Zumba fun!

Original Post: http://sweettoothblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/zumba-fun/

Weeeeee!  I am on an adrenaline high right now!! Tonight Angie, farmgirl and Tammy headed to Goodlife to take part in some Zumba action!

So – much – Fun!!

For real!  The class was an hour long and it was non stop fun the whole time!  We got to shake what our mamas gave us, mambo number 5, and merengue like no other!  The class was full of all women of various ages and fitness levels.  I only saw one woman walk out after the first few minutes.  The instructor was fun and upbeat and kept everyone going.

Ang’s HRM said that there were about 430 cals burned (I think?)  which was pretty unexpected.  It was almost equivalent to what was burned at Nubody’s Fit Kick class.

I can TOTALLY see me hitting up this class every week!  It’s too bad that it is the only class offered in Halifax 1x a week.  I’d like to go more often!  I was having so much fun (and sweating my ass off) that I had no idea I was getting a good workout in!

I did learn from yesterday’s rib episode (btw – I had the WORST indigestion last night… it was terrrrrrrible!) and had an eggwhite, spinach, salsa whole wheat wrap before class.  Nice & light as well as filling.

So I am in the market for an HRM.  I have seen some folks with Polar, others with Garmin.  I may just take the plunge and get the Garmin Forerunner 305.

We shall see!

 

Oh and I should mention what a SWEETHEART farmgirl is!! She gave me a lululemon headband and a Starbucks gift card as a thanks for the cake I made her.  What a sweetie!  (and now I have a lulu headband.. YEAH!!!) xoxoxoxo

Off to catch up on some massive DVR action: Young & the Restless, Biggest Loser, oh my!!

Amy’s Week 2 Challenge – check! (pic heavy)

This morning we got an email from our Booty Camp trainer, Heather, saying she had an injury so tonight’s Booty camp class would be cancelled.  It is definitely crappy that she has an injury but hopefully we’ll see her Thursday. 

The Haliblogger ladies still wanted to kick some booty …arse?? so we decided to get together and Lynn had the great idea to take advantage of our get-together and complete Amy’s Week 2 Exercise Challenge as a group!  Even though it was her idea, she was unable to join us tonight.  (Rest up, girl!)  So that left myself, farmgirl, and Angie. 

I was running a little late – traffic traffic traffic AND construction!  But these awesome ladies waited for me and then we were off!

Of course we took photos of our afternoon in the park!  Boy oh boy were we ready to kick butt!  You can see our toughness below:

Angie & Farmgirl getting prepped!

Here is where we started:

We jogged for 5 minutes

and then ended up at our first pitstop:

Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime for some step ups!

(Left – Ang, middle – Farmgirl, Right – moi)

Here are a couple (of several) furry friends that wanted to join us:

Time to move on… more jogging!

We found a nice spot out of the way with a bunch of benches… but oh no…. we couldn’t use them….

 

Nearby there was a gazebo with a few more benches, where we did a few sets of tricep dips. (No pics from me, Angie should have some tough)

More jogging (here is where I was slowing down… A LOT… damn that cardio!!)  This time there was an incline and I had a rough go at it.  I can’t wait for the day where I can jog more comfortably.

We ended up at another bench where we did some squats.  (Excuse my form below… this was DEFINITELY a photo op!)

Oooh movement:

We were right near this tower thingy so we jogged up there and found an awesome area out of the way where we did some ab work.  Several crunches , reverse crunches – oh yes.  Ab work is what I love!

Oh and Heather would be proud – we even did some downward dog pushups.  (Heck yes we did!!!)

More jogging & photo ops (seriously this park is beautiful!)

Miss cutie patootie Angie striking a pose:

OMGOMGOMG – someone save that girl….

Now for the last stretch (which was uphill) we did some walking lunges:

I was sweating like a madwoman after this!! Even though we didn’t have an official booty camp class, these 2 ladies definitely had me working!

I was so icky and sticky and hungry so off I went to Booster Juice for a protein packed smoothie & panini.

 

AWESOME DAY!  What an awesome idea, Lynn!  We definitely missed you!!!

Happy Canada Day!!!

I have had little time to blog lately since Dave got home (and since he’s leaving again on Sunday).  Not that I mind, our time together has been awesome.  We have been getting along famously – ohh like they say, time apart can make the heart grow fonder.

Yesterday us Halibloggers had our 3rd session at Booty Camp.  I thought we were in for a muddy session since the forecast called for rain however for the duration of our workout the sun came out.  We did a bunch of cardio: running up a steep hill 5x, doing 2 laps around the baseball field – one of those laps I definitely power walked (and helloo Ang…. she was running and totally killed that lap!  She could have lapped us all!)  I enjoyed this session a lot and I can tell that the countless lunges we’ve been doing are definitely working wonders. 

