Hasfit

We all get a little softer around the middle as we get older.  Busier schedules thanks to kids, jobs, lawns needing mowing, and vehicles needing maintenance, leads to eating junk on the go.  On top of that its been said that if you live more than five minutes from your gym, you'll never go, and who really lives less than five minutes from a gym?  Its all a recipe for a chubby, flabby disaster.

Not long ago I was in pretty good shape.  The best shape I'd ever been in, actually.  At least since high school.  But due to the circumstances of life, now not so much.  I'd been looking for some sort of workout routine to help stem the tide of my expanding waistline, but was coming up empty.  Due to those samcircumstances of life time is of the essence.  I don't have the time or money to go to the gym.  Hiring a personal trainer is just as time consuming and pricey.  I've tried doing exercises on my own, but without any sort of guidance, it's too easy to quit.  I thought about buying some videos, but what if I don't like the workouts, or they're too hard or too easy?  I needed something that was going to be affordable, with different levels of difficulty, and that wasn't going to take a lot of time.  What's the solution?

Enter Hasfit.com.

I was doing some searching on YouTube for some decent workout videos, and came across a bunch of videos from the team at Hasfit and have been hooked ever since.  Joshua "Coach" Kozak and his fellow trainers have posted tons of videos on YouTube of assorted crossfit style workouts.  The trainers do the workouts along with you so you can see exactly how to do all the exercises.  Most of the videos are between 10 to 20 minutes long, and there are difficulty levels for all stages of fitness, from Beginner routines to videos with words like Warrior and Blitzkrieg in the titles.  I haven't worked my way up to those just yet.

What I like about the videos is that they remind me of the ones I was doing at the police academy that helped whip me into shape a couple years ago.  Most consist of a series of exercises you do for a minute or so each back-to-back for the duration of the workout.  You're always moving and working different parts of your body, but switching up the exercises keeps it from getting repetitive and dull.  And you will sweat.

The trainers on the videos are personable enough, clearly explaining and demonstrating the exercises and encouraging and pushing you along the way.  It's almost like having your own personal trainer.  Only cheaper.  Everything Hasfit has available online is free.  The videos, the meal plans, everything.  The best part is if you have a wi-fi equipped TV or Blu-Ray player with a YouTube channel, you can throw the videos up on your big screen.

Currently I'm about a quarter of the way into Hasfit's 30 Day Challenge, and while its still a little early to start seeing major results, my wife did tell me I looked skinnier this morning.

Hasfit has been a revelation for my physical fitness "journey" (as Coach Kozak likes to say).  It has helped me stay the most consistent I've ever been in my workouts without actually being on a team or academy.

Here's a sample of one of the workouts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sxsUPbtiys