WORLD Conference

I am off to IDEA WORLD Conference for five days! Lots if new choreography, exciting business possibilities, and new torture... I mean training ideas! Be back in a week... California here I come!

Variety

Variety spices up your diet, your workouts, and your life... it is KEY to staying motivated and interested in your pursuits of a healthy body and mind. Here are a few ways to spice up your diet and your workouts...

DIET:
** Eat breakfast foods for dinner and dinner foods for breakfast. Who says you can't have eggs and toast at dinner and a chicken wrap for breakfast? It will help change the way your body processes carbs and proteins and rev up that metabolism!

** Buy one new fruit and one new vegetable at the grocery store (or farmer's market) and find a new recipe to use it in. Websites like www.allrecipes.com and www.recipezaar.com are wonderful resources. Maybe try a papaya, star fruit, or ugli fruit today. Or perhaps kohlrabi, radishes, or swiss chard for dinner tonight?

** Challenge yourself to use only what's in your refrigerator and pantry to create new flavors and foods. Include a new flavor or two from that rarely used spice rack to spice it up!

WORKOUT:

** Try a new machine at the gym like the rowing machines or the Versa-climber. Using new muscles will expose your body to new planes of movement and burn more calories because it always works harder at a new exercise.

** Try a 10-10-10 workout... 10 minutes on the treadmill (with a 2% incline walking or running), 10 minutes on the bike (increase resistance to at least 4) and 10 minutes on the stair stepper or Elliptical (using your core strength to hold you up... no leaning on the railings!!)

** Add in a jump rope to your strength workout to kick up the intensity! 100 jumps between sets will increase cardiovascular endurance and a get a good sweat on!

Stay on track and keep spicing it up...