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Believe Me I’m Lying

Mar 1

Posted by MNG in Core, Food, Insanity, Interval Training, Running

Hello lovelies!!

How is it going? Things here are muy bien!

I just finished this book:

This was a good and interesting read. I was occasionally disturbed by the language and …hmm…imagery (Virgin Mary writing here) but it was interesting and powerful. I have not watched the movie yet although the sister gave it to me last night. Better say, I watched about 20 minutes and turned it off. I have a thing for Eric Bana but books are always better than movies and I don’t want to be disappointed.

In the meantime I am going to start on something else till my new books arrive. When they do I shall share!

I am on a week holiday. I hate being on vacation. It drives me insane. I feel like my entire schedule is messed up. For example, instead of my usual 5 AM call I ended up waking up at 8. I don’t want this week to mess up my sleep habits. So its early to bed tonight!

In other VERY IMPORTANT NEWS (which should have been written at the start of this post) I run outside on Saturday!!!

Yes people, after over a month and a half, I actually headed outside. It was lovely after the first 2 KM. I did a total of 6.3 KM and am supposed to run longer tomorrow (assuming the winds here will slow down, its been crazy these last couple of days). I have to say, that my run was okay in terms of cardio only thanks to INSANITY. I cannot even imagine in what shape I would have been if it weren’t for Shaun T’s kick ass workouts. Amazing. My abs and quadriceps are extremely sore. I guess its the whole total body cardio that got to me.

Alright kittens, this girl is out of here. I am gonna update the playlist for manana and will post it up here later. I also need to update my training

Tags: alessandra ambrosio, alias, at home exercise, bar rafaeli, beach body, beachbody insanity, beachbody's insanity, ben affleck, cakes, Calories, cardio, diet, europe, exercise, Exercise in Pictures, gisele bundchen, groceries, jennifer garner, p90x, shaun t, supermodels, The Fitness Gurus, the hot and fit, the running addict, tony horton, twitter, victoria's secret, weight loss

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Sunday Morning, Praise the Dawning

Feb 21

Posted by MNG in Calories, Diet Plan, Eating Plan, Insanity, Interval Training, P90X, Running, Workouts

Hey Hey Hots and Fits!

How has your weekend been? Everything was so relaxing here. As usual, I did a whole lot of nothing, ate too much junk Friday night and Saturday…
I am really trying hard to keep this under control…I used to be quite determined but I don’t know what is going on now.

On the good news, things are definitely warming up here, I could probably start running outside again, however I am a little concerned because I run early in the morn’ and its like -6C which usually means really icy roads (melted snow = black ice). So, its just a matter of DAYS as far as I see it.

I also watched Valentine’s Day with the sibs and a bunch of friends. Was okay. Hated the fact that Patrick Dempsey was an ass. And that Eric Dane and Bradley Cooper were gay (such a waste of assets). However, the worst part was having to stand Taylor “frog” Swift. Can’t stand her. Something so fake about her act. And voice. And attitude.

So, big INSANITY news, this week I finally tried another new workout from the MAX series

INSANITY MAX CARDIO CONDITIONING

The day before doing this workout, I tweeted the following to Katie:

I knew this was going to be total kick-ass. I was actually afraid of what’s going to come up!

The warm up started with the following drills which are repeated twice:

Jog
Jumping Jacks - Arms Up
123 Heisman
Jump Rope Side-to-Side
High Knees – Arms Out
Switch Kicks
Hit the Floor - Bend down at each side to touch the floor
Side-to-Side Floor Hops

Then the last set lasts about a minute and a half and consists of the following drills:

Jog/Sprint
Jumping Jacks
Heisman (bring knees up from one side to the other without turning your torso)
123 Heisman
High Knees

And then the workout. 29 minutes of CARDIO:

High and Low Jab with Squat
Football Runs

Football Runs

4 Basketball Shots with 4 squats to each side
Right and Left Kicks
Diamond Jumps

Diamond Jumps

In-and-Out and Push Up Jacks – do 4 in-and-outs followed by 4 push up jacks
Suicide Jumps
High Knee/Sprint/Floor Sprints – eight high knees, eight normal sprints, eight floor sprints
Ski Abs
Kick Step Back – a recovery exercise also known as Charleston Kick to all you P90Xers
Squat Twists – another recovery exercise
Over the River Hops – last recovery exercise in which you sort of skate from side to side keeping your core tight
Attack - push palm outs twice on each side
Power Knees
Ski Down Hooks – feet together, hop from side to side, while doing a hook
Belt Kicks – kick each leg while bending at the hips
Forward Back Suicides – like frog jumps only with running feet

Forward Back Suicides

Push Up Abs
Plank Punches
8 Jump Ropes/8 Hop Squats
Speed Bag – in a squat, rotate your hands as quickly as you can

LOVED every second of this.

