Fitness Friday

In honor of Halloween, I am posting a “Pumpkin Workout”. You may not have a medicine ball at home, but I am sure most of you have a pumpkin lying around somewhere. So, there is NO EXCUSE for you NOT to try this.

These next 3 videos are made by one of my trainer friends who has this great product called Workout Muse. It times  intervals for you so all you have to do is listen for the stop-go cues and work your hardest in between. It's fabulous!

Get ready to PUMP it:

 

Happy Halloween!!

UPDATE: I just finished this workout (3 times each video) and it completely worked me. What about you?? By the way, my pumpkin weighs 16.5 lbs!!!

FALL in love.

Out little family ventured out to a local pumpkin patch to pick the perfect pumpkin for Carson’s first Halloween.

   

Mission accomplished.

a girl’s best accessory?

Her friends.

And might I say that I am rather well accessorized!

I had the privilege of getting a whole weekend with these pretties. We spent our time shopping, laughing, eating, and staying up way too late. Sounds just like our freshman year, minus the dating.

I cannot believe that it has been 7 years since we were all together. I wish it weren’t so long but that made our time so much sweeter. Though several years have passed, we are the same. I love that and feel so lucky to have each one of them in my life.

Fitness Friday

Fitness training isn’t rocket science.

Good training & nutrition decisions produce good results.

Poor training & nutrition decisions produce poor results.

So, how come when I go to the gym, I can pretty much guarantee that I am going to see a lot of intelligent, well-educated people making some pretty poor training decisions?

As a public service, here are a few training mistakes to avoid:

Doing cardio before resistance training

Static stretching(stretch and hold) before resistance training

Training core before legs

Chugging a Gatorade while reading a book on the exercise bike

Thinking that the inner and outer thigh machine is going to work some sort of magic.

Ignoring your weaknesses and over-training your strengths

Believing that Core Training is all about crunches & planks

Training body parts instead of Body Movements

Believing that you can Out-Train a Bad Diet

Making chronic neck & shoulder pain worse by ignoring your postural muscles

Thinking that resistance training will make you too big

Thinking that cardio will make you too small

Performing a one size fits all type of fitness program

Thanks to Healthhabits for the links.

Who knew?

That in 9 months this little ‘pumpkin’ could bring so much joy to our lives?

9 Month Stats:

Height: 28.5”            50th%                                                                  

Weight: 17.3 lbs       7th%

Fitness Friday

Have you heard of the Paleo Diet?

I love the philosophy behind it and think it's more of a lifestyle than a 'diet'.

I'm over and out to enjoy some time with my college roomates!

thoughts.

Sometimes it is hard to be a mom. It’s hard watch my child struggle to learn a new skill or simply listen to him cry. It’s hard to not whisk him up, wrap him in my arms and gently whisper ‘everything will be okay’.  It’s hard to let him grow and learn on his own, but deep down I know I need to.

I know that it’s the hard things in life, the things we don’t think we can do, the things that make us struggle, that define us. It’s times and experiences like these that builds character. And I want him to have character.

I also want him to be secure. I want him to be confident. I want to instill independence, yet I want him to know I will always be there if he needs me. I want him to know he is loved unconditionally. I want him to know the value of hard work. I want him to know that when things get difficult, and inevitably they will, perseverance will get him through.

Over the last 8 months I have wondered if I have the necessary skills to be a good parent. Now, I wonder if my skin is thick enough and my heart strong enough to let him struggle to do things on his own? I know there will be times it will be me, not him, who will have to gain confidence to let him do those difficult things.

So, I will let him cry himself to sleep. I will let him feed himself and make a mess of it. I will let him fall down and get up again. I will let him struggle to learn new things. I will let him learn that people aren’t always nice and things don’t always turn out the way we want them to.

I will let him do these hard things, but will always be there to give encouragement, wipe tears and counsel him. It won’t be easy, but I can do it because I know these hard things will one day be good for him and we’ll both be stronger for it.