get in shape

Over two months ago, I’ve created this small tickers on my profile page – in order to help me with my weight goals by counting for me how many days I fight for my perfect look. And since then, I must admit, I didn’t do much for this look to achieve…
So today is this sad day, when I had to reset them both and make them tell the truth again – by strating the whole event all over :).
This time however, I hope it’s gonna be a helpful tool instead of nice colorful pictorial element.
Keep tracking me!

all year long :)

A ‘fake it ’til you make it’ approach:
It’s amazing what you can accomplish when your mind and body work together instead of against each other.

“I love you just the way you are, and I love you too much to let you stay the way you are.”
- Bible

Look good in a bikini!

Myfit.ca Printable Food Diary
http://www.myfit.ca/printable_food_diary.htm

Don’t know how many calories to have? You need to figure you’re your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate).
http://www.myfit.ca/weightlossguide.asp

- Sit-ups are one of the basic and most common exercises for the human body.
In conjunction with a balanced diet sit-ups will help build a strong and well-balanced mid-section which is instrumental in practically all sports and physical performance, as well as in maintaining good posture and preventing injury.

- Improve your core strength, fitness and general health; develop a great core and mid-section

- Six week training program

- Good plan + plenty of discipline + about 30 minutes a week

- Strenghts the abdominal muscles and hip flexors
Lying with the back on the floor, typically with the knees bent in an attempt to reduce stress on the back muscles and spine, and then elevating both the upper and lower spine from the floor until everything superior to the buttocks is not touching the ground;
crunches or curl ups.

-“Good-form” sit-ups instructions:

a)lying face up on the floor with knees bent and feet flat.
Feel free to tuck your feet under a fixed object if you feel the need.
b) the movement begins by curling the shoulders towards the pelvis, with hands gently placed behind or below the ears. Try to keep your eyes on the ceiling even when you curl forward.
c) Avoid placing the hands behind the head itself as using them to exert force on the neck can cause injury.
Good practice is for the hands to lightly support the weight of the head, so that the neck flexor muscles can relax during the movement. Do not jerk the head forward with your hands.
d) slowly contract your abdominals and come up to an angle of no more than 35 degrees.
e) It’s important to focus on working the abdominal muscles and not the hips and also to keep your chin off your chest.
The lower back should not leave the floor which will make the curl up an effective isolation exercise for the abdominals.
f) Once you’ve reached the 35 degree position, hold for 1-2 seconds before gently lowering yourself to the floor.
Inhale on the way down and repeat.
Focus on natural, rhythmic breathing as you continue to perform the exercise.

- Initial test: http://www.twohundredsitups.com/test.html

Dance!!!

The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk

“The posture never ends.”
- Rolf Gates

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscript to store away, no painting to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for the unsteady souls.”- Merce Cunningham
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“You know when you are an artist when you evoke an emotional response – whether its love or hate. It’s when you evoke no response that you have to worry.”- Robert (Bobby) Ibrahim Farrah
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Dancing is making music visible……
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“Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.”- Benjamin Disreali
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“There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”- Martha Graham
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“A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”-Angela Monet
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“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”-Bette Midler
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“When the music changes, so does the dance”-African Proverb
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“If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance”
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Swimmmmmm!

Sringtime is a good time!

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