Hey guys! How was your weekend?
Mine was busy!
The weather was just gorgeous here this weekend, but sadly, I didn’t get to do much outside.
On Saturday morning hubby and I headed out to the Y to take Jim’s indoor cycling class. It was so nice out that I decided to take my new Vibram Five Fingers for a walk.
Love-love-love them!
Since my Spinning® instructor training I noticed that my workout attitude and the overall “feeling” at a cycling class has changed dramatically! For some reason I was always going for the speed – thinking that if I go faster, it will be better for me, I will burn more calories and all that crap. Well, that all has changed now. I am doing speed work, too but generally try to apply more resistance on the wheel than I used to and focus more on my heart rate rather than the RPM.
Taking the training also changed my entire perspective on what a bike set up should be – I have my saddle a lot higher now and I’ve noticed that it is making it much easier on my knees – a lot less cracking! 🙂
Anyway, with that in mind, I went pretty close to my usual distance on Saturday but burnt the number of calories I haven’t burnt in a cycling class in a long time.
I did take a nice two-hour nap on Saturday after this class + yoga. I just had to! It was the best nap of my life 🙂
When I woke up from my nap, it turned out the youngest had gone for a sleepover, so suddenly me and hubby had the evening to ourselves. We headed out for dinner to a Chinese place, and then decided to do some wandering around TJ Maxx. Well, I never leave that store without a score (yep, I rhymed that on purpose!)
Got me some yoga socks 🙂
I’ve been eyeing those for a while, but they just cost some ridiculous money it seems like. These were $3.something a pair so I got them and will give them a try this Wednesday!
On Saturday I also managed to squeeze in some meal prep into my day somewhere between the two workouts and the nap.
Homemade hummus, quinoa, water infused with cucumber and frozen mint leaves
Did you notice I got my water infusing water bottles that I mentioned here? 🙂 I just love the one with the orange cap except for one thing – it had a huge sticker on the front. Being an OCD driven woman, I took it off and now it’s sticky. Some Googone will have to be applied – and that’s just too many motions for something I want to get in the mail and simply enjoy. If you don’t have an OCD, you will do just that without Googone – enjoy 🙂
The one with the red lid and bottom – I haven’t quite figured it out yet – the infuser part comes out through the bottom, if you don’t put the bottom lid back on tightly – it leeks. It’ll take me a while to make friends with this one 🙂
Anyway! On Sunday morning we slept in and hubby made me an awesome brunch.
crispy bacon, poached eggs, potatoes and English muffin
And then it started…My cooking bug was obviously up and full force this weekend. I just couldn’t stop cooking!
I did my lunch prep for the week:
Cut up some bananas to freeze for my smoothies:
Made some more infused water (oranges and tangerines):
Made these super awesome breakfast corn muffins with cheese and ham:
By the time I was done with my meal prep, it was time to make dinner. So I threw together this chicken with veggies.
And yes, those are pecan bars you see in the background – I made them, too. What? The oven was warm anyway 🙂
Tell me: what fun stuff did you do this weekend?
And as always – stay fit!
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