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Mid-year self-improvement check in
We Will...
Firm FIT Testimonials
Born on the 4th of July
Strip Search!
Mopete...

Mid-year self-improvement check in

Well, here we are: Mid-way between this year's new years resolutions and next. For me, Pride weekend is a turning-point in the calendar. It's the pinnacle of summer, and just about the only time of year that I don't feel Autumn threatening me with impending cooler weather and busier schedules. We're nearing the peak of the roller coaster of summer with Pride and Independence day, and soon we'll be rattling downward toward the State Fair, the start of the school year, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Before you know it, you're staring at the business-end of the winter holidays. Basically, to me, the end of Pride means it's suddenly wintertime.

WE WILL EAT OUR VEGGIES

I write this missive from the backseat of a car. I've been in this car for about eight hours, and will stay in it for four or five more. I am driving through Nebraska, and even though I am surrounded by farmland, where I presume they are growing vegetables, all I can find to eat in this god-forsaken state with it's god-forsaken truck stops is string cheese and beef jerky. (Side note: in Ogallala I even spied a slab of truck stop beef jerky that was so huge it was like circus-huge. It reminded me of tire retread, sloughed from a semi trailer and abandoned by the side of Interstate 80. Woe to the trucker who must pass the jerkey-slab later on! And woe to the toilet that must receive it!)

Anyway, I am not worried, because I am smart. For this trip I have packed Dynamic Greens. So at mealtime, I duck into a truck stop for an apple juice, stir in some Dynamic Greens and I am ready to face the highway once again.

I am also saving money. Seriously, with food prices what they are, it would cost you like $75 a day to get the nutrients found in one serving of Dynamic Greens. So on normal days, when I'm in Minneapolis, land of Lunds and Kowalski's where the produce gets sexily misted by little jets every thirty seconds or so, I STILL often drink Dynamic Greens because it's waaaaay cheaper than produce. Also, I don't have to cook.

WE WILL BOND TOGETHER IN THE SPIRIT OF ACTIVISM or "WHERE MY GAYS AT?"

So, Kathy Griffin is coming to town in October. How stoked are you? She's doing three shows, and we were thinking it would be really FAB-ulous if she came to the Firm and took Doug's class.

But you know our Kath. She's not going to do that without some serious persuading. It's time for us all to come together as one, and stand up for what we believe in. Let's all email Kathy Griffin incessantly and get her to come to class. Visit Kathy Griffin's website, select (tour questions) in the drop down box and send her an email, and if ya have a picture of Doug in a crazy costume (not that any exist) attach it, and let her know that it doesn't get any more D-list than Doug's class and don't stop groveling till you see the whites of her eyes at The Firm.

WE WILL MAKE NEW FRIENDS

At the Firm we make it easy for you. We've hire two new hotties, and if you're feeling shy it's okay, because they'll say hi to you first.

Susan Rowland is sort of like the best person we ever could have hired because she's sampled everything the Firm has to offer. She's Firm FIT graduate, she's taken every class 100 times (slight exaggeration) and she's done personal training. She has tried every single smoothie in the Juice Bar and has committed to memory every square inch of the building with the exception of the men's locker room.

WE WILL HAVE PRIDE

I like Gay Pride for it's consistency. The parade organizers like The Firm to bring up the rear, one float before the Lesbians in the fire truck. We always blare our music, we always get the folks riled up, we always dress and act like total idiots, there is always thinly-veiled gay snark. And Lavender always publishes loads of photos of us later.

And let me just speak for everyone at the Firm: Gay ladies and Gentlemen of the Twin Cities, we are proud of you. Keep up the good, gay work.

WE WILL GET FIT

Firm F.I.T. - 50 Session Personal Training Package - Next Session Starts August 16, 2008. (half the spots still available)

How many times are you going to read this newsletter and think, "Yeah, someday I should do Firm FIT."? It's high time you made good on that promise to yourself. Click here to read the latest testimonials to learn how the program is more than a boot camp, it's an education, and truly a life-changing experience.

The program is constructed with 50 sessions of personal training which include customized upper and lower body weight training, before and after body fat testing analysis, daily meal programming, heart-rate monitored cardio training, sports stretching, yoga and Pilates

Call or email Neil Miyamoto for details. 612-810-4052 nmiyamoto@thefirmmpls.com

Born on the 4th of July

Many of you may know Thomas Harrington and Todd Stebleton are not only good friends but also partners….BUSINESS partners. Not life partners. OK!

You know like when two people hang out together a lot and they have the same schedule and they get on the same cycle and they start dressing alike and finishing each other’s sentences. Well Todd and Thomas have taken it to a whole new level. They are both proud new Dads. Not together. Just close to each other. I mean they weren’t in same room or anything,  it was totally different days and different hospitals, and their wives had A LOT to do with it too. Now I am getting confused… Maybe this will clear things up.

Our very own personal trainer Thomas Harrington and his wife Lisa welcomed a baby boy named Collin on the 4th of July at 12:57pm.

The little firecracker weighed 7lbs and 1 oz. (he is already trying to lose that 1 oz) He was 19  inches long (and those aren’t internet inches either). All are doing well. Maybe now Thomas will settle down and take life more seriously.

Strip Search!

We all know that all of you are totally on the pulse of everything, but apparently not everyone knows what a great workout Cardio Strip Tease is. Yet.

The Star Tribune recently did a story about different places in town to shake your booty and a few pounds at the same time. Click Here

Of course they  mentioned The Firm since we did win “Best Bad Girl Workout” by Minneapolis St Paul Magazine in 2007. Click Here

Mopete…

How many of you keep going to our website just so you can hear the phat beats that play with our videos. You know you do it about 5 maybe ten times a day  gettin all jiggy with it in yo cubicle. Did you know our very own personal trainer Ted Peterson aka Mopete  wrote, produced and performed all of them. And not only that but he has a CD out called “Nayba Hood Supplya” We know he’s a great trainer but he is more than a pretty face.

Check out his list of credentials and you will see why we are proud of our little MoPete. Click Here for bio. To hear MoPete and sample his tunes, Click Here