Bum Bum

Sorry these are sorta boring to watch. We video taped them on our regular camera instead of the video camera and it would not let us edit or add video. Soooo, they are both real short. I completed Turbo Fire 30 this morning before going to the Super Saturday event in San Diego, and then came home to work out with Leandro and complete the Brazil Butt workouts. The first video Cardio Axe, is pretty much fun dancing steps. I really like it. I'm sweating a lot but, DANCING! :-) The second video is called, "High & Tight." A band is used at the beginning to really work the butt, and then there are some floor workouts. These are 2 short videos to show you just a small piece of what the 35 minute video entails! Loving it! My bum bum is going to be sore tomorrow! A good sore!

This first move is a half circles move that works that trouble area of the butt that causes the "cottage cheese" thighs...

This exercise works the inner thighs. We did regular lifts, tempo lifts, and then leg circles. Kellen decided to commentate a little.

Having fun doing this! Have a great weekend!

Mindie G-

www.beachbodycoach.com/timetosoar

Day 2

OK, I probably won't blog EVERY day of my new workout program, but I had to share a little bit of what I did on day 2. I was pretty excited. This is from yesterday. To my surprise I woke up a little sore in the bum bum this morning. :-) That just means it's working! Woo hoo! Have a great day everyone!

Recap of workouts:
Brazil Butt: Bum Bum
Turbo Fire: HIIT 15

My Next Workout

Here is a little video blog with some information about the next two workouts I am going to do together. It's pretty short (five minutes), but has a lot of good information if you are interested in trying either workout.

Insanity, THE END!!

Alright, I finished the 63 days of Insanity and have some results to share... But first off, this is hands down a GREAT workout. I guarantee you will get results, IF you are dedicated to changing your lifestyle; meaning eating according to the nutrition plan (healthy foods, 5 meals a day with a slight caloric deficiency each day) and you PUSH PLAY every day! I enjoy my calendar, because it keeps me accountable, and I like that I can put an "X" each day in a box to see my progress, especially today!

After 2 months of Shakeology, Insanity, and a healthy diet, here are my stats:

Weight: Start 140, Now: seems to fluctuate between 135 & 137

Hips: Start 38.5", Now: 37.5"

Thighs: Start: 22.5, Now: 21.5

Waist: Start: 33, Now: 31

Final Results:
(In case you can't read picture)
Switch Kicks: 133
Power Jacks: 66
Power Knees: 136
Power Jumps: 90- I thought I was going to die (I only stopped once)
Globe Jumps: 14 1/2
Suicide Jumps: 27
Push Up Jacks: 45
Low Plank Oblique: 92

Here are some before and after photos I made on photo bucket...

The Back...

NO MORE LOVE HANDLES!!!!!!!!!!!

The Front...

This was after P90x, my obliques still needed some work...

Feelin' Good People!! Ready for Summer!!!

I think the obliques are OK now.

I am very happy with the results, and motivated to keep pressing on! Maintaining my health is real important to me. My next project is going to be a hybrid of Brazil Butt and Turbo Fire. I'm not sure how that will look yet, but I start tomorrow.

Here is some information about each of these video's and I will post more info as I go.
For whatever reason, when I tried to attach 2 different videos, it tried to copy them as the same video. SO below is a video of Turbo Fire, and the video for Brazil Butt is the link below.
Here is a little info about Brazil Butt...

CHECK OUT BRAZIL BUTT VIDEO

Here is a little info about Turbo Fire...

Alright... wow, what a ride huh? Can't wait to get started! If you wanna join me, email me, text me, Facebook me, or whatever! Check out my Beach body page to get more information!

http://www.beachbodycoach.com/timetosoar

Summit 2011

OK, so Summit... Team Beach Body has a get together with allllllllll the coaches around the nation one time each year. It is usually in LA (I'm guessing) because that is where the CEO of the company is. There are currently over 55,000 coaches! I guess the first year they did the summit there were like 20, so they have grown quite a bit.Summit is where you can meet the trainers, attend seminars about the products, work out Saturday morning with some of the fitness trainers (like Tony Horton!!!- P90x people!!) and learn about how to become a coach and work for yourself in the team beach body business. CLICK HERE FOR A SUMMIT VIDEO
Unfortunately by the time I decided to become a coach, summit was already sold out and we didn't budget for it anyway so I figured I would have to wait until next year. Well last minute one of the founding coaches, David Martin (apparently wayyyyyy up my coaching line) hosted a Thursday event with a guest speaker and a few awards for his coaches. It was free and my coach, Cecilia offered to drive me. Colin was cool with hanging out with Kellen all day so I went to LA to check out the summit.

