From the Regymen newsletter archives — originally sent to members in January 2025. Anything offered in these pages was for that month only and is no longer running.
HOW HIGH IS YOUR BAR?
Welcome to January! We aren’t looking for new goals and resolutions, because around here, we never stopped! We understand that success is not about being at your best every day, but instead, it’s about showing up and being consistent. So, let’s keep grinding and finding audacious ways to challenge our limits and beliefs in 2025. This month along, with the eleven others, will be full of opportunity, growth and setting the bar high as we march toward greatness in all areas of our lives!
Refer & Receive (heading only — body is an image-only January promo graphic: “JOIN IN JANUARY AND GET YOUR First Month 50% OFF / FIRST MONTH FREE!”)
THIS MONTH
Happy New Year! Dec 31st – New Years Eve 5am – 5:30pm Jan 1st – New Years Day Closed Jan 2nd – Regularly scheduled workouts! (remember to pre-book!)
Coach Emily’s Nutrition Reset Just In time for a New Year, don’t forget to make yourself a priority and see what you stand to gain in 2025! JAN 6th -FEB 28th 2025 $359.00 /8 weeks Sign up at the front desk or contact Emily for more information. Sign up ends Jan 4th! (non-members welcome to join)
Yoga With Coach Audra Saturday January 4th, 2025 First Saturday of each month! 11:15am – 12:15pm Join Coach Audra for a rejuvenating yoga session that will leave you feeling balanced and refreshed. Don’t forget your mat!
JOG THROUGH JANUARY ` Start your year strong with Jog though January! For every 5 miles you run collect 5 Regy-Bucks from the front desk! Lace up, hit the pavement, and start training now for the MARDI GRAS MAMBO RUN in BTR! see link below on how to register for the race! Don’t wait! Registration is limited. REDEEM your REGY-BUCKS for your race tank of tee or toward another REGYMEN tee or tank. Earn your rewards in 2025 and get better while doing it!
FEET KNEES & HIPS… oh my! You may have heard coach Emily rambling on about feet in workouts and hollering at you on the mic to fix your alignment. But why are the joints so darn important? and what can we do now to get them moving better NOW! Sunday Jan 26th 1pm-2:30pm workout & learning session with Coach Emily. bring socks and a mat
LOOKING AHEAD
Mardi Gras Mambo 10k 🎭💜💛 Laissez les bon temps rouler! 💚🎉 Join us for the Mardi Gras Mambo 10k on February 15th! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Let’s run, sweat, and celebrate the spirit of Mardi Gras together! 🎶💃 Whether you’re a seasoned runner or just want to have fun, this race is for YOU. 💪 Sign up now, set your goals, and let’s make it a day to remember! 🙌
Member Spotlight
Brandy Volion I am a mom of five, Bebe of two, and wife of the best!!! Those eight people (and two son in laws) are why I breathe every day. As the Title One para for Duplessis Primary, I am one of the lucky one who get to spend their days helping teach reading skills to Kindergarten through 4th graders. I’ve struggled with my weight my whole life. I grew up thinking it was genetic and I would never not be overweight. However, In December 2016, I walked into the doctor’s office (weighing almost 400lbs), because my legs kept swelling. I walked out with a prescription for high blood pressure medication. After Googling the side effects of this medicine, and seeing cancer as one of them, I refused to take them, but knew something had to change. Because walking was hard, I started walking around my kitchen island several times a day, just to reach my daily goal of 8,000 steps. On March 23, 2017, I saw the surgeon for the first time and Jun 28th I had part of my stomach removed. Fast forward six months, and I had only lost 60lbs and couldn’t lose any more. I had lost all hope of every being skinny. It was a year long downward spiral for me and would often think many dark thoughts. Thankfully my husband was there to put my broken pieces back together every time. One day I woke up and realized I needed to be healthy, not skinny. I started working out at home, and really focusing on eating better. I dropped another 80lbs. With very little confidence in myself, I felt I needed to join a gym because home workouts were no longer enough for me. I joined Regymen in September 2021 and without a doubt that was a life changing moment for me and my family. I signed up for a six-week challenge and by week three I knew I wasn’t leaving. The scale shows me over 200 lbs less from where I was in 2017, but the knowledge and confidence I have gain is far more than any number on the scale will show. Hearing the coaches (past and present) call my name and tell me I am doing something right or saying beast mode activated just gets me pumped. Those gym bullies though… They keep me on my toes and add extra weight when I try going easy. I am grateful for all of it!! In August 2023 I got my personal trainer certification, and August 2024 I got my nutrition coach certification. Through my journey, my children understand the importance of starting young and know what it means to be healthy, mind and body. Working out next to them, and seeing them thrive in their journey is a feeling I could never fully explain. I have always said, part of my journey is making sure they start theirs. Several friends, family, and coworkers have joined Regymen with me. This month I will be coaching several coworkers through a nutrition reset. It is my dream to help others understand how proper nutrition can change their life.
Staff Spotlight
EMILY FOWERS-WONG If you spend much time around me, it won’t be long until you her me speak of my mother. Now, almost 83 years of age, I attribute my health, my mindset and my curiosity to her and the many things she taught me that were way ahead of her time. We didn’t have much, but we had all we needed and enough land to plant a garden and learn what fresh food was. I am her 10th child of 12, born and raised in Ogden Utah. I found fitness at 19 when my sister took me with her to a local gym. I immediately fell for the dopamine and endorphins and was hooked. Also, there were cute guys there and eventually one I met became my husband. In April of 2005, we found ourselves studying a paper map of Louisiana looking for a place to put down new roots with our young family for a job opportunity. I began teaching fitness classes and personal training in 2006 at a local health club. In 2009 we opened our first business, Xtreme Performance Nutrition. In 2017 I moved my training business to my home studio. In 2018 we invested in REGYMEN FITNESS and in 2020 became the sole owners of the Ascension location. Through many years of working with clients I have seen repeating patterns both on the metabolic side, and on the health professional side. I was perplexed and started digging for answers, questioning everything I thought was correct. The things that were ‘supposed to work’ didn’t always work… but why? No one had great answers for me. As a trainer, I am told with my certification I cannot legally offer nutrition advice, so I studied and got a nutrition certification, which taught me almost nothing about food or real nutrition. This was not only disheartening, but confusing. Then I realized it was exactly the same in the medical world. A doctor cannot talk about issues out of their specialty. They are expected to refer to the next expert, and the next, and so on… yet none of these doctors talk to each other. Was I the only one that saw the problem in this? it was then that I returned to my own mother’s intuitive wisdom. The answers are there, you just have to connect the dots! With all things in life if we keep searching, we will usually find the answers we seek. As we enter a new year and contemplate where we would like to be in the next 5 years, 10 years, or even 20 years, we must all first evaluate the lifestyle we are choosing now and how its contributing factors are either adding to or taking away from our possibilities. My hope is to not only spread my love of fitness even more this year, but specifically educate the members on REGYMEN FITNESS – Ascension on what it takes to turn back the clock and age gracefully and not fall victim to the standards of the average population and what they consider ‘normal’. We have the power to set the bar for ourselves and our families and even influence our friends in a powerful way! Together we have the chance to make an impact that will last. I challenge each of you this year ahead to simply some of your small habits, make adjustments where you can and prioritize yourself. These little changes will compound into progress if you just COMMIT! Let’s get after it!