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One of the nation's finest in helping people become the best version of themselves recently unveiled its online store reached a new milestone.

SHERIDAN, Wyo., Feb. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Representatives with Neocarbon announced today that the company's ecommerce store has become a popular destination for people looking to fitness recovery products online.

"We are very excited about the successful launch of our online store," said Jesus Diaz Maso, owner of Neocarbon before revealing, "We sold our products to over 3,000 customers in the first month of the launch of Neocarbon's online shop in November 2019.

"Our main product right now is an ankle support strap that is comfortable and super easy to put on," stressed Maso. "Our ankle support strap provides enough support to prevent ankle injuries while practicing sports or any other regular activity."

In addition, wearing Neocarbon's ankle support straps reduces swelling, pain, and recovery time following minor sprains and strains. The strap relieves stiffness, soreness, and muscle fatigue.

Other recovery products sold by the company are wrist wraps, knee brace support, wrist brace support, and more.

In addition to the great fitness recovery products, the company offers the company free shipping sitewide on orders above $45 and ships its fitness recovery products worldwide.

Neocarbon is a new, breakthrough company that specializes in helping people across the globe become the best version of themselves.

"We as human beings have huge unused potential, only limited by our previous experiences and the images stored in our minds," said Jesus Diaz Maso, owner of Neocarbon.

"Our products are suitable for everyday use in regular activities or sports that have an effect on your joints over time, including Basketball, Football, Baseball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Running, Weightlifting, Horse Riding, Climbing, and more," Maso said, before adding, "with our fitness recovery products, absolutely nothing can limit your spirit to achieve anything you want. Your spirit is capable of bringing new things out of nothing, of bringing anything that you can imagine, there are no limits."

Maso went on to note that empowering people with the support and products they need to succeed at being the best versions of themselves is the reason the company exists as a brand.

"We want to empower people, to help them regain their power, in the end, it's only a decision," Maso said. "Fitness and sports are great ways to practice and develop our decision power, and we are creators of our reality."

For more information, please visit https://neocarbon.com/about-us.

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Neocarbon is the new you, stronger, more resilient, more flexible, the best version of yourself. It's more than just fitness. It's an attitude.

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OLATHE, Kan. (BRAIN) Garmin Ltd. total revenue increased 18% in the fourth quarter with the fitness division which includes Garmin's cycling products increasing 34% year-over-year.

For 2019, Garmin experienced consolidated revenue growth of 12% overal and 22% for fitness, which was buoyed by the acquisition of Dutch indoor smart trainer company Tacx last February, and advanced wearables. Gross margin was 48% and operating margin 20%, resulting in 26% operating income growth.

"We entered 2020 with a great lineup of recently introduced products with more on the way," said Cliff Pemble, president and chief executive officer of Garmin. "We are excited about the future because each business segment offers unique growth opportunities for 2020 and beyond."

Fourth-quarter total revenue was $1.1 billion, with fitness, aviation, marine and outdoor collectively increasing 24% over last year's quarter. That beat expected projection by 8.9%. For the year, consolidated revenue was $3.8 billion, with fitness, aviation, marine and outdoor collectively rising 18% over 2018.

GAAP pro forma EPS for the fourth quarter was $1.29, up 26% year-over-year, and 22% over expectations. For the year, GAAP pro forma EPS was $4.45, 21% over 2018.

Garmin projects 2020 revenue of about $4 billion, with growth in fitness, outdoor and marine offsetting declines in the auto division. It expects full year pro forma EPS to be about $4.60 based upon gross margin of approximately 59.2%, operating margin of approximately 23.5% and a full year pro forma effective tax rate of about 10.0%.

Garmin's corporate headquarters is in Olathe. Its stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the GRMN symbol. Stock quote at Marketwatch.com.

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If not completely revolutionary, Lift: The Movement, in Londons Shoreditch, is refreshing by the standards of most fitness studios. Natural light streams through floor-to-ceiling glass and the music is... jazz? Certainly its a far cry from the big-box gym where Lifts founder, Angus Martin, would emerge on the verge of an anxiety attack, after 12-hour PT shifts being blasted by heavy metal. He half-jokes that it was like torture.

