Outsmarting our Imposter

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Do you doubt your abilities and feel like a fraud?

Due to popular demand, we are offering our ‘Outsmarting our Imposter’ workshop as a stand-alone option. 

This 2-part workshop is aimed at women who experience the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that we don’t feel at home in. It is present in those moments when we feel like we are a fraud, and ‘small’ in the company of others.

Surprisingly (or not), this affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. 

What is covered in this workshop?

We explore:

  • what the Imposter Syndrome is
  • how it impacts us – in our life, career and sport
  • its relationship to the fear of failure and perfectionism
  • why fear isn’t a bad thing, and
  • how to outsmart it so it doesn’t hold you back. 

Meet our Coach – Jen Brown

We are thrilled to be working with Jen Brown – Performance & Mindset Expert who is one of Australia’s leading experts on the Imposter Complex.

A former Corporate Lawyer and Endurance Sports Coach, Jen works with everyday people with sports and corporate goals. She quickly realised that what often held people back from achieving their goals wasn’t physical; it was their mindset. So she became obsessed with understanding fear, courage, self-doubt and the Imposter Complex. 

Many of us already know Jen as the founder of Sparta Chicks – an online community for female endurance athletes and outdoor adventurers.



How is the workshop structured?

This workshop will consist of 2 x 45min zoom sessions, delivered fortnightly on Thursday mornings (6.15am-7am). The first session will introduce the concept and the second session will build deeper. The sessions are interactive and provide you with practical strategies to implement straight away.  The workshop will enable engagement, connection and conversation between participants. 

What are the dates?
  • Thurs 18 Nov – 6.15am-7.00am
  • Thurs 2 Dec – 6.15am-7.00am
Who is this workshop for?

For women who:

  • struggle with fear and self-doubt
  • get stuck in procrastination or perfectionism
  • have ambitious goals or are goal-orientated by nature
  • want to show up authentically and enjoy life without fear and shame.
What is your investment?
  • BEXI members – $50 for 2 x sessions
  • Non-Members – $60 for 2 x sessions

→ This workshop will help you acknowledge your superpowers and help you stand out in a crowd.

 

Fiona – my journey

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Jump-into-Summer ’20 – Week 3

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Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.

Loving the positive energy within our BEXI team with our Jump-into-Summer challenge.  Great feedback about our bootcamp sessions – FAB’s Monday class is more bootcamp-style; and Roslyn’s Tuesday class is more strength & conditioning-style. Take advantage of our Super-Session Challenge this week and double your bootcamp points.

The weather is looking wet this week, but don’t let that affect your training. Our coaches have come up with undercover options that will keep you warm and dry – so you can create your own ‘sunshine’.

Week 3
  • Exercise Challenge – Join Kaye Chan’s Friday 6am outdoor trail cycle and earn 20 pts!
  • Wellbeing Challenge – book your free breast screen test* at Breast Screen NSW (if you haven’t in the last 2yrs).
  • Wildcard Challenge – support the Pink Bun Campaign – treat your family to a 6-pack of pink buns (before Weds 28 Oct).
  • Super-Session Challenge – double your points when attending Mon AND Tues bootcamp/strength training (40pts).
  • Consistency Challenge – aim for 4 sessions this week – team up with your BEXI buddies so they can hold you accountable.

* If younger than 50yrs, encourage your ‘older’ friends to book their screen test.

Pink Bun Campaign

Did you know that this year is the 20th anniversary of Bakers Delight’s partnership with Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA)?

Buy a Pink Bun or a 6-pack of Pink Buns (between 8-28 October) and Bakers Delight will generously donate 100% of the sale of the iconic Pink Bun to BCNA. The Pink Bun campaign enables Australians to show their support to all who have been impacted by breast cancer, while ensuring that no one personally affected goes through a breast cancer diagnosis alone. Discuss this with your kids so they understand the meaning behind the Pink Bun Campaign.

#togetherwecan #teambexi

~ Jump-into-Summer – Week 1
~ Jump-into-Summer – Week 2

 

 

Jump-into-Summer ’20 – Week 1

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Ready… steady… Jump-into-Summer ’20! 

Our Jump-into-Summer ’20 challenge is go. Seven weeks of  fresh air, fitness and all-round fun. Ensuring you feel fit and fabulous for summer.

