Giveaway Swellness: Win a Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

A few months ago, I worked out with Tracy Anderson and checked out the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit. The Gear Fit is pretty cool if you’re looking to motivate yourself when it comes to monitoring your health as it’ll help you track your sleep, heart rate and more. Anderson talks more about it here in this video—check it out (I also spy with my little eye myself in this workout class, haha — and for the record, Tracy told me I did a great job in her class…what, what!).

The S5 also has some cool features—Smart Switch allows you to seamlessly transfer contacts, photos and music. And if you’re like me, you panic when your smartphone is low on battery, right? Well, the S5 has Ultra Power Saving Mode, which gives you 24 hours of battery life with only 10 percent of a battery charge.

As for the camera, it’s a 16 megapixel camera that features high-dynamic range, selective focus and a super fast Auto Focus of up to 0.3 seconds.

Plus the phone is certified IP67 dust and water resistance, so you can feel confident your phone isn’t being harmed by everyday elements.

Sound good? Want one? Well, then, you should enter my giveaway! I have one Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit package to give away (valued at $1,000).

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

The giveaway is open to Canadian residents and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. The winner will be chosen at random. (Should I be unable to reach the winner within 48 hours, another will be selected.)

You can enter once each of the four ways. Ready? Here’s how to enter:

1. Email. Email me at healthandswellness@gmail.com. Please include your mailing address and phone number, and put “Samsung Galaxy and Gear Fit” in the subject line.
2. Instagram. Follow me on Instagram (I’m @healthandswellness on Instagram) and then regram the Instagram photo I’ve posted for this giveaway with caption: So @healthandswellness is giving away a @SamsungCanada Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit, and I want to win! Visit www.healthandswellness.com to find out how you can enter.
3. Facebook. Like the HealthandSwellness page on Facebook, and then post a comment on the photo of the Samsung Galaxy S5 about how you hope the Gear Fit will help you when it comes to your health.
4. Twitter: Follow me on Twitter (I’m @healthswellness) and then tweet: I’m entered to #win a @SamsungCanada Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit from @healthswellness. Here’s how to enter: http://bit.ly/1qfihpM

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Fitness Swellness: A chat with Tracy Anderson

A few weeks ago Samsung Canada hosted a workout lead by none other than Tracy Anderson (yes, the fitness trainer that Gwyneth Paltrow works out with) to help launch their Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit.

The workout was tough…but I have an audio recording of Anderson telling me I did great in the class. Whaaaat?!? I’ll take that, thank you, Tracy!

I grabbed a minute with the fitness guru to ask what misconceptions there are about her workouts:

“It’s about the content and the strategy behind the content. I don’t think that people realize how much my content is supporting science, creating balance within the body. You can work out and create further imbalance in your body if you compartmentalize by isolating muscle groups and and thinking you can spot reduce-this can actually create further imbalance in your body.

The message is about the potential for longevity that they have through fitness, the brain’s connection to their body and using their own body as a form of resistance.

It’s not a trend–that’s one thing that’s tough for me to communicate. I don’t want people flipping through magazines and–I could care less if celebrities come to my gym; if they come, they do and that’s great but I’m  here to speak to people straight about their health, what it really takes to be healthy andwhat it takes to understanding your own body.

So when people are like, ‘I want to look like that person or that person,’ just because they’re in the public eye doesn’t mean that’s the picture of beauty. The picture of beauty is taking care of yourself, knowing yourself, knowing your own biological constraints from food sensitivities to your workout, which is why I did Metamorphosis, which is customized where you can identify, “Wow, I’m out of balance here,’ not ‘This is a problem area,’ but ‘I’m out of balance here so I’m going to do this program here to I can fix it.’

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