Asphalt road, 90 degree weather, and a sky the color of robin’s egg blue.
- a black rabbit
- a tabby cat with green eyes
- a man whose hair is the hybrid of mohawk and mullet
- a neighborhood that is part fairy tale forest
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Dipika started a chapter of FACE AIDS, an global youth movement that raises HIV/AIDS awareness and fundraises for health care in rural Rwanda. She is a 20 year old young woman who really believes in the goodness and beauty of the world around her and, whenever she can, she tries to inspire others to understand the beauty of humanity and focus on our similarities, not our differences. She aspires to become a physician who can spread the message of social justice and equal treatment of all individuals. My daughter - a student, an activist, and a passionate believer - would be a great addition to your page.
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Besides the 300 workout, a HG core workout I want to master.
I repeated my 300 workout yesterday. My upper arms were so sore that I could barely keep myself raised on the bars. As for the exercise ball portion, I managed to stay balanced on it longer, so I practiced rolling it back and forth beneath my feet. I also did the dancer’s legs workout later that night to prevent sore muscles, and I think it worked, because I felt almost no soreness today. I only felt pain when I twisted my body too quickly, or exerted too much force with any of my limbs.
Today is cardio day, so I’m looking up how to do interval running.
Breakfast: spinach smoothie, slice of wheat bread with peanut butter
Lunch: 2 breakfast tacos, 2 cups of shaved ice with fruit juice
afternoon snack: 1 slice of wheat bread with peanut butter
dinner: cup of V8, piece of dark chocolate
The only exercise I did today (besides biking) is jog to the local grocery store. I also ate 4 cookies for dinner. Not good.
Today: 15 min. on elliptical for warm-up, 15 min on the Stair Master for 15 min. (apparently I climbed 89 floors). Tomorrow is a rest day; I can’t wait to relax with the moves featured above.
Breakfast: eggs fried with avocado and hot sauce, 1 piece of dark chocolate
Lunch: spinach and blueberry smoothie, oatmeal with coconut milk and blueberries
Afternoon snack: cup of V8, a slice of wheat bread with peanut butter
dinner: pasta with mixed vegetables
evening snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate, 1 cup v8
(Source: backonpointe)
I woke up this morning after 11 hours of sleep. The 2 mile run and lack of sleep this past week took more of a toll on me than I realized. My back and legs were sore, and the sodium from last night’s roast pork and marinated chicken noodle soup made me feel lethargic.
I desperately drank as much water as I could bear to get rid of the salt. Naveen told me this workout would destroy my body and soul (he was kidding… sort of), so I didn’t want to risk throwing up or passing out.
I’ve never seen 300, but the actors featured in the movie obviously had to undergo a rigorous workout to look like Spartans. The following is what Naveen calls the 300 workout, and I’ll record it here for future use.
1. Sit on the floor with your upper body leaning backward and your legs slightly above the ground. Your workout buddy will toss you a medicine ball. If you’re forever alone, start with the medicine ball in your hands. Touch the medicine ball onto the floor on either side of you. It helps if you swing your legs to a little to the opposite side of where you move the ball. Toss it back to your workout buddy, and he will toss it back to you (or toss it in the air and catch it). Then touch the ball to the ground on either side of you 4 times, two times on each side. Repeat toss, then 8 times. Double the number of times the ball touches the ground until you reach 64. It’s OK if you can’t keep your speed up, but make sure you finish. I started with an 8.5 lb (?) ball. I supposed you can increase the speed of your movements and the weight of the ball as you improve.
2. Grab an exercise ball and find a bench. Place both hands onto the bench with arms straight and your knees are resting on the edge of the bench. Rest your feet on the exercise ball, extend your legs so that the ball rolls away from the bench. Using your abs, raise your butt so that you bring the ball back to the bench with just your feet touching the ball. You can start by doing this 3 sets of 10 reps, although it should be 3 sets of 20 reps. At this point, I can barely stay balanced on the ball.
3. Raise yourself on a set of horizontal bars (I have no idea what this structure is called. Hopefully you get the idea) so that only the lower half of your body is free. Raise your legs and lower them. 1 set of 10 reps.
4. Take a wide stance and use only one hand to grab the bar diagonally above you that’s attached to a weight (once again, I have no idea what to call this machine). Keeping your elbow slightly bend, pull the weight so that your hand moves across your body in a downward motion. You should feel your obliques working. Do not turn your body. 10 reps, then do the other hand on the other side of the machine.
Repeat everything!
My arms felt like jelly when I tried to wash my hands in the locker room’s adjacent bathroom. I think I’ll be even more sore tomorrow.
EDIT: food for the day
Breakfast: 1 slice wheat bread with natural peanut butter
lunch: peanut butter sandwich, a cup of spinach smoothie
snack: 2 pieces of 72% cacao dark chocolate
dinner: 1 egg fried with avocado and hot sauce
late night snack: oatmeal with coconut milk and blueberries
Kelly picked me up from my apartment in the morning for a run around Clark Field. All I had to do was listen to her and Laura talk about cycling while I tried to keep up in between them, and before I knew it, a mile was up. After my nausea subsided during a stretching break, we finished another mile just as the sun was strong enough to warm the sweat beads on my forehead.
For the rest of the day, my body was on an endorphin high. I enjoyed it so much I took up Naveen’s offer for an ab workout the following day.
