I'm a pretty big fan of the weird type period between Christmas and New Years. The holiday festivities are over with, and it allows you to kinda catch your breath in between the fresh start of the big year ahead... 2010.Are you as surprised as I am? Say it outloud... Twenty-Ten. It's so sci-fi... so Star Trekky... it just sounds like a big year. But the more important question is... Where the flip are the flying cars we're supposed to be using by now?
Then again... the way some people drive on roads... on the ground... I dunno if flying cars are the best idea. They'd have to make a special license, and maybe not let you get one until 25. Yup, I think it took me at least until that age to get rid of my invincibility shield and drive a car like a safe, normal person :)
So what's your goal for the new year? Eat right... lose weight? It's def among the top ten for resolutions each year, and I know for a fact the gyms are going to be packed for the next 4-6 weeks. I'm actually planning a 12 week weight loss program for people in the Raleigh area. Each week I'm going to do a lecture on a different topic, and we're going to put together diet plans and track everyone with body fat, tape measurements, and scale numbers each few weeks. Should be a pretty cool, fun thing to do... I just hope it has a big turnout.
Sorry, no recipes today... but I'll leave you a pic of some Christmas party cookies :)
Date Bars, Brown Sugar Cake, PB Fudge, Haystacks... Tasty Sugar Coma
Here's some resolutions I have... I want to post them so I stick to it... and hopefully reach all of them by Spring...
If it's to exercise, here's some fun stuff to try I was messing around with the other day:
Dumbell Deadlift - Hamstrings, Glutes, Upper/Lower Back
Hamstring Curl - Core Strength, Hamstrings, Lumbar Spine
Pushup to Row - Core, Rhomboids, Traps, Lats, Chest and Shoulders
Have a Happy Rest of the Year and be safe :)
- Post on the blog 1-2 times a week consistently
- Volunteer more
- Get my bench press up to 315 and my deadlift to 405
- Start a new car fund and a Roth
- Put together a garden and maybe get some chickens
- And some others...
If it's to exercise, here's some fun stuff to try I was messing around with the other day:
Dumbell Deadlift - Hamstrings, Glutes, Upper/Lower Back
Hamstring Curl - Core Strength, Hamstrings, Lumbar Spine
Pushup to Row - Core, Rhomboids, Traps, Lats, Chest and ShouldersHave a Happy Rest of the Year and be safe :)
Comments
Ooh, I like that background thing that looks like lines of paper!
I have a few goals that are different sets. Pertaining to my running, my goal is to run consistently and get a personal record in one race of each distance as well as improve overall running fitness.
For blogging it's to blog on a more consistent basis (apparently that's a recurring them with me) and to blog about running more often.
Don't show your gorgeous food pictures to those folks in your 12 week class. They'll never make it! Show them those fantastic exercise shots. They're awesome.
Have a great New Year's!
Happy holidays and all the best for the upcoming New Year.
I didn't lose weight, but I did bring my pushups from struggling to do 15 in one set to being able to do 25 in one set.
My real resolution is to start performing again. My theater group hasn't been doing much that I can get into and I feel like I'm out of practice with both singing and acting, so this is my year to take classes and maybe join a choir.
I love how you have all of those cookies pictured alongside stories of a weight loss group and exercise photos. :-)
You are so right 2010 does sound so futuristic! :D
My goals are to get my finances in order and organize my home.
But then, how can I resist these goodies???
I think you will get a lot of people interested in that!
Jenn@slim-shoppin
I hope you have a great NYE-don't get too wild:) All the best for 2010!
happy new year to you too!
Looks like we have some similar resolutions.
And that amazing pushup thing you're doing. If it were Tom Cruise in your place, there'd be invisible support lines holding him up. Cool. And a little dangerous.
Your adoring public want some ab work please. For dummies.
Those treats look so good and definitely worth the sugar coma I would definitely fall in. Actually, you know what's so bad? I've been falling into sugar comas lately from my obsession with saltine crackers! I've been going through them by the package..that's like 35 crackers. I think we have to stop going to costco.