It's easy to think of a workout as a means of becoming stronger, bigger, faster, and more resilient. While those are certainly the intended results, it's an unfortunate truth that exercising in the wrong way or living a lifestyle that's not conducive to recovery can actually cause your workouts to become a source of nothing more than fatigue and wear and tear on your body. Luckily, you can position yourself for the best possible experience during your next workout by taking some of the following steps.
Ensure Optimal Hydration
Drinking plenty of water ensures that your circulatory system can optimally pump blood and nutrients to every muscle in your body. However, sometimes consuming water orally doesn't work fast enough to alleviate symptoms of fatigue and hangover from previous workouts. If you're an athlete or serious exercise enthusiast who needs to recover fast and ensure scientifically perfect hydration before each workout, then you might want to consider a pre-work IV hydration therapy session from a popular provider like ResetIV.com.
Get Plenty of Sleep
Sleep deprivation will undoubtedly hurt your endurance, maximum, strength output capability, and the responsiveness of your muscle fibers. In other words, if you don't get enough sleep, you're going to feel tired, weak, and slow during your exercise. Generally, you should aim for 7-8 hours of sleep per night to ensure an optimal workout experience.
Eat a Pre-Workout Snack or Shake
Science has proven that giving your body an energy boost with pre-workout nutrition is one of the most reliable ways to prevent premature fatigue and exhaustion during strenuous activity. Try to avoid a filling meal and go for an easily digestible shake or snack bar instead. It's best to eat your pre-workout snack about 30 minutes to an hour before your workout for best results, as your body's metabolism and electrolyte system will be at peak performance after digesting a fresh batch of nutrients
Allow Healing Time Between Workouts
Not allowing adequate healing time is the most common mistake made by novice to intermediate fitness enthusiasts. This is especially problematic when you're first getting into a routine, as you can easily overwork yourself by not taking days off due to overzealousness. The easiest way to know when to resume exercise is to pay attention to how you feel. If you're still incredibly sore and you don't fell up to it, give it a day or two. Those signs are letting you know that your body is still working on rebuilding the muscle fibers that you worked on in the previous workout.
Poor Preparation and Leads to Poor Results
Ultimately, the preparation you do before the workout is equally important as the approach your take during each repetition. Like everything else in life, getting good results with exercise is about setting yourself up for success – with rest, recuperation, and nutrition.
Over-training is Your Worst Enemy
Don't get caught up in the extremist hype that says you're supposed to “push your body's limits by trying your hardest every day.” Utilizing your body to its maximum potential on a daily basis without sufficient time for recovery is something that only a minority of highly trained athletes can successfully accomplish, and one could argue that it isn't beneficial for their bodies either because many times they wind up injured or washed up due to the strain of years of non-stop physical activity.
Monday, July 8, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Minneapolis Institute of Art - MIA @artsmia #travel #vacation Part 2
We went to Minneapolis Institute of Art - MIA twice. Yep you read that right.
Two Times = Two Posts
This is the second post. You can see the first one here.
Walker Art Center wins the award for best sculpture garden, but MIA wins the best award for an art museum. Hands down we enjoyed this one so much!
Cost:
FREE
Some exhibits require tickets. We got to go to one of their special exhibits! I'll share that in this post.
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10am – 5pm
Wednesday: 10am – 5pm
Thursday: 10am – 9pm
Friday: 10am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm
A lot of museums are closed on Mondays in Minneapolis. Joslyn Art Museum here in Omaha, Nebraska is also closed on Mondays. Possibly it's a thing to be closed on Mondays. Just take note of that if you do travel places. I'd hate for you to get to a place thinking you're going to visit all kinds of museums, only to find out they are all closed.
Parking was a little tighter than the first time, but not awful.
We went to see their special exhibit on Native American Women Arts. Usually their special exhibits do cost money, but they had a special event. We became members, but it was all free.
Downside: We went to see Fort Snelling in the morning, Mall of America in the afternoon, and then the MIA. The little/tall boys were tired of walking. Who am I kidding? I was tired too. Right off the bat Isaak was complaining about his stomach hurting. I could tell Travis would hate us if he had to leave. He wanted to see it so much. What's a Mom to do? I didn't want him tossing his cookies on high end art! I sent him off to the bathroom, then had him sit in a room that was not part of the special exhibit. We took turns walking through the show.
