“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive… it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.” — Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
…but it also smoothes away rough edges and creates something beautiful and precious.
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This made ME feel old, and I’m only 24!
Here’s the routine (from Live Smart Solutions www.beyonddiet.com):
I do each exercise one after the other in a circuit. Modify the routine and the weights to your current level of fitness (but don’t wimp out, ok?). Take no more than 60 seconds of rest between exercises.
1. Walk, Jog or Run for 3 minutes.
2. Walking Lunges - 20 reps total (10 each leg)
3. Pushups - 10 reps (On your toes or knees)
4. Step Ups - Body Weight or hold on to two dumbbells - 10 reps each leg
5. Squat with Overhead Shoulder Press - 15 reps - (Hold on to two dumbbells. Squat down and then press the weights overhead as you come up from the squat)
6. Tricep Pushups - 10 reps (On your toes or knees. Change your hand position closer together to focus more on the back of your arms)
Take a 1-2 minute breather, drink some water and then repeat the circuit 2-3 more times for a total of 3-4 times.
“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding that exact point when everything changed.” — That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Please continue to be who you’ve always been, so other people get a chance to experience what I was so lucky to experience for as long as I did.
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Happy Earth Day!