Bikini Boot Camp BLOG

Laurie's 9:30am Deep South-Calgary class took the 50 Burpee Challenge (and yes, they did them all in a row without taking a break!) Way to go ladies! Here are a couple of pictures, and they are still smiling after all was said and done!

Challenge your class to do the 50 Burpee Challenge and send us your pictures! Let's see if we can hit 500 Burpees!! That's 10 classes at 50 Burpees each! Can it be done? You decide!

Send in your pictures to blog@bikinibootcamp.ca!

Happy Burpees!

This weekend our Prince Albert Bikini Boot Campers will venture out on the Jingle Bell Walk and Run for Arthritis! I hope the weather is great! I look forward to hearing all about your experiences, and if you have any pictures, please send them to us at blog@bikinibootcamp.ca.

As we all wind down with our fall session, have you had a chance to reflect on all that you've accomplished! Take the time! You've come a long way! For some of us, just finding the time to workout is the first goal.

Have you achieved your goals? Is it time to re-evaluate a goal? Or make new ones? What is the one thing that you remember most about your trainer and your Fall Program? What do you want to take with you as you jump into Late-Fall? (other than a toque and mittens!! )

Remember that Bikini Boot Camp is for you, we'd love to hear from you!

Halloween is almost here, and some of us will have to change our clocks back tomorrow night too! Those of you in a Bikini Boot Camp workout tomorrow, I hope you'll all be wearing your costumes! Trainers, send me the pics!

Are you all ready for those little trick or treaters? Do you have any of your own? Have any pictures you want to share? Send them to me at blog@bikinibootcamp.ca.

Have a safe and happy halloween everyone!

This year once again Bikini Boot Camp will host teams in the Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis. We'll have teams in Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert. You can run or walk; distances range from 1km to 10km with many in between.

Come join our Jingle Bell Run Crew, this is an event we dress up for and jingle our way around the course!

We'll start off in Prince Albert on November 1st with Mel as our Jingle Bell Run trainer! Then on November 8th it will be Kristin in Regina and Sandi in Saskatoon, and finally on November 15th Sheena will be your trainer.

This is a great event and there are prizes for best costumes!

For more information please feel free to contact your Jingle Bell run trainers!

mel@bikinibootcamp.ca
kristin@bikinibootcamp.ca
sandi@bikinibootcamp.ca
sheena@bikinibootcamp.ca

We look forward to seeing you there!

Emerald Lake Lodge was amazing! For me it was a place to relax, and be at one with nature. It was a chance to reconnect with old friends and enjoy the company of new friends. It was a weekend of great conversation, exhilarating workouts, beautiful walks, a hike and that's just the start.

Thank you to Dawn and Lindsay for putting on such a great event, I really look forward to the next one!

"My question to the Universe?" ~ When will the next retreat be?

To the rest of the retreat women, you really are amazing! I learned so much from each of you and look forward to many more fabulous moments together.

Pictures will be coming to the website soon.

Bikini Boot Camp would like to congratulate Kate De Kruif from Kelowna! Way to go! Kate's name was randomly drawn for a free Bikini Boot Camp program, valued at $375. Just for blogging with us! The odds were leaning in her favour as she had an amazing 12 entries. Keep up the blogging Kate we love to hear from you!

Emerald Lake Lodge: Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts is teaming up with Bikini Boot Camp

"Yesterday's travellers were adventurers in search of the extraordinary. They came by rail and horse-drawn coach to a summer retreat on the shores of exquisite Emerald Lake. Legendary guide Tom Wilson first discovered Emerald Lake in 1882 during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The CPR built the original guest lodge in 1902. By the mid-1920s the lodge had been expanded and road improvements made it possible to reach the resort by car.

Since then, the Canadian Government has permitted no additional development. Now the area remains one of Canada's most outstanding year-round accessible wilderness settings. Following extensive renovations in 1986, Emerald Lake Lodge re-opened as an exclusive year-round vacation and business destination. The historic Lodge remains the heart of the resort, which is located in Yoho National Park, just 25 miles west of Lake Louise." ~ www.crmr.com

This is a weekend that you don't want to miss! Take some time for yourself this weekend! Come join us in the Rockies for fun and fabulous Bikini Boot Camp workouts, hiking, morning walks around the lake, an evening of wine tasting, and plenty of time to relax and visit with great women.

Price per night per person:

Based on double occupancy (2 people sharing) $217.50+GST
Based on single occupancy $297+GST

CALL NOW! 1-800-663-6336

** If you're looking for a roommate, please contact info@bikinibootcamp.ca.

This year's Bikini Boot Camp Bras for a Cause free workout was a huge success! The weather was a brisk 5C, but that didn't stop approximately 80 women showing up with 800 bras! That equates to about 10 bras each but don't be fooled. With a contest underway to see who could bring the most bras, we had some women that not only came to workout, they came to win!

