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Did you watch the Superbowl last night? I did and totally enjoyed the commercials 🙂 I was rooting for Denver because I’m from Indiana and well, you know we Hoosiers love Peyton Manning!
This weekend was a great one! It kind of started on Friday for me when I got to hang out with some awesome bloggers from across the country! As some of you know, I work in social and digital media professionally in the political sphere.
It’s a blast to connect with bloggers in the arena! Here’s a shot of us strategizing and brainstorming over at the Franklin Center on Friday…that’s me at the end of the table if you can’t tell! Some of my friends in the in photo include Kira Davis, Kelly Maher (she was just on the Daily Show!!) and Jim Geraghty — all awesome folks to work with!
Physical Therapy
After spending the day with those folks, I headed over to my physical therapy appointment at Solutions. We spent time getting out some kinks in my back, working on planks and other core exercises that will also help strengthen my left leg.
At the end, I got the stem & heat therapy, which is so totally relaxing…I honestly just fall asleep and want to go to bed!
Weekend Workouts
I’ve been very diligent about the Core Power Challenge. Having this accountability really does make a difference. I’ve actually never been this consistent with my core in my life so hopefully it makes a big difference!
Over the weekend, I spent some time on the elliptical, bike and the pool. Saturday I did all my core exercises at home in the living room. Take a look at some of the moves.
What I Wore:
- New Balance Top from Sports Authority
- Reebok capris
- New Mizuno running shoes
- YurBuds inspired Sweaty bands
- Nike Sports bra
Other Fun Stuff
A few other fun things from this weekend are in order. The first one is how cute my husband is. Rick loves giving gifts and he can never wait until you are supposed to give them to do so. So I came home Saturday afternoon to find my Valentine’s Day present awaiting me. Really? I’m used to it and he is an awesome present giver so I figured it couldn’t hurt to open! Guess what i got?!
I’m so pumped to use my new Kindle Fire! My original Kindle broke a long time ago and I’ve been using an iPad app since then. Unfortunately, that thing is heavy and clunky. The Fire is basically like a mini-iPad — you can watch movies, tv, listen to music, a ton of stuff. I will mostly just be using for books though. After hearing many good things, I just bought “The Fault in Their Stars” by John Green. Have you read it? I’m looking forward to it!
Let’s ease back into the week, shall we? For today, let’s get our plank practice on. Do the best you can! Here ya go:
- Plank #1: Depending on your skill level, hold plank at your most advanced time. This may be 1:30, 1 minute, 45 seconds or 30 seconds. Do what you can!
- Plank #2: Hold a side plank on your elbow for 30 seconds on each side (x2)
- Plank #3: Get into a high plank (not elbows). Attempt to hold one arm in the air and hold plank for 5 seconds. Repeat with the other arm. Do this twice.
It’s time for another workout karma link love! Here’s how my week went down:
- Monday: 3 mile speed walk, 15 minutes bike, core
- Tuesday: 30 min. modified zumba, core work
- Wednesday: 45 minutes swimming, core work
- Thursday: REST (core work)
- Friday: REST (core work)
- Saturday: 2 mile walk, 20 min. treadmill, 10 min. bike, core work
- Sunday: 40 min. swim, arm workout, core work
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Spotlight of the Week: Redeeming Grounds
Do you like coffee? Do you like your purchases to mean something? Perfect. My friend has started a very cool organization dedicated to providing amazingly deliciously coffee for a good cause — and obviously I was not paid to tell you how sweet this stuff is! 🙂
Redeeming Grounds is a company that produces coffee from Colombia, from men and women who have come out of the drug business and turned their lives to God. All the money made goes back to the communities in which the coffee is made. It’s delicious (I’ve tried it) and an awesome new coffee to try if you are a coffee person! Here’s my friend Santi in Colombia with some of the local kids:
What a great weekend! Love the core workout too.
Thanks! It's working me!!
ok you had me with how SWEET RICK IS….
He is! 🙂
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Great week of workouts and what a blast to get to hang out with all of those people and talk about things you love!
It just showed up for me…maybe it takes a sec to cache?
Fixed it!!!!
Ok your job sounds WAY cool!!!
Core work is SOOOO important in a runners life. It's where we get most of our power from.
Your husband sounds like me – when I busy something for my hubby I can't wait to give it to him. I bought his Valentines day present 2 weeks ago and I had to put it away in my closet so I'd forget about it for a bit. Out of sight out of mind, ha ha.
Ha ha it's a lot of fun. I know core work is important and for the first time in my life, I'm making it a priority! I always buy presents last minute because I feel like it will be too hard not to give early if I don't!
AWESOME WORKOUT GIRL!! You rocked this week!
Woop wopp! 🙂 Thanks!
Great job getting those workouts done. I've been slacking on the core challenge which is weird considering I love corework.
Thanks Natalie! You are always so dedicated!
Nice job on the workouts and cute picture of you two! I'm afraid to read the book because I'll probably be bawling my eyes out. I saw the movie trailer and that already had my crying!
Thanks Tonya! Yeah, I've heard good things meaning its a tear jerker. I knew I had to get it because I saw the movie was coming out and want to read first!
It sounds like the core challenge is going great! I find that if you don't use it, you lose it pretty quickly! How sweet that yoru hubby got your gift early! I love the Kindle Fire, I'm sure you'll enjoy it! 🙂
Thank you so much! Yes, he's so cute!~ I can't wait to try the Fire!
I just got a Kindle Fire too – let me know what your fav apps are! I'm not using mine for much except reading right now…