Return to CBC

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Achieve with Athena

Morning.

I’m a liar because yesterday I said I would be back later, and well, I was NOT back later.

Don’t be mad.

Last night marked my return to Corpbasics. For any new F&F readers who may not have heard me talk about Corpbasics (CBC) before, it is a fitness and training club in Somerville that I joined… over a year ago now! My instructor friend at Oak Square, Liz, convinced me to help her out with a kickboxing demo at the Somerville Mayor’s Fitness Challenge in 2011 since I took her class regularly.

A month later, I signed up for the studio. A month after that I certified to teach Cutz & Kix and now teach it regularly at the Y. For more info on CBC and what it’s all about, click over to this post!

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Anyways, I have been on a little CBC hiatus for over a month. For a couple of reasons:

My hip was really bothering me, and I didn’t think it was smart to add on any more classes a week than I was already doing/teaching. Honor your injuries, right?
I went on vacation.
Before I went on vacation, I was spending my free nights apartment hunting with Tim.
After I went on vacation, I was spending my free nights getting acclimated to my new Group Ex Coordinator position at the Y which entailed a few extra meetings, etc.
My workouts have been more focused on the eight week virtual bootcamp program I signed up for.
I was working a floor shift at the Y on Monday nights, which really only left me Wednesday nights at CBC. 6:30-8:30 on Wednesday nights when you teach at 6:00am on Thursday mornings is TOUGH!

And not really an excuse because of course I can get myself over to CBC, but… what happened to the party bus?! I miss it.

Needless to say, now that my Monday night floor shift at the Y is NO MORE (hooray for an extra free night!) I have my choice of a bunch of awesome Monday night classes. Ashley teaches Cutz at 5:30 at the Y, Ed teaches 6:30 Spin at the Y, Christina teaches Perfect Lines (a 30 minute barre class that focuses on lower body) at 6:45 at CBC, and Andy teach Kix at 7:15 at CBC. Lots of my favorite classes to choose from again for Mondays!

Oh and! CBC was also just voted #1 Kickboxing Class in Boston on the Boston A-List for the second year in a row. Woop!

Have you ever had to repeatedly miss out on a favorite exercise class or favorite workout routine because life just got in the way?

Extra exciting Two A Day Tuesday tonight! Liz and I are both teaching our OWN classes, AND can stay for each others, AND we have a special guest!!! 🙂

Humpity Hump Day

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Achieve with Athena

What’s shakin?

No, I’m not confused on what day it is. Here’s a little wrap up of my Hump Day yesterday!

First of all, I worked from home. I knew it would be a good day when I found out that both Triners and Slesh were both going to be telecommuting as well.

For breakfast, Trina & I made protein pancakes. I whipped up a delish new banana recipe, inspired by Peanut Butter Fingers.

Banana Cinnamon Protein Pancakes

Serves 1

Ingredients

1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 a banana, mashed
1/4 cup cottage cheese (you could also use yogurt if you’re the kind of person that gets grossed out by cottage cheese, even though I promise you can’t taste it! Trina used Chobani apple cinnamon for her batch and said the apple flavor was so good).
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Pumpkin pie spice

Directions

Spray pan with cooking spray, heat to medium heat.
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl, mix well.
Pour batter onto the pan to form pancakes, allow to cook until pancakes turn golden brown, about three minutes.
Flip pancakes and allow to cook until batter is no longer runny, about two more minutes.
Top with your favorite toppings!

I topped with banana slices, pumpkin pie spice, and a dab of light syrup.

They tasted extra good with a medium iced hazelnut coffee with skim milk and one splenda from Dunks!

After a morning of work related things, my parents stopped by to say hello since they were in town for an appointment. It was nice out so my mom and I walked to Brighton Center, and she treated me to a lunch at Cafenation. My dad had to get back to work, so he couldn’t join us.

I ordered the Californian panini:

Turkey, brie cheese, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, and red onions with homemade avocado sauce — on multigrain, with a side of greens topped with homemade balsamic dressing. Perfect lunch (I forgot how much I love brie!) and nice to catch up with Georgia.

