Good times!

I feel that since my "epic" 21 day reset I don't really have much to talk about but I guess maybe I will just be random.

I have been doing Body Beast, I am on week 5 I am taking my time with it if I skip a day I just do the workout the next day. I have never missed more than 1 workout per week so I am a few days behind but I am okay with that. I am working with my body not the calendar.

I haven't measured or taken any pictures. I am not in it for a transformation so to speak but I do have my after Reset pictures that I will use as my Day 1 since I started it then and will just take after pictures so I can get my sweet T-Shirt in the mail for completing the challenge :) I am all about those free t-shirts!

My diet has been havoc since completing the Reset, I have drank more than I would like to admit, I have eaten like a pregnant woman, and I am slowly getting back into the swing of how things used to be. I felt like that kid that moved out of their parents super strict house and was set FREE! LOL It was clearly too strict of a regimen for me.

I have also picked up running a few days a week which I enjoy. Body Beast is awesome but I am all about keeping my heart healthy too, so I put in a few miles mostly on the weekends and that seriously brings my stress levels WAY down! I also started this Squataggeddon Challenge in my office where we started with 50 squats and will end up doing 300 by the end of the month which is pretty cool. I only do Body Beast and the Squats every day when I am feeling like I have a lot of energy to burn I run and sometimes I do this work out called Buti!

Buti is SO fun and if you are wanting to feel feminine than this is the workout that you need! I know that I am a Beachbody Coach but this is one workout that Beachbody needs in their library lol. I like to do other things than Beachbody stuff and I want to show that here. I am not a robot for them or anything, I really enjoy their workouts and helping people achieve the best them possible but sometimes I need to walk away from the workouts to experience other things in addition to missing them. Anyway back to Buti!

It was created by this awesome chicky Bizzie Gold! She used to be a fitness competitor and did Crossfit and was a Yoga lover. After she had her daughter she decided to put her own spin on a workout and Buti was born. It is a pretty greta mix of dancing, plyometric circuits, and some yoga stretches in between. The workout is tough will lean you out and make you sweat! There are free downloads on Vimeo and you can stream it off of YouTube, There are three on there that you can use so that's 5 total that you can bust a move too. I love it and here is a sample......


That's pretty much what's going on in my life fitness wise. Tomorrow I will post some pictures of our trip to the zoo.

My favorite photography pics lately

One of my favorite things to do with my free time (yes other than working out) is to take pictures of my family and friends. I like capturing "the moment" I guess you would call that lifestyle. Here are a few of my most favorite family photos that I have taken in the past few months. I haven't really found my style yet so to speak but I sure do like playing around to try and figure it out. 

I think photography for me is a way to express myself. I am a self taught photographer and don't know where to even go to a school but I have invested in a few workshops that have helped me increase my skill. I prefer to learn from those that have gone through my issues because I feel they can relate though.  

I hope that you enjoy looking through my photography and feel like you are getting to know me more as a person and not so much as the "fitness junkie" but trust me I love me some working out! 

Today I had a lot of fun with the girls that I work with. They are A.D.D. fitness peeps so I try to change thing up and I found "The 1000 Rep Workout." We get a free hour for workout at the gym on base so we have to make it a quick one :) needless to say these girls rocked it and one completed the whole thing while the other made it almost through it.

 So much fun! I am totally thinking that if I am still loving the whole workout with a group thing that a little part time gig as a group fitness instructor isn't such a bad idea?? Anyway I totally digressed ha ha ha! Well I hope that you enjoy my pictures!!! Take care!

Until next time!!!!


Jeannette

Had to catch him in the kitchen!

Photography - My babies birthday!

I had a fab day today and gave my son the best gift he could possibly want. Our time! We played, baked, and hung out all day! I have to get back to my kiddo, but I hope you all enjoy your day!!!! Tomorrow off to run again!

