My Journey: Why I lift weights and why you should too

A friend of mine, whom I'll call "JBoogie" has decided she needs to start working on her health and fitness and asked to workout with RR and I. Seeing her initial struggles this week, reminded me of where I started, and made me realize that I've never really discussed the importance of weight lifting here in my blog.  As you may or may not know, I believe in lifting and lifting heavy. I lift weights every day, I do more lifting than cardio (although I do need to do more cardio), but I did not start here, getting here was a loong process. Although, I bet it feels like dog years to RR, because I was... uh,...

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Incentives

I used to reward myself for meeting goals with food, but then I realized that I am not a dog and i need to stop rewarding myself like one.  Plus rewarding myself with a 2,000 calorie cinnabun is sooo counterproductive. Instead, I'm rewarding myself with clothes and shoes, and activities.  My latest milestone will probably be linked to this dress.  I can't think of a better dress to show off my guns and clavicles this summer. So if this becomes my next reward, I'll need to find someplace to wear this (overpriced) Boston Proper dress!! I mean $140 for a scuba dress... yikes!!  But to say I'm infatuated with it is...

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Form and Function: Upper body strength

A few months back Livingsocial made me a deal, that I just couldn't refuse, a 2.5hr class consisting of Flying Trapeze, Silks and Trampoline, topped off with a cupcake tasting at the Trapeze School of New York- Washington, DC.  That is like my perfect evening!!!  So I signed up, so did my sister in law, Miekspeak, and my friend and fellow blogger, CO.  After months of anticipation, we ran off to join the circus yesterday.  Ready! I LOVED it; I believe Miekspeak and CO enjoyed… parts of it.  LOL.  Apparently, after climbing the ladder of death, they spent some time on the flying trapeze platform cursing...

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