Train at Home Like a Pro Female Athlete

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Donna Wilkinson
D.C. Divas Women’s Professional Football Team
www.donnawilkinson.net  

Donna Wilkinson is a Professional Football Player, successful Entrepreneur and a Leading Edge Wellness Consultant. Known as “The Animal,” Donna has been a dominant force on the D.C. Divas Women’s Professional Football Team for the past seven years. Over these seven years Donna has played Defensive End, Fullback, Running Back, Linebacker, Tight End, and Punter. Donna is the 1st woman in league history to rush for over 1000 yards in a season, and led the NWFA in rushing in 2003 with 1,267 yards in 10 games and was the Divas offensive MVP. Donna has led the Divas to 5 straight Division Titles, 4 straight Undefeated Regular Seasons and 1 World Championship! She has been an NWFA All-Star and a Divas Team Captain. In 2003 Donna became the 1st Female in history to win the Washington Pig Skin Club “John W. Posey” Award - professional athlete of the year - also awarded to Jeremiah Trotter, Lavernues Coles, Todd Heap and Ed Reed. Donna engages in earning multiple streams of income. She works with people who are attracting greater prosperity into their lives, and those who want to achieve balance in the Five Pillars of Health (mind, body, family, society & finances). Donna has B.S. degrees in Business Administration and Health Fitness Management from Columbia Union College, and uses a variety of tools including the “Certified Wellness Home” program, the Nightingale/Conant “Lead the Field” program, Breakthrough Wellness Technologies, and her Personal Training background to help people achieve life success.

Train at Home Like a Pro Female Athlete

In this video, professional football player Donna “The Animal” Wilkinson of the D.C. Divas demonstrates how to train like a pro at home, and the mechanics required for a great workout - without big equipment. All exercises are designed to be done between 10-30 yards. This video is designed for healthy individuals who want a change of pace workout who would like to improve their balance, core strength, flexibility and abdominals, and for athletes who are looking for a great warm-up routine. This is how Donna begins every work-out routine, and gets you up close and personal with the Animal. This video series includes a variety of tips and techniques that will help you feel great and get your body to respond!

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Donna Wilkinson: Hi there, this is Donna Wilkinson. I am a linebacker for the world champion Womens Professional Football Team, the D.

C. Divas. My nick name is The Animal.

I am here today as a personal trainer as well and we are going to show you how to workout like a pro with a pro football diva and that would be me. So, what we want to go over first are some of the guidelines and some of the basic things you are going to want to consider before you workout. Number one, are you health enough to work out. Make sure you go to your doctor and get cleared. You dont want to be doing the stuff, if you are not able to workout. Second, if youve got back or knee issues, you definitely want to consider that before doing this sort of a workout. This is going to be a nice intense workout that you can do from home and can get very good result without going to gym, without expensive memberships.

Second thing you want to have is appropriate clothing and appropriate shoes. You dont want to go barefoot; we dont want to have foot injuries. We want to make sure that you wear nice, loose, comfortable clothing.

So, hope you enjoy our show we are about ready to crank this off and get you started here on Donna - The Animal Wilkinson Show, train like a diva with a diva.

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