Today I just did 4 repeats of this week’s WSU Challenge, and am just about to plan out my workouts for the next week. Will definitely post them up here today or tomorrow.

So, tell me how hard you workout this weekend. And how do you deal with the weekend eats? I just can’t seem to resist. I need to get out of the casa more often!

Sig

Tags: at home exercise, bar rafaeli, beach body, beachbody insanity, beachbody's insanity, Calories, cardio, carrie underwood, cosmopolitan, diet, europe, exercise, Exercise in Pictures, gisele bundchen, groceries, harpers bazaar, kate moss, p90x, shaun t, supermodels, The Fitness Gurus, the hot and fit, the running addict, tony horton, victoria's secret, weight loss

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Sube, Sube, Hasta las Nubes

Feb 15

Posted by MNG in Calories, Diet Plan, Eating Plan, Food, Insanity, Interval Training, Running, Workouts

Hi there Hots and Fits!

How’s your Monday going? Things are nice and boring in my part of the world. El Dia de San Valentin passed without any ~~vomiting/eye-rolling~~ thing interesting happening simply because I hang out with the familia and the home dwellers and that’s as interesting as it gets.

A fellow home dweller got these at the mail this afternoon:

I hate Cosmopolitan . I don’t think I ever read garbage that was so not worth my ~~eyes~~ time. I always make fun of my home dweller for reading it. But she is 17 so maybe that’s why? Still, I didn’t even read it when i was 17. So she is not excused. Harper’s Bazaar has a little bit more class to it, and I do enjoy the pictures and advertisements excessively.

Anyhoo, this AM started with INSANITY’s Plyometric Circuit which was nice and sweaty, followed by shower, breakfast, car stuck in the snow, getting into work late and yada yada yada.

Actually, about 15 minutes after lunch was consumed (cauliflower, 2 soy burgers, bowl of soup ) I started having an intense pain in my upper back, chest and neck. It wasn’t muscle pain but just PAIN. Inside the body. I don’t think it had anything to do with the food I had (stomach was fine). I let it last for an hour or so and then I couldn’t handle it any more so I popped an Ibalgin. I hate taking medicine for no particular reason but it was either this or being unable to perform at work.

Ibalgin. Ibuprofenum if you are not from this continent. My saviour.

The original plan was to do INSANITY Core Cardio and Balance this afternoon, because this girl desperately needs cardio in order to lose fat, but I was feeling fairly weak so after some Yoplait yogurt and a handful of cereals it was time for INSANITY Cardio Recovery . Don’t fool yourself people. There is no such thing as an easy INSANITY workout. This will have you in pain within the first 10 minutes.

Manana I am planning on INSANITY Max Interval Circuit in the AM and WSU Challenge (week 1 repeat – WOW) for the PM. And if you wanna see, here is the plan for the week:

Run on Saturday. Oh please God, let me be able to run. Just one little short 1 hour run. I cannot even remember the last time this happened.

I’m out to watch some telenovelas in order to enhance my Spanish skills and then its time to hit the hay!

Oh – and I am still on twitter!!

Tags: alessandra ambrosio, at home exercise, bar rafaeli, beach body, beachbody insanity, beachbody's insanity, Calories, cardio, carrie underwood, cosmopolitan, diet, europe, exercise, Exercise in Pictures, gisele bundchen, groceries, harpers bazaar, kate moss, p90x, shaun t, supermodels, The Fitness Gurus, the hot and fit, the running addict, tony horton, victoria's secret, weight loss

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Just when I thought I said all I could say

Feb 11

Posted by MNG in Before and After, Calories, Diet Plan, Eating Plan, Food, Insanity, P90X, Workouts

Hi there Hots and Fits!

How are you doing?

Is it FREEZING wherever you are at, too?

This winter is beyond ridiculous at this point. I have never had such a cold winter.

Too many icicles are hanging from the roof which is actually quite scary. I had to take a long broomstick and break them

Also, have I mentioned the numerous times I have slipped these last few days? I am literally walking on a sheet of ice. Yikes. When will spring get here?

So, in other news…as you all know, I constantly bring up the FOOD issue on the blog. I consider myself to be very healthy; I constantly exercise (every day, at least for 40 minutes) and I aim to eat as raw as possible (is that even grammatically correct?). But oftentimes, especially during the winter, I fall short. I can be very critical of myself but I suppose habits that stay for a life time take….well, time.