First place - 185 bras - Shelley Gibbens - Amazing!

Second place - 122 bras - Pam Lefebvre - Outstanding!

Third place - 65 bras - Marie McEachern - Awesome!

A big thank you to Annie for running the show on Sunday with her fabulous leg-warmer warmup!

Trainers, Laurie, Robyn, Elaine, Kelly and Kate put participants through their paces in a challenging workout! A shout out to Sarah, Eileen, Joanne, Stacey and Robin for all their help keeping everything running smoothly. Thank you all for volunteering your time for such a great cause!

A final special thank you to Kate for taking the bras to Chinook Centre and getting a little on-air mention on Vibe 98.5!

See you all next year!

Here's a few pictures, more to be posted on the website soon!

22 fabulous Bikini Boot Camp participants, trainers and owners met at Union Square this morning for our Bikini Boot Camp Friendship Run, led
by our fabulous trainer Sheena. We ran through the streets of San Francisco in preparation for tomorrows big event, with many spectators
already cheering us on! Other fun activities today included a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge and lunch at Ghirardelli Square. We look forward to joining these 24,000+ ladies tomorrow in a run of a lifetime!

Will blog more tomorrow! Stay tuned!

Dawn and Lindsay

Hello there fellow bloggers! Our "Come Blog with Us Contest" has closed. The random winner will be announced shortly.

Don't stop blogging now, keep blogging!!!

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I'd like to take this time to wish all of the 22 Bikini Boot Camp women about to embark on a trip to San Francisco as part of our Bikini Boot Camp Team in this year's Nike Women's Marathon. The race is this Sunday, October 18th. They will be running along side 20,000 other amazing women. At the end of their journey they will be greeted by a handsome San Francisco firefighter in a tuxedo with a Tiffany necklace, designed especially for the race participants.

You've been training since April, and now the time has come. For some of you it's your first half or full marathon! Way to go! Enjoy it, knowing that we are all here routing you on from afar. We know you'll do awesome!

San Francisco is a beautiful city to run through, remember to look around, not just at the pavement ahead. If you get to that point when you wonder why did I sign up for this, remember the reason you joined Bikini Boot Camp, and how far you've come since that first workout! You can do it and you are amazing!

The 2007 Nike Women's Marathon was my first (and currently only) and it was great! Sheena was my running coach and she did an amazing job at preparing me for my marathon. Thank you Sheena! You are the BEST! She's got your back ladies! She brought you this far in your training and now it's your turn to shine!

I can't wait to hear about your experience, and pictures, we have to see some pictures.

There's less than a week to go, have you raided your underwear drawer yet? Call all your girlfriends, get them to gather up all their old, unwanted bras, and bring them down to Edworthy Park on Sunday morning for our Free Bras for a Cause workout! Don't worry the weather is supposed to be great, this is Calgary after all and the weather is always changing. Isn't it amazing how we can go from +30C one week, and down to zero the next, then snow a few days later, but have no fear, the sun will shine through, well at least that's what the weatherman is predicting!

For more information and to register for this wonderful event, go to Bikini Boot Camp Schedule Page

Prizes will be awarded to the participant with the most bras!!!

Happy Thanksgiving from Bikini Boot Camp!

Did you have your turkey dinner yet? I had mine on Saturday. This was the first year that I didn't overstuff myself like a turkey! For me it was all about portion control, and eating slowly. I had a little bit of everything and could still see some of my plate. That's a huge step for me at these functions. But I felt so awesome the rest of the night. I didn't have to sit on the couch and take a nap.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to join me on this blog! Thank you to all the wonderful women I have met through my workouts, you're all amazing and you inspire me to keep going!

To the trainers, I'm thankful for all your imaginative ideas that you bring to the workouts that keep me coming back for more, no matter how hard you work me!

To the owners, I thank you for creating such a great program for women! I enjoy waking up each day and coming to work, it's always an adventure!

To the rest of the support staff, thanks for all your hard work. You keep us rolling along!

To my family for always being there, and being so wonderful, each day is a memory and for that I'm thankful!

Forget Fall - We're into WINTER workouts!

We no longer have any temperatures above 0 and the snow has continued to fall. Our first workout with snow was on Thursday and it was a chilly one with temperatures feeling like -4. Krista just pushed us that much more to stay warm and that we did! I even had to strip to my base layer for a small duration of the class and my pecs are still sore today! Great workout Krista, Kerry and Alana!

Hope everyone else enjoys the snow and chilly workouts like we did!

Stay Warm,
Alana