Only 3 more days!
Aren't you so excited? I know I am!
So, keep watching those calories (1400 per day) and don't give up that exercise. You're going strong, keep up the momentum. Get moving today early, I know it's tough after Sunday rest day, but you can do it!
Today I want to share with you a fun website. It is http://www.blogilates.com/, and Popilates. (soooo clever!) Cassey Ho is the founder and she is a peppy, funny, happy coach in dieting, exercise, and self-improvement. I have thoroughly enjoyed her website and everything it has to offer.
Cassey's training is in Pilates instruction, which is a great full body toning and strengthening program. Slow and controlled movements help create long and lean muscles. She has also incorporated HIIT for a little cardio, using today's top 40 songs to appeal to her audience. I'm not gonna lie, I love working out to top 40. She has dabbled in fitness modeling (body building for women) and while you admire her physique, it has taken years of Pilates training, as well as serious daily bouts in the gym on weights, and hour long cardio sessions. But do not be discouraged. :)
One drawback is that Cassey's main audience is girls and women 15-30 who are single, and probably not LDS. Ok, definitely not. Bikini season and prep for prom are common themes, mostly to attract this audience. While her workouts are awesome even for moms who haven't been near a bikini in, well, possibly never, her tactics seem pretty shallow. Many of her diet and exercise tips are great if you are cooking for one, and have absolutely nothing else to focus on but yourself. One of her recipes is called "The Dorm Cookie". 'Nuff said. Top it off with musings on GBF's, single life, and fitness modeling, and I find myself avoiding the blog aspect of her website altogether and sticking to the workout and recipe links instead, the highlights being breakfast and lunch. She does have a couple of daily menu plans to really slim down, and they take repetition and clean eating to a whole 'nother level. As a workout instructor she is a great motivator, very cheery, and pretty funny, I must say. It's nice to have a bubbly personality urging you on when your "thighs are dying!" Try the booty pat; amazingly enough, it really works!
Last month I was super excited to see that she finally came out with a workout app (called Blogilates), which is a digital version of her monthly workout calendar. She has laid out a strengthening Pilates program, with workouts day by day. It began in printable calendar form, and when you subscribe to her newsletter you get the password to unlock the printable. It was great, she listed the videos to find on YouTube, and you were set. The app is the same thing but the videos are right in the app, so no more searching on YouTube. Yay! It costs 99 cents per month to have access to the workout calendar. She also has a recipe section, which is full of high protein, clean foods to keep you full, healthy, and on track. Most of them fall into the "weird food" category if you're new to the clean eating thing, but she's very inventive I'll have to admit! The forum and recipe share are "meh" where you get to read or see what other single college age women and sadly body-conscious high school students are obsessed about. Skip it.
I find it well worth the 99 cents per month to have the exercise calendar and videos at my fingertips.
Try her out, I know she'll get you smiling!
And as Cassey would say:
"Sweat like a Beast
to Look like a Beauty!"
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