In addition to gymnastic rings, hand balancing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, classes include 'Motion', which is 'movement' in the flexibility, Animal Flow sense of the word, and 'Regen', which counteracts the deleterious effects of our keyboard-bound existences. When Lift first opened in August last year, it ran a 'Conditioning' class more in line with the nigh-on industry-standard that is High-Intensity Interval Training. But that was quickly nixed when Martin saw the number of attendees categorically unprepared physically for anything so strenuous, but eager nevertheless. The truth of the matter is that people are fucking themselves up, says Martin.

Pretty much every fitness studio and gym going offers some variation on the theme of HIIT: for the uninitiated, exercising at around 90 per cent of your maximum heart for short bursts, interspersed with periods of active recovery or complete rest. You thereby clock up more work at an intensity that you couldnt otherwise sustain. Thanks also to something called raised excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, which means that you continue to burn calories at a higher rate afterwards while you replenish the deficit, you can reap the same fitness and fat-loss results, or even better, faster.

In 2014, HIIT entered the top 20 of the American College of Sports Medicines annual industry survey of worldwide fitness trends for the first time, landing straight at number one. Respondents remarked how their clients loved HIIT because of the short time, but cautioned of its elevated injury risk and unsuitability for some. HIIT has remained in the top five ever since; this year, its second behind wearable tech. The 2020 edition of the survey notes: Despite warnings by some fitness professionals of potentially increased injury rates using HIIT, this form of exercise has been popular in gyms all over the world.

Lifts Martin fucked himself up through youthfully ignorant bodybuilding and powerlifting in order to get bigger and stronger for amateur rugby. Following elbow reconstruction surgery and extensive rehab, hes keenly interested in un-fucking up both himself and others, and averting future up-fuckery which is where, he says, HIIT culture is corralling us: I don't know anybody who works in an office and does exercise who isnt in pain.

Painstaking corrective exercise in order to repair a bio-mechanical car crash, or swerve one down the road, is a harder sell than the instantly gratifying endorphin rush and calorie conflagration of a HIIT class, as Martin ruefully admits. He likens such quick fixes to sugar or fast food. By contrast, mastering the rings, handstands or jiu-jitsu, and developing the strength, mobility and skill required in the process, is gratification of the very much delayed, journey-is-the-destination sort. Thats the difference, says Martin, who has patience tattooed on his arm. Black belt, 20 years; HIIT class, 45 minutes.

"Mindful running really comes down to mind-body connection"

Indeed, what Lift and a small but growing movement are pushing could be compared to slow food, slow journalism or slow living. Something more considered, that values quality over quantity and quickness, long-term over short. In other words, 'slow fitness'.

Slow fitness is another term for what London-based trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory has dubbed conscious deceleration. Wellness has been in accelerator mode, reads its Health & Wellness Futures 2019 report, published in July last year. As a society we have been conditioned to equate being busy with being important and, as a result, wellness has been used as a tool to pack even more into our already saturated lives.

But as the Future Laboratorys report observes, the path to personal optimisation, aiming to be fitter, stronger or more zen, can be a road to burnout. Slowly but surely, were realising that harder and faster arent always concomitant with better and stronger: There is a growing desire to replace this quick-fix mentality by focusing on slowing down to build up long-term endurance and allowing space to breathe, both physically and metaphorically.

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Low-Intensity Steady State, typically exercising for half an hour or longer at around 50 per cent of your maximum heart rate, or a pace where you can comfortably talk, is back in the conversation, having been dismissed as a waste of time. (Before jogging catalysed the fitness boom of the Seventies, strenuous exercise was believed to be bad for your health and negatively associated with lower, working classes.) Low-Impact Interval Training, which can still be fairly intense but less stressful on your body and mind than HIIT, is also lit, or rather LIIT. And there are whole workouts, classes, even studios dedicated to stretching or active recovery: moving around just hard enough to get the blood flowing, lubricate any stiffness and help repair the damage from your last HIIT session.

Slow fitness doesnt have to mean exercising slowly. Another word for 'conscious' is 'mindful', which is increasingly prefixing any and every kind of activity, never mind exercise, but particularly 'running'. That can be in the guise of on-the-move guided audio meditations like those Headspace recorded for the Nike Running Club app, but truly mindful running is perhaps more about unplugging from technology (another wider movement) and tuning into your body. In 2018, ASICS unveiled a 150m blackout track in east London to train the mind by minimising all but the most essential stimuli.

