Posts made in October, 2008
Planning For Special Events
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today is my friend Diana’s wedding. In fact, I should be getting dressed right now, but wanted to share a few thoughts. Just because I am going to a speical event, doesn’t mean I need to throw away my diet. I just need to plan. I think about what do I really want to splurge on, do I want cake, bacon wrapped scallops or a few glasses of wine. Know that you will be going to an event and want to enjoy yourself, so make concession during the week. This way you can still enjoy a healthy lifestyle without feeling awkward at social events. No related posts.
Read MoreBusy Day
This weekend is action packed!!! It’s recycling day here in Cambridge, now what does that mean? It’s Cambridge’s way of keeping old paint, fluorescent light bulbs, etc from going in with the rest of your trash! As you can imagine my husband has been all hopped up for weeks!! He even scheduled it in his calendar. So, we are going to gather up all our hazardous stuff and head to the armory. Next I’m heading to the gym to get in my 60 min of cardio and 30 min of routine practice. Head to the grocery store. Cook something for a party we are going to tonight. Are you exhausted yet!! I am and my day is just beginning. I’m sure there are...
Read MoreInterval Training
So, I’m 4 weeks out from my show. What does that mean? Crunch time!! So I’m up to 60 minutes of cardio. How many of you are cardio queens, you know who you are.. you can stay on a piece of cardio for more than 60 minutes and not have it feel like sheer torture. How many of you don’t even do cardio or maybe for 20 -30 minutes, but you are reading People magazine or a book and not breaking a sweat. For me I hope from machine to machine to break it up. I know how important cardio is, but I HATE it!!! With that said, I’m not doing intervals… Please start slow, trust me it will come and its just as effective. This can be done on any piece...
Read MoreHabits
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.~William Somerset Maugham How many times have you told yourself that starting Monday you were going to… start your new diet, go to the gym, get up an hour earlier to do, take a lunch at work, spend my time with my family, call a friend. My guess is a million. Now, how long did it last, if ever got started?? Did you make it 21 days? Okay, so where did this 21-day concept come from? Dr. Maxwell Maltz, wrote a book entitled ‘Psycho-Cybernetics’ in the 1960′s after he observed that it took amputees about 21 days to stop feeling as though...
Read MoreHerd Mentality
I was watching Sunday Morning on CBS today and they suggesting that the ups and downs of the stock market can be compared to a herd mentality. A herd mentality is a way to describe how people’s behaviors can influenced by their peers. So what does this have to do with fitness? Well, how is your fitness influenced by what others are doing? Has a friend ever called/emailed/text-ed you and asked what you were doing and when you said you were going to workout they mentioned that a group of people (the herd) where doing something else and asked you to come along? What do you say? Do you stick to your plan or do you go along with the herd? We may have evolved, but...
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