Welcome to the Five Favorites linkup!
A reminder about a new twist I’m adding to the linkup this year: At the end of each month, I’ll be giving away a prize pack to one #5Faves participant! Here’s how it works: every time you link up a blog post, it counts as one entry. So if you link up a post every week, you’d get four entries. I’ll keep track throughout the month and then randomly pick a winner on April 1.
First, let’s congratulate Jen for winning February’s #5Faves Prize Pack!
The winning post: Books on Marriage (5Faves)
On to this week’s favorites:
I’ve been in a bit of a fitness slump the past few months. But like I mentioned before, I realized that in order to regain that excitement for working out, I just needed to change things up a bit! DUH. So I went on a big search for new workouts and the Internet didn’t disappoint! Here are five of my latest finds:
1 // Cardio Kickboxing with Chris Freytag
This one is my favorite, hands down. It’s 40 minutes, which can be a tricky amount of time for TJ (his patience threshold seems to top out at around 30), so I usually keep this workout for times when Mark is home. It’s fun, empowering and the time goes by quickly. Love it.
2 // 10 Minute Tabata for Moms
Have you ever tried a Tabata workout? At just ten minutes, I stupidly thought this would be an easy day – NOT the case! This video is 20 exercises, done for 20 seconds each with a 10 second “break” in between. That “break” is more like catch your breath for 5 seconds before moving on! It’s challenging, but doable and boom! Done in 10 minutes.
3 // Burn to the Beat with Keaira LaShae
So if you know me in real life, you’re already laughing. Let’s just say, Mama doesn’t have a lot of rhythm! But for the sake of really (literally?) shaking things up, I tried out a couple of the Burn to the Beat workouts: Hip Hop and Reggaeton Dance. I closed the blinds to spare the neighbors, but they were actually really fun, even if I could barely keep up!
4 // Fitness Blender
Fitness Blender is an awesome site and they have videos for everything. I tried the Fat Burning Tank Top Arms workout, which combined cardio intervals with upper body weight training. Straight forward and well done, I really enjoyed it.
5 // Dollar Workout Club
I follow Natalie Hodson on Facebook and love her honest approach to your post-baby body. She is also a part of the Dollar Workout Club, have you heard of it? After watching one of their videos on their Facebook page, I loved it so much that I joined on Sunday! The price is only $1 a week and you receive five workouts, five recipes and five small motivational videos. Such a great deal! I love that they show beginner, intermediate and advanced levels and that the workouts are quick but effective. I worked my chest and back yesterday with their 17 minute video and I am more sore today than I have been in ages! Can’t wait to regularly add their videos to the mix.
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I’d love to hear above five of your favorite things too! Need some ideas? Here are a few to get you started:
+ Share your latest library haul. What five books (kids or adult!) have been your favorite?
+ Do you use essential oils? Share five of your favorite ways you use them in your home.
+ Are you a small business owner? Tell us about five of your products and the story behind them.