Posts by Fitnessista
Light Mojitos with Honey Simple Syrup
Hi! Happy almost-Friday 🙂 Did you know tomorrow is National Mojito Day?? Regarding “food holidays,” I think some are pretty awesome (Chocolate Pudding Day!) and some are kind of boring. Apparently one day last week was National Eat Beans Day. Eat Beans Day?! This is where everyone in my [Hispanic] family (including yours truly) collectively shakes…
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What would you ask Tony Horton?
Hi guys! How’s your day going? I’m so happy you liked the barre burner! I’m SUPER STOKED because I found out a method to upload videos faster to YouTube, so I can post workouts more often. My last barre burner took about 3 days to upload (and multiple tries!!!) and this one: 40 minutes. I…
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Strength barre workout
Hi! Happy humpday to ya. Anything fun on the agenda? Liv and I are off on a little adventure this morning. 🙂 In the meantime, I wanted to share a new barre burner I put together. I’m a huge fan of changing up my strength training routines, and I especially love that barre workouts, while…
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Do workout steps count?
Hi! Hope you’ve had a wonderful day. I taught my third barre class today! Almost every time I’m about to teach a class, chances are that I’m SUPER nervous beforehand. It’s definitely been the case with barre here since I’ve had to learn a new format + choreographed stretching series. It’s been fun to shake…
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Protein-Packed Make-Ahead Breakfast Burritos
These protein-packed, make-ahead breakfast burritos are gluten and dairy-free too! They’re the perfect healthy breakfast for busy mornings. After burning ourselves out on baked oatmeal (so good, but we had so much!), we’re on to a new breakfast thing. “New” = not really new at all, because usually at some point during the day I…
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Reader’s Request: 5 Easy Ways to Boost Metabolism
Since I got my Weight Loss Specialist certification, quite a few readers have asked me to feature more posts with weight loss tips and tricks. This was a tough one for me because I’m not one to encourage weight loss -I like to focus on body fat percentage- and I understand that reader friends may…
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Summer Shape Up 2014: Week 4
Happy last and BEST week of the Summer Shape Up! Is it just me, or did this one totally fly by? Remember that if you’d like to keep the challenge going, we’ll have our Facebook group up and you can repeat the challenge to make it eight weeks. I hope you’re feeling amazing, and I’ve…
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4th weekend pics
Beach baby. Flowers on the table. Some homemade sauerkraut, which I’m calling sauerkimchi since I seasoned it like crazy. Indian food. (THEY DELIVER.) Mallows roasting on an open grill. Jumping over waves. The sisters. Playing. (Goal: split without toppling over.)
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Forks over knives
Hi! Happy Sunday! How was your holiday weekend? Ours was perfect with lots of beach time, some great workouts, relaxing, s’mores and fireworks. I even got the chance to catch a couple of movies with a glass of red. Whenever we PCS (permanent change of station), I’m always super stoked that we get ALL of…
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Friday Faves
Happy 4th of July! Hope you’re enjoying the day relaxing with those you love. I hope it includes some Vitamin D, s’mores, something grilled, and some fireworks. Maybe some sangria in there, too. Loved this: Some favorites from the week and around the web: Beachzza. May we always be stationed near a Pizza Port…
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Musical Cardio Playlist + solo spin sesh
Hi! Happy long weekend! Hope you fun plans ahead for the holiday. We’re grilling with friends and hopefully I’ll get to do a little paddleboarding adventure. 😉 I’m also teaching spin again! When I taught last week, I was super nervous -it had been forever since my last class but decided to go in there…
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Welcome to the family
We have added to the amount of pets in our family, thanks to two lucky ping pong balls at a fair game. Livi has named them Tinkerbell and Goldilocks, and they live in her room in the swanked out aquarium the Pilot picked up for her. (“Well they had this princess castle, and a Little…
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