So I have decided to use some of my knowledge and passion for fitness and do a Fit tip of the week on my blog. If you have questions or frustrations regarding health and fitness please feel free to leave them in the comments and I will make sure to address them in my next fit tip! I just thought this would be something fun for me as well as spice up the blog. I am hoping to soon have a whole website devoted to fitness and good health in the general but that is still in the works so this will have to do for now!!!
Fit Tip #1
Get UNCOMFORTABLE
You may or may not have heard this before but I like to use this term in my classes (espcially bootcamp style classes) to give people a metaphor of how hard they should be working in order to get results!
Don't get me wrong it is great to get out there and move, doing cardio and strength training in any capacity is FABULOUS, however, if you are feeling like your stuck in a rut a good way to get out is to GET UNCOMFORTABLE...so what does this mean?
This point is different for everyone but we all know how hard we can push it. Running at a consistent speed is great but your body will start to get comfortable, you will get in a rythmn and you will feel good. Getting uncomfortable is taking it up that notch sprinting for 2 minutes and then coming back to your comfortable speed or going up a hill and keeping your pace. Whatever you do to get uncomfortable try to sustain it until you can't take it and go back to comfortable, get your heart rate back to normal and start all over again.
Another example would be in strength training, do not let yourself stop when you feel tired push past it, do a few reps when you feel uncomfortable and then stop, those last few efforts when you are pushing past your normal capacity will bring great results!
Obviously if you work out a lot this is not new to you and you understand the concept, but I have found in my classes that people who are new to health and fitness get scared of feeling uncomfortable. Don't let that be you, embrace uncomfortable and push past it!
WANT TO GET UNCOMFORTABLE...TRY THIS
Sprint the short side of a soccer field, get down do 15 pushups, stand up and go back in the direction you came doing high knees, when you get to your starting point to 10 BURPEES (jump up go down to your stomach and jump back up)
REPEAT!!!!
I promise you will feel uncomfortable. You can do this indoors just sprint the length of a fitness room twice for every length of field!
May 7, 2009
E's Fit Tip of the Week!
May 1, 2009
FITNESS IS A PICNIC
So I don't have any cute kids or pets to write about, therefore I resort to WORK!
This week I turned into a kindergarten teacher and loved it! We are doing a promotion at work called "Fitness is a Pinic" and we have had a blast coming up with puns using food and fitness. RELISH in Fitness, Downward HOT DOG yoga, Ant in your Pants Cardio!!! Anyhoo I had to make a board to advertise for the promotion and after all my arts and crafts skills kicked in I felt like it turned out pretty cute.
So I can't post a pic of a cute kid but I can post a pic of my boards (they may look simple but I'm not going to lie they took a lot of work)
Hope you are all as excited as I am for Summer Picnics, we are not even close to having them up here but back home I hear the weather is amazing!
(please disregard the Fork one...remember we are not in Utah anymore and things get a little racy!!!! I didn't come up with it, but it is funny!)
April 26, 2009
I SURVIVED
Well folks I did it! I survived my first 1/2 marathon! I have to give all the credit to my running partner Jacqui for kicking my butt and getting me in by my goal time! I ran a 1:50 and feel really excited about it. It was my first ever half and I had no idea what to expect! There were definately a lot more hills and up hill so it was a pretty hard course but I felt very accomplished coming in when I did! Since I gave it my all I am feeling it today. My knee is killing me which is wierd because I don't have knee problems, but I am sure by tommorow I will be back ready and roaring to go!
April 20, 2009
Boston What? Policeman's Half here i come.....
Ha ha, I hope you all know that i am kidding. I don't think I could ever run Boston even if I wanted to! However TODAY my sister ADRIEN did and I am so so proud of her! She is such an athlete and lets talk about her legs...maybe if I can run boston my legs will look like that. Well probably not!!!
Ok I am not running Boston but I am running the Policeman's Half Marathon here in Calgary this weekend. Despite all my running and my active family I have NEVER run a half!! I am getting really nervous. I know that everyone says that I have more then overtrained but I am still scared to death! Am I going to eat enough food, am I going to eat too much. Am I going to get too tired and lose my running partner! I know I am a nervous nelly and I am sure I am putting too much pressure on myself for crying out loud it is a half marthon, anyone can do that and I teach 8 fitness classes a week, but that is just the way I am. I will probably stress all the way to the finish line!
Now in most families the fact that you are running a 1/2 marathon is a great accomplishment...in the ALLEN family it is like "oh really I think my yesterday morning run was farther then that"! (now you wonder why I am putting a little pressure on myself)ha ha
So here is to hoping I don't back out race day! Here is to beating my personal goal!?!? Here is to carbo loading! And here is to proving myself that I can do it!
P.S. If anyone has any good pre race food ideas let me know. My stomach does not do well (however my bag of cadberry eggs, chocolate cake, and pizza in Las Vegas made for great pre run food)!
April 13, 2009
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March 29, 2009
CLOTHING SWAP
