POSTED ON: Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:32 PM | 0 comments
A new start...
Im still struggling with keeping myself motivated to do the things that I need to do in order to obtain my goals. It's getting hard but I believe that I can do it. I just have to turn my daily routine into something that is helping me and not hindering or harming my chances of success. That's with love, life and everything in between.
POSTED ON: Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 4:31 PM | 0 comments
YAY! So I have found a new staple in my exercise routine. I was surfing youtube for a quick leg workout video and I found Blogilates youtube channel which is run by a fab chicka named Cassey and you can find it here Blogilates . CHeck her out she makes free workout videos that are anywhere between 5-13 minutes long that are all nice! I personally love her inner thigh insanity video. First video that has had my inner thighs burning. Now today I am about to try her abs video and I'll come back edit this post and put my review of it and maybe another one of her videos.
Here is her crazy core workout that's NICCCCCEEEEE!
My knee keeps throwing me off my routine. I can go weeks exercising daily and my knee suddenly swells up and starts hurting. Then takes DAYS to go back to slightly normal. By the time I have to start exercising again it's hard to get back on track. So I am trying to find some leg exercises that I can do daily to help me strengthen my knee as well as shape my legs because i am tried of having those exercise droughts that stop or hinder my weight loss. Some exercises that I have read are good for bad knees are:
Partial Squats
Stand about 12 inches away from the front of a chair with your feet about hip width apart and your toes forward. Bending at the hips, slowly lower yourself halfway down to the chair. Keep your abs tight, and check that your knees stay behind your toes.
Stepups
Using an aerobic step bench or a staircase, step up onto the step with your right foot. Tap your left foot on the top of the step, and then lower. As you step up, your knee should be directly over your ankle. Repeat with your left foot.
Side-lying Leg Lifts
Wearing ankle weights above the knee, lie on your left side, legs straight and together, with your left arm supporting your head. Keeping your right foot flexed and your body straight, slowly lift your right leg to about shoulder height, then slowly lower. Repeat with your left leg.
Inner-thigh Leg Lifts
Wearing ankle weights above the knee, lie on your left side, slightly back on your butt. Bend your right leg and place it behind your left leg with your right foot flat on the floor and your left leg straight. Support your head with your left arm. Slowly lift your left leg about 3 to 5 inches, then lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Calf Raises
Using a chair or wall for balance, stand with your feet about hip width apart, toes straight ahead. Slowly lift your heels off the floor, rising up onto your toes. Hold, then slowly lower.
Straight-Leg Raises
Sit with your back against a wall, left leg straight and right leg bent with your foot flat on the floor. Slowly raise your left leg straight up about 12 inches off the floor. Hold, then slowly lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Short-Arc Knee Extensions
In the same starting position as the straight-leg raises, put a ball (about the size of a basketball) under your left knee so that your leg is bent. Slowly straighten your leg. Hold, then slowly lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Hamstring Stretch
Lie on your back with your left leg flat on the floor. Loop a towel or rope around your right foot and pull your leg as far as comfortable toward your chest, while keeping a slight bend at the knee. Keep your back pressed to the floor throughout the stretch. Hold for 10 to 30 seconds and then release. Repeat three or four times with each leg. Do this stretch five or six times a week.
The worst ones to do for someone with a bad knee are:
Full-arc knee extensions
Lunges
Deep squats
Hurdler's stretches
POSTED ON: Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 3:12 PM | 0 comments
There's some hope for the loveless
Diet Update
POSTED ON: Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 11:57 AM | 0 comments
Great News I'm back on my whole health kick. Right now im making a grocery list so i can make sure that I have all the correct foods in my house to keep me on track. I have actually been doing pretty ok. I've lost about 7lbs in last three weeks which is about 2lbs a week. Not bad, but I know that I could do better if I was eating a little better and not just cutting calories. My knee hasn't been acting up so I can get back to doing my cardio turbofire is INSANE!!!! so that's a great thing and I've also been drinking 2 liters of water a day, well more like 1 3/4 but I'm almost at 2 and then I will make it 3 liters that I need to drink a day. THANK GOD for Clear American sparking water. 0sugars, 0calories, 0sodium, 0caffeine just plain ole' sparking water! Well, that's my update I will post my grocery list later....
POSTED ON: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 6:50 AM | 1 comments
It's been a million, and i haven't blogged. So to catch you up. Today will officially be my last day of classes. My time is still taken because I am starting at the day care full time until I can find something else. I need more moolah. I am just glad that finals and paper writing season is over. egh. i hate the end of the semester because im always lagging behind. my fault, of course. What else.....oh, I noticed 'him' noticing me and I kept my distance. I am too interested. I'd hate to fall to fast. Let me ease my way into the emotionally unstable mind set that we call 'love'. um k?
