Well, hello there! I hope that you had an AWESOME day yesterday. Did you workout? Remember, you MUST MUST MUST workout FOUR days a week!!! I hope that after the Booty Camp is over, you will continue to workout on a regular basis: a minimum of three days a week. It is my hope that everything we do over these 30 days spills over into your daily/weekly routines: eating regularly scheduled meals, working out, drinking a couple of quarts of water every day, saying “NO THANK YOU” to artificial sweeteners and “diet” ANYTHING, giving yourself weekly facials and deep conditioning hair treatments… Once you begin to do these things with regularity, they won’t be chores; they will just be how you live your life. If you have children, you’re setting a great example and introducing their taste buds to a new, wider variety of healthy, delicious nutritious foods.
I would like for everyone to do me a favor. Tonight, when you’re watching TV, I want workout during the entire show AND commercials. If you TiVo or DVR your shows, you won’t need the remote for half an hour: You’re going to workout through the commercials. The areas we’ll be focusing on will be the lower body (butt and thighs), shoulders, biceps, waist line and abs.
Let’s say we’re watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (you can watch whatever you’d like… but EVERY ONE should watch the Daily Show!!!):
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Stand with your arms at your side, feet shoulder width apart. Squat down until your thighs are parallel with the floor. As you’re squatting, raise your arms out to the side until your hands are level with your shoulders, keeping your elbows bent slightly. As you return to a standing position, lower your arms back down to your sides. Keep doing this until the commercial comes on. Upper thighs, butt, shoulders
Commercial Break: Lie on the floor, and do as many leg raises as you can. Muscles worked: Lower and upper abs (mostly lower). Click here for a demonstration
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Stand with legs wide, back straight, feet turned out, and hands clasped behind your head. Bend your knees (go as low as you can) and bring your elbow towards your thigh without leaning forward. Straighten out your knees as you return your torso to an upright position and then do the same thing on the other side. (To make this more challenging, rise up on your tip toes as you bend from side to side. That will force your calves to work AND make the workout on your inner thighs even more intense). Muscles worked: Inner and outer thighs, waist line and upper abs.
Commercial Break: Lie on the floor in the push-up position. Tighten your abs and slowly raise your left foot off the floor. Slowly, raise it up as high as it will go and then slowly bring it back down. As soon as it’s down, repeat the same thing with the other leg. Muscles worked here: Upper and lower abs, butt and hamstrings (back of the thighs).
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Same squatting routine as you started out with, but keep your elbows close to your waist/rib cage and do a bicep curl (bring your hands up towards your shoulders and squeeze/flex your bicep at the top of the movement) as you squat down and then straighten your arms as you come back up. Muscles worked: Upper thighs, butt, and biceps.
It’s the end of the show, so take a deep breath in and raise your arms over your head. Keep your arms close to your head, lean back and exhale. Bend at the waist and touch your toes (or come as close as you can). Keep your feet planted firmly on the floor, especially your heels. Hold this position for about 1 minute. You’re still bent over: Lace your fingers behind your back and raise them up and away from you. You should feel this stretch in the shoulders and upper back and you should still feel the stretch in your hamstrings. Hold your arms where they are and bend your left knee. Be sure to keep both heels on the floor. Keep the left knee bent for about 30 seconds and then repeat with the right knee. Remember to keep breathing throughout these stretches, taking in as much air as your lungs can hold and then letting it out slowly and purposefully.
Please, share with everyone what you ate & drank yesterday (everything). What did your workout consist of? Are you sore today? AH! Here’s a wonderful “recipe” for asparagus!
- 1 Bunch of asparagus (the tips should be tight and purple, the stalks should be relatively firm)
- About 1 tablespoon of extra virgin cold pressed olive oil
- Sea salt & fresh ground pepper
Heat oven to 375. Cut the tough ends off the asparagus, rinse them and pat them dry. Coat a cookie pan or shallow baking dish with 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil (use a piece of wax paper to spread the oil around the whole pan). Place the asparagus on the pan in a single layer. Drizzle 1-2 teaspoons of olive oil over the aspargus and then roll them around so each one is coated.
Sprinkle sea salt and ground pepper (and any other dried herbs you might like) over the veggies. Bake for 20 minutes, uncovered. ENJOY!
Roasted green beans would be fantabulous! Roast them with a bit of olive oil, sea salt and cracked pepper. You know what else is good? To blanch them for a couple min. then mix them with some cubed fresh tomatoes in a bowl and drizzle olive oil and red wine vinegar over them to taste, and season with the sea salt and cracked pepper. Yum!
Yes, Zedster: You’re a very special skunk!
I only *wish* the pee smelled like asparagus, because asparagus doesn’t really have a smell. Thanks for the article, I never knew it was related to genetics. I’m now even more confused/surprised; should I feel special because I have this uncommon enzyme that gives me super skunk powers?
MMP meant BBW Bath oil (the Q is so close to the W on the keyboard)… I know cuz I am BBW! She ordered the Organic Infusions Bath Oil in Rose. It was so purdy, I made one for myself!
Sunshine: I am LOVING asparagus!! I got it because I wanted to make something special for my sisters (I love them so very much). I think I’m gonna make a lot more of it. It was featured in Cooks this month: Grilled instead of roasted. I think some garlic, rosemary, lemon olive oil would be absolutely LOVELY on it…. yes? What are your thoughts on roasting string beans? It just popped into my brain. They’re long and lean like asparagus.
Jameka… we’ll just pretend yesterdays food didn’t happen, M’kay?
