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I know that a lot of people who join ShapeUp Club have low activity jobs, and sit down most of their time during the day.

And since I started working fulltime in the company I’ve been sitting down a lot more than I usually did while I was studying (which is all day, every day now…). Not good.

I decided that I needed to do something about this! What?

Well, according to self research I know I’m very skilled in joining gyms, and very bad at dragging my lazy bum in there.
I needed to find an exercise I could do without the hassle of leaving my home once I finally get back from the office, something that was motivating enough for me to keep going and it therefore also needed to give me quick results.

So I went wild and bought myself one pair of boxing gloves + mitts. Very well.

But who was I suppose to release all my inner aggression at? Martin of course.

I’ve been doing boxing before and loved the result and the feeling of being super strong (which I maybe wasn’t, but however, just the feeling kept me going).

Martin hasn’t ever done exercis.. I mean boxing before. I therefore hereby give you the story of how Martin got Shaped Up by punching his colleague in the face… (which he probably will do after reading this text…).
No I’m sorry, I’m only joking of course, but our plan is to do some boxing twice a week.
And to give myself a kick in my lazy bum I hereby promise you to show some sort of weekly result on how it’s going.

//Tove

Have any one of you succeeded to snatch one of the new iPad’s yet?
I must admit that I have, couldn’t resist it, and I really love it!
Why? Well to express myself as a girl; it’s so pretty! =)
(No I don’t care about what it can do, I simply just need it because of its prettiness…)

A lot of people have asked for a ShapeUp Club version for the iPad. And I totally agree with you, it would be really cool and I believe we could do a lot of amazing things with the charts (and the rest also of course…).

But I’m really sorry to say that we for now aren’t producing ShapeUp Club for the iPad, no matter how cool it would be. However, we will probably do this sometime in the future, as soon as we have the time!

I’m also really looking forward to the press release of Apples next “must-have”- gadget tonight. Do you believe the rumors? Is a new iPhone about to hit the market and blind us to the rest of the world all over again?

I hope so, would love to see how we can improve ShapeUp Club for a new iPhone, were it all began =)

Are you one of those who rush through breakfast or maybe skip it all together?

I know a lot of people who hate eating breakfast (and some who loves it maybe a little bit too much..).

But I do have a really good and healthy recipe you could try in the morning if you are one of those who find it a bit hard eating when you just woke up.

This is a recipe for a really tasty smoothie:

1 dl of frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, maybe a mix of both. Use what you like the best=) )

1 dl yoghurt

1 dl of fruit juice (preferably use one that contains a healthy bacterial culture, but this is not necessary, but good for your stomach)

Sprinkle some wheat bran and fruit sugar over this.

Now mix everything together in a mixer, and drink it.

One of these drinks contain about 150 Calories, depending on what ingredients you use. So maybe you need to eat something more so you won’t get hungry before lunch (and risk the possibility of treating yourself with a snack meanwhile..).

I hope you will enjoy it!

All the best!

Tove