Carole's home gym and exercise routine:
- 1 Mat (I use a cotton throw $15)
- 2 Five pound hand weights ($20)
- 1 Luggage strap ($8)
- 1 Piece of wood dowling or broom handle ($3 at a lumber yard)
- 1 Exercise ball ($25-35)
AARP's Fat to Fit Community Challenge
Carole is behind AARP's Fat to Fit Community Challenge
The Fat to Fit Community Challenge is a new virtual community devoted to healthy weight loss. This innovative program is free, it's open to AARP members and nonmembers alike, and all ages can participate.
What Is the Purpose of the AARP Fat to Fit Community Challenge? The Challenge will help you gain control of your life-your cholesterol, your weight and your well-being. You'll be encouraged to find foods you love to eat that won't pack on pounds and to find exercises you love to do.
What Will the AARP Fat to Fit Community Challenge Offer You?
Teams: You can sign up and make new friends, or you can sign up an entire team from your workplace, church or family.
Information: You'll have access to inspirational and educational articles and videos with weight loss success stories, ways to lose weight and tips on how to feel great.
Experts: You can ask experts questions on nutrition, fitness and challenges.
Cooking: Each week, you'll find a calorie-cutting tip that will help you make over family favorites.
Coaching: Dubbed "an Apostle for Fitness" by the Wall Street Journal, Carole Carson will provide inspiration and information to help you reach your fitness goals. Our collective results will be reported on the Web site each week. The Challenge begins April 15, 2009.
Here are two ways to let us know you want to participate. Pick the easiest one for you.
1. Register online at http://www.aarp.org/health/healthyliving/fat2fit/ and join the Fat to Fit Community Challenge group.
2. Go to www.fromfat2fit.com and click on the "Community Challenge" tab. Then click the "sign up" link to register.
Website: www.fromfat2fit.com
About Carole Carson:
Carole Carson, dubbed "An Apostle for Fitness" by the Wall Street Journal, is a fitness advocate and the author of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction, which chronicles her own 62-pound weight loss and the inspirational Nevada County Meltdown. This spring, Carole will serve as the national AARP Fat to Fit Community Challenge Coach, a new virtual community devoted to fitness and healthy weight loss. Visit www.fromfat2fit.com for more information.
Synopsis of the Book:
From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction is the inspiring story of the Nevada County Community Meltdown--where 1,000 people lost 8,000 pounds in 8 weeks, had fun, and found a renewed sense of community. Readers will be motivated by Carole Carson as she goes from fat to fit and loses 62 pounds--spurring a whole community to shape up. Not only a practical manual for achieving weight loss and fitness goals, readers will learn how to overcome denial and isolation and create their own fitness program at work or with neighbors, friends and family.
