The Best Bride: Arms

The number one concern for shedding for the wedding. Arms. Most of the time, the main body part visible on your wedding day is your arms (unless you are super sassy and go with a short dress, or one with a amazing slit, then you have more work to do!!). There are a lot of steps that go into getting rid of flabby arms, and they are not just at the gym. If you are anything like me you probably have a list of go-to exercises that you have used since you started to "workout". Some bicep curls, some over head presses, maybe even some tricep extensions. Up until this moment in time, I have been satisfied with my arms, and the tone of my arms. My body type is more on the muscular side naturally, so my arms have always had some muscle definition to them, even if the only thing I have been lifting is a remote. Now that I am planning for my wedding, and working towards becoming the Best Bride, I realized I need to step my game up. 

Here are some easy steps: 

Step one: Change your diet. Eat Clean, Get Lean. Your muscle tone is not going to get any better without a diet change. Studies lately have been incing towards the fact that diet is almost more important than the workouts themselves. I think we have all known this, but it is just more rewarding to get through us tough workout and feel like it is "OK" to eat that piece of cake. Cut out Sugar. 

Step two: Make sure that your dress, and under garments are the Perfect fit, if they don't fit and pull in all the wrong places, all the hard work you have put into working out will be a waste! 

Step three: Cadrio. Cadrio. Cardio. It will help "melt" off that fat. 

**Women tend to store fat around three main areas, hips, thighs and upper arms. Add in the fact that women are afraid to get "bulky" and viola! Trouble Area. On a positive note, areas where your body deposits fat, your body will also give the fat up easier!

Step four: Spot Tone. Do specific workouts for specific muscles in your arm. Also, strengthening your back and chest will also help your arms (of course).  For some my new favorites see below. 

Skull Crusher 

Tricep Cable Press-down

Overhead Cable Row Extension

Hammer Curl

EZ Bar Curl

Wide Grip Cable Curl

If you are either on a budget and can't afford the best personal trainer or need a little more hand holding  you can go to Bodybuilding.com and get free workouts and workout plans. Jamie Eason is AMAZING! She has a 12 week training guide, with three phases of workouts and meal plans! Also all moves have how to videos, for the moves you have not heard of. Of course all workouts can be customized, but for someone on a budget (me) this is perfect! Click here to see the plan. 

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A little FITspiration Friday

Here is a little Fitspiration to get you through day 11 of your New Year New You! 

Happy Friday! TGIF! 

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Best Workout Partner

I found the Nike Training Club App quite some time ago, and eres a kicker, it's FREE! Now that I am in my Bride Bootcamp phase, and chaning my habits for good I needed something to get me moving besdies my weekly gym classes that I attend. (Bodypump is my favortie). When I first downloaded it, I figured it would just be a so so app, but I guess I should have known better it was coming out of Nike.com. OK, so this app is like having your own personal trainer, anywhere any time, I usually use the app while I am in the gym, but this is totally an app you can use from home. I tell myself that I am going to do 2-A-days once before work and once at the gym after work, it has yet to happen.

Anyways, we all know Celebs have amazing bodies, well that is because they have money to have amazing personal trainers, for thoes of us who just do not have room in our budgets to have a personal trainer NTC is  honestly the next best thing. The first workout I did, I thought I was in pretty good shape, psh I started on beginer, and did a 30 minute work out, it kicked my a**. Like, seriously I was sweating and breathing heavy, not the pretty sweat, like the hard core dripping wet sweat.

There are 85 custom built workouts, many different options to change up your workout on a day to day basis. Get Lean, Get Toned, Get Strong and Get Focused. Then you choose from three levels, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. And then pick the time, usually 15-45 min, you get the option to look through the moves before you start the workout. Press Do Workout and GO!

Its amazing I know, but I am about to blow your mind with how grreat this app is.

Your complaint:

I don't know how to do the workouts that it tells you do, like what the heck is a Crazy Ivan? 

 - Well there is a video that plays for each move, that will give you a step by step on how to do each and every move in the workout

I can't workout with out my music, not some weirdo dance party music set to most workout apps

 - You can set any play list any music from your phone to your workout.

I am going to get bored of the same workouts over and over again 

- There are 85 custom workouts at all different levels, and in additon the more you work out the more rewards you gain, and the more bouns workouts you recieve

Bottom line, give it a shot, be prepared to work your a** off, 

and fall in love with a very budget friendly new workout partner. 

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The Ripe Stuff

Remember when I was talking about doing a cleanse, like a day ago, well,  I just came across The Ripe Stuff and they are located in Boston, and they will deliver to my office. Score! I actually read in a testimonial that The Ripe Stuff  Cleanse is easier to stomach than the BPC, umm hello sign a sister up! Deffinetly check them out if you are in the Boston area. 

The Ripe Stuff 

There are also many different cleanses available and you drink 6 juices a day

The Corporate Cleanse 

The Cocktail Cleanse

A New Leaf

Also you can Buy the juice A La Carte

The Corporate Cleanse seems to be up my ally, the juices are called:

Morning Joe

10 O-clock Meeting

Lunch Break

Mid Day Hump

Happy Hour

Late Night TV

The Ripe Stuff is a bit cheaper, and so much more convient that they are located in Boston.

They also deliver 3 days at a time, you can do

1 Day Cleanse $60

3 Day Cleanse $170 ($15 cheaper than BPC)

You can continue to work out while on the Cleanse, you do need to prep your body for the cleanse a few days before, only to make the cleanse easier on yourself.

 I am planning  ordering a Cleanse from The Ripe Stuff with a Co-worker of mine, when I have the extra cash, but it is for sure something I plan on doing in the next year to help my super bride/healthy new habit forming self. I promise to keep you updated on how the girl who did not eat her veggies, does a cleanse.

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The Girl Who Didn't Eat Veggies - Tries to Cleanse

So with my new habit plan in place (seen yesterday) , I have been wanting to try a cleanse for a really long time, I have shied away because I am not the best person in the world when it comes to eating my fruits and veggies, and the idea of having to drink anything green makes my stomach churn. Also, when I think of cleanse, I think of sitting on the toilet all day, or running to the toilet while at work, and those two things are not my idea of fun, and I would not do to my self no matter the "beauty and weight loss rewards" I'll try a lot of things to look good, but I don't mess with that area.

I have been researching cleanses for about a month now, at first I poo-pooed them because I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anything gross or green. Then I started to see the Blue Print Cleanse everywhere,  some of their juices are also sold in Whole Foods. I went on their website do to some research and see what all the hype is about, and now that I am trying to become the best version of my self, I figured I would maybe think about  trying a juice cleanse.

Does this Image look familiar?!

The Blue Print Cleanse 

You drink 6 juices a day an nothing else.

There are three different levels of the cleanse 

I would be at level 1 for beginners : The Renovation

You have to have the Juice delivered to you from NYC or you have to pick it up, and you can only have three days of cleanse delivered at a time, in order to keep the juice fresh. 

For a 3 day cleanse it is $195 (+shipping for non NYC or LA natives)

They say you can do 1 day or 36 days. 

They do have something called BluePrintBride that is ohh so tempting. 

I'll do anything that says for brides at this point! 

Cleanses are NOT cheap, considering I have very very tight budget these days, I did not want to make an investment into something that I would no actually do, I want to get my moneys worth here, so I decided to really hunker down and do some more research. I am going to be trying a cleanse ASAP, so keep your eye out for how the girl who doesn't eat her veggies, cleanses. 

Have any of you tried other Companies? Let me know!?

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