Upside: I really wanted more time in this museum. In fact I could have gone three times! The exhibit was wonderful, so worth it. They had activities downstairs. Isaak participated in one of those.
I could wear these!
Stacking Fabrics:
It reminds me of the story Princess and the Pea. I just want to bounce on the top.
Super Powerful:
I like that these paintings go off the canvas and tapestry!
Something 3D. It felt much like bing in the South West among Cacti.
This was Mica's favorite. He digs anything with space.
I saw something from this artist at another museum. In laid wood takes time!
Lots of masks!
This one has a lot of feeling attached to it!
Certainly worth the extra tired feet.
Do you like Native American Art?
Disclaimer: This is not a paid review. I got no compensation, for writing this post. All opinions are my own.
Two Times = Two Posts
This is the second post. You can see the first one here.
Cost:
FREE
Some exhibits require tickets. We got to go to one of their special exhibits! I'll share that in this post.
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10am – 5pm
Wednesday: 10am – 5pm
Thursday: 10am – 9pm
Friday: 10am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm
A lot of museums are closed on Mondays in Minneapolis. Joslyn Art Museum here in Omaha, Nebraska is also closed on Mondays. Possibly it's a thing to be closed on Mondays. Just take note of that if you do travel places. I'd hate for you to get to a place thinking you're going to visit all kinds of museums, only to find out they are all closed.
Parking was a little tighter than the first time, but not awful.
We went to see their special exhibit on Native American Women Arts. Usually their special exhibits do cost money, but they had a special event. We became members, but it was all free.
Downside: We went to see Fort Snelling in the morning, Mall of America in the afternoon, and then the MIA. The little/tall boys were tired of walking. Who am I kidding? I was tired too. Right off the bat Isaak was complaining about his stomach hurting. I could tell Travis would hate us if he had to leave. He wanted to see it so much. What's a Mom to do? I didn't want him tossing his cookies on high end art! I sent him off to the bathroom, then had him sit in a room that was not part of the special exhibit. We took turns walking through the show.
Upside: I really wanted more time in this museum. In fact I could have gone three times! The exhibit was wonderful, so worth it. They had activities downstairs. Isaak participated in one of those.
I could wear these!
Stacking Fabrics:
It reminds me of the story Princess and the Pea. I just want to bounce on the top.
Super Powerful:
Mexican Doll:
I like that these paintings go off the canvas and tapestry!
Something 3D. It felt much like bing in the South West among Cacti.
This was Mica's favorite. He digs anything with space.
I saw something from this artist at another museum. In laid wood takes time!
Lots of masks!
This one has a lot of feeling attached to it!
Lit up pieces:
Certainly worth the extra tired feet.
Do you like Native American Art?
Minneapolis Institute of Art - MIA @artsmia #travel #vacation
We went to Minneapolis Institute of Art - MIA twice. Yep you read that right.
Two Times = Two Posts
This is the first post. You can see the other post here when it's live.
Walker Art Center wins the award for best sculpture garden, but MIA wins the best award for an art museum. Hands down we enjoyed this one so much!
Cost:
FREE
Some exhibits require tickets. We got to go to one of their special exhibits! I'll share that in this post.
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10am – 5pm
Wednesday: 10am – 5pm
Thursday: 10am – 9pm
Friday: 10am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm
A lot of museums are closed on Mondays in Minneapolis. Joslyn Art Museum here in Omaha, Nebraska is also closed on Mondays. Possibly it's a thing to be closed on Mondays. Just take note of that if you do travel places. I'd hate for you to get to a place thinking you're going to visit all kinds of museums, only to find out they are all closed.
We had no problem finding parking.
This museum looks fairly small when we walked into it. Then we went upstairs, and it just seemed to get bigger and bigger!
We had already been to Walker Art Center that day. I think the boys were getting tired of walking. We mostly stayed in one section, and then looked at a lot more more the second time we went. Their collection is large!
I don't have titles, dates or names of pieces. I was on vacation, so I just wanted to absorb the art.
The whole section of art we walked through was very peaceful. I remember when I was going to have nose surgery, I bought a lot of elephant stuff. Elephants represent peace in a lot of cultures. I figured I could use lots of peace.
More Mask Like:
Disclaimer: This is not a paid review. I got no compensation, for writing this post. All opinions are my own.
Two Times = Two Posts
This is the first post. You can see the other post here when it's live.
