Ahhh summertime! The joyous (translation: stinking HOT) season here in Arizona full of pool time, popsicles, and playing with my kids. However, it’s also a time of pressure to cram in as many quality experiences as possible in just a few short months. It seems nearly impossible to prepare for all of the things on our summer bucket list, and before we know it, August is here, and we’re already in back-to-school mode. To save you time (and some sanity) in preparing your summer calendar, I’ve gathered some of my favorite and most popular blogs?from smoothie recipes to staying fit to kid-friendly activities?all in one place!
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BONUS: To get you started on your summer transformation journey and beyond, we’re running the FIRST?and maybe the last?LIFETIME subscription special to The TRANSFORM App! For ONLY $299, you can get a lifetime (that’s decades!!!) of over 430 (and counting!) yummy recipes, a customized nutrition and workout program that adjusts as you progress towards your goals, and amazing and inspiring Life Lessons (the TRUE key to transformation!), all backed up with content and videos galore.
And lucky for you…I?m giving away TWO of these LIFETIME ACCESS MEMBERSHIPS right here on the blog…for FREE! Scroll to the bottom of the blog for details on how YOU and a friend can win free coaching with us on the app for the rest of your life!!
Ummmm?but back to the sale. If you do the math, it?s like buy 20 months, get the rest of your life for FREE! So what are you waiting for? This (maybe) once in a lifetime deal ends May 31st, so go sign up now at www.thetransformapp.com, or click -> here! Then head back here and continue reading?.
**NOTE: If you sign up today and end up winning, you have my word we will refund you the money!
Now on to the important stuff …?
My Favorite Ways to Stay Fit This Summer: Preparing your summer bod starts way before the temperatures hit the 100s and continues throughout the summer!
In order to save you some time researching and planning out your workouts for the summer, I’ve put together my top four favorite workouts to keep you fit (while still leaving you time for the kids!):
- Four Minute Tabata Workout
- Oxygen Magazine Booty Building Workout
- Dog Friendly Workout
- Top Ten At-Home Exercise for Total Body Toning
*And if you’re just beginning your transformation journey or want some amazing transformation tools, here is THE all-in-one post (filled with lots of links!) to get you started: How to Begin Your Transformation Journey?Step-by-Step
My Go-To Smoothie and Shake Recipes: On a hot summer day (and really, any day, right?), a smoothie or shake is a perfect meal! Smoothies help pack in those healthy micronutrients without even realizing you’re drinking your veggies.
They’re also a great way to stay cool and save yourself some time with meal prep?exactly what this mama needs with four littles running around all season long. Just add the ingredients to your blender and voila! Total plus: All of the recipes below are Powell Pack approved, kid-friendly treats that our family loves to drink! YUM.
Top Family Activities + Family Workouts: For me, summer is all about savoring that extra time with the kids and trying new things. While swimming and splash pads are a great way to cool down, we can’t ignore the fact that workouts are still a necessity too!
Adding a kid-friendly element to things like a Tabata workout is a great way to stay fit AND enjoy quality time as a family. Fit some “screen free” time into your daily summer schedule and get your whole family moving this summer with some of my favorite kid-friendly activities below.
- Mommy & Me Tabata Workout
- Get Outside and Celebrate Earth Day!
- March Madness!!!! A Powell Pack Family Workout
- Powell Pack Workout | Deck of Cards
- 5 Spring Break Activities for a Fit Family
Here’s to a happy, healthy, fulfilling summer full of wonderful moments with your family! What’s on your summer bucket list?! I want to know your summer plans?I might need to steal an idea or ten! Leave your comments below and share your ideas!
Now…for the giveaway! To enter to win LIFETIME access to The TRANSFORM App for you and a friend, follow these simple steps:
- Comment below and tell me why you should win this life-changing prize!
- Find my Facebook or Instagram post about this giveaway and tag your friend who you would love to give the other membership to!
The giveaway ends this Sunday (May 27, 2018) at midnight, and the lucky winner will be randomly chosen and announced on Monday! And please feel free to enter as many times as you want. 🙂
xo,
Heidi
And here are even more posts you might enjoy!
3 Ways to Stay Fit This Summer!
Fun in the Sun: Healthy Summer Popsicles!
Yummy Summer Strawberries ?n Almond Creme
Making Summer Night Memories
Sexy Summer Shoulders
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Wonderful opportunity. I?ve struggled with weight loss and being healthy my entire life. No one showed me, it was eat whatever, whenever. I?d love the opportunity to show my family what living a healthy life style could look like. Especially my sister who has health issues. To set that example would be amazing.
I struggle to stay motivated on my own. I lost a little over 50lbs a year ago and gained a little less than half back. I?m working on getting back into healthy habits for life.
My sister would definitely be my life time gym partner!! We have always been close an trying to loose weight an get healthy is one thing we try An struggle with on a daily!! We would be forever greatful!!!!
I would love the opportunity to show moms out there that no matter your lifestyle and fitness level, you can achieve anything. I?m an avid fitness mom: I don?t need to loose weight but love a challenge and am always trying to get to a better fitness level. I?ve done almost every type of workout and showcase healthy meals on my Instagram as well as have done articles as a writer on fitness and health in the past. Instead of being the one who needs to lose weight I?d like to show those who are already working out regularly how to achieve a better fitness level and more toned physique by following the meal and fitness plan. There?s a huge demographic for this that has been forgotten about yet you two definitely represent.
