Woodway Treadmills in the Cardio Area

Ab Mats in the Intensity Studio

On Tuesday, January 24, The Big Hunt is extending their happy hour

for MINT friends and family! 

The Big Hunt is a craft beer bar featuring 32 draft lines and constantly rotating list of delicious, unique, one-off, and rare beers, 3 floors, 4 bars, gamer-room with Skee-Ball & Pin-Ball, beautiful patio, and stand-up comedy in the basement.

RSVP to the event and invite your #fitfriends!

NOW HIRING: MINT Marketing and Communications Director

• Part time at 15 to 20 hours per week, with advancement opportunity
• Position can start immediately
• $25,000 annual salary to start
• After 90 days, subject to consideration of increase in hours, responsibilities, and compensation for exemplary performance.

• Launch/re-launch ‘Flash Classes’- outside classes in popular public areas around the city
  • Identify a corporate partner for the events to maximize exposure
  • Organize the event details, participate until the program can mostly run on it’s own

• Create entire marketable campaigns both large and small, and manage the entirety of the logistics
  • Identify internal and external mediums to promote and lead execution of such promotion
  • Create physical and digital promotional material
  • Identify and procure prizes
  • Manage all other details and logistics
• Examples of past campaigns include:
  • Maintain, Don’t Gain- a holiday based challenge to get to the gym, which included guest access
  • Cycle challenge- most classes taken in a month
  • MINT 10 year anniversary celebrations- 10 days for 10 years in which community partners had a presence at the clubs
  • New dedicated barre studio opening celebration
  • Meet the personal trainers event
  • Open houses at the facilities
  • Personal Training promotions (most/all months)
  • Membership promotions (most/all months)

• Work closely with MINT’s ambassador team and team leader (team consists of approximately 15 individuals working about 1-2 hours per week for MINT on an independent basis)
  • Leverage the team’s creativity and availability to coordinate and communicate with current and prospective partners
  • Encourage the team to create and be present at events
  • Track the teams overall productivity
• Lead social media content gathering and posting
• Lead blog management
  • Solicit submissions from staff and community
  • Edit and post submissions
  • Organize weekly blog update email (MINTy Fresh update)
• Lead and coordinate communications
  • Weekly GM & Program update/newsletter
  • Weekly Staff update/newsletter
  • Promotions
  • Minty fresh update
  • App pushes
  • Website updates
  • All other communication mediums, including identifying additional mediums.
• Thoroughly proofread and edit all outgoing communications
• Work with general resources, such as
  • Graphic design and print vendor (currently Basecamp)
  • Sign vendor (currently Affordable Signs)
  • Shared online docs and spreadsheets
• Logistical management of misc. marketing-related items, such as but not necessarily limited to:
  • Coordinating headshot sessions and communication and accountability to staff
  • Receive various forms from staff, coordinate pieces accordingly (such as event promotion requests)
  • As needed, coordinate with photographers
  • Field third party requests, both directly and forwarded by others, for marketing related topics and opportunites
    • (for example a request to partner with a blog, app developer, a vendor who may be able to drive business to MINT, etc)
  • Administration of various third party marketing and promotional services

• The MD works largely independently using their own computer and determining their own workspace
• A presence in the MINT facilities is required:
  • For events
  • Ongoing regular presence of at least 2-3 minimum hours per week to members/clients to best understand their wants and needs, and general ‘vibe’ of the clientele
  • Ongoing regular presence as needed to touch base with key staff, such as marketing assistant, club General Managers, personal trainers, and other staff
  • Once-monthly meetings with CEO and/or others to review work, progress updates, strategize, etc.
  • Room for advancement exists as MINT is growing as a company; full time employment is a possibility
  • This is a 1099 subcontractor position

To Apply, please send a resume and letter of interest to: PJMINT@GMAIL.COM

Keep up with Jeannie on her Doonya Facebook page and her Instagram!

Head-to-Knee Forward Bend, Janusirsasana

• Begin by sitting with both legs stretched out in front of you on your mat.

• Bend the right leg, bringing the right foot in towards the groin.

• Sit firmly in your seat, ensuring contact between your sits bones and the mat. It might help you use your hands to lift the buttocks.

• Engage uddiyanabandha, bringing the belly button in and up towards the spine. This will help you fold more deeply. This is not an instruction to hold the breath. Continue to breathe fully.

• Fold over the extended leg.

• Hands can rest on the thigh or shin, or grip the feet. For a deeper stretch, you can hold a block behind your feet or use a strap.

