Hey Guys!!!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was quite a whirlwind, with a great workout friday night, making cake balls (totally not clean but absolutely delicious) & Brent’s family reunion. Today was spent doing my regular sunday food prep and getting ready for our 6 week shred that we are starting tomorrow!!!
family reunion cake balls were a HIT!
Fact: I love challenging my body and my workouts with different challenges. I love the feeling that comes from completing a challenge and I have found that my body really loves to change things up. I tend to get stuck in the same eating routine and however clean the foods are my body adjusts and my results come to a screeching halt… I also love to challenge myself in the gym, I love making workouts challenging for others but seem to be lazy when it comes to myself, I cannot wait to hit the weight room and start to get the definition that I have been looking for!
Keep checking for more updates about the challenge.
Sunday Food Prep, may be my most and least favorite day of the week. I love to go grocery shopping and cooking. I hate the mess and all the dishes!!! Anyways if you don’t food prep I would highly recommend considering starting. Before I go to the grocery store I plan out my week, breakfast, lunches, dinners and snacks. I like to make a bulk lunch item so after I make it I can put it in 5 food storage containers and pop it in the fridge, then each morning I can just grab and go!
Heres what I prepped this week:
sunday food prep
- Beans – earlier this week I cooked some Black beans and garbanzo beans, I froze the bulk of the beans in freezer bags (8oz of beans/bag)
- Kale & Romaine – easy snack for work is salad, but it takes time to prep every morning, by chopping veggies a head of time a salad is made in a snap!
- hard boiled eggs
- Jamie Eason’s turkey meatball muffins – you can find the recipe here
- Broccoli and ORANGE cauliflower florets – again for easy salad making
- Citrus Orange Chicken – marinaded in juice of 1 orange, juice of 2 key limes, 3 garlic cloves mashed, 3tbsp olive oil, & black pepper. Bake or grill
- Muffin Veggie Quiche – my go to breakfast food!!! I used whatever veggies looked good today, but the original recipe is here. I like to sauté the veggies so they release most of their moisture before they are in the muffin. Great reheated in the morning!
Finally this week I was given a workout to try out and I LOVED IT!!! I love sharing exercise routines with friends and was grateful for this new circuit, I definitely needed a pick me up and a change in the norm.
Thursday I did this Pyramid:
Pyramid Workout!
I loved it!!! I completed the full pyramid (all pushups on my toes!!) and then did 30 pull ups with the assistance band. I love feeling the improvement in my pull-ups and am loving the help of the assistance band so I can actually complete the set. {{side note – my life goal is to perform a strict pull up & as many push ups on my toes as I desire!}} I was a sweaty mess at the end but completely energized and inspired! I was thinking about my next workout as soon as I finished this one. I couldn’t wait to get to the gym Friday and try a weighted pyramid to challenge myself some more!
Friday I did just that and challenged myself with this weighted pyramid:
Weighted Pyramid – adjust weights as needed
I chose the weights based on what I knew my body could handle. I also went lighter on my dead lifts because I didn’t want to be constantly changing my weights between dead lift & push press, and it worked great!!! I was really happy with my ability to perform the push press with 65# and get each rep. I also used the assistance band for the pull ups again today and am feeling the burn from the workout.
Please adjust the weight as you need to, if performing a dead lift is too hard on your knees try performing an RDL and really watch your form, if you have questions just ask! For the body weight pyramid, if you dont have access to a GHD try full sit ups and the back extension machine OR sit ups and prone supermans. If you have access to a GHD machine and have never used it, find a trainer and ask for help, they are tricky!
Do you food prep? How do you prepare for the weeks on a busy schedule?
Till next time!
~Allison
Allison In Wellnessland 