12-Week Advanced Best Shape Challenge
The ADVANCED 12-Week Best Shape of Your Life
Challenge!
- The Next Advanced Challenge Starts September 9th, 2013! For more information on the Advanced Challenge, CLICK HERE!
What is the 12-Week Advanced Best Shape Challenge? Simply put – it’s serious training for the serious woman wanting serious results!
Who should apply? If you’ve been consistent in your weight training for the last 6 months to a year, and / or if you did the 10-Week Best Shape Challenge, then this is the program for you! Welcome!
This ADVANCED Challenge takes us above and beyond any gym program you’ve been doing, and even beyond my 10-Week Best Shape Challenge, so you’ve got to be up for the work! (Please note: – if you’ve had a lay-off and you’re just getting back to it, you may want to consider the 10-Week Best Shape Challenge, for beginners and intermediates).
We’ll be training 4-5 days a week! You will need a gym to train in (no great body got built at home, unless, of course, your home comes with a full gym included!) I’ll teach you everything I know about getting in top-physical form with all the tricks of the training and eating trade - creating a mind-to-muscle connection, carb cycling, zig zagging, explosives, drop sets, negatives, supplements, and more! We’re going for it. You ready?
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With the 12-week Challenge, your goal is simply this: 12 weeks from NOW, you will be in the Best Shape of YOUR Life! And you’ll walk away from it knowing more than almost any trainer out there….I promise you! And if your goals are to one day compete on stage or to see how your body looks when you get there, this program is for YOU! There will be prizes and of course our Final Best Shape Dinner!
- Once you purchase, you’ll be put into the HLP system via email. It’s easy…I’ll walk you through it. Then we’re ready to go!
- I will email you every Friday evening to recap what we’re working on for the week. You’ll be given your password to access the teachings for that week.
- You’ll also have weekly Challengers Coaching Calls so you can ask questions and get the motivation you need! It’s extra support for YOU by ME! (Local dial-in numbers provided).
- Type in your password and you’re in! Watch the exercise videos, print off your workout cards, and print off your nutritional info and support articles. Save them to your binder! You’ll want to refer to them later.
Check out these two former Best Shape winners from 2010, Leanne and Chelsea. After the Challenge ended, they continued to train 5-6 days a week, adopting the BLISS philosophies of hard training and clean eating, and 18 months later, the results speak for themselves! They did so well in transforming their bodies, they both decided to compete! CLICK HERE!
To Purchase the Program, GO HERE!
OK, so let’s get going!
PHASE 1 - Building the Machine!
Weeks 1-3: Overview
In this phase we start building shapely, sexy muscle! We re-visit the basic principals of clean eating and we clean out the cupboards, as well as establishing our current caloric load. In short, we’re getting our bodies, and our brains, back on board! We also look at basic supplementation, some clean shopping ideas, and of course lots of training tips and tidbits to get you in the groove! I’ll also be throwing a bunch of clean eating recipes to get you going! We’ll look at injury, recovery, immune health and more!
We will look at accessing the goddess within through the creation of personal Power Words as we learn to unleash our amazing power within and live as an Empowered Woman! Grab your FOCUS CARDS! We also have to work within our intensity zone (70% to start, which will progress to 80-85% as we move through) so week 2 will have your Are You Intense Enough? video and accompanying LIFTING CHART to use for the duration of the Challenge. Our hard work is not a hit-and-miss thing, it’s science in action!
We’ll be training 4 days a week on a quadruple split, so tighten up your weight training gloves! You’re gonna love it! I promise! (And no cardio for this phase, we need to focus on tightening up our eating and building shapely muscle….so that’s good news!) Are you Ready???
PHASE 2 - Burning the Fat!
Weeks 4-6: Overview
In this phase we learn proven techniques to rev the metabolism and burn the fat. Now that we’ve got shapely muscle being added to your lovely bones, we want to start teaching our bodies how to melt the excess away to reveal your new curves! We look at where your specific caloric needs must be in order to burn fat effectively, and we learn about sports supplements like creatine, glutamine, BCAA’s, D-Ribose and more, and how much we individually need, according to our size, training and goals. No great body was ever built without them…I can guarantee you!
