ARE YOU OUR NEXT BIGGEST LOSER?

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Biggest Loser "Summer Edition"

For the first time, we decided to try a "Summer Edition" of The Biggest Loser at Hampton Hill and what a turn out we had!

We have six teams filled with people excited, and of course nervous, about their new lifestyles. It JUST started this past Sunday with our first meeting that included weigh ins, beginning photos and measurements for each person. So many of our participants dread that part BUT at the end, it is worth it! The changes to their bodies are remarkable!

The first challenge for all of our BL's is to complete 13 of the 13 different types of group exercise classes offered at Hampton Hill in 5 weeks/by our next mandatory meeting/weigh in. Those classes include BodyPump, BodyStep, BodyFlow, BodyJam, BodyCombat, Sh'Bam, BodyAttack, Total Body Training (TBT), Power Circuit, Yoga, Spinning, Extreme Core, and Pilate's! You can go to www.hamptonhill.com to see the group schedules.

We have also added a new challenge for this edition of TBL...That is a "Pound for Pound" challenge. For every pound lost, we will donate the same amount of pounds in food to the Harvest Hope Food Bank!

Look at this guy! Billy Smith not only lost 87.8 pounds in our last edition of The Biggest Loser, he also donated 1 hour of his time as a volunteer to Harvest Hope Food bank. That is incredible!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Survey Results from our 5th edition of TBL

Ok, I have finally had the chance to review ALL of the surveys that were filled out by you at the finale of TBL. Thank you SO MUCH for your valuable feedback! That only helps our program get stronger and better!

There were a few things that were brought to my attention by a number of you and I want to share them with you!

#1. The challenges seemed unorganized and chaotic at times. You are exactly right! We had some problems with calculating the scores not only for the challenges but also with the final results. As you probably noticed, by the final weigh in that was all straightened out. We will be putting certain things in place to make sure this doesn't happen in the future.

#2. Do the challenges with your team. I agree and in the future we will do that! We need to do a better job at the beginning trying to balance out the teams more (if possible) The problem was that we had as few as 3 people on one team and 15 on another. Maybe instead of "splitting" up the teams we combine the smaller ones with the more medium sized teams.

#3. Provide more nutritional information. For the most part, it seems that most of you that commented on this topic want more nutritional information regarding eating out, recipes, cooking for your families, etc. We will definitely make "nutrition" be more of a focus all the way around with our next and future Biggest Loser programs.

Those were the top 3 issues that were discussed the most in the "areas that we could improve the program." There were a lot of great points brought up in additon to these and I have paid close attention to each and every one of them.

Again, thank you so much for your feedback!