Pool party

Sakiyr Inflatable Drink Holder, 12 Pack Fruit Drink Pool Floats Cup Holders Inflatable Floating Coasters for Pool Party and Kids Fun Bath Toys

The kid knows she wants a pool party.

The 20-Minute Body: 20 Minutes, 20 Days, 20 Inches

Fitness from within.

Bound By Numbers: Abandoning the Control Weight Has Over You

At first, we were introduced to BMI.
But now we know, to look at body fat percentage.

The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors

Rainbow teeth

A preschooler's imagination.

This morning, when I woke up, she got creative and said that something brown nder my eye matches my brown teeth. In the morning everyone is allowed foggy thoughts. And then she wondered what if we all had rainbow teeth. This is how it would look.

Get Up!: Why Your Chair is Killing You and What You Can Do About It 

You must have heard of all the harm, sitting does. When I read of London drivers being worse off than conductors, healthwise, it spoke to me of the damage done by sitting too much. 

Just The Tip: 365 Kick Ass Fit Tips For Your Best Year Yet!

Focus on a tip a day and see if it leaves you with any changes you need to make. If you already have it covered, bonus, sharp cookie..

Write down your tips and share them with others. Here's what worked for me.

How to Wake up fit

Have fitness run in the family

ü You can control your appetite

ü Even walking helps with weight loss

ü Fix the leaky pipeline – weekends without exercise

ü Active wear so you can have increased range of motion & sweat freely

ü Plan Ahead and pick an exercise before decision fatigue of the day.

ü Exercise for your age – beyond cardio to stretching, strength training.

ü INTENSITY matters

Wake up fit with a Fit Health Club

Wonders on Treadmill

Folding Treadmill Electric Walking Running Exercise Fitness Machine with LCD Display Easy Control for Home

If you know the benefits of HIIT, you can do hiit on the treadmill too.

BITE - Balanced Interval Training Experience method

Elections are like arranged marriages.

 

We are going to have Club Elections.

Its that time of the year where the baton passes off to new officers.

Imagine having Judges at your election. Well that is what our situation would be had I not gone to one of our past presidents for help. He very easily became our guidance committee with his knowledge and step by step instructions and templates on how to conduct club elections successfully. That is like having an acrobat ask you for “I do”.

Leadership and planning knowledge to

Develop a project plan

Sometimes you know what the project is. Here it is elections. So we know we want fair elections and all roles filled.

 You want all the candidates to know the role that they are going for.

Who best to answer that than the current officers. Straight from the horses’ mouth.

Asking for nominations is like svayamvara, which is like choosing the groom by your self.

Some candidates might be shy, it will take some prodding from the cupids, mediators to urge them to go for the role.

Once spoken for, the candidate goes out of the pool.

Club is the collateral benefit.

The times that you don’t have a project defined or a plan to do it, you can forget about it. Its not going to happen.

Organize a guidance committee

Is your event a recurring one? If yes, then you go need to talk to someone who has already done it and get the details from them. This is like the elderly body of people who know the rituals and what needs to be done in a marriage.

Implement the plan with the help of a team.

I have asked for volunteers to be on the Nomination Committee as well as help me in conducting the elections on the big day. With a team, you are sure to be successful as long as you manage the team well.

What better than a marriage that calls for extensive preparation. There will be ballots, roles, officers and the club. Streamers flying around when we have the officers.

You cant manage the planning alone. You need help from many people.

Hopefully no cold feet.. no runaway brides..

How to Wake up Fit?

How to Wake up Fit?

Fitness through time

Raise your glass if you woke up fit

Raise your glass if you want to wake up fit

Seems like there are more hands than people here.

I woke up fit and want to wake up fit everyday.

10 years ago I could do an elliptical for an hour everyday and now on an occasional Friday, if I can do the elliptical for an hour, I feel 10 years younger. I feel younger just by listening to the music I heard working out then.

Even though the definition of fit might change from insert your age to the next decade, we still want to be fit. What is fit, fit is whats possible that day.

I have been doing that for years now. And just like that one day I was able to do P90x and kept at it for 6 months now. In the rear mirror of my car, is the crushed second pre-pregnancy weight goal.

I thought I was done but it appeared again and again and again. Wait did I say it 3 times, but this time I know its for final, because I have turned the fan HIGH.

I have 25 years of experience of dealing with gaining weight not by choice and losing weight intentionally.

In the last 4 years, I kept the fan running with showing up loyally everyday at the gym but in work clothes and mommy guiltxcuse that I couldn’t spend too much time on my exercise. My exercise which was 1 hour long when I was single. Even if I had the time, I didn’t have the stamina. But I also wanted to believe that my previous weight loss was not only from exercise but diet too. That I didn’t have to slog for an hour for what could be achieved in half an hour. As a mom of two, time is precious.

Why turn the fan HIGH if you don’t have to.

How I came to strength training is when I was working out in the gym, a lady was working one of the machines I didn’t know how to. Have you seen that body trainer machine, where you stretch your arms out like Atlas?

In that process, she told me that as we age, it is important to do strength training. Around the same time I got a book and started using the book for strength training. With time I could lift more weights.

After the P90x, I was up for more activity and range of motion. I took change of clothes. One time when I could only make it to the later half of the section, I realized I didn’t have to fret if I missed a section, at the end of it, I could always continue with the beginning.

