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Archive for January 25, 2010
News to Note
02 years ago
Working Women Say Their Marriage Is Richer For It – NYTimes.com.
While the changing economic roles of husbands and wives may take some getting used to, the shift has had a surprising effect on marital stability. Over all, the evidence shows that the shifts within marriages — men taking on more housework and women earning more outside the home — have had a positive effect, contributing to lower divorce rates and happier unions.
Wow, this is great news! Lower divorce rates/happier unions = more stability for future generations? Divorce rates have fallen as women have made economic gains. This is surprising but welcome news to me.
Work It – Kettlebells 101 | The Daily Balance.
Kettlebells are great. This is a great 101 about them in general and how to use them.
Antioxidants and Free radicals.
One of the books – The O2 Diet – that I mentioned on here earlier today talks about antioxidants and free radicals. And how Antioxidants are very heavily involved in the prevention of cellular damage — the common pathway for cancer, aging, and a variety of diseases. Lower cancer rates are found in people who eat a lot of fruits and veges, which are rich in antioxidant.
This is a great website that gives you a ton of good info on eating foods. Including the world’s healthiest food list: http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php
Calculate Your Basal Metabolic Rate | Fitness Articles, Workout Tips.
Everyone always says its not the # on the scale that matters. Its your BMR. Here is some info on that and how to calculate yours.
Nutrition & Fitness Book Suggestions
12 years ago
My friend Avelina – one of my boot camp buds, emailed me some book suggestions.
The first one is called Skinny Bitch. The cover touts this book as “a no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start eating fabulous.” It is a call to eat a organic, vegetarian diet. Interesting book-couldn’t eat meat, chicken, etc. for a few days after reading one of their chapters. It does contain recipes and lists of organic foods found in the refrigerator or freezer section of your grocery store.
The second book is called The O2 Diet. The cover touts this book as “the cutting edge antioxidant-based program that will make you healthy, thin, and beautiful.” It is about the right things to eat-fruits and vegetables as you can imagine but, without getting into the science, it tells you which fruits and vegetables better protect you against free radicals. There are lists of foods, recipes and lists and explanations of which food are best for slimming down, making you look better and slowing down the aging process, fighting cancer, boosting the immune system, focusing your mind and helping your heart.
I’m curious, has anyone else read these? Would love to hear your thoughts. I am not sure I will read the Skinny Bitch one but I have been interested in finding out more about antioxidants and how they can improve your overall health, so I may check that one out.
Thoughts?
Monday is a good day
02 years ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
So I took Fri, Sat and Sunday off from working out. Sometimes when you realize your head is not in the game, you have to just go sit on the bench for a min or two. I am glad I did – it seemed to be just what I needed. And although I didn’t eat clean this weekend at all and will be suffering for it most of this week – I felt raring to go to Plumbline Training this morning!
1 min Burpees- which amazingly gets you warmed up.
CORE:
Teeter totters
Bicycles moving up and down with our torso
One leg up rotations which are called ROBs
25 bottom up pushups
3 rounds AMRepsAP. We had 3 rest/active stations.
45lb OH Back squats/Burpees with a 14lb Dynamax ball
Box jumps/plyo pushups
20lb db push press squats
25lb kettlebell Figure 8s/Sumo squats with 25lb kettlebell
Partner Dynamax Ball toss
I like this workout. The weights aren’t super heavy and you get a good cardio workout!
A few things I n0ticed this morning – when you are in tune with your body, you can really tell when you push it nutrition wise. Most people who know me, know I am not a drinker. I will have one here and there, but it’s hard for me to recall the last time I had one- before this past weekend. I just don’t have a taste for it – hard to believe but true. So when I do drink, it wreaks havoc on me and it takes me literally days to recover. (Maybe that is why I don’t drink!!) So this will be an interesting experiment in how fast my body will bounce back after this weekend. I will keep you posted.
What did you all do?
