I’m a talker. Ulysses is not. In fact, he barely spoke to my parents until after we were engaged. That went over well.

This lovely personality trait makes me feel like I need to spend 1 day a week just rambling on about everything that didn’t get mentioned in the previous 7 posts or that my husband has no desire to hear from me at the dinner table. Or at least the stuff I want to talk about. Frustrating work conference calls…not on the list. 10 gray hairs plucked out of my head…also not on the list.

So here we go…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Workouts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yes, I like talking about this stuff. I spend all week talking about food, eating food, making food, let’s talk about how I get rid of that food. And no, not in that kind of way.

After a few days off and some modifications for the weird foot injury that almost went away as quickly as it came on, I’ve been bodyrocking like there’s no tomorrow. I’m just absolutely obsessed with these workouts. They’re fun, they’re fast and every single time I think one looks easy, I get my ass handed to me within the first 2 minutes. I love it.

Lean muscle fast 300 rep challenge <—this is actually the one I hurt my foot doing. Take my advice, don’t do step ups on a chair.

Glad you came (intermediate version)

Roc it out rep challenge

ZWOW #6 <—found this video link on Michelle & Lori’s site. Apparently, Zuzana does her own videos now that she’s not on bodyrock anymore and this was a great no equipment needed workout.

I also made up my own circuit one day that looked like this:

circuit

In addition to those, I’ve added the Tone it up girls ab workout to the end of quite a few workouts.

The bodyrock monthly challenge also has “fit test” where you do a series of exercises for 50 seconds with a 10 second rest between each one a few times during the month to see how you’re improving. I did this on 2/9 and 2/20 so far. I plan on doing the last one on Monday. Here’s what the improvement looks like so far:

fit test 2

*I did pushup burpees on 2/20 instead of regular ones by accident, hence the lower number.

Not bad progress for 11 days. I can also visibly see a difference in my arms at this point. There are A LOT of pushups in these workouts!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Other people’s food!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are exactly 60 blogs in my google reader, most include food some way or another. Some post 3 times a day, others once a day, and that doesn’t even count the posts I read through twitter because something catches my eye. Needless to say, there is a TON of food that I inevitably come across and want to make instantly.

Going with this month’s “eat clean” theme. These vegan stuffed tomatoes and this millet bowl are high on the weekend’s list.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Randomness~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I’m seriously excited to give this stuff a try.

salt

Swanson contacted me a little while ago about trying some of their stuff out and this was one of the things I chose with the coupon they gave me. Their site is full of healthy products. Think whole foods meets your local “green” store but all of it discounted. People rave about Himalayan salt so I figured I’d give it a shot. Any good ideas what to use it on or do with it?

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31 Comments

  1. Always nice to know how many blogs are in people’s readers…and yes, the number can be deceiving b/c of the frequency in which some people post…so some blogs are really like having 3 in your reader b/c they post 3x a day!

    And I love that you’re a talker. Me too.

  2. My dog does the EXACT same thing. Super weird, right?! Oh, and killer workouts. Are those numbers cumulative for the past 11 days or do you do each of those circuits in one?

    1. are you talking about the Fit Test numbers? If so those numbers are how many reps of that specific exercise I did in 50 seconds before resting for 10 seconds and then moving on to the next exercise. So on 2/9 I did 32 squat jumps in 50 seconds and then when I did the fit test again on 2/20 I was able to complete 37 squat jumps in the same time, improving by 5 jumps. Hope that makes sense…

    1. haha, I’m sure she’d prefer our bed too but we have a no furniture rule over here otherwise my allergies would be insane!

  3. Wow, what a workout! I’ve been sick lately, I need to get back to it!! Thanks for the inspiration!!

  4. Goodness. I started sweating just at the 100 reps of high knees. That workout looks intense!!

  5. I am soooo glad to have found BodyRock. Those wokouts are killer. I did the March 1st 420 rep challenge yesterday and seriously thought I was going to puke. It was glorious. ;)

    Thanks for the link back. Can’t wait to see how you like the stuffed tomatoes! Have a great weekend!

    1. That 420 rep challenge was my goal for today’s workout. Already dreading it b/c it looks insanely hard!

  6. Both my doggies at home do that too! She’s just fluffin’ her pillow, natch ;)

    I actually think this might be more true than not, because whichever dog ends up with my flatter pillow tends to do this a lot more. Hah. I love watching though. I crack up the whole time.

  7. I really really would like to start the Bodyrock workouts (i’ve been stalking it for a bit now), but I just wish they were more dressed or something. I just checked out that no equipment ZWOW#6 and I just don’t understand why she can’t where a normal shirt? As soon as my four year old heard a video on the computer, she (who like any four year old doesn’t EVER leave my side) wanted to see what I was watching and I just could not bring myself to scroll up and have her look at this half-naked woman bouncing all around. Even though she funnily asked 1. if that was me on the video (haha) and 2. begged me to show her what it was. Both of my girls are next to me in the basement almost every time I workout and my oldest — the 4 year old — likes to “train” with me as she puts it. So in an effort to teach positive body image and modesty to some degree (your boobs do not have to be hanging out at all times), I can’t do these, which is really a bummer because I know it’s exactly what my body needs!

    1. I actually don’t watch the videos while doing the workout. I watch them beforehand, write down the exercises and then just bring that sheet with me to my gym area. Is there a way you could watch the videos when yours kids are sleeping at night, write them down and then not have to expose them to the images while working out during the day? Like the ZWOW one was only 3 moves so it’s easy enough to do without the video playing…
      Just a thought :)

  8. Buy they poor dog a new bed that has some fluff in it….BTW she said if she doesn’t get a new pretty collar ,she’s leaving..:O