If the Bodybugg taught me anything, it taught me I have NO patience need to move more.  After wearing it for a few days, it was evident that I’m part slug. Truth be told, I’m sort of sedentary by nature.  Many of my favorite things in life, such as reading, cuddling, writing, thinking, internet surfing […]

We kicked our camping season off this weekend with a trip up the coast with one of our homeschooling groups.  (For those who may be considering homeschooling and are concerned about “socialization”.   Don’t worry, in most towns, the opportunities to hang out with other kids and really get to know other families are endless.) […]

I know being sore is necessarily indicative of a good workout.  I don’t care.  I like being sore.  In fact, I LOVE being sore and I have a feeling that I’ll be sore tomorrow after today’s workout. I just did this workout this morning with my friend, Deb, aka, Smoothie Girl. Isn’t she cute.  If […]

(Source) Good day dear readers!  (said in a horrible faux accent of unknown region) I hope you a restful weekend. The above picture would so be me and and I know some of you too!  Ha! Yesterday, Brent and I did this fun and fast workout.  We used kettlebells but you could easily modify it […]

(Source) Hope you had a great weekend and for those who are mothers a fantastic Mother’s Day.  I bought myself a little present that I’ll tell you about later this week   but first I want to finish my Climbing the Ladder:  Fun Workout Tools series. Here are links to the earlier posts if you want […]

I was planning on finishing up Part 4 of my Climbing the Ladder Series:  (Tools to Keep Your Weekend Interesting) but while I love lists (that was one of my first and all time favorite posts btw) I’m just not “feeling” my scheduled post today.  Instead, I want to talk about the 10KChallenge I just completed […]

This month I set out to complete the 10,000 swing challenge. This meant I “have to get  my swings in” be it the In-N-Out parking lot or rest stops. Never mind if people stared at me as if I was insane or I was embarrassing driving my family nuts. No siree. I won’t quit. The great […]

(Source) I’m going to continue with Climbing Up the Ladder Part 3: Tools to make workouts painful Keep Workouts Interesting.  In part 1 we talked about rep (repetition) ladders and part 2 we talked about weight and time ladders.  This week we are going to talk about reverse ladders and pyramids. A reverse ladder is simply […]

The window is clean.  In fact, I’ve stepped out of that small room out into the sunshine again!  (Big cheesy grin.)  I’m excited for this week!  I have a new recipe and another Girl Hero (always my favorite posts) lined up. Today, I want to continue my series on program design tools, a fancy way […]

Traditional ladders are something I generaly avoid – seeing as how I fell off backwards when I was painting my son’s border in his nursey when I was 8 months pregnant.  The only thing hurt was my pride. For the most part, I stick to basics (squat variations, swings, presses, pull-ups, dead lifts, ect) for […]