For me, mindful running really comes down to mind-body connection, says Charles Oxley. (Not that theyre really separate, as he points out.) A member of ASICSs Sound Mind Sound Body Team for that event, Oxley is more commonly a coach with Power Speed Endurance, the company founded by pioneering coach Brian MacKenzie. Over a decade ago, MacKenzie noticed that many distance athletes were mortgaging long-term performance and health for short-term performance and looks, and being ground down if not crushed; he proposed a controversial skill-over-volume approach for building endurance. One of PSEs enduring principles is that intensity must be earned: only when you can maintain the skill running, lifting, whatever at intensity can you add volume.

We suppress a lot of things. Were a culture that is professional at distraction

Our bodies are constantly giving us information while we run, Oxley explains: if youre going too fast, or loading your knee incorrectly. But were often not listening, or thinking about anything other than hitting our target pace or distance as dictated by our training programme, app or some other external factor. Finishing in a heap is a badge of honour. Instead of running ourselves into the ground, we should be asking our body what pace or distance it can handle. Being mindful, he says, is being conscious of what you're doing, and doing what you really need, rather than what you think culture is demanding from you.

We suppress a lot of things, says Oxley. Were a culture that is professional at distraction. Self-reflection is terrifying for many people, whod rather just do what others are and hopefully find meaning, purpose, a tribe; they chase after short-term goals that dont fulfil them instead of asking themselves what they really want. And this is a bigger topic than just slow fitness and high-intensity, he says. This is a much more global issue. Sooner or later though, the signals grow so loud that they cant be ignored.

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The rise in recent years of ever more hardcore forms of recovery, from foam rolling to Theragun-style percussion massage devices, compression therapy (a pair of inflatable trousers that squeezes your legs like toothpaste in a tube) and cryo, is an indication, Oxley contends, that were hitting it too hard. Pain, after all, is a useful signal to stop doing something: Its your body saying, Hey, stay away. Yet in fitness as in other areas of life, we plough on regardless of the warning signs in the case of exercise, injury, soreness, tiredness, low mood, raised stress, disrupted sleep, impaired immunity, fat retention, muscle breakdown, gastrointestinal issues and stalled sex drive (a silent epidemic among instructors teaching multiple HIIT classes a day, Oxley says).

Stopping, or at least consciously decelerating, is not yet widely culturally acceptable. I think a lot of people still aren't confident to be like, I need to go slower, says Oxley. Culture will always trump physiology. And what culture currently defines as fitness is lifting heavy weights, going really fast, lying in a pool of sweat Its dark, its dingy, its just absolutely burying yourself. Clearly that appeals to some, but it puts many more off.

Exercise is vital for health, both physical and mental, and reducing your risk of not being dead. But it doesnt have to mean killing yourself in a HIIT class or ten-mile run, as Oxley tells attendees at the free Round Table for Change discussions to improve mental health through exercise and breath work that he helps facilitate. Its a real struggle to convince them as much, and to dispel their images of Nike adverts and CrossFit videos, but exercise can also be, as he tells them, something that you do for an hour that feels like five minutes: Going for a walk, rock climbing, gardening, whatever. (Another danger of HIIT is that its perceived as a magic supplement that compensates for a woefully deficient movement diet when we should be spending more time being active, not less.)

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Slow fitness and serious exercise arent mutually exclusive either. Continuously self-improving author James Clear, whose 2019 international bestseller Atomic Habits is all about how tiny changes elicit remarkable results over time, champions slow and easy gains, which he calls the greatest weightlifting lesson Ive learnt. Our societal obsession with here-and-now achievement leads us to overlook slow, consistent progress, he maintains, even though that would ultimately lead to greater achievement. (A former athlete, Clear was hit by a flying baseball bat in high school, placed in a medically induced coma and spent months relearning basic functions like walking; by the time he graduated college, hed been named as a pitcher in ESPNs Academic All-America Team.)

