Long Hair Don't Care : Workout Day 2

Dinner picture from last night, my hair is getting long!

Today was a HIIT cardio day, my new favorite since real leg days are no longer allowed to be a thing ( still looking into alternatives ). That feeling of dripping in sweat after a workout is all too satisfying. I felt a little sore/stiffness after yesterday's workout so that was nice 👌 

Moving on to today's workout which I took on to the sand! 

Warm up: 

1:00 butt kicks

1:00 toe touches

3:00 jogging

Workout:

Tabata style (:20 work, :10 rest --> for 4:00 minutes = 1 round) 1:00 rest between rounds

Sprint/ walk along beach

I did 4 rounds for 20:00 total and followed it with barefoot skips along the beach. And yep, sun was out so I came back to our cabin dripping in sweat. 

Currently sitting on the porch eating whole fat Greek yogurt with blueberries and granola, it's delicious bad packs in 20 grams of protein

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Day 1 of Vacation Workout

Here's a panorama of my workout location on the beach  ☺️ Today I did a calisthenics workout since I have no weights or equipment here other than my jump rope. Started it all off with meditating, good way to start ( or end ) any day! 

Warm up: jump rope ~5 minutes

Workout: squats 3 sets x max reps

Wall sits 2 x max

🐠🐠superset🐠🐠 3 sets x max

Walking lunges 

Side lunges

Curtesy lunges

Step ups

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One leg calf raises 3 x max 

Push ups 2 x max

Incline push ups 2 x max

Decline push ups 2 x max

Super mans (torso raises) 2 x max

🐚🐚🐚triset🐚🐚🐚3 sets x max

V-ups

Bicycle crunches

Leg raises 

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I took what I could do here on vacation from a workout I found on bodybuilding.com which is a great resource for workouts, tips, lifts, etc. 

Reworking my blog!

Okay, I made a blog back in the day and really did have the intent to regularly use it. But at this point instead of putting more personal details and updates on here I am using it to focus more on fitness and health and etc. So for this post we'll go through a quick summary of background information on my experience with athletics and working out and then share links to what I am doing and find to be worth reading. There will probably still be the occasional personal post on here every once and a while.

Short summary: Back in the day, elementary school days, I played a lot of sports. Volleyball was my favorite. Thus I focused my athletic pursuits  on volleyball (personal trainers, private coaches, private elite clubs, elite camps..) Shitty high school politics sort of wrecked volleyball for me since I wasn't in the coach's inner circle so I quit after high school season during my junior year. From there I joined the speech team and by senior year I was competing on the debate, student congress, and speech teams. I had taken to distance running somewhere along these lines, had a stint with anorexia during my senior year. College came and I joined intramural volleyball and the mock trial team. I was working out semi-regularly in the midst of the normal stress of starting college. Was over my eating and body image issues for the most part. After freshmen year I got back into lifting and fell in love with it (who doesn't love seeing gains!? ;) ) Now we'll flash forward to about a week ago.

I met with my cardiologist (they discovered my heart deformity when I was about 12 or 13, bicuspid aortic valve if anyone wants to look that up) who told me that I had to stop heavy lifting. Obviously I was devastated, argued with her for a while, and am working on bitterly accepting that my lifting days are over. With that news I decided to revamp this blog and stop placing my passion for fitness behind closed doors. I had a private Instagram account for my fitness posts for almost a year now and then I decided I didn't care what all you people thought of them. I like that stuff, if you don't then don't pay attention to it. (I'm trying to be courteous of people by not posting my stuff all over Facebook...) ANYWAYS, despite this limitation I am looking to become a certified personal trainer (CPT) in the next 2-3 years to help pay for graduate school and because it's something I would like to do.

Given that it's almost 11:00 I'm keeping this part short and sweet since I plan to be up around 6:00 to workout on the beach! (Perks of being on vacation). The following link provides a tabata strength workout that is within my workout bounds: http://exercise.about.com/od/circuittrainingworkouts/l/bltabatastrength.htm
It only requires a timing mechanism, ~30 minutes, and some dumbbells!
Eating related, I attempted to make these and while I think I burned them, they still tasted good and are a good way to get protein! http://dailyburn.com/life/recipes/chocolate-banana-protein-pancakes/

Will be posting more workout ideas and eating ideas and health/fitness stuff with time. This week will be primarily workouts that can be done with minimal equipment since I'm on vacation and have minimal equipment. Feel free to comment or contact me if there is anything you would like to see or have questions about! (Keep in mind, I'm not a professional and would be merely giving advice as a friend).