Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 11, Day 5
Inspiration/Motivation: Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent. Try something new and enjoy the journey.
Warmup: Yoga or Pilates to lengthen and tone your muscles, open your joints and release tension and stress from your body.
Exercise of the Day: Triangle Revolved is an excellent yoga pose to stretch the hips & hamstrings and lengthen & tone the entire body. This pose also tones the core and invigorates your internal organs for digestion & elimination.
Exercise Tip: When you are training always listen to your body. Never ignore pain and always make sure that you execute all of your exercises with good form & technique.
Meal Plan
Breakfast: Buckwheat pancakes with blueberries, bananas, and turkey sausage
Snack: Freshly squeezed green juice: 2 handfuls spinach, 1 apple, ½ lemon, ½ thumb size of ginger, ice & water
Lunch: Turkey meatloaf with mashed potatoes & steamed broccoli/carrots
Snack: Cottage cheese with berries
Snack: Orange & 10 walnuts
Dinner: Poached salmon with sautéed asparagus/grilled peppers & corn
Dessert: Diced mangoes & strawberries
Nutrition Tip: Everything in moderation. 80% of your meals and snacks throughout the week should be healthy, organic and nutrient-filled and 20% of your meals you can let go and have whatever you like.
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