• Release any unnecessary tension in your neck and face.

• After you are done, try the pose on the other side to even out the body.

Ashley Binetti received her 200-hour vinyasa yoga teacher training at Saraswatis’s Yoga Joint in Norwalk, CT in 2011. Her favorite pose is Triangle. When she’s not doing yoga, Ashley works as a nonprofit attorney. She is also a MINT Ambassador.

Build a full body workout you can do just about anywhere!

• (Wo)man makers
• Side lunges with bicep curls
• Renegrade rows to standing rows
• Everest Hops
• Squats with tricep overheads
• Tuck jumps
• … and more!

Watch the video and master these total body exercises! 

1. Visualize your goals

What is driving you to lose some weight (a big event, a healthier you, a dress or pants you don’t get in to anymore)?  Write down what your motivation is and make it visible.  Post it on your fridge, make a background image for your phone, post-its on your desk… what ever is best for you to remind yourself why you set these goals and why you want to stick with it!

2. Keep track

There is no secret that writing things down helps you be aware of what you are doing (ie. eating).  Some studies show that those who keep track of their dietary intake actually loose 20-30% more than those who don’t. You can go as simple as just keeping a daily log/diary to using the plethora of apps out there to help you along.  If you have a Fitbit, their apps has a great food tracker. Lose It is another great app and it syncs with Apple Health and other programs such as iCardio. It’s also fun to get badges for the progress you are making along the way. Calorie Count is another one I have used in the past and would recommend.

In the spirit of keeping track, if you don’t have a food scale, get one!  For $15 or less, you will be able to get a much better sense of portion sizes, and be less tempted to guesstimate how much you are eating.

3. See short and long term

Don’t beat yourself up if come mid January you have a dinner and end up eating/drinking way more than your new year’s resolution plan allows.  That doesn’t mean you should just give up.  Everyone has set backs and these should empower you to get back on track and move forward, not throw up your hands in defeat.  I find that setting some short term goals as well as a longer term one, helps me feel that I am moving along even if a week here or here may not have been that great.

It’s only January and you have a full year of possibilities in front you —make the most of them.

Alexandra Salomon is a MINT Ambassador.

With the start of 2017, I’ve been talking to a lot of people who want to kick off the year right, by beginning to meet their fitness goals. Whether it is running the Rock and Roll Marathon this March without fear of hurting their hip again, or getting their back fixed so that they can FINALLY begin to lift weights like they did last Spring before their injury or achieving that optimal work out program that they just can’t seem to build-up to because of work stress/ holiday stress/ procrastination/ being plagued with minor injuries – you name it.

As a physical therapist, my advice often is set 3 simple sub-goals to achieve your main goal and set a time frame within which to achieve them. Then for each goal, make a to-do-list. It may be – join a diet program, or sign up with a personal trainer, or contact a physical therapist and fix that injury to move forward with your fitness goals.

One of the hardest things that I find people have difficulty maintaining is “consistency” and the second is “patience”. If you are working towards your fitness goals consistently then rest assured, you WILL be patient with yourself and you WILL GET THERE.

If you are suffering from an injury or have minor knee or back or neck/shoulder pain and are unsure if you can move forward with your goals, then I strongly recommend you consult with a physical therapist to perform an injury and/or pre-injury screen. The screen called a FMS (Functional M

ovement Screen) is used these days with high-level athletes and recreational athletes to address mobility, stability, strength and overall movement. It enables the physical therapist to identify areas of weakness and dysfunction (e.g. your hip muscles or core stability or lack of agility and ability to produce optimum power and speed). The FMS enables the physical therapist and you to devise a quick routine and plan to get and stay fit and prevent recurring injuries that stall you from building and maintaining an OPTIMALLY FIT AND ACTIVE LIFETSYLE THROUGH OUT THE YEAR.

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and set those goals! Hit the ground running! Before you know it, Spring will be here and you will be so happy to have gotten as far as you anticipated, because you were patient enough to maintain CONSISTENCY! ☺

Trupti Mehta, PT, MS, OCS

Manual Medicine, Spine & Sports Physical Therapy

Email: mmssphysicaltherapy@gmail.com

P: 202 670 8874

(Located Inside Mint Health Club)

Meet our newest community partner, White Cloud Gallery! 

Join Melanie at MINT Dupont

for PART TWO of the Pop Princess Themed Ride!

Melanie’s Themed Ride

Reserve your bike here!