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Mar 12
Happy Birthday to Me!
Guess what? I’m almost a half-century-old…on April Fool’s Day I’ll turn 49. (Yes, I’m an April Fool, but we all knew I was a fool anyway, this explains it further…)
I’m not sure how it happened. I mean, holy cow 49 sounds old!
I can tell you, I do NOT feel old: I’ve never felt old and I don’t intend to ever feel old, fat and sluggish like many of my clients tell me they feel.
I do intend on getting older, but I prefer to equate age with good wine. I intend on just getting better.
With age there are a few benefits that are undeniable. Experience speaks volumes and if you’re paying attention it’s the best teacher. I’ve used experience to help me become a healthier and happier person.
Indulge me for a minute here. I get asked all the time how I appear younger than my years, so I’ll let you in on a few things.
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Mar 12
Green Cappuccino? Eat for Energy
Is coffee your ‘go to’ in the morning?
Do you need an instant boost of energy?
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Mar 12
Breakfast? Eat for Energy…
Here’s my friend Yuri Elkaim and I having a good time at a conference. He’s an expert on healthy eating. Are you eating for energy?
Yuri has a great breakfast recipe for you here.It’s quick, simple, delicious, raw, and no measuring is required.
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Mar 12
Fashion Flash March 26
I know you will enjoy exploring all of these wonderful and informative blogs here on the Fashion Flash. Check it out this week here: http://www.fabulousafter40.com/best-over-40-style-bloggersthe-fashion-flash/
Here’s what you’ll find:
Black Cat Plus: Actress Yvette Nicole Brown of NBC’s Community is a shining example of talent, class and curvy!
Menopause Makeover: Create your own personalized Menopause Makeover planner with these FREE downloads! Set goals and track results, document symptoms, journal your feelings, prepare your food plan and shopping lists. If you can see it, you can BE it!
Fav Over Forty: Looking for a makeup organizer that is perfect for travel and home? Fab Over 40 shows us this Laura Mercier must-have.
Fab Over Fifty: Hurrah, it’s spring! Now slowly back away from those pastels. The colors of the season are BRIGHT pink and red. Learn how to wear them on FabOverFifty and see splurge and save pieces in these hot hues.
Aging Backwards: Think you’re stuck with asluggish metabolism? You CAN speed it up! Jackie Silver from AgingBackwards.com shares some tips you’ll love. (With “surprising” picture of Jackie at age 12).
Female Fat Loss Over 40 (that’s me!): You don’t need to do this workout in the middle of an airport restaurant like Female Fat Loss Over 40 Expert, Shawna K did, but you SHOULD try it in your living room for a quick and effective metabolism boosting workout.
No -Nonsense Beauty: Deb of No-Nonsense Beauty Blog explores Retin A options.
Une Femme d’un Certain Age: Une femme has Paris on the brain, and has begun planning for next month’s visit! In anticipation, she shares the first in a series of tips for packing light, packing smart.
This week on Fabulous After 40 we are answering our most popular 0ver 40 fashion question…“How can I dress to hide my tummy?” Make sure to sign-up now for our FREE webinar on this important topic!
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Mar 12
Restaurant Workout Scene
Decline push ups, dips, Bulgarian splits squats, inverted rows, squat jumps: not typical airport restaurant fare.
Except for this one day that my awesome business partner, Krista Kokot and I decided we should serve it up at a Vancover airport Bistro.
We were on our way to a fitness conference and had a few minutes to spare. I was pretty happy that border services didn’t want to spend much time with me in secondary inspection (we seem to have a lil ‘thang’ going on lately) and Krista’s lost luggage got found.
So before we grabbed a bite to eat, we decided to make a scene.
I sort of like being completely irreverent in an airport (or anywhere) and I like to watch people’s reactions.
The man at the table behind us, nearly flipped his lid when I tested some cool canoe paddles hanging from the ceiling. I climbed on a chair and tired to hang from one. I was pretty sure they’d hold my weight for some pull ups, but decided that a blooper reel of my crashing to the floor was unnecessary.
Krista and I planned a full body workout, we moved some tables around and I grabbed my timer.