How does it work?
  • Weekly run, cycle, strength training – progressing each week (Week 1 focuses on benchmark testing)
  • Attend as many sessions in the week – the more, the better! 
  • Each session attracts points (see below)
  • You will be issued with a ‘Score Card’ so that you can tally your points each week
  • 1 x Wellbeing challenge will be issued each week
  • 4 x Wildcard challenges will be issued
  • 3 x Super-session challenges will be issued
  • The more you do – the more points you will attract
  • Prizes will be awarded at end of challenge
Week 1
  • Exercise Challenge – attend as many group training sessions as possible from our weekly timetable below:
  • Wellbeing Challenge – Enjoy a cup of coffee/tea/kombucha on your own, in peace (20mins)
  • Wildcard Challenge – Share 1 random fact about yourself to team (within your private FB groups – Race-FIT, Tri-FIT, Walk-to-Run)
  • Super-Session Challenge – Weeks 2, 4 & 6
  • Consistency Challenge – aim to attend 3+ sessions per week (that’s how you create a habit!)
Point Scoring
  • Run/Walk/Cycle – 5 points
  • Strength Bootcamp – 10 points
  • Wildcard Challenge – 10 points
  • Super-Session Challenge – 20 points
  • Wellbeing Challenge – 20 points
  • Consistency Challenge – 10 points
  • Yoga Session – 10 points
Prizes
  • Most Improved
  • Most Attended Sessions
  • Special Coaches Award
  • Overall 2020 Winner
  • Save-the-date for prizing-giving/end of challenge BBQ – Sat 28 Nov 2020

 

To win, you have to stay in the game!  

~Jump-into-Summer – Week 2
~Jump-into-Summer – Week 3

 

 

5 x Training Programs

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The world sure has been topsy turvy over the past 3-months. We have seen our sports events cancelled, postponed… or still hanging in the air. With restrictions being lifted, there is light at the end of the tunnel as numerous events are being allowed to go ahead in some capacity.

We’re super-excited to get back in training and have created the following 5 x new training programs to support you over the coming months:

Blackmores Sydney Running Festival – 20 Sept 2020

  • 12-week program
  • 3 x weekly coached sessions – Mon, Thurs and Sat
  • Additional virtual cross-training – strength and yoga
  • Distances – 42km | 21km | 10km
  • Starts Mon 22 June 2020
  • More info…

Bowral Cycle Classic – 18 Oct 2020

  • 13-week program
  • 2 x coached weekly sessions – Weds and Sat/Sun
  • 6 x outdoor coached sessions
  • Distances – 125km | 90km
  • Starts Mon 20 July 2020
  • More info…

Ultra-Trail Australia – 24 Oct 2020

  • 14-week program
  • 3 x weekly coached sessions – Mon, Thurs and Sat
  • Additional virtual cross-training – strength and yoga
  • Distances – 50km | 22km | 11km
  • Starts Mon 13 July 2020
  • More info…

SMH Half-Marathon – 15 Nov 2020

  • 15-week program
  • 3 x weekly coached sessions – Mon, Thurs and Sat
  • Additional virtual cross-training – strength and yoga
  • Distances – 21km | 10km (relay)
  • Starts Mon 27 July 2020
  • More info…

Queenstown Running Festival – 21 Nov 2020

  • 16-week program
  • 3 x weekly coached sessions – Mon, Thurs and Sat
  • Additional virtual cross-training – strength and yoga
  • Distances – 42km | 21km | 10km
  • Starts Mon 27 July 2020
  • More info…

 

 

Seven Summits VC – Mount Kosciuszko

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Our Seven Summits Virtual Challenge starts today, Fri 1 May  2020.

We kick off with our ‘warm-up’ summit – Mount Kosciuszko.  Australia’s highest mountain at 2,228 metres above sea level. It is located on the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park – west of Crackenback and close to Jindabyne.

Polish explorer Count Pawel Edmund Strzelecki, famous for his exploration of Australia, named Mount Kosciuszko in 1840 in honour of the Polish hero General Tadeusz Kosciuszko. After his death in 1817, Kosciuszko was hailed not only as a Polish patriot but also as a great American and a true citizen of the world.

 

Fun Facts
It is ranked 71st in the world for its height. Almost exactly a quarter the height of Mt Everest.
The locals know it as ‘Kozzy’.
It is the coldest part of Australia, and is covered in snow for months between June and October.
The mountain has many rare species of alpine plants, animals, and endemic flowers, which are not found anywhere else in the world.
There are also many aboriginal names for this mountain like, ‘tar gan gil’, ‘jagungal’, etc., which translate into ‘table top mountain’.

