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Strength-Plyo-Cardio Workout + Vegetables for Love
Hey guys!
How’s it going? Today feels an awful lot like Friday to me. It’s probably a good thing it’s not, though – I’m leaving for Illinois tomorrow (YAY! – first time back home!) and I still haven’t started packing. No surprise there 
And yesterday I had the joy of meeting up with Lauren at Mount Sanitas for a mid-morning hike!
Lauren’s here in Colorado house hunting for when she moves to CO in a few weeks (YAY!) and in between searching she’s able to squeeze in some fun. It was gorgeous hiking weather – we were both pretty sweaty by the time we turned around and headed back down. Although it was cloudy when we started, the clouds parted and the sun was out in full force toward the middle of the hike.
Taking our panoramic pictures 
It was my first time meeting Lauren, but we’ve been reading each other’s blogs for some time now, so it felt like we’d known each other for much longer 
The hike took us up quite a bit of elevation, and was definitely a booty burner, workout-wise. But, for those of you without a mountain to get the glutes fired up, I’ve got a booty burner workout for YOU.
I ran one of my classes through this workout last week and they all really enjoyed it.
3 second squats – count 3 seconds down and 3 seconds up
1 second squats – quick squats!
squat hold – hold at the bottom of the squat
split squat –( except bring the back foot to the ground. It annoys me so much that even fitness websites don’t seem to know the difference between a split squat and a lunge!)
If you have any other questions – just ask!
….Taking a left turn from the subject of fitness to the subject of vegetables. Come along!
Every morning I check several websites – usually in the same order every day – training schedule, bank, blogs, email – and fitness/health research studies from a journal I subscribe to. Yesterday I was reading one of those studies that piqued my interest and wanted to share it really quick. According to the study from Public Health Nutrition, if you make a dinner that serves up veggies, you’ll be thought of as loving!
More specifically, it said that when food preparers served vegetables at dinner, they were rated higher on qualities like “loving,” “thoughtful,” “capable,” and “attentative.” Conversely, the chefs who did not serve up veggies were rated higher on qualities such as “neglectful,” “selfish,” and “boring!”
Ironically, I did not serve any veggies with dinner last night (unless you count canned tomatoes – we had chili.) Wondering what Shane would say, after dinner I asked him, “How did you like the chili?” (he liked it!) and then “so…how would you describe me after eating it??” His response? (after guessing “sexy?”) was good cook? LOL. I’ll take it
Happy Thursday, my friends!
What veggie did you eat with dinner last night? Or were you a slacker (or neglectful/selfish/boring) like me and skip it?
I had sushi for dinner last night, so I guess I didn’t have a veggie, but I normally do.
I’ve met Lauren before and she’s awesome! I’m visiting CO in June, maybe I can meet you too.
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I had sweet potatoes and peas, but ended up skipping the peas because I don’t like them. I guess this makes me a little of both?!
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We had kale and cucumber. I try to make sure I have veggies and every lunch and supper but sometimes there may only be one!
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Haha, packing is the worst part of going away;)
Wow, that’s interesting about the veggies!
For Dinner I had…oh shoot no veggies haha. I have a smoothie instead…oopsy.
Usually I’m all about the veggies, but yesterday didn’t feel like them I suppose.
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I made pizza, but used whole wheat dough and topped it with mushrooms, spinach, and red peppers – and had salad on the side. 🙂
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LOVE THE WORKOUT!! Definitely must try!
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Um, yeah. Slacker here. No veggies at dinner, but I did eat them at lunch?
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Such a beautiful hike, you’re so lucky to have that in your backyard! And great lower body workout, lots of squats oof! haha
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I had take out mexican, so I get no credit for cooking lol and we both had peppers and onions and tomatoes in our meal! Its funny that serving vegetables makes you seen as loving, you would think more children would want to eat their veggies then 😉
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1. I’m a little jealous of how close you are to all that great hiking! Such awesome views! I’ve always said that if I lived within 15 minutes of a good mountain, I would hike every day and do nothing else in terms of working out 🙂
2. I love Shane’s response to your question. Hah! We made tacos last night, and while I stuffed as many greens and diced tomatoes in there as possible, we probably should have had some additional veggies 🙂
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It’s seriously my only cardio right now! Well, that and taking Niko for walks.
Yay for hiking buddies! I can’t wait to get back out to Colorado next month and get some hiking in.
We had mac and cheese last night, but it was butternut squash mac and cheese so I did get some veggies in!
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That workout looks awesome! Pinned it to try later 🙂 How fun for a blog meet up! I skimped on veggies last night, went to happy hour with my Mom so it was for a good reason! Enjoy your day!
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Last night I had Chayote with Roti. Being vegetarian I make sure we eat lot of veggies for every meal.
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My dinner last night was shrimp and cocktail sauce and cheesy garlic bread. So…no veggies. Still awesome :-p
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No love for you! 😉 I kid…I would totally love you for that meal!
I just had parsnips with dinner tonight, parsnip fries really. So good!
Glad you enjoyed your sunny hike!
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My dinner the past several nights have been GIANT garbage bowl salads so I’ve had my fair share of veggies! Tonight was a boatload of asparagus!
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I want to say that you have a great landscape over there that makes you enjoy your walking even more. I’d love to have it too next to my place 🙂
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Yay- I LOVED that hike, and look forward to doing the entire loop next time! (I might even have to bring LANCE)
I also love that we are in each other’s panoramic pics (I just posted mine today, finally!). Was that REALLY the first time we met? Seems like it should’ve been years ago! 😉
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