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50x super burpees (jump, squat, pushup, situp, jump, squat)
20x 15lb curls
10x 20lb curls
20x 30lb press 

JUMP SQUAT PUSHUP SITUP JUMP SQUAT = 1

x50

my kawaii dog and kawaii girlfriend

April 2013

I am so excited for school to be over so I can get back to doing what I love more: Eating spinach and doing burpees :)

thefitty:

So I’ve made this a few weeks back and fooled everyone. This is not mashed potatoes. This is mashed cauliflower. Less calories, less carbs, more vegetables, without reducing the flavor or adding any preservatives. If there are ever any “secrets” when it comes to this healthy lifestyle, then this would be it.

This is the recipe I used:

Ingredients:

• 8 cups Or 1 head of a Cauliflower Floret
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed and peeled
• 1/3 cup nonfat buttermilk 
• 4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Freshly ground pepper to taste
• Snipped fresh chives for garnish

Note: I did not use butter, and instead of 4 teaspoons of olive oil I used 3. Play around with this recipe until you are satisfied with the flavor and consistency.

Method:

1. Place cauliflower florets and garlic in a steamer basket over boiling water, cover and steam until very tender, 12 to 15 minutes. (Alternatively, place florets and garlic in a microwave-safe bowl with 1/4 cup water, cover and microwave on High for 3 to 5 minutes.)
2. Place the cooked cauliflower and garlic in a food processor. Add buttermilk, 2 teaspoons oil, butter, salt and pepper; pulse several times, then process until smooth and creamy. Transfer to a serving bowl. Drizzle with the remaining 2 teaspoons oil and garnish with chives, if desired. Serve hot.

NUTRITION

Per serving: 107 calories; 7 g fat ( 1 g sat , 4 g mono ); 3 mg cholesterol; 10 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 5 g protein; 4 g fiber; 339 mg sodium; 288 mg potassium.

Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (150% daily value), Folate (22% dv).

Carbohydrate Servings: 1/2

4 servings, 3/4 cup each

ENJOY!

—Dee (thefitty)

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liftheavyshit-and-kickass:

