The 2009 "Resolution Season" is underway...but with a little darker outlook than previous years.  In the recent past, it was not uncommon to have a great sense of optimism and enthusiasm for the coming year, but this year, the economy is angry...and that is making it hard for people to get excited about anything!

We are coming to the rescue (kind of...).  We have hosted FREE seminars on dozens of topics related to the fitness and wellness fields over the last five years.  We usually do them for free as a service to the doctors we are partnered with, and we have gotten upwards of 125 people at some of them.  The last two years, we cut back on the free seminars because, honestly, we got too busy to enjoy doing them.. A steady client base, developing and bringing to market our unique Global Warming Salsa Company (an eleven time national award winner in it's first year!), raising a puppy (Cayenne, the official mascot of Houston Fitness and the Chile Pepper approach to exercise), helping with our grandkids, etc, we just let ourselves get overwhelmed!

We realized it wasn't the seminars themselves that we didn't enjoy, it was the preparation and the planning.  Having to find an appropriate room, submit information to the papers, print flyers, make sure we have 100+ copies of each form and handout took a lot of the fun out of doing them.  We liked the crowds and the results were always positive, but exhausting by the time we were done.

We have changed our plan of attack for 2009.  We are going to host the events at each of our studios (one in Highland/Milford and one in Clarkston), and they will be limited to class sizes of 10.  We plan to fill them up very quickly, and we will likely add more event times rather than try to work with larger rooms of people.  We have found that the more private, intimate setting encourages people to relax, socialize more afterwards, and be more assertive in asking questions.  Plus, the biggest advantage of performing them at our studio is the ability to have everything we need in one place.

Our goal when we do these events is to TEACH, not to sell, and not to make people feel guilty about their choices and past activities (we have attended some where it almost seemd the speaker wanted you to feel inferior to them from the opening statement...never liked that approach!).  We hope to inspire and motivate while at the same time making people THINK about their choices and empower themselves to get on a program...whether it is ours, working out at home, or taking it to the gym, we want to see people get the benefits of exercise.  We are tired of hearing about the obesity epidemic and watching people try gimmick after gimmick after gimmick and never reach their goals. 

We also expect to put video education tips from the seminars on our website (I am working on the greenscreen effect as we speak) in short snippets of REAL information, not just rehashed cliches.  Look for the website updates by the end of January, and as always, we encourage you to submit your questions to us.

Watch our blog to see when and where we will be starting the events, and for signup information.