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pull-up – Farm Fresh And Active https://www.farmfreshandactive.com Creating Whole Body Wellness Sat, 15 Aug 2020 00:30:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 36396981 Sunday Night Work Out https://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/04/sunday-night-work-out/ https://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/04/sunday-night-work-out/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/04/sunday-night-work-out/ …]]>         Since Brandon and I ran our 10k yesterday, today was a cross training day. For our cross training days we generally try to walk, do push-up, pull-ups, squats etc.. throughout the day around the house. Now that it is nice out we try to take Sali out and walk her around the neighborhood. On one of our walks we walked passed a little play park area (one that we have always walked passed or swung on the swings). Until recently we did not use the play park to its full potential. It has a pole, monkey bars, pull up bar, steps and climbing ropes. It is awesome!!! Tonight we did a 1 mile walk and then ended at the play park where we spent about 30 minutes working on upper body work outs. 

I am now able to do monkey bars for the first time ever in my entire life. Even as a kid, I was never able to do them because the girls in my family were not blessed with upper body strength. We have leg muscle just no upper body. So I continue to work on my upper body almost daily. I have seen lots of improvement. Tonight I hung on the bar for over a minute. I can jump and pull up on the bar. I can do monkey bars. I can Pull my self up a little bit on the pole (can’t quite climb it yet). I am going to continue to work on my pull/push ups and I will continue to work on climbing the pole. 

My advice to anyone who is trying to tone up and get in shape: Just try! I have learned a lot of things about myself through training for races and working on myself. I thought that I would be able to do some arm workouts for a few weeks and then I would have awesome arm strength but… that is not the case. It has taken a ton of work and I still can’t do a pull up without a little jump up. It takes time and it takes practice. Some people are able to get it right away but if you are like me, you will go through frustrations, soreness and success’. Today Brandon and I were laughing at how far I’ve come, it is a good feeling but I am still disappointed every time I try a pull up and fail. 

Brandon has had great success too. Since he shattered his arm, he wasn’t able to do much upper body. Recently he has been cleared to go live life and use his arm as normal. He is now able to do pull ups, push ups and climb the poly. Because of the motion of the monkey bars, he can’t do them yet but he continues to try. (Really makes me mad that he can do all of these things with no problems and he has a jacked up elbow but I am proud of him!)

Just go out and play and pay attention to where you can take advantage of play times. Play place, around the house and even around the office. During school I play on our play place with the kids and at then end of the day I do kiddo boot camp where I teach the kids how to do ab work outs and squats. Playing is fun and I think adults forget that too often. 

So take this time and reflect on how far you have come on your goals and don’t look at what you can’t do still. Go you!! 


Anyone have any advice or stories they want to share? 

Pull ups on the monkey bars


Climbing the pole


Chin up and hold on the pull up bar


Monkey Bars!!!

]]> https://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/04/sunday-night-work-out/feed/ 0 126 Spicy Chicken Soup https://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/02/spicy-chicken-soup/ https://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/02/spicy-chicken-soup/#respond Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:21:00 +0000 http://www.farmfreshandactive.com/2012/02/spicy-chicken-soup/ …]]> Had a nice 2 mile run outside around the neighborhood with Brandon. Then he installed our new pull up bar. (I can’t do pull-ups so I should probably call it something else!) I had Brandon put me up on the bar and then I hung and slowly let my self down. I did this twice for chin-ups and once for pull-ups. Then I did 6 Standing pull-ups (Lean back with feet on the ground and slowly pull and release yourself from the bar). 3 Australian pull-ups (An upside down push-up using the bar).  For some this may sound easy but… pull ups are hard. Then I had to do 5 “REAL” push ups. After all the working out, I was glad I had thrown dinner in the crock pot this morning.  This gave us time to work out, enjoy the beautiful weather and have a little quality time before bed. 

For Dinner I made up a spicy/hot chicken soup 

Spicy Chicken Soup
 
Ingredients: 
1 C. Celery leaves, chopped finely
4-6 Chicken Breasts, cook whole
1 (8oz. can) Tomato Paste
1 Jar Tomato Sauce + 1 Jar of Water
1 Tbs Chili Powder
1 Tbs Hot Sauce
1 Whole cloves of Garlic
3 On the Vine tomatoes, diced
Salt and Pepper to taste.
 
Add all the ingredients into a crock pot. Cook on low heat for 7 hours. 
Shred the chicken into chunks with a fork and mix the soup well.  Add more Hot Sauce if you would like more heat to the flavor. 




Enjoy! 
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