One day at work one of my friends mentioned there was a kettlebell class in Crown Point, I had no idea what kettlebell was so I figured I would check out the website. After looking over IFC website, I figured this might be interesting so I made an appointment to meet with Coach Angela. While meeting with Angela, she asked me on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad did I want this. I thought about it and … [Read more...]

“Joining the 8 week body challenge has definitely been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life! I have tried many, many ways of losing weight without any success. Sure, I would lose five pounds and then gain ten later. But with these workouts not only are you losing weight but gaining LOTS of muscle. It is not easy but it definitely works. As I recall the first day that we worked out at … [Read more...]

"The real beginning of my journey started in August of 2008, in the recovery room after a surgery from a torn rotator cuff as a result of a car accident. I can remember hearing the nurse say “Call the Doctor, he is not breathing” and could feel the nurse rubbing her knuckles on my chest trying to wake me up. I had difficulties breathing due to my morbid obesity. Afterwards, I took a sleep … [Read more...]

“Before I started this challenge, I was in not such a good place. For the last 5 years, I had been caring for my son who was a cancer patient (now in remission) and also has special needs. I let his health completely get to me in the sense of I was so focused and determined to get him better that I lost sight of me. I was always an active person and played sports but his cancer took over myself, … [Read more...]

“8 Weeks ago…I felt exhausted beyond belief. Although I didn’t do the challenge as suggested, I would do sit ups, squats, chase the kids outside and a Zumba routine several times and worked with weights a little. 6 weeks into the challenge I saw some results, like got my energy back. I no longer needed coffee to get me going. I felt a little stronger. After 8 weeks, I feel more … [Read more...]

“When I started the challenge I was always tired, had no energy and just didn’t feel like doing anything at all. I have a thyroid disease so I had gained 60 lbs. when I started medicine so nothing was fitting. I didn’t think I had muscles at all. Doing the challenge I just wanted to lose the weight from being sick, get some energy back and sleep at night again. After 6 weeks: The … [Read more...]

"I decided to join the 8 week challenge to lose weight and get fit. It is so hard to find time to go to a gym when you work full time and have kids. I liked that the workouts were done at home with one Saturday morning class. At six weeks – I felt more energetic. I noticed I was not as tired. I did not see results in my clothes although other people kept telling me they could tell I had lost … [Read more...]

"I signed up with Inspiration Fitness in September of 2009. My last body assessment was on February 27, 2010. I'm down 45 pounds and went from 28% body fat to 15% - WOW, need I say more? Actually, yes, I do need to say more because Inspiration Fitness is so much more than numbers dropped on a scale. It's about a trainer who cares about her clients and devotes so much time and energy on … [Read more...]

"In January this year, after the holidays, I was really aware of the pounds that had been sneaking on. I was 20 pounds above where I wanted to be and knew I had to do something. Unfortunately, in late January I slipped and fell on the ice and broke my right radius. Now I was really frustrated because I knew I had to do something, but now had an injury. In February, I saw the ad for Bootcamp … [Read more...]