Fitness Friday: Buddy System

I picked up this month’s Seventeen magazine to see Belinda Selene, but was in for a double-extra treat:

Courtesy Seventeen magazine

Another TIU! routine on-the-scene!

Courtesy Seventeen magazine

 Having exercise partners gives us added boosts of motivation and energy!

Courtesy Seventeen magazine

K&K have come a long way since I featured them back in the day!

Workout Wednesday: Beach Beast Mode

You can take the babe🏄🏽 out of the 🏊🏽beach, but you can’t take the beach🌊 out of the 💃🏽babe!

Thanks to Tone It Up‘s “Meet Up” on Toned Up, these moves can keep us in 🌴beach shape👙 off the seashore!

No need for ♫☼Summertime☼ Sadness♪ as school starts soon ~ more like 🌅Summertime🌼 and 🍎School🎓 Sappiness!

🏊🏽Skinny Dip: tris * abs * booty (tricep dip)

🏄🏽Body Surf: glutes * hams (hamstring curl)

🐳Dolphin: shoulders * tris * core (downward dog push-up)

🏄Surf’s up ~ in more ways than 1 fun in the sun! 👍

Workout Wednesday: BB3

Just like in life, let your booty help you out.

~ Katrina Scott, The Ultimate Booty Call

My Beach Babe 3 DVD has arrived!

My newest addition to my workout DVD collection: Beach Babe 3!

This was my reward for finishing my dissertation research, teaching the first ☼summer☼ session and completing the Fit Fabulous Fierce program!

Before this special delivery from Tone It Up, I downloaded the digital videos (part of my purchase) to my devices:

• desktop
• laptop
• smartphone

K&K have come a long way since I featured them in my Top 5, and added *bonuses* include:

• call for a beach ball
• kettlebell & resistance band routines
• valuable tips clips

Starting today, I now could work out to it on the big screen TV!

My TIU collection now is complete … for now!

The opening quote was my Hump Day Affirmation for sure!

Workout Wednesday: Wedding Season Shape & More!

HBD to my Uncle Dr. Rudy!!!

When my Tito’s daughter/my oldest cousin, Melissa, got married (exactly 12 years and two months ago today and exactly two weeks after I graduated from McMurry), I spent the ☼morning☼ of her nuptials running in the Maryland rain!

Wayback Wednesday: I can’t believe that back then, I thought that ruching made me look fat ~ it looks fab! #PrettyInPink

Those  were the days when I didn’t have to ~ as Milli Vanilli (whose ½ of the duo would’ve turned the BiG 5-0 almost three weeks ago) would ♪sing♪ (or lip-sync) ~ ♫Blame It On the Rain♫ … BEFORE my crazy cold after I chilled on the chili Corpus Christi beach during my business trip.

Even though I myself am NOT a bride, that isn’t stopping me from wanting to stay in shape during wedding season, and most of all, when I defend my dissertation and graduate this fall. Check out my fave fit babes‘ workouts to get wedding-ready for those of you who are about to walk down the aisle or have another important upcoming event:

Recent Wedding Collab to be Bride-Fab ~ The Bridal Bootcamp Collaboration [c/o Kin Community]

• Sarah Fit‘s Whole Body Wedding Workout {5min x 3sets = 15min x 2 = ½h}

• Sweat with Lauren Hefez‘s Perfect Bride Arms (she’s been my arm role model)

• BexLife‘s Blissful Bride Meditation to Combat Wedding Stress

Wayback Wednesday Wedding Workouts

• TIU‘s Bridal Babe Workout with Kat

• Lauren Hefez‘s Best Workout to Prep for Your Wedding

•  Lauren Hefez‘s Wedding Arms Workout (again, she’s my arm muscle mentor)

• BlogilatesTV‘s Bridal Bootcamp ~ Sexy Shoulders & Beautiful Back [sponsored by BEBE Sport]

Happy Training, Brides-to-Be!!!

Addendum

As I work on my stats scoring manual, the timing couldn’t have been better as this special delivery arrives to my door …

Dr. D, here I come! {Final reveal as we finish 2015 strong}

My Doctor graduation regalia!

All the pieces together … They’ll all fall into place as long as I finish this chase/complete this race & keep a happy face! #FutureDoc #DISPObustAFlow

I must be as excited as a blushing bride because I just received the gown that I’m wearing on my BiG Day!

