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Once upon a time a long time ago when I lived in a third floor walkup with only on street parking, played racquetball at lunch and danced all night I was incredibly fit, shocking I know. The importance of movement at that time was irrelevant, I was having a blast.<\/p>\n

Fast forward several decades, I leave it to you to figure out just how many decades, I am round.\u00a0 No doubt you\u2019ve noticed.\u00a0 Through complacency, tumultuous times, yo-yo dieting and a lack of motivation I have become\u2026round.\u00a0 I go back and forth between how the hell did this happen and it is what it is.\u00a0 No it\u2019s not\u2026and I know exactly how this happened.\u00a0 Now what to do?<\/p>\n

Enter the best kept secret in Vermont, I\u2019m pretty sure they really don\u2019t want to be the best kept secret so look here<\/u><\/a>, and life as I know it is changed forever.\u00a0 Not overnight, not in the gym, not in boot camp, but in real life, my life.\u00a0 I am beginning where I am, what a concept.<\/p>\n

LynnAnn Covel is the dynamo leading the fitness department.\u00a0 She is trained in several areas of expertise and has been at Green Mountain at Fox Run for the last 26 years, well here you read it:<\/p>\n

An energetic and inspirational leader, she heads up our fitness department, lending her own special touch and motivational skills to help women learn to love physical activity. Through her personal training and L.I.F.E. (Lifestyle Integration for Empowerment) program, LynnAnn provides personalized fitness programs and strategies needed to facilitate changes that make all the difference in \u201ctaking it home and making it work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about LynnAnn, you would never know that she\u2019s been at this for the last 26 years.\u00a0 She brings a freshness to each day, she has an amazing sense of humor that goes right to the crux of what you think you want to use as an excuse and her pragmatism leaves you thinking, well shit of course I can do this\u2026<\/p>\n

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Add to that the now famous LynnAnnisms and you\u2019re pretty much set:<\/p>\n

Your pace is THE pace.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Something is better than nothing.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing this for me and no one can take it away.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been playing around with functional fitness as a way to incorporate movement into some of the many things I do all day.\u00a0 Things like walking the dog, really walking the dog.\u00a0 She\u2019s not that happy about it especially on the weekends when we continue up the hill instead of making the right. Things like stretching when we get back using the porch steps, she sits on the step above where I\u2019m stretching and gets a cookie at the end.\u00a0 She\u2019s beginning to like that part.<\/p>\n

I found myself watching my Nutriblast whirring around for the minute it takes and thought I\u2019ll do pushups against the sink while I\u2019m waiting.\u00a0 I do squats to get the clothes out of the washer and dryer (front loaders).<\/p>\n

I took my first yoga class at GMFR and loved it.\u00a0 Imagine looking out a huge cathedral window at Okemo as the sun sets and the candles scattered around the room come into their own as your first class. I mean really is that a tough act to follow or what?\u00a0 Best I can do is sun salutation right out of bed. But hey, something is better than nothing, am I right LynnAnn?<\/p>\n

\"2015-04-18<\/a><\/p>\n

She stresses finding something that will work for you on a personal level, something you enjoy, some way to make it work.\u00a0 We had a bit of a mindfulness walk one morning and I couldn\u2019t help equating that to my photo walks<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0 When I\u2019m behind my camera I\u2019m so busy looking around that I lose track of time.\u00a0 God knows how many steps later I feel like I got my fitness in without even noticing.<\/p>\n

We practiced ti chi one morning which I thoroughly enjoyed.\u00a0 I took a ti chi class several years ago and really enjoyed it then too but didn\u2019t quite know where to take it after that.\u00a0 I could never remember the sequences so it fell by the wayside.\u00a0 Fast forward, lot of that going on, through the magic of Amazon Prime I\u2019ve downloaded several ti chi classes through TIVO.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just magical this universe I\u2019m living in.<\/p>\n

Growing older is inevitable but aging is optional said someone recently, damned if I can remember who, but that resonated with me.\u00a0 That along with something LynnAnn said about saving for your physical future needs to go hand in hand with saving for your financial future.\u00a0 After struggling to recover my financial future I can certainly see the benefit of recovering my physical future as well.\u00a0\u00a0 My gratitude runs deep\u2026<\/p>\n

On our final day in Vermont we took a walk in the woods, it was the only time I felt it appropriate to bring out my camera so enjoy some of these wonderful last moments spent in Okemo State Forrest.<\/p>\n

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