Take a peek back with
us as we remember all of the amazing things that we've been up to this year!
Can you believe that
2013 is coming to a close? This year has been filled with some great memories
and the opportunity to meet some amazing new faces and continue doing what we
LUV! Thank you for making our job the best job out there!
So without further ado we present to you our YEAR IN REVIEW!
2nd Annual iluvthis Bootcamp BE[CAUSE] - A Burpee Can Make a Difference
On April 13 2013, we hosted our 2nd Annual iluvthis Bootcamp BE[CAUSE] charity event to
raise money for Free-Them, an Oakville-based charity committed to stopping and helping victims of human trafficking right here at home in the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe.
A challenging team circuit kicked off the morning with tonnes of sweat and grunting but everyone finished with a smile. This is a family event, so a mini-bootcamp class for kids was next on deck (we start ‘em doing burpees young here at JQ!). To finish off our morning, Johanna and our trainers got over 130 participants pumped up with a high-energy kickboxing session and then had so much fun with our large bootcamp class.
A challenging team circuit kicked off the morning with tonnes of sweat and grunting but everyone finished with a smile. This is a family event, so a mini-bootcamp class for kids was next on deck (we start ‘em doing burpees young here at JQ!). To finish off our morning, Johanna and our trainers got over 130 participants pumped up with a high-energy kickboxing session and then had so much fun with our large bootcamp class.
With your support and
participation, we were able to raise more than $10,000 to fight again human
trafficking.
There
were free massages for the participants, an awesome chat from Dr. Jason Lee of Innermedica and some delicious goodies baked by Deb over at Gourmet Mom – yum! We had such a
great time. If you were there with us THANK YOU for supporting Free-Them. If you weren’t there, don’t worry one little bit
because we’ve got another event coming up in February so you can get in on the
fun as well J
Our
event was featured in an article in the Invidiata The Collection magazine with the photography of Simon Remark from Ecstatic Photography–
New Hamilton & Brampton Bootcamp locations!
This summer marked the launch of our Hamilton & Brampton locations! We've been so blessed in our ability to expand into over 15 locations across the GTA – we LUV bringing fitness and our community as close to you as possible and are so excited to open up new locations so that you can reap the benefits of our bootcamps!
We’ve been hearing
some great feedback from these sites and are looking forward to seeing how they
grow to be a bigger part of the iluvthis Bootcamp family.
Mississauga Waterfront Festival
We celebrated this year's Mississauga Waterfront Festival in Port Credit with kids
fitness demonstrations and a fun booth! If you dropped by our booth, we
held an awesome bootcamp challenge where a few brave souls slammed that
medicine ball into the ground and squatted-and-pressed that kettlebell as many
times as they could in 30 seconds – we had a male and female winner who
received a free 5 week bootcamp session.
Valiant efforts were
taken by the men on stilts - (unfortunately they didn’t win the challenge…)
Locke St Festival
At the trendy Locke St Festival in Hamilton, our trainers Tanya and Emily along with Melissa braved the rain in
the morning to hangout with our Hamilton crowd. Our tent didn’t fare as well in the rain as we did though…
Jeff and Johanna arrived in the afternoon to a clearing sky! Once again, our booth became the centre of attention as we challenged people with our kettlebells and medicine balls. Locke St. is such a unique street. So much so, we decided to move our Hamilton site right onto Locke St. at Melrose United Church!
Half Marathon Clinic & 10th Annual Nike Women's Half Marathon
Summer is the time that we invite all our running clients and those that want to be runners to join us to start with a 5km run and progress to a 21.1km Half Marathon over 16 weeks of training.
As we have done over the past several years, we capped the clinic off with a trip to San Francisco to run the 10th Annual Nike Women's Half Marathon with 30,000 other women and a few good men! Our trainer Amanda took the reins this year and guided everyone to a successful half marathon finish! We rocked the race...
As we have done over the past several years, we capped the clinic off with a trip to San Francisco to run the 10th Annual Nike Women's Half Marathon with 30,000 other women and a few good men! Our trainer Amanda took the reins this year and guided everyone to a successful half marathon finish! We rocked the race...
(not to mention the FAB tutu’s that we all modeled!) did
you really expect anything less?
We luved crossing the
finish line to claim our Tiffany’s finished necklaces handed to us by handsome
firemen in tuxedo’s!
Celebration of our 5 Year Fat Fighting Bootcamp Anniversary!
In June 2008, we started 2 bootcamp classes in Mississauga. We gave it our all, packing those 8 weeks with great people and great workouts. Well, we haven't looked back! Little did we know that iluvthis Bootcamp would evolve into a top notch fat loss and strength and conditioning program that would change people's lives and inspire health in thousands! Five years later, we have a team of 9 caring and inspiring trainers that are dedicated to coaching our community of participants across 15 locations in Brampton, Burlington, Etobicoke, Hamilton, Milton, Mississauga and Oakville.
To celebrate our 5 years, we gave away some sweet swag bags – with water bottles, pens and our special edition #BurpeesForBreakfast t-shirts this fall! What an amazing 5 years it’s been…
I mean who doesn’t LUV free swag…
Tabata, Kickboxing and Core Small Group Fitness Classes
This fall marked the
launch of our Small Group Fitness classes in Burlington, Oakville and Mississauga. We launched with 3 classes to choose from: Fat Blasting Interval Training Tabatas, High Energy Cardio Kickboxing and a Core Ripping Stability Ball class! All of which
continue in the new year with NEW LOCATIONS ADDED.
4th Annual Freedom Walk for Free Them
In September we participated in the 4th annual FREEDOM WALK for Free-Them where we were honoured with the iStand Award, thanking us for our efforts to help abolish modern day slavery by raising $21,000 over the last 2 years. We then warmed up the walkers and off we went... to make a difference!
Girl's Night You - Beautiful You
In November, we hosted our
first Beautiful You event, where Johanna talked about how the media
affects how women perceive themselves and their value. It was an amazing ladies
night and one that we will absolutely do again! Its such a privilege to remind
the amazing ladies in our lives how special and truly beautiful they are!
During this event we
also held a balloon raffle to raise money for Free-Them and ate delish goodies
baked once again by Deb at Gourmet Mom! It was so amazing to see so many of you out for
this. Johanna’s talk was honest,
informative and refreshing and we hope that you were inspired to embrace your
inner beauty and value – we know we were!
It’s really been an amazing year and we're so blessed to have been able to share it with you! We hope you’ll be able to join us in 2014 as we keep pursuing our health and fitness goals and hopefully inspire you to do the same…
So from our JQ Fitness family
to yours… MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
xx
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