Things are usually difficult when I am at home hanging out with the rest of the home dwellers. They have no sense of healthy living. See, for example, today I walked into the kitchen to find this:

Poppy seed + coconut cake covered with melted chocolate and some more coconut

Chocolate Birthday Cake. I call it like that cause it was my the ultimate birthday party cake

Apple cake. Here the, baker was kind enough to use the European version of Stevia instead of regular sugar

For me, having these in front of my face is not easy (I still have not shown you the casa’s pantry!) but at the same time I love my home dwellers too much to put my foot down and make them stop. They enjoy it and they are happy that way. I’d be selfish if I tried to impose my life style upon them .

So, what am I trying to do? I am really planning everything. Which means I list down my workouts and meals the week before. I hate doing that (for meals, that is). It requires my brain to work extra hard and besides I am exceptionally spontaneous and this seems like the opposite. But I do it anyhow.

This week it has worked quite well. Till today. I inhaled too much cake. I try not to make it destroy the rest. But the truth is, Hots and Fits, at the moment I am just a wanna-be Hot and Fit. I’d say that about 90% of my pants are too tight, which makes me stick to these:

Puma Sweat Pants. They are elastic, you see.

I don’t want to make this any more depressing. Obviously this is also an issue that is bound to raise serious controversy. In the good news, I will tell you that I am slowly progressing towards INSANITY’s MAX Workouts. I did one last Saturday and will do one tomorrow AM. Total kick-ass. I love Shaun T. I wish I lived near so I could stalk him and pretend to join his workouts.

And because I want to make sure I am ~~insert a word I cannot remember right now~~ dedicated, I shall plan out my workout schedule for this weekend. Workout only, cause my eats are seriously oh-so-boring

Friday: AM Insanity Max Interval Circuit, PM WSU Challenge

Saturday: AM Insanity Max Plyometric Circuit, PM P90X’s Yoga X

Sunday: AM P90X’s Kenpo X, PM WSU Challenge

I shall now finish off in a true Hot and Fit fashion. One of my favourite celebs, Jennifer Garner (any Alias fans out there??) was quoted saying that not enough money in the world will get her to pose in a bikini:

If you want to see me in a bathing suit, you can go to season something of Alias and I wore a bathing suit for an episode. Go watch that, because that looked good!

I will be on twitter, ya’ll, till the next post

Tags: alias, beach body, beachbody insanity, beachbody's insanity, ben affleck, cakes, Calories, cardio, diet, europe, exercise, groceries, jennifer garner, p90x, shaun t, supermodels, The Fitness Gurus, the hot and fit, the running addict, tony horton, twitter, weight loss

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Raw Wanna Be

Feb 5

Posted by MNG in Calories, Exercise Video, Insanity, Interval Training, P90X, Workouts

Hi people!!

Hope you all had a fabulous first week of February. I cannot believe how fast this year is flying by (for the record, my “year” starts in September).

I have been eating plenty of this:

My bowl of yummy-goodness. I eat this every.single.morning. Sometimes I have cereals during the weekend.

Sweating plenty from this:

INSANITY. How I love thee.

Spending too much time at the store buying these:

Cauliflower florets, broccoli florets, wasa crackers, radish cheese spread, lettuce, ketchup, Yoplait, Gouda, Cheddar, canned blueberries and for the rest of the casa – nesquik, kitkats, twix…

And looking forward to this:

INSANITY’s Max Interval Circuit

My fitness inspiration Katie said these are amazing. I am well into the program, and I am ready to tackle one of these. I could have probably started them sooner, but since I only follow the program 90% of the time (I mix in some P90X cardio workouts instead of Insanity recovery workouts) I thought I would do the first phase twice. So, I will try this workout tomorrow and see how it goes.

Part of the overall aim is to look this good in Daisy Dukes:

Bar Rafaeli. Israeli model.

I know I always say Alessandra Ambrósio has the best body on this planet, and that Gisele Bundchen does too (although Ale is prettier in my opionion), but I must admit Bar doesn’t look bad either.

Random Question: Is anybody here a rawist or wanna-be rawist such as myself? I ask because I heard there is a raw rice alternative to cooked rice in sushi and I want to know what it is and how to make it. If you don’t know what the hell I am talking about, that’s totally cool.

Alright people, I am out. I am T-I-R-E-D. I need a lot of sleep. My body is demanding it.

Tags: alessandra ambrosio, at home exercise, bar rafaeli, beach body, beachbody insanity, beachbody's insanity, Calories, cardio, diet, europe, exercise, Exercise in Pictures, gisele bundchen, groceries, p90x, shaun t, supermodels, The Fitness Gurus, the hot and fit, the running addict, tony horton, victoria's secret, weight loss

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Believe Me I’m Lying

Sunday Morning, Praise the Dawning

Sube, Sube, Hasta las Nubes

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