I picked up this month’s Seventeen magazine to see Belinda Selene, but was in for a double-extra treat:
Courtesy Seventeen magazine
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!
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! 👍
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:
K&K have come a long way since I featured them in my Top 5, and added *bonuses* include:
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!
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]
Wayback Wednesday Wedding Workouts
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
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
{More from Cassey Ho below}
Target Areas
What about *Dallas Cowboys’ WR Dez Bryant’s* hard core abs?
I’m going berry bananas over my homemade Cookie Butter ice cream!
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♪}
Super Spoonful coming right up!
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Last Workout Wednesday and century, we had VHS …
I’ve always been all about the *DCC* + I actually featured the other 3 DVDs (i.e., pilates, toning) in my fave WOVs on Top 5 gone live!
Now in the 2000s, let’s exercise to these DVDs, if you please!
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!
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!!!
Happy March Madness NCAA Finals Championship Game Day!🏀🏆
From the Final Four matches this past Saturday, I had gone for Florida, who surrendered to UConn, and Kentucky, who beat Wisconsin in a close one. Let’s see who fares tonight!
In the meantime, one of my favorite fitness gurus, Sarah Fit ~ whose new book I featured on Pretty Fit to kick off 2014 ~ has posted her TMI Tag vlog and blog, answering 50 questions and tagging more of my other fave fitness gurus, including Blogilates and ToneItUp ~ who are the reasons why I started following her in the first place ~ as well as BexLife ~ who I discovered from Sarah ~ and Tara Stiles, whose yoga I got into from Livestrong Woman, which I started subscribing to for Cassey Ho (Blogilates) and K&K (TIU) videos! Anyway, here goes…
TIU Tag (my answers in italics)
1: What are you wearing? Black Nikki Minaj cutout back tank (layering top underneath work shirt) & black Sofia by Sofia Vergara skinny ponte leggings + pink rose earrings from J-Rob for my bday
2: Ever been in love? Affirmative
3: Ever had a terrible breakup? Yep
4: How tall are you? 4’11”
5: How much do you weigh? 125# (muscle weighs more than fat)
6: Any tattoos? From head to toe: ichthys (Jesus fish) bearing the Biblical verse Matthew 6:33 on the back of my neck, Celtic cross with crown of thorns and Holy Spirit dove bearing the Bible verse Philippians 4:13 on the left side of my upper back, my name in Hong Kong characters (Elaine = “She is cute & pleasant”) on my lower back, Dallas Cowboys star on my right hip bone, running man on the inside of my left ankle
7: Any piercings? Each ear lobe, left helix/cartilage CBR (captive bead ring), belly button/naval (barbell), used to have the right side of my nose (stud)
8: OTP? Jason Morgan & Samantha McCall on GH ~ the mobster enforcer & the PI, both hot
9: Favorite show? Friends ~ which I have the complete set on DVD … Close 2nd would be How I Met Your Mother ~ which had its series finale exactly 1wk ago … followed by Grey’s Anatomy ~ too bad the Asian doc’s leaving this season
10: Favorite bands? Boyz II Men (I know, I’m going old school), NKOTB (another Throwback ~ whose reunion concert I attended 5yrs ago) & No Doubt (who have made a comeback)
11: Something you miss? my yellow labs Cami & Bodhi, but I got my Double A-Team Asia & Annie 😉
12: Favorite song? “I Can Only Imagine” by Mercy Me
13: How old are you? 32
14: Zodiac sign? Leo ~ Lioness of the Jungle
15: Quality you look for in a partner? good humor, love of GOD, healthy lifestyle
16: Favorite Quote? “What does not kill me makes me stronger.” ~ Friedrich Nietzche, Twilight of the Idols (1888)
17: Favorite actor? Paul Walker (R.I.P), Vin Diesel, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Mark Wahlberg
18: Favorite color? lime green
19: Loud music or soft? loud if my focus is on the music (i.e., dancing, live show); soft if my focus is elsewhere (i.e., studying, phone call)
20: Where do you go when you’re sad? outside to appreciate nature that will cheer me up or the Adoration Chapel to petition prayers
21: How long does it take you to shower? 5-10min if in a rush, 15-20min if not in a hurry
22: How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? ½h if I shower before {check last week’s Beauty Tuesday: AM Routine for more}
23: Ever been in a physical fight? admittedly yes
24: Turn on? Beast Mode
25: Turn off? Feast Mode w/o Beast Mode
26: The reason I joined Youtube? to comment on videos & find uploads from my students for our class projects
27: Fears? No Fear ~ a popular brand from 2 decades ago that inspired me, along w/songs from church that said not to be afraid
28: Last thing that made you cry? feeling hurt by someone special who didn’t seem to share in my joy from my latest school achievement
29: Last time you said you loved someone? when I talked to J-Rob
30: Meaning behind your YouTube Name? just my first two initials and last name
31: Last book you read? Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson, partially for my dissertation, partially for my passion
32: The book you’re currently reading? Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly for reflection and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive on the daily
33: Last show you watched? Jeopardy! because I like to stimulate my mind & rack up points
34: Last person you talked to? my dad
35: The relationship between you and the person you last texted? my bf
36: Favorite food? Italian & ice cream (hard to pick just 1) {check out my debut Foodie Friday for some of my latest fave raves + my last Pretty Fit WIA for my fave mainstream cupcake}
37: Place you want to visit? Boracay ~ beach in my motherland, the Philippines {check out my Throwback Thursday Tags for pic of “I ♥ Boracay” shirt ~ pasalubong from my bf’s mom}
38: Last place you were? bf’s house
39: Do you have a crush? on the aforementioned bf + scroll up to #17
40: Last time you kissed someone? when I parted ways w/the bf
41: Last time you were insulted? when I told aforementioned special someone about my milestone {scroll up to #28} & she didn’t seem to care
42: Favorite flavor of sweet? chocolatey
43: What instruments do you play?? my own vocal chords, the piano (have had mine for 25+yrs since my 7th bday), the clarinet, & the bassoon
44: Favorite piece of jewelry? medals from Bishop Mike that I keep on a chain + my Ph.D. class ring, rose gold ring from my sis & cat necklace from my mom
45: Last sport you played? hoop dreams
46: Last song you sang? “Until the Whole World Hears” by Casting Crowns from my gospel playlist in my truck
47: Favorite chat up line? just discussed this today (but didn’t work on yours truly): “You look familiar. Do I know you from …. ______________?”
48: Have you ever used it? I’m a chick, do I really have come-ons? Actually, I think that I can recall complimenting buff dudes on their dogs on the beach, but that’s about it.
49: Last time you hung out with anyone? this afternoon w/J-Rob after work
50: Who should answer these questions next? the few of y’all who actually read this … & if you do, then please feel free to comment w/the link to your blog or vlog, thanks! 🙂
If you read through these, here is your reward: Cute Cat Pix for Kicks & Grins =D
Beautiful Blued-Eyed ASIA
Gorgeous Green-Eyed ANNIE
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