Episode #005 Christine Fox – Super Slow Weight Lifting

MEET CHRISTINE

After spending the majority of my life as a fit person, I found myself 100 pounds overfat due to fertility drugs I was using to conceive our youngest child. Prior to trying to conceive I was a titled Figure Competitor with 4% body fat and here I am continuing  on the fertility drugs for about four years and ended up at that heaviest weight. After having the baby I was so focused on him being “Our Baby” that I put all my effort into him and the other children. I forgot about myself. I would go shopping at the mall and see my reflection in the store windows as I pushed the stroller and I hated myself. I truly hated myself.

In 2010 I decided to finally get back to being fit since I was turning 40! I wanted to be fit at forty, not fat at forty! So, I started leaning out and working out. At the time I finally met my exercise hero, Ken Hutchins, and soon became a Super Slow instructor under his tutelage. I worked for Ken for awhile and kept on leaning out in the process. But at some point depression kicked back in and I started to self-sabotage, again! 

It’s now 2018 and I’ve yo-yo’d my way up and down the scale over the last eight years. I finally told myself in April of 2017 that “I’m done”. I was tired of being fat! I needed to get off my butt and workout again, loss the fat and regain my positive self image I had lost years ago! And I did just that!

My Keto journey is something that I think of as a way of life. I know that this way of eating is completely sustainable with very little sense of missing out syndrome. I hope my journey will help someone else start theirs or maybe continue their journey! I hear from people on social media daily saying how I’ve inspired them and I tell them, they’re kind words inspired me to keep on going strong!

SHOW NOTES

ABOUT CHRISTINE

• I am was a figure competitor for the national
  physique committee, but I had gained weight over the years – 255 pounds
• 255 lbs is my top weight and then I just start doing the low carb, reaching out to going back to my original roots similar to a Keto diet
• That’s what I have been kind of focusing on the last several months on this year alone
• Really focusing on Keto, getting recipes and helping other people with the Keto diet and getting back on being lean
• I am down 115 lbs
• I am in the middle of writing a book
• It’s a Keto version book, and it is about dining out
• With that being said, I am really at a maintaining point
• I am not where I want to be, but when you rely on people feeding you, you rely on what you are asking for
• I think when I have full control of my meals, I definitely can be exactly where I needed to be
• The book is “Keeping Keto at Disney”
• Currently, we are doing the Walt Disney World version
• I am going to doing all the themed parks across the world
• I have got 67 out of 90 done and the book should be done on end of November, beginning of December
• I am funding my own food. I personally want full control over of what I am eating
• The method is call the super slow method by Ken Hutchins
• Ken came up with this negative 10 second positive with machines with low frictions
• The key is to be as smooth as possible
• As a super slow instructor, we don’t want them counting their own seconds

• As ladies, we are always throwing face cream on
• The reason why we are using night cream is because we are always told cells rejuvenate at night
• If we just even think about that concept, we could realize that if cells are rejuvenating while we are sleeping, then why am I doing legs today and tomorrow doing my upper body, why not do the whole body
• Do we really believe that if we are doing our legs only, that the muscles cells on our legs are only the ones that’s just fixed
• So I definitely do head to toe because I do neck exercises
• We are all about leaning out
• The more women lean, the more smaller we become
• We are not genetically built like men
• For the guys, they are going to become bigger and they are still going to become leaner
• Look at your hand, it’s what you’re going to put on your mouth
  
• I have never sit around doing crunches to get 6 packs to compete, I have an 8 pack competing and did not do one crunch
• The muscles are being used to a certain exercises
• They can’t sit and do 200 crunches and think that fat on their stomach are going to disappear
• 90% diet, 10% workout
• No matter what, it’s going to depend on what’s you’re going to put on your mouth
• Let’s stop targeting body parts and let’s just work on our hands to our mouth and thinking about going to super slow and changing about those machines
• My typical workout starts on the leg extension
• After the leg press, I am doing the row
• Then I will do abductors and adductors
• I do have a tip with the abductor and adductor, and my tip is you are doing it wrong
• The machines really need a seatbelt and they don’t have them
• Let’s say I am on the abductor machine and instead of just sitting their flopping around, I put my hands behind my back
• That keeps my upright and my back up against the seat
• Usually, super slow is in a private gym
• You would be done with an instructor for 20 minutes
• You don’t want to be under load for more than 30 minutes
• You could even do super slow on suit because you are not going to sit there and sweat to death
• If you’ve got a muscle and we want that little tear and that tear grows and it becomes thicker
• The more thick it becomes, then we are building on a pound of muscle mass collectively
• Going on a decent speed on the treadmills, I am burning 2 Oreo cookies in 45 minutes
• If you are burning this cookie calories, then great, but the minute you step off that treadmill, do you think you are still burning calories
• Because you are not. There’s no movement, you are done
• You did not build a muscle on a treadmill. You just ran and burned what you just ate for lunch
• Super slow changed my life and I realized that I can compete if I want to compete
• I got into competitions, won competitions, became nationally qualified all with zero cardio
• Competing on my 30’s with teenagers and 20’s, and winning because I was not doing what they are doing
• I was not storing body fat, I was just changing the way I ate and changed the way I worked
• Once you become efficient in super slow, you can workout once a week
• I think another flaw that people do is they don’t keep track
• If you look at my book, every single workout says, “the seat settings”
• It’s the same way that people track their macros, but this is way more serious

FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT

• It’s honestly the Keto diet and trying to get people not just for fat-loss but also for health reasons
• It’s very hard to convince that eating fat can make their heart better
• My mission in life is to get canola off your kitchen

FAVORIT HEALTHIEST HABIT

• Super slow

THE QUOTE THAT YOU LIVE BY

• Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness

MOST GRATEFUL FOR

• Besides my family, I am super grateful that my eyes were opened before it got to a dangerous level of my fat

FAVORITE FOOD

• Lately is Avocados

FAVORITE BOOK

• Obesity Code

GUILTY PLEASURE

• I don’t really have one, but if I did it would be popcorn

FAVORITE MOVIE

• Mama Mia
• Gone with the wind

FAVORITE NETFLIX SHOW

• Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt

COFFEE OR TEA

• Tea

WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU?

• The book
• The Keto journey continues
• Just looking forward for this book to come out this year
• Then, we are going to do a revamp
• So every 2 years, there will be an update with the book

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU?

• Instagram: ketofitgal
• Facebook: Keto Fit Gal
• Website: ketofitgal.com
• Podcast: Divas Dish Diz

 Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt Peeno Noir song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yttOfIvOw

Check out my last podcast here -> https://highenergygirl.com/004-august-challenge-high-energy-girl-podcast/

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