Savory Success

It’s been a busy, but pretty darn productive, week so far for me! Today was filled with workouts, YNL client visits & planning, and IIN studying. So onto the details.. FITNESS I had a killer Leg & Abs workout today! Abs: Hanging Leg Lifts, Weighted Situps, Full Situps.. I’m forgetting something.. and I didn’t write it down :p Legs: Lung Walk Skips, Weighted Lung Walks, Resistance Band Side Walks,...

Soreness Setting & RC Grilled Club Quesadilla

What up?! FITNESS Just weights.. I started my day with Shoulders & Back and it was a great workout! Shoulders: Arnold Press, Incline Front Raises, Lat Raises, DB Stability Ball Rear Delts, Machine Rear Delts Back: 1-arm DB Rows, Wide-Grip Pull-Ups, Seated Front Row, Wide Grip Lat Pull-downs I literally can already feel the soreness setting in I’d originally planned to hit up a Kickboxing class tonight, but...

Squats and Sushi

Lets see, today involved sleeping in, catching up on blogs & emails, working out, fun studying (for my personal training certification), and delicious meals.. my kind of day! FITNESS It’s official, Squats & Leg Presses are my very favorite lifts. Both are so versatile, and only the smallest changes to leg placement and depth of movement makes a world of difference. Today I worked legs, starting with squats . In...

Friday Carbs & the Fair

Happy Friday! Hope you all had a wonderful one! FITNESS I debated making today a rest day, because I’m aching from the last couple killer days, but I was in the mood for lifting, so I headed to the gym to work Shoulders & Glutes: Shoulders: Push-Press, Arnold Press, Lat Raises, Rear Delts Glutes: DB Step-ups, Sumo Squats, Leg Press high & wide, Lunges, Glute Kickbacks, Adductor Kicks Gotta get cardio in...

Fitness Reflections

While snooping through Tweets yesterday a comment on mentally preparing to get back on track with diet & exercise caught my eye. I’ve fallen victim, more than once, to having the best of intentions to get up early and hit the gym, but then neglecting to check-in upstairs. Without being mentally ready to either 1) get back on track, or 2) start a new health plan, you are doomed to failure (good grief that sounds...