Intensity and Focus in your Workout
I am writing to you from South Africa where I have a week or so with my family after performing in Ghana this past weekend. Next weekend I will be in Nigeria for another performance but I wanted to take the time to connect with you while I am on my travels in Africa.
I am having a magnificent time – I miss my family so much as the opportunity so come home does not present itself as often as I would like it to.
On a trip like this one, where I have the chance to indulge in all the goodies that I miss from home, as well as mom’s good cooking – I have to make sure that I get my workouts in regularly and I have to make sure they count big-time.
The perfect recipe to maintain healthy body weight is a combination of healthy eating and regular exercise… but sometimes when your calorie intake increases, you have to make sure that you get the most out of your exercise routine in order to keep the weight off.
Being home and visiting with my family means that I want to spend the most time possible with them and the least time possible in the gym.
So how do you get the best calorie burning and toning results without spending hours on end in a gym? The answer consists of two words –
1) INTENSITY and

Intensity and Focus
2) FOCUS
No matter what method of exercise you pick – if you want to get the greatest results, you have to exercise intensely. You might be asking right now, how do I know that I am working out intensely?
Well, if you are not breathing heavily and you are not sweating profusely after the first fifteen minutes, then your workout is not intense enough. Give yourself a good ten minutes to warm up your body and your heart, and then hit it hard.
By working with higher intensity, you are causing your whole body to burn hotter and faster.
The cool thing about a real intense workout is that firstly you can burn as many calories in thirty minutes as you would in an hour with moderate exercise.
Secondly, because your body takes longer to cool down you will still be burning calories for about an hour after your workout. Double the benefit!
By “Focus” I mean that you should be mentally engaged in the activity you are doing and you need to consciously activate the muscles needed to do the specific exercise – that way the body not only works more efficiently and more intensely, but the mind is fully engaged for optimal results.
So by increasing the intensity of my workouts and by making sure I am mentally totally engaged in what I am doing and which muscles are doing the work, I can cut my workouts shorter and still get the amazing results I want.
In the Hot Burning Body Workouts I make sure you are fully focused mentally on every movement you do. My new Kettlebell workouts are honed towards those two principals – focus and intensity. The exercises are crafted and have been fine tuned to give you the kind of intensity you need in your workout to give you Optimal results in the Minimum time!
So go out there and Push it! You are worth it!
To your health and strength
Vanessa Bader
P.S. You can also enjoy all those yummy goodies and fabulous foods if you are doing the Hot Burning Body Workouts. But remember – I always say, “Moderation is key”. So eat the fun stuff in moderation and make sure to continue doing your Hot Burning Body Kettlebell Workout on a regular basis!













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