http://www.juliefit.com

JulieFit is my daily journal documenting my Fitness Journey through INSANITY, ChaLEAN Extreme, P90X and beyond. I am a mother of two that has bounced back post pregnancy on both occasions but was never fullly satisfied with the long-term program.  With weight slowly creeping on over the years to follow, visits to the gym were sometimes interrupted, my lack of workout creativity made the sessions repetitive and then I was laid off in March 2009.  I had to cut expenses and one of those was the $50 per month gym membership.  I tried to make the treadmill a regular habit, burning a bonus 200 calories but obviously it wasn’t enough. I was looking for something and nothing was yet “clicking”.

I knew my online friend Laura had dramatic weight loss from some kind of “Turbo” workout, and from her pictures from Turbo Camp it looked like a group exercise. I was very happy for her but never saw myself as a class workout type person.  I tried that in the past and it simply wasn’t my “thing”.  It was a year or so later that we reconnected on Facebook and one day in July 2009 she posted a status updated how Turbo Jam can burn 1,000 calories in one hour.  This grabbed my attention and my first reaction was to find proof (ok — disprove!) of the claim… well, it turned out several people stood by the claim and that it counted towards a male at about 220 pounds and as a smaller framed woman they burned anywhere between 500-600 calories.  Wow!  Okay…  I felt that was worth picking up the DVD on Amazon (mind you, I had no idea about Team Beachbody dot com)… at the time I was only burning 200 calories from 20 minutes HIIT cardio on the treadmill.  I happened to be at Target and they had a markdown on the Sportline Heart Rate watch to test against the claims and to my delightment the claims were true!  I quickly became addicted to the program I never would have thought was “me”… I thought I was a gym girl and definitely not a dancer! Nonetheless I found myself indulging in the 550+ calories  burning cardio (some days over 600) in just 40 minutes and muscle burning Turbo Sculpt, the energy and definition has been obvious!  I have to admit, I LOVE the punching and kicking!  I feel so powerful!

On September 11th I decided it was time to join Chalene in her weight training program ChaLEAN Extreme.  As much as I love the cardio, I want muscle… I love muscle and when I’m not moving I want to burn the fat away.   Monday, September 21st is where my site, juliefit.com begins..  I will be done with this round December 16th December 26th (delay due to back injury at the end of Phase 1!) and cannot wait to see the results!  Chalene has been incredibly inspiring, she’s funny to work out with and has completely reawakened my fitness drive.

I am so excited to share my journey with you!