Bloglovin | Day With KT

I’ve been on Bloglovin’ for awhile now and thought it was great. However, lately I’ve been having issues with it – like my posts aren’t updating until about 1-2 days after I post them. It used to happen within about 30 minutes.

It has been frustrating for me and there are days that I post but when I look at my site stats that post doesn’t get any views.

I read all about RSS (still confused on it but I checked and it seems to be working). I emailed bloglovin and received a very short email back saying they were working on technical issues (not necessarily mine!!).

I want to love BlogLovin’ again but………

Anyone else have similar issues?
Any suggestions?

Oh and since it is Friday and supposed to be a fun day I will leave you with this picture (I guess you could call it my 1 year business anniversary present!!!) – Happy Friday!!!

Kim

For today’s 43 I got my inspiration from a post I read yesterday over at Cranky Fitness. The post was all about glute activation. A couple different trainers weighed in with video or pictures and I realized that I had never done the move the exact way they were showing – until today!!!

The move is a hip lift, or bridge (which I have done before) but instead of leaving your feet flat on the floor, you raise your toes.

(Also, your feet are supposed to be as close to your butt as possible – putting them out further allows the hamstrings to do the work and it is supposed to be a butt move!!!)

From the starting position, you lift your hips and try to form a straight line from your knees to your head (I always squeeze my butt as I lift and hold for a little extra bonus):

I held this for a 3-count. Then lowered just enough for my butt to barely touch the ground.

After I finished all 43 I tried a couple of bridges with my feet flat on the ground to see if I could tell a difference – umm, NO because my butt my hips/butt already hurt from the 43!! One thing I did notice by doing this move with my toes up – my shins hurt while I was holding the position. (Maybe I put to much weight in my heels??!!)

Yesterday was an unplanned day off so today I decided to push through. (whine – I still have a residual headache but “suck it up, buttercup!!”)

I did an oldie from The Firm – Aerobic Body Shaping (part of the TransFirmer series) which means I used my cool step.

14" double step (the Transfirmer) — 14″ double step (the Transfirmer)

The double step is used for a lot of the leg/butt work. The angled version (below) is used for a couple of the aerobic sections and a lunge series plus some of the upper body work.

This is a pretty good whole body workout – it includes toning and aerobics in just under an hour. I also did the bonus 10 minute glute work.

First the negative: Tuesday night someone hacked my email account!! Why?? I just don’t understand people. They set it up to send all of my email to a new account and they got into my eBay account (probably from an old email) – 36 people now think I’m going to shell out a total of $25,000 for crap I don’t want! Fortunately after 45 minutes on the phone last night with someone who spoke minimal English, the eBay situation is being investigated. (Plus I spent almost an hour, most of it on hold, on the phone with PayPal to make sure all was good there.) Chris spent about and hour and a half on the phone fixing my email account. Lots of new passwords and all is well!

Now for the Positive!!! I just started using Bloglovin (sorry I can’t get a link on here cause I’m ~~stupid~~ technologically challenged, but I have the button at the top of my page that links) and I love it!!! Because I’m really behind the times (and slow!), I never used Google Reader. I wasted so much time clicking around to blogs only to find that I had already read the most current post. No more!!! (I know, this is old hat to most of y’all but exciting for me!!!)