To illustrate, Clear suggests adding 1lb to your favourite lift every week: You are not allowed to do 2lb. Only 1lb. Slow and easy, yes, but then thats no bad thing. For some reason, society has convinced us that if your heart rate isnt above 150 beats per minute and you dont feel gassed at the end of your workout, then you havent done yourself any good, he writes. I disagree. If you actually add a little weight each week and dont miss workouts, then it will get hard enough, fast enough. Trust me. Not only that, but in a year, youll be lifting 50lb more; in two years, 100lb: How many people do you know who are lifting 100lb more than they were two years ago? I dont know many.

More common is doing too much, too soon, because of impatience, ignorance or trying to compensate for inconsistency with intensity; the result is inflammation, injury and inability to lift yourself off your sofa. But if you want to get fitter, and maximise your potential, then building the gym-going habit and not missing workouts is the most important thing in Clears view.

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Its all a recovery game, says Oxley, who quotes one of PSEs mantras: Its not how much work you can do, its how much you can recover from. We see how athletes train and rush to emulate them, but we dont see the support teams that drive them around, prepare their meals and do their washing while they have a massage or nap. Exercise is a form of stress and has to be balanced against other stressors in your life. Because of their lifestyles, a lot of Oxleys clients can only really recover from one intense session a week at the outset. They insist that they can do more, but first they have to demonstrate to him that they can eat well, stop working until midnight and get eight hours of sleep.

HIIT isnt inherently bad, as Oxley is at pains to stress. (Neither is stress, come to that.) On the contrary, HIIT is incredibly effective, which is partly why it has become insanely popular. But you can have too much of a good thing, especially if youre not in a fit state to handle it: as another saying goes, the difference between medicine and poison is dose. Penn State University recommends no more than 30 to 40 minutes above 90 per cent of your max heart rate per week to avoid overtraining. Or, you know, listen to your body.

That wont stop all things high-intensity eventually being labelled bad, as Oxley fears, but that's just human nature: We're going to go too far into the high-intensity now, we're going to go too far into the recovery and then we're going to realise in about five or six years that its somewhere in the middle. Were slow on the uptake, if nothing else.

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The Washington Capitals had the day off on Tuesday but Jakub Vrana stayed busy.

The Caps third-leading goalscorer did a meet-and-greet at the grand opening of the Planet Fitness in Springfield, Virginia.

Vrana participated in a ribbon-cutting and also promoted the fitness companys specials on his Instagram page.

Vrana also spent an hour and a half taking photos with fans and signing autographs with his recently upgraded signature which includes a J. before his last name.

This made my day, wrote reader Susan.

This made my day! #ALLCAPS @russianmachine @Capitals pic.twitter.com/w0tit5ZoaT

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Jillian Michaels is one of the most famous fitness trainers in the world, and has helped thousands of people change their habits, move more, and put their health first.Michaels first became famous for her tough-as-nails approach to training, and while she still encourages people to give their all, her approach to fitness has evolved over the past two decades.

My personal fitness philosophy has changed over the years not with regard to the actual science of fitness but my approach, Michaels tells Thrive.I realized that you have to meet people where they are, and bring them along slower. Having become a mom and having become more successful in running a company, there is no perfect anymore. Its about progress, and trying to move in the right direction, and appreciating that every step in the right direction, no matter how small, is a win. Even the days I just hold ground, Im super proud, because thats hard enough in itself.

Now, Michaels has reframed how she regards success, and she says that celebrating small wins can lead to big progress. When I was younger, I had way more time and way more energy to be perfect, even though that doesnt really exist, she adds. All of a sudden I couldnt do it anymore. I realized that I can tell you all the best things to do, but it wont necessarily make them the right things for everyone.

Michaels is now helping people fit in a workout everywhere with the My Fitness by Jillian Michaels app, with hundreds of exercises.And in the past decade, her company, Empowered Media, has grown rapidly.

She sits down with Thrive to share how failure really does help you to succeed, ways to get your health back on track, and a simple way to set yourself up to accomplish your goals.

Thrive Global: Its hard to even imagine, but have you ever fallen off the fitness wagon?

Jillian Michaels: Im not even really on the train! I mean, I do my best, but very fortunately Im at a place in my life where Im kind of in maintenance mode. This car is coasting, so I dont need to lose weight. Im already pretty healthy. So when my life gets really crazy and busy, I know how to manage it by eating really well, getting my sleep, drinking my water, and taking my supplements.I dont think Ive actually had a workout in three weeks its been that crazy. But when you get yourself to a really good place, its a lot easier to maintain.

