LET'S ROCK!!

Fitness Journey Oct. 23-28 Indoor Rock Climbing

What is it? Indoor Rock Climbing-- A large wall where you try to climb to the top without falling. You have to strategically place your hands and feet and maintain balance to continue to the top. This workout was strictly muscular conditioning. Rock climbing works every muscle in your body from your hands to your toes. You can see that my son and I really enjoyed indoor rock climbing. We will definitely be doing this again because we want to ROCK!!

Next week I have an unusual fitness journey planned, so check back and see how fusion in the fitness world is possible. Also, have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

HIT THE TRAILS

October 15-22 Fitness Journey took us to Skidaway Island in Savannah on the Big Ferry Trail. The Big Ferry Trail is 3 miles long which takes you through the marshes, live oaks, cabbage-palmettos and longleaf pines. We saw squirrels, raccoons, and birds on our hike. It was great to get outside because the weather here in Savannah has been great. This was a good workout because we had to powerwalk and wave our hands to keep the mosquitos away. We definitely hit the trails and the mosquitos on this journey.

Stay tuned for my next journey............Remember fitness is everywhere.

It's All in the Hips

My picture to the left has a glare from the picture in the backdrop. So I decided to get my daugher Kelsea to take another picture in my front yard with my hips moving and sexy arms, but I got the picture at top. So maybe on my next journey, I will have some better shots.

October 7-14-- Class: Latin Dance

What is it? A 60 minute latin dance class where it is all about the hips and sexy arm movements. We danced to different latin tunes and did moves like the mambo, cha-cha, merengue, and my favorite is the Susie Q.

How I felt? I feel like dancing!! My heartrate stayed in the 140's during the workout. Our instructor, Carmen, had us hold our arms horizontally while we did some of our fancy footwork and man my arms felt heavy, so I got some toning in with this workout.

New Series update: I have all of the choreography!!! Just have to practice, test, fine tune, and continue on my fitness journey. So stay tuned.........

Whipped!

October 1-5 Fitness Journey: Class-- Punk Rope

What is it? A 55 minute fitness class that combines rope jumping with creative conditioning drills. In the class we did 15 intervals and 6 of them were jumping rope.

How I felt? My feeling after the class--- I was whipped! I realized that jumping rope is plyometrics at your best. My heartrate stayed in the 160-170's which is 90% of my max.

I'm on my way to pulling off Step Party 2!! Also, I have the name for my new strength workout-- Circuit Party-- this workout will hit every muscle group in the body with cardio moves and weights. Stay tuned for my next fitness journey...........

Shake it BABY!!

Put your arms up and shake it BABY!

September 23-30 Fitness Journey: Class-- Zumba

What is it? A floor choreographed aerobic/fitness interval training class with a combination of fast and slow rhythms using Latin and international music.

How I felt? My feelings after the class-- Shake it BABY. I was able to double up on my fitness routine that day. I was able to work on my new series routines and do Zumba to burn some extra calories and increase cardiovascular level. My heartrate stayed in 140-150's which 75-80% of my maximum heart rate during the class. I think this class is a good workout when you want to double up, let it go, and/or shake it baby.

Happy Scale and New Series

I'm excited to be able to share my "behind the scene news" on this blogger thing. It's really great to write about your health/fitness and your personal journey. It's a healthy cleansing or something. My first story is Happy Scale. One of my patient's came in last week and told the nurses that she was so excited about getting on the scale. She wanted to see how much weight she had lost since she had started exercising with my Step Party DVD's. She had lost 15 pounds!!! And she was HAPPY to get on the scale. If I can make someone happy to get on the scale-- my work here is done. No, not really and that takes you to my second story-- new series--Interval Party 2, Step Party 2, and ????? (not quite sure yet-- something new/different with weight training). I have been working on new choreography for Step Party 2 and Interval Party 2. Right now, Interval Party has 6 combos and 4 intervals with a kickbox influence (I need 2 more intervals). Step Party 2 has 7 combos with power parties and it is hard. I can barely get through it twice-- I'm really going to have to train hard to pull this one off. So I'm starting this week on my training/fitness journey. I'm going to try some new classes/fitness activities and blog about it later in the week. So feel free to join in and come along on my fitness journey.

Personal Struggles

I have chosen to give a percentage of my earnings to special need children and the Tourette's Syndrome Association because of the struggles with my son, Kamden. After shooting Step Party in 2005, we began to see a changes in Kamden's behavior. He was very impulsive, inattentive, hyperactive, and he also had tics. He would shake his head from side to side, hum, and his eyes would roll upward. Kamden has been to numerous physicians and on several medications with no improvement. He was very unsuccessful in school because of his problems. How could this be happening to my precious child? What was I to do? I began to homeschool him and I video recorded his symptoms. And then we went to Augusta to another specialist and he gave us the right diagnosis and medications. Kamden has Tourette's and ADHD. I am happy to report that he is in a regular 1st grade class and doing great. But I want to help with public awareness and research of Tourette's, so another mother and child won't have to go through what we went through.