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"What is the meaning of life? To be happy & useful." ~the dalai lama |
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In my excited anticipation for new people joining my tribe of strong, useful humans, I went ahead and got four workout logbooks: two for new group members, two for new twice-weekly personal training clients!
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Hello Strength Fans!
I have two openings for my Amazons* of Midtown morning strength training group starting in August...which is already THIS FRIDAY! *Current members all happen to be very tall women...we have a funny way of attracting that to our group lately. HOWEVER, if you are interested and aren't an Amazon, you are still fully, completely, wholly welcome AS YOU ARE...and encouraged to join us! Remember: wherever you are on your journey to empowerment & strength, I'll meet you there. Email me for details! <3 UpShift Cycling, phase 2.3: The Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QvtuywENC0Vb7byAmHmIMcRL-iTVKFLFQaWZ5wRQ0bk/viewform :::Calling all female-identified cycling beginners and wannabes in Sacramento*::: Please take our 2-minute survey and help us gather what information about cycling would be most valuable to you in our workshop series starting Mid-August! *If you do not identify as a female beginning cyclist AND live in Sacramento, please pass this along to your friends and family who do. Many, many thanks in advance! Love, Alexandra & Angie Fast, refreshing, quick fuel for the morning or the afternoon or for whenever you damn well please.
Ingredients: ~ ½ ripe cantaloupe with the seeds scooped out ~ Yogurt (any full-fat variety will do very will here) ~ Any yogurt toppings you want (chia seeds, cacao nibs, walnuts, flax seeds, gummy bears... okay, maybe not gummy bears...) Directions: 1. Remove more fruit flesh from the seed-hole to make your cantaloupe hole larger to hold more yogurt. 2. Fill the hole to overflowing with your flavorite yogurt. (My flavorite is Strauss Family Creamery Whole Milk Yogurt, in case you were wondering.) 3. Top with berries, cinnamon, and a sprinkle of sea salt. 4. Devour with a spoon. 5. Once you've eaten all the yogurt and most of the cantaloupe, see how much cantaloupe flesh you can scrape away with your spoon, refusing to waste a fraction of an ounce of food/fuel. 6. (Optional) Show your creativity and resourcefulness by reusing the rind bowl for salsa or lentil soup if you're on a backpacking adventure! Originally published on March 31, 2010 on www.otherantics.blogspot.com while living in Seoul, South Korea, a mere three months after beginning my strength training journey with BodyTribe.
Two weeks ago, I joined Korea Ultimate League ... my first time really playing ultimate (frisbee) since lifting at BodyTribe (actually, since July 2007, before I left for two years to my island in Caribbean Paradise), and I was pleasantly surprised at my enhanced abilities on the field. In a former life as an NCAA Division-I distance swimmer and 200-butterflier, my relationship with Gravity was truly of the love/hate variety. In the pool, it helped break records, acquire and defend D-I National Championship titles, and train for Olympic Trials. Anywhere on dry land, however, that devil bore down on my entire existence. Going up a flight of stairs, especially after a 10K Monday afternoon practice, or a 6K V-o2 Max set, was the most difficult physical activity known to every aquatic athlete of this caliber (not just me). It was not uncommon for us to wait en masse for the world's slowest elevator to take us up one floor after practice. The crazy people, obviously with something to prove, would slowly, arduously, ascend the dreaded stairwell, and still lag behind the ones in the world's slowest elevator. Make us do stupidness like stadiums, or run, or jump on boxes, and we'd injure ourselves and be in the training room with weeks of physical therapy...that's physical therapy in addition to the 25+ hours and 45-60 miles in the pool/in the weight room/doing dry land training every week. Gravity has been my mortal enemy for at least eight years of my life. In general, up until about 11 days ago, I was never that fast or graceful or agile on land (that jerk Gravity gave me a pretty rough way to go outside my Life Aquatic). 11 days ago, I noticed something strange. Something foreign. Something so totally bitchin', I want to do burpees to celebrate: moving is just...easier. Stairs? Two at a time. Always. Elevator? Never heard of such a thing. Walking? Like I need to be somewhere fast, even when I probably don't (or maybe that's cause I live in a big, crowded city, and if I slow down, I'll be trampled under a stampede of stilletoed feet and other fancy leather shoes). Ultimate? Playin' like I was on a (beer-bracket) team in university!!!! Gravity, I accept your challenge, but you should probably know: you have already lost. Case in point: Last night, in place of lifting (after my first gym in Seoul closed down unexpectedly), I improvised with the following combo in the parking deck/on the street of my apartment building: Warm up: Mosey, 150'. Then carry my 12.5 L (3.3 gal x 8 lbs/gal) water bottle down the 5 flights of stairs Combo: (5 sets, no rest between sets) -- 10 x 24" box jumps in the parking deck -- 10 x burpees (various: scissor, B-girl, BodyTribe) -- overhead farmer's carry with the water bottle, 200'. Increase by ~50' every round Cool down: Carry the water bottle (still full, of course) back up the 5 flights of stairs It was awesome. By the last round, there were spectators from afar. I'm certain the middle-aged Korean women oogling my 8 pm battle with Gravity were calling all their friends to tell them about the crazy foreign female giant doing the nonsense with her water bottle. I hope my victory was obvious. Q: Why do you require clients to pay for their session(s) in advance?
