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. =)
#1 by Abby on December 24, 2009 - 7:09 am
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Thanks for the Nasoya Nayonaise shout out! Glad you enjoy it!
Abby – Nasoya
#2 by Cindy on December 23, 2009 - 10:13 am
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Oh I know Gary Coleman’s face and I was laughing when you said the “whatcho talkin’ about willis” but then you put up his sweet lil face and I died!
Thanks for htat!
oh you had to go and say you love your Blendtec. I am going to go bankrupt with all my foodie wish list. I want a spiralizer too. fingers are crossed…we can make zuc noodles together!
so glad you are loving your work out rut! haha
I am still picking away at mine but minus the run…1 week off. It was super hard for me to let it go. I am pretty okay to do yoga now…shoulder only has a few tender spots but yoga seems okay. planks are okay…updog is tricky.
We made up a bunch of non tradtional holiday stuff (our entire holiday was off the radar) haha but we’ve had fun.
I’m having a green smoothie at 10. CHEERS!
.-= Cindy´s last blog ..Instead of a Dehydrator =-.
#3 by Shari B. on December 24, 2009 - 9:28 am
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Hi Cindy! Glad I made you laugh with the Gary Coleman pic. When I first took that picture of Rascal, I totally thought of “Diff’rent Strokes” and knew I had to put it in the blog.
I feel the same way – at this point, I’m beginning to realize I work solely to support my healthy food habits!! Ha! Between cool tools, plant protein powders, raw almond butter, the costs just ADD up! I hope you get a spiralizer for xmas too! We can trade recipes!
#4 by tray on December 23, 2009 - 7:19 am
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omg. i wanna see sherlock holmes too! =D
hmmm. not sure about nontraditional traditions. i think on xmas dinner, we have chinese hot pot. likea broth and you cook things in it like napa, chicken, beef, tofu, glass noodles…however this year both my sister and mom are leavin gon xmas so it looks like the new tradition might be a power bar dinner! LOL! i asked for vibrams and kbs but i don’t think i got them ($$$ you know.)
love your boogie list. everytime i bang something (i do this a lot- elbows, knees, shoulders, etc) i sing DO YOU DO YOU have a first aid kit handy…..
.-= tray´s last blog ..take my breath away =-.
#5 by Shari B. on December 24, 2009 - 9:24 am
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Hi Tray! So glad to hear from you! Your chinese hot pot sounds SO GOOD!
Ohhh Vibrams… I do want some of those too! And I want to know why KBs are so darn expensive, when DBs don’t cost nearly that much. I’m in need of a heavier KB, my first one (10 lbs) is way too small.
You totally cracked me up with the Danity Kane lyrics!!
Have a Merry Christmas! Thanks so much for stopping in to say hello!