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Snow and Charming know what’s up…
Love this.
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The final Stefon sketch from Saturday Night Live.
The Stefon bit was one of my favorites. I’m gonna miss him
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Me for the past three days!
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Paleo Banana Bread
After starting the paleo diet, I started craving the exact foods I wasn’t allowed to eat. This is my first...
Instead of putting green food coloring in your food this St.Patrick’s day…
Just eat green food, lol.
Spinach, kale, cucumber, avocado, green peppers, zucchini, pistachios… The list goes on and on! (sliced green peppers can look like shamrocks).
Taking a look at some pins from Pinterest, and it’s almost like people forgot that tons of food ALREADY comes in green. Blended spinach is a good way to “dye” your food green: works for pancakes, scrambled eggs, smoothies, sauces and yes, even cookies.
Explore the healthy options you already have! Time for a new tradition?
Excerpt via Psych Central
“Families bring up powerful feelings and interpersonal dynamics. It’s inevitable that old family dynamics are stirred up around the dinner table and that’s what makes the holidays so difficult, our past is present … AGAIN. Sometimes the bullies of our childhood were not kids on the playground but our siblings, parents, and extended family members.
As a child, you may have felt unable to find allies and keep yourself safe. Perhaps no matter how often you told your parents that your older sibling was being mean, it was dismissed. Or what if you were told to, “Turn the other cheek, it’s your brother/sister. They don’t mean it.” Worse, what if your parent was the aggressor?
Fast forward to 2012 and you find yourself at the dinner table. You and your aggressor get into a disagreement. Suddenly you are transported back 10, 20, or 30 years! You feel attacked, taunted and suddenly ganged up on . You feel same anger, fear and perhaps rage as you did when you were young. How do you protect yourself now?
Hardcore Holidays! Stocking Stuffer Challenge Day 4: 120 FireDonkeys
I’m doing mine weighted (dumbbell behind the knee) and you can choose 120 per side OR total (60 per side). Protect your back by engaging your core, and focusing on the glutes. Drop to your opposite forearm to make it easier on your back, but try to keep hips/chest facing the floor.
Knee out to the side, then heel up to the back. That’s one rep. Here’s a handy breakdown if you need more deets!
G’luck! See the rest of the daily challenges here: Hardcore Holidays
Hardcore Holidays! Day 3 Stocking Stuffer: 200 Mermaid Side V-Ups
You can make it 200 total (100/side) or 200 per side: up to you!
Make it easier: bend your knees, use your arm for support, place a cushion beneath your tush for comfort (not cheating. Still hard), and reduce range of motion: if u can feel it in your obliques, you’re good. Roll on to your booty slightly as you lift.
Make it harder: do the opposite, lol. Straight legs, no arms, etc. Without rolling on to your butt, you may not lift as high, but the contraction is bigger. No worries. (Cushions allowed!). Uncross the feet and use your thighs to keep your legs together.Psychos: leg weights baby. You can also put a dumbbell/plate between your legs for a bigger challenge. Make the lift explosive (power up quickly) and lower slowly and controlled. Reach as high as you can.
Tip: if your back hurts, focus on drawing in the core. You can also do these in bed. :)
How To Do It
A. Lie down on your side. Arm closest to the floor comes out in front of you for support OR you can prop yourself up on your elbow (easier). Top arm reaches over and behind the head, extending the body line. Feet are crossed (like a mermaids tail).
B. Keeping feet crossed and legs straight, lift and twist feet towards the ceiling. Your hips and booty will roll slightly inward as you reach your top hand towards your toes and raise your torso from the floor. Use your obliques and not your legs to do the lift.
C. With control, lower back down to starting position and repeat.
It’s Day 3 of the 14 day challenge! Get the details here and catch up!
If you’re doing the Hardcore Holiday Challenge, this was my Day One workout! The Stocking Stuffer Challenge was 200 Step Ups With A Twist.
This workout also counted for 40 burpees towards the Gimme, Gimme, Gimme challenge (1000 burpees from now until Christmas), and another 40 burpees in my warmup gives me a total of 80. Not bad for day one!
I did a quick mid-workout video of me doing just one round. Try to keep up with me (or go faster! I was already pooped: this workout is HARD). Follow along with me here!