Cost:
FREE
Some exhibits require tickets. We got to go to one of their special exhibits! I'll share that in this post.
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10am – 5pm
Wednesday: 10am – 5pm
Thursday: 10am – 9pm
Friday: 10am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm
A lot of museums are closed on Mondays in Minneapolis. Joslyn Art Museum here in Omaha, Nebraska is also closed on Mondays. Possibly it's a thing to be closed on Mondays. Just take note of that if you do travel places. I'd hate for you to get to a place thinking you're going to visit all kinds of museums, only to find out they are all closed.
We had no problem finding parking.
This museum looks fairly small when we walked into it. Then we went upstairs, and it just seemed to get bigger and bigger!
We had already been to Walker Art Center that day. I think the boys were getting tired of walking. We mostly stayed in one section, and then looked at a lot more more the second time we went. Their collection is large!
I don't have titles, dates or names of pieces. I was on vacation, so I just wanted to absorb the art.
The whole section of art we walked through was very peaceful. I remember when I was going to have nose surgery, I bought a lot of elephant stuff. Elephants represent peace in a lot of cultures. I figured I could use lots of peace.
More Mask Like:
Do you get into masks?
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Silverware Set Review
I got this Silverware Set to review. I was excited to review it because our silverware is looking kind of old. I don't know that I love the design of our old set.
The new design is really pretty cool! I like the thin handles. It just looks different.
What it Comes With:
1 steak knife
1 spoon,
1 pasta fork
1 coffee spoon
I’d love it if there was just 2 spoons or 2 forks, and not a coffee spoon. It’s so small. I don’t know if we’ll use it. Travis handed Isaak the coffee spoon to eat his Potato Salad. That's not really what it's meant for, but he said, "What is this a baby spoon?" LOL!
When I first read the review I saw that it is a 4-piece set. I read that as it having 4 knives, 4 spoons, and 4 forks. You can imagine how I was surprised that it had only 4 things in the set. I'd have it be a little more money, and add more duplicated to the set.
Cost:
$11.74 on Amazon Prime http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GZJ479X
Care:
It's made out of stainless steel. It washes safe in the dishwasher. I did notice that you have to put it in upside down to prevent the handles falling through the mesh dishwasher cubby. Black tableware surface mirror polished, no dirt, easy to oxidize, easy to clean. Every detail of the head is carefully treated and the smooth edges won't hurt your mouth. The forked cut is specially polished.
Food:
I made brats, potato salad, cut up radishes and peaches.
What it Comes With:
1 steak knife
1 spoon,
1 pasta fork
1 coffee spoon
I’d love it if there was just 2 spoons or 2 forks, and not a coffee spoon. It’s so small. I don’t know if we’ll use it. Travis handed Isaak the coffee spoon to eat his Potato Salad. That's not really what it's meant for, but he said, "What is this a baby spoon?" LOL!
When I first read the review I saw that it is a 4-piece set. I read that as it having 4 knives, 4 spoons, and 4 forks. You can imagine how I was surprised that it had only 4 things in the set. I'd have it be a little more money, and add more duplicated to the set.
Cost:
$11.74 on Amazon Prime http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GZJ479X
Care:
It's made out of stainless steel. It washes safe in the dishwasher. I did notice that you have to put it in upside down to prevent the handles falling through the mesh dishwasher cubby. Black tableware surface mirror polished, no dirt, easy to oxidize, easy to clean. Every detail of the head is carefully treated and the smooth edges won't hurt your mouth. The forked cut is specially polished.
Food:
I made brats, potato salad, cut up radishes and peaches.
Are you happy with your silverware?
Friday, July 5, 2019
Random Tid Bits
- This little bug was inside my work. I just couldn't kill it, and didn't want to deal with getting something to put it on to put it back outside. I just took a photo of it instead.
- One of my best students is so nosey. She asked me about another student. Did so and so graduate? Did she just walk, for graduation? Did she have to take a summer class? Is she really joining us to get her BFA? Just reading what I just wrote makes me tired. I responded back with, So and so did graduate. If you have other questions talk with so and so. I also mentioned that people do in fact change, and to give this girl another chance. Hopefully I handled that well.
