April Newsletter: Reebok Reetone Campaign in the UAE, Events, and 3 Year Anniversary

Our April newsletter is out, with a series of events Fitness O2 co-founders are participating in: Zena is going on a Roadshow with Reebok in the UAE covering Sharjah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, make sure to check her out talking about Easytone, Reebok's latest technology and how it can help you!

Ziggy is going to be speaking at the "Make It Happen" event on June 5th, a powerful high-impact event focusing on raising your standards and living a better life. Click here for more details.

Since it's our 3rd year anniversary, we are launching a special promotion this summer to cater for the people who leave Dubai to go home for the summer break, buy any two months package (June, July or August) and save 500 Dhs, the offer is valid until May 31st.

 

Al Shalal club at the Palm Jumeirah is also extending Fitness O2 customers with a unique offer: read the newsletter here. 

Sports: How to Get Going?

OK, so you want the results with out the hard work! Not going to happen people, so let me tell you how I roll.

Have your goal in mind...make it a short goal first like "i need to be fit for a football game in 3 weeks or i need to lose 5kgs in a month for that boat trip" (the beach in Dubai is so nice)!!!

Next you need to tell your self the training plan, training 1hr per day for 6 days a week with 1 day off for recovery... I will do 1hr of high intense cardio/resistance and really push my self and eat to the best of my ability.

Always keep your goal in your mind and when you feel like giving up just have a hard look at your self and push hard and I promise you that after the session you will feel like a Superstar and before you know it, you will look and feel awesome!

How Taking on a Sport Encourages You to Watch Your Diet

It happens to most of us: we reach a point in our lives where our bodies start changing, we start gaining weight for no apparent reason. There are many reasons to this, and studies and opinions range from decrease in metabolic rate, to a sports-inactive lifestyle, and so on.

Whatever the reason, we feel we need to start watching our weight. Yet how many of us get on a "diet" only to break it soon? The choice of restaurants in Dubai is too tempting isn't it?

Sports to the rescue! Besides the physical benefits of sport activity, people often overlook the very important psychological one:

My personal experience has been that when I do some forms of sports on a regular basis, I am much more committed to watching my diet. How so?

After training, I feel so happy to have burnt so many calories, but at the same time, feel I have spent so much energy, effort and time. Would I really want to throw all this investment out the window by eating uncontrollably? Most times (we're all human at the end of the day), not! Get going, do sports and have fun!