I would LOVE this opportunity for many reasons. The biggest one being these last 20lbs! I have lost 130 lbs and kept it off for over 14 years. I have lost the same 20lbs two times and it keeps coming back. I need help to take it off for the LAST time and keep it off!
I would be so honored and lucky to win this prize. This giveaway is the most exciting one I?ve seen in awhile as it would be a chance to have a tool that would allow me to take care of myself while balancing a busy schedule. I?ve been a nurse for almost ten years specializing in cardiac care. My patients inspire me to be healthier and live the best life I can. I also want to be an inspiration for those around me which is so hard with such a busy schedule and long hours. I?d be forever grateful to be given this gift of health 🙂 having you both as trainers (in a sense) would be the ULTIMATE dream
First, I want to acknowledge everyone that has commented and poured their heart out for a chance at this opportunity. There are some amazing people here and I do not envy the person that has to choose who wins! ?
Second, thank you Heidi & Chris!! You are helping change lives and that is why all of us are here commenting. You two (and your team) are motivating and inspiring and I LOVE your instastories!! You provide knowledge and entertainment and it?s greatly appreciated!
I am trying to win this opportunity mainly for my husband. He is having some serious health issues lately and has finally agreed (due to my encouragement aka concerned nagging lol) that he needs to focus on his health. He has seen many specialists and made multiple ER trips for what seem to be ?unexplained? health issues. We found out that he has a brain tumor, but have been told that is not causing his current issues. Most recently he has been battling an episode of Bell?s Palsy (facial paralysis) for the last 9 months. He has a very stressful job, doesn?t sleep well and would like to lose 20-30 pounds.
For the last year, he has been denying that his lifestyle needs to change. Last weekend we went back home for a wedding and some close friends expressed their concern and it clicked that it wasn?t just his wife being overly worried or a nag! ? He can be a bit stubborn and thinks he?s unbreakable haha. He has also been blessed with amazing genes and never had to workout or watch what he ate growing up because he played sports and stayed active. He has never had to go to the gym to workout! I know, it drives me nuts too lol. He admitted to me that he wants to start working out, but doesn?t know where to start. I really believe that this opportunity can help him take that first step that he badly needs while providing guidance to stay on course.
As for me, I?ve had my own serious health issues (Crohn?s, adrenal fatigue, malnourishment) and I do my best to live a healthy lifestyle, but it?s hard when your spouse isn?t on the same page. Plus, I would really love to feel comfortable lifting weights and have strength. I feel like my husband and I are finally ready to get on the same track; however we need guidance and accountability. The lifetime app would be life changing for both of us!!
If you read through all of that, thank you! I feel some relief getting it out. It was lengthy, yet the cliff notes version lol.
Have a wonderful day!!
I don?t really have a long-drawn out story about why I deserve this more than anybody else – I don?t know that I do. What I do know is that I am a nursing student who is 5 months postpartum with my second baby. I took block one finals, had my sweet man a week later, and returned 4 weeks after that to kick nursing school?s ass for the next 4 months while also juggling a 2 year old and a husband who is also in school and working. I work really hard for my little family, and I?m ready for a little something for me right now. ??
So my wife and I are quite abut over weight. The typical story of letting ourselves go by getting into the routine of take kid to school, work, come home, eat, watch TV, sleep then rinse and repeat. All of a sudden, you look at each other when clothes don’t fit anymore and say “we have to do something about our weight…and…nothing happens. We’re tired because we’re fat and eat like crap. We eat like crap because we’re tired. The cycle is seemingly never ending!
We both have a solid 80 lbs to be lost for each of us and it seems like such a daunting and expensive journey.
5-6 years ago we were both in much better shape. I have been through a weight loss journey before when I trained to be an Air Force Officer. I was 260 lbs and had to get to 180. I did so in 4 months! I think I ate every single chicken and head of broccoli on the planet and sweat a swimming pools worth of sweat by using a sweat suit when I ran (yes, I understood the dangers of it but I had a passionate goal to serve our great country). Long story short, I met the goal, did so good on the AFOQT entrance exam I was told I could be a fighter pilot…BUT…the Surgeon General emailed me and said he’s sorry but I’m disqualified to serve beause I have genetically misaligned knee caps (which are prone to dislocation).
I…was…devistated!!! I MAY have worked out a total of 5 times since then and this was 2013. I quickly fell into what I now recognize as a depressive state and became addicted to pizza and fast food. Here it is 5 years later and I’ve allowed myself to balloon back to 260 lbs and I’m miserable. Everyone around me can see it. Even the waitress at Waffle House saw it and said something!!
My wife and I NEED change and need it now!
I?m on a lifetime journey of making myself the best I can be, so what better than a lifetime membership to transform?!?! I need it in my life for sure! I have loved every minute I?ve had with the app so far! So please pick me! I?d write more, but I?m the probably the most unlucky person alive and will never win. Unless you decide to sprinkle some transform magic dust my way!
There are so many deserving of this opportunity, but I need this to save my Dad?s life. He has been diabetic for over 30 years and was recently placed on the kidney transplant list. I am a match, but cannot even consider donating a kidney until I lose weight. I need to get healthy to save him. Plus, it?s time I start taking care of my body. My children deserve a mother that will be around for a very long time.