Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 11, Day 1
Inspiration/Motivation: Step up to the challenge and take your workouts to the next level this week. You get out what you put in.
Warmup: Cardio. 30- to 60-minute Power Walk, Jog or Run with four 60 second sprints; Stretch-it-Out.
Exercise of the Day: Full-body oblique. Will help you strengthen, tone and define your obliques and your entire core.
Exercise Tip: Flexibility work is one of the most overlooked components of fitness. Make sure you take the time to stretch after your cardio and strength-training workouts. Tight muscles can pinch on your nerves creating pain, especially sciatica.
Meal Plan
Breakfast: Egg white oatmeal frittata with cottage cheese, strawberries, bananas and apple sauce.
Snack: Grapefruit and ten walnuts.
Lunch: Whole wheat pasta with chicken, broccoli, peppers, onions, mushrooms, and tomato sauce.
Snack: Apple.
Snack: Hummus and pita chips.
Dinner: Mixed green salad with grilled chicken, grapes, walnuts, feta cheese and balsamic dressing.
Dessert: Mixed berries.
Nutrition Tip: Focus on getting more of the foods that you should be eating and the unhealthy foods will be crowded out. Start by making sure you have a green vegetable at all three meals plus two pieces of fruit; an orange or yellow vegetable and three to four servings of protein.
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