BTW: Nataly works w/ me at the UN!!! She gets to see my slut red lipstick every day!!
MM, what is BBQ bath oil? Cause it sounds horrid!
Phatty – No, I don’t think I gave you the recipe. I actually learned it several years ago from a close friend, I think he got if from Cooks Illustrated though… I guess we just have a special super brain wave connectivity thing
Seems we have a few Cookie Monsters on board!!! Thanks for checking in, y’all.
Yes, asparagus will make your pee pee smell…. like asparagus. I have no idea why. Further to that, I feel kind of weird admitting that I take whiffs of my urine ex post facto. Here’s a link to an article that explains the phenomenon: http://www.wisegeek.com/why-does-asparagus-make-some-peoples-urine-smell-funny.htm
I was SHOCKED at how many results came up when I Googled “Why does asparagus make urine smell weird?”
Adrienne/Sunshine: Why you callin’ me a thief? Did you give me that recipe or something? I made it Sunday for the “sisters” and I thought I’d invented it on the spot.
yesterday morning I had water, smartfood white cheddar popcorn, a Kashi peanut butter & chocolate protein bar, almonds, a frozen Glutino veggie chicken and grain dish (didn’t microwave it, though; just steamed on stove), green tea with stevia, peppermint tea with stevia, some dessert wine, a couple sandwich cookies, a square of dark chocolate with chili pepper, organic coconut ice cream bar (it was a stressful day!), a few marshmallows, vegetarian-fed chicken breast, asparagus, wild rice, peppermint leaf, supplements (vitamins, herbs, amino acids, and antioxidants), probiotic.
as for exercise, I just jogged and walked.
I need to get an actual food journal! I keep forgetting what I eat/drink!
Let’s see…
EAT– Cinnamon Bread, Hot Dog, Mac n Cheese, Pasta Salad, Popcorn Chicken
DRINK–Coffee, water, Capri Sun
grrr.. I didn’t think I had done so bad until I read what I ate! I’ll do better!
I think I would laugh at myself if my pee smelled funny. Mycar is getting fixed right now. This blog is making me better at typing on my phone. I haven’t had lunch yet but I’m starving. I had a grannysmith apple with organic peanut butter for a snack.we are going to wholefoods later to get dinner. Drew wants me to get preggy test but I don’t want to. I’ve never had an ontimw period. Lastmonth I was late by 6 days too and I do feel crampy and bloaty. We’ll see. I can’t wait to get the BBQ bath oil and have a nice long bath. Ill post again! Can’t wait till the forums up so we can all introduce ourslves.
Ooh, the workout/TV combo is a great idea! Now, I have to start watching TV…
What did I eat yesterday? Sweet, sweet corn on the cob for breakfast with lots of green tea. It was my last day at my parents’ house and there was NO healthy food to eat, so I skipped lunch (I know, bad idea). I got mad hungry around the time I started making dinner, so I snuck some garlic bread slices before meal time. Dinner was what my dad calls “chef salad”: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, avocado, chicken, cheese, and eggs. I didn’t eat the animal products, but the salad was delicious (if I don’t say so). We ate that with garlic bread. For my daddy’s birthday celebration, I baked a carrot cake with walnuts, raisins, and lots of carrots. And we had sparkling grape juice to wash it all down.
I love asparagus, especially with minced garlic. But I’ve noticed that it makes pee smell funny, enough so that I really can be eating it. Sorry if that’s TMI, but it’s true :/.
lol! Okay, I know, I know, it’s not funny, but the way you dropped that MM was just too much! Hope things kick off soon!
Let’s see, first of all, this is an AWFUL week for me to start this as it seems unexpected things keep happening cutting my time short. So, as a result, yesterday I…
had a protein bar for breakfast (after a small cup o coffee) I munched a few almonds between this and lunch. For lunch I had a homemade tuna sandwhich (NO CHIPS!!!) I munched about 1/2 handful of almonds around three… and had two Girl Scout cookies (but they’re so small!) Then, I had a rather late dinner of meatloaf, roasted potatoes with garlic and rosemary, and the asparagus recipe from above (because you STOLE it!!!) I had half a hershey bar for dessert. I drank… about 1 1/2 liters of green tea throughout the day too. Oh! and I did my little running routine for 15 mins in the AM, and did a 30 min workout in the evening (as I was running so late with everything all day!)
I only watch TV once a week though… and you know what? I already work out during it!!!! It’s my Project Runway workout…
WHOA!!!!!! YEESH! MMP, You sure do have a way of dropping GINORMOUS “tid bits” in the most casual way! Sorry about the car… I don’t know what to say about the lateness.
I did a walk run thing for 45 minutes and some strength training on my upper body since my legs were KILLING me! Today I’ve had organic vanilla yogurt and peppermint tea as my stomacher was soso
I’m stressed out as my car died at blockbuster last night and my period is 6 days late. Eeek
YIPPEE!!! Thanks Nat!!
Yay for tv workout! I discovered that there are workout dvds available through my netflix! So I have a date with one of those tonight
. I walked the long way to work from the train this morning…up one street, across another, down the other one and still made it to work at my usual time! (I think it was the dance music from my iPod that kept me pumping!)
I did ok on eating yesterday (stayed away from the donuts and cakes at the office party!), but don’t think I drank enough water and I could have definitely added some more good protien.
Making up for it today with some tea, already had 1 pint of water, some walnuts and dried fruit! (with it’s awesome orange glow… think it’s mango).
It’s a beautiful day! I’m seeing a lunch time walk in my near future
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Happy day 3 everyone!