 

Kosciuszko Trivia

The park is also home to [XX] percent of the bird species in New South Wales?  Answers posted to 7-Summits VC facebook page.

Week 1 Wildcard Challenge

Post a pic on our 7-Summits VC facebook page of you/your family scaling a peak.

 

 

HIGHWAY-19: Week 1

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HIGHWAY-19 starts today, Weds 1 April 2020! We trave north in an anti-clockwise direction – starting from the steps of the Sydney Opera House and following the coastal road all the way up to Brisbane. A total of 917km. Along the way we’ll take in some amazing sights on the east coast of Australia – these include:

Fun Facts
Sydney – The Sydney Opera House has 15,500 light bulbs than need replacing every year.
Newcastle – Bogey Hole was hand-hewn out of a wave cut rock platform by convicts for Major James Morisset, in 1819 for his personal use.
Coffs Harbour – Home of the first Australian big thing which is The Big Banana – the biggest Fun Park between Sydney and the Gold Coast.
Byron Bay – Australia’s wellness capital, this is the perfect place to shake up your coffee order with medicinal mushroom-spiked brews and house-made nut milks.
Gold Coast – With 57km beaches and an average water temperature of 22 degrees, no wonder they attract 13 million visitors annually.
Brisbane – The first lamington was made in 1900 at Old Government House for Lord and Lady… Lamington.
Wildcard Challenge

Get your kids to cycle 10km and we’ll triple their distance! Post a picture on our private HIGHWAY-19 FB page, together with the distance.

Spot Prize

Post your favourite training picture of Week 1 and we’ll select the most scenic one for our weekly spot prize.

Gratitude

Share one thing that you are grateful for from this week’s HIGHWAY-19 virtual challenge with a friend.

Australian Trivia

How many countries are larger than Australia?

All progress begins with a brave decision.

>> Want to join – see HIGHWAY-19 challenge details

We’re going to make it happen!

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We are experiencing so much confusion and uncertainty in our lives right now. Events are being cancelled and everything that has given us a focus and purpose is gone.

While we wait for direction and guidance from the medical authorities, we need to come together and support each other as a community. Offering emotional support, friendships, wisdom, motivation and accountability.

As a sporty community, we understand the need for a structured training program that gives you a focus each day. Where you can wake up in the morning, know exactly what you have to do, get it done and feel fab afterwards.   

Well… we are going to make this happen!

To support our BEXI community, we are collaborating with our fab partners at North Shore Running Fitness to create some fun and exhilarating programs and events that will support our community across road running, trail running and triathlon.

Details are evolving – stay tuned for more exciting news coming VERY soon!

#makeithappen

Read how our BEXI community came together to support a couple of our members who had their Tokyo Marathon cancelled. Truly uplifting!

Thank You and Merry Christmas

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2019 has been an amazing year for Team BEXI. We’ve stepped out of our comfort zones and embraced our goals – living up to our values of fun, fitness and friendship.

As we close the year, we would like to say a heartfelt Thank You for all your support and patronage over the past year. Our BEXI Community scaled great heights in 2019 – much owing to the support of our extended BEXI community.

We are gearing up for another amazing year in 2020 – kicking off with our 10-Year Anniversary.  Lots of excitement  and celebrations planned for this incredible milestone!

In 2020 we have chosen a motto that focuses on being bold, adventurous, courageous, daring, fearless — Be Gutsy!

We have created an abundance of opportunities for our BEXI Community to embrace these adventures and Be Gutsy.

 

BEXI News

★  Christmas Gift Vouchers
Give the gift of love to someone special this Christmas – a Gift Voucher for any of our upcoming Learn-to-Programs.
★  Learn-to-Programs
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to run, trail run, cycle, swim or ocean swim – we have an supportive program to guide you.
★  Husky Triathlon Festival
Our first triathlon event of the year targets the Sprint and Classic-distance events – training starts Tues 14 Jan 2020.
★ Ultra-Trail Australia (UTA)
An iconic trail running event taking place in the Blue Mountains National Park – training starts Sat 1 Feb 2020.
★ Jabulani Challenge
Set in the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park, this stunning trail run will join our UTA program – training starts Sat 1 Feb 2020.
★ Platinum Membership Package
We will be introducing our Platinum Membership package for our program-specific multi-sport programs and trail-running programs.
★ 2020 Events Calendar
From local to international, from short to long, from road to trail, from land to water – there are plenty of opportunities to Be Gutsy! 

