fitness on a budget

I've finally snapped out of my "I just had a baby" excuse, and I've started exercising again. It feels so good! It's so much easier to exercise when there isn't a baby sharing your body! Anyway, since I don't have enough money to afford a gym membership, or crazy workout DVD programs and equipment, I've made up my own. On top of going for walks and trying to run with Easton in the stroller, I've found a couple workout shows that are on each morning in our Direct TV package.

The first is my favorite, it's Gilad Body's in Motion, and Total Body Sculpt. Here are the program times, but I have just been recording them onto my DVR so I can do it later in the morning, but they are 30 minutes each.

The next one is the Total Body Workout on BYU TV. Here is it's schedule. It's a series of Yoga and Aerobic programs, this one is a little cheesier than Gilad (but what exercise show isn't cheesy??) But it actually is a good yoga program. They are 1 hour each, and again, I just DVR it so I can workout later in the morning.

And lastly...the funniest/cheapest part of it all: when they tell you to pick up your weights, I pick up boxes of butter (pre-weighed!). And in yoga when you need a strap for different positions, I get a belt. Yes, yes. I'm THAT person. It works great though! I am going to have to find something around the house that weighs more than my 1 pound boxes of butter soon though :)

the weekend

this past weekend was so busy, but so much fun! on friday night we went up to Crystal Hot Springs with our friends the Gooch's and the Davis':

the picture is a little blurry because of the steam, but you can see it ok.

Then on Saturday morning, I ran in my first 5K with Ryan's sisters Julie, Kristin and Lauren...It was really fun to have Ryan cheering for me for once! haha! quite the role-reversal from what we're used to!


this is me and Kristin finishing, we decided that there should be fans cheering you on like this the whole way! It would have been a lot less tempting to stop and walk during the race :)

Then later that afternoon, I drove to Layton to meet my friends Allie and Chelsea for lunch at Red Robin (our favorite). Allie's birthday was this past week, and Chelsea is going on a mission soon, so we're trying to get together as much as possible before she leaves

(Allie is in the middle, Chelsea's on the right) after lunch, Allie and I got our nails and toes done, then I went to the Bountiful Temple for Chelsea's endowment session. It was so amazing to be there with her! I had such a great time, and it was fun to get to know some of her other friends and roommates from BYU!

Afterwards, I went to my parents house, had some dinner, and then drove the rest of the way back up to Logan...cleaned the house, then finally went to bed!

WHEW! As if that wasn't busy enough, I woke up the next morning and drove up to Pocatello to meet Ryan and the team for the last game in their 3 game series against ISU. It was great! They won all 3 games, and it was a BEAUTIFUL day!




So all in all, we had a great and busy weekend! I wish every day could be as fun as these past few were!