TG: What are some ways we can motivate ourselves to get back to the gym, or even simply motivate ourselves to make healthier choices again?

JM:It can be really overwhelming when you want to take on any goal, especially if youre looking at it as a whole. We say things like, I will lose 50 pounds. Or, I want to become president of the company. All that can be really overwhelming, but break your goals down with something I call a goal pyramid. Put your goal at the top.

Here is an example for the goal of I want to lose 20 pounds. How long do you think it will take? Maybe its 20 pounds in five months. Make sure the goal is realistic first, or youve set yourself up to fail.

To lose 20 pounds in five months, you need to lose four pounds a month. That is your weekly goal. Thats a pound a week. How do you lose a pound a week? Set your daily goal burn 500 calories a day. Then set your immediate goal: Do a 30-minute workout and consume 1,500 calories today.

It essentially creates a roadmap for you that takes the unknown, overwhelming component out, and gives you a set of achievable, actionable steps that are going to yield powerful positive results.

TG: What is your perfect breakfast?

JM: I go in phases, so it could be that Im into a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich. People think thats crazy, but I just take two pieces of organic, whole grain bread, two organic eggs, one slice of cheese, and a slice of turkey bacon. Its like 400 calories. Then some days, Im into organic Greek yogurt and fruit with some granola. Then another time I might just want carbs, and Ill have an organic whole grain bagel with some organic cream cheese on top of it. Im not perfect. Nor do I want to be. I want to be better, I want to be healthier. I try to eat clean food, but at the same time, I want to enjoy my food. Food is to be enjoyed, and I enjoy it. Its just eating with common sense. Dont go too crazy. Its simple. Its true.

TG: In terms of weight loss you say, Maintenance is the food, weight loss is fitness. That isnt the common mantra. Is there a perfect formula for weight loss?

JM: A lot of times people ask me: What percentage is food and what percentage is fitness? It depends on the goal. So if the goal is maintenance, you dont want to get bigger, right? Were not talking about health and bone density. Were talking about weight maintenance, and thats all food. If you dont eat more than you burn in a day, then youre not getting any bigger. Now, if I need to lose 20 pounds, thats 80 percent fitness.

Think of it this way:You have $25,000 worth of college debt. You have to work maybe three jobs to pay that off, but once its paid off, youre no longer in debt. You dont have to work that much. Fitness is like that. You have to work a lot harder to burn through a lot of that stored energy. Fat is stored energy. You have to create a much larger energy call to go into those energy stores. But once youve gotten through it, its a hell of a lot easier, and thats the light at the end of the tunnel.

TG: What are some small, easy habits that can help improve nutrition?

JM: The smallest and easiest thing you can do to improve your nutrition is to trust your gut. Theres no pun intended there. I mean, quite literally, when youre making a food choice at lunch, what do you think is better? McDonalds drive through, or a turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and mustard? It could be a whole grain everything bagel with a shmear of cream cheese versus the Dennys grand slam. Im not asking for you to be perfect, just trust your gut.

TG: What are some tricks to stay hydrated?

JM: I eat foods that have a high water content. Veggies have a lot of water. If you really hate drinking water, do a sparkling water. Get a Soda Stream. If you dont want to pay the money and you worry about the environment, thats awesome. Put a little fruit splash in there. If youre looking for how much waterto drink drink until your pee looks like lemonade. If it looks like apple juice, keep drinking.

TG: How can we encourage our kids to move more?

JM: When it comes to helping your kids be healthy, there are some obvious answers. Get them out and have them play. My daughter loves dance and martial arts. My son loves parkour and gymnastics. Have them play with their friends. Make their social network happen outside with play dates at the park. Kids should not work out, but active play is fantastic.

Also, educate your kids as best you can as they get a little bit older about why one food choice is better than another. Teach them balance. Ill be totally honest with you, my daughter, as shes gotten older, food is her thing. I see it in her because I have that tendency. I was an overweight kid, and I utilize food as a coping mechanism. So I can help her with it by saying, OK, baby, you know what? I have an idea. Why dont we stop at two pieces of pizza? Take a minute. Lets go do something, and then see if were still hungry when we come back. I get it, I want another piece of pizza too, but we probably shouldnt have one. Were probably full and were probably going to feel like crap if we have a third. So I give her these techniques to help her manage those feelings of anxiety and stress to help her recognize them. Dont use words like diet. Dont make any reference to their body shape or size.