I had not been to LA since my sister Cassie and I went to a Justin Timberlake concert back in 2007... after I went to the convention with JC's Girls. LA Live is amazing and beautiful and I wish it would have been there when we went to LA with JC's girls because we walked around EVERYWHERE trying to find a place to eat, and there were a TON of places all together now! We arrived, parked and checked Cecilia in for the weekend. We had some time before the guest speaker so we decided to head down to the Beach Body Mall, and I bought a Chalene Johnson Turbo Fire t-shirt... my next workout program after my 30 day Brazil Butt workout (didn't like any of the shirts they were selling for Brazil Butt). As we were walking down there I recognized a man, named Dallas Carter. His success story is below. I wanted to get a picture with him, and introduce myself, but it didn't happen.

So, we headed back down to the mall, and I got my shirt. Afterwards, we got seated and eventually Shaun T made his special appearance to be interviewed by another coach. We had front row seats... here are some pictures I took... He seemed like a pretty regular dude. He's favorite candy is peanut m&m's! YUM!

A lady in the audience asked him a question and then asked if she could see his abs. He was happy to oblige, and my phone decided to take a picture, usually it freezes! My camera was in my back pack, but the MEMORY card was at home! I usually do that (ugh!)

So there you go... his abs are not air brushed, and they were very nice. After Shaun and his abs left (ha ha), they had a short awards event and then we had a quick break before the guest speaker. As I was heading to the restroom I noticed another success story that my brother in law Tymon had sent me. He had seen the video below on youtube, and posted it on his fb. He was very inspired by this guys P90x journey... the video is below.

Usually I would walk by, be shy and not talk to someone I recognized from the Internet, however I knew that it would be so cool to share with him how much he has encouraged me and my brother in law. So, I did and he gladly took a picture with me (see below) and he even said we could email him if we needed any additional encouragement!

Summit was fun, I wish I could check out more, but I will have to wait until next year. I would LOVE to workout with some of the actual trainers that made the videos I own, and pick their brain over a cup of coffee (or Shakeology ha ha). Until then, I will have to live it vicariously through the coaches that got to go.

My First Video Blog

Man, videos are a lot of work. I hope it turned out ok. In the middle of day 50, I decided to ask my husband Colin to video tape me doing the Insanity workout. I have had a lot of people ask about the workouts, and I figured it wouldn't hurt to show everyone a short clip of what the video entails.

This is the Max Interval Circuit. You do not start out with this video. The first month is a different set of videos that preps you for the second month. When I decided to have Colin turn on the camera, I had already completed the warm-up, which consists of about 8 excercises done for 30 seconds each and then repeated 3 times. And the first circuit, four intense exercises done for 45 seconds and repeated 3 times.

The music went pretty well with it. My form is not perfect, I was a little tired. But it was helpful to show me what I need to improve on. Let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

A Day of Rest

I've been taking Sunday's off from my workouts (it is recommended to take a rest day at least once a week to allow your body time to recover and prepare the muscles for more work the next day. I have 2 weeks of Insanity left with Shaun T.

I was given the opportunity to run in the San Diego Rock N Roll 1/2 Marathon this year. Last year I completed the marathon (a first for me) with Team in Training. We raised over 9 million dollars for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society (I only raised $2500 but the nation wide team totalled over 9 million). Last year I had over 4 months of training to prepare myself. This year I had 2 weeks notice. However, I only ran maybe 4 days once I found out that I was going to get to run. I tried to look at it as an opportunity to try and enjoy myself and not really "compete" against anyone or the clock. If you know me, that is REALLY tough for me to do. I almost brought a camera with me to take pictures along the way. I did have some training, my rigorous schedule of 1 hour cardio routines with Shaun T the last month definitely helped a little (I do NOT recommend training for any running activity without some running) so, thanks Shaun T. :-)

