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Fitness Tuesday – SOULPUP

June 27, 2017

Happy Fitness Tuesday! Today I want to talk about fitness with your furry friends. If you follow me on social media you know that I am a SoulCycle junkie or if not by my matching shirt with my sweet puppy Stella. I try and go at least 4 times a week if not more, but I am not like Venessa Hudgens who says if she can goes twice a day. That is a little crazy to me! When I got Stella she was only 3.5 lbs of pure fluff and now she is 22 lbs. Some people think she is bigger than that because of all of her fur. All of my old dogs were large golden retrievers so once they were about 6 months they were too big to pick up on my own, but this isn’t the case with Stella. Since starting my workout journey I have tried every type of exercise in the book…except hot yoga out of fear I will pass out in the room. I never realized that by picking Stella up all the time and carrying her I was really building up my muscle strength. So I decided to do something that involved me working out and Stella. I now try and do lunges while I am holding her across my living room floor. She sometimes gets a little squirmy, but eventually she lets me hold her. The other exercise that I love to do with Stella is running. I love running outside with her for many reasons. First because of her size she runs really really fast! You can ask my family in Miami whenever she is there she runs around my house in circles and is so fast. She is so fast that my brother Ira who to this day says he is the fastest in our family can barely keep up with her. Sorry to break it to you Ira, but Stella is the fastest Marcus now. If you are going to take your dog out for a jog please take a collapsable bowl that can be attached to your leash for water. I know too many people that didn’t do that and thankfully none of their dogs got hurt, but they were severely dehydrated. If you have a furry friend like my sweet Stella do these two exercises with them and see what I am talking about. Sadly my SoulCycle t-shirt is no longer available, but a similar shirt to the one Stella is wearing is up on their website. Click here to purchase it for your sweet furry friend. <3

Fitness Tuesday- Foam Roller

December 20, 2016

Happy Tuesday everyone! With the holidays fast approaching I know that everyone is doing their last minute work outs in order to look great for when they see their families. One of the things that always happens after a great workout is you muscles tend to be sore. For me I always am sore some days I am more sore than others depending on the work out I had the day before, but this is something that isn’t bad. I tend to get a lot of muscles spasms especially on my back. I grew up with scoliosis and instead of surgery I wore a back brace from 7th grade until my sophomore year of high school. This was pretty difficult especially growing up in Florida with all of this humidity. Since I have been working out more frequently than before I have noticed my back acting up from it. My brother Ira suggested that I use a foam roller to stretch out my muscles. I looked at it and said that thing you have in your bedroom is for that? He said yes and showed me how to use it properly so that I wouldn’t hurt myself in the process. Since that day I use after every hard workout I have which is normally after I go to a Fhitting Room class or a SoulSurvivor. This is has truly made a difference with my muscles and helped with my back spasms tremendously! If you don’t own a foam roller no problem there are tons of options online now and at different price points. If you have never used a foam roller before and aren’t sure which one to purchase stick with the simple ones that almost look like a rolled up yoga mat to start and then go from there. Hope this helps all of you with your muscles. Have a great Tuesday!

SoulCycle x Apple Watch

September 18, 2016

Today is Sunday so it should be a day of rest right? For me, I enjoy working out especially on Sunday’s because it makes me feel that my week ended on a high note. I have always loved working out and taking classes, but while I was home in Miami there wasn’t as many options as I would like. In New York, there are work out classes almost on every block, but I wanted to find something that was close to my home in Miami and also in NYC. I had tried SoulCycle in the past, but never got into it that much. I always thought it was just a fad and it would pass. Boy, was I wrong. I started to go when I was home since they opened a SoulCycle studio 10 minutes from my house. I figured why not get back into the gym slowly… Now I am addicted. I go a minimum of 4 days of week. It is addicting, but something that people may not realize is when you look at a SoulCycle schedule when it says SoulSurvivor that means the class is not the general 45-minute class it is an HOUR LONG, but for the same price! So why not go for an hour vs 45 minutes if you can? I try to go every Sunday for a SoulSurvivor class to just prepare myself for the week ahead. One of the things that I can’t go to class without is my apple watch. I have the first generation of the watch that my brother Ira gave to me as my graduation gift from Graduate School. I use this to track my workouts and even though sometimes it isn’t 100% accurate it has been really helpful through my workout journey. I have done the recent software update that came out this week for the watch and it has fixed a lot of the issues with my watch that I was having before. Another thing is if you have an apple watch just remember if your phone is nearby make sure to put your watch on sleep mode. It will still track everything to your phone, but from experience the last thing you want is your watch to start ringing on your wrist in the middle of class because someone is calling your cell phone. Happy Sunday Everyone!!