As we sign-off for the festive season, we would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas  and Happy New Year from our BEXI Community.

 

Festive wishes,
Debbie & Team BEXI  xoxo

Training Program Prerequisites

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Beauty of Exercise is committed to supporting and encouraging all to participate in our programs, whilst keeping the health and safety of its members and coaches a priority.  At the start of our programs, all participants will be required to complete a basic health assessment and will be reviewed by the relevant coach to ensure participants have the necessary capabilities. The participant will be guided by the relevant coach as to the best suited program. It is also important for any existing injuries to be identified to the coaches so as to ensure no further long term damage.

The following is a guideline of existing fitness capabilities recommended to help you choose the program(s) best suitable for you:

Learn-to-Programs
Learn-to-Run 5km 

  • Currently walk comfortably for 30mins
  • Does not have any injuries
Learn-to-Trail Run 

  • Can comfortably run 5-10km
  • Runs 5-10km on a regular basis
  • Has a good fitness base
  • Does not have any injuries
Learn-to-Swim (Level 1) – Pool

  • Can comfortably swim a minimum 100m continuously
Learn-to-Swim (Level 2) – Pool

  • Can comfortably swim a minimum 400m continuously
  • Float and tread water for 1 minute
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Level 1) program or equivalent
Learn-to-Ocean-Swim (Level 1) – Beginner Ocean Skills

  • Can comfortably swim a minimum 300m continuously
  • Float and tread water for 1 minute
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1 & 2) program or equivalent
Learn-to-Ocean-Swim (Level 2) – Intermediate Ocean Skills

  • Can comfortably swim a minimum 500m continuously
  • Float and tread water for 1 minute
  • Be comfortable in a deep water ocean setting
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1 & 2) programs or equivalent; as well as Learn-to-Ocean-Swim (Level 1) program or equivalent
Learn-to-Cycle (Level 1) – Traffic-Free Roads

  • Can comfortably cycle for 30mins on traffic-free roads
  • Owns a bike that is in good working order (recently serviced).  All bike types are welcome – road, hybrid or mountain bike. We do not recommend recumbents or BMX bikes.
Learn-to-Cycle (Level 2) – Low-Traffic Roads

  • Can comfortably cycle for 5-10km on traffic-free roads
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Cycle (Level 1) or equivalent
  • Owns a bike that is in good working order (recently serviced).  All bike types are welcome – road, hybrid or mountain bike. We do not recommend recumbents or BMX bikes.

 

Running Programs
10km

  • Can comfortably run for 20-30mins
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Run 5km program or equivalent
  • Runs 4-5km on a regular basis
  • Has an moderate fitness base
  • Does not have any injuries
Half-Marathon

  • Can comfortably run 5-10km
  • Runs 5-10km on a regular basis
  • Has an good fitness base
  • Does not have any injuries
Marathon

  • Can comfortably run 10km
  • Runs 10km on a regular basis
  • Has an good fitness base
  • Does not have any injuries

 

Triathlon Programs*
Sprint Distance

  • Can comfortably swim 400m in open water
  • Can confidently cycle 10km on open roads
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Ocean Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Cycle  (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Current TA member to ensure you are covered by Insurance
Standard Distance

  • Can comfortably swim 600m in open water
  • Can confidently cycle 20-30km on open roads and in small groups
  • Completed sprint-distance triathlon in the last 2-3 years
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Ocean Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Cycle  (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Current TA member to ensure you are covered by Insurance
 Long Distance 70.3 

  • Can comfortably swim 1km in open water
  • Can confidently cycle 50-60km on open roads and in small groups
  • Completed standard-distance triathlon in the last 2-3 years
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Ocean Swim (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Preferably completed Learn-to-Cycle  (Levels 1 & 2) or equivalent
  • Current TA member to ensure you are covered by Insurance
* Beauty of Exercise provides various beginner-level swimming and cycling programs (Learn-to-Swim, Learn-to-Ocean-Swim and Learn-to-Cycle programs) which complement the Triathlon programs and have been specifically designed to support capabilities.
We look forward to you joining our training programs and will ensure we support you every step of the way. 

Should you have any questions about the above, please contact Debbie Solms on 0400 455 151.