Photographing Ghosts

Best comment of the day was "You photograph ghosts?!" Haha. Check here to see what this person was talking about when they first looked at my work:
http://codywrightphotography.tumblr.com

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Leg Rock

Here is the leg rock workout as I promised. Get ready to feel like Jell-O! 

Good luck! 

-Co

Arm Rock

Alright so here is today's workout, and it will work every part of your arms..trust me! Here is the perfect workout if you're looking to tone up for bikini season--I know I am!

I decided that I think it would be fun to gear up for bikini season with a February Challenge. I'm going to put together a calendar of workouts for the month of February, and of course I'd love for others to join in the challenge with me! Arm Rock (the exercise posted above) will be included in the February Fitness challenge, along with leg rock, abs & glutes, all-over body workout, and the..dun dun...All-over body blaster (details to come!)

I'll be posting Leg Rock either tonight or tomorrow (I did this workout yesterday and have been waddling around campus ever since). And the other exercises for the February Fitness Challenge will be posted before the end of January.

Enjoy the workout, sweat your butt off, stretch, and stay hydrated!! Maybe even make the post-workout smoothie from last week. :-)

Ciao!

-Co

Sweatin' Bullets & The Aftermath Delight

  Thanks to one of my coworkers who spends a lot of time at the gym, she wrote me up a workout that I did today...and let me just tell you, it was good! Here it is!

I felt so good after this workout and I can already feel my muscles starting to get sore (great feeling)! 

I made a post-workout smoothie after this and I think it was the most delicious one I've made yet...

Ingredients: 

-Spinach/Power blend (Organic Girl)

-Blueberries 

-Frozen peaches, pineapple, and strawberries

-Nonfat strawberry greek yogurt

-Almond milk

-Pineapple juice

-Half scoop of vanilla whey protein powder 

(This ends up being pretty naturally sweet so I wouldn't recommend adding anything before you blend)

                   

This was such a good post-workout choice and left me feeling full and muscles feeling replenished!

Enjoy!

-Co

Omelet With A Side of Roses

I got home late from work and was craving some eggs pretty bad. So I decided to whip up a mean omelet, and luckily we had 2 eggs left in the fridge!

My late night omelet ingredients:
-2 eggs
-white onion
-chopped garlic
-a few spinach leaves
-salt to taste

So I fried this up and it was surprisingly satisfying for such a last-minute meal.

Wondering what the roses are for? Well, my mom had to take my car to the Honda dealership to get inspected, and who would have known that Thursdays at the Honda dealer are Ladies Night? I know I definitely didn't know this. My mom, being the lovely lady that she is, received a nice little handful of roses because of this. Apparently the guy at the dealership said his wife was starting to catch on to the Thursday night roses routine.

Ciao!

-Co

Out & A-Sprout

It's difficult keeping up with healthy eating and exercising habits when you have a job. No doubt. When you're in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it is natural to think something along the lines of:

"I'll stop somewhere to eat on my way, I don't have time to make something at home."

And more often than not, where you end up stopping for food is going to be fast (the whole point of why you didn't make something at home). So guess what that gives us? Food that is fast = FAST FOOD (uh oh!).

Trust me, I am completely guilty of caving in to the convenience of fast food in the past (I mean c'mon,  there has to be a Taco Bell or McDonald's at every corner in this modern-day world--of course it's hard to resist this!).

But here comes the good news..I have become pretty good at making express meals that seriously take no longer than 5 minutes (and that probably includes the time of taking out and putting back all of the ingredients in the fridge/pantry). Five minutes is probably the equivalent of the time you'd spend sitting in the drive-thru waiting to get your grub, but with making quick meals at home you automatically eliminate the potential risk of long lines that you'd find at the drive-thru (and of course that one person in the car in front of you who is throwing a fit about having tomatoes on her Nacho Bell-Grande when she SPECIFICALLY asked for no tomatoes!...You'd think it was the end of the world from these customers' reactions, right?).

Anywho, here is a healthy and incredibly quick lunch that I made yesterday before zooming off to work!

Ingredients:
-2 slices Ezekiel bread
-Sliced Turkey Breast
-Alfalfa Sprouts
-Avacado
-1 slice Mozzarella Cheese

Just place all of this on the bread and you've got yourself a pretty darn good sammich! 

Enjoy! 

-Co