Plank July

Wow ! I always feel like it has been so long since I have written here. I  guess that is what happens when life gets busy!!

Despite how busy my life gets, I always make time to maintain my healthy lifestyle and working out. This week has been 4 for 4 now and I still feel fantastic! I have conquered 2 killer legs days, 1 tricep bicep and 1 shoulder trap day.  As well, this August I decided it was time that I start getting back into my cardio. So for my "non legs days" I have decided to slowlyy get back into a carido routine.

I cannot stress how important this is. I know I slacked on it for a while, but for the longest time I was trying to just gain weight; Not lose. But cardio helps increase heart rate, metabolism and a fantastic way to warm up your muscles and sweat away all those toxins accumulating in your body.

I will soon post various cardio exercises I recommend and their target areas to which they work the most.
So stay tuned!

As well this week, I have been doing a TON of baking and testing out new recipes for you all , that turned out amazing I must add!

As I post new ones, I will insert the links down below for you quick and easy access.

Of these include:

Creamy Rice Decoy Risotto
Almond Flour Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Quinoa Apple Crisp (And my many variations)
Mexican Shepard Pie

But back to the real reason why I made this post, was to share with you all my month of July!
For those of you who have been following, I said I had been doing a July Planking Challenge and when I was done, I would post it for you all to see. I ended up pushing myself harder and finishing up a few days earlier,  but still more or less followed this exact planking challenge:

Personally for me, I found this as almost a "beginner" planking challenge, So I re created a more intermediate one.
In a nutshell, for the 1-5 I did 30 sec easily
6-8 I did 45 secs.
9-10 1 min.
11- 1 min 15 sec
12-13 1.5 min
14-15 1 min 45 secs
16- 2 min
17- 2 min 15 secs
18-19 2.5 mins
20-21 2 min 45 secs
22- 3 min
23- 3 min 15 sec
24-25 3.5 min
26-27 4 min.
28 4 min 15 sec.
29- 4.5 min
30 5.5 min

Personally, I found It was better taking no rest days at all, but that is just my body type.
As well, increasing in 15 secs intervals was easier for me, rather than 30 secs , so I spread it out more.  Overall, I found this extremely helpful and will probably do it again come September.

Come back soon for those recipes I promised. And I will post my leg routine. It is just ALOT to post all at once so I am slowly working on it.

Stay Healthy