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Hoppity Ho Monday Bo!

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Wow, my giveaway is definitely pop-you-lurrr since I allowed the comments to be open, and comment as many times as you want. My poor e-mail inbox is overflowing with an insane amount of comments. I’m glad that everyone is having such a time with it. I love the little blurbs people come up with, when they write “Enter Me and….my cat just threw up” or something silly like that. It really makes me laugh and I’ve been reading and of course approving every one! A whole lot of days left of the Magnapod contest too. Git to it! Though I don’t need to tell you that.

It is a shame that people are only interested in the contest and not my blog whatsoever. Where are the commenters? Oh right. Over at the magnapod contestttttttttt.

Just one thing before I start here this morning.

I’m not really turning this into a food blog per-say.

BUT!

I have been reading lots of food blogs for about a good 8 or 9 months and I’ve been inspired to become more active, and eat … a bit healthier, since I’m gradually posting about my workouts on here, somewhat sporadically. I even decided to get some granola over the weekend and steal borrow some of the BF’s wild berry yogurt. It was surprisingly good. Almost candy-licious and I was filled up fairly fast with maybe ¼ cup of granola and 3 teaspoons of the goop yogurt. Can you tell I’m not really a yogurt fan? I think the granola definitely adds to it, obvs. I almost took a picture, but I gobbled it up too fast. Maybe I’ll take one tomorrow.

I woke up fairly early (for me anyway. I love me some sleeping in on the weekends) on Sunday at 9:30. You’ll be less impressed if I told you my regular weekend routine pre-alfie. Puppy is on a pooping schedule and needs to stay on it, even on Saturday and Sunday or the whole weekend will go to the dogs. Uh? I don’t even know what that saying means. Alfie was super excited to see me that bright and early, even after going to bed at 3AM with us. He just wasn’t in the mood to potty, while I was there with my hair in a state with my old PJs on laying on the couch begging him to potty so we could go back to sleep for an hour or two more the whole afternoon.

After digestion, I decided to stop giving into sloth and just got up off the couch and started being incredibly productive for a Sunday morning. Made myself some granola/yogurt mix was so delicious I contemplated being a piggy and eating more, but I held off and made some blueberry muffins instead! They were pretty bomb. Bomb = amazing in this context. Not like eating bombs, because I’ve eaten a few not so awesome “bomb” muffins before. No way hose! The doggy bed and toys, and butt-washcloth (he has long hair, need I say more?) were washed. However OUR laundry is still in dire need of being started. I think we do laundry every 26 days or something. Don’t judge, we have to pay for laundry in this apartment we live in! I can usually tell by the amount of underwear I have by the end of it. Switching it up once a day, and counting the clean undies after = XX days that I haven’t done laundry.

Shocking isn’t it? I have tons of underwear, by the way. Thought you’d may like to know that… I only do it when I run out of work socks. I have a lot of those too.

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Back to food, shall we? I packed a nice abundance of snacks for work with me this A.M. My bananas are still to green to be eaten even though I bought them on Friday (!!) so I had to pack other fun foods. Blueberry muffin, squat by my belongings in my purse, some trail mix that will hopefully do me more than a week if I don’t end up being an oinker over it, honey crisp apple (the best apples ever made/thought of/plucked/bought), sweet luxurious old lady strawberry candy. Remember these folks? Oh yeah, melt in your mouth goodness. Always have to have a bitta candy on hand wha? Back to business. Some chocolate pudding (hey, what can I say — I’m just starting out. Gotta weed out the sugary treats one by one here), and two granola bars: sweet and salty, and a chocolate chip. Also no; I won’t be eating my car keys. Hee hee.

That’s basically it for now. Back to the gym for another sesh after work today. I’ll be sweating at “sweat” class. It’s kind of dance-y moves, and I’m completely uncoordinated that I want to quit the class immediately, but practice makes perfect or something along those lines. So I’ll be going back for Class # 2.

By the way. This stride gum is burning my taste buds. Probably best I spit it out. Not my favorite anymore.

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Health

Circuit training!

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Since we will be bringing Alfie to obedience school in February, I will be missing out on one of my favorite gym classes: Strength. Yeah, there are other times and days I can go but that means I’ll have to be at the gym for 6:45AM, or leave work 15 minutes earlier(4:45PM), or head home and come back to the gym for a 7:00 sesh. Not so convenient.

The instructor is so consistent (no MP3 players allowed!) with keeping us all interested and switching up the routines weekly, that we never get bored of showing up to a class. For instance, two weeks ago it was all about setting ourselves up individually and doing our own thing on the floor like lunges, push ups and stability exercises.

On Wednesday it was set up with 5 circuits where at each of the five stations you have to be doing three different exercises for three minutes.

Circuit 1
Bosu ball. (see here)
1st minute: “v-set bar raises” (forgive me in advance since I really don’t remember the name of all of the exercises) where you sit in a mid-sit up position on the bosu with a weight in your hand. Your feet must not touch the ground. You lift the weight like you’re raising it above your head.
2nd minute: You kneel on the bosu with your feet again, not touching the ground and you do arm raises with a weight. Alternate arms once you get restless.
3rd minute: One foot on bosu ball, the other foot on floor. Do a squat then when you go to stand, bring the foot that was on the floor with you, and raise it up to a knee raise when you’re standing. Then squat, again.

Circuit 2
Lunges.
Oh the most despised exercise known to me. But those are the exercises that usually work, right?
For three consecutive minutes: You do dynamic lunges with weights in both hands and take a step forward each time you lunge. (see here)

Circuit 3
1 large Barbell.
1st minute: Bent over rows (see here) Ouch, this one was hard, but I was bent over more as my instructor stated me to. The second time round, everyone was racing to get the lightest weights – however the second time around we did it the “narrow” way. (see here)
2nd minute: Barbell squat. (see here)
3rd minute: Bicep curl. (see here)

Circuit 4
Stability ball.
1st minute: Lay on the ball with your lower back touching the ball. Secure legs by pushing against a wall and do sit ups. Add a weight if need be. (see here)
2nd minute: Sit up on ball and take weights in your hands and raise them above your head (see here)
3rd minute: Back extensions on stability ball (see here)

Circuit 5
Step platform.
1st minute: Toe touches. Clearly that’s not the actual name for it, and I failed at finding a good picture to describe it so I’ll try my best. You’re standing on a platform and you just let one foot hang off the edge and almost do a squat until your toe touches the ground. Stand up, and squat again with the toe touching the ground. Repeat for 30 seconds, then switch to other leg.
2nd minute: Push ups on this platform thing. I did them on my knees, since I’m not strong enough yet to do a full minute of push ups on my toes. (see here)
3rd minute: Triceps dips! Killerrrrrr. I was trembling by the end of this exercise! (see here)

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Annnnnd repeat. What a day to forget my water bottle, right?

Hope I get to see some results within the next few months!

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