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Writer's pictureSusie Csorsz Brown

Be your best #312

Everything heals and grows when it is loved well.  People, too.  ~ Brianna West



Happy Monday! Looking for something — anything! — to keep the kids off their devices? How about inspiration for some lego experimentation?


New recipe: a swirled brownie recipe that is so very nutty and good! 

Being an ally is important every day, not just in June.


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Physical Health


Eat Well


Key take-away: training/exercise and diet work together.  One can't do it all. 


Be Active

What does “engage your core” mean anyway?


Let's move!


This is what's called an EMOM (every minute, on the minute).  You'll set your timer for 5 minutes.  Every time a minute starts, you'll do the prescribed moves.  Maintain proper form, but know that the faster you do the moves, the longer rest you will take before having to start again at the top of the next minute.  The beauty of this workout is you can make it as long or as short as you'd like.  You can do all of these sets or pick your favorite 4 or 5.  Up the number of minutes you do that set, to correspond with how long you'd like to work out.  You don't necessarily need to do them in this order, either.  Changing it up will challenge your muscles in different ways.  

Hint: practice the moves for the next set prior to starting your timer as part of an active rest period.  The moves may sound tough, but I promise you can do it! 


EMOM- Start your music!


  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 5 x squat thrust + knee to each elbow (drop to the squat, jump or step legs back to a high plank, then bring one knee and then the other to touch the same side elbow, and then jump or step legs in + jump straight up 

+ 5 x sprawl to a ball (lay on your back, arms out to your sides, legs slightly wider than hip width.  That's your sprawl.  Now bring everything up, hugging your knees in, balancing on the small of your back.  That's your ball.  Now move in between the two movements).

 

  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 4 x 2 full sit up touching your toes + 4 crab toe touch (2 on each side) - Get into crab position, lift your leg and touch your toe, aiming to do so over your belly button.

+5 squats

 

  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 5 x bear crawl + kick through (5 total, as each one includes a kick through each way) - Get on your hands and knees, and lift your knees an inch.  Crawl on your hands and toes, keeping your butt as low as you can up 2 and back 2.  Rotate your right hip towards the ground, keeping your left foot on the ground, and kick your right leg through trying to keep it parallel to the ground and your hip off the ground.  Repeat the same on the left.  That's 1.

+ 5 x star jumps (stand with feet hip width apart.  Squat down slightly and then push off, arms out over your head, and legs out in a start position.  Land softly.  Alternately, you can squat down and then stand up, arms out over your head, bringing one leg up and out to the side.)

 

  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 5 x alternating lunge + hop (front lunge + hop the lunge + step back) (5 each side)

+ 5 x rolling boats - Lay on your back and lift your upper body off the ground, 45 degrees off the ground.  Lift your legs up at the same time, 45 degrees from your hips to your knees. You can either bend your legs, keeping your lower legs parallel to the ground or straighten your legs bringing your body into a v-shape.  Your arms should be either parallel to the ground reaching toward your legs (but not holding on) or, if you can, extended over your head.  In the boat position, get your balance on your tail bone.  Maintaining the boat/V position, roll back on your lower back and then roll back, try to regain your balance on your tailbone again.

 

  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 10 x elevated planks + step down  (10 x each side) - Put your feet on a chair seat or a block with your body straight through the hips and legs, and your hands in plank position.  You should be straight from your heels to your shoulders.  Step one foot down, right in front of the block, but keeping your hips high.  Step the other down.  When you step down with both feet, your hips will lift into a modified down dog position.  Now, step back to the elevated plank.  Repeat, alternating which foot you step down first with.

+ 4 x side lunge + knee jump up + curtsy lunge (2 each side) (step our foot out wide to the side, and then sit your hips back, like you are sitting in a very narrow chair right behind the foot that has stepped out; the other non-stepping foot should be still and pointing forward, that leg is straight.  Push off that squatting leg, and bring that knee up, adding a hop if you like.  Now that same foot steps behind your standing foot, and bend both knees dropping into a curtsy.  When doing these squats pay attention that your knees do not pass beyond your toes.)  

 

  • 5 minutes

Top of the minute: 8 x Bulgarian split squats (4 each side)  - Stand about 2 or 3 feet away from a block or chair, and put one foot on the chair (laces down or with your foot flexed, whatever is more comfortable for you).  With your foot elevated, bend at the knee on the front leg, performing a squat.  Return to the starting position.

+ 8 x t-spine rotation to down dog (4 each side) - From a down dog position (upside down V, hips high), step one foot forward outside your same side hand to a low lunge.  This will bring your hips down.  Keeping your feet in the same position and hips from dropping, rotate that same hand up to a T position, twisting open your shoulders, feet/legs maintaining their low lunge positions.  Rotate back, replace your hand, and push back into a dog dog.  Repeat on the other side. 


Spiritual Health


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Social Health


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