Check out today’s leg workout:
(What’s with the chick? PicMonkey has new Easter-themed graphics and you know I couldn’t resist. Just pretend it’s doing a squat jump.)
At the end of this workout, I realized I did a total of 180 squat jumps, so I did another 20 because I wanted to hit 200. Yes!
Breakfast
When we arrived home from the gym, I snacked on two small bowls of Multi Grain Peanut Butter Cheerios while I quickly finished up an assignment that I needed to submit this morning.
I then blended up a peanut butter cup smoothie (made with a handful 100 percent undetectable fresh spinach)!
Speaking of smoothies, last week I took some time to update the Smoothie recipe page, as well as the Crock Pot and Breakfast recipe pages. Hoping to tackle the others soon!
I followed my cold smoothie with a hot mug of coffee…
And now I’m singing “You’re hot then you’re cold. You’re yes then you’re no. You’re in then you’re out. You’re up then you’re down.” Hey thanks, Katy Perry.
Question of the Afternoon
- What was the last song you couldn’t get out of your head?
After a friend emailed me a link to this History of Rap video with Justin Timberlake this morning, I’ve had the song “It Takes Two” by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock stuck in my head.
“It takes two to make a thing go riiiiiight! It takes two to make it outta sight!”
I always picture Ryan Reynolds singing that song in The Proposal whenever I hear it. So catchy!
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I have thrift shop stuck in my head! And it’s played 800 million times on the radio and my kids love it…
Oh and great leg workout! Can’t wait to try it!A
oh my goodness, now I NEED cereal! That looks so good!
It is by far the best cereal ever! I love eating it with dark chocolate almond milk. Yuuuuum.
i LOVE the peanut butter cheerios! they are so good and addicting…craving them right now
yum! i loveeee squats by i have a bit of knee problems sometimes so they hurt at times
http://www.runningathousandmiles.com/2013/03/joint-pain-update.html
Julie,
How heavy of weights do you use when you do your dead lifts??
65 lbs. – but i felt like i probably could’ve pushed myself a little more…
The last song I couldn’t get out of my head was the Wonderful Thing About Tiggers song… which was really unfortunate (nothing even triggered it- it just happened). While I love Winnie the Pooh as much as the next person, I don’t like to hear “they’re bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy” over and over again.
oh my gosh, i haven’t heard that song in SO LONG!
I listen to the radio every day on my loooooong commute to and from work and I get a lot of really random songs stuck in my head. Recently, Poetic Justice by Kendrick Lamar won’t go away and I feel like that’s a super strange song for me to walk around singing…
200 squats. Please tell me how you feel tomorrow morning! Man, girl, that’s a lot!
The last song I had stuck in my head was the “follow the yellow brick road” one from the Wizard of Oz because I just watched it the other night. SO repetetive!
200 squat jumps – not 200 squats!
OOps, that’s what I meant. That’s insane, woman!
they surprisingly weren’t that killer! i was shocked myself! 200 burpees on the other hand…
That chicken has some great legs, obviously from the millions of squat jumps…
Definitely Taylor Swift – I knew you were trouble.
I love squat jumps (as much as anyone can) compared to jumping lunges or some of the other plyometric training there is. I like to do them as a tabata workout sometimes of 8 rounds of 20 secs on / 10 secs off using a tabata iPhone app just as a nice 4 minute heart starter 🙂
The little chick is cute! Perfect for spring. And katy perry rules!
I have Payphone stuck in my head often and I had Seth Macfarlane’s song from the Oscars stuck in my head for weeks, too.
I have been listening to Matt Nathanson’s newest single “Mission Bells,” I know all of the words (it’s only been out since Monday), and it’s stuck in my head whenever I’m not listening to it! I also had some Pocahontas songs stuck in my head, based on my adventure with Nugget, the baby raccoon I rescued last night.
Our adventure is below:
http://undercoverdiva-asitcom.blogspot.com/2013/03/those-16-hours-i-willingly-shared-my.html#!/2013/03/those-16-hours-i-willingly-shared-my.html
That JT video is hilarious! My roommate showed it to me the other day. And those PB multigrain cheerios are sooo good!
Ever since your Sister Act post the other day, I can’t get “Hail Holy Queen” out of my head. Thank you………………..
I watched Moulin Rouge a week ago, and I’m still struggling with the soundtrack. It won’t leave my head!
I love picmonkey’s Easter graphics – cutest ever! The last song I had stuck in my head was the Wheels on the Bus – I work with children, and you better believe I go home singing these damn songs EVERYDAY!
I looooooove Peanut Butter Cheerios!! They’re probably my favorite kind. I get them from the store whenever I can, and try to hide the box so that no one else can have any. 😀
I love all your peanut butter filled foods this morning. Have you ever tried peanut butter beer?!
I want to try it! 🙂
When you say “Step Ups”, are you stepping up onto a chair???
