Congratulations to the 30 teacher trainees who have done the 200-Hour YogaWorks Teacher Training since the beginning of January 2010 through the end of this month of March. Next weekend includes our final session, and it has been my pleasure assisting the teaching, working with all of you, and getting to know your wonderful, special, individual spirits. Good Luck on the final practicum and testing. I wish you all the best on your graduation and your new awakened yogic path ahead.
Feeling good today. My weight is going in the correct direction and I caned it in the gym this morning. Had a really hard workout and was buzzing afterwards. I ate pretty well and I’m really focussing on eating for nutrition and with that being my focus it’s much easier to eat well.
For this week, I’m going to eat at home for the whole week and I’m really hoping that by the end of the week, I’ll be in the low 64kgs mark. I know that means I’ll have to be committed to eating well for the entire week. It can’t just be today, but I feel like I have a good goal and I want to get there. Not only do I want to get there, I really need to get there.
On my way to dinner with friends Stephanie and Ethan, our entrance to the subway was blocked, or at least shared with, two men who had converted the subway platform into a gym. The “downtown 42nd street” sign hanging from the ceiling became a pullup bar. The exit sign was now an anchor for the tricep pulldown bands. And low and behold, one of the guys was doing pushups on the floor. You do know what a subway floor looks like right? Yes, I know that swimsuit season is just around the corner. And we all have to do what we have to do to look good. But, really fellas?
So yesterday was day one of shredding and i made pizza for dinner! My eating was good, and my pizza was extra good! Lawrence loved his and wanted a second one! (he didnt get it!) Next time i could rustle up some chips with his!
It was pretty simple, i just topped a tortilla wrap (it wasn’t wholewheat though, woops!) with some tomato puree and a sprinkling of parsley, i then added some sauteed yellow pepper, mushrooms and spinach (L just had pepper) and topped with slices of pre-cooked chicken and a grating of reduced fat mozerella cheese. Voila!
(sorry for crappy iphone pics, L took my camera home to charge overnight so i should get it today all nice and charged )
Then just grilled it until the side of the tortilla went crispy and the cheese melted.
Soo yummy and i’m not even a big fan of pizza! Lawrence was sceptical about the tortilla wrap, but he loved it! (and so did i) Where it crisps up around the edge is super tasty!
Lawrence’s was a little less colourful…
.. just tomato puree, yellow pepper, chicken and lotsa bbq sauce (he hates cheese! *gasp*)
You should definately try these!! Go, now!
As for today, i’ve had my breakfast that didn’t include peanut butter, shock horror!! I had hot banana yogoats topped with cinnamon and maple syrup and am now waiting for it to digest before i start shredding it. I can already feel it in my thighs and calves after yesterday, they hurt! Today, i know i will feeeeeel the burn!
I’ll drink up my definity shake after shredding. Still debating on lunch… whether to have a chicken burger sandwich with sweet potato fries or a Sausage & cheese wrap with baked crisps. Probably the later, with a protein muffin &PB for dessert. (First attempt wasn’t too good)
Today is Friday, which i am pleased about in one way (its the weekend soon woooo!) and not so pleased in another way (Friday is my late shift, i don’t finished until 7:30 & don’t get a break Standing for 6.5 hours is pretty boring!!) So i’ve packed up 2 snacks to eat throughout the afternoon, a definity crisp bar and 2/3 of fage 0% with 1/2 banana, some black grapes and 1 sq crumbled dark chocolate. Yummy!! I may eat 1/2 bowl of Covent Garden’s winter vegetable soup (soo good and high protein!) when i get home, depends if i am hungry or not! I’ll probably just want to collapse in my bed
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I chosen the cognomen of this post after reading a couple of articles from other trainers that stir up rapid “fatloss”. They now preach about how intense might training workouts will cause rapid fat burning while building muscle. Its relative to time I have been waiting for years to hear this.
For years populace have been told that doing tons of cardio will help you be deprived of weight (remember they said weight not fat), while a small cluster of us have been saying for years strength training + cardio is the high~ to go. I took a lot of heat for me not jumping in c~tinuance the cardio weight loss ban wagon. I was told that my appellation of training was only for top athletes and not for the ecumenical public. My response has always been, “the scale will falsehood to you, but your clothes will never lie to you.” By the habit, I have trained thousands of people and have never had single in kind of them not reach their fitness
Now people are hearing ready how bootcamps and functional strength training is now the best manner to go. The funny thing is that when I was a young goat, we got in shape using some of the methods that are used today to persuade in shape. Rope climbing, flipping tires, climbing trees (pull ups), pushups, situps, etc. We were in the most of all shape.
Then the cardio phase came along, followed by weight lifting that single your muscle. Then we got into what I call the idle phase, just accept me for me, if I don’t act out it doesn’t matter. Now look at us, our the community is in the worst shape it has ever been in. So a little while ago we are back to old school methods and seeing dramatic results.
Also at this moment the focus is on fat loss not on weight loss. Which is to what it is suppose to be. The problem in the past is that while people equated weight loss with being in shape, they did not take in the certainty that if you exercise wrong and don’t eat unswerving you will lose muscle as well as a little fat, mete mostly muscle. While your body tries to store the fat for the cause that of a bad fitness program.
Now we are back on the unswerving track, so if your out their wanting to get in cast , find a personal trainer that is promoting functional strength training simultaneously with proper nutrition and get started now. Don’t wait!!!
Last month when I was in Chicago, M. joined the gym near our apartment. He also signed me up. This isn’t a bad thing; it’s just the opposite. Belonging to a gym and actually going is part of our make up. Besides writing about exercise, I actually like to partake in it. Without it, I am not sure I would have survived my divorce, ran a half marathon on a whim, or lost 50 of the 60 pounds I gained during pregnancy. Since we moved back to California, I haphazardly would take walks or go to the track near our house for a workout. Honestly, life seemed a bit harder because exercise wasn’t a regular occurrence.
I have been a gym member for a month and last night was the first time I stepped through the doors. The proverbial seal was broken. It was great. I felt great. And everything seemed right in the world. Except for the fact that I’m a bit out of shape…but not for long.
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Lawrence was sceptical about the tortilla wrap, but he loved it! (and so did i) Where it crisps up around the edge is super tasty!
(he hates cheese! *gasp*)
Standing for 6.5 hours is pretty boring!!) So i’ve packed up 2 snacks to eat throughout the afternoon, a definity crisp bar and 2/3 of fage 0% with 1/2 banana, some black grapes and 1 sq crumbled dark chocolate. Yummy!! I may eat 1/2 bowl of Covent Garden’s winter vegetable soup (soo good and high protein!) when i get home, depends if i am hungry or not! I’ll probably just want to collapse in my bed 