hello friends!

hopefully you all had the chance to make our cheezy quinoa casserole. no? well you must because we are coming over for dinner…we will bring the wine

since the last time we mentioned changing things up in our workouts to stay fit and active for Lori’s big day, we have been doing more yoga and slowly getting back into our HIIT style workouts.

Workout recap -

• Friday – did a mix of random things, remember we like random, to be honest we do not remember. just picked some of our favorite workout moves similar to this workout.
• Saturday – rest day
• Sunday – Zuzana’s ZWOD newest workout  (amazing workout!)
• Monday – we did some yoga, found some videos on youtube – 4 minute yoga from Bex  and this vinyasa flow

if you have been following our blog for awhile you know that we workout from home and love interval workouts. well these past few months we have eased off of them due to skin issues.

we took a break from our HIIT (bodyrock style) workouts because we thought they might have been causing inflammation in our skin.

with all our recent research and new eating habits that we are testing out, we are feeling pretty good about bringing them back into our routine. we miss HIIT.

again this is just for us, everyone is different.

when we do high intensity workouts we see the best results in our bodies. plus just love quick HIIT workouts for our busy schedule.

we have a plan of attack to get our arms looking sexy for Lori’s wedding day (and who doesn’t want toned arms?) we shall share more on that here soon. her wedding is in 14 weeks! yikes, we better get to work.

today we are focusing on planks. planks are one exercise we are doing to help tone up our arms. although planks are a great full body workout too.

we are doing another challenge like our last FitFluential handstand challenge. this time holding plank.

we got our inspiration from this amazing lady and the rest of our FitFluential family.

here is a video of Lori and I holding plank for 2 minutes. by the end of the first minute our bodies start to shake. but we are planning on sticking with it everyday. because we feel 2 minutes a day is one step closer to reaching our fitness goals! are you with us in doing plank everyday?

even if you just hold it for 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, etc doesn’t matter. maybe set up your gymboss timer to intervals.

and if planks are not your thing feel free to pick something else to try to do everyday! maybe push-ups, squats, etc, the idea here is just to do something and be proud of yourself that you are strengthening your body and your mind in same way!

 

here is Lori holding plank yesterday after our yoga and arm session.

this week our goal is holding plank for 2 minutes and increase each week.

now as we mentioned we have been avid followers of bodyrock. but as some may have noticed things have a changed a lot over there. actually the changes starting happening months ago about the same time we started cutting back on them. yes one reason was because of our skin, and trying to heal it. but another reason was because we were not liking what was going on. we feel in love with Zuzana, her passion for fitness, her energy, and yes her beauty. there are  many Zuzana haters out there, which is fine, but we are not. we feel anyone who helps inspires people to move, to love their body, to care of themselves such be acknowledged for that not criticized.

we still love bodyrock. and the whole message around it – doing intense home workouts. and plan to do their workouts from time to time.

if you want us to share more thoughts on this please let us know. for now we will leave it at that.

Twins Question: Well really not a question, just would love to hear what exercise you plan to challenge yourself everyday to reach your goals!