I guess it’s not often that you see two grown women hanging from bars and jumping on chairs (in an airport restaurant). As it turned out, the box jump was clearly going to turn into a blooper reel: Krista’s chair nearly broke in two and it wasn’t from her heavy frame 
In any case, an onlooking firefighter decided to save the day and offered to film our restaurant workout for us. Turns out our camera man may be good at putting out fires, not so good at filming…sorry about the sideways start!
For the video, we only did 15 seconds of work with a 5 second transition. We wanted to keep the video short so we wouldn’t get asked to leave the restaurant (I’ve been asked to leave places before…oddly enough).
For your workout, I suggest doing a minimum of 30 seconds of work with a 5 second transition. There are only six exercises, so each ‘giant set’ only takes 3 minutes 30 seconds. You can repeat this giant set five times through for a great full body workout in a little more than 15 minutes.
The exercises are:
- Decline push ups (optional: floor push ups or incline push ups)
- Dips
- Bulgarian split squats (weak leg)
- Bulgarian split squats (strong leg)
- Inverted rows (do stick ups, or a DB row if you can’t find something to hang from)
- Squat jumps
I think this is about the fifth airport workout I’ve done here on the blog. Here a two of those airport workouts:
-200 Reps to Embarrass Your Travel Companion
I’d love to hear the craziest place you’ve done a workout.
Remember, you don’t have to make a scene like we did (although it was super fun), just make a scene in your living room or hotel room sometime. You’ll be surprised at what a great little workout you can do with no equipment, a small amount of space and some imagination.
Hey, if you can get a cute fireman to film it for you, even better!
Oh by the way, for some cool workouts that last 6-10 minutes, you should check out my good friend, Mike Whitfield’s program called ‘Workout Finishers’. I love them and you will too. They’re very short fat burning and metabolism boosting workouts to help you get fit and burn fat in a record amount of time. Mike lost 105 lbs himself doing them. You can check the program out here.
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Mar 12
Fitness on the Road
Life on the road…well, I make it sound as if I’m some kind of wander lust traveler. As it turned out, I was traveling only about 10 days, which is plenty for me. (Seems like longer out of my every day routine.) I went to a couple of conferences in sunny California. I actually had the pleasure of speaking at two of the events.
I had the pleasure of having a travel companion this time, my biz partner, Krista Kokot. You’ll see one of the kick a$$ workouts we did together here.
Our first workout together found us in the Vancover airport making a scene. You’ll see that workout coming up soon.
The cool thing about traveling with another crazy workout canuck, is that we don’t mind making a bit of a scene in order to get a mini workout in, even in an airport. I always tell you that you can do this in your living room…just do it (I stole that from Nike obviously, but they have a good point).
The good news is that we didn’t get asked to leave the restaurant that I had climbed on the table to test out the canoe paddle. You won’t want to miss that post. (And if you want cool ideas that you can do at home, or in the airport!, you’ll want my program to guide you.)
I love to travel to cool places and meet up with all the coolest of peeps in the fitness industry. I have friends all over the world now and I have access to the best in the biz.
A few highlights for me was that I got to hang with Roman (John Romaniello) and party with Joel Marion and Craig Ballantyne.
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Mar 12
Fashion Flash
This week’s Fashion Flash is full of great information, as usual, from a diverse group of incredible women! From a decadent dark chocolate recipe to age appropriate “edginess” in your wardrobe to the causes of dark under eye circles and much more, these powerhouse women know what’s new in fashion and beauty. Check it out HERE.
I’ve got this for you: ‘Six Sets to a Hot Mess’ workout for you to do with only a set of dumb bells and a jump rope. Good times!
http://www.femalefatlossoverforty.com/blog/?p=6456
Fab Over Forty reviews the Somme Institute 5-step skincare regimen geared toward anti-aging and acne prone skin.
Got a sweet tooth? Staness from the Menopause Makeover shares her yummy and healthy recipe for Dark Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. Grab this low calorie solution for a snack, desert or enjoy with a glass of red wine as a special treat.
How should you dress to look edgy after 40, but still be age appropriate? Find out what the Glam Gals say over at Fabulous After 40.
Deb of No-Nonsense Beauty Blog explores the causes of dark under eye circles.
