medicine balls | Day With KT

Yesterday I was at Hunter’s school as the PE sub for the afternoon. A friend asked me if I had ever tried triceps dips with 3 balls – what??? You can bet I tried as soon as I got home!! A medicine ball under each hand and both feet on a ball –

Now dip!! So, today’s 43 is a new move to me – the balance is tricky for sure but the move is a good one – dips on the balls!!

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Try it – you might surprise yourself and really like it!!

For the rest of my workout, I pulled out another 10 Minute Solution DVD – Sculpt, Tone & Reshape with the Figure 8. The DVD came with this cute band – I’ve said before that I love the 10 Minute Solution workouts. I usually try to do all 5 sections but when I’m time-crunched they are a nice way to get in something. Today I did all 5 – lower body, upper body, fat blasting sculpt (my favorite because it had combo moves and cardio blasts!), buns & thighs and abs. Great workout for a day when I needed something quick!!

Yesterday I started really thinking about ways that all of us are fearless and then I started thinking of times when I have been fearless in my life.

When I was 22, I loaded my car and drove from west Texas to southern Alabama (by myself) for grad school – before I left, I didn’t even know where Alabama was (sad, but true) – a map (this was way before GPS) and some courage and off I went!!
Married Chris and moved to Kansas when I was 26. The getting married part was easy since I knew he was the guy for me – the moving to Kansas – not so easy!!!
Had my first child at 29 – scary for me – I was never a babysitting type – being a mom takes a lot of courage!
Lived through numerous trips and/or deployments as a “single mom” – I knew when Chris and I got married what his job entailed but it still takes a lot of courage every single time he leaves!!
Started my year of 43s and blogging in September of last year – this one wasn’t really scary but it was something different and new. I’m loving the challenge of the daily 43 and over the past number of months I’ve really come to love many things about blogging.

What are some situations in your life that have caused you to be fearless?

Don’t forget to enter to win the I AM FEARLESS necklace giveaway!!Happy Saturday!!

Kim

Today’s 43 was HARD!! It was a push-up using 4 medicine balls.

(Mine aren’t all the same size but it works out OK!) I have 2 – 8 pound balls that are the same size, 1 – 9 pound ball and another 8 pound ball with handles.

The first challenge with this move is trying to balance yourself on the 4 balls – each hand and foot gets a ball! Then – do the push-up!

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I managed to get through all 43 but I had to stop and stretch about 5 times! Of course, each stretch break meant I had to rebalance myself! Fun!! (BTW – I got this move from P90X2.)

After the push-up fun, I did Les Mills Combat Combat 60 – Ultimate Fighter. I love how hard I feel like I’ve worked when this one is done! I was going to try one of my new Zuzka (from Body Rock) DVDs – I did about 10 minutes and then decided that it was crazy not to take advantage of the warmer weather and go out for a run.

Shorts – I ran in shorts!!!! January 28 in Kansas and I ran in shorts!!! I can’t even begin to describe how happy that makes me! (It is supposed to get to 70 today but even the 50 that I just ran in was AWESOME!!!)

I only did an easy 2.1 miles (8:00 min/pace). It wasn’t really about running hard – just enjoying the gorgeous day!

I saw this ecard and thought it was funny (with some truth even though I don’t actually count calories)!!! I’m pretty sure if I have saw how many burpees it would take to burn off some of favorite things I might quit having them – Nah, I would probably just quit reading the label!!!