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Fitness Travel For Everyone
By KERRIE ANN FREY
As seen in Louisiana’s Health & Fitness Magazine
If you’re looking for a holistic, fully integrated fitness vacation designed to teach you long term health solutions with the latest tools and techniques, check out Core Fitness Solution. This Florida fitness camp addresses every aspect of being overweight by including sessions with a registered nutritionist, psychotherapist and expert trainers to make your desire to change a reality. Linda Mullins created Core Fitness Solution after attending a weight loss fitness facility herself, losing 90 pounds in the process. “What I experienced was a lot of workouts and eating clean,” she says. But she believed people needed more than just weight loss. When she put together her business plan, she wanted to create a program that would treat a whole person, addressing their physical, emotional and mental health. “The psychotherapist and nutritional coach help people make a permanent change,” Mullins explains. “Getting the emotional portion corrected is a key piece, as is building the right relationship with food.” The two, combined with getting lots of exercise and learning new lifestyle choices, is what helps people make long-term health a reality.
About 60% of Core Fitness Solution’s guests are “like most of America – somewhere between 25 and 75 pounds overweight,” says Mullins. They are looking to break bad habits, get over major life changes like a divorce or losing a parent or they just fell off the exercise wagon and want to get back on. They also have fit clients who are looking for extra motivation or to simply clear out their heads. All guests receive some sort of follow-ups, whether it’s weekly conference calls or more in-depth counseling, to ensure success over the long haul.
Guests receive personalized nutrition plans, massages, delicious meals and intense workouts during their stay. Typical stays are about a week or two, while others have stayed on three or four months to fully integrate themselves into a new way of living.
Average cost per week: $3,000
NEWS
At a Florida fitness camp, a deprivation vacation
By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 31, 2010; 12:59 PM
I’d never been afraid of a water bottle before.
This, however, was not just a water bottle. This was a five-gallon water bottle, weighing 42 pounds – more than one-third my weight. And my trainer had just ordered me to carry it around the gym not once, but four times.
My body said no, but my mind said yes. I was on Day 2 of a fitness boot camp vacation, and I was determined to prove to trainer Doug Betts that I could carry, push and pull anything he put before me, even though I was the smallest person in the class.
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August 15, 2011
Core Fitness Solution working with
American Diabetes Association
The fitness camp helps people control and overcome the disease
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Core Fitness Solution, the only fitness camp in the nation to offer exercise and nutrition along with psychotherapy and a one-year follow up for graduates, announces it working closely with the American Diabetes Association to help people with diabetes control and limit the disease.
Linda Mullins, founder and CEO of Core Fitness Solution, said the partnership is the result of the fitness camp’s dedication to exercise and nutrition programs that help to treat and prevent the disease, its success with diabetes sufferers, and the firm’s strong support for the local chapter of the American Diabetes Association.
“People with diabetes who have experienced our rigorous, in-residence program and follow up support always reduce their need for diabetes medication, and many of them actually learn the healthy habits that will help them overcome the disease for the long term,” said Mullins. “Exercise, proper nutrition and weight loss are powerful weapons against diabetes, and those three elements are at the core of our holistic program.”
“In a six short weeks I lost 60 pounds,” declares Tim, from Virginia Beach, VA. “More importantly, through exercise and proper diet, my blood pressure went from high (142/90) to healthy (120/72) in the first four weeks. This is a total approach program that addresses the essential ingredients for weight loss, exercise, nutrition, medical, and mental health.”
Core’s team of professionals includes a licensed, registered dietitian, weight-loss counselor and life coach, personal trainers, massage therapists and outstanding chefs. Core Fitness Solution addresses every aspect of becoming a healthy, fit, and confident individual.
Almost 26 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with diabetes, and another 7.9 million have the disease and don’t know it. The American Diabetes Association is leading the fight to stop diabetes and its deadly consequences and fighting for those affected by diabetes. The Association funds research to prevent, cure and manage diabetes; delivers services to hundreds of communities; provides objective and credible information; and gives voice to those denied their rights because of diabetes. For more information please call the American Diabetes Association at 1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383) or visit www.diabetes.org. Information from both these sources is available in English and Spanish.
NEWS
August, 2011
In the fitness camp craze sweeping Canada, something is missing;
Core Fitness Solution says psychological change, follow up are essential
Canadians by the thousands are being enticed to attend any one of the dozens of fitness camps in the USA in order to lose weight and get fit again, and many are being disappointed when – just weeks after returning home – they are putting on the pounds again.
That’s because while ordinary fitness camps focus mostly on diet and exercise, they fail to help participants achieve long-term health and wellness when they neglect the most important ingredients supporting the change to a healthy lifestyle: individual nutrition counseling and personal psychotherapy.
“The main problem with your waistline is all in your head,” declares Linda Mullins, founder and CEO of Core Fitness Solution (www.corefitnesssolution.com), a fully integrated holistic residential fitness camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, that is popular with Canadians.
“You can work out until you drop and endure all the fad diets popular at most fitness camps, but you will not know permanent lasting success until you retrain your brain,” said Mullins. “It is essential that you receive personal guidance and counseling from a trusted psychotherapist who will give you the mental tools to break unhealthy habits and embrace healthy ones – permanently. Unless the camp you are considering offers the services of a licensed psychotherapist, a licensed certified nutritionist and follow up once you’re back home, take a pass.”
Research cited by Chase Freedom Diet Reviews concludes that 95% of those who lose weight eventually gain it back within three years. Beyond three years, that failure rate is even worse. That’s why continued follow up for a full year, which is offered by Core Fitness Solution, is so important.
