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Cooler Cleanse: Healing Cooler Giveaway – 5 Winners!

It makes sense that December is the time for giveaways! Before we get to today’s, I will announce the winner of the Core Fusion Bootcamp DVD. I used the Random Integer Generator and I am very happy to announce that Diana from My Marble Rye is the winner! Diana said: My goal is to run a 10k or a half!!! I hope I can do it!!!

OF COURSE you can do it! Congratulations Diana! Email me your address and I will have that DVD sent right to you.

When I did a Cooler Cleanse review and giveaway over the summer, it went really well. I loved my three-day juice cleanse and so many readers wanted to win a free one! So when my friends at Cooler Cleanse reached out to me and told me about their new program. Healing Cooler, I jumped at the chance to help again. The concept and the motivation behind Healing Cooler is dramatically different from that of other juicing programs.

The main difference — and what I especially like about Healing Cooler — is that it is NOT marketed as a cleanse or a fast. Upon visiting the website, you see a montage of pictures with phrases such as “Send help for a speedier recovery.” And their slogan is “A healing gift from the heart.”

What does this mean? It means that Healing Cooler promotes juicing as a way to get vital nutrients to assist with healing.

Healing Cooler Logo

On the What’s Inside Our Juices page, they clearly state the following: Our pressing method means that Healing Cooler juices stay potent for three days when kept chilled. Nowhere on the website do they encourage you to drink all six juices in a day or substitue juices for a day’s worth of food. And while you certainly could (and it is arguably most effective), that is not the main point of this gift. The Healing Cooler is a way to give someone vital nutrients to help them heal, whether it be over the course of one day or three. No matter how you drink your Healing Cooler juices, you will get the amazing benefits of juice!

From their site:

Give a gift of health and happiness to someone you care about. Opening a Healing Cooler, the recipient will find six fresh pressed juices bursting with flavor and nutrition. They’re potent aids for refreshing and reviving the body when it’s down, or boosting its daily defenses.

For centuries, people have used premium fruit and vegetable juices to maintain and build good health. Today’s extremely efficient juicing methods extract the maximum amount of goodness from ripe, organic produce. That makes pressed juice one of nature’s most powerful — and delicious — pick-me-ups.

Whether you send a Healing Cooler to lend your support or just to say “Thank you,” there’s no more thoughtful way to show you care about someone’s well-being than to give a cooler filled with fresh pressed juices.

Designed as a gift, there are four options of juice packages to give:

The Immunity, Strength and Recovery are each designed with specific juices meant to aid in these functions. On each page you can read more about the juices included and why they were chosen. It is clear that a great deal of thought and research was put into designing these programs. The idea is that you give a gift to someone in your life who needs a boost in one of these areas. For $60, it is a very reasonable gift and also very thoughtful — especially during these cold winter months.

You might be wondering how the juices actually taste. I know the idea of vegetable juice might not sound so appealing, no matter how many times I swear they taste better than you think. Healing Cooler sent me a free pack of six juices to try as part of this promotion. I opted for Create Your Own because I wanted to try juices from Immunity, Strength AND Recovery.

First, let me say this is an awesome gift to receive. It gets delivered in an insulated box that acts like a cooler. I loved the ice pack!

The Healing Cooler also includes an optional handwritten card:

I got my own sweet handwritten card from Healing Cooler! I loved it. And how cute is that box.

My thoughts on the juices I tried:

Green Leaf (Immunity, Strength, Recovery) – DELICIOUS. You might think green juice sounds yucky, but I promise you will find this tasty. If you’ve done Blueprint Cleanse, there is a great chance you think green juice is gross. This tastes NOTHING like their green juice — I SWEAR. You can hold me to this. A delicious, super healthy blend of vegetables, lightly sweetened with pear.

Kale & Co (Immunity, Strength) – LOVED. I was nervous about this one because it contains apple, which I thought might be the reason I didn’t like Blueprint’s green juice. But this is totally different! The apple is so subtle and provides just the right amount of sweetness. The watercress really added to this one. I would drink this every day if I could!

Pineapple Kiwi (Immunity) – Very good, tasted much more of pineapple than kiwi.

Pear Mint (Immunity) – I didn’t love this one the way I expected to, but it was a good juice.

Ten Veggie (Strength) – Lots and lots of vegetables in one! Crazy! I wasn’t sure if I would like this because I tend not to like juices that contain tomato, but I really enjoyed this one. The beet and carrot are strong flavors that bring down the tomato, so it is just a really delicious mix.

Red Veggie (Strength) – At first sip I thought “holy tomato!” I didn’t think I liked it, but I am happy to report that as I continued drinking it I got used to this one and ended up really liking it. I wouldn’t choose it over the others greens or the Ten Veggie, but it was much better than I expected it to be considering it contained tomato juice.

I really enjoyed my juices. I planned to drink them all in one day but ended up splitting it up over three. To each her own! That is the beauty of the Healing Cooler.

Hopefully you all think this is as awesome as I do because I’ve got FIVE of these babies to give away.

Giveaway rules:

You can get up to two entries.

(1) Entry one consists of TWO parts:

  • Post on the Healing Cooler Facebook wall to say which cooler you would like in January, and why.
  • Leave the same comment here so we can confirm your entry. Half entries will not be counted.

