Gabs Art's kit, Red Me Browny
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
ViPRs have arrived in Oregon!
My ViPRs (fitness tools) arrived on Friday!!!
Check out my Tabata class here using ViPRs as part of the circuit.
They were my second "ViPR Victims" but the first class I filmed. Tabata is a high-intensity interval class composed of 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest, times 8 sets to make 1 round. 4 minutes of hard work! I only have 8 ViPRs so I split class into 3 groups and they rotated between ViPR drills, high-step drills, and plank / gliding drills. 8 rounds of tabata = 64 mini-intervals = high metabolic cost and post-exercise metabolic cost (calorie burn).
I have to admit some trepidation about plunking down $1200 for 8 pieces of functional training equipment. I like to have the newest, coolest, most innovative fitness tools on the market and I research the heck out of stuff before I buy it. So if fitness has a pulse, my finger is on it! But as new as it is, as cool as it looks, $1200 is a lot of money.
I'm so glad I spent the money!!!!! I've debuted them in 4 classes since Friday (and 2 more will see them this evening) and so far everyone has LOVED them!
Two of my exiting TRX classes will be changed to TRX-ViPR and I'm launching an all-ViPR class in Jaunary. Especially for my long-term TRX members, the ViPR will be beneficial. As much as I love my TRXs (2 years and 500+ classes with them), when we do something for a long time we get efficient at it. The ViPR is functional. It's great cross-training. And it's kicking my ass, but in a very good way!
Check out my Tabata class here using ViPRs as part of the circuit.
They were my second "ViPR Victims" but the first class I filmed. Tabata is a high-intensity interval class composed of 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest, times 8 sets to make 1 round. 4 minutes of hard work! I only have 8 ViPRs so I split class into 3 groups and they rotated between ViPR drills, high-step drills, and plank / gliding drills. 8 rounds of tabata = 64 mini-intervals = high metabolic cost and post-exercise metabolic cost (calorie burn).
I have to admit some trepidation about plunking down $1200 for 8 pieces of functional training equipment. I like to have the newest, coolest, most innovative fitness tools on the market and I research the heck out of stuff before I buy it. So if fitness has a pulse, my finger is on it! But as new as it is, as cool as it looks, $1200 is a lot of money.
I'm so glad I spent the money!!!!! I've debuted them in 4 classes since Friday (and 2 more will see them this evening) and so far everyone has LOVED them!
Two of my exiting TRX classes will be changed to TRX-ViPR and I'm launching an all-ViPR class in Jaunary. Especially for my long-term TRX members, the ViPR will be beneficial. As much as I love my TRXs (2 years and 500+ classes with them), when we do something for a long time we get efficient at it. The ViPR is functional. It's great cross-training. And it's kicking my ass, but in a very good way!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
The ViPRs are coming! The ViPRs are coming!
Hooray! Yippee! Whoop - whoop - whoop! It's going to be the next great innovation in fitness since the TRX (and you all know how fabulous I think the TRX is!), and I'm the first one in Oregon, and one of the first people in the USA, to get a set for small-group training. I'm so excited!
Vitality. Performance. Reconditioning. That's where the ViPR name comes from.
It looks like a tube, sort of a combination between a pilates foam roller and a Body Bar. Sometimes the simplest-looking tools are the most innovative. They're hollow, weighted, and have handles in several places. You can lift them, throw them, swing them, step on them, roll them, spar with them, you name it. They range from 4kg to 20kg and 8 of them are on their way to me now.
I'll be doing some test-classes with my instructor buddies and TRX members in December, then launch formally in Beaverton and Hillsboro on January 1, 2011. I'll put up pictures of my new "toys" as soon as they arrive.
Vitality. Performance. Reconditioning. That's where the ViPR name comes from.
It looks like a tube, sort of a combination between a pilates foam roller and a Body Bar. Sometimes the simplest-looking tools are the most innovative. They're hollow, weighted, and have handles in several places. You can lift them, throw them, swing them, step on them, roll them, spar with them, you name it. They range from 4kg to 20kg and 8 of them are on their way to me now.
I'll be doing some test-classes with my instructor buddies and TRX members in December, then launch formally in Beaverton and Hillsboro on January 1, 2011. I'll put up pictures of my new "toys" as soon as they arrive.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Isn't She Lovely?! Makena showing off
She's a ham, our little one! "Cheeeeeeese!" Photos from September 2010. When I saw the "So Lovely" circle in Ruby Lane's kit, I knew I had to scrapbook these breakfast-table photos.
