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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Motivational Note✿ "Make the Time"

There's always time to workout! Make it a priority for yourself everyday... You are worth it. Plus your boyfriend or girlfriend will love and respect you more for taking care of yourself. How can you love and care for someone else in your life if you cannot even love and take care of "YOU"  Make the time everyday! Love your body and your body will love you back... and so will your sweetheart.   #HittheGym 

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Inspire Me✿ "Beauty & Beast"

Let the inner Beast out girls... There is true Beauty in a women who can get down in the weight room and let her inner Beast out when she is getting down to business in the gym. Don't be afraid to let your true Beauty show and let the Beasta side of you out! Whether there is people around or not you should let your Beast side out and Kick each workout in the ASS!  #RockYourBeast

Monday, February 27, 2012

"Being Fit vs Being Skinny"

It seems being skinny is still a growing obsession in young women today. To get that skinny body women will do just about anything. They will do so many unhealthy things to their beautiful bodies to obtain that skinny look. It's quite sad and very tragic to me to see so much of this on weight loss blogs today. The main goal is not to get fit and healthy, it is to get skinny whatever the cost. I don't think these women know at what cost they will face down the road when they chose this route to be skinny.

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I am a survivor of the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa and at the time I suffered from it I didn't know it had a name or was even a disease. It's no joke and the effects you put your body through to be skinny will have a permanent effect on you and your body for the rest of your life. I took it to the extreme of it being life threatening and at my lowest weight I was 17 and graduating high school at 71 pounds at 5'3. I was small, but at 71 pounds I became almost nothing. I was super skinny, but not so beautiful as my brother pointed out to me. This starving disease robs you of your beauty over time. You don't realize it because you can only see that your fat in the mirror when you look at yourself. You don't see the real you when your suffering from this disease.
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The visual side effects from this ugly disease is... thinning and loss of hair, bad, sallow toned skin. Your bones start to show through your skin. Body bruises easily and your nails won't grow. You lose your period due to stress and low body fat. Your always cold and your stomach is always sore and aching from hunger. Your body is not getting the proper nutrition it needs to survive let alone look good, so you begin to start wasting away right in front of everyone eyes except your own. You cannot see it nor accept it as your main goal is just being super skinny and you're never satisfied so you keep losing more weight to fuel your desire to be skinny. You've gone past the point of obtaining a thin beautiful body. There is no beauty in being unhealthy, skinny and falling apart.

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My salvation was my brother introducing me to the beautiful iron and teaching me how to sculpt my body and be strong, fit and healthy. While I was suffering from this disease I was still an athlete as I was a competitive swimmer and I also loved to run long distance. I wish I had treated my body better so that I could of been at my very best and seen my true potential as a competitive swimmer and runner. I would do anywhere from 3500-5000 yards at swim practice 6 days a week and run 3-5 miles sometimes twice daily on just a apple and glass of milk. I was lucky as I always did great in competition because I have the heart and drive of a competitor, but I could of been better, much greater as a athlete if I had known then what I know now. I would of taken better care of my body and feed it what it needed to thrive and excel... not be skinny and under nourished.
  
I was able to see my potential when I turned to being fit and healthy and sculpting my body with weight lifting. I knew that all the hard work and sacrifice I gave to my training would never show if I continued to starve and deplete my body as I had been doing for so many years. I had to come to terms with adding weight to my body and knowing it was okay and I was going to make myself look and be fit, healthy and beautiful inside as well as outside. I was in control of my body in a whole different way and it took a lot of time and learning to love myself enough to want better for me.
My hope is for other young women to skip a lot of these bad experiences I went through for years and start taking control of their own body in a positive healthy, fit way. They need to realize and know that being fit is so much more appealing and healthy then being skinny and unhealthy. If they can see a thin, fit body verses a skinny, unhealthy body I'm most positive they will want to put their time and energy in to being fit and healthy.  Being skinny and unhealthy takes so much time and energy. Put all that energy towards a healthy fit body and stop the never ending spiral and suffering of this disease and become the person you were meant to be. Healthy, fit, beautiful and a Champion!
 

