes made out of whey and soy protein.

➢    Stop the Sweets -Watch your intake of highly refined carbohydrates that are sold as fat free products such as fat-free cookies, rice cakes, other fat free snacks and definitely white bread. Try to replace them with heartier grains or legumes such as bran, natural sprouted whole grain breads, beans, lentils, and other unprocessed legumes. They are higher in fiber, protein, and other nutrients and they enter into your blood stream more slowly, providing you with a longer lasting more blood sugar balancing source of fuel.

Fatten Up – Don’t be afraid of heart healthy monounsaturated fats like those found in olive oil, nuts, seeds, and avocado. The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish are quite beneficial as well. A little bit of fat will slow the entry rate of carbohydrates into your blood stream, keeping blood sugar stable and helping to reduce hunger, mood swings, and cravings.
Include a little protein, carbohydrate, and fat with each meal or snack. You’ll be more satisfied with your food and less likely to get hungry between meals.

Eat a variety of different foods and don’t get obsessive! Eat well the majority of the time and enjoy some occasional treats.

Get Fired Up – The final, perhaps most important factor in you beating your genetics and winning at weight loss success is your attitude. You have to believe you can succeed. You have to feel great about what you are doing. You must stay excited and positive about every single pound lost, inch loss, energy improvement, longevity you are securing, peaceful moment knowing that you are taking care of your body, your sacred temple.  The most intricate gift of life that you have been blessed with is your physical body.

Be aware and listen to every signal your emotions are sending you.  Stay alert and recognize your mental and emotional connections to food and exercise, both good and good. If you find yourself sitting in front of the computer snacking on garbage spending endless hours doing nothing that is bringing you closer to the body you want, ask yourself why.

Everything Counts

Every calorie you eat counts.  You have to identify and acknowledge your fitness blocks before you can take positive action and change them. Remember that you can’t continue doing the same thing the same way and expect different results.

If you want change in your life, you have to permanently change your beliefs, habits and actions. You have to do the right thing at the right time with the right intent to be successful.

DECIDE TO BE YOUE BEST NOW!

Decide that you will do whatever it takes to get fit, healthy, energetic and happy.  Decide in your heart that you will no longer let others determine your health or your destiny.  Get focused and get in the driver’s seat of your life.

Don’t ask anyone’s opinion, this is about you, your life, your health, your self esteem when you look in the mirror.  It is time for you to simply believe that you matter and the way you feel about yourself is a priority.

Everyday I sit at the beach and meditate on how grateful I am for finding the solution for permanent weight loss. You can come and join me. There’s always room for more winners who break through! I am inviting you to live the life you dream of and have the body you have always wanted.

Your life can and will be great when your body looks and feels different by making powerful choices about your nutrition, exercise and mental thinking.  This is your day for a breakthrough.  Break through old negative thought and habit patterns and bust through that old limited plateau and be the greatest you can be starting now!

You WILL Do it!

Victoria Johnson
Rock Star Celebrity Trainer

Get Fabuliciously Firm Thighs Fast!

4 May

High Volume Leg Training – Sexy Shapely Thighs

If you want to get in better shape faster, then stand up, get off your seat and work on your lower body.

Training your lower body makes your entire body shape up faster. Isn’t that what you want? Faster, quicker fat loss while sculpting and shaping?

If the answer is yes! Then it’s time to Get Your Pump on.

High volume (high reps combined with multiple sets of each exercise) is perfect if you want to lose fat, increase your metabolism and shape up your lower body.

A high volume program works faster and is much more effective in getting cuts without using massive weight.

Use low intensity weights, enough so that you can do 15 to 20 reps easy the first time.

Using volume training you do as many reps as you can, between 15 to 20 reps per set.

Then you do 4 to 5 sets of your chosen exercises.

Move quickly through your routine. Try to work so that you are breathing
at a good pace to pump up the intensity and increase your heart rate.

Try to make it aerobic so that you increase your circulation, increase your stamina and build up more endurance.

Workout sample..

