Good morning! It’s my FRIDAY! Wahooo! Love it when you get to have Friday on a Wednesday!
Let’s cover the FEATS today before the EATS, since I glossed over them in a hurry yesterday.
To further expand on my Tabata workout from Monday:
Weight Training – Tabata Upper Body:
- TM Warm-up – 5 minutes, followed by arm circles and muscle-specific warm-ups
- Incline DB Chest Press – 4 minutes
- Bent 2-Arm DB Row – 4 minutes
- Rear Delt & Back Extension Static Holds – 4 minutes
- Overhead Shoulder Press (seated on FitBall) – 3 minutes (by this time my arms were already toast and holding them above my head became problematic!!)
- Bicep Curls with ExerBand – 4 minutes
- Tricep Overhead Extensionwith KB – 4 minutes
With warm up, this workout was only 30 minutes total. And I felt it! I am hopelessly crazy about Tabata for my weight training it seems – I really LOVE getting in an effective workout in a short amount of time. However, I ordered something online that I’ll be discussing in a future post – after it arrives and I’ve had a chance to try it out long enough to give a review. We’ll see if it changes the way I work out or not! 
Then for my Tuesday exercise, I did another round of “See Shari Dance“. I warmed up to Run This Town by Jay-Z. Then got busy with the wildly jumping around dancing to get my heart rate good and high.
The playlist also included:
- Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
- Make Me – Janet Jackson’s latest (GREAT song for cardio BTW – click here to check it out)
- Damaged - Danity Kane
- 3 - Britney Spears
- Single Ladies – Beyoncé
- Calabria 2008 – Enur
- Get Back – Britney Spears
- Ring the Alarm – Beyoncé
With cool-down, it was a little over 40 minutes – truly an incredible way to start the day. It’s not possible to be in a bad mood when you start your day with a little boogie-ing! Between dancing for cardio and Tabata for weights, I may be in a bit of a workout RUT but I’m having a blast! I suppose if one gets stuck in a rut, a WORKOUT rut would be a good one to get stuck in!
Afterward, I went upstairs to make a post-workout smoothie. And there was a little cutie waiting in the kitchen with his question-mark ears. Apparently I’ve created a monster (of the green smoothie variety).
“Puppy mommy, I’m ready for my greens please..!”
Unfortunately I had to tell him that I was using my new protein powder so there’d be no greens for him this time.
So then he threw me his “Whatchu talkin’ bout, Willis?” face, complete with sideways eyes:
I’m the Grinch of Green Smoothies in Rascal’s eyes. 
I had a BEIGE Smoothie instead, using aforementioned protein powder (almost ready to provide a review)…
Then I packed up my lunch for later:
A green smoothie was consumed at my desk (leftover from the previous day):
A veggie sandwich for dinner (toasted Ezekial with fat free Nasoya Soy Mayo, sea salt, pepper, pepitas, roma tomatoes, sprouts):
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Today is essentially our Christmas. MSP and I are like little 5-yr olds when it comes to Christmas. Or maybe it’s just me and he plays along. It used to be that our tradition was we open our presents on Christmas Eve, after driving around to view holiday lights. We’d come home, put on a fire and turn on our tree, then start opening. We liked the ambiance of an evening Christmas as opposed to the first-thing-out-bed in the morning. Then we tried opening ONE gift on the evening of the start of our long weekend and last year we lost control after opening one and ended up opening everything! So tonight when we both get off of work it will be the start of our 4 day weekend and we anticipate that we will likely open our gifts tonight. This way we have all weekend to play with our new toys!
MAYBE we’ll be able to hold off until tomorrow night, but I doubt it!
I’m really hoping that Santa brought me a veggie spiralizer! It was at the top of my list!
Then on the actual Christmas day we always go eat at a Chinese restaurant and see a movie. This year the movie will be “Sherlock Holmes”.
How about you? Do you have any fun, NON-traditional traditions? Got any fitness- or health-related items on your list for Santa?
Speaking of fitness items, it’s time to go get my workout in! Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday! See you next time!
– Shari B. =)
