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On the road again… |
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City dog loving life in Chicago |
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Lolz people watching at breakfast before hitting the road |
Also, Nebraska is really flat. I knew that’s how it was going to be, but I’m just reiterating it. There’s nothing here. And it’s flat. I did expect it to be more yellow cornfields, but everything is all green since the corn won’t be ready for awhile. So lots of flat green fields. Remind me not to ever move here. (Sorry if you’re from Nebraska…I think I’m just ornery about the Jeep!)
I want to send a big thanks to my friend Alex and her super sweet magazine job; she read my post about how I like Marie Claire, so she brought me some issues from work to read on my 1239841 hour drive today. AND she got me a subscription to the magazine, so I’m really excited to start getting that at our new place! So super thoughtful of her 🙂
And while I’m on the subject of thank yous, I want to say THANK YOU so much for all the sweet comments/emails I’ve received about our move! I really appreciate it and will respond as soon as I am no longer living out of a suitcase…so hopefully soon? But it really does make my day every time I get a nice comment so thanks a bunch! 🙂 🙂
In other news, this week hasn’t been very conducive to working out or eating healthy…at all. But I know that it’s ok and I’ll get back on track once we get to Colorado and life gets back to normal next week. However, I did manage to get in one little workout at my parents’ house though, so I wanted to share it with everyone because I felt was actually pretty effective (aka I was tired and sweaty when it was done!) Before leaving South Carolina, I had been pretty consistent with my Body Pump classes so I wanted to do some strength exercises in order to work on preserving the muscle I’ve built. However, I didn’t have any weights with me, so I just did a quick little workout right in my driveway using my own body weight for resistance. After taking Lola for a 50-minute walk with my mom (aka very light cardio) here’s the circuit that I did:
Upper Body
-50 jumping jacks
-15 dips (off my front porch)
-15 push ups
Repeat 3x then move on to…
Abs
-50 jumping jacks
-5 sets of 25 ab exercises (Standard crunches, Bicycles, Leg lifts, etc…I can’t remember now which specific ones I did…)
Lower Body
-50 jumping jacks
-25 standard squats
-50 standard walking lunges (alternating legs, so you end up doing 25 on each side…I was at this point in my workout when the mailman came by and saw me lunging up the driveway…awkward)
-25 wide stance lunges
-50 plyometric lunges, alternating legs (hate these)
-25 standard lunges
-50 walking lunges, except this time step backwards instead of forward alternating legs (it works the muscle in a different way)
Stretch and shower 🙂
It took me about 25 minutes to get through it, and it definitely works all your muscles while still keeping your heart rate up. This is something that can be done anywhere, so depending on how ambitious I’m feeing I may try to do it again tomorrow morning while we’re waiting for the repair shop to open…I don’t know what the workout room situation is like at the North Platte Quality Inn & Suites (Nebraska’s nicest dog friendly hotel…ummm…) but I guess we’ll find out tomorrow!
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Get in my belly. |
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Blahhhhh. |
Alrighty, we’re off to go try and grab a quick bite to eat and then hit the hay as I know Cam and I are going to need a good night’s sleep because I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be somewhat trying…but I know it’ll all work out and we’ll get to Colorado one way or another…I’ll keep ya posted…never a dull moment I tell ya! 🙂