Wellness Wednesday: Don't "Leg" behind ;)

So today my Wellness Wednesday focus in legs! My favorite muscle in the whole body to work out!

Now, obviously running, biking, elipicalling it will tone your legs and burn fat. But, adding some weight/resistance training will really do it! Plus, if you get good muscle in your legs and butt? -- that will burn tons of calories! So here are a few of my favorites. It's my "garage leg burn-out". Meaning...I do all this in our garage.

1. Jump rope 100 jumps (regular jumps - both legs)
2. Skip jump rope x 60 (Right leg first)
3. Skip jump rope x 60 (Left Leg first
***The jump ropes get your calves & heart!
4. Lunges 15 each leg (3 times) - holding weight as tolerated
5. Resistance/stretchy band steps
   ***Place a stretchy resistance band around your ankles and walk side ways
   ***15 steps to the Right, 15 steps to the left
6. Squats + Shoulder Press (15 repititions x 3)
   ***Holding a bar or weights squat butt to the floor (knees directly over ankles)
   ***When standing back up, lift weights over your head straight up
7. Jump Squats (15 jumps x 3)
   ***squat butt to floor (ankles under knees), from sqaut - jump striaght up to ceiling explosively
8. Hamstring Curls (15 X 3 each leg)
    ***Get on hands and knees
    ***Place weight (about 10-20 lbs) inside knees and hold onto it
    ***pump foot towards the ceiling
9. Criss-Cross Jump
    ****Place jump-rope on floor in straight line
    ***Hope across the "line" left and right forwards and backwards X 5
10. Jump Ropes X 100

Currently - May edition

I haven't blogged much - but the last time I did one of these, Maddy was 9 months old. It's really fun looking back on the things that were "stressors" to me at that time. Prior to that - my currently post was a pregnancy edition. So here goes May 2022. Maddy is almost a 15-month old and summer has set ablaze here in Tucson. Reading : I really wish I had a better answer for this one, but I have not been the best about reading lately. The only book I'm reading is "How to talk to your kids so they'll listen and listen so they'll talk". It is really good. Most of the book is geared more to school-aged kids, in my opinion. But it highlights some great communication skills with children to help them trust you as a parent to be open and honest. Eating: All the smoothies. It has been getting really hot here - and every day when we get home from our stroller run I make a smoothie for Maddy with whole milk, Fage, and fruit - and then a smoothie for...

30 Blogs: Something I'm Afraid of

This isn't a very difficult post for me to write about. I am such a "scaredy cat" about so many things. I could quite possibly turn this into a book. I was also the kid that wouldn't go on the monkey bars at school, out of fear that my arms may be ripped out of their sockets. I was the kid who got to the end of the diving board, and then shriveled into a ball at the end shaking in tears. I got to the top-climax spot on a roller coaster, and start saying "Oh my God, get me off this thing. I don't want to do it anymore! Get me off this thing!!" Then I went college, and majored in nursing. I leanred all the horrible ways one can reach multi-system organ failure. If I have too much coffee, and feel maybe the slightest heart palpitation - I am listening to my heart sounds with my stethoscope......... So here's my list of irrational some fears. ;) (some of these may be comical & pathetic to you):\ Heights Vomit (I've gotten better about th...

Let's try this again...

Last year we purchased soil, mulch, and all these plants that grow great in well-watered, rich-soiled areas. Then we went away for a weekend, and everything dried up like a prune. I was a bit disappointmented, as gardening is a hobby & passion of mine. In fact, I became quite frustrated with our hot climate. But we did some research on desert plants, and I found a new love! Desert plants are quite fascinating, actually. Their tough outer skin & small leaves result in maximum absorbtion of our spare water -- allowing them to thrive on little. They are also extremely regenerative. You can cut a branch or an arm off a cactus, and plant it in the ground somewhere else to create a new plant. So we found a very local cactus nursery last weekend, and got to work! Here are a few of the gems we planted. (These are pictures I've found offline, as I haven't taken proper pictures of our front yard yet due to the immaturity of our plants at this point) The Desert Barrel ...

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