Make it an entire family affair, and work with them to recognize feelings of fullness, give them techniques to walk away from the food, to get them engaged in other activities, and to talk to them about their feelings. Hey, whats going on sweetheart? Are you really hungry or are you feeling stressed? Talk to them. Get them to talk because theyll try to eat their feelings instead of expressing them.

TG: Is there anything we can do as adults to help with stress eating?

JM: Look, there are a lot of reasons people do it, but the bottom line is that its comforting you in one way or another. Its providing you with something, right? So how can you comfort and nourish yourself in a way that doesnt have anything to do with food? I dont care if youre like, You know what, Im just going to stay home and Im going to binge this show, and Im not going to do anything. Im not going to answer my emails tonight. Im not going to go out with my friends. Im going to take a bubble bath, and Im going to put my headphones in, and Im going to let my husband deal with the kids tonight.

Be selfish. Theres nothing wrong with that. Selfish is not a dirty word. It doesnt mean youre a jerk. It means youre taking care of yourself. Engage in a hobby. Put a face mask on. Whatever you need to do to nourish yourself, love yourself, and show that you care for yourself.

TG: How do you keep technology from taking over your life and your childrens?

JM: I hate devices. So for me, its not hard. Tech doesnt take over my life because Im just not of that generation. I resent it. I use it for work, and thats it. I dont actually enjoy social media. I dont like to see my friends out when Im not there. I dont want to see other people having an awesome vacation when I got the norovirus on mine. So for me, Im not tempted. When it comes to my kids, theyre on a screen diet. So they get an hour of screen time a day. They can use it however they want. Then the rest of the time they have to be playing, using their imagination,or engaging in an activity or a hobby. I just teach them to use it in a balanced fashion. These are the rules.

TG: How do you sleep?

JM: I sleep great. I sleep eight hours a night, and I dont compromise that. I will actually choose sleep over a workout. Thats how important sleep is. I get seven and a half hours a night, sometimes seven, sometimes eight.

One of the things I do when Im feeling anxious or I cant sleep is I make a to-do list to get all the stuff thats swirling around in my mind on paper. Then I know exactly what I need to do tomorrow, and it takes the anxiety out of it. I listen to books all the time when Im sleeping. I put it in my little AirPods, and it keeps me from obsessing and stressing. I set the timer for 10 minutes, and I rarely hear the end.

TG: What are some easy ways to sneak in more movement into the day?

JM: If you have a crazy day, and you absolutely cannot get a workout in, stand instead of sit. It burns one and a half times the calories as sitting. Its better for your circulation. Its better for your posture. Its better for your bones. Take the stairs. Is it enough? No, but its something, and somethings better than nothing.

Something that I do that has worked for me is over the course of this day Im going to do 100 squats, 100 lunges, 50 pushups, and 100 situps. Ill also throw in mountain climbers. Then, every 20 minutes or so Ill rip off a set. 10 squats, boom. Five more minutes, 20 lunges, boom. Youll find that you will get this 20 minute workout in, but in a burst of little two minute segments throughout your day. This is my new thing.

I dont care if you look like a weirdo. Squat at your desk. Sit in your chair, stand up, sit in your chair, stand up. Do 20 lunges, get your coworkers doing it.

TG: How do you course-correct and not give up when you might miss some of your check-ins with your goal?

JM: I find that people get so discouraged when their goals dont play out exactly how they envisioned. Its like, oh, well, I was supposed to hit the 20 pound mark by month three, and Ive only lost five. All this means is you need to analyze whats going on and reapproach more intelligently. So for example, this is why we use the scale, right? Because the scales going to tell you if its working or if it isnt working. If its not working, go back and check. Ask, where did I go wrong here? Was I not counting my calories correctly? Was I not hitting the gym four times a week like I know Im supposed to? Or if you were, maybe the workout isnt effective enough. Maybe you need to make the workout more intense.

