This push ups workout is a push ups challenge. It has 100 push ups and can be done in under 15 minutes. There are 5 rounds and each is the same. You move from one round to the next without taking a break, or as quickly as you can, to get finished the whole workout in as little time as possible, with keeping good form of course! || Read more
It has been awhile since I have posted an update on Mom and how she is doing. She’s doing great. Not that it’s easy. Most of you may know that Mom had a stroke, almost 2 years ago – 2 years this coming April. Mom has been steadily doing better and it is just recently that I am seeing more improvements. Yesterday it really hit me when she decided to make muffins and did it completely on her own. Well, I took them out of the oven, but besides that they are 100% hers. She followed a recipe from a magazine – Cranberry muffins – and they turned out great! || Read more
This skipping workout is made up of 3 time challenge rounds. In each one you alternate a skipping exercise with another fast paced bodyweight exercise. 60 reps of skipping is done before, after and in between each of the fun and diverse full body exercises. This gives you an action packed non-stop great cardio workout and challenge. Each round has 300 reps of skipping and so you end up with 900. Do 100 reps warm up, or afterwards, to make it 1000 reps. If you don’t know how to jump rope, or do not have proper space to do it in, you can alternate mountain climbers, high knees (running on the spot with high knees) or jumping jacks. || Read more
The health benefits of cucumbers are plentiful but it seems they always get a bad rap as a not so healthy vegetable, filled with water and little else. While they do contain a lot of water, the nutritional level and health benefits of cucumbers is quite high. Cucumbers are surprisingly one of the best foods for your body’s overall health. See below their abundant health benefits, along with a flavorful, easy to make, light and refreshing cucumber salad recipe. This lightly spiced cucumber salad makes a perfect accompaniment to almost any meal and is a perfect cleansing detox dish being low in calories and fat, and super nutritious as well.
This leg workout routine is designed to shape legs to build glutes as well. This time challenge workout is 10 rounds of 3 bodyweight exercises, featuring jump lunges. Jump lunges are a fantastic plyometric exercise and I think one of the best leg exercises for upper legs, to tighten thighs and butt and to build glutes, quads and other leg muscles. They also help to develop balance and stability. The jump lunges partnered up with squats and burpees will not only build you some great legs, but adds cardio into the mix. This is a great way to get more cardio in and make it fun. But one of the great benefits besides being so healthy, driving oxygen into your body and boosting your cardiovascular system is that it really boosts the metabolism and helps you lose weight so much quicker. Bonus!
Our celriac, leek and kale soup recipe this week features the cool and unusually ugly looking vegetable celriac and also leeks, which mom & I picked up at the market yesterday morning. Celriac is amazing in soups. It does not have a strong taste It is fairly mild and tastes somewhat like celery, but not as nearly as assertive, celriac is much more mellow. After you peel all the knobby parts off of it the inside has a texture much like a rutabaga or turnip and I think it is quite a nice change from that or potatoes in vegetable soup recipes. This soup also has kale as I am on a bit of a kale kick and trying to eat as much of it as I can. It is quite an ecclectic spice mixture and I knew I was pushing it a little with my combination but I, and others, think it turned out to be quite fantastic.
This upper body workout is a 3 part workout. The first and last parts are the same and are 8 minutes of HIIT high intensity interval training alternating exercises with push ups in them and fun crunches exercises. ; ) They are all fun, right? Well, at least they change up enough that you don’t get bored and one of my favorite burpees is in here. The 2nd part, done between the HIIT rounds, is an awesome cardio exercise that is also great for abs. If you do enough of these you can really feel it in the ab muscles after. Mountain climbers provide awesome cardio that takes up no room, is quiet and works quite a lot of your body at the same time. See how fast you can do them. It’s a challenge. || Read more
