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The Cutest Instagram Account

This post is going to be a random one so sit back, relax and enjoy!

Puppies

First of all, if you are on Instagram I highly recommend following Daily Puppy. Your days will be filled with so much joy as it is not possible to be sad when you look at pictures like this.

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So now that your life is filled with warm fuzzies and fluffy puppies, feel free to try what may be my new favorite treadmill workout which Gia prescribed for today’s workout. The speed distance was long enough to make me work but short enough that I felt I could really push myself. I hope it becomes a regular workout on my training plan because I would love to strive for faster repeats each week.

1 K Repeats

10 minute warm-up

1000m at 10k pace, repeat 5 times with a 3 minute jog recovery in between each interval

10 minute cool down

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7 months

This week I’m hosting an old friend from Savannah who has never been to Europe. Spending an hour over cheese fondue listening to his adventures made me so happy. I am so glad that he made the decision to backpack across Europe, just going where his heart desires. He provided me with some city inspiration for our upcoming trips to Vienna, Prague and Munich while I loved giving him some suggestions for the rest of his trip. Tonight also made me realize just how much Geneve has become home. It was so nice to know exactly where I wanted to take him tonight for a local, Swiss dinner experience while also being able to order dinner in French and confidently navigate our way home.

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Birthdays Make Me Homesick

On the other hand, today was one of those days when I really wish I was home in New York. Some days I miss my family and friends in Georgia and other days I miss my second family, our amazing group of friends in New York City. I’ve found that during the 7 months I am homesick most often on someone’s birthday. In proper fashion, I missed my girl Theodora today in a huge way. Still to this day, more than 4 years later, she remains Theodora Blogger in my phone. The past three years, Theodora and I have celebrated our birthdays together. Some years there have been epic trips or parties while other years it was as simple as a morning workout together followed by dinner. When I texted her this morning, wishing her a happy birthday, there was no doubt in my mind what she was doing. I knew she was at Uplift enjoying a morning sweat fest and getting endorphin drunk before work. While I am so thankful for this incredible opportunity we have to live in Europe, there are days like today that just make me plain old fashion home sick. So, since I can’t be there in person, here’s a HUGE happy 31st birthday to my girl Theodora. Spending the day away from you just doesn’t seem right.

Over the years we’ve had some pretty incredible memories together whether perfecting our jumping skills, drinking champagne, posing with Dunkin Donuts like fools during Reach the Beach, sharing a chocolate filled romantic helicopter ride together, making snow angels in Vermont, or sporting our best tacky holiday attire I know I’m blessed to have this girl on my even though now our conversations contain more emoticons than spoken words. imageimageimageimageimage

I highly recommend taking time today to go through Facebook and look at some old pictures. I spent 30 minutes tonight laughing at the memories I found.

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Baby It’s Cold Outside No Equipment Workout

Most of us have already seen the winter in full effect this season whether through ice storms, snow, frigid temperatures or just the far too dark mornings. In case you find yourself unable to get to the gym or get outside for a workout this season this workout is for you! It will work your entire body in under 25 minutes, can be done in your childhood bedroom and requires no equipment. This helps take the guess work and excuses out of holiday travel workouts.

Bo and I did this workout Sunday evening when a cold drizzling rain deterred us from heading to Hyde Park for a run. I highly recommend using your phone as a timer and blasting your favorite playlist while you power through these ten exercises. This workout is perfect for people of all abilities since it’s based on time and bodyweight, not number of repetitions. Quality over quantity, like many things in life, is most important for this workout.

At Home Workout

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20 Minute Make You Sweat Workout

While we may all want our holiday workout to look like the below, we know we won’t like the aftermath come January. Source 

Since I am trying to fit as much work into the next 12 work days as possible, efficient workouts are going to be the key to staying active in December. When I found myself at the office gym tonight at 7:30 I decided to put together this super quick, simple 20 minute workout that is perfect for those chaotic days when you can’t imagine fitting in anything more than a 20 minute workout. While 20 minutes may not seem like much tonight’s workout was proof that it can definitely get your heart rate going, make you sweat and is better than a zero minute workout. The purpose of this workout is to push yourself since it is short and sweet. Therefore, make sure you use weights that challenge you and push through the 1 minute if possible for each of the exercises. Since I’m not feeling 100% I did the cardio portion on the elliptical while going as fast as possible.

20 Minute Make You Sweat Workout

So the next time you don’t think you have time to workout, think again. Even better, next time you’re at the mall or shopping on Amazon, order a pair of hand weights so you can do this workout all year long from the comfort of your own home. You can do the cardio portion outside on the sidewalk after completing the strength part at home.

A workout I can do in front of Love Actually? Yes, please!

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