Off to do Day Two!
3 weeks people! Excited or grumpy?
DMX sings Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer
Sorry. I had to, lol. The “WHAT!” at the end is hysterical!
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Have you heard of WODtoys?
WODToys is a company that specializes in making fitness toys for kids so they “can imitate your best moments”. Med balls, plyo boxes, kettlebells, and toy barbells for the big kids, and soft, plushy versions for the babies.
Literally, the most darling thing I’ve ever seen. Cuteness overload! I love the idea for a few reasons, but primarily it’s a fantastic way to encourage fitness early on. You can have your kids do your WOD along side you (bonding time) and with their own toys, there’s no worries about them being all over your equipment.
Everything is kid friendly & kid safe. Most of the toys are perfect for the under 5 crowd and the section for baby toys is just adorable.
If you’re still looking for the perfect gift for your mini-me’s this season, this might be just the thing!
Fit Gift Ideas: Mother’s Day Edition!
Mother’s day is coming up this weekend! If you’re still trying to find the perfect gift, why not try a yoga theme?
Yoga is suitable for all levels and ages, and it’s a wonderful way to clear ones head & remove stress (something most moms need & crave). It’ll also help her improve flexibility, core strength, eliminate pain & tightness and maybe give her a boost of confidence along the way. Having the right tools & equipment can make incorporating yoga into her life a whole lot easier. Plus brand new gear almost ALWAYS motivates people to get moving!
Check out these ideas to bring more ‘ommm’ to your mom! (A good friend came up with that one. She’s a little too proud of herself, lol).
Yoga Gear & Accessories For Active Moms
Groundhog Day Explained
If you’ve ever wondered why we celebrate this ridiculous holiday, THIS is why!
(If you haven’t seen the movie Groundhog Day, you really, REALLY should
The holidays are happy times for most people (even if they’re stressful, they’re certainly NOT unhappy). But for some, the holidays can be a reminder of things lost, life situations that are less than ideal, and a time when you feel more like crying than singing carols.
If you’re one of those people, you might need some extra help feeling okay this holiday season. Try to remember that you’re not alone, that things do get better, and to some extent you can control which emotions you allow into your life and how you react to them.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
75 Reminders For Tough Times via Marc & Angel Hack Life
- You never know how strong you really are until being strong is the only choice you have.
- Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
- Nobody is perfect, and nobody deserves to be perfect. Nobody has it easy. You never know what people are going through. Every one of us has issues. So don’t belittle yourself or anyone else. Everybody is fighting their own unique war.
- Crying doesn’t indicate that you’re weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you’re alive and full of potential.
- No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. (read Unstoppable
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- Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
- Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Let it go.
- Making one person smile can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. Start small. Start now.
Excerpt from Good.is
Are you generous with foul language on Twitter? A new website is asking digital potty-mouths to translate their four-letter words into philanthropic donations. The aptly named Charity Swear Box does for tweets what the glass jar on your counter does for real-life speech, encouraging swearers to pledge a dollar per smutty tweet to charity.
Here’s how it works: Pass along your Twitter info to Charity Swear Box, which will scan your tweets for a user-generated list of naughty words. At the end of the month, the site counts how many times you swore, then lets you know how much money you owe. It is, of course, just a suggested donation, and you get to pick the charity from a list of options including 50/50, which fights famine in East Africa, or the equally irreverent Fuck Cancer.
While the site’s definition of a swear word might verge on the prude side—the words “sex” and “porn” count—so far the project has “caught” more than $33,000 worth of swears in a little more than two months. (It may come as no surprise that the f-bomb and s-word top the list of the most abused profanities.) The only problem with the project? There may be no incentive to actually quit swearing when the money’s going to a worthy cause.
Swear Box
Charity SWEAR BOX from Fueled on Vimeo.
Nothing keeps me motivated during the holidays like holiday themed workouts!
I get bored with the standard fare pretty early on in the season, but I solve my holiday music woes by finding worthy, new remixes. I’ve been in a dubstep haze lately, so a lot of these songs are dubstep mixes of holiday classics.
The BPM is a little slower than I normally post, but it works REALLY well with strength training exercises and yoga/pilates training. Taught bootcamp using a lot of these songs and it was a raging holiday success!
Enjoy!
