Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 9, Day 4
Inspiration/Motivation: Stay true to your heart and don’t let other people mold you into what they want or need.
Warmup: Back, Bi’s, and Thighs (Interval or Circuit format to keep your heart rate elevated); Core; Stretch-it-Out
Exercise of the Day: External Rotation and Reach. This is a great postural exercise to tone & define the back, shoulders, biceps and triceps. To increase your heart rate and burn more calories you can try combining this exercise with a sumo squat.
Exercise Tip: To improve your posture throughout the day you must remind yourself to sit upright, engage your abdominals and lengthen your spine. Make sure you don’t hunch over when you are using your computer.
Meal Plan
Breakfast: Oatmeal with apples, cinnamon, raisins
Snack: 2 hard-boiled organic eggs
Lunch: Grilled lemon chicken with brown rice, asparagus, and dried cranberries
Snack: Tomato & cucumber salad with feta, lemon, and olive oil
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Baked halibut with mango salsa and steamed broccoli
Dessert: Grapes and walnuts
Nutrition Tip: 10 Foods that are high in Iron: red meat, egg yolks, dark leafy greens, dried fruit (prunes, raisins), mollusks (oysters, clams, scallops), turkey or chicken giblets, liver, beans, lentils, chick peas & soybeans, artichokes
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