Jamba Juice FiTrends Expo

Jamba Juice (www.JambaJuice.com) flew me out to Santa Monica, California for the Jamba Juice FiTrends Expo (April 24-25) featuring celebrity athlete Venus Williams!

I always love attending Jamba Juice events and learning about the latest trends and trying their new products.

There were even a few surprise celebrity guest appearances, including Tony Horton of P90x and Biggest Loser Season 11 trainer Brett Hoebel.

At the event we did a series of fitness exercises:

• Blogilates with Cassey Ho (www.blogilates.com)

• Pilates workout integrating today’s top songs and pop music while strengthening the core

• Bokwa with Brian Mavi (www.bokwafitne.com)Innovative dance workout with the hearing impaired in mind, participants learned different choreography and would follow the exercise using letters and numbers to indicate the next move in the workout

• CrossFit with Charles Stumpf (www.crossfit.com)

• An intensive body strengthing workout – this rigorous workout featured sets of burpees, pushups and squats

• Broadway Bodies with Joseph Corella (www.broadwaybodies.com )

• Ballet inspired dance moves to Broadway music, this workout does not require any ballet background

• Piloxing with Courtney Gornall (www.piloxing.com)

• A workout combining pilates and kickboxing

•  Physique 57 with Sarah Pfeifer (www.physique57.com)

• Ballet bar-oriented workout strengthening the core

• La Blast with Jodie Patterson (www.lablastfitness.com)

• Upbeat dance workout with moves from the 90s

Venus closed out the event with a "Keynote Workout," led by Venus and her trainer Samantha Monus. The workout was a tennis oriented workout, without the usage of a tennis racket, strengthening and stretching the body while mimicking tennis movements seen on the court.
Thanks Jamba Juice for having me!

Live Fruitfully & Do the Jamba Samba Jam!

Today was my first event as a Jamba Juice Ambassador of WOW.  I got to be part of the festivities to kick off Jamba Juice's "Fruitful Living" campaign, which encourages all to "embracing each day, each moment and each opportunity to be healthy, active and fun."

The day started at 8:30 AM, where I met Crystal from Good Neighbor and bunch of other Jamba Juice execs/employees, who flew all the way from California. We really lucked out with great weather in the 50s today.

The festivities began with a Brazilian style parade with 74 Bananamen, thats right 74 of them, as we marched through midtown. We started at Bryant Park and continued to march around, making stops and performing the new Jamba Samba Jam outside the NYPL, Rockefeller Center, the NASDAQ (where CEO James White rang the opening bell), and Jamba Juice on 7th Ave in Times Square where the parade concluded.

CEO James White was opening the NASDAQ as part of NASDAQ's Fit Week, so that was also a big thing for them. They even had (who I heard) the President of the NASDAQ in a banana suit! 

At the store, Jamba Juice rolled out an an orange carpet and had Bananaman interviewing people about what they are doing to be more healthy in the new year. To kick off the event, we were gave out 500 gift cards (which was what I was assigned to do), scarves and bracelets and had Bananaman and Strawberry Girl there for pictures.  In addition to that Chairman, CEO & President James White and Senior VP & CMO Susan Shields were also there! 

James White did not know that me and the other ambassadors were ambassadors, and actually went out of his way to meet and thank each of us individually! He was soo nice (even when he didn't know who we were)! 

I tried the new "Fit n' Fruitful" smoothie (try saying that 10 times fast), which tasted pretty awesome! I also had the opportunity to get to know the other ambassadors better! 

Can I just say that everyone was soo nice and soo great! 

Thanks for a fun and fruitful day everyone! 

On the orange carpet