Summer 2012 Playlist

I entitle this set of songs Pumpin Playlist.

Take You Higher, Goodwill & Hook N Sling
Ghosts N Stuff, Deadmau5
Cry For You, September
Til Death (R3hab Remix), Wynter Gordon
We Run the Night, Havana Brown
I'm in Love, Alex Gaudino
Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Skrillex
Levels, Avicii
Sexy and I Know It, LMFAO

This playlist has all my favorite songs for this summer and all the beats per minute of these songs are high so they keep my energy up and motivation high. If you're not familiar with the recent studies proving that music can help push you harder than ever in your workouts, I suggest you read Dr. Jim Stoppani's article here http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KFY/is_7_26/ai_n28010838/

Smart Training With the Sickies

Yesterday I was sick, and today I woke up worse! Sore throat, runny nose, headache. Not feeling good at all. As a Personal Trainer, I advise my clients to skip the gym if they are sick from the chest and down (stomached flu, flu, any respiratory sickness, ect.). If you do choose to exercise, keep it light and make sure you are NOT contagious. Regardless if your sick or not, clean up the equipment you used with the cleaning products provided by the gym. I hate watching sick patrons use the facility, use their grubby hands on all the equipment, and leave without cleaning up after themselves. Good way to spread your sickies to everyone else! Truly, your best bet is to take your exercise outside, get some fresh air, and do light cardio (walk or jog). Providing of course weather permits. Today is beautiful, so Kellen and I took our sickies outside for a walk. Now to chase our walk with a long afternoon nap. Hopefully tomorrow looks better for the both of us.

Praise the Lord, I have a husband who understands!

I couldn't get the babysitter today and I was grumpy because I thought was going to miss out on leg day this week. Regardless if I would make it to the gym, I was going to workout. But there is something so nice about having my one hour free all to myself in the gym kicking my own butt. I could be a sadist, I really love hitting the weights hard and stumbling out of the gym on leg day. Anyways, my husband saw I didn't have a sitter so when he came home he offered to take baby Kellen on his errands while I get my much needed gym time. Wahoo. So today I really brought the pain. Workout was as follows; 4 sets 15 reps cable squats. 3 sets 10 reps each leg standing single leg press on the pull up assisted machine. No resting at all between sets, if you're not familiar with this exercise, it's totally dope! 3 sets 10 reps leg press. 3 sets 12 reps leg extension. 3 sets 12 reps lying leg curl. 3 sets 30 reps walking lunges superset with lateral shoulder raise. I put all this in the training calculator and it said I only burned 124 calories.... Ya right! I need a new calorie counter. Anyways, I followed all that with a lower body stretch and stumbled out of the gym, just like I hoped. As for diet, I was really good, except for the four small bites of white cake I ate after dinner. I shared it with Mike so I didn't feel too naughty. Nutrition calculator estimates 1984 calories consumed, which is really close to my goal for the day. I'm still breastfeeding and it was a leg day so I try to go on the higher end. If I'm hungry again later, I'll eat again. I listen to my hunger levels more now that'll a bf mom. Does anyone out there bf and train? How are your hunger levels?