Yes I am talking to YOU!!!! Come out to hear me speak, eat a great lunch and get a fun workout in while learning some Latin moves. I will be in the Richmond, VA area October 30th working with You Gals Weight Loss Coaches Toni Winston and Stacy Rodriguez for this great event. Please see the flyer for details!

http://www.theyougals.com/

David and I are featured on the cover of the very first issue of Word of Mouth Magazine! If you are in the Raleigh, NC area please pick up your copy today at a Food Lion or Kroger grocery store. Hear about our journey together to accomplish our relationship and fitness career goals.

Word of Mouth Magazine is a magazine that has been created to help support the dreams and expectations of talented entrepreneurs. The demand for entrepreneurship is on the rise, and this magazine can help you find some of the best black owned businesses in the triangle and surrounding areas.

Word of Mouth Magazine will also help market positive organization giving back to the community through truth and service. This magazine will produce advertisements, photography and  positive programs  throughout the community.  Word of Mouth Magazine will cater to readers who have chosen to associate themselves with ideology not defined by age or income, but rather by a mind-set of  achievement and success.

In addition to business ads each issue will highlight successful African American and influential people making moves throughout the community. The publication is locally-owned and supported by patrons and businesses interested in our well being.

For more information on how to advertise with Word of Mouth Magazine Call 919-559-8416 or go to www.wordofmouthmagazine.webs.com! 

(A “marathon” of workouts: 3 workouts a week for 9 weeks= 26 workouts= a Marathon!)

You can live anywhere in the world and still be able to register and participate and witness results!

“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time”- Mark Twain

Purpose: To assist Knoxville, surrounding areas, and online clients in taking up the challenge one step at a time to better health and fitness and staying committed to it! To provide funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation! Trill Fitness is partnering with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and net proceeds go to help research and find a cure! Let’s find a cure together and take up our own challenge to make exercise a part of our lives in the process!

You register online at www.trillfitnesonline.com!  The Trill Fitness Marathon Challenge:  3 workouts per week for 9 weeks totaling 26 workouts. There is a small $20 registration fee. The net proceeds go to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

You will be given a  9 week workout routine via email . Then every two weeks participants in Knoxville or surrounding areas will have the opportunity to meet at the World’s Fair Park, Cherokee Blvd, Trill Fitness, and more to walk, run or take a class lead by a Trill Fitness Trainer. Participants who show up will be entered to win prizes at each location and entered again for the Grand Prize. Prizes to be announced soon.

Participants who choose to do the Online registration only and not participate in the trainings will be entered into the grand prize drawing and will receive the training program to do on their own.

Program Details and Info:

1.    Sign up ANYTIME through October 16!

2.    Sign up at www.trillfitnessonline.com

3.    Participants will be invited to a launch party to pick up their t-shirts and take their first group training class BODYATTACK™  held on August 21 at Trill Fitness inside Premier Athletics.

4.    Each week participants will receive information reminding them of their workout via email.

5.    It’s a one time $20 registration fee and net proceeds go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation!

6.    At the end of 9 weeks all participants are entered to win a grand prize!

GET FIT, LIVE HEALTHY, LOVE LIFE!

Also, folks can register online here: http://www.active.com/community-services-training-program/knoxville-tn/trill-fitness-marathon-challenge-2010

Questions? Contact Trillia Newbell at 865-254-9005 or tnewbell@trillfitnessonline.com

By Collen Egan:

This week tennis champion Jennifer Capriati overdosed.It was allegedly an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, and she’s now in the hospital recovering.

Still, my childhood self was disappointed, and more than a little bit sad. Growing up, I was obsessed with tennis, and Jennifer was my hero.

As a teenager, Jennifer was a tennis phenom, shining at Grand Slam tournaments and taking down Steffi Graf to win Olympic gold in Barcelona. Her fresh-faced good looks earned her an Oil of Olay advertising campaign, and her all-American girl appeal made you feel like you, too, could make it to Wimbledon one day (or at least make your high school varsity tennis team).

But then Jennifer fell. Hard.

Her injuries prompted her to leave the professional tour. She dropped out of high school. Then was arrested for marijuana possession just two years after her Olympic win. She started to be described as a “former” tennis star.

Tales of child stars cycling from the red carpet to rehab are hardly novel (ahem, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears). In fact, it’s almost expected. But while even a fallen star’s career can be resurrected repeatedly (thanks, reality TV), an athlete’s window of opportunity is much more narrow. So, what do you do when you’re washed up professionally before you’re old enough to vote or legally drink?

“You can never tell the collateral damage that being a child prodigy has on you,” Jennifer’s friend, tennis player Justin Gimelstob, tells CBS. He says she feels like the tennis world has deserted her.

Depending on the sport, today’s elite athletes start training as young as 3 years old, and being the best often means moving away from home for training, eschewing friends and school in favor of competitions and tutors. And the parents of talented young athletes often want their children to succeed just as much as, if not more than, the kid.

Athletes might need that kind of laser focus to become champions, but even if you win, you lose some of yourself along the way.