I did not have a team with me this year, no real set up support. (A little last minute, everyone already had plans and no one wants to come "watch" you run at 6:15 in the morning.) Even if it is for almost 2 hours and the finish line is at Sea World. My morning started at 3:45 am. I woke up and was out the door by 4am. (Everything was prepped the night before). My sister Jennifer was kind enough to print me directions to get me to the shuttle that would take me to the start line (and let me stay at her house the night before so I didn't have to drive as far). I followed them to the freeway exit. There was not a "specific" ending on the directions. I figured, "Well, follow the cars and hopefully you get to the right spot." I prayed God would help me not get lost! He answered and had me follow cars into a gated airport parking lot that took me right where I needed to be. I locked up the truck (thanks Milford for letting me borrow your truck) and walked in the dark with the other runners to the shuttle and warmth. We drove for a while, I was just glad I made it to the shuttle. The rest was easy I just went off of memory from last years race. You get to the start line and get in line for the bathroom because even if you don't have to go when you get in line you will have to when you get to the front. There were 40,000 people signed up to race. There were a TON of porta-potties, but STILL long lines. I got in line, twice. I also remembered from last year where we had to drop off our stuff to meet us at the finish line (via UPS truck). AND where they gave out the free bananas and water.

The half marathon course is obviously much different than the full marathon. Last year we ran around more of down town San Diego including Petco Park. The marathon and 1/2 split at the 3 1/2 mile mark and this year instead of heading down town I went straight onto highway 163. At one point I was able to look across the freeway and see the leading man of the marathon. It was a trip! There was one man out all by himself (he hit the 9 mile mark around 44 minutes!) and then there was a group of about 6 Kenya-looking men about 25 meters behind him. Surprisingly the two leading women runners were not far behind them.
Well, I started out running and made sure I wasn't trying to prove anything. I was breathing normal, and enjoying myself. It was just me. No one came to run with me this year, so my iPod was my running buddy. I was glad to have it, it kept me upbeat and moving. I felt good the entire race, my knees did get a little sore because of the fact that I haven't been running as much lately. But, I even picked it up at the end of the race. Wouldn't you know it, it WASN'T my slowest 1/2 time. My first 1/2 marathon was in October of 2009 (Long Beach 1/2) I ran a 1:48.48, then in January of 2010 I ran a 1:42.06, and then yesterday I ran a 1:48.06. No running training, and I did 42 seconds better than my first 1/2 marathon. Needless to say I was pretty satisfied with my time. Here is the link to my results.
My alias name was Jon Baptista, my brother in law. He was planning on running, didn't really get to train so I took his bib. The biggest bummer about being alone was not having anyone to hang out with after the race, so I took my goodies, got on the shuttle and went back to my car and headed home. I was home by 11:00.

Today, Monday, I woke up a little sore in the quads and calves, but nothing major. I am supposed to complete the 3rd fit test for Insanity and then a Max Interval Training workout. Needless to say, I made this my day off and will start up again on tomorrow. Thanks again to Shaun T for "training" me for the 1/2 marathon... LOL. :-) And my family for all the help getting me there! Maybe next year I will have some running mates again (dad, Colin, Cassie??? Tymon? Marci??)

I plan on running in the Las Vegas 1/2 Marathon in December (It's $140, so if anyone wants to donate funds- ha ha) and my sister wants to run a Mud Run in Murrieta in September too as a relay, hopefully that pans out.

Insanity- Two Weeks Left

I just completed week number 7 this morning. (We'll, technically I will finish tomorrow, but I won't have time to write tomorrow.) I have 2 weeks left of insane workouts with Shawn T and then I will start a new adventure. I am feeling pretty great these days! The second half of the workouts are about an hour long each. There is Max Interval Circuit, Max Plyo Training, Max Cardio and Max Recovery. I love the calendar that comes with the workouts because all you have to do is look at the calendar to see what you have to do that day, log in to WOWY to have a chance to win prizes (and keep track of your progress) and then go push play!

I had a small audience today while completing Max Cardio and Cardio Abs. Colin invited Marty Tansey over to try a yummy serving of Shakeology and have an omelet  for breakfast while I worked out. They just completed Legs and Back from P90X earlier this morning.
Kellen did quite a bit of the workout with me this morning, it was pretty impressive. He is catching on quick. He was very encouraging and I really liked being able to cheer him on too. He loves watching the infomercials after the workout that talk about Shakeology and other workout programs. I definitely look forward to the Recovery Drink after my workout too. Kinda tastes like an Orange Julius.