How to Host a Fitness Party

Invite Your Friends Over for Some Female Bonding

Jan 27, 2009 Venus Joy

It's the new year and you and your friends just vowed to lose weight together. Make working out fun by turning it into a party!

Know that cute trainer at your gym? Here's your chance to meet him. Invite him over to host a fitness party with you and your friends!

A fitness party is where you invite your friends over and have a certified fitness instructor come to your house and lead a total body workout. These parties can be used to celebrate a number of occasions. For example, a yoga party for a pre-wedding shower. Clear out all bulky furniture the night before, or for yoga, place your mats out in your backyard. Choose a spacious room, preferably with mirrors, so you and your friends will feel like you're in a real exercise studio.

Afterward you can have a dessert buffet that complements your new lifestyle. Having delicious treats on hand that are good for you, help you and your friends to reap the benefits of your workouts. Here are a few suggestions of what you could serve. Be sure to have plenty of bottled water on hand.

Fat-Free Honey Lemonade

• 1 1/2-2 cups of lemon juice (or more depending on tartness desired.)
• 1/4 cup pure honey
• 2 1/2 cups of Splenda (or sweetened to taste)

In a pitcher add lemon juice, honey and Splenda. Stir. Add water. Stir. Serve over ice or freeze until slushy.

For an extra special feel, serve in wine or champagne glasses.

Diet Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• 1/4 cup soy flour
• 1/4 cup plain flavored fiber powder
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 2/3 cups butter spray
• 1 1/4 Splenda brand sweetener
• 1/2 cup egg substitute
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 11/4 cups of diet coke (using flavors such as raspberry Diet Rite, will give the cake a chocolate-raspberry flavor. Diet Cherry Coke, will give the cake a chocolate-cherry flavor etc.)
• 1/4 cup fat free chocolate pudding
• Berries for garnish

1. Grease pans with Pam for baking. Stir together flour, fiber, cocoa, powder, baking soda and salt.
2. Add sweetener to butter spray, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg beaters a little at a time, beating well after each pour.
3. Beat in chocolate pudding and vanilla. Add dry mixture and diet soda alternately to mixture, beating on low until just combined. Pour into prepared pans.
4. Bake in 300 F oven for 30-30 minutes depending on size. Cook until toothpick comes out clean with a few crumbles clinging to it. Cool on wire wrack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Spread with chocolate whipped cream frosting.

Ingredients

• 1 tub low fat or fat free whipped topping
• 1 cup Splenda brand sweetener
• 1/2 tsp unsweetened cocoa

Stir ingredients together then spread on cool cake. Slice and serve.

Also try: Diet Cheesecake and Diet Chocolate Chip Cookies.

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