Love Your Body Workout (Valentine's Addition)

  Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you are sharing it with someone special. I am sharing it with several special people, my family! But, just because its Valentine's Day, doesn't mean you need to skip your workout! I mean, after all those chocolate covered strawberries and other treats, I am going to want to get cranking! This workout is simple, fun, and a great way to get your sweat on! The moves are Valentine's Themed to make it special!

Warm Up:
50 Jumping Jacks

Stretch:
The Hug ( Its simple, just give yourself a hug!)
Kiss Your Feet ( Reach as far to your feet as you can. No, you don't have to really kiss them!)
Lots of Love (Hold your arms out as far as you can. Like your going in for a big hug!)

The Workout:

20 Heart Push-ups. (Place you hands so that your fingers make a 'heart shape. Start from your knees.)
30 Heart swings. (Move your arms like you are drawing a  heart in mid-air.)
40 squats ( Just plan old squats to get those thighs in tip-top shape!)
50 sec. Heart Plank (Like the heart push-up, but just hold instead of going up and down.)
20 Kiss the Guns!( In a plank, raise one arm to your face and 'kiss' the bicep and then do they other one!)
50 sec. Happy Dance (Jog in place)

Now that wasn't so bad was it? You can repeat it as many times as you like. Remember to only do these moves if you are able, I don't want anyone getting hurt.

I hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day!
Keep Healthy and SAFE!
H.Banana

Daily Workouts

   Getting some exercise everyday is important to maintain a healthy body. Finding time to work in physical activity can be hard though.  I know how hard it can be to work in a workout between school, chores and just being busy ( and I'm not that busy!) But I feel so much better if I do fit it in!

Morning Workouts
 The past few days I have been getting up really early (6 a.m) and working out. This was hard to do at first but it soon became almost a habit. At first all I wanted to do was roll over and go back to sleep or have a cup of coffee (I have been getting up at 6:15 a.m for a while) but I made myself get dressed and workout. I like to do my cardio in the morning because it helps get me nice and awake and ready to go. Working out in the morning will also help to energize you for the rest of the day! Plus, you won't have to worry about fitting in a workout during your day!

'During the day' Workouts
Even though I do cardio in the morning, I try and fit in a strength training session some time during the day. The reason I don't do it all at once is because I don't have and hour- hour and a half to workout at one time. So I split it up. But, if you aren't a fan of waking up early and working out you can of course do it at once in the middle of the day. If I am going to do that I usually try and workout about a hour after lunch (You should wait at least 45 mins to a hour after eating to workout to avoid cramping) I usually do 20-30 mins of cardio and then 15-20 mins of strength training. You also can of course combine the two in to a full-body-cardio strength workout. Look around on YOUTUBE or Pinterest for inspiration!

Shaking it up a bit
When you workout every day or so your body will slowly get used to what you are putting it through. Because of this, its important to shake your workouts up and change it every week or so. A little while ago I was doing the elliptical every day on a fast, light-weight setting. This week I changed it to a slower, heavier weight setting. I also added in the weight-strength training.

Let me know what kind of workouts you do or would like to have time to do!

Keep it healthy and SAFE!
H.Banana

Workout Video

   Hello everyone! I hope your New Years were amazing! Mine totally were! I spent New Years eve and New Years Day on the slopes in Colorado! My sister and I tried snowboarding for the first time and we had a blast!
   But now that I am back home its time to get serious again about health and fitness! My family and I are going on a week long cleanse. The cleanse we are doing is roughly taken from the book CLEAN (which you should totally check out!) by Alejandro Junger , M.D.  The cleanse is a three week program but since its our first cleanse we are just going for a week. I hope to be posting some of the recipe we are using soon!
    Another thing, I will be posting once a week from now on instead of every other day. I hope that this will give me more time to write more interesting post and create some new workouts and recipes!

   I have been looking on Pinterest and YOUTUBE and I have noticed how many workout videos are on there! I have been looking for a good one to try and I think I have found one!

   This video is by Christine Salus and her YOUTUBE channel is great! She has several other workout videos, as well as a few other things! I hope you will check her out!
This workout is 40 minutes long and super tough! It was a lot of workouts I hadn't done before, so I was challenging in that way, but also it was high intensity. HIIT stand for High Intensity Interval Training  so that should tell you its tough!
   Christine's workout was very easy to follow and easy to understand. I hope you will check out her videos and let me and her know what you think about them!

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Keep it healthy and SAFE!
H. Banana