Une femme ponders what makes a garment a good investment, and reviews her own Wardrobe Investment Portfolio.
FabOverFifty investigates 6 reasons NEVER to drink another diet soda.
Jodell from Black Cat Plus says. “Finding Beauty in any size and age is the key to a fulfilled life!“
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Have I ever introduced you to my biz partner Krista Kokot? She and I share one of my Fit Body Boot Camp locations in our hometown of Calgary, AB. She’s a super cool person and I’m lucky to be sharing a biz with my BFF.
What’s cool about Krista is that she used to be my assistant, then my trainer and now, because she has such passion and drive to help others, we formed a biz together. Now she’s helping a ton of people and our biz together is less than a year old.
We’re in Costa Mesa, California for something called Fitness Summit. The hotel is FULL of fitness pros, aka beautiful people. As you’ll see, Krista is one of them. She’s totally transformed her body from the time we started working together. She’s a walking, talking billboard proving that the stuff I teach you on the blog and in my fitness boot camps works.
Earlier in the day, I spoke at the Fit Body Boot Camp World conference. I was honored to share the stage with Alywn Cosgrove. If you don’t know him, he’s the biggest fitness geek around. He can quote study after study on fat loss and training and anything fitness. In fact, in his presentation he quoted a study that was released just yesterday – talk about cutting edge stuff! He’s got the biggest heart, and he’s the nicest person you’d ever want to meet.
He was followed on stage by my mentor and fitness guru, Craig Ballantyne.
All good stuff.
I was thankful I preceded these dudes…they’re def a hard act to follow.
After sitting in the conference, Krista and I hit the gym. There we found my handsome good friend, John Romaniello (Roman). I pumped him up telling him that he’s a fav piece of eye candy on my blog. He’s a major player in the fitness biz with awesome programs like Final Phase Fat Loss and Intermittent Fasting.
So here we all are, a hot sweaty mess:
The purpose of this blog was to share a workout that Krista and I did, so here goes…
We chose six exercises and did 30 seconds of each with a 5 second transition. We repeated all six exercises for a total of 5 times. This was a killer workout we got done in less than 30 minutes.
Skipping (1 min, so two of the intervals)
Bulgarian split squat weak leg
Bulgarian split squat strong leg
Push ups
Stiff legged deadlifts
Stability ball plank OR Burpees (you know how I love burpees so I had to add these!)
We finished up with a bit of stretching, a shower and then we found some equally beautiful people to have dinner with.
Hey, it’s a tough life hanging around these fitness pros, but someone has to do it…
Oh, and if you want to transform your body the way my beautiful biz partner did, try my program at home and you’ll surprise yourself with how quickly you tighten and tone up.
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Mar 12
Fashion Flash
I love being part of an amazing group of bloggers and look forward to reading their weekly fab fashion and beauty advice. Here’s a roundup of their best posts this week: http://www.faboverfifty.com/content/style-blog/?p=19412
Une femme shares some random musings about fragrance, and divulges some of her current favorites.
Procedures like lasers and injectables have become nearly commonplace. Fab Over Forty wonders how safe are Medispas?
Getting fat? Cranky? Lost your mojo? Find out if YOU are in one of the stages of menopause and what to do about it.
“Stripes make you look fat, don’t they? See how The Glam Gals weigh in over at Fabulous After 40.”
The newest plus size model to show the world that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes is Kaela Humphries.
Your metabolism is like your body’s inner personal trainer. It works 24 hours a day using calories as fuel to give your body the energy it needs. Jackie Silver from AgingBackwards.com gives you five quick tips for boosting your metabolism.
And from me? Here’s a quick workout for home or travel from female over forty fat loss expert, Shawna K.
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Mar 12
Quick Intervals to Do At Home
Do you need a quick full body workout to do at home?
This is a great workout for you. It’s got 12 exercises that you can do pretty much in your living room with only a set of dumb bells. You’ll need a timer or some sort, unless you’re going to follow along with the video.
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My passion is teaching people how to work fitness into their daily lifestyle in order to improve their quality of life. Let’s work together to help you reach your fitness goals!
~Shawna Kaminski