1. Write down your goals. 
2. Create a fitness action plan. 
3. Devise a desirable reward. 
4. Set a completion date.
5. Enter a competition.
6. Enter a competition amongst your friends.
7. Plaster motivational quotes all over your house.
8. Write “Every Day is a New Battle” on your bathroom mirror.
9. Post your favorite fitness role model on your refrigerator.
10. Post your favorite fat picture on your refrigerator.
11. Type “Your Character is your Destiny” on your screen saver.
12. Type “Get off your Fat Butt” on your screen saver.
13. Practice core strength by using a stability ball for a chair.
14. Rollover and do some crunches in-between emails on your stability ball chair.
15. Buy a nice wardrobe that will fit you in two months.
16. Donate all your fat clothes to Salvation Army.
17. Moderate your strict eating with a fat meal once a week.
18. When eating your fat meal, look at the body type of other people who eat fat meals daily.
19. Buy some fitness magazines.
20. Read some “how to” fitness articles.
21. Join a fitness web blog.
22. Read transformation stories.
23. Pray and thank God for the amount of weight you’ve already lost.
24. Make a supportive fitness group.
25. Hang around fit friends.
26. Surround yourself with people and things that promote a healthy lifestyle.
27. Find a running partner.
28. Inspire your own partner to run with you.
29. Create fitness goals with your partner.
30. Make a workout and diet log.
31. Personalize your journal by adding inspirational quotes and pictures.
32. Document your progress: weight, body fat, and blood pressure.
33. Attend a bodybuilding/fitness show.
34. Talk to competitors and pros that live for fitness.
35. Ask your role models what motivates them.
36. Take a chance and email your role model off their web site.
37. Take a supplement for physical gains as well as a mental ‘placebo’ effect.
38. Drink some coffee.
39. Drink more coffee.
40. Date someone more fit than you.
41. Date someone who inspires you.
42. Date someone you want to look really good naked for.
43. Shave your body so you can see all your muscles.
44. Tan your body so you can see all the lines and contours of your muscles.
45. Tan your body at the beach so that people with really nice bodies can inspire you.
46. Hire a trainer.
47. Become a trainer.
48. Humble a trainer by knowing more stuff than him/her.
49. Look like a trainer.
50. Buy new athletic shoes.
51. Buy a new workout outfit.
52. Buy clean, new, and comfortable socks.
53. Wear really bright colors to the gym.
54. Take a group exercise class.
55. Take a spinning class for really intense cardio.
56. Take Yoga or Pilates class for variety and core strength.
57. Drink an energy drink.
58. Plan a vacation where you have to wear a swimsuit.
59. Read Lance Armstrong’s biography.
60. Envision your workout during your warm-up.
61. Focus on the workout, one set at a time.
62. Beat yourself up with weights for even getting de-motivated.
63. Conquer your negative thoughts by pushing your body into painful consciousness.
64. Experiment on how much you can make yourself sweat.
65. Make it a goal to be the fittest person in the weight room - or any room for that matter.
66. Test your max on pushups and pullups.
67. Post the Krispy Kreme’s calendar on your wall.
68. Post Monica Brant’s calendar on your wall.
69. Watch Ronnie Coleman videos.
70. Read articles by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
71. Buy a home exercise bike or treadmill.
72. Become the inspiration amongst your friends.
73. Help someone who is very overweight or wants to gain muscle.
74. Visit my web site: http://www.mariakang.com/.
75. Place your alarm clock across your bedroom so that you have to get up to turn it off in the morning.
76. Place your athletic shoes right next to your alarm clock.
77. Place a quote right next to your alarm clock that says: “Today you are closer to the person you were meant to become.”
78. Alarm your cell phone to give you daily reminders to eat, work out, and give gratitude.
79. Volunteer your time with people who don’t have full function of their bodies.
80. Volunteer your passion for fitness at a YMCA.
81. Look up new, healthy recipes to cook.
82. Search for new, healthy restaurants to eat at.
83. Observe the body type of the people at restaurants you shouldn’t eat at.
84. Read one of Mike Mahler’s Aggressive Strength Training Articles on Bodybuilding.com.
85. Learn a new exercise technique like Kettlebell training.
86. Turn off your TV and run.
87. Buy a new MP3 player or iPod and put some high energy workout songs on it.
88. Buy new workout devices like a heart rate monitor or pedometer.
89. Work out at a different gym.
90. Work out at a different time of day.
91. Work out using all new exercises.
92. Vary your cardio by incorporating High Intensity Training.
93. Say a prayer for power right before you train.
94. Say a prayer for performance right before your set.
95. Say a prayer for pain during your set.
96. Say a prayer for persistence after your set.
97. Say a prayer for positive action after you train.
98. Action After You Train.
99. Read articles on Bodybuilding.com.
100. Shop for supplements, videos, and books on Bodybuilding.com.
101. Get passionate enough to write an article for Bodybuilding.com. You know what motivates you. Quit reading and make it happen.I found this great list of things you can do to motivate yourself.

(Source: bodybuilding.com)

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weightz:

Physically, I have clearly gone through many changes.

The changes you can’t see, the mental and emotional changes, are the ones that are very important to me.

I started out as someone recovering from years of eating/mental disorders and drug addiction, a chain smoker and hard partier.

Last winter, I began to spiral back into my old obsessive ways yet I was easily masking my unhealthy ways as being “dedicated” to my health and fitness.

Today, I am healthy and much happier. I won’t lie, I still struggle from time to time. I will always be in a state of recovery but I know when I put in the work, I get a little stronger every passing day.

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motivatemefit:

stephsgettingsmaller:

keep-calm-get-skinny:

s-k-i-n-n-e-h:

lululights:

I’m reblogging myself cause this has reached 3000 notes and frankly, that astounds me!

The negative comments always make me sad - “where did her boobs go” (I’m still a D cup, bitch) - “oh she had surgery, see the scar?” (appendectomy…) “ew she looks scrawny now, was definitely better before”

I am not scrawny or too thin, I’m fit and healthy and toned. Before I was overweight, ate a load of shit and was uncomfortable when I looked in the mirror. Now, my thighs and calves are rock hard, I can run 2 miles without getting out of breath and I’m working on developing my abs. Most importantly, I eat a nutritious diet and I love my body. I’m proud of it!

So fuck youuuuuuuuuuu motherfuckers!

you look amazing girl

This is easily my favorite before and after. She’s absolutely gorgeous.

also her bra is really cute.

She looks great, before and after.

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arthlete:

Today’s positivity post is brought to you by my own need for positivity brought to me by my shitty day. 

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gettingahealthybody:

salmon cubes!

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