After the session we all headed to Sushi Nami Royale for some delisciousness.

                  

 

The green tea cheesecake for dessert looked pretty but I don’t think I’d have it again:

                     

Overall the night was awesome!! And we’ll be back at Booty Camp tomorrow!

Today I had the day off to celebrate Canada Day!  It sure is nice having a day off during the week but there wasn’t too much to do as everything was closed.  It’s still so unusual to have everything closed for me during holidays.  (Up until 2yrs ago there wasn’t even Sunday shopping here!)  Back at home the *only* day everything is closed is Christmas Day. 

Dave & I tried our luck and headed to Dartmouth Crossing to see if we could go shopping but nothing but restaurants were open.  We went for lunch at the Wok Box.  I wanted to try the Korean Bulgogi beef and Dave wanted Beef & Broccoli, however they had no beef?!  We started with springrolls (the best springrolls in the city – more like what I’m used to)  I went for a Mongolian rice bowl with pork which was pretty good, Dave had lemon chicken with rice.

   

(Random pics of a pretty flower I found when I was leaving the Wokbox:)

We had an action packed day today which was nice.  I am SORT of in the market for a new car (it’s more of a *want* vs a *need* right now) so we went looking at all kinds of cars at the dealerships today since we wouldn’t get harassed due to the holiday. Sneaky sneaky!  After that we played some pool then headed to the casino for some gambling.  Dave doubled his moola so he treated us to dinner at the Trapeze inside of the casino. 

             

We started with a starter bowl of ceasar salad which was HUGE, along with some yummy bruchetta.

Dave enjoyed a penne pasta dinner and I had a HUGE plate of nachos.  Neither of which we finished after filling ourselves on the apps.

For dessert we walked over to Cows ice cream.  This place is kind of a staple anytime we are down by the waterfront.  I got a scoop of strawberry sorbet with a scoop of raspberry chip icecream in a waffle bowl.

Overall it was an AWESOME Canada day spent with my hunnie!

Edit - TOTALLY almost forgot about Amy's Workout Wednesday but I snuck it in!! Gotta work on my planks...ahhh!

I am seeing green!!!

Tonight was a Costco night and I managed to pick up about $70 of all healthy food (90% of that was produce lol).
I picked up some:
-Egg whites
- Big bag o' spinach
- Strawberries (not as good as Farmgirls!)
- Bananas
- Mini peppers
- Mangos
- Huge box of blueberries
- Blackberries
- Liberte Yogurt
- 2 cartons of raspberries (mmmm)
- a new (I think it's new) organic cereal that I taste tested a few weeks ago at Costco and LOVED it!
- box of Peak Freans cookies


ANNNNNNNNDDD I picked up a little guilty pleasure reading material:


The author of this book is Lauren Conrad from the TV Show "The hills." I guess the reviews coming in are decent so I decided to give it a try. I am reading "Love the One You're With," and not quite enjoying it as much as I thought I would. Maybe I'll make the switch to LA Candy hehe.

**Oh for anyone who is a Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum fan, check out what I saw:


Whooop whoop!

Sooooooooooooooo, I was doing some blog reading and decided I HAVE to jump on the Green Monster Bandwagon. That's right... I *finally* hopped on!
My Green Monster (I keep wanting to call it 'Green Machine') included:
- 2 handfuls of spinach
- 1/2 of a banana
- a handful of raspberries
- 1TBsp ground flax seeds
- 1 cup Light Vanilla Soy Milk
- AND 2 TBsp of Liberte Yogurt (That was for you, Ang!)







And..... VOILA:



It wasn't as green as it could have been, but that was definitely because of the raspberries. It was SO good though. You *cannot* taste the spinach at all, all I tasted was a banana/raspberry smoothie.
Veryyy good! Dave is the smoothie maker in our house but I think I'm going to show him a new gooder!

So tomorrow will be Day 2 of Booty Camp. I honestly, HONESTLY have no idea how I'm going to do the squats, lunges... well, basically *anything* that involves me bending down. My thighs are KILLIN' me today! I am having difficulties bending down, sitting down in a chair, getting up, walking down/upstairs. Late this afternoon around 2ish after all of the sitting at work my muscles got SUPER stiff. I have tried to stretch them out but it just isn't happening. I am hoping by some stoke of luck we get to do yoga or something to stretch out the muscles. But I am tellin ya ladies, I am hurtin today!!

Thank goodness Booty Camp wasn't tonight... the heat & humidity is INSANE here today. Blech!

Wish me luck tomorrow!!