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8 Core Workouts for Full-Body Fitness | Active.com
Spending time targeting the muscles in your abdominals, lower back, and glutes translates into quicker acceleration, better form, and fewer injuries. “When the core is stronger, everything else is stronger, via 8 Core Workouts for Full-Body Fitness | Active.com.
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Getting Kids to Eat More Fruit and Veggies
There are some schools of thought (my Mom) that believe that teenagers should be self-sufficient and be able to prepare their own food. Well, anyone who actually has a teenager knows that is highly unlikely. So, I suck it up and do the 2 minutes of work for them knowing I feel better when they…
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You can have Breakfast for Dinner!
These days going out as a family is so friggin expensive. Even matinee movies are 9 bucks for an adult/7 for kids in the NoVa area. I also heard that they may go up even higher in the near future. That will surely break your bank. Any kind of freebie can help. During the…
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Zooma Women’s Race Series
I read about this new series of races called Zoom from Mel’s blog – The Clothes Make the Girl and it sounds really interesting. Zooma Women’s Race Series is an exciting new concept in women’s running that celebrates the power and beauty of all women. From their website: Purpose is to promote women’s and girls’…
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Deep Thoughts by Me
I am actually warming up to the idea of the 5 minute stations — but in perspective, it’s week 3 so they tend to be a bit more of a reasonable ask than it was the first week. The Plumbline group was small again today but a lot of the regulars were there – so…
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Jamie Oliver Shows Kids What’s In A Chicken Nugget And It Ain’t Pretty : TreeHugger
Watch this clip from Jamie Oliver: Jamie Oliver Shows Kids What’s In A Chicken Nugget And It Ain’t Pretty : TreeHugger. Then join the Revolution:
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Happy Birthday to my Bea
Happy Birthday to my beautiful Hannah Bea. It’s crazy to think it’s been 8 years since you were born — I am the luckiest Mommy in the world to have you. I don’t know about you but I still can’t believe I am a Mother. Time stopped in my mind sometime in my 20s so…
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Wake up, It’s Monday
It was a very small group today at Plumbline. We had 8 campers show up — it is spring break around here, so a lot of folks are out of town. It really does change the energy of the workout — which brings to life how the right group clearly makes the difference. warm-up 400m…
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Buying Organics
Running in the AM and then spending a whole day in DC wore me out. On the drive home – the lull of the road can put me right to sleep — and that carried over to our arrival back home. We got home and within 30 minutes, I snuck upstairs and went to bed…
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Cherry Blossoms have arrived!
My brother is in town from San Fran for a quick weekend visit before heading back to his lovely wife, Janine. So it was a great chance to head onto the WO&D trail for a nice run with him before we started our day. We managed to do about 5 miles in the crisp early…