Hello there friends! And a very happy sunday to you
Today my post is going to be about my fitness journey. Around March 2015 I made the decision to incorporate a workout on my everyday life. I started small, around 2 workout a week at first, then I increased the frequency as it felt natural. For about 5 months I was able to build and mantain this habit and also created amazing ones in the food situation: 1) I started to eat green soups ate least once a day (usually at dinner); 2) I started to create alternatives to satisfy my sugar cravings (for example, smashed banana with cinnamon, or homemade oat cookies with dark chocolate); 3) I only drank water, coffee and skim milk, and so on.
Two years have passed and my journey has been far from perfect. I must say when the summer comes is when it gets tricky for me working out. You see I get along pretty badly with high temperatures: my tension lowers a lot, I sweat a lot, and start hyperventilating real soon. So even when I reeally don’t want to lose rythm I just feel like I have to.
This week is in its last hours and with the start of a new one, I’d like to talk about the importance of breakfast. Everyone heard about it before, people actually say that it’s the most important meal of the day. So why so many people neglect this meal?
Well for starters, most people have crazy schedules and can’t really find the time, or when they wake up they’re just not hungry at all. Anyways you should always eat breakfast despite those conditions, hence the solutions:
1) If you don’t have the time, get up 10-15 minutes earlier;
2) If you’re not hungry right now, prepare it and take it with you to your job/school, and when you have a break eat it.
Truth is, this is about discipline too.
“Skipping meals, especially breakfast, can actually make weight control more difficult. Breakfast skippers tend to eat more food than usual at the next meal, or nibble on high-calorie snacks to stave off hunger.” source: webmd
I’ll leave you with a pic of my breakfast today, and some other breakfast ideas
Fitness cereal with low sugar and low fat yoghurt and banana slices. I also had a cup of coffee, although not pictured.Oatmeal with fruitWhole grain toasts with turkey ham and fructose only jelly, a latte and a bowl of peach with blueberriesA whole grain toast with peanut butter and banana slices and horsetail tea
Today I’d like to talk to you about some workouts I’ve tried in the past, and also make some recommendations.
Almost every fitness journey begins with the desire of losing weight, which is pretty common among women (you know beauty standards and all that society pressure). Now I recommend that you don’t enter this kind of journey until you attain a good degree of self-acceptance, this might sound kind of mean, but the truth is until you accept yourself and understand your own humanity, it’ll be very difficult to cope with failure – and trust me everyone fails, occasionally. I must point out that probably most of the great lessons I’ve learned in life came with failure. In conclusion: it’s fine if you aren’t perfect at exercising/eating clean everyday, and that’s something that you should embrace, because good things come with this attitude.
Anyways, exercising and moving is always good for everyone, so even if you aren’t at that point yet you should definitly try these out:
1. Hip hop abs – Fat burning cardio
This is one of my faves when it comes to cardio. I wish this was untrue, but I’m not the biggest running fan, I find it a bit boring after some time. It would make my life much easier if I enjoyed running, seriously.
With that being said I just had to find some alternative, and dancing hip hop with sassy Shaun T is pretty cool and motivating (that dude is really good at motivating).
So if you like this idea to implement cardio in your routine you can watch the vídeo here.
This one is tough (it is Jillian Michaels, to be fair). It’s longer too, but it has great advantages since you basically work all of your body in this. I would recommend this to someone who’s already active, because enduring a 1 hour workout and one that’s this demanding, you’re definitly going to feel it in you’re every move… the next day (that will happen even if you’re active, tho). It’s great for weightloss purposes, since it has a very nice mixture of cardio moves with bodyweight.
So you know, if you wanna get your butt kicked by Jillian be my guest.
Lady has a point
And let me just say that the beFit channel is an awesome source of good weightloss workouts, I’ll be reviewing more in the future, for sure.
3. Darebee – 30 days of cardio blast
I’ve told you before that I’m following this one at the moment too, but I already did it before, when I began my journey in April. However since I’m very rusty after a long pause, I’m doing it again because persistence.
It’s a nice program, but I don’t recommend it solo. I mean if you’re not active it’s fine, but if you want something more challenging it’s not really enough, and doing 10 sets of the same thing (the highest level) gets pretty boring. Nonetheless, it has a great advantage: variety, meaning you never do the same thing for 30 days, and that’s great.
If you want to start this program you can check it here (I’m currently on day 6).
A lot of people have doubts when it comes to the food that they should be eating before their workout (a couple of hours before obviously). Well the answer is definitly carbs, in fact if you’re trying to lose weight, you should ingest most of your carbs in this situation. But they’re not just any carbs, only whole grain and whole weat. In my case I usually make some oatmeal with fruit and dark chocolate.
In this one I also used dried apple with cinnamon. YUM
Sometimes I also make whole grain bread toasts with peanut butter, like these:
I usually workout in the afternoon, around 6 pm, so I usually make this my afternoon snack. After you workout you should ingest protein so that your muscles can grow and define, when I finish it’s almost dinner time, so I eat a good amount after it.
No que toca ao fitness o segredo é a consistência, tanto na alimentação como na frequência dos workouts. Posto isto, devo afirmar que a minha consistência está um tanto ou quanto enferrujada x). Nada que não se resolva! Neste momento faço exercício em sessões de meia hora dia sim dia não. Espero para a semana já conseguir aumentar para os 5 dias por semana.
Como sabem não treino em gym (ainda eheh), daí que faça treinos ou constantes de vídeos como o hip hop abs do Shaun T, como os programas do Darebee (neste momento estou a fazer este). Brevemente virão umas progress pics :p
Até lá keep going!
When it comes to fitness the secret lies in consistency, on healthy eating as much as on the number of workouts. With that being said, I must admit that my consistency is a lil rusty x). Nevetherless, at the moment I have half an hour sessions of exercise, 4 days a week – hopefully I can turn this number into a 5 by next week.
As I’ve mentioned I don’t go to the gym (yet eheh), so I train at home with a little help from the Shaun T’s hip hop abs program and from Darebee (I’m doing this one at the moment). Soon enough I’ll be posting progress pics :p.
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