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. ✌️