“It’s tough,” Gimelstob says. “She’s been through so many things and you just can’t account for what it’s like when you don’t have a normal childhood, you don’t have the social interaction. And she’s a courageous woman, and look what she came back from just one time to come back and be No. 1 in the world and to be a multiple Grand Slam champion, but she said it best: She said tennis gives her the structure. Without that, that’s when the problems ensue and she’s had trouble finding an identity and a sense of purpose, especially when you’re not able to finish on her own terms.”

Maybe your kid will never play on Centre Court at Wimbledon, or hit a home run during the World Series or nail a perfect beam routine at the Olympics. But whether their sports aspirations extend to state championships or the cover of Sports Illustrated, young athletes need to know that their talent might distinguish them, but it doesn’t define them.

It’s always good to get out and support where things all started for me….SUMMER TRACK. I recently spoke at the Carolina Elite Track Club, based in Raleigh, NC. I sure don’t miss the days training during the height of the heat in the summer, but it was so good to take myself back to where things all began. “Summer track” is really the code name for the USATF Junior Olympics program where tracks clubs from all across America come together for to compete and support the development of young track and field athletes. It was the first time that I realized the true depth and love of the sport and it made me want to compete at the next level after high school. I started running summer track for the Oxon Hill Boys & Girls Club when I was 15 and then followed my coach when she started her own team, Rising Stars. Rising Stars was not only the name, but the true essence of our team’s mindsets. We went on to travel the country and win the National Championship in the 4×400 meter relay. I am truly appreciative to the track programs that allow growth and exposure to where track can really take you.

To learn more about the Carolina Elite Track Club, please visit their site at www.carolina-elite.com. I met some true Rising Stars!

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 Olympic Athlete and Track Star Inspires Raleigh & Charlotte Teens to Fight Obesity this Summer

 Apex, NC (June 15, 2010) – Former overweight teen and founder of Lifestyle Family Fitness is joining the 12^th fastest female runner in the world in the fight against childhood obesity.  Geoff Dyer and MeChelle Lewis are teaming up to kick off a program in Apex which will provide free health club memberships to North Carolina teens during summer break. 

“I was an overweight teen and experienced a lot peer pressure while growing up,” says Lifestyle Family Fitness founder Geoff Dyer, who once tipped the scales at 248 pounds at 17 years of age.  “I wanted to provide health club memberships for teens who may be facing the same self-esteem issues I once faced.”

Overweight teens are at risk for many health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes.  Among the many benefits of physical activity are higher levels of self-confidence and lower stress and anxiety levels.  

MeChelle Lewis, currently a resident of Cary, hopes area teens participate in this annual summer program, which provides free, two-month health club memberships for teens ages 12-17.

“Being active is important for our youth,” says MeChelle Lewis, an Olympic athlete and track star who rose to fame during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. “We are fighting obesity as a country and practicing healthy habits at a young age will instill the discipline needed during adult years.”

Participation in North Carolina has about tripled since the program started in 2007 and is expected to grow to reach more than a thousand local teens this summer.  Nationwide 11,000 teens participated in the program last year.

To register a teen, parents may visit www.lff.com/teen.   Teen memberships provide all-day access to the health clubs on weekends and access until 4:00p.m. on weekdays.  For more information, parents can call 866-362-9286 during business hours.  All four Raleigh area Lifestyle Family Fitness locations and both Charlotte area locations participate in the program.

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A press conference with teens, the founder of Lifestyle Family Fitness and MeChelle Lewis takes place at the Apex Lifestyle location (1040 Vision Drive Apex NC 27523) on June 15, 2010 at 11:00am. 

If you would like to arrange interviews with the founder of Lifestyle Family Fitness or MeChelle Lewis before or after the conference times please contact Cassie Bouldin in advance by calling 727-385-1264 or by emailing CassieBouldin@gmail.com . 

It feels good to speak to youth, especially when they want “it” just as bad as you want them to want “it.” “It”can be that dream that you know they can achieve. “It” can be that vision that you see them in while you sleep. Whatver your “it” may be, it can come true.

I spoke in Henderson, NC as the Keynote Speaker for the organization G.R.O.W, Growing Radiant Outstanding Women. I asked them what was their platform that they want to radiate through them. Is it strength and courage? Maybe, its wisdom or understanding. Whatever it may be, it is our duty to leave a legacy that can help transform our community and the lives of the generations that come after us. Whatever “it” is, you must be able to beam bright with actions that represent hope, faith, and power. I pray that our youth are able to find what their strengths are and share them in the world so that the “it” that they represent or aim to achieve, radiate throughout the world to the people who need that one particular gift most….

Olympians and Paralympians have united to help encourage fitness in a unique community driven format. Targeting middle school children World Fit is working to create a culture of fitness for adults and children in the United States. Fitness is important for you to have a healthy and happy lifestyle. World Fit can serve as the catalysts to kick start your fitness program or to augment your current activity. Visit the site today to learn more information. I am the featured Olympian for the month!!!