My Summer Plan

I am currently three weeks away from finishing my Corporate Communications course. Once this has occurred, I begin my journey with Public Affairs working at one of the 6 largest city offices in Canada. I know with working full time I will definitly begin to sidetrack from exercising. I have decided the best way to keep motivated is to pay for some cardio courses.

My first plan in May is to sign up at the Running Room and take one of their clinics called "How to Run a 5K." The Running Room has many clinics that help you reach your goal in cardio that you have always dreamed of being able to do. At the end of the two month clinic you have the option to run or walk in a marathon and see first hand just how much you have accomplished. Currently I can run a 2K which I feel is pretty pathetic so hopefully this course will change that for me.

My other cardio goal for the summer is to take kayaking lessons. I used to kayak at my grandmas cottage up in Grand Bend when I was a little kid but completely forgot about the wonderful sport over the past few years. Just this past summer, I went on a camping trip with a friend up to Frontenac Provincial Park where he was able to steal a couple of Kayaks from RMC. This experience helped me to remember how much I love being around nature and being on the water. I found The Mississauga Canoe Club has a reasonably priced lessons from May to August.

Hopefully by incorporating my two summer courses I will begin to enjoy a healthier summer!

Endless Munching

Well I started jogging again, but with lots of birthdays and st patties I began a not so healthy routine. My unhealthy routine included: beer, cupcakes, Pad Thai, cupcakes and alot more beer. So I decided to look up some articles to help me stop munching on ridiculous foods I don't need.

Suppress Cravings

Cut 100 Calories

Stop Stuffing Yourself Tips

Flat Abs Diet Tips

Song List # 2 - Relax Tracks

So my last music list had alot to do with cardio, so I decided this time around I would make one a little more relaxing. I have always believed people should take a couple of minutes out of the day just to chill and listen to a little music. Please enjoy downloading some of these tracks I have gathered and use them while doing Yoga, Pilates or just lying around.

1. Anything Sigur Ros - Great band from Iceland! Listen to Von and Andvari for some ultra relaxing tracks.
2. Bon Iver - For Emma
3. The Album Leaf - The Light
4. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild Sountrack, very relaxing, great to listen to in the summer.
5. Jim James & Calexico - Goin' to Acapulco
6. Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise is a great cd, and he is also from Montreal
7. Ray LaMontagne - I Still Care For You
8. Radiohead - House of Cards

Happy Relaxing!

Remotivation!

Im not going to lie ... the last two weeks of my plan have been a complete failure. With moving into a new house and having reading week I took a major break and didnt work out once!
I decided that with the new weather its time to become motivated again. I bought my two favorite fitness magazine (Shape and Womens Fitness) and began looking for some new ideas to get back into shape.
In this months Womens Fitness I came across an article about cardio and extra motivation to keep you on track.

1. Overcome cravings: When hungry ... go for a walk. Recent study published in the journal Appetite, found that subjects who took a brisk 15 minute walk cut down food cravings by 12%.
2. Lose to Muffin Top: Just 80 minutes of cardio a week slows weight gain a year after weight loss.
3. Quit the cancer sticks: I don't smoke but may be useful to readers who are ... 10-15 minutes if aerobic exercise trigger changes within the brain that help diffuse nicotine cravings.
4. Keep your sight: people who run 1.2 to 2.5 miles a day had a 19% lower chance of developing age-related macular degeneration.
5. Reduce Breast Cancer Risk: women who do moderate exericise for 2.5 hours or vigorous activity for 75 minutes a week cut their chance of dying from breast cancer by a third!! Women who did about twice as much lowered the risk to 55%!!!!

Im already feeling motivated again so see what happens by the end of the week :)

My First Videocast - Vickys Grand Adventures!

For my Online Communication class we were given a assignment to produce a videocast. The video is about some of the traveling I have done in the past and what I did over my reading week.

Happy viewing!