(2) Once you’ve done that, get a second entry by tweeting the following (you all know how much I love the Twitters):

Win a free @healingcooler of 6 healing juices from @dysterious – details here! http://dorishinyblog.com/?p=5096

I will work with the Healing Cooler team to select the best responses. You will be able to select a shipping day after the holiday season is over, since FedEx is a bit overwhelmed with holiday stuffs.

I will announce the FIVE WINNERS on Tuesday, December 28. Good luck!

Core Fusion Bootcamp DVD Review + Giveaway

Core Fusion Bootcamp was released last week. Another great Core Fusion DVD! I love how they are constantly filming more of these. More DVDs, more options for working out — and every single DVD is effective, I promise. I even got to go behind the scenes at the Core Fusion Cardio DVD rehearsal in October. I’ll share the details on that another time! Now is the time in Sprockets when we talk about Core Fusion Bootcamp.

The simplest way to describe Bootcamp: a mix of  Core Fusion Sport and Core Fusion Yoga and regular Core Fusion.

Like the others in the Core Fusion collection, this DVD consists of five 10 minute segments. Ideally, you would do them all together for a complete workout, but you also have the option of choosing which segments you’d like to do which is perfect if you are short on time.

The segments are:

  • Cardio Flex
  • Cardio Sun Salutations
  • Jump Backs Part 1
  • Jump Backs Part 2
  • Abdominal Curl

With two bonus sections:

  • Bonus: Stretch with ball
  • Bonus: Thigh Core with ball

(1) Cardio Flex stretches, warms up and prepares your body for the hard work to come. I would recommend always doing this section before any other to get your body ready.

(2) Cardio Sun Salutations (you need a hand weight) is very much like the Core Fusion Yoga Energy Flow DVD. This section will get your heart rate up with a flow of down dogs, up dogs, chaturanga, swan dives, lunges and pushups. It feels really great to stretch and get your body twisting and moving like this. I love yoga and I know some people yoga isn’t a sweaty workout — but this type of yoga is. I especially liked the spin on the chair pose — holding weights while pulsing. Killer move! I’ve never done this before and it was hard but gooooood.

(3) Jump Backs Part 1 (you need a playground ball, hand weights and a mat)

Sidenote: Do playground balls remind anyone else of Sideways Stories from Wayside School?

This section will get you working hard! This is just like the Core Fusion Sport class — which I actually did not take during my Core Fusion Challenge, but I finally took it this past weekend and loved it!  I don’t know why I was so wary of Sport. I plan to take it once a week now and sporty my body up.

A jumpback is a series of six fast steps: raise the ball over your head, lower it to your chest & squat, touch the ball to the floor, jump back into plank (hands on the ball), jump into squat, stand and raise ball over your head. Imagine doing this fast, multiple times in a row, interspersed throughout other exercises! You use the ball to add challenge in planks, pushups, chair pose, lunges and more. Jumpbacks are incorporated throughout to get the heart rate up.

If you don’t want to use a playground ball, you can use a hand weight, nothing at all, or (what we use in Sport) — a weighted medicine ball!

(4) Jump Backs Part 2

This section is similar to Part 1 with all the jumpbacks, but the exercises in between vary. This part includes twisting lunges, wide second position, balance work and lots of full body squats designed to also work the arms and the core.  There are still lots of planks and pushups here!

(5) Abdominal Curl (with weight) because what would a Core Fusion DVD be without their signature abdominal curl?

All I have to say about this section is: BURN. You *will* get defined abs from the Core Fusion Curl. There is nothing else like it. The hardest part about this section is the variations for taking your arms off and moving them up and down. If this is too intense, you can always keep your hands on your thighs. You are still working, and eventually you will build up the core strength to lift your arms off. Uh, the planks and pushups will help too. The oblique work is especially challenging and Fred gives instructions on making it even more challenging if you want. I love all the options, and I love how quickly you start to see improvements.

But then Fred goes all crazy and picks up the hand weights to do the curl. No joke, this is intense! I recommend trying it with the weights and seeing how much you can do. No shame in putting them down — I had to! But I also surprised myself by holding onto them for longer than I would have expected. The weights add a whole new challenge to this already difficult exercise.

How Fred can talk the entire time while doing the curl with the weights and all the variations is beyond me. I suspect he is not actually human.

Bonus Sections

As a bonus there are two sections for deep stretching. I strongly recommend doing these because they will help you balance out the tightening work you did during the DVD. The stretch with the ball will stretch out your abs and will feel like such a relief after holding the curl for almost 10 minutes.

All in all, this is an amazing DVD. It incorporates cardio, strength, yoga, stretching and is truly a full body workout. It will get your heart rate up and keep you too busy to think about anything but the exercises. This would be a perfect addition to your workout routine in the new year because it will align with almost everyone’s goals. Since I really want you to try this workout, I am going to give away one copy of the Core Fusion Bootcamp DVD!

You can get up to two entries. I will choose the winner randomly and announce his or her name on Tuesday, December 21 (and there will be another amazing giveaway that day! Hint: Healing Cooler).

To enter:

1. Leave a comment telling me your #1 workout goal for the new year. It can be strengthening, flexibility, running a race — anything at all!  I’d really love to hear your goals for inspiration. (My goal for 2010 was the Core Fusion Challenge for one month, and a year I still haven’t stopped! I would say that was a success. My goal for this year is to run the NYC Marathon!

2. Tweet: I want to win the #CoreFusion Bootcamp DVD from @dysterious. Enter here: http://dorishinyblog.com/?p=5061

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