Tai Cheng

Tai Cheng is the newest program to join the Beachbody family.

So many workouts leave us sore and tired before they help us become stronger and more agile.  Finally, we have a program with gentle and thoughtful movements that can help open your joints, reduce painful knots in your muscles, and promote balance and flexibility, so your health can actually improve as you age.  These therapeutic postures can help increase lung capacity, improve muscle strength, and encourage your blood to circulate more regularly through areas where it may have been sluggish, removing toxins and helping to boost your immune system.

Tai Cheng is a 12-week total-body fitness program developed by martial arts master trainer Dr. Mark Cheng, designed for immediate and long-term benefits from learning the graceful movements of Tai Chi.

Tai Chi is a martial art practiced primarily for its healthy and physical conditioning benefits rather than for combat.  Many health experts today agree there's an association between the daily practice of Tai Chi and improvements in health, both physical and mental.

Every day, the Tai Cheng program takes you through a gentle, energizing warm-up and the practice of Tai Chi moves.  Each move helps you strengthen areas of weakness, tone muscles and burn calories, while also helping you increase flexibility, improve balance and reduce stiffness.

Elite athletes find that Tai Cheng helps improve athletic performance in fundamental ways.  If you're overweight, Tai Cheng can help you shed pounds safely as your entire body becomes stronger and more agile.  Whatever your fitness level, daily practice of Tai Cheng can results in greater awareness and help improve your strength, energy and stability.

What makes Tai Cheng Unique?

Tai Cheng is not just a Tai Chi instructional video.  It's a fusion of the traditional Chinese martial art with modern functional movement training.  Tai Cheng's mingling of exercise for both body and mind can help you change your health in a profound way.

Neural Reboot - the warm-up you'll do every day - helps wake up your body, prepare your mid for Tai Cheng practice, and give you a platform of stability, strength and safety.  You'll learn a workout that promotes balance and flexibility, helping you feel more energy and less pain.  All this helps you develop greater physical control and body awareness.

Tai Cheng helps take the "parking brakes" off your dormant muscles and allows the overworked ones to relax.  Through this practice, you'll learn to move with less strain, access your full range of motion, and help condition your body to function as it should.

Also increase your nutrition with Shakeology, and keep your eyes out for the Beachbody Ultimate Reset!

Fighting Obesity Requires Commitment!

I read an article about the "obesity problem in America"in our local newspaper early this week and it got me a little fired up ;)  Below is my response to the article that was printed in Tuesday's newspaper!  If you need some encouragement and motivation to get fit and healthy I would love to assist!  Sign on to www.GetFitWithNicola.com to make me your free coach and we will go from there!!!  or email me!

Fighting obesity requires commitment

The July 8 news article "New report offers grim data on nation's obesity problem" comes as no surprise to me. Obesity is a growing problem and no one seems keen on stopping it. Yes, the government can help control the problem with agricultural subsidies, etc., but the real change has to happen at a local and personal level.
People need to wake up and realize that we are setting our children up to have shorter life spans than we have. We need to move more, eat healthier and teach our children to do the same.
Fast food is convenient and our lives are busy, but if you plan ahead, stock your fridge and pantry with healthy food, shut off the TV and get moving instead, change will happen.
We are a society raised on instant gratification and instant results, but getting healthy requires time, commitment and a change in lifestyle -- forever. It is time to wake up, people, and make changes.
NICOLA WRIGHT
Bakersfield

 

New report offers grim data on America’s obesity problem

By Melissa Healy,

LOS ANGELES — America continues to get fatter, according to a comprehensive new report on the nation’s weight crisis. Statistics from 2008-2010 show that 16 of the nation’s states are experiencing steep hikes in adult obesity, and none has seen a notable downturn in the last four years.
Meanwhile, cases of Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure that health experts have long warned would result from the nation’s broadening girth and sedentary ways are becoming increasingly widespread, according to the report, titled “F as in Fat,” released Thursday.
Even Coloradans, long the nation’s slimmest citizens, are gaining excess poundage. With an obese population of 19.8 percent (the only state with an adult obesity rate below 20 percent), Colorado remains the caboose on the nation’s huffing, puffing train to fatland.
But in just the last four years alone, the ranks of the obese even in Colorado have grown 0.7 percent. And Colorado’s hypertension rates have risen significantly as well — to encompass 21.2 percent of adults.
The report, prepared by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health, is the groups’ sixth annual state-by-state accounting of obesity.
In the last 15 years, the report said, adult obesity rates have doubled or near-doubled in 17 states. Two decades ago, not a single state had an obesity rate above 15 percent. Now they all do.
“When you look at it year by year, the changes are incremental,” said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health. But if you back up a generation and look at the slow but steady climb of Americans’ weight, he said, “you see how we got into this problem.”
Getting out of it will not be simple, Levi said. The report stressed the need for a range of measures, including boosting physical activity in schools, encouraging adults to get out and exercise, broadening access to affordable healthy foods and use of “pricing strategies” to encourage Americans to make better food choices.
“Until the government takes on the food industry, we’ll continue to see the appalling numbers in this report,” said Kelly D. Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, who was not involved in the report. “These numbers signal an emergency, and we simply have to have the courage and resolve to do more than what we’re doing.
“Government could start by changing agricultural subsidies, by not make it financially attractive for companies to market unhealthy foods, by placing serious restrictions on marketing to children, and with financial policies that make healthy foods cost less and unhealthy foods cost more,” Brownell added.
The nation’s roughly 4.5 billion excess pounds still skews heavily to the southeast, with eight of the nation’s 10 most obese states clustered around the Gulf and Atlantic coasts and along the southern Appalachian mountains. Within the top 10, only Oklahoma and Michigan (which suffered a whopping hike in adult obesity of 1.2 percent in the last four years — the largest of any state) lie outside the South.