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Weekly Wednesday Workout: Pushups With A Twist

by Nellie

 This Week’s Wednesday Workout : Planks With A Twist

This exercise is just like the ones we do at total body class. (Don’t you love how easy these are coming to the lady in the video?) I love it though. She is flowing through these push ups so effortlessly! As I’ve mentioned before I am pretty weak in my core area post baby so I have started to do lots of different ab exercises to start to get my mid section back to normal.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_dD9VLGnME

Push ups are hard enough but one thing I like about these is that you can’t do girlie push ups you have to go all the way with these in order to pull the knees up to the chest. It is great for the abs while giving a really good overall toning workout.

Do you do girlie push ups? Or do you go for it?

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Weekly Wednesday Workout: Burpees with Lateral Hops

by Nellie

Weekly Wednesday Workout: Burpees With Lateral Hops

Its no secret that I am not a fan of burpees. As a matter of fact, when a fitness instructor is tells me to do them I usually give them a look of raging anger then I proceed to do them anyway. Usually after about 5 of them I am spent and begging for my mommy.  However, it is a very effective exercise that works pretty much every area of your body while providing significant cardio benefits as well. They suck, but I do them. Most times its the workout that sucks that gives you the most results!

 

httpv://youtu.be/uxYb_oAMsPw

 

What I like about this exercise is the jump in between makes things very real 🙂 I love how effortless this chick makes it look, meanwhile, over here I am looking not quite so elegant. I have small box steps at the gym so this is pretty easy to add to the routine. Even if I do a small set of ten, I think that is a great place to start. The only things I have to watch out for is my ankles when I jump from side to side because they are a little bit rickety weak.

Have you ever done burpees? Ever tried it with this variation?

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I Taught My First Zumba Class (And It Was Amazing)

by Nellie

Right after class, high on endorphins!

Happy. Elated. Exhausted. Strong. Accomplished.

Just a little of how I felt after I taught my first zumba class …

I had been so nervous about it, I pretty much just went from nervous, to fine, to I can’t do this. I had been practicing for 6 weeks, I knew my choreo very well, but there is something about the unknown that was driving me nuts. For example

  • Would I remember my moves?
  • Would I give them a good workout?
  • What would the energy be like?
  • Could I KEEP the energy that I start with?
  • Would they like my music?
  • Would I bring the ZUMBA experience, like I was taught?

My cousin DeeDee came all the way from poughkeepsie to support me at my first class. When we got there I was really excited because the ladies already present were some faces I recognized from Church, some I didn’t recognize, but PEOPLE. Like, it was completely surreal to me, PEOPLE were coming to LEARN and GET HEALTHY with ME! I honestly was blown away by the whole thing.

My gorgeous cousin smiling for the camera

We started off and I led in prayer, and we began with the warm up. My other cousin Sam made it (yes!) and We really got into the class and I first I was in my head and worried about the next step and the next song. Once I turned around and faced the ladies and saw their smiling faces, I relaxed and had fun.

By the third song, they were bent over. That is a pretty good sign that they are working out something fierce!

We made it through! I messed up, I forgot moves, but I kept dancing. I think that is quite the metaphor for life, really, mess up but keep on dancing.

I had a really amazing time, and I appreciate so much both of my cousins that came out to support me. It brought me so much comfort to see them dancing along and being so supportive.

So I baked some treats for them 🙂

Oreo Cupcakes

Oreo Cupcakes

I am really happy to have gotten this out of the way, it felt like the first time I caught the right amount of balance on my first 2 wheeler. I had SO much fun. I really wouldn’t want to spend my Saturday mornings any other way. When I named this dream, I said I wanted to bring Zumba to women who don’t work out, It would be even better if I could do it for church. God listens. I was able to teach to an incredible group of ladies that all told me that they had a great time, and I got high fives and SO much support.

Amazing. Blown Away. Incredible. Blessed.

Just some of the things I felt on this day.

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Weekly Wednesday Workout: CrossFit Sit Ups

by Nellie

Okay so I have been a little bit intrigued with this crossfit phenomena, but I have been unable to take a class yet (because they are so darn expensive) so I found a really great move on YouTube that I could seamlessly add to my routine:

Oh my! These are HARD. I know my core was weak but I didn’t realize it was THIS weak. When I tried to do these I was pretty shocked at how difficult it was for me. I have to continue to work pretty hard on my abs to be able to do a full set of these. On my first try I was only able to complete about 6 of these and the technique wasn’t very smooth at ALL.

I will try to do these at least twice a week, and build my abdominals back to its former glory! (not talking a six pack, because that will never happen, but certainly toned and non puffy)

Would you try this AB exercise?

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