Workout for St. Jude - Saturday, May 22nd

If you're in the Lancaster, PA area, please join me for a fun and challenging group workout benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.





Workout for St. Jude
Saturday, May 22nd at 9:00 AM

Body & Soul Fitness Studio
618 Columbia Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17603
(717) 509-7777
Plenty of free parking.

Please spread the word among your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers.

Donation is $15 per person or if you prefer, feel free to get sponsors.

It really helps if I have an idea of how many people will be attending so if you could let me know you’ll be coming that would be great. However, if you decide last minute that’s great, too. Raising as much money as possible is obviously the goal.

The workout will last approximately 60 minutes, including warmup and cooldown.

All fitness levels are invited. Exercises will be adapted or substituted, as necessary.

Anyone 12 and older is welcome to participate.

All proceeds benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where no child is ever turned away due to parental inability to pay and no family is billed for charges not paid by insurance.

Here's a short clip of our previous workout in March...

Group Workout For St. Jude 1-9-10

In conjunction with the 3rd anniversary of Bootcamps With A Purpose, join me at Body & Soul Fitness Studio in Lancaster for a fun and challenging group workout session.


Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: 618 Columbia Avenue, Lancaster

Please spread the word among your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers.

Donation is $15 per person or bring a partner for a $25 donation.
(Or, if you prefer, feel free to get sponsors.)

It really helps if I have an idea of how many people will be attending so please call me at (717) 509-7777, sign up in person at Body & Soul or e-mail me at Mickey at bsfstudio.com.

The workout will last approximately 60 minutes, including warmup and cooldown.

All fitness levels are invited.

Exercises will be adapted or substituted, as necessary.

Anyone 12 and older is welcome to participate.

Mickey Glick
Owner, Body & Soul Fitness Studio
618 Columbia Avenue, Lancaster, PA


All proceeds benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where no child is ever turned away due to parental inability to pay and no family is billed for charges not paid by insurance.

Double Your Pleasure With Group Workouts

O.K., maybe pleasure is the wrong word :-D but recent research has shown that exercising in a group can increase your endorphin level and double your pain tolerance compared to going it alone.

A study from the University of Oxford’s Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology published September 16th in Biology Letters found that Oxford rowers could tolerate twice as much pain exercising as a group than when they trained alone.


Twelve rowers participated in multiple tests. Each one rowed continuously for 45 minutes on a rowing ergometer- a gym machine that simulates rowing and that crews use to train indoors. Rowers exercised alone or in a "virtual boat" (8 rowers using ergometers side by side).


Pain thresholds were measured after each session. Researchers found that the rowers' pain threshold increased during both individual and group training. However, the increase was significantly higher after the group sessions.

If you're looking for a way to make your workouts more productive but "easier", try a fitness bootcamp. The energy and camaraderie can't be beat and group workouts come with built-in accountability and social support, both critical to your success.

New 4-Week Bootcamp Session Starting

A new 4-week session of No Pink Dumbbells Bootcamp begins on Monday, August 3rd at 6:30 PM. If you are new to camp, please arrive by 6:15 to complete your health history.

Bootcamp meets Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 6:30 PM at...

Body & Soul Fitness Studio
618 Columbia Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17603
(717) 509-7777

Plenty of free parking

Why bootcamp-style training?

* With No Pink Dumbbells Bootcamp you can get the instructional benefits of personal training along with the accountability, support and camaraderie of a group, at a fraction of the cost of individual personal training.

* The training is designed for women and men who want to get fit but don’t want to spend hours a day exercising.

Do you already have to be in shape?

No. The workouts will be challenging but will be adapted for the fitness level of the participants. However, if you don’t like to sweat, work hard, or breathe heavily, No Pink Dumbbells Bootcamp is not for you. If you’re looking for a magic pill or gadget that will give you a lean, toned body with no effort, please don’t enroll.

Sign up now and save!

Even with a multi-session commitment, the investment for 12 personal training sessions with me in 4 weeks is $350. You have the opportunity right now to become a member No Pink Dumbbells Bootcamp for less than half of that! The regular price for 4 weeks of boot camp training is $188. Sign up now and get the summer rate of just $158. You save almost $200 over the cost of regular personal training!

You CAN lose weight and get fit without doing hours of boring treadmill or elliptical workouts . Try bootcamp for 2 weeks; if it’s not for you, I’ll refund your money. What have you got to lose besides inches?

Don’t miss this opportunity. Whether you take action now or not, in 4 weeks you will be one month older. Will you be a few pounds heavier or 5-10 pounds lighter and closer to your ultimate goal? The choice is yours; call me today at (717) 509-7777 to register or for more information.

Interested in a mid-morning bootcamp? Please let me know.

What's Bootcamp?

I get that question all the time and I usually explain that No Pink Dumbbells Bootcamp is basically small group personal training. It's open to women and men and involves bodyweight exercises along with some dumbbell and kettlebell work. It is a challenging workout but each camper works at their own level; the only person you are competing against is yourself.

That's the description but bootcamp is more than that.

Last night, I explained the evening's workout to the campers. Each training session is unique but this workout was very different from what we usually do. It would be much shorter than usual but very tough. I think most anyone would have considered it demanding.

I expected part of the challenge to be mental and I was right. Upon hearing me go through the exercises and number of reps to be completed, the eyes of one of the campers looked like saucers- and they stayed that way. I think she half expected me to say I was joking. When I didn't, I'm pretty sure she was thinking that she wasn't going to able to make it through or, at best, it would take her forever to finish.

Just then, Vicki, another camper said, "We can do this!" She went on to remind the others that they normally do about so many reps in a certain amount of time and then they have to repeat the exercise so many times. She said something like, "We just need to get through the whole thing once and then we're done." Then she repeated, "We can do this!"

You could see the mental shift.

The workout was tough but it would have been so much tougher if anyone had spent the entire time internally telling themselves that they couldn't do it.

Vicki finished her 500 reps first and after a short rest went over to the final camper who was still working and completed her workout with her. (For the record, it wasn't Saucer Eyes, which should lead to another post about what people are capable of compared to what they think they are capable of.)

That's bootcamp.

The encouragement, support and little pushes that these people give to one another makes a huge difference. It's a different atmosphere than the gym. Being among a group of people who are really challenging themselves makes you want to work harder and improve, which brings faster results.