Check out the new website!!!

I have to send a HUGE THANK YOU to the crew at American Movie Company…  Thanks to Bill, Nico, Drew, Trevor, the whole crew there  - for your vision and your ability to put my thoughts into web mode.  And Drew – thanks for the rescue from 50 Wall Street when I was in NYC this weekend    I’m looking so forward to this becoming my new virtual “living room” out here on the Internet.  And Andy – special thanks as always for listening to my goals, believing in me and helping me get there!

I hope all of you who have joined me on this blog will continue to let me know how I can help you in your pursuit of a healthy and joyful life.   And just so you know, as we’re ramping up the new website, this blog will actually be continued over there once it’s moved.

Hope you all have a great day!!

Steph

www.stephaniehuckabee.com

(And I’m getting a wonderful lesson in patience today – one of my children has an upper respiratory infection with a complimentary ear infection in both ears… FUN!!!)

New website will be up soon!!!!

I just wanted to let all of you know that the new www.stephaniehuckabee.com website will be up and running in the next few weeks.  I hope to see all of you over there as it’s a true reflection of what I do and believe – and kind of a “virtual living room” where I hope you’ll stop in and say hello, ask questions, or just stop by for some encouragment when you’re having a rough day.  Ultimately I want the new site to reflect what YOU need from me, so don’t be shy about speaking up when we get it running.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Steph 

Production Update for February

After sharing my workouts with some special women a couple of weeks ago, I’ve had the opportunity to discuss a little bit about how and why I designed my new workouts the way I did and I thought I’d share that with you.  I also hope this will address some of the questions I’ve received on this site about what I’ve been up to.

First of all, I’ve been doing resistance training now for over 20 years.  I started in high school and though my weight fluctuated a good bit, I’ve always incorporated some form or fashion of resistance.  I used to think that to do resistance training only meant you could use dumbbells or weight machines from a gym.  So, when I was trying to lose weight after I had Wilson that’s exactly the approach I took.  I wanted to jump back into my heavy weights as fast as I could and force my body back into some sort of pre-pregnancy shape.   And that’s where I went wrong…for weeks I tried to get through workouts that in the past had been pretty doable for me and not only was I physically struggling, I was mentally burnt out.  And as any new mom knows – you barely have enough energy to get through the day – much less a special reserve to give you a pep rally to get through a workout!

That’s when I started experimenting with bands and with exercises that used my own body’s resistance based on planes of gravity.  I had to take a few steps back and just trust that it was okay to try something new, to take the time to intelligently and patiently develop a system that would make me actually look forward to my 5AM workouts.  So, I headed off to Target and bought some bands.  (since then I’ve bought many, many more….they’re so cheap that I can’t resist when I see a new type!)  I took out an old notebook, tried some exercises, created some exercises – and discovered a new approach on how to train. 

Many of you have seen my split workouts posted on this blog, so that’s the approach I took with the bands.  I divided my body up into different parts and then on different days focused on specific muscles.  I wont’ go into more details on that part at this time, but on my new website coming up I’ll have plenty of information on that.  Let me just tell you – I quickly learned that not only did the bands challenge me in a new way that lead to long, lean muscle development and a figure that I haven’t seen since before college, but they left me feeling energized, recharged and IN charge.

I  have to say that I was thrilled when a friend of mine told me that I should check out an episode of Oprah from this past week where Gwyneth Paltrow was talking about her struggles to lose baby weight from her second child.  She told me that my workouts were similar to what they were talking about.  I missed the episode but did go to the website and there she was with her trainer – and it’s all about bands and that type of resistance to keep muscles long, lean and strong. 

I’m also thrilled to announce that the workouts will be released on QVC and I’ll provide air dates shortly.  This makes me so proud as customer service is of huge importance and they have the best track record out there.  Also, I have a new website which will go live in upcoming weeks so be sure to stay tuned so that you can link up with my information there.  It will be much more user friendly and is based on much of the feedback I’ve received from you on this blog.

I hope you have wonderful week and if you want to be sure that you don’t miss any updates, please look to the right and click on the link that asks if you want to be updated to be provided with this information automatically.

Take care!!

Steph

The pictures from last weekend…

I told you that I’d share some pictures from this past weekend, so here are a few that Stephanie Nye shared with me.  A huge thanks to Annette, Danielle, Kim, Sarah, Kara, Jennifer, Stephanie, Kelly, Christine and Andrea!!  I just wish we would have had more time to actually work out together – but the time spent talking was incredible and the more I talk with other women about working out and all the other stuff we covered, the more I realize how we’re all in this together and it’s often through the wisdom of other women that we can find ways to live our lives to the fullest.

    And I also have to say thanks to Andy, Bill, Trevor and Ben as they made the weekend a wonderful experience as well…  This picture is of Trevor who managed to fanagle himself from one end of a shot to the other without making so much as a sound.  It was very easy to even forget that we were shooting as the group was so professional and just let us do our thing.

We did do some cardio as well as some strength training, but most of the pictures came from the last workout in the new series which I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I do…  It’s a workout designed to restore and reward you for taking the time to nurture yourself.   The music is absolutely beautiful and my hope is that it will make each of you feel graceful and powerful all at the same time.

One more thing – I finally reactivated my Facebook stuff  so if  you’re a member there, look me up!  I’m still learning how it all works and I’m amazed at some of the people I’ve run in to….  we’re even talking about my 20 year high school reunion on Facebook..

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and do something good for yourself!!

Stephanie

Thanks to the ladies who came to the shoot this weekend!!

I’ll be posting more details and pictures about what went on and some specific thank yous when I have a little more time, but just wanted to say a huge THANKS to those brave volunteers who showed up to try out my new workouts.  It was so much fun to see you all in action and I especially enjoyed our time just talking about how we handle all that we do in a day as women who also see fitness as an important part of our lives.

Hope you all have a great week and as soon as I get some more pictures in I’ll be posting them.

Steph