POSTED ON: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 8:36 AM | 1 comments
Perfection’s Synonym (Letter to Poet)
The fluid of anticipation drenches my heart as I wait your arrival. As I must stress that your presence is the foundation of my survival. Such a morbid absence lingers around my shell when you leave. Sometimes I have to remind myself that you are merely of flesh, because my heart deceives. My mind into thinking that I have possibly captured an angel. That somehow or someway the universe is going to take this love and untangle. The coils of everything we’ve built though love, trust and commitment. The challenge is purposeless; my internal pulse shows no resentment. Mental rejection is phantom, there’s strength in weakness and you taught me that. So believe that no matter where you go in this world, it’s my heart where your home is at.
You’ve overcome many impediments and I bow to you my obsession of poetic desire. Don’t falter the physical because every spark of you, in me ignites a fire. I yearn for that unreformed simplicity in your tone. I covet that presence of yours that moves my shell to the bone. I plead to be your soul's vitamin; so you are required to take me everyday. No need to dominate because I’ll willingly submit to you in every way. I’m giving you the sole invitation to compress the covers of my love, and give me you. There’s no possible situation in this world we can’t walk as equals through. Mr. Intentional you are, let’s continue to swim in the tempting pools in each others eyes. No more hurt, we will harmoniously laugh at the pain that uses temptation as a disguise.
The world isn’t ready for our association, a true fairytale, something so divine and real. Nothing can break us but God, our connection alone summons existence to be still. I hope that our truth isn’t privy from the inspection of your eyes through false vernacular. False tongues are to be expected while we possess true love, something rare and so spectacular. In years to come our legend will season the lives of the bland with invisible clout. As listening to our stories and seeing our pictures shows them what real love is all about. I will hold on to you, because happiness is hard to keep and real love is hard to find. And I plan on loving you Poet, like Maya said, in and out of time.
Find me at the end of the chocolate rainbow...chewing.
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POSTED ON: Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:32 PM | 0 comments
A new start...
Im still struggling with keeping myself motivated to do the things that I need to do in order to obtain my goals. It's getting hard but I believe that I can do it. I just have to turn my daily routine into something that is helping me and not hindering or harming my chances of success. That's with love, life and everything in between.
POSTED ON: Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 4:31 PM | 0 comments
YAY! So I have found a new staple in my exercise routine. I was surfing youtube for a quick leg workout video and I found Blogilates youtube channel which is run by a fab chicka named Cassey and you can find it here Blogilates . CHeck her out she makes free workout videos that are anywhere between 5-13 minutes long that are all nice! I personally love her inner thigh insanity video. First video that has had my inner thighs burning. Now today I am about to try her abs video and I'll come back edit this post and put my review of it and maybe another one of her videos.
Here is her crazy core workout that's NICCCCCEEEEE!
My knee keeps throwing me off my routine. I can go weeks exercising daily and my knee suddenly swells up and starts hurting. Then takes DAYS to go back to slightly normal. By the time I have to start exercising again it's hard to get back on track. So I am trying to find some leg exercises that I can do daily to help me strengthen my knee as well as shape my legs because i am tried of having those exercise droughts that stop or hinder my weight loss. Some exercises that I have read are good for bad knees are:
Partial Squats
Stand about 12 inches away from the front of a chair with your feet about hip width apart and your toes forward. Bending at the hips, slowly lower yourself halfway down to the chair. Keep your abs tight, and check that your knees stay behind your toes.
Stepups
Using an aerobic step bench or a staircase, step up onto the step with your right foot. Tap your left foot on the top of the step, and then lower. As you step up, your knee should be directly over your ankle. Repeat with your left foot.
Side-lying Leg Lifts
Wearing ankle weights above the knee, lie on your left side, legs straight and together, with your left arm supporting your head. Keeping your right foot flexed and your body straight, slowly lift your right leg to about shoulder height, then slowly lower. Repeat with your left leg.
Inner-thigh Leg Lifts
Wearing ankle weights above the knee, lie on your left side, slightly back on your butt. Bend your right leg and place it behind your left leg with your right foot flat on the floor and your left leg straight. Support your head with your left arm. Slowly lift your left leg about 3 to 5 inches, then lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Calf Raises
Using a chair or wall for balance, stand with your feet about hip width apart, toes straight ahead. Slowly lift your heels off the floor, rising up onto your toes. Hold, then slowly lower.
