Steven Hill
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Whistler trainer Cat Smiley wants you - to buy her new workout book.
The athletic trainer who has taught Boot Camp-style workout sessions in both Whistler and Squamish has her first book on the market, based on her popular training regimen.
"The Boot Camp Workout is a pretty empowering, self-help style book, where people open up the page each day and have their workouts demonstrated for them with photos and with feedback from other people who have done the workout," said Smiley. "It is a workout program geared mainly towards for women."
She said she developed the workout through many hours of experimentation and trials.
"Basically the workout was tested on more than 500 people," she explained. "I did different types of workouts and tested which ones were most effective. Then I put it all into a book."
Smiley said her workout techniques have proved to be very successful.
"It is the workout that has helped Whistler lose close to 3,000 inches last year and 2,500 pounds - in a town that is already pretty fit," she said. "The average weight loss is five pounds and eight inches per month."
Smiley published the book herself, because she said she wanted to ensure it was done the way she had envisioned.
"It was my New Year's resolution last year to do this," she said. "I had been thinking about it for a while. I get asked two or three times a week to move to various places like Florida or Seattle, because people want me to bring my Boot Camp Workout there.
"I was getting tired of emailing people and thanking them for their interest, but saying I was based only in Whistler," she said. "So I wanted to do something and get the workout to a larger population, and let people anywhere and anytime do the workout."
She said one of the things in the book that should help motivate people, are photos following a young, out-of-shape girl as she does the eight-week program.
"She actually lost 35 pounds in the eight weeks," said Smiley. "You can actually see her each and every week getting smaller and smaller. A lot of people will be able to identify with her, and think 'If she can do it, so can I'."
The book took about a year to research and another year to write, according to Smiley, but it is the first step in getting her Boot Camp to everyone that wants to shed some pounds and get healthier.
"I am hoping to have communities of people doing the workout," she said. "And then having them post on my website's forum and get together with like-minded people who have the book and are doing the workout."
Enlist in Cat Smiley's Boot Camp Workout by reserving a copy at your local bookstore or visit her website at catsmiley.com.
