{"id":3153,"date":"2017-10-22T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2017-10-22T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T17:36:19","slug":"introducing-fred-astaire-fit-club-upper-montclair-cedar-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/blog\/uncategorized\/introducing-fred-astaire-fit-club-upper-montclair-cedar-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Fred Astaire Fit Club of Upper Montclair-Cedar Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you tired of the way you look and feel?\u00a0 Are you tired of complaining yet still doing nothing about it?\u00a0 Do you keep committing to diets that don&#8217;t work? Me too!\u00a0 Congratulations and welcome to Fred Astaire Fit Club.\u00a0 Our goal is to help you get fit, exercise more and improve your health. We&#8217;re going to kick off membership with a 6-week fitness challenge. I am signing up Fred Astaire Students this week to commit to our six-week weight loss challenge.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it works<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up at the studio and step on the scale<\/li>\n<li>We DON&#8217;T have to know how much you weigh unless you want us to help keep you accountable<\/li>\n<li>Tell us how much weight you&#8217;d like to gain or lose and we&#8217;ll add you to our goals chart<\/li>\n<li>Since most of us want to lose weight, I&#8217;m going to set a studio goal of losing 250 pounds by Christmas.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll alter that if more people sign up.<\/li>\n<li>Each week on your lesson you&#8217;ll weigh-in, and we&#8217;ll add your pounds to our goal-tracker<\/li>\n<li>Join us on our weekly impromptu fitness walks, either in Cedar Grove, Brookdale Park, or Passaic Valley High School followed by a group class if you&#8217;d like to join ($ charge for classes, WALKING WITH US IS FREE unless you want to buy a t-shirt to wear on your walk.\u00a0 Fred Astaire Fit Club T-shirts will be $25. We&#8217;ll place orders weekly as new members join.)<\/li>\n<li>Like our new page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FredAstaireFitClub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook at Fred Astaire Fit Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Join our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/105771446831814\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Astaire Fit Club Closed Group<\/a> to discuss your goals, plans, frustration, tips, encouragement and more in this closed group.\u00a0 Only members can see what is posted here, so it&#8217;s safe to post before and after pictures, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Weekly dance classes will be offered to loosen up forgotten body-parts, joints, muscles and tendons.\u00a0 Classes will be a mix of ballroom and contemporary jazz dance, some ballet exercises, gentle stretching, ab-work, and strengthening.\u00a0 These will NOT be boot-camp-like\u00a0classes.\u00a0 We want to encourage all body types for gentle-yet-challenging exercises.\u00a0 These classes will be offered at $15 per drop-in.\u00a0 $10 each if you pre-pay for 10 ($100)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You DO NOT have to be a Fred Astaire student to join the club.\u00a0 You DO have to be a Fred Astaire student to join our 6-week weight loss challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to invite certified personal trainers, bikini fitness model coaches, nutritionists, certified yoga teachers and more to hold special workshops, which will be an additional charge. Hopefully, we&#8217;ll become the most popular club in Essex County!<\/p>\n<p>Read the story that inspired this, about Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and how he took OK from Men&#8217;s Health Fattest city to helping its citizens lose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mensfitness.com\/weight-loss\/success-stories\/success-story-oklahoma-city-drops-1-million-pounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one million pounds!\u00a0 \u00a0(click this)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, will you join us? There&#8217;s more than one way to enrich your life!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/2017\/10\/70th-Cover-7.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/upper-montclair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/201\/2017\/10\/70th-Cover-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3154\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you tired of the way you look and feel?\u00a0 Are you tired of complaining yet still doing nothing about it?\u00a0 Do you keep committing to diets that don&#8217;t work? Me too!\u00a0 Congratulations and welcome to Fred Astaire Fit Club.\u00a0 Our goal is to help you get fit, exercise more and improve your health. 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