- I have this horrible habit of freezing when I'm unable to do what I set out to do. Facebook and Instagram wouldn't upload my pictures for a review. Most people would move on. I told myself to move on. Instead I kept trying, and practically froze up with getting anything else done. It would be horrible, for me if the whole internet crashed. Not that I wouldn't find something else to do, it's just that I'd keep trying to see if I could hop on the internet over and over again knowing full well it doesn't work.
- Fresh Farms - formally The Fruit Truck was in town delivering peaches and cherries. I told my family about it (mistake number 1).
My younger sister went out of town. She said, "Can you pick up a small box of cherries and peaches for me?" I didn't mind, and did. I said to Travis, "Since she was out of town, she'll probably want me to deliver the fruit to her house. Heck she may even want me to process it for her. I didn't think this through. I already hauled my ass out of bed, stood in line, paid for them, and hauled the heavy boxes around for her."
He said, "She wouldn't want you to do all that." I texted her how much it was, and asked, "When are you going to come get them?" She responded with, "Saturday. If they ripen before then can you wash them, and put them in my freezer?" I didn't respond back. Usually I'm a Yes Yes person, and I'm trying to change that. My husband thinks I say, Yes too much! It's not a big deal in one sense, but in another it happens all the time. If her kid left something at my house - she wants me to drop it off. If my kid left something at her house - I have to go get it, or it will be lost for forever.
Are you a Yes Yes person? - We had a Lemonade Sale last weekend. The boys made $30 each, totally $60! Not bad! Travis had a bunch of frozen strawberries in a cooler, to make more Strawberry Lemonade. He forgot about them. Many bags busted open, so they were all sticky. We ended up making Strawberry Jam, so we didn't have to throw them out. It took most of the evening, but we now have 25 jars of Strawberry Jam.
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Gooseberry Falls State Park @mndnr
One of our favorite stops in Minnesota was Gooseberry Falls State Park.
From Their Site:
Gooseberry Falls is the gateway to the North Shore. It is known for its spectacular waterfalls, river gorge, Lake Superior shoreline, Civilian Conservation Corps log and stone structures, and north woods wildlife.
Listen to the thunderous roar of the Upper, Middle and Lower Falls of the Gooseberry River as it plummets through a rocky gorge. Watch for waves, ships, or the moon rise on Lake Superior from an ancient lava flow known as the Picnic Flow.
Hike or ski to see the Fifth Falls through a forest of evergreens, aspen, and birch, and enjoy camping in modern campsites, picnicking, and relaxing along the Lake Superior shoreline or the Gooseberry River.
To get the most out of your visit, stop by the Joseph N. Alexander Visitor Center where you can find park information, interpretive displays, a park video, Nature Store, and more. Don't miss the Gateway Plaza for outdoor interpretive signs on area resources and history.
Address:
3206 Highway 61 East
Two Harbors, MN 55616
Hours:
8-10 Daily
Cost:
Free
Do be prepared to hike! It doesn't take long to get to waterfalls. There are a lot of steps.
They get bigger and bigger.
What I liked just as much as the waterfalls is the tree trunks. They twist and turn.
The kids loved exploring down below.
Rocks:
And the boys bonded.
Disclaimer: This is not a paid review. I got no compensation, for writing this post. All opinions are my own.
From Their Site:
Gooseberry Falls is the gateway to the North Shore. It is known for its spectacular waterfalls, river gorge, Lake Superior shoreline, Civilian Conservation Corps log and stone structures, and north woods wildlife.
Listen to the thunderous roar of the Upper, Middle and Lower Falls of the Gooseberry River as it plummets through a rocky gorge. Watch for waves, ships, or the moon rise on Lake Superior from an ancient lava flow known as the Picnic Flow.
Hike or ski to see the Fifth Falls through a forest of evergreens, aspen, and birch, and enjoy camping in modern campsites, picnicking, and relaxing along the Lake Superior shoreline or the Gooseberry River.
To get the most out of your visit, stop by the Joseph N. Alexander Visitor Center where you can find park information, interpretive displays, a park video, Nature Store, and more. Don't miss the Gateway Plaza for outdoor interpretive signs on area resources and history.
Address:
3206 Highway 61 East
Two Harbors, MN 55616
Hours:
8-10 Daily
Cost:
Free
Do be prepared to hike! It doesn't take long to get to waterfalls. There are a lot of steps.
They get bigger and bigger.
What I liked just as much as the waterfalls is the tree trunks. They twist and turn.
The kids loved exploring down below.
My one selfie:
And the boys bonded.
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