April 2012
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Trying to work out the sore-ness....
Went to the gym today to do Kettles. When I was doing my swing challenge I felt like everything got a little tighter and smaller. And with not swinging as much - I feel like I have reverted to the way I used to look. It’s super slight - and probably no one notices but me, but it makes me want to do more swings….
So I did 460 today, alternating between double handed with 16kgs...
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Sorest Ever
That met-con from yesterday killed me!
I am soooooooo sore I can barely move!!!!
Hoping if I go do swings at lunch it will help loosen everything up. I am walking like I just rode 50miles/kilometers on horseback! AH!
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Weekend in Review
Friday - met LAEL for Core Fusion. Rachel was our teacher and she was maybe 6000x harder than any other teacher I have taken. It was like an hour of pain! But that’s awesome, because it means it was doing something (hopefully anyway). After that, came home and had a relaxing night in.
Saturday - Celebrated B’s birthday all day - it was a week ago but he was in Arizona, so we...
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Off To Core Fusion
Let’s hope I do better than T-Rex.
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Thursday Boxing
As random as this, I ate a chicken cutlet before boxing this morning. Yes I know they are fried, and don’t eat them often, but I love them and for some weird reason at cutlet at 6:15am sounded beyond amazing and we happened to have one left over from dinner Tuesday night in the fridge begging me to eat it.
It gave me CRAZY energy for boxing!
I was all hyped up, running around feeling like...
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Descrimination
It’s discrimination that it’s take your kids to work day, and I wasn’t allowed to bring my puppy. He’s my baby!!! So rude, HR for telling me no. Harumph.
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“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
– Lance Armstrong
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Wednesday Morning Sports Conditioning
Woke up early enough to get to the gym in time to do 50 double hand swings before Sports Conditioning/Bootcamp started. Awesome!
The warm up was crazy today - I don’t know what was up with MFT but he was going after everyone today. So hard. Warm up was 20 minutes: running, body builders, mountain climbers, traveling push ups, lunges, jumping jacks, running, shuffling laterally, centipedes,...
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Death by Kettle Bells
Yesterday I decided to throw around the bells and work on my swings since I haven’t in some time.
I banged out using the 12kgs bell for single swings and 16kgs for double swings 460 swings in about 30-35ish minutes. As my callouses sort of went away, I have new blisters to contend with.
I was so breathless and sweaty, I always forget just how hard kettle bells can be!
After I was done I...
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Contest Winner
I realized this morning while I emailed the contest winner directly yesterday to get her address, (Congrats again Leslie P. in Yountville, CA) I never posted it on my blog!
If you didn’t win, stay tuned as a do a giveaway about once a month!
xoxo
NoSauce
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“If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t...”
– Marilyn Monroe
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Shore Thing
Every time at work I hear DTM (Dyed To Match) I keep thinking they are going to say DTF.
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Monday Spin/Abs/Shoulders
I took my old Monday spin class today - I missed Richard the teacher. It’s so crazy how a teacher makes a world of difference. His style is so different than Kareem’s who teaches on Tuesday. They are both amazing - but in totally different ways.
Anyway, Richard had today all about short short tough intervals. Everything was done in 5, 10, 20 second intervals - and just a few 1 minute...
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NoSauce GIVEAWAY
Just wanted to remind you all this ends Monday - so if you wanted to enter make sure to do so! Details below! Good luck!
NoSauce GIVEAWAY
April’s Give Away is A Gift Set from Fresh. It contains a Brown Sugar Body Polish, Sugar Lip Treatment, and a Brown Sugar Eau De Parfum. ($45.00 value)
Fresh sells amazing products. Owned by LVMH, they adhere to the highest standards of luxury....
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Core Fusion
Tomorrow going to Core Fusion…
Have LAEL as an ally to combat the hoards of super mean girls that are there in class.
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Thursday Boxing
I woke up early to walk to the gym (little over a mile, thankyouverymuch) to get to boxing. This is my favorite workout class that I take, because of the people (bootcamp is obviously my favorite because of MFT, but the people are less fun than the Thursday people)
The warm up was crazy today - about 25 minutes. As soon as you walk in you are handed 2 1/2 lb weights for each hand....
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Wednesday Morning Sports Conditioning
I haven’t been to Sports Conditioning for two weeks - and I could feel it today every minute of that hour. It was a hard class in general, but not going makes a crazy difference, so hard for me!
