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Fitness Friday- push-ups for all fitness levels

Push-ups are a great chest and shoulder exercise that can literally be done anywhere. But I know a lot of people don't do them because they feel the can't do traditional push-ups. Well I am here to let you know that Continue Reading »

Motivation Monday- Learn to Tabata Your Cardio

Tabata is a form of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and consists of 8 intervals of 20 seconds of high intensity followed by 10 seconds of rest. In this case, we had a quick session of Tabata cardio in between Continue Reading »

Fitness Friday- jump up jump up and get down

While weights are really what I love most about the gym, I do my fair amount of body weight exercises as well. Probably the most fun to do is the big box jumps. Even though they don't look that difficult, it takes a Continue Reading »

Motivation Monday- strike a pose

We started off boxing today holding a kick for 30 seconds on each side. While these videos are not as exciting as most of my other boxing videos, holding this position is an amazing glute exercise. Although having Continue Reading »

Sartorial Sunday- come on Spring weather. Time to get your act together already!

Slowly but surely the temperatures in Chicagoland are creeping upward. I, however, am getting impatient to wear all my cute spring/summer clothes. It's been far too long since my legs have seen the light of day. I Continue Reading »

Fitness Friday- Beast Mode Activated

Over the last few years, I've put most of my focus on increasing my strength instead of losing weight. It has been amazing to see just how strong I truly am. I very quickly discovered that I was especially strong when Continue Reading »

Motivation Monday- friends make workouts so much better

I had the pleasure of getting to do two different workouts with one of my oldest friends while on vacation last week. I post a blog post about our first workout and this one will focus on the second workout. This Continue Reading »

Wardrobe Wednesday- May the St. Patrick’s Day Force be with you

So proud of myself for finding a way to toe my love of Star Wars into my St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I was beyond thrilled to find this top at Target when searching fort my something green. Of course, I had to Continue Reading »

Motivation Monday- my introduction to The Nerd Gym ( & partner fast/slow supersets)

My family is out of town this week for spring break, but that doesn't mean no workouts for me. Since we're spending our vacation in my hometown, I got the awesome opportunity to work out with me best friend since Continue Reading »

Fitness Friday- step outside your comfort zone

I don't often get videos of me on the rower, because I usually choose to run on the treadmill instead of rowing. Since rowing involves sitting down, my heart rate usually ends up dropping too quickly for me to achieve Continue Reading »