Monday Manjoyment!

Oh Good Heavens. Bless His Heart, he's gone and lost his shirt. 

That's disappointing. *Ahem*

Kittens, it's almost 10pm. I JUST HAD MY DANG DINNER AT 9:20PM if that tells you how busy I am right now. This FitFluential Road Trip Tour is making me need Botox because I've been concentrating and working and focusing so hard. DANG! 

Our friend here, Cristin Ronaldo, came to my attention on Pinterest. He's quite enjoyable and knowing that he plays soccer makes him even more kickass. I was a soccer stat girl in high school, just so you know. Soccer dudes are just plain....just plain...tough. And this Manjoyment specimen ~ well I dig the hair, the earrings, the attitude. It WORKS. Then you add a little more manly sass like this:

And well, his rating just went up 20 points. On a scale of what? Who cares? ON MY SCALE ok? Backward baseball caps on sporty dudes = Winning.

Oh heavens to Betsy! Looks like our boy here WAS indeed winning. Let's keep that going shall we? My workout today was- at 7:30pm mind you - Angie Miller's Kettlebell Bootcamp. Burned 550 calories, I finished this up with 135 walking lunges and some serious plank work FTW. BOOYA!

Let me tell you something. This workout sneaks up on you. I used a 20lb Kettlebell and a 15lb Kettlebell at the end. OH HEAVENS Angie is a FitFluential Ambassador (remember I met her recently, she lives in Chicago!) and has NEW DVDS OUT-- check it!!

Here is what I'm saying about Angie. She's BUFF. Seriously buff. Like the kind of buff and chiseled you want to poke to see if it's real. Clearly she knows what she's talking about. Give her some love. ;-) 

SAUCY!! I LOVE HIM. Mommy, can I have one? PLEEEZZZ?? 

Here's my sweaty, sloppy post-workout vlog:

Wow. There's a lot going on there. A LOT. 

#BARKWORTHY

And now I must go. Don't miss me too much.

Happy Memorial Day!

A little late here on posting (oops!) but Happy Memorial Day to all of you. I hope that this holiday weekend makes you all think, and be grateful for the men and women that serve and protect us, year-round. We so take that for granted and it certainly should NOT only be on Memorial day that we SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. I don't care what your stance is on war, support the troops that protect us. Period.

I've been at a cookout most of this afternoon and evening -- but--- I did a killer sweatfest workout before heading out, BOOYA! I actually did the first DVD of the RKS Kettlebell system and was quite pleased. VERY SWEATY and very excited to progress with these workouts. Again- just like the GSP RushFit DVDs (I previewed one of them), these DVDs have a LOT of instruction and demos so you can see the right form and how to modify....I think this is key, especially when you get into the really tough workouts like these. 

I don't know how people do Kettlebell workouts without gloves on- my hands get so sweaty, if I didn't wear gloves I'd have Kettlebells flying through the windows and the walls. Actually, if I could CURVE BALL a kettlebell to land flat in my neighbor's condo and eliminate them, I'd be all over that.

DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD? Shame on you Kelly. SHAME. 

So I did the 5 minute warm-up, followed by the 20 minute kettlebell workout-- which on the first DVD is swings ONLY- 30 seconds of swings followed by 45 seconds of rest. At first I was like WTH!! But then it got progressively harder and I had to go down from 25lb Kettlebells to 20lb kettlebells. Then, I figured, let's kick our glutes a bit harder. Let's do Steve Pfiester's little glutes-on-fire blast. Oh Lord. I called him some naughty names again during this 10 minute sweatfest. Overall burn of 365 calories in 35 minutes. Not bad.

If you dig that lower body blast, check out Steve's videos on YouTube, and also HELLO sign up (FREE) at FitStudio.com as a member. Steve and his wife Bonnie have made several customized boot camp workouts there and more to come! Seriously??? Killer workouts and FREE. Can't beat it. Like this:

What's up with him and that devilish "I'm gonna kill you with THIS move" look? 

Anyway, tonight at the cookout I did not pig out. I did have a Corona which I love. They had pulled pork sandwiches that everyone was ga-ga for but I don't do pork- I don't even like bacon (shocking!), so I just ate some side dishes- potato salad and cole slaw, about maybe 1/2 cup each if that. I wasn't TRYING to measure that and be like "I'm eat like a bird Kelly"-- not at all. I just put that amount on my plate, and calmy ate what I wanted. Then I had 2 pieces of this fruit pizza- delicioso!!! Have you ever tried it? YUM. When I got home, I didn't feel that I'd had enough "solid food" in my tummy so I made myself a Lean Cuisine french bread pizza- totally hit the spot. So-- I feel good. I didn't pig out, I enjoyed some good food and I had a good time. These books by Geneen Roth are really HELPING ME slow down and get a more normal DAY TO DAY- year-round mindset about food. 

Remember this scene in Gone With The Wind? WELL FIDDLE DEE DEE!!

Now, here is today's (actually this was from last night when I got home) Ramble-On-A-Thon. Enjoy at your discretion. 

QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FRUIT?