The usual warm up - ice skaters, high knees, booty kicks, running, shuffling laterally, centipedes, quick feet, walking lunges, jumping jacks, bear crawls, traveling push ups, etc etc
Before we...
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Aero Spinning
Yesterday I went to spin, where I learned about Aerodynamic Spinning.
Basically instead of position 1, you sit in Aero. This is what triathletes and competitive bikers would use. It’s a way of sort of resting your top half on the bike to make you more aerodynamic when you are riding - except that there is very little to no pressure/tension in your upper half.
So after the instructor showed...
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NoSauce Give Away!
NoSauce GIVEAWAY
April’s Give Away is A Gift Set from Fresh. It contains a Brown Sugar Body Polish, Sugar Lip Treatment, and a Brown Sugar Eau De Parfum. ($45.00 value)
Fresh sells amazing products. Owned by LVMH, they adhere to the highest standards of luxury. Brown Sugar was known to have natural antiseptic properties. As this was discovered, the idea was born for the brown sugar...
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Bikram Yoga - An Awesome Alternative To The Gym
Saturday morning I woke up early (time difference works in my favor!) so I decided to hit up my old Bikram studio at home.
I forgot how much I love doing Bikram. It had been maybe a year since I took a class!
The sweating is so cleansing, you feel like you are just getting a full body facial. Plus I felt so strong! I don’t know if it’s from the strength I gained from the swings, if I...
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Things that blow my mind
Told my mom I need to pay my cell phone bill online before I forget.
Her reply was an incredulous - you pay a bill on line!?!! (not kidding)
She was blown away that I actually do this, as in, I am not a NASA agent so how did I figure it out?
REALLY?! Mom it’s 2012. I think your 3 year old grandson could do it. Seriously. Good thing no one else was around to hear you say this. I still love...
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Things
Insomnia again last night. Talking like maybe 3 hours of sleep. Tired and wired and grumpy - again.
In LA right now waiting for my flight to Santa Barbara. And it’s raining. I grew up in SB, and I feel like it rains maybe 4x a year. It had to the weekend I go home?! Really?
They showed Hugo on the flight. I cried. Girl next to me was giving me side eye and judging. Sorry your heart is...
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Crap Workout > No Workout
So I finally fell asleep last night around 12:40ish. I got up at 5:45 to go to the gym. I felt awful, but as soon as my alarm went off I was awake. Like one of those mornings when even if you hit snooze, you can’t go back to sleep. I HATE NOT SLEEPING.
Anyway - I walked to the gym, approx 1.25 miles. Yep. Was awake, so why not walk? Whatever, so grumpy.
I get to the gym about 15 minutes...
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Insomnia
The worst. Laying here for over two hours while B and Shea are both snoozing away. Hate it.
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Do Run Run Run......
I didn’t go to Bootcamp today as I had the day off work, so I didn’t want to go all the way to the gym by my office. However, just because I missed bootcamp doesn’t mean that I missed working out - I went to the little mini gym in my building.
I ran 3.5 miles (a little over a 5K for those of you non-Americans). I know it’s a little light compared to my usual, but I felt...
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Something Is ALWAYS Better Than Nothing
I was signed up with my coworker K to go to spin today - then got stuck in a fitting. I hate that we are totally on the fit model’s schedule since everything will revolve around the fit meeting. Anyway - by the time we go out I knew if we went to class we would have been about 10 minutes late.
Normally I would say forget it - but my coworker was like we are going - get your stuff!
So I...
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Kettle Buddies
I went to the gym at lunch today to do some swings - and it was absurd. After only a 2 week break from kettles (I still worked out on vacation, just not kettle bells) they were so effing hard. Is it really possible I could lose it that fast?!
I did 400 swings, I am worked for every single one after about 230. I was so annoyed at my body, mentally I was there, physically my body was saying ef you,...
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Is It Wrong...?
That True Blood Season 5 hasn’t started yet (season starts Sunday June 10th), and I am already having anxiety that Alan Ball will continue his lame Bill nonsense and not have Sookie and Eric together?! I was trying to explain this to B on vacation - the books are best sellers FOR A REASON. Stop messing with the formula!
He better come through.
Nervous.
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Easter Workout
B and I are back in the city. I get post vacation depression.
Since we knew we would be eating Easter/Passover candy - we went to the gym early on today. We decided to do arms, shoulders, and abs. But first we ran to the gym - it’s a good half mile so it was a good warm up. Then, I put B through my Iron Cross workout.
bicept curls 15 on each arm*lateral raises 12
front shoulder raise 10...
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