To stay mentally healthy, I try my best to live a healthy life that includes meditation, contact with nature, good food, dancing, and a regular exercise routine. I workout with Melinda Young in her MFIT365 online group.
Melinda went from the Texas panhandle to Oklahoma when her husband was transferred. Like many corporate wives before her, she found that her education and experience alone wouldn’t take her far after moving to a new place. So she added a new certification to her 23-year career in fitness and started new. This mother of two reinvented herself to find her own footage in the tornado alley.
First Melinda found work in two different gyms in the Tulsa area. One of those gyms was Fit-For-Her, a women-only boutique gym in Owasso, OK. That’s where we met.
I loved Fit-For-Her and its amazing instructors. But when Melinda started teaching on Saturdays, I couldn’t keep up with her and took frequent breaks, sometimes to puke in the bathroom. I secretly admired her strength and hated her for pushing me so hard.
In 2013, my husband was transferred from Oklahoma, and I followed him nine months later to Los Angeles, CA. Obviously, I tried to recreate my routine, but I had grown used to the individualized service of the small gym.
So when Melinda created her own fitness company called MFIT365 to teach her demanding boot camps online, I jumped in. Today, I’m happy to be one of MFIT365’s 60 members, and I join from the LA County in California. For what I believe is a reasonable price, Melinda offers three intense 40-50 minutes workouts a week, in four-week sessions, based on the Metabolic Effect. Her workouts are rest-based, which means work out till you can’t go anymore, rest till you can proceed.
Here is a sample routine, which she then explains in the video below
Session 5
Week 3
Workout 3
Down chain from 10- you will do 10 of all the moves and then do 9 of all. Then 8 of all and so on and so on to 1 of all the moves. Set your timer 20-40 minutes.
You will down chain to 1 or until your time runs out. If you know you only have 20-30 minutes then go ahead and start at 7 of all the moves.
- Hip thrust (go heavy)
2. Roll ups
3. Russian twist sets
4. Push-up/half burpee (combo)
5. Plank row/front raise combo (total)
6. Squat jump/lunges (or low impact)
7. Power squats (per leg)
8. Single deadlifts (per leg)
9. Sumo squat/wide leg dead lift
10. Burpees
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At the end of each workout, the participants’ responsibility is to login to say we finished, and report on any difficulty or modification we made. Sometimes we video-tape our moves to send to Melinda, who checks my form and suggests changes and variations where she sees me struggling.
I stay hydrated during my workout drinking cold water from my insulated ThinkSport bottle.
I honestly never stopped to learn about Metabolic Effect because that’s not what draws me to her classes. Melinda knows about my mental condition and helps me to use exercise effectively to produce the endorphins I need to beat depression, to stay focused, and structure my day. For instance, if I don’t log in when I’m supposed to, she texts or calls to encourage me to exercise, or to offer words of wisdom to help me beat the blues.
It doesn’t mean that Melinda nags me to go to the gym, but twice in five months this year, I have appreciated Melinda’s call when I was too sad to move.
Today, I feel like a sexy old mama showing off my toned biceps and able to lift 20-pound dumbbell with one arm. It might not look like much to others, but it’s a great deal to me. That’s what I love about Melinda’s MFIT365: it accommodates to my life style, personality, and metabolism.
If you are interested in learning about Melinda Young’s MFIT365, please contact her through social media, through Facebook at MFIT365, or Instagram @m_fit_365.