Ruby Lane's kit, "Sunday Afternoon" available at Scrappity Doo Dah. Also used Bekah E's graffiti grunge brushes as photomasks.
Ruby Lane's kit, "Sunday Afternoon" available at Scrappity Doo Dah. Also used Bekah E's graffiti grunge brushes as photomasks.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Independent! Walking! Hooray! (scrapbook page, too)
A layout about Makena's independent walking (as soon as I saw the title of the kit, "Little Miss Independent," I knew exactly what I was going to use it for) and more background information below.
Scrapbooking kit is by Crystal's Creations and Dano's Pookie, available at Scrappity Doo Dah.
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=5687&cat=0&page=1
On July 11, Makena took her first two steps, snuggling a blankie and basically diving from the footstool to the couch so she could be with me and Connor. I saw it and cheered. It was awesome. We got it on film. We got video. We laughed, sang, cheered, emailed our friends with the youtube link. People congratulated us and warned that we'd need to start doing more childproofing. Yes, we agreed wryly.
And then nothing happened.
For a couple of months, she'd go days without cruising, much less take a step. And she refused to walk holding one of my index fingers - only two, tightly held. It was like, "Well I proved I could do it, but I'm not all that interested."
Finally, she wasn't getting attention one evening at home, so she stood up and took two steps while Clint and I were talking to Connor. Instant attention! And then a couple of days later at speech therapy (again while not getting attention) she stood up and took 2 1/2 steps before plopping down. More instant attention! And then I remembered that my friend, Kristi, had taught her daughter to walk by offering chocolate. We tried it. I'd put her, standing, leaned up onto the sofa. Then I'd place a chocolate chip on the footstool about 3 feet away. If she wanted the chip, she'd have to walk. She caught on to the game and the reward really fast. Every time we played the game, the stool would get pushed a little farther away from the sofa, until the footstool was right up against the stereo and she was doing 88 inches (10 steps) in a stretch. Now, to earn one chip, she has to walk from the sofa, to the stereo (no footstool in the way) and back. 210 inches.
On Sunday, she signed that she was thirsty. I told her to come into the kitchen to get her milk. She stood up, smiled, and walked from the family room to the kitchen, to her chair, and climbed up. WOW! She can do about 20 steps now, maybe even more, and she's sooooo proud of herself when she does.
Scrapbooking kit is by Crystal's Creations and Dano's Pookie, available at Scrappity Doo Dah.
http://www.scrappity-doo-dah.com/store/product.php?productid=5687&cat=0&page=1
On July 11, Makena took her first two steps, snuggling a blankie and basically diving from the footstool to the couch so she could be with me and Connor. I saw it and cheered. It was awesome. We got it on film. We got video. We laughed, sang, cheered, emailed our friends with the youtube link. People congratulated us and warned that we'd need to start doing more childproofing. Yes, we agreed wryly.
And then nothing happened.
For a couple of months, she'd go days without cruising, much less take a step. And she refused to walk holding one of my index fingers - only two, tightly held. It was like, "Well I proved I could do it, but I'm not all that interested."
Finally, she wasn't getting attention one evening at home, so she stood up and took two steps while Clint and I were talking to Connor. Instant attention! And then a couple of days later at speech therapy (again while not getting attention) she stood up and took 2 1/2 steps before plopping down. More instant attention! And then I remembered that my friend, Kristi, had taught her daughter to walk by offering chocolate. We tried it. I'd put her, standing, leaned up onto the sofa. Then I'd place a chocolate chip on the footstool about 3 feet away. If she wanted the chip, she'd have to walk. She caught on to the game and the reward really fast. Every time we played the game, the stool would get pushed a little farther away from the sofa, until the footstool was right up against the stereo and she was doing 88 inches (10 steps) in a stretch. Now, to earn one chip, she has to walk from the sofa, to the stereo (no footstool in the way) and back. 210 inches.
On Sunday, she signed that she was thirsty. I told her to come into the kitchen to get her milk. She stood up, smiled, and walked from the family room to the kitchen, to her chair, and climbed up. WOW! She can do about 20 steps now, maybe even more, and she's sooooo proud of herself when she does.
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