Monday Manjoyment!

What's UP Kittens?? Happy Monday!! Today's Manjoyment is some dude named Joe on some show I don't watch, but heck, I needed to mix things UP a bit here on Mondays!! HELLO remember I take nominations people- bring it. Otherwise, I tend to go with my old favorites. Nothing wrong with that.

Anyway, I'll be in Miami this week. Yea, I am actually NOT complaining about this trip fo sho but still people, never being HOME in your own house and never getting to like sit down or see your friends and family is NOT a fantastic thing. I'm glad that I get to see my work friends on the road but I'm looking forward to maybe some of this travel insanity calming down a bit. It seems to go in spurts....anyway. I'm thankful to be employed in a line of work I love, so there's that. (A little "Quit Your Bitchin" moment)

I bought myself a little mini-mixer for the road, I have my Met-Rx shake packets packed (thanks to spending some time with my BFF Carla aka MizFitOnline in Nashville), my green tea packed for the room, my multi-vitamin/supplement/fish oil packs from GNC, my TRX, my workout clothes, my iPod (with new tunes), my ValSlides, my short HIIT workouts from Cathe and my new obsession- BEEF JERKY! Again, thank you to Carla for having some at Blissdom, I'm like OMG- protein that travels well and works with the "plan" most of us are on. Bonus. 

I'm fine with facial hair. Are you? I mean, not on ME obviously but on a guy, yes. Although a full beard does indeed make me think of Grizzly Adams:

Yes, this is a show I used to WATCH in my youth. Correction; my father dug it so by default, we children also "enjoyed it". Um yea. Do you think he had highlights put in his beard, to match his fur coat? #ChannelingLiberace

I've been finishing up the book by Rachel Cosgrove, The Female Body Breakthrough. I REALLY DIG IT. Her approach is a LOT in alignment with almost everything I've been reading and hearing lately- focus more on weights FIRST, cardio second- and not hours and hours of cardio but specific more "bang for your buck" interval training, and lastly, if you really dig the lower steady state cardio like running (for LONG distances like an hour) you add that in....now, this is not an approach for everyone, but it is something I'm liking. 

Take a peek at this type of training:

Now here is Kelly channeling her inner Southern Diva again:

So kids, as I fly off to the warm beaches of Miami, I want to leave you with a thought:

TO GET WHAT YOU'VE NEVER HAD, YOU MUST DO WHAT YOU'VE NEVER DONE. (I've shared this before and we all go, yea yea, right, I get it.....but the key is, at least for me, sometimes WE THINK WE ARE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT, OR DIFFERENT ENOUGH TO MAKE A CHANGE IN OUR BODIES, AND YET WHEN WE LOOK CLOSELY, WE HAVEN'T BEEN.....this was my lesson most recently with 4HB and guess what NOW I AM DOING IT ALL DIFFERENTLY.)

QUESTION OF THE DAY: If you use protein powder - what is your preferred brand?