Signing up for Tina’s Best Body Boot Camp was a great decision. For the past six weeks or so I’ve felt a little bored at the gym. My workouts felt slightly stagnant and I felt the itch to work toward some kind of a fitness goal. I wasn’t in the mood to commit to a bunch of running and train for a distance race, so I felt a little lost.
Thank goodness for boot camp! I can tell that it is already reinvigorating my workouts and providing me with new motivation.
Today’s workout was a cardio workout. The boot camp program allows for a lot of flexibility on cardio days but encourages you to push yourself for a certain amount of time.
With the basic guidelines of Tina’s cardio workout prescription in mind, I hit the treadmill this morning and made up a workout that left me red-faced and sweaty!
I did the full 50 minutes and it definitely kicked my butt. I cannot remember the last time I ran at a 9.0 speed on the treadmill and it felt good to push myself a bit.
Breakfast
This morning’s breakfast was the return of an old favorite!
I made myself an egg sandwich with two fried eggs, a slice of muenster cheese and raspberry jelly, served on top of a toasted whole wheat English muffin. (For my fellow Publix-goers, Thomas’ English muffins are buy one, get one free this week!)
I also sliced up a McIntosh apple to eat on the side to get a jump start on my 5-servings-a-day fruits and veggies goal.
And now for some exciting news…
Fitness Magazine Blog Awards Nomination
Peanut Butter Fingers is nominated for a Fitness Magazine Blog Award in the Healthy Eating category!
To say I’m excited and flattered would be an understatement.
I’m not sure who nominated my blog, but I am so grateful and thank you very much! You guys really are the best and I am constantly in awe of your support and kindness.
If you’d like to vote for PBF, you can simply click here.
There are a lot of other amazing blogs nominated, so definitely check them out! Also, the awards contain a bunch of different blog categories so if you’re in the market for a certain kind of healthy-living blog (running, weight loss, inspiration, etc.), browsing the nominees is a great way to discover some fun blogs in different niches. I love so many of them!
And now it’s time to bust out an article for a new freelance client. Writing for a new client always makes me a little nervous because I never know exactly what they want, so I’m hoping it goes well!
Enjoy your Tuesday!
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The food you have suggested looks yummy!
english muffins! i miss them so much–all they need is a little butter and they’re perfect.
i’m going to try the 50 minute run tomorrow!
Congrats on the nomination! 🙂
Congrats for the nomination for Fitness Magazine! I know where I’ll be casting my vote!
Just say that Sadie is featured on Carrots ‘n’ Cake’s Blog Dogs today. Congrats to Sadie too 🙂
she feels awfully famous. 🙂
This is great! I got engaged last week so I’m trying to kick my workouts into high gear. This will probably be my workout tonight 🙂
also, congratulations on the nomination! I love that magazine. You definitely deserve it.
Congratulations Julie!!!!! That’s such exciting news. Also, you’re breakfast sandwiches always look so good. I wish I had more time during the week for breakfast. Wouldn’t work so well to eat in the car 😉
i promise it takes me no more than 5 min. to make! might be worth a try!
do you program your intervals in the treadmill or manually change speed.
i manually change it!
thanks, also well done on your nomination!
Congrats on the blog nomination! I actually voted for you last week!
Voted!! Congratulations on your nomination – routing for your win from NYC! 🙂
Also, scared to try this 50 min treadmill workout tonight but your tips and posts have revamped my increasingly boring gym routines, thanks a mil!!
Done! Congrats kid. Thanks huge!
AH! Congrats!! Your blog is definitely my favorite! I have it bookmarked on my phone so I can read it whenever I am waiting in long lines, between microwaving english muffin sammies, or doing leg presses at the gym!! I tried voting but I do not subscribe to Fitness magazine! Can you vote without being a subscriber?
yes you can! and thank you, haley!
Hi Julie! I’m new to the blogging world and haven’t been reading yours that long but am already addicted!
Congrats on the nomination! You got my vote!
thank you, cheryl!
A. You know i already voted for ya!
B. Love the look of that cardio workout. Pinned it for myself to use sometime.
C. I just love you!
Awesome workout! Thanks for sharing. Congrats on your nomination, I am voting for you right now! 🙂
Wow! What a great workout! I tried it today after reading about it on your blog post. I only did 15-minutes due to time constraints and I was sweatin’ it! I can’t imagine doing the 50-minute workout! Thanks for sharing!! 🙂
Gah! I’ve tried a heap of times to vote for you but there keeps coming up “error error!” Grrr
oh no! i wonder what is up!
I nominated for the award you several weeks ago!!! (I’m sure tons of other people did, too, and you totally deserve it!) I’m glad you made it through! PB Fingers is my favorite healthy living blog and I read it all the time 🙂
Recently I’ve seen a ton of your pictures and workouts appearing on Pinterest and it makes me so happy (in a cheesy way!) that you’re getting that recognition!
Congrats on everything!!
hey julie! first, love love love your blog! i am so glad i found it. you’re a great writer and your life is so entertaining to read about 🙂 question: where do you create those workouts, the ones that say pbfingers.com at the bottom usually? just curious. thanks!
OMG, I’m so glad I’m not the only one who eats their zoogy (runny) eggs on english muffin with Jelly! I also have a tiny bit of ketchup too! 🙂
Hello Amber, if you see this (8 years later 😂) you are the ONLY person I can find on the internet who says zoogy eggs!!! I thought my family was crazy! Please get back to me if you can!
heeey love the look of your workout! I was just wondering whether the treadmill speeds are mph or kmh? my treadmill’s kmh and since I live in the UK I often have to convert the US workouts into this, is this the case for this one as well??