Look at where you went wrong, take ownership of it, and then simply course correct it by reapproaching that issue more intelligently. Look at where the problems are and address them. Thats it.

Nobodys meant to be great at something from go. You only learn by failing. Failure is the number one teacher. Youre supposed to fail. Thats how you learn. Thats how you improve. See your setbacks and your course corrections, not as validation of your incompetence, but as opportunities to learn, fine tune, and grow. It needs to be a perspective shift.

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Demi Lovato is getting heart-breakingly honest about her insecurities and her road to recovery from an eating disorder. On Ashley Graham's Pretty Big Deal podcast, the 27-year-old singer opened up about how her insecurities and determination to just "power through" led to a decline in her mental health and relationship with food, exercise, and ultimately her own body.

Demi struggled with an eating disorder in the past but had shared her journey with fans and appeared to be recovering, releasing empowering songs and filling her social feeds with powerful gym selfies. But that wasn't the whole truth, Demi said. "I thought the past few years [were] recovery from an eating disorder, when it was just completely falling into it," she shared. "It was me thinking I found recovery when I [hadn't], and then living this kind of lie and trying to tell the world I was happy with myself when I really wasn't."

Her symptoms might not have been as obvious as before, Demi said, "but it was definitely an eating disorder." Her relationship with exercise became "excessive," working out six days a week, sometimes up to three times a day. "There were times when I lived at the gym," she said. "I would take business meetings at the gym, on my breaks from my workouts . . . I'd eat a meal, go work out. Eat a meal, go work out."

Eventually, Demi saw that her relationship to fitness, to food, to her body wasn't making her happy. Her workouts and "extreme dieting"? "That's not freedom," she said. "That's not everything that I've worked for and that I've preached to people, so why live that life if it's a lie?" In the end, it wasn't worth running herself into the ground in pursuit of a certain appearance. "I'm not willing to destroy my mental health to look a certain way anymore."

Now Demi's focused not on body positivity but on body acceptance. When she looks in the mirror, she said, her mantra is, "You're healthy and I accept you. All I need to do is accept you." She's also stopped tracking her weight, a change from the past, when "I could tell you down to the ounces what I weighed without a scale," she said. "I literally don't know my weight, and it's the most free I've ever felt in my whole life."

She still works out, but her focus has shifted. And it's when she's doing jiu-jitsu, Demi said, that she feels the most sexy. "I'm in tune with what I'm doing," she said. "I'm completely present. I'm not focused on my body at all . . . you can't be thinking about, 'Oh my god, is my stomach looking like this?' . . . You can't be thinking about that because you're gonna get choked out or you're gonna get a broken bone!" It's when she's in the moment, working her body without worrying about it, that Demi feels the most free and beautiful. "I feel sexy when I'm showing my strength."

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Self-made millionaire Tanner Chidester has figured out how to earn a lot of money: The 27-year-old has built two, seven-figure businesses, Fit Warrior and Elite CEOs, from scratch.

"The slow way to wealth is to save," he tells CNBC Make It. "At the end of the day, it's a lot easier to make more money than to save more."

Making more starts with a specific net worth or earnings goal, he says: "Make non-negotiable goals, then reverse engineer it." If your goal is to become a millionaire in ten years, figure out exactly how much money you have to make in a year, month or week to achieve it.

"When you break it down that simple, it's not as scary anymore," he says. "But a lot of people just set a huge goal and they never break it down and know the numbers and the statistics that they have to hit, so it just becomes unfathomable and overwhelming."

Once you've set your financial goal, you have to actually get to work and start earning. The best way to make big money is to start with a skill you already have that you can monetize, Chidester says. "Maybe you're really good at getting someone in shape, or you're really good at running ads for companies. Maybe you do the best backflip in the world, or you're really good at selling books. Find one skill you're really good at, package that together into a service and sell it to people."

That's how he started. Chidester played Division 1 college football and had been a fitness buff since he was a kid, so he decided to create personalized fitness and eating plans for clients. At the time, he was 22 and had just dropped out of college before finishing his senior year.

He didn't make money off of his programs right away. In his first two years, he made just $2,000 and worked at Olive Garden to pay the bills.

