Archive for February 2013 | Monthly archive page
This Ugi workout has 18 exercises. Most of them are Ugi exercises, but there are a few bodyweight exercises added to the mix. Every second exercise is a plank exercise, so nine plank variations. This Ugi workout, like most Ugi workouts, challenges the stabilizing muscles as you try to keep balance, especially for the Ugi plank exercises. They are more challenging than they may look. The plank ab exercises are combined with more abs and also leg exercises. This is a great Ugi workout to shape up our summer bodies!
Creative visualization is a technique using your imagination to create and visualize scenarios in the mind’s eye. By using visualization techniques, you create a mental picture of something and then focus on this image or scenario for periods of time. The main belief with creative visualization is that by changing ones thoughts and perceptions, you can change the outer world. Many successful, wealthy and influential people in the world believe that by visualizing specific behaviors or scenarios, you can change energy patterns to bring your goals and desires to you more quickly. || Read more
This bodyweight workout is a great place to start your HIIT training. It has 12 bodyweight exercises carefully chosen to represent the core bodyweight exercises that form the basis of most HIIT workouts, and all bodyweight workouts for that matter. These are the classics. They are considered classics and have stood the test of time because they work. || Read more
Below there are 12 modified exercises. Each exercise has its own 1 to 2 minute video showing it first done with regular form, and then how to modify it. The exercises below are bodyweight exercise classics. They form the core of most HIIT workouts, or any bodyweight workout, and most exercise variations stem from these. I use this core group of exercises all the time in my workouts. By knowing how to modify these exercises you will be better able to make the workouts I do suit you best to gain strength and to get the most out of the workouts.
This seaweed salad recipe makes seaweed taste great and any recipe that can make seaweed taste good is a great recipe by me. Seaweed, aka sea vegetables, are one of the most nutritious foods that you can eat. Think of them as greens from the sea, dark leafy greens loaded with even more minerals that our super nutritious dark leafy greens from the land. Sea weeds contain all of the minerals from the abundantly mineral-rich sea water. || Read more
This Ugi burpee workout will show you how Ugi can be a real killer. This innocent looking, brightly colored weighted ball can really make a workout fun and help change up the workout routine, but it can be brutal too. I decided that I wanted an Ugi workout with 100 Ugi burpees in it. That was a crazy idea to start with. So, I chose and thought up 5 fun variations of burpees to do with Ugi, intermixed 10 reps of each with a great Ugi ab exercise, and then decided to do it all 2 times. || Read more
This healthy breakfast recipe, Buckwheaties, is a raw cereal made from a very nutritious seed that is sprouted and dehydrated. Many think of buckwheat as a grain, but it is actually a fruit seed and despite its name has no relation to wheat at all. Many people who are intolerant to wheat and other grains will find comfort in this highly nutritious and energizing grain-like seed. Buckwheat has high levels of valuable minerals, phytonutrients and a surprisingly high level of antioxidants, rivalling and surpassing many fruits and vegetables. || Read more