Speaking of weddings, check out this ^– one –^ of the HAPA who ♪sang♪ the feature ♫track♫ from WFP‘s Everything Before Us

Fitness Friday: Go By the Book

My favorite YouTube📺 fitness gurus have been featured for living by and writing✒️ wonderful work, from their blogs📓 to their books📖 ~ highly recommended by this well-read👓 workout fanatic! 

Loyal viewers📺 are in for a treat to become their readers📖

All three of these publications📚 include exercise routines, nutritious recipes and lifestyle advice. Here’s how each are unique:

📕Sarah Dussault (2013), a.k.a. Sarah Fit, aims to get you back into your best 👙shape.

📗Cassey Ho (2015) of Blogilates tracks a whole year’s worth as 🍀seasons🌺 🍁change❄️.

📘Katrina Scott and Karena Dawn (2015) of Tone It Up challenge their community for four📅 weeks!

Currently, I’m in that triple-F ~ 👊fit, 🐯fierce and 💋fabulous ~ mode for 28 days ~ so I say the mantra💭 of the day🌞 with every rep! 💪

Bibliography

• Dussault, S. (2013). Get skinny again!: The right exercises to get back your dream body and the secrets to living a fit life. Salem, MA: Page Street. 👙

• Ho, C. (2015). Hot body year round: The POP Pilates plan to get slim, eat clean, and live happy through every season. NY: Harmony. 🔥

• Scott, K., & Dawn, K. (2015). 28 days to fit, fierce, and fabulous: Create the beautiful body and mind of your dreams. NY: Rodale. ✌️

Fitness Friday: V-Mode

After this Super Bowl Week’s YOLOs and spirits, it’s time to prep for ♥V-Day♥ …

Therefore, today, this DISPO has gone Beast Mode for ♥V-Mode♥ on this ♥Sweetheart♥ Ball Eve!

As tomorrow’s dinner approaches, I’ve been working out to my fave fitness gurus in their special dance dress moves:

Total Bod

• Tone It Up

• Blogilates

{More from Cassey Ho below}

Target Areas

• Arms

• Core

• Legs

R&R

• Stretches

What about *Dallas Cowboys’ WR Dez Bryant’s* hard core abs?

My reward after these routines: my homemade ice cream!

• Bananas for Potassium

I’m going berry bananas over my homemade Cookie Butter ice cream!

• Blueberries for Memory

C & B are for … Cape Cod cranberries + blueberries & Crunchy Cookie Butter w/ B-A-N-A-N-A-S {chant from No Doubt‘s ♫Hollaback♪}

• Cranberries for Urinary Tract (YES, after drinking tons of water, it helps!)

Super Spoonful coming right up!

• Crunchy Cookie Butter for Taste & Texture

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Workout Wednesday: TiU for YOU!

I love seeing my fave YouTubers, especially fitness gurus, featured in other mainstream media!

The Tone It Up! girls, Karena and Katrina, who I included in my Top 5 Workout Videos for their Beach Babe DVDs, appear in this month’s issue of Cosmo!

Last season on Bravo!, K&K debuted their behind-the-scenes beach bod documentary, Toned Up, and have been all over the place ~ including TV screens and news stands near you!

Workout Wednesday: Fave Fit ‘n’ Fab Gym Gab

Jeans at the gym? Say it ain’t so!

Last Workout Wednesday, I pitched my piece on exercising in denim.

Apparently, bombshell icon Marilyn Monroe was partial to decking herself out in dungarees while lifting weights…

Of course, Norma Jean‘s dead sexy in jeans ~ she could pull off anything!

I came across this article when I picked up this month’s People magazine, hot bod edition, hot off the presses when Evie and I hit Hastings and its Hardback Café after the gym. Originally, I sought the mag to check out Cassey Ho of Blogilates …

… And I also was doubly-delighted to see K&K of Tone It Up!

As a matter of fact, I’ve been following them since they were at a six-digit subscriber base before they reached the million mark and started subscribing to the rest of these fitness fanatics’ YouTube channels last summer when I was researching the top exercise videos*

* Wayback Wednesday: My Top5 debut: What Are the Top 5 Workout Videos?

So, if you’ve had a long work week like yours truly, give these vids a shot… For a shot of energy! *BAM* Knock-out fist bump!

Sweaty Selfie: don’t we look fab and fit?

11:11 ~ make a workout wish!!!