Olympic Sprint Motivation

Last night I skipped out on blogging to spend a little extra time hanging with Brent while cheering on team USA gymnastics. Go GABBY!!
I don’t know gabby personally but I was on the edge of my seat and holding my breathe, crossing my fingers and all nervous like while they were tallying up the final scores.

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I’m pretty proud of that little chica.
Yesterday recap:
Yesterdays workout left me with some dirty knees. ---> Lunges are a girls best friend and Manimals are just as “fun.”

After the workout I took the twins to play at the park until naptime. I am telling you, these two never get tired of the park and it’s the first thing they want to do every morning! While I was there I decided to make up a fun little park workout! I can’t wait to share it with you guys. There are lunges, box jumps, pull ups, pushups and sprints. I’ll get it up ASAP so you can take your kids to the park and get a little workout in at the same time!

Workout:
This morning Brent prepared some fit mixer aminos pre-workout

I headed to GPP to tackle the WOD. It was all core today and I was glad because my shoulders are pretty useless today after yesterday and Wednesdays workouts.My couldn’t do the back extensions weighted for 60 seconds… let alone the RX weight.  I did not even come close to RXing that beast.  Something to work for I suppose. Afterwards, I had a little extra time so I went to the gym for a few tabata sprints. I jumped on the treadmill and the 400 m sprint Olympic competition was on.

Talk about motivation! I used my gym boss app (Its FREE) for tabata sprints. I set the incline to 1.5 and set the speed to 11!! In 20 minutes I was dripping!! I watched the Olympic sprinters legs and tried to just keep up with them. So Sweaty!

Olympic Sprinters are legit! Not to mention inspiring!!

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Why Hello, abs, arms and legs!
We had a play date set after at the splash park with my SIL’s
I headed home for a quick shake.

In the mix:

• 1 C. Almond Milk unsweetened Vanilla
• 1/2 Banana
• Frozen Berries
• 1 scoop Fit Mixer chocolate
• Ice
• 1 tbs Chia Seeds

Then it was time for some fun!


We had a great time running through the splash pad and playing with our Aunts and cousins!

They both fell asleep before we got home, and we literally live 3 minutes away. They were tired nuggets. Hoping that nap goes for a little longer today. I’m hoping to get some chores done before they wake up!
Lunch

Before I do the chores I had to eat first. Duh.
I made some ground turkey and threw it on a bed of lettuce with some green and yellow peppers, sweet potato and drizzled it with Walden farm honey mustard dressing!


Tonight we have plans to see WICKED!!

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My FIL bought us these tickets MONTHS ago and I have been so excited to see it! I have only been to a handful of Broadway plays, my favorite is Momma mia. I am a huge fan of Broadway musicals! I may or may not have a few in my running playlist.. Here I go again!
Question of the day:
Have you been to a Broadway Musical?
What is your favorite Olympic event?
I love watching gymnastics but am totally inspired by track and field as well.

The Monday Drag.

Happy Monday!!

More on this later!
Today has been like every other Monday. Do any of you experience a bit of a drag on Mondays? After a weekend of indulgences and a big Sunday meal, It takes me a little bit to get going on Mondays. I did a short mile run before the GPP workout. The workout was “3 bars of death”. I have done this workout before and it is a tough workout to RX as is, but I wanted to give myself a little challenge to push me out of the Monday drag. I upped the weight to 105 for dead lifts, and 65pds for the power cleans and push press.
This workout with heavier weight made this a completely different workout. The little push, was more then a hard shove. It was a good challenge. I was able to use the heavy weight for 17 rounds then I decided to drop to the RX weight to finish off the last two minutes of the workout.
I made a shake before heading to the workout.

I’m really loving the plant fusion protein! In the mix I had almond milk, ice, 4 strawberries, 1 scoop of chocolate plant fusion and a a tbsp. of chia seeds- TO GO!
The rest of the day was spent catching up with all the house chores that comes up after a weekend trip. Unpacking, laundry, laundry and more laundry…
I taught body attack tonight, quad is still bugging a little bit, but it was a great class as usual.
I came straight home to make dinner, I had some grilled chicken on had so I quickly steamed some veggies on a skillet before adding the chicken and dressing.

Sesame Ginger Chicken Fry.

Serves 2
Ingredients:

• 1 C. Broccoli
• 1/2 chopped/diced purple onion
• 1 C. frozen vegetable medley (carrots,corn, green beans)
• 6  oz. Grilled Chicken breast
• 2/3 C. Brown rice
• 1/2 C. Walden's Farm Sesame Ginger dressing

Directions:
Steam your veggies

Add your chicken and dressing

Stir and serve on top of 1/3C. of Brown rice.

I use this rice. It is so easy. Too easy.

40 sec and done.
No dirty rice cooker or burnt pan- SO simple. And tasty.
I will admit, I love cooking and I love good rice but I am NOT good at making good rice. I think I burn it every time because I can never get the water to rice ratio perfect. To dry, not cooked thoroughly, to sticky or mushy. I really hate making rice so this is as good as it gets around here.
Questions of the day:
What do you do to beat the Monday drag?
What is something you hate cooking or something you make that never turns out right?