Find Your Fit: Pilates

There’s a style of fitness for everybody – you just need to find it. Enter our new series, Find Your Fit. We’ll be introducing a variety of exercises such as gym workouts, barre, boxing, and more. Some exercises we’ve been doing for years, and others will be our first time. Good or bad, we’re here to explore the world of fitness together. Join us on our journey and find your perfect fit!

Running My First 10K Race!

I ran my first 10K this past weekend! What a roller coaster of emotions throughout my journey from start the finish.

For a few months now, I’ve been thinking about signing up for a race. I missed the excitement from competing in competitive sports. So after mulling over it for months, I finally bit the bullet and signed up for a 10K race hosted by the city of Taoyuan.

Juliet’s Fitness Journey

My family used to travel to Taiwan almost every single year when I was in elementary and middle school. My aunts and uncles would squish my cheeks and exclaim, “They are so squishable! You are so cute!” My cousins would say to me, “Not as skinny as your sister! You’re a little chubby!” Those were my earliest memories of people commenting on my body, and it really affected the way I saw myself.

STRONGER with SELF Challenge: Final Thoughts

A few weeks ago, we joined the STRONGER with SELF challenge (link to our post) because we wanted to add something different to our fitness routines. Four weeks quickly passed and we’re at the end of the challenge. Neither of us actually finished the workouts – Juliet did not because she was on vacation for almost half the month of May, and Annie did not because she got lazy.

Nevertheless, we wanted to give our two cents on the challenge. 

STRONGER with SELF Challenge: Recipes We Tried

Along with workouts that the Stronger with Self Challenge provided, we were given recipes to try out. We love food so this was a great opportunity for us to try out different recipes that we may not have thought of. These were super easy and quick to make so continue reading to see what we cooked up!

STRONGER with SELF Challenge: Modifying for Our Lifestyles

As much as we’d like to follow the Stronger with SELF Challenge to the T, there were several times since the start of this challenge where both of us had to modify the challenge to fit our lifestyles. It’s okay. The only thing we care most about is to move and get your exercise in whenever you can and however you can.

Here were some of the reasons we chose to modify the challenge so far:

STRONGER with SELF Challenge: Week 1 Update

We are in the midst of Week 2 of the SELF Challenge, and wanted to check in with you guys.

Truth time: After we saw the workout, we thought that this challenge would be easy. But after the first day, we realized we were very wrong. Both of us have seen and done these exercises before, but the difference is that we go at our own pace and count our exercises by the number of reps. Now that we’re trying to doing as many reps (using good form!) in the allotted time, we definitely feel the burn.

Check out some of our favorite moves from week one and some of the ways we modified the workout!

STRONGER with SELF Challenge: 28-Day Fitness Program

We signed up for the Stronger With SELF Challenge. It’s a fun 28-day fitness program for all ages and fitness levels that includes a workout calendar and food recipes. The cool thing about these workouts is they’re all bodyweight exercises, so you can do them anywhere. They can also easily be modified to increase or decrease level of difficulty. If you’re looking to try something new because you’re getting bored of your own workouts or you want an added challenge on top of what you are already doing, then join us and sign up for this challenge! (NOT SPONSORED lol) It started yesterday on April 30th, so it’s not too late!

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My Fitness Journey: A New Perspective

It’s been a hot second since I made a post about my fitness journey so I thought I’d write a little update on how things are going. Last year, I focused on having a consistent schedule that I followed so I knew what I’d be accomplishing each day at the gym. It helped me stay motivated. Towards the end of the year, my motivation started to dwindle because it became something I mindlessly did and I lost sight of the reason I went to the gym in the first place. It’s interesting how the mindset you have can completely change the amount of motivation you have to achieve something.

Morning Run

Ever since returning from Thailand, I’ve had this urge to start running again. Maybe it was the fact that it was finally changing weather or maybe it was a way for me to wake up earlier than I normally do, but either way…once I was back, I started running more outside and at the gym.