After personally experiencing a fitness camp herself four years ago, Mullins decided “I could do it better myself”, put together a crack team of experts and licensed professionals, and founded Core Fitness Solution in Madeira Beach in 2008. What was missing at the camp she attended was individual psychotherapy and licensed certified nutrition counseling, two key elements in what she describes as the healthy lifestyle fitness foundation, which includes:
- Rigorous, organized, focused exercise routines with specific goals and objectives
- Realistic nutrition planning, including guidance on proper shopping techniques to achieve optimum health
- Professional counseling from a licensed psychotherapist who can guide participants through the maze of challenges associated with the requirement to retrain your brain as well as you body
- One year of follow up support to help clients fully integrate the changes into their everyday lives for long term success
NEWS
August, 2011
Core Fitness Solution launches Fly Healthy Fitness Program™
To help airline pilots meet requirements of flight physicals
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – In response to growing research concluding that commercial airline pilots should pay closer attention to their physical fitness, Core Fitness Solution announces the launch of the Fly Healthy Fitness Program™ – a customized regimen designed to help airline pilots maintain superior levels of fitness in order to pass their flight physicals.
With more than a quarter-million licensed commercial airline pilots in the U.S., and many advancing toward the mandatory retirement age of 65, the Federal Aviation Administration has identified obesity and obesity-related health issues as topics of special focus in order to maintain the safety of the flying public.
“Like most of us, airline pilots work hard and often don’t take the steps they should to remain in top physical condition, and research shows that could be a problem when their flight physical comes around,” said Linda Mullins, founder of Madeira Beach-based Core Fitness Solution, the nation’s only holistic residential fitness camp that offers psychotherapy and a year of follow up to keep graduates fit and healthy. “During air travel in the past few years, my friends and I have noticed more and more pilots who may benefit from the services of Core Fitness Solution, and our review of FAA research and other documentation validates our observations.”
FAA RESEARCH BACKS UP THE NEED FOR THE PROGRAM
A 2010 study by the FAA’s Civil Aerospace Medical Institute of 889 pilots killed in air crashes from 1990-2005 found that 107 of the pilots had an obesity-related medical history.
“Findings emphasize monitoring of obesity and diabetes in pilots and understanding the potential implications of these health conditions in relation to flight safety,” concluded the document, made public in May 2010 (www.faa.gov/library/reports/medical/oamtechreports).
The FAA report further stated: “It is true that obesity in the general population is increasing with diabetes and continues to be a public health concern, and this aspect is also true with (the) pilot population. The growing concern with the medical issues related to obesity emphasizes the importance of addressing, understanding and potentially resolving this aeromedical issue.”
The report recommends implementation of obesity related educational programs for aviators and aviation medical examiners.
In its “Fit for Flight” brochure for pilots, the FAA tells aviators that, “…a high level of personal fitness can help you cope with the various emotional and physical stressors that are encountered in the flight environment,” and that physical fitness can “prolong your aviation activities by helping you pass your flight physicals.”
In addition, the FAA has established strict regulations for pilots with insulin-treated diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease that must be achieved in order to keep flying.
THE FLY HEALTHY FITNESS PROGRAM
The Fly Healthy Fitness Program at Core Fitness Solution will provide a rigorous exercise, nutrition and weight management regimen customized for aviators that addresses the areas of greatest concern expressed by the FAA: diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary care. The Fly Healthy Fitness Program will be complemented by individual work with a licensed clinical psychotherapist at Core Fitness Solution to help establish a long lasting mental focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Pilots will also receive a one-year follow up to help them maintain weight loss and healthy lifestyle habits.
NEWS
August, 2011
“The problem with your waistline is all in your head”
In the fitness camp craze sweeping USA, something is missing;
Core Fitness Solution says psychological change, follow up are essential
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Millions of people across the USA are being enticed to attend any one of hundreds of fitness camps in order to lose weight and get fit again, and millions are being disappointed when – just weeks after graduation – they are putting on the pounds again.
That’s because while ordinary fitness camps focus mostly on diet and exercise, they fail to help participants achieve long-term health and wellness when they neglect the most important ingredients supporting the change to a healthy lifestyle: individual nutrition counseling and personal psychotherapy.
“The main problem with your waistline is all in your head,” declares Linda Mullins, founder and CEO of Core Fitness Solution (www.corefitnesssolution.com), the only fully integrated holistic residential fitness camp in the southeast.
“You can work out until you drop and endure all the fad diets popular at most fitness camps, but you will not know permanent lasting success until you retrain your brain,” said Mullins. “It is essential that you receive personal guidance and counseling from a trusted psychotherapist who will give you the mental tools to break unhealthy habits and embrace healthy ones – permanently. Unless the camp you are considering offers the services of a licensed psychotherapist, a licensed certified nutritionist and follow up once you’re back home, take a pass.”
Research cited by Chase Freedom Diet Reviews concludes that 95% of those who lose weight eventually gain it back within three years. Beyond three years, that failure rate is even worse. That’s why continued follow up for a full year, which is offered by Core Fitness Solution, is so important.
After personally experiencing a fitness camp herself four years ago, Mullins decided “I could do it better myself”, put together a crack team of experts and licensed professionals, and founded Core Fitness Solution in Madeira Beach in 2008. What was missing at the camp she attended was individual psychotherapy and licensed certified nutrition counseling, two key elements in what she describes as the healthy lifestyle fitness foundation, which includes:
- Rigorous, organized, focused exercise routines with specific goals and objectives
- Realistic nutrition planning, including guidance on proper shopping techniques to achieve optimum health
- Professional counseling from a licensed psychotherapist who can guide participants through the maze of challenges associated with the requirement to retrain your brain as well as you body
- One year of follow up support to help clients fully integrate the changes into their everyday lives for long term success
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 31, 2010; 12:59 PM