For dinner (and lunch and probably dinner again today), I whipped up some of this:

A concoction of whole wheat elbows, butternut squash, spinach, raisins, and feta cheese. I’ll probably post the recipe later today.

Finally, last night’s workout was a fun double sesh over at CBC! Ashley and Liz both did a fantabulous job subbing for Erin and Andy.

Nice job, ladies! I sweat so much that I didn’t even feel guilty munching on a couple of Stacy’s Garden Veggie Chips when I got home.

How was your Humpity Hump Day? Anything fun happen?

Time to tackle today’s to do’s – there’s a lot of them!

You’re already at the gym… walk a little!

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Achieve with Athena

Hi everyone,

I am SORE! And I can’t figure out which workout this week it’s from. Love that.

Tonight’s Workout

1. Elliptical Session at the Y

Minutes 1 – 3: Light warmup
Minutes 3 – 6: Faster jog
Minutes 6 – 10: Tabata Intervals. I wrote about these in my last bootcamp post. I did a sprint pace for 20 seconds, jog for 10 seconds and repeated that interval 8 times for a total of 4 minutes.
Minutes 10 – 12: Recovery, jog forward
Minutes 12 – 15: Switch to backwards mode. I did 30 seconds fast, 30 seconds light and repeated that interval 3 times for a total of 3 minutes.
Minute 15 – 16: Switch to forward mode, fast jog for 1 minute
Minutes 16 – 20: Repeat the Tabata Intervals from minutes 6 – 10.
Minutes 20 – 22: Recovery, jog forward
Minutes 23 – 25: Repeat the backwards intervals from minutes 12 – 15.
Minutes 25 – 30: 5 minute cooldown / stretching

2. Kix class at CBC. ROCKIN’ playlist tonight. In case you guys have missed it, tonight is the last chance to enter for my free giveaway to win a free Kickboxing class at Corpbasics. If you haven’t entered yet, give it a shot! I am announcing the winner tomorrow morning.

Tonight’s Pet Peeve

When Fitness & Feta first started, one of my first posts was about Gym Characters. You know, those stereotypes you see at the gym all the time? Well tonight I’d like to share another little “gym character” pet peeve. Wanna know what drives me up a wall? Watching people drive around in circles looking for a parking spot right next to the door of the gym instead of just pulling into a spot that is WIDE open but further away from the gym entrance. This actually bothers me regardless of where it happens (the mall, a restaurant, etc.) but HELLO! You are at the gym. The place you are supposedly at to work out… to burn more calories… to stay fit? Will it really kill you to park in a spot that requires you to walk 100 more feet before you get on a machine? I actually try to park further away from the entrance no matter where I am – the extra calories you burn each time do add up eventually! Just a little trick. C’mon people. Stop being so lazy.

Tonight’s Food Post

Since I’m home so late from the gym, I didn’t have time to make an interesting dinner to write about in detail, so I’m opting to write about last night’s instead. Tim and I took advantage of the beauty of leftovers after our respective workouts. Over the weekend we made maple-peach glazed pork tenderloin. We had tried this one over the summer and loved it, so we went with it again. The leftovers were really tasty and we combined it with some homemade applesauce – made by accident when trying to prepare the shredded apple with skin ingredient for the apple streusel muffins I brought to the Cape with me this weekend. For a side, we whipped up a new quinoa recipe that I found in one of my favorite blogs – the pumpkin quinoa recipe can be found at fANNEtastic Food. Thanks Anne for posting this – it certainly made for a great new side dish, and with a pumpkin flavor no less. Anyone else really obsessed with pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING right now?! Seems like the entire blog world is – and that’s a good thing for finding so many new recipes to try!

I used a lot of the ingredients that I stalked up on in my grocery run to Trader Joe’s on Monday.

And then I just followed Anne’s directions! The recipe was super easy, was tasty (although I think next time I’ll add in a little more pumpkin), and now I have a bunch of leftovers. Excellent. I had some of my leftovers tonight alongside my leftover Naked Pizza from the weekend.