Straight-Leg Raises
Sit with your back against a wall, left leg straight and right leg bent with your foot flat on the floor. Slowly raise your left leg straight up about 12 inches off the floor. Hold, then slowly lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Short-Arc Knee Extensions
In the same starting position as the straight-leg raises, put a ball (about the size of a basketball) under your left knee so that your leg is bent. Slowly straighten your leg. Hold, then slowly lower. Repeat with your right leg.
Hamstring Stretch
Lie on your back with your left leg flat on the floor. Loop a towel or rope around your right foot and pull your leg as far as comfortable toward your chest, while keeping a slight bend at the knee. Keep your back pressed to the floor throughout the stretch. Hold for 10 to 30 seconds and then release. Repeat three or four times with each leg. Do this stretch five or six times a week.
The worst ones to do for someone with a bad knee are:
Full-arc knee extensions
Lunges
Deep squats
Hurdler's stretches
POSTED ON: Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 3:12 PM | 0 comments
There's some hope for the loveless
Diet Update
POSTED ON: Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 11:57 AM | 0 comments
Great News I'm back on my whole health kick. Right now im making a grocery list so i can make sure that I have all the correct foods in my house to keep me on track. I have actually been doing pretty ok. I've lost about 7lbs in last three weeks which is about 2lbs a week. Not bad, but I know that I could do better if I was eating a little better and not just cutting calories. My knee hasn't been acting up so I can get back to doing my cardio turbofire is INSANE!!!! so that's a great thing and I've also been drinking 2 liters of water a day, well more like 1 3/4 but I'm almost at 2 and then I will make it 3 liters that I need to drink a day. THANK GOD for Clear American sparking water. 0sugars, 0calories, 0sodium, 0caffeine just plain ole' sparking water! Well, that's my update I will post my grocery list later....
POSTED ON: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 6:50 AM | 1 comments
It's been a million, and i haven't blogged. So to catch you up. Today will officially be my last day of classes. My time is still taken because I am starting at the day care full time until I can find something else. I need more moolah. I am just glad that finals and paper writing season is over. egh. i hate the end of the semester because im always lagging behind. my fault, of course. What else.....oh, I noticed 'him' noticing me and I kept my distance. I am too interested. I'd hate to fall to fast. Let me ease my way into the emotionally unstable mind set that we call 'love'. um k?
POSTED ON: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 8:36 AM | 1 comments
Perfection’s Synonym (Letter to Poet)
The fluid of anticipation drenches my heart as I wait your arrival. As I must stress that your presence is the foundation of my survival. Such a morbid absence lingers around my shell when you leave. Sometimes I have to remind myself that you are merely of flesh, because my heart deceives. My mind into thinking that I have possibly captured an angel. That somehow or someway the universe is going to take this love and untangle. The coils of everything we’ve built though love, trust and commitment. The challenge is purposeless; my internal pulse shows no resentment. Mental rejection is phantom, there’s strength in weakness and you taught me that. So believe that no matter where you go in this world, it’s my heart where your home is at.
You’ve overcome many impediments and I bow to you my obsession of poetic desire. Don’t falter the physical because every spark of you, in me ignites a fire. I yearn for that unreformed simplicity in your tone. I covet that presence of yours that moves my shell to the bone. I plead to be your soul's vitamin; so you are required to take me everyday. No need to dominate because I’ll willingly submit to you in every way. I’m giving you the sole invitation to compress the covers of my love, and give me you. There’s no possible situation in this world we can’t walk as equals through. Mr. Intentional you are, let’s continue to swim in the tempting pools in each others eyes. No more hurt, we will harmoniously laugh at the pain that uses temptation as a disguise.
The world isn’t ready for our association, a true fairytale, something so divine and real. Nothing can break us but God, our connection alone summons existence to be still. I hope that our truth isn’t privy from the inspection of your eyes through false vernacular. False tongues are to be expected while we possess true love, something rare and so spectacular. In years to come our legend will season the lives of the bland with invisible clout. As listening to our stories and seeing our pictures shows them what real love is all about. I will hold on to you, because happiness is hard to keep and real love is hard to find. And I plan on loving you Poet, like Maya said, in and out of time.
Welcome to My dear blog. My bog, my rules. Which means: No hating, No spamming, leave a tag or comment on a post,
send love, no copycats and don't rip. Much thanks, and do enjoy my blog. Blogging to express, not to impress.