Fix the leaky pipeline – It’s the weekends – Now I exercise on weekends too. I search out a video that I am going to follow at the beginning of the day, so I know that its on the tab. I try to do it in the morning, so I don’t have to deal with the scheduling in the later part of the day. Before I got to that routine, I would exercise even between cooking. If you think working out takes long, cooking will cure you of that.

Make it a habit or plan ahead

One of my favorite exercise in the P90x series deals with kickboxing where I am taken back in time, centuries ago, as a warrior. Choose the right activity for your age.

It takes a fit village to raise a fit child

It is my eighth grade. Summer is just beginning. We are going to get our exam results. I went to my mom’s tailor few days ago. I know that my shiny blue dress will be ready for the day I get my results. I had done well, so I wasn’t worried about it. That night I had a dream, that I became thin.

In life, you have two types of dream, one where you want something that you can work for and another which you can never reach.

In the morning as a family, we would go for walks. On the way, you could find a sugarcane dropped from the bullock carts, another day I found an onion. I even found a 5 Rupee bill and then I learned what it meant – “Early to bed, Early to rise – makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

My dad exercised every morning. While we kids walked, he went running. My mom would cook early in the morning, so we could all go walking together. On those walks, many great decisions were made about my future.

He would exercise on the terrace too. I was fortunate enough to be called to join him during the yoga. He taught me to take up jump rope as an exercise.

In my undergrad, It was two things that were the turning point in my life. Two pieces of wisdom from a Readers digest.

You can control your appetite. Walking helps, even though it is slow.

It was hard to not eat rice and switch to chapathi. It was easy to count the chapathis and know my intake. With rice, its hard to measure. I rolled an intern’s cash-strapped life into a fitness opportunity by skipping the auto that would take as much time as walking.

I slowly lost weight like ¾ pound each month. I kept going. Walking to the office, even though a bus ride was available.

I got into so much walking. If the weather felt good, I couldn’t stay indoors. I had to go on long walks. Until then it was always an individual thing.

Behind the fit me, are many people guiding me.

Community

Welcome to My personal health club.

I am not alone in this.

My first exercise instructor happens to be my dad, My mom, who went to the gym and took me along, friends who held my legs so, I could do sit ups.

At ASU Student recreation center, the elliptical machine stranger, but she has played a part in my fitness journey.

I was never alone.

Be it the lady who told me how to work the circuit machine or the exercise buddys who let me join their group even when they didn’t know me.

I was never alone.

I have many instructors, some of them are celebrity trainers.

A friend once made me realise that members of a club have a sense of belonging as they are all connected with a common thread. All the people that I now told you about, belong to my health club. A select club of people who care about the same things as me – health and fitness.

My kid jumps high in the air and asks me if it is a power jump. See how their vocabulary is increasing in the fitness world. Each time I come across a new type of workout, I am increasing my possibility of continuing to workout.

The exercise world can make you go giddy with knowledge and not everyone knows every move. It is not easy to learn a new thing. You need someone who can teach you or show you how to do the complex moves

Help can come in other forms – information, support, appreciation, acknowledgement.

Who is in your health club?

Whose health club are you in?

How to Wake up Fit?

You wake up fit by working out before you go to bed

You wake up fit by taking care of your body with good nutrition and hydration

You wake up fit by getting a good nights sleep

Wash, Rinse, repeat but don’t forget to turn the fan High to dry

You wake up fit with your health club

Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story

Nerdfitness
Beastskills Jim Barthurst training philosophy

J.D. ROTH SPEAKS AT WORLD DOMINATION SUMMIT 2012

Flow in a game

Gamify your exercise. You are a character in your chosen game with a big purpose.

one arm pushups
pullups with extra weight

capoeira game roda

Sweet + Salty: The Art of Vegan Chocolates, Truffles, Caramels, and More from Lagusta's Luscious

Funny that most Phoenician stories are supposed to be - car broke down on the way to California.
Black/Red Raspberry Lime truffles are something to look at.
Wow, deconstructing ganache to a fat and liquid and reconstructing with coconut oil and anything - eggplant, miso, balsamic syrup.
Loved the list of things to not use as garnish on truffles.

Fennel apple- skin truffles made with apple skin powder sounds so novel.
Pomegranate truffle made with pomegranate molasses.
ginger juice
Ginger orange blossom truffle looks good with ginger slice and chocolate on top of it.
Caramel candy vs Caramel sauce preparation



Flax-seed egg replacer
sage caramels look so cute.
Caramelized onion and chipotle caramels.
Carrot and coriander caramels
toffee matzo with drizzled chocolate instead of dipped in chocolate
Like the idea of decorating toffee for pictures with tiny cats and shoes.



Japanese Togarashi Spice Blend

Hydrox Cookies Crushed Cookie 'Base Cake' Only Non-GMO

Bungee Strap exercises

Now you might not have the time to bungee jump at Kawarau bridge, the birth place of Bungee jump like Steve Kamb of

Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story & Nerdfitness, but you can get fit with the bungee cords and make a little backyard play a big part in your fitness plan.

kathdear Goggles Bungee Strap (4 Pack), Adjustable Colorful Pattern Bungee Cords Replacement Kit with Clamp Locker for Kids Adult Racing Swim - 4 Colors as One Set

Voova Sports Gym Bag with Shoes Compartment

Voova Sports Gym Bag with Shoes Compartment 20L Foldable Travel Duffel Totes Bag for Men and Women

Reebok Professional Aerobic Deck - Black

This aerobic deck can be used for step aerobics or as apower block during your strength training. it is versatile and saves space in your home gym.