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Jack Leash Your FitnessLeash Your fitness is all about being active with your pet. We have daily fitness classes and monthly activities like yoga, kayaking, hiking, camping, etc.  Anything to spice up your daily dog walks so that you can bond with your best furry friend and get a great workout.   Jack is our Cairn Terrier mascot who will keep you updated on all of the fun events that he has coming up and show you photos of the ones that we already had.  We plan on doing a lot of communication through this blog so please visit often and feel free to leave your comments.

Trainers Eat Crap Too

Trainers Eat Crap Too

When you think of a personal trainer do you conjure up images of green juice, muscle shirts and workout videos?   Do you think that they never eat anything bad, dream of working out and have the will power of a Saint? Maybe instead you should be thinking of why they got into the profession in the first place and how they struggle just like YOU. For me personally, I have secretly struggled with depression ever since cutting out alcohol 15 years ago.  I guess burying my feelings with alcohol was working for me! Working out makes me feel good

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Running Iron Mountain

Running Iron Mountain

Man!! It has been HOT!!  We are ready for fall so we can start hiking again.  Mommy and I took advantage of the one cool day last week to do a trail run up Iron Mountain.     It was a cloudy day mid week.  Not many people on the trail.  Mommy has been training for a Ragnar 24 hour trail race with the Leash Your Fitness Trail Dogs team.   We haven’t got too many training runs in because of the heat so we went for it the first chance we got!   Of course we started early like

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Surfing with your Dog

Surfing with your Dog

After Jack’s Journey USA was complete in July, Jack decided that he wanted to keep his adventures going! He has had a very busy summer and it wouldn’t be complete without the Helen Woodward Surf Dog Competition! Here is what he has to say about it…     Every year mommy enters me into the Surf Dog competition but since we have been doing more SUPing this year, she thought it would be fun to do the SUP obstacle course instead.   We arrived to the beach bright and early and the Surf Dog competition was in full swing!!  There

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Alphabet Workout

Alphabet Workout

This is a fun Move It Monday!! (Depending on what your name is!) One of our girls found this Alphabet Workout online so we have been having fun with it in class! Spell out your name, your dogs name, your partners name–mix it up! We even spelled out Happy Bday for one of the girls birthday workout! Let us know what you spelled and how you did!

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Burpee Challenge

Burpee Challenge

Everyone hates burpees but they are a great exercise.   You will get your heart rate elevated which will get your metabolism rolling!  They are also good for upper body, core and leg strength and flexibility! An all over good exercise except that they are challenging! We LOVE a challenge! So we are going to CHALLENGE YOU!! We have included 3 ways to do BURPEES on this video so we have something for all fitness levels. If you are new to burpees, start with 1 but if you want to really challenge yourself, start with 10. Each day you are

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