Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 7, Day 4
Inspiration/Motivation Tip: Stress can decrease your ability to burn fat by affecting your hormonal distribution. Stress will also increase your risk of several diseases including heart disease, cancer, ulcers, fibroid tumors & more. Don’t sweat the small stuff and be happy because your health depends on it.
Workout: Back, Bi’s, and Thighs (Interval or Circuit format to keep your heart rate elevated); Core; Stretch-it-Out
Exercise of the Day: Back Flys – This is a great exercise to tone the back and shoulders and to help you blast away the back fat. You can add alternating back taps or sit low into a chair pose to increase your calorie burn.
Exercise Tip: To maximize your time in the gym and increase your calorie burn try combining upper and lower body exercises together. Total body movement will always burn more calories then isolating one muscle at a time.
Meal Plan
Breakfast: Oatmeal w/Berries
Snack: 2 Hardboiled Organic Eggs
Lunch: Turkey Meatloaf w/Brown Rice/Tomatoes/Sauteed Spinach
Snack: Tomato & Cucumber Salad w/feta/lemon/olive oil
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Baked Honey Mustard Chicken w ½ cup Brown Rice & Green Beans
Dessert: Grapes & Walnuts
Nutrition Tip: ½ a cup of brown rice has 100 calories. It is important to limit your evening calories of complex carbohydrates to 100-150 calories depending on your body size. Complex Carbohydrates are your thinking foods and they give you sustained energy throughout the day so you can have larger servings of complex carbohydrates at breakfast and lunch. If you have too many calories of complex carbohydrates at dinner they will just turn to fat because you will not be able to burn them off before you go to bed.
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