Hope your week is kicking off to a great start. After the past several days of holidays and indulging on yummy delicacies that come with the traditional rituals of Purim and Easter, it's time to get back on the healthy track. You may be looking back and thinking about how another weekend passed by. While out on dates or other social gatherings, another several drinks down the hatch. The calorie count is high from these wonderful elixirs and you lose count as the time goes by conversing with the person in front of you.
How is one to stay fit and healthy while still out and about? I know my struggle comes from the evening outings/dates that many times include both eating and drinking. I sometimes make the conscious decision of not eating and saving my calories for the drinks. How is that even a good idea? It's just setting myself up for the possibility of getting intoxicated with a hangover the next morning. What I could had done was have a balance of some lite bites and drinks so to wake up refreshed without popping Advil's while chugging coconut water.
It's all about balance. Now, I know what you all are probably thinking. "I have a healthy balance of going out, working out and eating right?" Well, do you really? How many of you are doing on average an hour worth of cardio every day? I don't count typing at a desktop or getting up to go to the water cooler. And, how many of you are meal planning for the week and getting a good dose of veggies and protein in your diet? These are truly the key to staying healthy and fit if you have this down to a lifestyle.
I know the struggle is real. I deal with it constantly. Some of you who are reading this, have seen my own personal transformation. (Which I will save for another blog post.) Every day is a new day to make the right choice, while still living your life and going out.
Life is truly about balance. With balance comes the difficult decision of the sacrifices we need to make to have that balance. There will be weeks where we have a jam packed social calendar of gatherings. I know as much as the next person that we do not want to sacrifice those outings. We want to be able to enjoy good times, good laughs, good drinks with great people.
One simple thing we can all benefit from adding into our life is some sort of morning workout routine. It does not have to be anything fancy or crazy, like sweating beast mode, or cardio (but those feel amazing). For myself, I have implemented every morning to wake up and hop on my stationary bike in my room and cycle for an hour while watching the morning news. This is an easy, low impact, cardio workout you can easily implement. I am doing several activities all at once (cardio, watching tv, checking emails, surfing the web, blogging, drinking water).
If you do not have a bike, there are plenty of cardio exercises that can be done in shorter amounts of times. Personally, I have also been adding a 5 minute cardio blast which is a quick and great way to add that extra boost. It's done in no time with little to no additional equipment. My personal, go to 5 minute workout is by David Kirsch. He has the 5 minute, 5 steps workout depicted in the picture below. (Please also see the list of links below for some other 5 minute cardio blasts that you can incorporate in your life)
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| David Kirsch 5-5-5 Plan workout. See the link below. |
Below is a list of different links to Five Minute Workouts you can easily add into your daily routine. Many shares the movements. Just find the one that fits you best or incorporate several ones throughout the week to change it up.
David Kirsch 5-5-5 plan
Shape magazine 5 minute cardio fat blaster
Fitness Magazine 5 minute express workouts
Glamour magazine 5 minute workout with weights
Stay Fit and Active,
Ilana
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