Getting My Bounce Back by Carolee Belkin Walker

Author:Carolee Belkin Walker [Walker, Carolee Belkin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633537118
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2018-01-13T02:24:48+00:00

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Basic Green Smoothie

Ingredients

2 cups green veggies (I use kale, but you can use spinach and bok choy.)

1 celery stalk

¼ cup parsley

1 cucumber (I use organic, so I leave on the peel. You can use 2 baby cucumbers.)

1 whole lemon, peeled

1 banana

2 cups water (Sometimes I use coconut water, but today I forgot.)

Handful of ice cubes

Instructions

Mix everything in the Vitamix.

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I’ve been having discussions with friends, including Ripped, about the whole carbohydrates situation, and I’m trying to be conscious of how many carbs and what kind I’m eating and when.

I’m still doing the high-carb thing 30 minutes before heading to the gym at 5:30 a.m.—small glass of freshly squeezed OJ, half a banana, and a cup of coffee. This is a perfect recipe for success for me, whether I’m doing cardio or training with Adorable. I’ve experimented with skipping this, but I’m back to doing what I know works.

After morning workouts, however, I’ve eliminated toast or a whole wheat English muffin in favor of a poached egg, roasted sweet potatoes (with cayenne), and half an avocado. I’ve been roasting up a batch of sweet potatoes and keeping them in the freezer and about four poached eggs in the fridge so I can heat them up quickly in the microwave after getting home from the gym.

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Playlist Highlights

My playlists disappeared from my iPhone when I downloaded the latest system software, so I’m in recovery.

Day 207, October 22, 2014

“When the going gets tough/the tough get going.”

—Pitbull, “We Are One”

Now that I’m incorporating (the tiniest bit of) weight training, I’m engaging in insane conversations with Adorable and runner friends on smart ways to get to failure.

Let’s just say that in my nine-to-five world, getting to failure just doesn’t come up.

When Adorable used the phrase for the first time, I wasn’t sure if he was testing me to see if I was paying attention or if I had completely zoned out.

He was adding and taking away weights while I was using a weight machine in a purposeful way when he explained the gist behind the pyramid set versus the drop set.

“We’re doing many reps with a lighter weight and then gradually adding weight but with fewer reps,” he said matter-of-factly.

“That’s a pyramid set. In a drop set, we’re starting with a higher weight, and once we get to failure, we’ll continue without resting with a lower weight.”

“Are you making this up?”

“Or we could start with a lower weight, as it works the other way around too.”

I’ve been focusing on pushing myself beyond anything close to my comfort zone. But getting to failure?

Getting to failure is a term used in weight training, but it also applies to exercising without weights. For example, when I’m doing regular, standard push-ups, which we added a week ago, the idea is to go until my muscles fail and then immediately drop to my knees and do as many reps as possible.

It takes intelligence to get to failure, Adorablereminded me.

It’s a goal.

Without injury.

We are so done with super setting.

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Friday will be

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