Hi friends! Whoa, this week flew by! I know this is only my third post this week, I’ve been a little all over the place checking in the blog, thanks for hanging in there with me. I just started a top-secret special project that I’m so excited about that’s thrown off my blogging schedule just a little bit. I’ve redirected the post on super powders that was supposed to go up yesterday to next week so that means you should get five posts next week instead of four, I know you are excited!
What are your plans for Mother’s Day? We are planning to see Avenger’s Saturday afternoon/night, but I’m a little nervous because it’s the first time the sitter will be attempting putting the babe to bed, pray for us! If you are looking for brunch recipes to make Mom, check out my spring inspired brunch recipes or make her chocolate pancakes with chocolate butter sauce and be done with it.
If she loves pancakes, you could also browse my healthy pancakes recipe round up!
Food
As far as food goes I don’t have a ton of photos (just darkly lit slop photos I share on IG), but here is what I ate:
- Instant Pot Steel Cut Oatmeal (prepped the weekend before last but leftover) or Kashi Gluten-Free Waffles with peanut butter and banana for breakfast. PS to all you MSPI Mama’s out there, Kashi gluten-free is the only soy free brand I’ve found!
- Carnitas meal prep burrito bowls for lunch (leftover from our Cinco De Mayo fun)
- WTE? Meal Plans IP Chicken Thighs, Brussels and potatoes for dinner one night
- Roasted Salmon and Broccoli another night.
Plus we’ve been noshing on these delicious cookie bars during the weekend. Recipe coming just in time for Memorial Day!
Nothing new in favorites other than my baby growing up and sitting in the big boy section of the cart (I kept my hand on him the whole time, he’s good but not that good yet haha). *heart* *tear*
Fitness
I felt pretty good about my workouts this week! I’ve been lifting more rounds, heavier sets to get comfortable with lifting heavier again. I’m still nowhere near my previous pre-pregnancy strength, but I’m starting to feel strong again. This next week I’ll probably transition back to higher reps at my new heavier weights and see what I can maintain. Last week I was over sore (too sore to workout as many days as I wanted too), but this week I felt pretty good about my workouts and didn’t over or under do it.
Question? Do you guys find it valuable when I post the workouts I like on IG or Pinterest in graphics? It takes a while to put them into graphics, so I’m trying to figure out if it’s helpful to you guys to be able to save the image or graphic or if you just come back and refer to the post. Let me know!
Friday (5/3) *** MY FAVORITE WORKOUT OF THE WEEK – QUICK AND SWEATY!
4 rounds (40 seconds on/20 seconds rest)
- Rower
- Mountain climbers
- squat jump
- burpee
- abs (I did bicycles, tucks, reverse crunches and sit-ups)
Saturday (5/4) – Incline Run – 3 miles – wanted to die in the best way possible 🙂
Sunday (5/5) –
warm up on rower for 5 minutes
5 rounds
- Romanian deadlifts x 4 e/
- Farmers carries
4 rounds
- 10 x KB swings
- 4 x Ren Row to Burpee
- 8 x OH press
2 rounds
- 8 x hammer curls
- 8 x rear flies
- 8 x OH TC Extn
- 8 x front raise to lateral (T’s)
Monday (5/6) – OFF
Tuesday (5/7) – 2.9 miles
3 rounds (1-minute rest between round)
- 1-minute tucks
- 1-minute bicycles
- 1-minute Russian twists
Wednesday (5/8) –
5 minute warm up on the rower
6 rounds
- squats x 5 (45#)
- chest press x 6 (#50)
3 rounds
- 6 EZ Bar Rows (#40)
- 4 Bicep Curls (#40)
4 Rounds
- Single Leg body weight squats x 8 each
- pullovers x 8 (20#)
metabolic finisher (40 seconds on/20 seconds off)
- BW squat
- Ice skaters
- Bodyweight squat
- Ice skaters
rest 2 minutes
- push up
- plank shoulder taps
- push up
- plant shoulder taps
rest 2 minutes
- Inverted row
- resistance band pull down
- inverted row
- resistance band pull down
Thursday (5/9) – OFF
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