Welcome to Your BEST ME 2012

Gibsons Health & Wellness Community Challenge!

The Gibsons Health & Wellness Community Challenge is an exciting community-building initiative utilizing fitness.  

In Fall 2011, I approached two businesses in Gibsons that were already involved in promoting, educating and offering expertise as well as products related to fitness and wellness. Together, we designed the BEST ME 2012 Challenge and are excited to now invite YOU to accept the challenge.

Step #1: COMMIT TO THE CHALLENGE – To get started, please click here to register online.  By doing so, you will receive regular tips, motivation, healthy recipes, notices of community events and classes, plus much more to help keep you focused on your goals.  Click here to join us on Facebook and stay connected with other challenge participants.  Let’s build the BEST ME 2012 Community!

Step #2: Call HOWE SOUND PHARMACY at 604.886.3365 to book and complete your initial complimentary health & wellness consultation, set your goal(s) with their help and invest your $25 refundable Challenge Kit – a deposit which is returned to you when your goals are met.  Or, donated on your behalf to the local food bank if they are not met.

 

Step #3: FIGURE OUT YOUR GAME PLAN FOR SUCCESS!  To help you with this, we are building a success toolkit filled with special offers, incentives, coupons, trial passes and much, much more!  Continually check back as new partners announced on Facebook each week and added to the toolkit.

Step #4: STAY ACCOUNTABLE WITH QUARTERLY CHECK-INS TO MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS.  Visit Howe Sound Pharmacy at the end of each quarter to measure your progress and review your goals.

Step #5: ENTER TO WIN! Stay motivated with our great incentives!  Meet your goals within your specified deadline, and you will be entered into our quarterly draw for some great prizes!

• Marketplace IGA Gibsons gift card for free groceries!
• Fitness vacation getaway!
• Personal makeover –spa treatment, hair, make-up and a new outfit
• More to come!

Your success is directly linked to your actions~ what you eat to fuel your body, how often you move and stretch your body and how you keep yourself motivated, accountable and focused on your goals.  Your success toolkit will help you with each of these important aspects. Here’s just a few to get you started:

Your Tool Kit for Success!

Click here to listen to a podcast on Eating for Energy.  Simple, sensible, SUSTAINABLE success strategies shared by CSJ.

This is a 60-minute podcast so you will likely listen to it in sections.  Alot of great information boiled down to its simplest form.

We’re trying to make it as easy as possible for you to succeed!  Click here to see your BEST ME 2012 Grocery List featuring healthy food choices at Marketplace IGA Gibsons and where to find them in-store.  We are also working on in-store signage (BEST ME 2012) so these healthy choices will literally ‘pop’ into view while you are shopping.

GROCERY LIST – Best Me 2012 version

Here’s a simple full-body at-home workout that requires NO equipment: 1 minute cardio, squats, push-ups, ab crunches, glute lifts and planks.  All you need to succeed. Start with 1 circuit of 12 repetitions per exercise. Work up to 2 circuits. Then 3. Complete this full-body workout 3x per week.  It will take you about 20 minutes.  Then add a 20-to-30 minute cardio session on alternative days (walking, biking, skating, swimming, cardio machines, an aerobics class, nia – your choice) to keep your heart and lungs happy!  Enjoy. 

SUCCESS TOOLKIT Deals, Incentives & Special Offers for BEST ME 2012 Participants:

•  Work through CSJ’s 90-Day Online Fitness Transformation – a PROVEN simple, sensible and successful fitness and fat-loss program that you can do anywhere, anytime delivered to your inbox weekly.  BEST ME DEAL $99 pp or $79 pp buddy pass (2 people sign up at the same time); regular price $179 pp.  Click here to register now.
• Sometimes you need someone to check in with on a regular basis – a cheer-leader, a coach, a lifestyle mentor.  Charlene SanJenko offers Lifestyle Mentoring to help keep you focused and accountable to your goals.  Weekly check-in appointments in-person, by telephone or Skype help to keep you motivated, on-track and accountable.  BEST ME DEAL $40/30 minute session.
• Every Friday from 12:15-1 pm meet us at Marketplace IGA Gibsons for a Fabulous Food Friday in-store tour.  This complimentary service will help you become better acquainted with the healthy food options available at IGA and where to find them in the store.
• Jen at Curves in Gibsons is offering  a 1-week FREE trial pass + 1 free zumba OR aerobics class to all BEST ME 2012 participants.  She’s also including a special incentive for a 3-month membership for just $175 (regular $253.12).
• Shohei Juku Aikido is offering a free class at their regularly scheduled Open Houses (various times of the year, msg them). BEST ME 2012 participants can purchase a one-month membership for just $50, regular price $75.  M/W/F 7-8 pm. Adults only. Participants are not required to attend all classes.
• Mary Shaw and MYoga are offering BEST ME 2012 participants the opportunity to try one free yoga class! Free passes will be included in your BEST ME folders.  Thanks Mary!
• Register for the BMO Sunshine Coast April Fool’s Run and as a BEST ME 2012 participant you’ll receive this complimentary sports bag – what a great incentive!