You guys… I think I’m becoming a protein bar junkie. Quest Nutrition sent me quite the variety pack of products recently, and I’m excited to finally share my experience with them all! First, I will start with… Quest Protein Bars I ate a protein bar for a mid-morning snack at work most days, and it…
Archives for August 2014
My Favorite Things + Pushups & Pullups Workout
Some of the best workouts are the ones that don’t require any equipment. You can do them at home or even while traveling. Today’s workout is not one of those. If you’ve got the exercise equipment, then you might as well use it. After my P90X experience, I was left with some upper body definition…
Well This Is Going to Be Embarrassing…
So Matt and I signed up for a 5k that’s in a few weeks… We even got some his and hers coconut bras and grass skirts for it… The Aloha Run is a 5k run/walk that comes here to San Diego and features Polynesian music, drummers, hula dancers, and some surf-themed bands. Matt knows some…
My Favorite Things + Get Ripped Ab Circuit
Even though I got sick of doing the same ab workout three days a week for 10 weeks of P90X, I also liked how good of a workout it was. To mimic the awesomeness that is Ab Ripper X, I created the below ab circuit. It takes about 10 minutes to go through twice, and…
6 Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before P90X
Good news and bad news for you this morning. The bad news: This is the billionth post dedicated to P90X The good news: This is probably the last post dedicated to P90X I’ve felt so annoying for the past three months talking about our journey doing P90X, but it kind of guided all my choices…
My Favorite Things + Upper Body Dumbbell Circuit
Now that P90X is over, I have the freedom to do whatever my heart desires for workouts. Not sure if I like this freedom yet. I spent awhile putting together an arm/back circuit and a core circuit last night, so now it’s time to share the goods! As we did the P90X workouts, I made…
Final P90X Results
After three months and 78 workouts, we’re finally done with P90X! It has been a long journey, but I’m pretty darn excited to have completed the whole thing. Towards the end, I definitely subbed some runs and elliptical workouts in place of a few P90X workouts (i.e. Kenpo and Plyometrics), but for the most part,…
My Two-Year Blogaversary
As of today, I have officially been blogging at Gettin’ My Healthy On for two years! I had no idea if this little blog would even make it past a couple months, but somehow I just keep on keepin’ on. I know if I stopped blogging, I’d have withdrawals because I always think of topics…
A Few of My Favorite Things + Wedding Recap
This past weekend was filled with lots of wedding festivities. I threw a pretty low-key bachelorette party that included dinner out… And some girly fun back in the hotel room. (I made a stripper ken cake to spice things up a little bit – “Andrea’s last fling before the ring.”) Side note: a pack of…
Homemade Pizza Sauce
Last week, I shared my yeast-free pizza crust recipe. Now you’ve got the base and are ready for some sauce. Pizza sauce is my favorite part of the pizza. In my opinion, it’s what really takes the pizza to the next level. When I was younger, I would actually pick all the cheese off my…
My Journey Switching from Running to Weight Lifting
My main fitness love for the past five or so years has been running. I cross train by doing circuit workouts about every other day, but my main focus has always been hitting the pavement — that is…until three months ago when I started P90X. I figured I would try something I have never done…
