This Sunday 10 JAN 2010 Circuit Athletics will be taking part in the ClarksvilleBrides.com Bridal Exposition at APSU! The event starts at 12pm and lasts until 4pm. The entrance fee is $8 at the door and $4 with preregistration online! Andrea and Hope will be there to represent Circuit Athletics; come stop by and check out our booth!

Circuit Athletics is currently having a sale! If you come in before 15 JAN 2010 and buy a package at full price you’ll receive one month free! This offer will be ending in one week so hurry in to take advantage of this awesome special!

We are proud to announce that we have been approved to accept the following insurance companies as a method of partial payment for our services: Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, TriCare, Aetna, and Medicare/Medicaid. If you are interested in using your medical insurance as a method of payment for our services please call us at 931.552.2804 to find out about our prescreening process.

Circuit Athletics is proud to announce its partnership with ClarksvilleBrides.com.  Circuit Athletics has already helped several brides prepare for their wedding day. 

Whether you want to get toned, drop fat, or lose weight before your Wedding day we have the tools to make that possible.  Our Bridal Bootcamp provides nutrition counseling, health assessments, and three Circuit Training workouts a week.  Come on in and check us out!

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At Circuit Athletics we are dedicated to providing our clients with all the tools necessary to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.  As a step in furthering those efforts we have begun posting healthy eating recipes to our Facebook page.  The recipes that are posted have been reviewed and approved by our registered dietician. Healthy eating can get boring without new ideas which is what we are trying to provide.  Check out our facebook at the link below.  All the recipes are posted in the “Notes” section.  Happy Healthy Cooking!

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Congratulations to Shelbi Parr and the rest of the Clarksville High School Lady Wildcats Basketball Team who are currently undefeated!

Shelbi is a senior at Clarksville High School and has been a Circuit Athletics Client for four months.  Shelbi joined Circuit in order to improve her basketball playing before the start of the season.  Shelbi is an amazing athlete and our program only made her better.  Here at Circuit we offer athletes the opportunity to join our normal training program, as Shelbi did, or to join Sports Specific Training.  Sports Specific Training targets the needs of an athlete and a particular sport in order to gain improvement in specific areas. 

Circuit Athletics Client Sally Ramirez made the news for the lovely story of how her new husband surprised her with a proposal! Check out the story at the link below. Congraulations, Sally!

RING THE BELL!!!! At his latest assessment Bill Kane learned that over the last four months of training he has lost ten pounds, five percent body fat, and 15 total body inches! Way to go, Bill! Keep up the good work!

‘ Tis the season: the holiday weight-gaining season. That’s right, when the family celebrations begin and Christmas songs starts playing on the radio, it is time to start loosening that belt. It is a well-known fact that people gain weight over the holidays, on average between one and seven pounds.
For almost five straight months during the winter season, annual holiday traditions help us pack on the pounds. First there is Halloween, followed by Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s and, finally, Valentine’s Day. All of the cheerful celebrations with turkey and dressing and desserts…oh the desserts, tend to make the waist line grow a few inches.
The worst part about this cheerful routine is that just one month after Valentines’ Day everyone is panicking trying to get the “best body” for spring break. Not only are you hitting the gym to get the body on all of the magazine covers, but you are making up for the 100 desserts you consumed over the holidays.

The post holiday weight loss panic is why I have decided to provide five realistic guidelines to follow when going through the holiday season.

1. Gravy is not “all gravy.” Yes, that magic liquid may make all that stuff on top of your plate taste so much better, but the fact is it is terrible for you! It is basically saturated fat and salt in liquid form. I am not saying to bypass it all together, but use it sparingly. You can also make choices, if you have to have the gravy, do not have something else on your plate that is equally bad for you.

2.Football is not just meant for the NFL. I don’t know about your families, but after a big Thanksgiving dinner my family likes to sit around the television with their full bellies and watch whatever football game is on. Why not having a game of your own? It will help burn some of those calories and get your family to interact in the process.

3.Fat is not an insulator, put on a coat. When the temperature drops a few degrees, put on a jacket not the extra pounds. Fat is not insulating underwear and is not much of an insulator anyway, so no excuses that you are putting on the weight to keep warm!

4.Don’t be the cartoon character that cuts a slice of cake and takes the whole cake. The most tempting part about the holiday season for me, and I don’t think I am alone, is the desserts. It is hard to resist the table full of delicious cakes and pies and I am not advising you to do so, but instead of taking an average slice of cake or pie, try to cut what I like to call a sliver, or split a piece with another person. All of those desserts add up and it is hard to just eat a couple of bites and put the fork down. Put only the serving size you need on your plate that way you aren’t inclined to overeat.

5.Finally, the gym is not closed due to cold weather. Yes, even when it is cold outside and you are wearing those extra layers to cover up your fat, I mean to keep warm, you can still go to that place you go to in the summer to look good in your bathing suit. Even though you are not wearing clothes that show off your body it is a lot easier to maintain your weight over the holidays if you are sticking to some kind of exercise regimen; that way when the time comes for beaches and bikinis you are already prepared.

By Mary Margo Turner

RING THE BELL!! Over the weekend of November 6th, 2009 Dr. Murphy ran ONE MILE this weekend! When Dr. Murphy first started with Circuit Athletics she was nervous about going up and down stairs and now she is in running form! Congratulations, Dr Murphy! You have come a long way! :)