Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 9, Day 5
Inspiration/Motivation: Take the time to reach back and pull someone forward. A simple act of kindness could completely change someone else’s world.
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: Warrior 1, 2, and reverse flow is an excellent yoga pose sequence to stretch the hips, lengthen the core & tone the entire body.
Exercise Tip: Take the time to focus on your breath. Inhale fresh oxygen into the body to help you create energy and burn fat & exhale carbon dioxide. In yoga or while stretching, you inhale to bring oxygen and fresh energy into the body and exhale to lengthen & release build up toxins & stress.
Meal Plan
Breakfast: Yellow Corn Pancakes Blueberries Bananas/Turkey Sausage
Snack: Freshly Squeezed Green Juice- 2 handfuls spinach, 1 apple, ½ lemon, ½ thumb size of ginger, ice & water
Lunch: Tuna Sandwich on Whole Wheat with Side Salad
Snack: Cottage Cheese with Whole Wheat Crackers & Tomatoes
Snack: Grapefruit
Dinner: Poached Salmon with sautéed asparagus, black beans & corn salad salsa
Dessert: Diced mangoes & strawberries
Nutrition Tip: Make sure your snacks contain some healthy fat or protein so they help you feel satisfied by keeping your blood sugar level down.
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