Life by Lori

Inspiration for Personal Transformation


I absolutely LOVE Teresa Jordan who hosted a Raw Food and Fitness event out of her home today! Not only did we get out booties in shape with an intense bootcamp workout, but she is a raw culinary genius and made us some of the best raw food ever! Teresa puts on different monthly fitness and raw food events with different themes. Last month was her Brazilian Bikini event (see photo) and now my bikini body has been put to a whole new level since they are smaller bikinis! She is 54 years YOUNG and is majorly representing! She also has great Recipes by Raw T !

It was truly an honor and pleasure to meet and workout with Modu Seye  and  Kelly Loehr, who are the trainers of a fantastic bootcamp in Cabo San Lucas called Moduvatedtobefit.com.  They are super fit and super inspiring! Here is a clip of some of the exercises we did today!

Off camera they opened up and shared how they are passionate about community service. They actually are hosting a 5K Race this December to raise money for a local orphanage. The children of the orphanage are racing too. I was saddened to hear that many of the children in Cabo San Lucas that are living in orphanages are unable to be adopted because many of the parents have not released their  rights. Many of these children do not have any roles models and once they become of age are released into the world with very little skills to succeed.

Both Kelly and Modu take time to go and see the children of the orphanage, workout with them and offer a healthy role model to them. I was touched to say the least! If you want to support them and their amazing projects go check out their websites:

Moduvatedtobefit.com

Moduvated.com

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Today’s Workout

35 minutes on the bike

It was just enough to work up a sweat and get blood and stagnation moving, but not so intense that I am going to burn out.

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Today is Day 9 and suddenly I am doing much more physical activity than my body is used to. I want to make sure I am being wise and thinking about sustainability and finishing this challenge with success.

The first thing I did to ensure that I could complete this challenge was to start with a rather easy goal, which was to just get 30 minutes of exercise in a day. If you have been reading my daily blogs you can see that I am by far exceeding that goal.

Here is the funny thing, when you make the goal a mini goal it gives confidence that it can be completed. Then, once you get moving it feels like…”Hey, I can go a little bit longer”, and so you do. That is an exhilarating feeling.

Here is a potential downside to be aware of: BURN OUT!!! If you are constantly GO GO GO…  you can potentially injure yourself, exhaust yourself, or just give up on the goal altogether because you are pushing too hard too soon. The best way to remedy that possibility is to give yourself an active recovery day.

Active meaning that you are still moving your body, but the intensity and/or duration is reduced. The average guideline for a recovery day is approximately once a week. However, for some it may be more frequent and for others less often.  Each person is unique and their level of fitness recovery varies GREATLY. This is a very personal and intuitive choice. Only you know what the right recovery is for you.

Here are some suggestions to stay active while still allowing you muscles to recover via easy exercise:

  • easy swimming
  • walking
  • leisure biking
  • gardening
  • light housework
  • turning up the music and casual free style dancing

The point is: You can still move and take it easy on a recovery day! In addition to mild physical activity there are other modalities that can really support and accelerate the recovery process.

Here are My Top 10 personal favorite ways to enhance my workout recovery

    • An easy walk
    • A hot soak in the jacuzzi
    • Sauna
    • Massage
    • Easy stretching
    • Lots of water
    • Green Juice
    • Eating 80/10/10 style (especially laying off fat and salt)
    • Getting an extra hour of rest
    • lounging by the pool soaking up some sun (this just feels sooooo healing)

Today just felt like it was best to do an active recovery day and I just took it easy. Sometimes, when you give yourself permission to take it easy you find yourself fired up for the following day and eager to get moving again. Plus I know that tomorrow is an intense workout day and I want to be fresh and ready!

What ways do you like to support your workout recovery?

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Back to school and doing my ABC’s all over again in a whole new way! Instead of the pencil and paper I am using my body! 😉

I chose to focus on cardio today because I still felt pretty sore from the workouts earlier in the week. I feel it is important to flush the body with circulation to workout all the lactic acid and to bring blood flow to all the sore muscles so they can heal faster.

In the video I shared that I wrote out a brainstorming list of all the fun ways I wanted to move and exercise my body. I thought I’d share some of the things that were on my list here.

  1. Pilates
  2. Power Yoga
  3. 5 K race with my kids
  4. Zumba (there is a local upcoming event called Zumba in da Club that I might hit up too)
  5. Kettlebell (did this with Naim on Day 5)
  6. Rollerskating (did that with Julia on Day 2)
  7. Surfing (I practiced in the pool on Day 4)
  8. Bike riding along the beach
  9. Hiking (while the weather is amazing) even better if it is a wild edibles hike 😉
  10. Playing on my kids Ripstik
  11. Belly dance
  12. Gymnastics
  13. Play on the rings and bars on Santa Monica beach
  14. Kayak
  15. Hula hoop workout (this sounds silly, but I loved doing it as a child and I have no idea how a hula hoop workout looks like)
  16. Strip tease/pole
  17. Acro yoga/ Partner Yoga ( I like using my kids on some of the acro yoga poses, but they insist they are too grown up to play like that)
  18. Pussycat Dolls Workout/ Burlesque style dancing
  19. Athletic Sex/Tantra  (this one is on a waiting list until I am in a committed relationship)
  20. Climb the Stairs in Laguna Beach
  21. Boot camp
  22. Obstacle Course
  23. Capeoira
  24. Brazilian Booty (I wanna do this with my friend, Teresa Jordan who says she goes to THE BEST class for this)
  25. Swing on a Trapeze (I may save this for when my muscles are stronger and I can do more)
  26. Kite surf
  27. Wind surf
  28. Wake board
  29. Snowboard (this will have to wait until the season is calling my name)
  30. JUST dance …swing, salsa, bollywood, etc…. any or all of the above I am DOWN!!!
How about you? Write up fun 30 ways you’d like to move your body and share them with me in the comments below!

Today’s Workout:
60 min elliptical
60 min belly dancing class
30 min walk

What did you do today?

See  ya!

Lori

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