The last song I had stuck in my head was Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker! If you haven’t heard it, you need to listen to it! And that Jimmy Fallon and JT video is hilarious, my roommates and I have been watching it over and over again for the last few weeks.
I LOVE jump squats! They’re so challenging & so awesome 🙂
Latest song–Les Miserables anything. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack! hah
That’s the cutest little workout graphic ever. I’m loving this, way better than jumping lunges;) Those are my absolute worst nightmare!!
Everytime I’ve made a smoothie this week, I must have it with a cup of tea and my heater by my side! It’s just a must.
You definitely have a peanut butter theme going on here ;). It sounds like the perfect theme to me, too! Peanut Butter Cheerios are amaaaaazing!
Now it is The Katy Perry song but before that it was Locked out of Heaven by Bruno Mars!
I have a love/hate relationship with squat jumps! My yoga sculpt teacher incorporates them into class all of the time. They are a great workout but my legs burrrrn the entire time! 🙂
Ooooowwwiieee squat jumps! Those are PAINFUL. But they hurt so good 🙂
Great workout-makes for some strong quads and gluts to help avoid possible running injuries. Single leg squats are also good squats to incorporate into a leg workout as research has shown they are one of the best exercises to target what are often weak in runners- hips and gluts!
FISHY FISHY is the last song I had stuck in my head. It is the McDonald’s commerical. One of my autistic students sings it all day long, my husband, and my neigbor’s son who visits often. Sigh….
Great job on those squat jumps btw!
Holy squat jumps! I take a Boxer’s Workout class every Monday. The first 20 minutes is 5 minute increments of each of the following exercises in a row without rest in between: jumping rope, mountain climbers, squat jumps, push ups. Talk about sore the next day, but it is certainly a challenge you want to keep getting better at! Btw – loving your leg and arm workouts!! Please keep posting! 🙂
(of course no one does those exercises the entire time, you do them at your own pace)
Sadly “Angelina Ballerina”..my little niece is obsessed! Great workout!
haha. love the birdie!
“Torn” Natalie Imbruglia – I love this song, so its no prob to have it in the head
My daughter loves those peanut butter cheerios. She is a fanatic like you when it comes to peanut butter. 🙂
Last week during spin class, Tiffany’s I Think We’re Alone Now came on. I loved that song when I was a kid! Was in my head the entire day
You know I love this kind of workout! Looks like a burner for sure.
Let her go by passenger!
Thank you for the Ryan Reynolds reference, because I just pictured him The Proposal in the scene without his shirt on 🙂 It was a lovely thought first thing in the morning!!!
So this is just a random stream of consciousness at this point. Your blog is similar to the e-mail that I send my mother throughout the day while at work. I think the last blogpost that you had that was actually worthy of a blogpost was your trail run.
Thanks for the workout. Can’t wait to try it!
Smoothie looks good…I haven’t had one in awhile!
I get the most random songs stuck in my head! I have finally figured out that it’s because they play music in our restrooms at work so throughout the day I find myself singing (aloud I might add) anything from the best of the Backstreet Boys to LeAnn Rimes circa 1996! I’m sure my co-workers think I’m a little loopy. 😉
PB cheerios, yum!
I seem to always get ” Call Me Maybe” stuck in my head! Anytime it comes on the radio or is playing at the gym I’m unconsciously am singing it for the rest of the day!
I have tried to use Pic Monkey before, but I can’t figure out how to add text to it? Any tips?
hhahaa me too! And I’m sorry to say I really dislike that song, but since it alwayyyyys plays at work I can’t help but to get brainwashed by it 😛 Also Katie, it’s actually quite easy to add text on Pic Monkey! All you need to do is go on the left hand bar where you see the letter icon. Then click on ADD TEXT and write in in the box that appears, and then you can adjust the font, size, etc. on a little pop-up that comes out. And Julie, your smoothie looks so thick and amaaazing~0_0
Justin Timberlake-Suit and Tie. The past week I just cannot get it out of my head.
New to the blog look forward to more posts.
The History of Rap is SO great!
I’m sure you’ve seen The Evolution of Dance before but it’s a great one to revisit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
Woooohooo 200 squat jumps! That’s something to be proud of… whew!
My puppy has this look, where I swear he is making the elvis face (you know, tucked lip…), so I started singing “you ain’t nothin but a hound dawg” to him. I just couldn’t stop singing it! His look was priceless. I’m weird.
I have Thrift Shop stuck in my head – it has such a great beat and makes me run faster when it comes on my ipod.
That PB smoothie looks delicious. I copied your recipe to try it out. I always have frozen banana chunks in my freezer for smoothies and use them in just about everything.
Those multigrain PB Cheerios are awesome! My new favorite breakfast!
Smoothie looks yummy! Last song that I couldn’t get out of my head was “Never Ever Getting Back Together”, my 3 year old daughter sings it constantly 🙂