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Workout #11 S#4 Chest/Triceps

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Workout #11           
(sequence #4) 


Chest/Triceps 
Weight Lifting 1 
*Single Sets* *4x ea.Set ~ 10-12 reps ~ 90-120 sec/rest* *Heavy*
  1. Dumbbell bench press ~
  2. Close-grip barbell bench press ~
  3. One-arm flat bench flys (NEW check pic) ~
  4. Incline barbell triceps extensions ~
  5. Hammer grip incline bench press ~
  6. Cable one-arm triceps extensions (NEW check pic) ~

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Dumbbell Bench Press
  #1 Dumbbell Bench Press

Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press
  #2 Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press
 #3 One-Arm Flat Bench Flye 
One-Arm Flat Bench Dumbbell Flye
 #4 Incline Barbell Bench Press

Hammer Grip Incline DB Bench Press
  #5 Hammer Grip Dumbbell Bench Press
Cable One Arm Tricep Extension
  #6 Cable One-Arm Tricep Extension

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Fit Body Boot Camp✿ "Cardio Pumping"

If you're tired of the same old cardio workouts?...Try this one for a change and a body shocker. Do 500-1000 count or for time 20-30 minuets. You can also use small platform for step ups and do step ups for a count of 500+ or do for 20-30 minuets for a great heart pumping cardio workout.  If you're feeling spunky add some weights to yourself or hold some dumbbells and feel your heart pump along with your muscles. #CardioLove

Inspire Me✿ "Your Pain"

The best thing about pain, it tells you you’re not dead yet! The pain will eventually lead you to your reward! 

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Fitness Fun✿ "Weekends"

 
I just thought this pic was too cute.. It reminds me of running on the beach close to the water barefoot. Running on the beach is one of my very favorite and best place to run. I used take my kids to a beautiful Hawaiian beach "Hapuna" early in the morning on the weekends. Running in the early cool morning before any tourists arrive is the best time. Feels so amazing running on the hard, wet sand while the waves wash up over my bare feet. It feels like I could just run forever...and keep on running! After my amazing beach run my body is heated up and ready to be cooled down. The beautiful, cool, blue ocean is right there ready to jump into and go for a nice swim. This makes for a perfect weekend workout. #fitnessfun
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Fit Body Boot Camp✿Circuit Cardio W/O

I'm sharing a 5 ~ exercise circuit cardio workout with you. No matter what shape your in this will kick your Okole if you do it right! Do each exercise for at least one minuet or more if you're feeling spunky. After one minuet move to next exercise until you have completed all 5.. Then do it again! and again! The goal is to go at least 20-30 minuets to burn fat. All 5 exercises @1min.each = 5 minuets. Aim for 4x sets.. then 5x sets and when you feel more fit and ready do 6x sets = 30 minuets of kick ass cardio. A special gift from me to you! "Feel the Burn"
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Fit Tip!✿ "Smile"

Friday, February 24, 2012

Inspire Me✿ "Conquer Yourself Today"

No one can do it for you. There's No magic pill or quick fix. There's No easy way around it. If it was easy then everyone would be healthy, fit and happy in there own skin. It's hard and takes a lot of sacrifice, dedication, drive and a strong desire to be somebody better. Somebody that you can look at in the mirror everyday and be proud of. Someone who's happy, fit and feels beautiful. You need to conquer yourself and make it happen everyday. It's all up to you.. Conquer "You" today!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fitspiration✿ #Fitspo



Inspire Me✿ "Fight2beFit"

My little fitness blog... featured #Fitspo Paper/li Sunday 2/19/12

islandgurl1.blogspot.com - Fight 4 it Stay driven and keep your eye on what you want each day. Your drive, determination and consistency is key to getting that healthy, fit, beautiful body you've wanted all your life. 
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You are the Competition... So WIN !!!

 
The greatest competition in life is against yourself...So make sure you are winning every single day! 
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Live.
 
Running your own race to be healthy, fit and the best version of you...that you can be!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

"The iron...My greatest friend"

The iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard.
The iron will always kick you the real deal. The iron is the great reference point, the all knowing perspective giver.
Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, it never runs.
Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.
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"Feel Fit....Feel Beautiful"

"Behind every beautiful thing...there's a story of pain" 
Be fit and beautiful Feel fit and beautiful


Tuesday, February 21, 2012

"Perfect Form"

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywywaS7Wx1r52k8so1_500.jpg  I can’t stress enough the importance of good form. When you perform an exercise the right way, you’re concentrating the stress on the muscles you’re attempting to work. And that’s the way it should be. For example, when you do a biceps curl with proper form (keeping your elbows tucked in to your sides and lifting the weight with muscle strength rather than momentum) the full force of the exercise is targeted only on your biceps. If you compromise your form, you allow other muscle groups like your shoulders or your back to support the weight. Bad form, therefore, cheats you out of a truly effective workout.
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Many people just starting out that don't get any help in using proper form of weight lifting exercises will soon get discouraged because they are not getting the full effect of the exercises they are attempting. Benefits will be minimal and in most cases we want to see change right away. It will take so much longer to see any progress if you're doing these exercise incorrectly. This is why it's so very important to do these exercises correctly with proper form. Don't worry about how much wight you're using, as proper form is much more important than how heavy the weight is. Go as light as you need to get the correct form down correctly before attempting to go in to the heavier weight. Doing the exercise correctly with proper form is "Key" not how heavy you're doing it.
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