Workout Wednesday: What To Exercise When You’re Expecting

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the women who are with child out there!

Here is a ½-hour Lauren Hefez routine that you can do throughout your pregnancy

Please get the green light from your OB-GYN or Midwife on reasonable workout levels before and after you give birth.

Rules of Thumb: If you’re able to engage in physical activity, please put yourself & your baby(ies) 1st …

• Lamaze classes to prep for child birth is #1!!!
• Light & easy leg work (i.e., walking) would be best
• Limit lifting with your arms (body weight or light)
• NO core ~ just maintain back posture & balance

MORE Mama Moves

• Prenatal and Postpartum Sessions
• Workout with Baby ~ Beast Mama Mode

OR for Bridal Beast Mode

• Physical Prep for the BiG Day <– *updated*

For yours truly, those with a bun-in-the-oven include a few important people in my life

Wayback Wednesday: ♥Mami Aya♥ & Me with ♥Sissy♥ in her Tummy

plus YouTubers who I follow and admire from afar:

• Sarah Fit* ~ pregger press release & vid
• GetFitWithLeyla ~ meet baby bump & hubby

* #BabyFit #MiniFit #WorldTravelerInTheWomb

Workout Wednesday: POP ’em Abs

Cassey Ho knows how to make fast fab abs, but this Dispo must melt the flab!

Even though I’ve scored a strong core, how can I show it off when the muscles may lay beneath fat layers?

Now I have both Blogilates official DVDs: the Original & Flat Abs Fast!

As I’ve done many techniques to tone up my tummy and slim those obliques, I’ve added this newest DVD to my mix:

 

I swear: I have more than enough exercise moves from Blogilates to last me all year ~ I must make the time to do them!

Cassey Ho took this ab blast to the beach!

This packaged deal promotes 3 10-min. routines:

• Total core
• Lower back
• Obliques

This *oGorgeous* face is *POPpin’* over the place

• the ☼beach☼
• †wedding† prep
• ♥V-Day♥ hype
• NO-flab collab
• MORE fab ✌collabs✌

(: POP Pilates for miles & smiles 🙂

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: F is for…

Fit👙 * Fierce✌️ * Fabulous💋

 

The Tone It Up! book is here!

 

I’ve been a loyal TIU! teammate, through K&K‘s YouTube videos, Beach Babe DVDs and other memorabilia, Toned Up show on Bravo! and in print!

 

Enjoy their total bod routines or moves to target certain muscle groups ~ just in time to rock our hot bods in bikinis & monokinis!

Toning

♥Cardio♥

Stretching

Happy Nurses😷 (May 6-12) and Teachers🎓 Appreciation (May 4-8, 2015)
Maligayang Bati, Nanay! {HBD, Mami Aya} in exactly two weeks! Plus Happy Mother’s Day!

Workout Wednesday: Blogilates Quickie Series

Once, there was 8-Minute Tae Bo …

    (on VHS ~ no less)

Now, there’s 5-Minute Cassey Ho!

#DISPObustAFlow

Around the clock, make your body rock!

Monday Gun Show

2 for Tuesday Booty & Legs

Midweek Midsection

Thursday Total Bod / Friday Fat-Burn Full Bod / Saturday Sweat Sesh

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

!

Workout Wednesday: WOV ~ Contemporary DVDs

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!

Workout Wednesday: Wayback WOV ~ VHS

Welcome to Workout Wednesday, Wayback Wednesday edition!

As I did ring in 2015, I exercised to throwback DVDs from McD’s, of all eateries!

Then I also retreated back to basics ~ which I encourage all of you to do (especially if you’re stuck in a rut):

What worked for YOU when you were in the best shape of your life?

For yours truly, these old school WOVs worked for me to give me excessive energy first thing in the morning … and were the best surefire way to get me through the day:

Jennie Garth (Beverly Hills 90210) was my main workout squeeze back in the early-’90s ~ got me through conditioning & off-season training ~ while Billy Blanks got this DISPO with Tae Bo ♥cardio♥ to keep the flow of staying slim & trim @ the turn of the 21st century!

I’m WOVin’ it to stay fit even when my time’s only a bit ~ in the midst of chores and more, there’s no excuse not to score!

#DISPObustAFlow

Workout Wednesday: Mickey D’s DVDs

My New Year’s Resolution to declutter has worked wonders! Who would’ve thought that through clearing the clutter, that I’d come across these unopened discs from a decade ago that I could use?

When I worked at my local gym, I ate healthy most of the time (YOLOs were splurge days back then), even when it came to fast food. McDonald’s offered healthy Happy Meals complete with workout DVDs, so I managed to collect all 4.

From Friday, January 2nd, through Monday, January 4th, I did the YourselfFitness (TM) sequence, as follows:

Flexible Friday: (1) Yoga
Slim-Down Saturday: (2) 💗Cardio💓
Fun Day 🌅Sunday: (3) Core
🔫 Gun Show Monday: (4) Strength💪

These remind me of modern-day apps and videos that show your progress on the screen, but what I like about these was that technology was right on point with the many options to select, so the routine wasn’t always the same every time you popped in the DVD.

1. First, you could pick which language to follow.

1. Then you could choose your challenge level.

1. You also could opt for what you want to get out of it.

Optional equipment: step-bench for cardio

* stability ball for core

* hand weights for strength

For your exercise pleasure of contemporary videos you can access, please also check out my Top 5 Workout Videos!

As my GODson would sing when he was a baby:

♪Ba-pa-ba-pa-ba♪ … ♫I’m lovin’ it♫

Well, how about WOVin’ it, as in Workout Video-in’ it?

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!!!