Taken from Victoria’s Thin Thighs program
Plies w/ weights
Side Lunges
Narrow Squats
Standing Side Leg Lifts
If you really want to see some fast amazing results. DROP all sugar from your diet and get on a Low-glycemic eating program. You can change the shape of your legs quickly if you get into and train like this 3-4 times per week.

Medium to high intensity cardio 4-5 times per week to super start your fat burning.

When you want to make a change, just frickin jump in and do it fast and furious! Do the most results oriented workout that can have you looking totally fabulicious in no time.

I am too impatient to do stick with programs that take forever to see results, so I want to get in there and get it done.

My clients who have a narrow window of time to get ready for a photo shoot or album cover has to have a program that makes their bodies’ camera ready fast!

Cover Ready?
It’s your turn~ I know you are always taking pictures of yourself with your cell phone so it’s your turn to get Paparazzi picture ready!

Victoria

What Inspires Me To Dance and Stay Lean

4 Aug

OKAY.. you all keep asking me these questions.. I did an interview last week and here are the answers to two of the questions. I hope you are able to design your own proess for staying motivated to build your best body ever!! You can do it you know!

Victoria,
How do you maintain your enthusiasm and energy?
I have an unbridled passion for Movement!

I was born to move. I have danced and participated in some form of fitness and sports all of my life. I love the way I feel before (psyched) during (unstoppable) and after (exhilarated and liberated) I workout.

I am constantly setting three month goals with measurable stats and then I design a game plan. I find a group of like minded people with a similar desire and we train like world class athletes. I attract people who love music, dance and live to sweat. They make their health, their body and their longevity a priority. The programs are 12 weeks in length. I cut pictures out of magazines and write out my goals in my day planner and track them. I watch dance, sports and triumph themed movies. I have a great collection of all the best dance movies ever produced. I love watching music videos and going to live performances to see the creativity in costuming and choreography. I love sports too, so I watch everything from football to golf, to basketball to baseball. I watch reality shows like, “Dancing With the Stars”, “So You Think You Can Dance” to “The Olympics” to “The Best Damn Sports Show to “The Miss America Pageant:” to the “NCAA Basketball Women and Men’s Championships”! There are so many wonderful examples for me to gain inspiration and motivation from. I love them all and I draw something different from each of them that I use to develop a lifestyle of putting my workouts first!

*Describe your favorite workout.
My Vertical Training/Dance Jamm and Body Revival Workout! It is the absolute most fun class I have ever done in my entire career. I love coachng and I love pushing people to move beyond their perceived limitations. We all have self-assigned limitations that come from our backgrounds that serve no healthy purpose except to put us in a little box with little goals and little expectations. It makes me sp frustrated, I could scream. I only feel that way, because I used to live on that block of no-where land, USA!

Enough for my rant….
Back to my Three hour private training sessions.
We begin with a half an hour of cleansing moves to detox our system and get our bodies ready for a fat burning and cardio conditioning – Longevity workout. We begin with compression focused stretches, lyrical dance moves and ballet moves. Then we add 1 pound leg weights for tightening up our assets and weights 3 -5 pound hand weights for targeted upper and body tightening and lengthening exercises for 15 minutes. This is what i call a SLOW BURN. It is the type of training that realy sculpts the legs and produces a deep mucle burn. It hurts so good!

Then we go to moderate intensity 60% of Max Heart Rate for 45 minutes using dance funk and hip hop moves. After the fat burning we go into a 15 minute high intensity cardio endurance training at 80% of our Max. Heart Rate. We conclude with lyrical moves and athletic stretching. It is a fusion of dance/funk/weights/ and sports. It is inspiring and challenging.

I use a wide variety of slammin’ music and we even have themes some days like… “Paradise” Island wear..hip hop wear..Broadway themes, etc. The variety keeps it fresh and the workout yields tremendous results. Our bodies never get adapted to the workout and we get to keep it in a high metabolic state and lose body fat while increasing flexibility, endurance, aerobic conditioning and detoxing.

It completely changes a person’s life and seeing other people succeed is what give me the juice to get up every day and persevere. I love people and I love to move. When those two are combined the passion oozes out of me. That is what keep me inspired.