A: The reason I ask clients to pay in advance for their session is because I am an independent contractor, and my livelihood (and business) depends on people keeping their word about showing up for appointments, and paying me for my time and energy. I like to think of it as an energy exchange.* I consider our appointment sacred, and will never miss or reschedule a session, barring extenuating circumstances. (Edit/confession: Once, in the year+ that I have been doing regular 5:30 am sessions, I slept right through my 4:50 am alarm, leaving a client wondering if we both got the date wrong. Fortunately, they live very close, and were able to walk home and carry on with their day, hopefully not impacting the rest of it negatively! I guess my body REALLY needed to sleep!) I also find it is in the client's best interest to pay in advance to hold them accountable for our session(s) together. People seek me (and my services) out because they want support in making changes in their lives, and these changes cannot be done if sessions are cancelled or rescheduled. It's the same reasoning I've used to set my rates...if the cost is too low, the time will not be valued, and clients will either not show up physically, or will not show up in other capacities, during or after the session. Both are equally detrimental to the client and myself; it's unproductive to leave a session feeling that the time has been wasted for either of us. It goes the same if the rate is too high: the client sets unreasonable expectations for the professional to deliver, and then is constantly disappointed. Thus, the impact of the service is low, and therefore, unsustainable. Another reason I have clients pay in advance is that it secures their time slot. This is especially important for clients whose hour occupies a popular time of day. Scheduling runs on a first come-first served basis, or, claim (and pay for) your hour, and you will get it. If it's not claimed (and paid for), it can go to another client who would like to have that particular hour for their particular schedule. Post-pay works for doctor/dentist/insurance-takers because they have insurance and hundreds (or thousands) of patients to get on their schedule books, since they're listed in some Primary Care Provider directory, which serve hundreds of thousands of people. *What is an energy exchange? Find the answer to this in a future FAQ post! I eat some version of this for breakfast perhaps five days a week. I've found it to be the perfect balance of first-meal fueling with vegetables, protein, fat, and bread.
Combinations of these delicious fuel items I particularly enjoy include:
Things get real fancy when I feel like adding a few slices of raw or aged white cheddar, bilberry jam, or rubbing the toast with a clove of garlic and spreading even more butter on top. Sometimes the Co-op's house-made sausages are on sale so I'll add those, too, when I'm needing extra calories to begin fueling me for a day filled with movement and/or workshops and/or Interchange. I'm blessed to live in a place where a variety of locally-grown fruits and vegetables are available year-round at farmer's markets and the food co-op, so I get to indulge in a all sorts of veg + butter + eggs every day if I want to!
Directions:
1. Find a pot with a tight-fitting lid and no vent holes. 2. Put it on the stove over a medium/medium-high flame. 3. Pour in coconut oil. Use enough to cover the bottom of the pan so that it moves when you move the pan, NOT just coating the bottom. This may require slightly more, or less than ¼ cup, depending on the size of your pot. 4. Put the lid back onto the pot with the oil in it while it heats, about 30 seconds. 5. Add the popcorn and shake the pan around to coat the popcorn with oil. 6. Put the lid back on and let it pop until the popping slows to 1 kernel every 3 seconds or so. 7. Turn the flame off and let the popping continue for another minute-ish. 8. Pour the popcorn into a large bowl. 9. Drizzle olive oil over the popcorn. 10. Toss the popcorn in the bowl using tongs or your wrist-flipping tossing-skills until the popcorn seems evenly coated with olive oil. 11. Sprinkle salt, nutritional yeast, and a generous squirt of Sriracha (all to taste). 12. Tong or toss to coat the popcorn again. 13. Devour your creation. Impress your friends with the large quantity of popcorn you're able to consume in one sitting!
Looking for an easy, refreshing, fridge-cold beverage to help you stay hydrated this summer using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen? Try filling a large wide-mouth mason jar with water, add two herbal tea bags, and stick it in the fridge for at least an hour. I prefer the caffeine-free options so that I can chug delicious tea into the evening hours (and wake up 23 times throughout the night to empty my bladder)...most herbal tea is already caffeine-free. My flavorite combination right now is peppermint + peppermint. Another is ONE bag of Tazo Passion Tea steeped overnight. No sugar, no chemicals (hopefully), no dehydrating diuretic side-effects!
Experiment with any combination that suits your fancy tastebuds! Leave a comment with one that you particularly enjoyed so that we can all revel in your magic infused-water creations! |