A treat

Oh baby you’re getting posts left right and centre from me–what a treat!

I must have been looking for that treat for myself — and I found it…I’ve two trips to Kiwi Kraze this week already, but more on that later! The real treat is actually how much fun I’m having running around and doing all this fitness and blogging. Hi, what I want to do for the rest of my life… ;) !

Luckily, I ran around enough that my hollow leg must have been justified yesterday. After a sweaty spin class — I have a new playlist I’m just itching to share — I had a quick shower and dinner break before making my bootcamp debut in London.

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I’m on a kale kick — this time with avocado and sausage and sun dried tomatoes! Quick and delish!

Just let me say, I had an awesome and really good looking group of girls. It’s so cool when I see like minded healthy people coming together. And it’s really cool when I get to kick their butts–or at least give it my best shot.

Last night’s workout went like this:

Warmup - cones (it’s standard and fun and works!)

Muscle conditioning - favouring this in lieu of much cardio with the heat!

10 to 1 squats and pushups

plank / plank up down / high plank / plank up down / plank

superman series

(we repeated this and we took the second countdown with partners and switched up the plank series to have mountain climbers instead of the up/downs)

marathon abs: 2 rounds of 20-25 raised leg crunches, raised leg oblique crunches, leg raises, and sit-ups

Cooldown/stretch

It was a sweaty, buggy, and I think awesome workout, but only time and the extent of how sore these gals are when they giggle or walk around will tell the truth! I’m anxious to hear, though!

One of my boot campers was a star who I was so glad to have with me. Breanna and I met a while back at the campus gym in one of my spin classes. She was one of my all star morning spinners who always gave it her all. I had no idea she had a blog until last year and since then I’ve been glad to be a friend of hers — she’s definitely got an awesome thing going over at Bee Goes Bananas! 

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When I admitted I was heading for froyo post-class, she even hooked me up with a 2 for 1 coupon. Did I mention I love her? We had a good chat about blogging, life, and all that good stuff. And I remembered something: I need to spend more time with this gal! <3

I split the coupon with my friend and fellow fitness instructor Angela. This is a cool gal and she confirmed that with her rockstar haircut and kind kind words on our drive home. :)

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And FYI, I think I just abused the coupon got the heaviest froyo ever. It must have been all the fruit — cuz I never put fruit on!

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — if froyo is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

That seems like a pretty good bedtime thought, doesn’t it? If not, knowing that my alarm is set for the crack of dawn to do this all over again should do the trick. Look out bed, here comes my face.

How often do you go for dessert/froyo/ice cream?
How come you didn’t come to bootcamp tonight?
Do you have many blogger friends in your city? 

You should smile

It’s sunny, and I’m going to share a playlist with ya!

Last night’s spin was stress relief and awesome all rolled into one. The microphone worked, the candles were lit, and there were four eager spinners there to get sweaty! :)

Pre warm up and warm up:

Part of Me – Katy Perry

Fade into Darkness (Extended) – Avicii

Building up speed on a flat road

Climb seated, starting moderately heavy and adding tension

Max hill (7–>8–>9–>10/10 effort) standing climb x 2

Glad You Came – The Wanted

Rolling hills (1 minute heavy climb – standing / 1 minutes seated flat – fast)

Fire in Your New Shoes (Remix) – Kaskade ft. Dragonette

Endurance ride – seated flat

Good Feeling – Flo Rida

Seated flat – single leg drills

Wild Ones – Flo Rida ft. Sia

Climb seated on verses, adding tension and lifting on choruses

International Love – Pitbull ft.  Claude Kelly, Chris Brown

Seated climb, lifting to make passes (go faster) on the choruses

Feel So Close – Calvin Harris

Seated flat endurance with speed (70% up to 100 working with music)

Samb-Adagio – Safri Duo

Sprint pyramid (seated flat: 20, 30, 40, 30, 20 second sprints with recovery to total a minute)

Titanium (Alesso Remix) – David Guetta

Cooldown/stretch

Nothing – The Script

Through the Dark – KT Tunstall

Enjoy!

I’m just at the library thinking about the work I should get done today…reminiscing about my delicious breakfast, and realizing how tired I am after swim this morning (another 2500m ish effort!).

post swim overnight oats with greek yogurt, honey, banana, and walnuts

preswim applesauce, oats, brown sugar, and raisins + coffee

Enjoy this sunshine!