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!
Outfit Details: Lululemon Leggings (similar here under $40), Reebok Sports Bra, Reebok Classic sneakers (chrome version here and rose gold here for under $40, last seen here)
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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Pick me! Pick me!!! I?d love, and totally feel I deserve to win this bc I love working out. I worked out up to the day I delivered my babes. I make health a priority, and tho life isn?t always fair (darn hashimotos) I?m trying to make the best of it. Pick me!!! I?ll be your best friend!!! ??
Heidi, I want this app for life!! I?m 53, have been doing the app since Christmas Day ? 2017! Help me stay strong and youthful for life! ????
Hello!
I would be forever grateful to win the lifetime memberships to your transform app! I have been inspired by you and Chris since I started my weight loss journey 5 years ago. I have lost 85 pounds so far, but am stuck and trying to reverse my type two diabetes. I am also in the application process for becoming a law enforcement officer to pursue my dream of becoming a better version of myself that is capable of helping others in need. All I need to do is pass my physical testing! I cannot express what it would mean to my family and I if I was able to train with you through this opportunity and help discover what I am truly capable of. Thank you so much for your consideration!
Winning this would be huge for me. The past 8 years, I?ve been very unhappy with my steady weight gain. I haven?t been motivated enough in the past to do anything about it but this past year, I?ve been on a mission. To create a lifestyle change and exercise habits that will last a lifetime. I need to for myself, my family and my life! I?ve been working out consistently and getting really into it. I want to keep it going and I plan to do so. I?m also an Arizona girl, so that would be amazing to win this!!
Hi!
I would love to win the lifetime membership to the transformation app. My story is a litte long so I will try to make it short and sweet. Basically, I have your typical Binge Eater story. My father was mentally abusive towards myself but physically and mentally abusive towards my Mother which I heard and saw. The only time he didn’t hate us was when we sat down to any meal. This lead to me obsessing over food because food–I thought–is what made us happy and a “normal” family. This and the constant bullying for my size lead to more suicide attempts than I care to count, a cocktail of medications, self harm, and a binge eating disorder. I have fought through diet after diet while still packing on more lbs every time I “failed”. This left me to a total weight of over 340lbs on my 5 foot frame. I have a bigger body, but not that big. In 2014, I made a promise to my grandfather (who was losing his battle to leukemia at the time) that I would lose the weight and live a great life for not only myself but my husband and our daugther. I went back home to Colorado and started my final push to get this weight off once and for all. He ended up passing on Christmas Day that year. That combined with my husband being medically discharged from the Army and my grandmother passing away not even a year after stalled me and put me right back into disordered behaviors circle. When we moved back home to Nevada, I joined our friends’ Crossfit Gym (Crossfit Ampersand in Minden, Nv. They are great!) I have been a member there for almost 3 years but it has not been consistent. I have made some tremendous progress in dealing with my traumas through art therapy and coming home to my body. I no longer want to punish this body as the disorder would like me to believe. I want to care and love this body in my before and my after. I have now started dabbling in powerlifting and just came off of a Whole 100 (a Whole30 but extended). I lost 31lbs (starting weight wss 332.8 on January 15th this year) and I believe that–combined with working in therapy, through my art and diving head first into this whole body positive world–will help me gain my freedom from food addiction and binge eating. Having your app along with my training in Crossfit will allow me to really see just how strong this body can be rather than pointing out all of its flaws. It would truly be an honor and honestly just really freaking awesome to win.
Thank you for providing this opportunity for everyone and thank you for your continued commitment in helping everyone see their worth despite the size of their bodies.
Hi guys!
I?m a young wife and mother of two, and just found out we?ll be having our third (our youngest boy is nine months old)! My body is going to appreciate finally getting into the best shape ever, since my first pregnancy was when I was extremely young (resulting in an adoption, which was an amazing experience for myself and for her adoptive parents!).
Between being a ful time RN, a soon-to-be mama of three, a four year student, a wife, and moving into a new home, I need a way to stay focused and motivated to continue lifting (while saving money because WOW childcare is pricey!).
I don?t really ?deserve? this any more than any other person. I do need it, though. I need something that can allow me to keep up with our boys and let me dedicate as much time/energy as possible toward raising them.
You two inspire me not only in my fitness journey, but also in my marriage and my relationship with my amazing kiddos.
With love,
Elsa (and all of her McGuire boys)
My Husband and I have been married for almost 11 years now, and we are expecting baby #4. With each pregnancy, I have gained more and more weight and have struggled to try and lose weight. I played many sports when I was younger, so I know what it means to work hard physically and mentally. I crave that high you get after an amazing work out, and I wish more than ever to fit in clothes that are smaller than plus-size. (I need to lose 100 pounds to be at an ideal weight for my height).
My Husband also needs to lose weight, and it would be fun for us to do it together. Your weight loss show was my favorite, and you both are genuine and down to earth with 4 kiddos of your own. I feel like your app would finally be the push we need to change our lives for the better. Thank you so much for the chance to win!
It would be great to win the giveaway. I admire you and Chris, your dedication and hard work is something I like and would enjoy learning from the both of you. You help a lot of people and that to me is powerful. I want to be part of that experience.
I would like to first off thank you and Chris and the whole Transform team for such an amazing app! I?ve only been on it for three weeks and have lost 5lbs so far! It?s motivated me so much in just these few short weeks. Motivation has been hard to muster up throughout this last year. I was diagnosed with M.S. (Multiple Sclerosis) it?s been a lot to take in and try to get used to. I have 3 young girls (2,4,8) and a husband. It?s been very hard on our family to say the least. In the last year I?ve had multiple rounds of MRI?s, 13 infusions of my MS drug Tysabri, 2 rounds of IV steroid treatments and so many needle pokes I?ve lost count (I?m an extremely hard stick)
But after a very hard year I can happily say I am now stable, for the time being at least. I thought when I was diagnosed that my life was over. My doctor told me if I didn?t attack this now then I would be in a wheelchair in less than a year. But not only that I was told the drug they wanted me to go on runs a chance of killing me if I get a rare brain infection. So either way I was pretty much screwed but I couldn?t just sit around and let this disease kill me. I decided to do the infusions they wanted me to and I?ve never looked back.
When I found this app I just figured it was just another weight loss app but I was so so wrong! It?s so much more than that! And the Facebook community you?ve all created is just so inspiring! I?ve got the old me back! The girl who loved working out! The girl who believed in herself! I can?t thank you guys enough for doing this me! I really lost who I was over the last year and I just didn?t know how to get her back.
I?m not going to sit here and tell you all these silly reasons why I think I deserve this app for a lifetime. Weather I?m picked or not I?m going to use this app forever! I?m never going back to where I was a year ago in the darkest part of my life! I can?t thank you guys enough for bringing me out of that darkness! I really mean that!
Good luck to everyone who enters! This truly is an amazing opportunity! Thank you guys for doing this! You two are absolutely amazing and extremely inspiring!
Because I admire you and Chris and what you guys stand for and would like to be able to follow a similar healthy lifestyle.