Becoming Super Woman

I love doing what most people don't do and the idea of being a woman with a LOT of upper body strength, is ridiculously appealing to me.  Especially, given my interest, in things like, gymnastics, pole dance and circus aerials, where you have to climb ropes and silks, repeatedly. and support your body weight in a number of positions and tricks including the occasional one handed trick... It teaches you very early on how little strength you actually have. To improve that, we typically end aerials classes with conditioning, that almost always includes 10 pull ups.  I'm still at a consecutive unassisted 3 pull ups, but...

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Gyms and Boxes

I know, I know its been a while.  In fairness, I wrote a few posts, and thought I set them to auto post but apparently did not.  The others will pop up at random in the coming months, but I'm not really sure what to do about one in particular from my Cinco de Mayo weekend.  Its a great post and I'd hate to deprive you of it. So try not to side eye me too much when it pops up in mid August.  :) Meanwhile let me catch you up on what you've been missing.  I've retired my gym rat card.  I realized, that one of the main reasons I lose motivation, especially in the new gym is because its small which limits my choices...

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What motivates your workouts?

Initially, I started l this process to get skinny but lost motivation once I started liking how I looked again.  It wasn't until I discovered aerials that my workouts, especially my lifting, became important me because it made me prioritize being strong over being thinner.  So I could have the strength to do things like climb the silks, or flip myself upside down. All the way to the top! I would still love to be thinner but I know that my efforts to get stronger will also burn fat and help me get thinner.  Now that I'm approximately 12 days from resuming my Aerials classes, I'm far more motivated in the...

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Are shrimp dumplings healthy if you make them yourself?

This probably shouldn't be on my list of recipes to try, but how freaking yummy does that look?!?!?  I might sub in ground chicken or turkey for the pork and give this a whirl!  Shrimp Dumplings (adapted from Taste and Tell): Recipe from: http://damndelicious.tumblr.com/post/43551512932/shrimp-dumplings Yields 36 dumplings INGREDIENTS: 1 pound shrimp, peeled, deveined and diced 8 ounces ground pork 1 cup shredded green cabbage 2 green onions, thinly sliced 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 teaspoon mirin Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 36 gyoza/pot sticker wrappers 2...

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Food For thought: Two Sketches

 In this video, women described themselves to a sketch artist that couldn't see them. He then drew them based on their descriptions and on OTHER people's descriptions.  This video below reminded me to be more cognizant of the fact that I like most people, especially women, are our biggest critics.  We often see flaws where there are none. Remember its easy to look at how far you have left to go in your fitness journey, when you should really be looking at how far you've come. Moral of the story: You are more beautiful than you think.  What would your two sketches look like? Candyd...

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