It wasn't until he took a course about how to build an online training business that he started to see results. "That's when I learned that people will pay high ticket prices high ticket meaning $1,500 plus for a service," says Chidester, who was 25 at the time. "I was selling my fitness programs for like 40 bucks. That's when I learned, Oh, people will pay me $1,500 for my service."

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Chidester homed in on one-on-one coaching, which people will shell out four figures for, he realized. As soon as he increased his prices, he started seeing big money: He made $10,000 in one week. Eventually, he worked his way up to making between $30,000 and $50,000 a month. By 27, his net worth hit $1 million.

He then used a new skill he'd developed how to scale a business online to start teaching other business owners and fitness trainers how to grow their ventures. That evolved into his second company, Elite CEOs, which he runs in addition to Fit Warrior.

"What most people struggle with is, they don't sell stuff high enough to ever get out of their financial situation," he says. If your product or service is priced at $100, you have to sell a ton of units to get by. But, "If you sell one high priced service for $1,500, you only have to sell four or five a month and you're already almost at six figures a year.

"That's how I really got out of my situation."

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Wednesday

The City Vista Vida will host a free Shred class this morning at 7 AM. The circuit workout will focus on building strength via resistance bands and weights.445 K St. NW

Northern Virginia folks can get in a double workout tonight: Show up for a 30-minute Pure Barre class, after which youll run down to Shred415 for a half-hour cardio workout. After youre done, head to Burtons Grill for happy hour deals.21435 Epicerie Plaza, Sterling

Join the Outdoor Voices team for a bootcamp-meets-circuit workout this morning at Chaia. Hang around post-sweat for brunch from the taco crew. Class starts at 9 AM.615 I St. NW

Swing by the Bethesda Lululemon for an in-store yoga class that focuses on your core. The hour-long workout begins at 9:45 AM.7101 Democracy Blvd. #1268, Bethesda

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Mimi Montgomery joined Washingtonian in 2018. She previously was the editorial assistant at Walter Magazine in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her work has appeared in Outside Magazine, Washington City Paper, DCist, and PoPVille. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives in Adams Morgan.

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The Wodapalooza CrossFit Fitness Festival is a big highlight in the CrossFit competitive calendar. Offering one of the biggest prize purses outside the CrossFit Games, Wodapalooza is also open to Teens, Masters, Adaptive, scaled and beginner athletes.

The CrossFit Sanctional runs from February 20 to 23 in Miami and brings together thousands of athletes, spectators and fitness fans. With a ticket to the2020 CrossFit Gamesup for grabs for the top placed male, female and team on the Elite categories, the competition is bound to be exciting.

Both the female and male fields are stacked with experienced CrossFit Games and Reginals athletes, as well as previous Sanctional winners. We expect the competition to be fierce and we wouldnt want to bet on the top five spots, as they could belong to any of the outstanding athletes competing.

Have a look at the full leaderboard here.

As part of Loud and Live, Wodapalooza will exclusively be livestreamed on FloElite.

All the action will be broadcast live or on-demand here. A monthly subscription costs $12,50.

Wodapalooza is the first of five Sanctionals managed by Loud and Live. The West Coast CrossFit Classic, the Madrid CrossFit Championship, the Granite Games and the Mayan Classic will also be exclusively broadcast though FloElites channels.

You can find the latest schedule, with all workout details, here.

The competition kicks off Thursday February 20 and runs through Sunday February 23.

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Today only, as part of its Gold Box Deals of the Day, Amazon is offering up to 25% off Biofreeze and Theraband health and fitness products. You can grab the 3-piece TheraBand Resistance Band Set for $8.38 with free shipping for Prime members or in orders over $25. Regularly between $11 and $15, todays offer is a new Amazon all-time low and the best we can find. Designed for resistance training and rehabilitation, these bands are made of natural rubber latex. Measuring out at 5-feet long by 5-inches wide, this set includes three bands of varying resistance: Yellow 3 to 4.3-pounds, Red 3.7 to 5.5-pounds, and Green 4.6 to 6.7-pounds. Rated 4+ stars from over 1,200 Amazon customers. More details below.

The 3-piece set is about as affordable as it gets when it comes to comparable resistance band options, but you could opt for a smaller set if you dont need three. The 2-piece TheraBand Resistance Band Set is currently on sale for just over $7 and carries similarly solid ratings.

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