My first workout tip and more Adi happenings

I heard through the grapevine that my bro was disappointed with my blog when it didn't have any fitness stuff on it yesterday.  So I decided to incorporate one fitness tip/thought a day to the other randomness I record each day.  But first, my Adi news!


Adi stuff: Adi learns random words and will say them over and over for several days and then get on a new kick and forget about the new ones.  Then she'll randomly bring the old word up again.  Today she brought up the word, "eyes."  I asked her where her eyes were and she pointed to her eye, then touched her nose!!  LOL!!  She's never pointed in response to my questions before - super exciting! 


Fitness Tip: Lifting weights is essential to weight loss b/c the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism is.  This means you can eat more food and not gain weight ;-D.  But if you're looking to lose weight, you gotta rev up your metabolism.  One way to do that is by doing interval workouts.  Means you alternate between high intensity exercise (your heart is beating out of your chest) and moderate intensity exercise (your heart is fast, but you're still able to keep up a conversation if necessary).  Best way to do that while lifting weights is by adding LEGS to all your upper body movements.  You can do a squat or lunge when you do any of these basic exercises: bicep curls, tricep overhead press, lat or frontal raise, military press).  As you pull or push, bend your knees and do lunge or squat.  You'll notice your workout is ten times harder and your heart rate gets up QUICK!  Then take a breather.  For lunge/bicep curls for example, I try and do 20 curls with my right leg back, and twenty curls with my left leg back.  When I bend my arm and lift the weight, I lower into a lunge.  As I straighten my arm, I straighten my knees.  And then if my bicep still feels like it needs some work, as my heart rate is recovering, I'll just do bicep curls without legs.  Obviously, there are some exercises where it's not safe to do legs with them, particularly if you're lifting heavy weight with upper body.  Alternate those exercises with exercises that you can use your legs on.  Use the non leg exercise as the moderate intensity portion of your workout!  You'll burn at least 100 more calories like that (in say a 30 minute weight lifting session) and you'll give your metabolism a boost!