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Vanessa Wilton
Changing Her Life Forever |
How Vanessa Wilton Won The 12 Week Body Blitz Challenge.
The new Body Blitz grand champion for Women’s Fitness and Health magazine, Vanessa Wilton, is a picture of happiness and good health. She took on a huge transformation in just 12 weeks with thanks to a lot of determination, self-belief and love and support from her family and friends. And her celebratory weekend in Melbourne has topped off her journey thus far.
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“Twelve months after my last baby was born I knew my child bearing days were over and I desperately wanted to get back into shape,” she exclaims. I felt unfit, sluggish and lethargic and just not motivated. I didn’t have a lot of time to myself so getting fit became one of those things that I was always going to do, but never got around to.”
Vanessa is living proof that if you really want something, there is always a ways and means of doing it. And she did just that when she stumbled upon a Women’s Fitness and Health magazine in her local newsagent in Narooma.
“In between changing nappies, reading story books and singing wiggle songs I read Women’s Fitness and Health magazine and loved the idea of the Blitz competition. I dug out my bikinis in the middle of winter and got my seven-year-old son to take the before shots.”
Amid giggles and smirks from her children, Vanessa freezed her butt off, as she puts it, for her before photos. The first major step to the 12-Week Challenge. From there on she went about finding some old weights of her husband’s, and using information provided by the Women’s Fitness and Health magazine, Vanessa devised her own weight training program and complimented this with a cardio regime.
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On the beach with 2003 male Body Blitz champion Rick Brennan |
“I worked-out in the lounge room where I could watch what the children were up to in the back yard. I would wait till my youngest had his day sleep and then I’d train like mad to finish before he wokeup.”
Vanessa’s training equipment consisted of one set of dumbells and a barbell. For her cardio training she did a combination of running, swimming, walking and stair climbs. She also added something a bit different by jumping and jogging on a mini-tramp. Sometimes she would get so into it, she’d be jumping around to music like a mad woman! It was fun and fitness at the same time.
So when she got the call telling her that she’d earnt the title of 2003 Body Blitz Grand Champion in the women’s division, Vanessa was ecstatic. This meant, among other prizes, a trip to Melbourne where she was to be treated like a celebrity and photographed all weekend.
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“I couldn’t believe it! I now have loads of energy, lots of laughter, cool confidence, inner-strength, heaps of happiness and additional respect and admiration from my family and friends. I ask you, what more could a girl want?”
It was all fun and games when Vanessa and fellow Australian Ironman Body Blitz Grand Champion Rick Brennan, enjoyed the sites of Melbourne and daily photo shoots, sporting their new toned physiques. But never once did Vanessa lose sight of what is really important to her, as she whipped out happy snaps of her four cherubs, as she fondly calls her children, while at a Body Blitz dinner with staff from Blitz Publications.“When I got off the plane after my weekend in Melbourne, I was met by my husband and children who each had a single red rose for me. I cried!”
It’s been an emotional journey for Vanessa and her family, but it’s all been positive. It’s been an opportunity for growth and reassessment, and a chance for Vanessa to decide where the next phase of her life is going to take her. With the results she’s achieved by doing the 12-Week Body Blitz Challenge, things can only get bigger and better from here. Check out Vanessa’s website at www.fitlioness.com for great tips and advice.
By Amy Curwain
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