I came across a recipe on Pinterest one day recently, but I can't remember where I saved it to...and now I can't find it to give the proper credit to whomever I got the general idea from, but these little protein packed energy balls are super yummy and a great little snack for before or after a good workout!
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Jif Reduced Fat Peanut Butter 760
1 cup dry oatmeal (I used an off brand but I think oats are pretty much...oats!) 300
1/3 cup coconut flakes (again I used the store brand) 94
1/4 cup honey 256
1 tsp vanilla
Mix all ingredients together and form into small bite size balls. I would reccomend quartering the mix after you've mixed it together, so you can measure out about 20 balls (5 balls for every quarter of the mixture).
Each ball (if you make 20) is about 70 calories and about 2 g of protein. You can easily eat 2-3 of these before or after a workout for a great source of protein and something sweet too!
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Don't forget to STRETCH!
I really never appreciated stretching until I became an adult.
You see, as a young girl when I was a cheerleder, and played basketball and volleyball for a short time... I was always forced to stretch by my coaches, but I never thought it did anything for me. Now as an adult, I've had to learn the hard way that stretching is for real people! :P
Not that long ago, I was gearing up to do some cross fit workouts one night at home...and completely forgot to stretch. About 100 squats in, I realized my quads were starting to really hurt. Needless to say, for the next two days I had to take the stairs at my work one at a time. How fun!
So remember to strech before you do any kind of work out. It really is important!
You see, as a young girl when I was a cheerleder, and played basketball and volleyball for a short time... I was always forced to stretch by my coaches, but I never thought it did anything for me. Now as an adult, I've had to learn the hard way that stretching is for real people! :P
Not that long ago, I was gearing up to do some cross fit workouts one night at home...and completely forgot to stretch. About 100 squats in, I realized my quads were starting to really hurt. Needless to say, for the next two days I had to take the stairs at my work one at a time. How fun!
So remember to strech before you do any kind of work out. It really is important!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Walk before you RUN!
I have recently become slightly obsessed with running. I'm still not sure what the fixation with it is, but I'm starting to understand those nuts that want to get up before the sun is even out and run miles and miles because it makes they claim it feels so "great".
Almost three years ago my hubby and I were getting ready for our second cruise to somewhere tropical, and I really needed to get back in the gym to get ready for putting on a bikini again. I really detest working out with weights, so I decided I would give the "Couch to 5K" a try. I really wasn't trying to train to run a 5K, I just wanted to try and learn how to run.
I have never been a runner, because quite frankly....I'm pretty lazy. Yep, just plain lazy. But a friend/coworker of mine had done the training program and said she really enjoyed it so I decided to give it a try. Needless to say, I was so pleasantly surprised. I had not been working out at all prior to starting the training, so saying that I literally started from off the couch, was pretty accurate.
The program worked so great for me! I highly recommend trying it out if you aspire to start running, want to lose some weight or have a goal of running a 5K.
Now that was almost 3 years ago, and I'd like to say I've continued to run those 3.1 miles that I learned how to run doing the program, but I definitely have not.
So about a month ago I made the decision to finally get back to eating healthy, and working out again..... making the decision is the first step, right? (literally laughing out loud right now...) Nope! Not at all! Although, I haven't fully gotten back on the wagon regarding my food choices, I have been working out and most importantly...RUNNING!
I started this class called Body Back a few weeks ago, which was a pretty cool class! But I've really been wanting to get back into running, so it just so happens the girl that teaches that class is running a 10K in about two months and wanted to start training for that, so I jumped into training with her doing the "couch to 10k" or something of that sort...
So far its been really great. I've definitely noticed a difference in my endurance just running with her once a week, so I upped it to 3x a week now. I think this week is a 5:1 ratio (run/walk) 8x's. Its pretty tough but in all honesty, if I can do this....ANYONE can. I promise.
So here's to getting healthy and getting back into running!
I'm going to start the 5:1 ratio tonight on my treadmill- only because I won't have time to get outside before dark to run. I'll definitely keep anyone posted who is curious about how its going! If you want to try and jump into it with me, then let's go! And if you'd like to start with a little less, I would reccomend starting at a 2:1 ratio. Try that about 6 times and see how you do! I bet you can do a lot more than you thought :)
Almost three years ago my hubby and I were getting ready for our second cruise to somewhere tropical, and I really needed to get back in the gym to get ready for putting on a bikini again. I really detest working out with weights, so I decided I would give the "Couch to 5K" a try. I really wasn't trying to train to run a 5K, I just wanted to try and learn how to run.
I have never been a runner, because quite frankly....I'm pretty lazy. Yep, just plain lazy. But a friend/coworker of mine had done the training program and said she really enjoyed it so I decided to give it a try. Needless to say, I was so pleasantly surprised. I had not been working out at all prior to starting the training, so saying that I literally started from off the couch, was pretty accurate.
The program worked so great for me! I highly recommend trying it out if you aspire to start running, want to lose some weight or have a goal of running a 5K.
Now that was almost 3 years ago, and I'd like to say I've continued to run those 3.1 miles that I learned how to run doing the program, but I definitely have not.
So about a month ago I made the decision to finally get back to eating healthy, and working out again..... making the decision is the first step, right? (literally laughing out loud right now...) Nope! Not at all! Although, I haven't fully gotten back on the wagon regarding my food choices, I have been working out and most importantly...RUNNING!
I started this class called Body Back a few weeks ago, which was a pretty cool class! But I've really been wanting to get back into running, so it just so happens the girl that teaches that class is running a 10K in about two months and wanted to start training for that, so I jumped into training with her doing the "couch to 10k" or something of that sort...
So far its been really great. I've definitely noticed a difference in my endurance just running with her once a week, so I upped it to 3x a week now. I think this week is a 5:1 ratio (run/walk) 8x's. Its pretty tough but in all honesty, if I can do this....ANYONE can. I promise.
So here's to getting healthy and getting back into running!
I'm going to start the 5:1 ratio tonight on my treadmill- only because I won't have time to get outside before dark to run. I'll definitely keep anyone posted who is curious about how its going! If you want to try and jump into it with me, then let's go! And if you'd like to start with a little less, I would reccomend starting at a 2:1 ratio. Try that about 6 times and see how you do! I bet you can do a lot more than you thought :)
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