We also look at pre and post workout meals and shakes, and we look at the most important meal of the day (nope, it’s not breakfast)! I show you the power of creating Menu Plans and my two golden rules for losing the weight (and keeping it off!). And we look at two important types of cardio, long slow distance (LSD) and high intensity interval training (HIIT) and we find out where exactly you need to be to be in the fat-burning zone for each, to ensure you’re burning hot!
Oh yeah, and we’re training 5 days a week now, and we’re putting our weights up! We’ve also splintered off glutes so they can have their own designated workout day, because we all need it! (I’ve never heard anyone say…”Oh, my glutes are great, so I don’t have to train them!”). We also look at my two golden rules for long-term fat loss, and we have a bunch of menu plans and recipes! I give you my personal list of clean shopping items from the grocery store, and you receive my 2 E-Books: Karen’s Top 10 Tips for Losing Weight and 50 Rasons to Train! I love giving gifts!
I’ll show you how I mix up my pre a post workout shakes in your video Shake it Up: Pre and Post Perfection with the BIG 5! A must-do for creating the perfect physique!
PHASE 3 – The Nuts ‘n Bolts of Real Training!
Weeks 7-9: Overview
In this phase, we get to the nuts ‘n bolts of training! We take time to assess, really assess, our physique and see what area(s) need more focus. What do you want – wider shoulders? Smaller waist? Fuller quads? A thicker back? Objectivity is key here….take a look at your symmetry and balance and pick one or two key areas (this is where we look beyond the fat and look at our shape and musculature!)We are body sculptors, so let’s sculpt!
This is where the pedal hits the metal as we up our training and keep our muscles off guard! You should never be bored in the weight room when you have so many lifting choices in front of you, so we delve deeper into advanced training techniques like Giant Sets, Explosives, Supersets, Pyramids and more! It’s all in your Advanced Training Techniques videos!. We also step into the secret world of advanced eating practices reserved for elite competitors: carb tapering, zig zagging, playing with percentages (protein up, fat down), carb loading, depleting and more… eating practices for lifelong success! This phase is full-on!
We will learn to prioritize our exercises to get the most from our training, and we learn the fine art of Hari Hachi Bu! And we’ve got the real McCoy of training…come witness real training at its finest as you watch how its done in the real world as I link you up with some of my favourite gals and watch them in action.
Ever thought about competing? ?Maybe now you can!! We’ll chat about that too, with lots of tips and resources for you to ponder your future…..
PHASE 4 – Taking it to the Streets!
Weeks 10-12: Overview
In this phase, we head into the home stretch in style, but we never take our foot off the gas pedal! We want to really unearth all our hard work and to further chisel out our sexy muscles to bring out all the curves! As usual, we stay tight with our eating and continue to strengthen our nutritional profile, and we look at safe fat-burning supplements that have been around a long time. Combined with a good exercise regime, they are the icing on the cake!
We increase our training to 6 days a week (if possible), and we continue to hit our muscles from all directions (multi-dimensional training). We play with supersets, giant sets and pyramids to up the ante! It’s all about progressing, yes? Stale training creates a stale body that looks…well…stale! And we bring up that one lagging body part that we all have…yep, it’s there! We’re sculpting here, ladies!
In this phase, we become one with our muscles….something few trainers ever teach (or know) and fewer gym goers ever experience. Feel the high of intuitive training (it’s what I call Putting Some Zen into Your Training!) We also look at how to train in sync with the days’ cycles, and what a Perfect Day and a Perfect Plate really looks like! And I walk you through what a day in my life looks like with eating, training and more! And we find ways to stay motivated, stay lean and stay fresh in our training.
And what do we do when it’s all over? Well, we’ll chat…it’s never really over, yes!