Get Physique-a-licious

Archive for January, 2009

Everyone wants a quick fix when it comes to losing weight.  We want to look awesome here and now.  We don’t want to go to the gym to work it off. 

I believe so hardly in natural things.  I believe to work hard and eat-clean to get my results.  Growing up I was raised on good 3 meals a day.  My mom made me eat the green stuff like green beans, spinach, peas and so on.  She would always tell me that it was good for me.  Why, I would ask.

Green leafy vegetables and berries all contain a phytochemical or superfoods.  What?  you say.  Well, when you eat things that are home grown or are plant based they come with certain phytochemicals that helps our immune system and energy system.  That is what our bodies are suppose to consume.  I found a website that explains all about the phytochemcials called “Phytolife.com”  This is an awesome site.  At Phytolife  they actually have some great receipes.  I need to give them a try.  I have to change what is in my bag of arsenals.  I am tired of my same chicken recipes.

When I get sick I really try and eat better and drink more water.  My body is telling me that there  is something missing.  I won’t take any medication just for the fact I don’t like to take it.  My body will response to medicine just because I don’t normally take the medicine and so it works. 

I really like this phytolife site because they inform you on the value of superfoods.

If you really want to enhance your performance, ask yourself if you are eating the right foods.  Check out phytolife, it has some great nutrition information. 

I may have to try the Tomato Soup.  It has been cold enough to try that.

Well, just thought I would throw that in there for another post for you to read.  You really can’t have too much information when it comes to nutrition.  It is trying to dissect on which information is the good stuff.

Remember to EAT-CLEAN

I have sort of been on a writers block, if you want to call it that.  I have been extremely busy teaching classes since the semester started.  Ever feel like things all of a sudden come out of nowhere and then you are left sprinting trying to catch up.  What the heck, I had all Christmas break to prepare, which I did a little.  Then I started the push-up challenge which now I have to start over.  I think I may drop down a column.  I have been doing well on it but not great.  I feel like the goals for the push-ups were rushing me a  little so, I backed off, then I totally stopped. 

I gain a few pounds over the holidays.  You didn’t?  The month of January I started a newsletter for my ladies at the studio in which I incorporated a healthy recipe. 

Do you really want your performance to improve?  Well, you have to eat-clean and eat the right foods.  You have to start learning and listening to your body.  Do you really know what works or are you just going through the same boring routine?  Time to really start listening to your body and feeding it with good stuff.

So, this post I decided to drop you a little Healthy Recipe that I get from a couple of places.

Here it is:

Grilled Citrus Chicken with Fresh Salsa

This Recipe Serves: 4

Preparation Time :  20 minutes

Cooking time :   20 minutes

IngredientsFor the chicken:
1 cup low-fat or non-fat plain yogurt
1/4 cup minced red onion
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/4 cup fresh orange juice
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, 4 to 6 oz. each
For the salsa:
1 avocado
4 tomatoes, chopped
1 to 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and chopped
8 warm wheat tortillas

Cooking Instructions
1. For the chicken: Mix all the ingredients except the chicken in a large bowl. Add the chicken to the mixture and coat evenly. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.

2. Preheat the grill or broiler.

3. Remove the chicken from the marinade and discard the marinade. (This protects against cross-contamination.) Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper.

4. Place the chicken on the grill or under the broiler and cook until the juices run clear, 6 to 8 minutes per side.

5. In the meantime, peel, core and chop the avocado. Place the avocado in a clean bowl and toss it with the lime juice quickly so that it doesn’t discolor. Add the tomatoes, onion and cilantro. Add the jalapeño peppers and salt to taste.

6. Serve the salsa on top of the chicken with the warm tortillas on the side.

So give it a try during the SuperBowl.  You won’t feel guilty. 

Come back and tell how you liked it.

More recipes you can go to www.teambeachbody.com/pkayfit02  Click on join the club and have access to meal plans and tips from the experts like Tony Horton, Chalene Johnson, Debbie Siebers etc…  Very low price, it is not like all the others.

 This recipe I got from http://www.acefitness.org/getfit/recipes.aspx

Well, I have been thinking about this for a while since, I had a young man visit my site and mentioned he was doing this.  It looked very interesting.  I am not good at push-ups at all.  I can do the modified ones like all day but the standard push-ups seem really difficult.  I have been working on my upper body in order to improve my push-ups.

So, today I decided I would jump into the challenge.  This challenge is suppose to have you be able to do hundred push-ups in 6 weeks.  What is it with these 6 weeks things.  Okay, I printed out the test and took it.

I could only do 10, I really thought I could do more, but if I did it would have put me in a bracket that I know is too hard.  So, 10 is good.  More than I have ever before.

Now, not sure if you are suppose to wait to start the initial workout, so I decided to try this workout today.  I started after I finished teaching my Body Chizel class.  We had already done 20 push-ups in class, modified of course, and we did regular bench press and wide chest presses.  So, what was I thinking when after class and everyone was gone, that I thought I could do these push-ups. 

I thought I have better do them now because if I wait then I know I will not do them.

Guess, what I did the bracket I was suppose to and at the end I was suppose to max out at 5 but I did 6.  yeah me!

I think I should be good for Wednesday.  I should do these push-ups first thing in the morning when I am fresh and not after I already worked out.  Then again, that is what I should.  Well, I will mix it up and see what happens.  It doen’t hurt to try.

Hey, if you are looking for a new challenge, come try the hundred push-up challenge with me.  A small goal for the new year.  Hey, now don’t forget about your eating-clean routine.  Want those abs to show through then, you are going to have to eat-clean.  NO more junk!

So, check out http://www.hundredpushups.com/  you can be added to the list with me.  Pkayfit.

Good Luck.  Let me know how you are doing.  I will do the same.  See you at the end of the week, I will let you know what happens.

I has been a while since I have posted.  One of the reasons is because I really have not done too much over the holidays but be a bum and gained a few pounds that I did not need.  Urgh!

I have not gone to a gym in a long time. I started back after the semester, working on my chest and back and working on my pull-ups.  I trying to get to where I can actually do one with the P90x bar. 

Anyway, I have not been sick for like two years.  Gyms carry germs on the machines and no one wants to wipe them down.  I got sick, with a cold.  I was so mad.  So, I have been slackin.

During this time of being sick, I decided to watch the fifth dvd that came in on the one-on-one with Tony.  This dvd is all about push-ups and pull-ups.  None of which I can do.  Tony is himself here.  Crazy.  So, what does the thirty/fifteen stand for.  I will tell you  Thirty seconds of push-ups from every style of push-ups you can imagine in Tony’s world, to fifteen seconds of pull-ups every different kind of pull-ups you can imagine.  Crazy!    This one style of pull-up that Tony does is insane.  He does them in a horizontal plane.  Can you even foster the idea?

Take this guy and take away the floor and try to do the pull-up.  Tony actually does one regular pull-up and then pulls himself into a horizontal position and does another one.

Then it is back down on the floor for some more push-ups.  Just insane.  I decided to pass on working out to this one.  I may use the different push-up in my core training class next semester.  I am thinking about doing the 100 push-up challenge with this next class too.  That should be fun.  I can do this challenge with my class.

I love it though.

I received my 6th dvd with a holiday special dvd inside.  It was a pretty good one.  I will have to let you know how that is when I actually do it.  The main dvd is called “The Fountain of Youth” now who does not want to still look young.  Yoga is this dvd.  Pretty aweseom.

Sign-up to Tony’s one-on-one through Beach Body  or better yet  htt://www.teambeachbody.com/pkayfit02