Hurricane Sandy and my 5K pictures

Well since I live in he Cape Cod/Boston area we were advised to take today off. Well work gave us the day off but my husband had to go into work and it is pretty boring. I am not going to run today since it is disgusting out, but I did my Pump and it was great to get some muscle failure work in there. I really like the program but I am bummed that I am starting Week 3 over again but it's all good they are 20 and 30 minute workouts :) 

So my day was pretty un-eventful. I have been home all day, I danced with my kiddo to some Adele. I edited some pictures for a friend of mine. She got not so great newborn shots so I wanted to take a stab at editing some of them so that killed some time. I read the Bible, listened to some Joyce Meyer and studied the references that she made in her speaking. I also did flash cards with my kiddo we made a game out of it and I found some of my running pictures online. I have to say that I look like utter doggy poo running but for my sake I am going to keep it as I didn't sleep well the night before and truthfully I didn't. So here you go some pictures of my run yesterday. :) Next time I will throw on some make up ha ha ha ha! 

I hope you all have a wonderful day! I think I am going to go watch Hart of Dixie. Anyone else watch that show? It is slowly turning into my guilty pleasure :D 

Photober Fest Week 3!!!!

Cristian at the pumpkin patch!

He had so much fun on the tractor ride.

I may not get to see him often but I try and make every moment a memory :)

I can't believe it is week three of this photography bit. I have taken these, I decided to keep the boy seperate because they are individuals and they need their moment to shine :) B lives in FL with his Dad and I don't see him all the time so the third pic represents US Momma and son the thing that him and I both cherish the most each others time! C well he loves anything with wheels so I wanted to show that and the first picture is somewhat a recreation of his 1 year old picture ha ha! Minus the TUDE :) I hope you enjoy my submissions!!!

If the shoe fits!

When I started running in Alaska I was doing pretty well until I ran a Fourth of July 10K. I never really trained on hills and I was the kind of person that just jumps first and never gives too much thought into the things that I want to do if I really want to do them. Well there were hills on this 10K and I seriously hadn't run anymore than 4 miles on the treadmill and I was big headed and thought that it was JUST a run! How harmless could that be? What a fail! 

I ended up going down hill for about a quarter mile and totally didn't pace myself and KILLED my shins! I was out of commission for about 2 weeks. I went to medical and they gave me an appointment with a foot person who gave me show inserts and the works. I saw a physical therapist but she didn't really help me much but she did fit me for my inserts. I started looking online and noticed that my feet overpronate and I needed to get fitted for shoes.....well Kodiak is a small island look below.....

 So I told myself that if I ever got into running again (In AK I had big dreams for running a half marathon and local races) that I would go to a running shoe store. Well I found one in Plymouth and I went there yesterday for a shoe fitting. I ran on the treadmill and that went well......weird. My feet over pronate like I thought they did. That means that my ankle takes a lot of the impact and it goes inward to receive all of the energy. My feet then SWING out when I run ha ha ha it looks so funny because my stride is right one and then WHOOP my leg flies to the outside. It is the most hysterical thing that I have ever seen and something that I am going to try to work on but for now I am glad that I got some good shoes. 

So the guy was awesome he came by with 5 pairs of sneakers. He told me that I would have to size up! OMG I THOUGHT I was a size 6.5 well NO I am a 7 and I got sized up to an 8!!!! WHAT? He said that I would have to wear bigger shoes because they will help reuce the blisters on the top of my toes and that they would keep toe nails from coming off. Well then I was sold and I am ok with having GARGANTUAN feet for running only......weird! ha ha ha! So $110.00 later.....I got a pair of shoes! I am really happy and I am going to try them on this morning. I also have Les Mills Pump Flow to do and from what I understand it is a Yoga stretch DVD so I will do that after my 5 miles to try these shoes out! Kinda excited but it's cold out there ha ha ha! My first time running in the cold! Ahhhhh! 

I have more things to look forward too! I am going to Trader Joes for the first time AND I am doing Scott Kelby's World Wide Photowalk! Pictures of Provincetown coming soon! 

Have a wonderful day/weekend!

Instagram!

I have totally 100% have fallen in love with Instagram! I love taking pictures as it is so this was the best way to document my day through pictures. Sometimes with Facebook I think too much into a post and either don't post it or ask myself why am I posting this......? Do you ever find yourself doing that? I don't know. Anyway here are some of the things that I have been into the past few days! You can also follow me on Instagram my name is prettynena  

Cooking Cajun Chicken Pasta. YUM!

DIY Canvas painting totally inspired by my buddy Kati.

That's a lot of sweat for a bum bum workout!

I made my own headband! YAY! I should go on Etsy! :D