![]() When it comes to home decor, we all dread the day when we have to do a makeover and or a renovation in our home, but it also comes down to the most exciting part, picking out new colors, new decor for our home, and it always mean a fresh start in life or better yet a new change. I also came across something that I like best when doing a makeover, it picking out new paint and even new furniture. There are couple of things that I came across when designing a new room, most of these items are statement pieces, well actually, one big statement piece with a color scheme that you can take from. Here are rules that you can follow or take advice from. 1) Always have a statement piece This could be a rug that you absolutely want or love, or just something that you can have color with. 2) Always have a color scheme What I mean is if you are going to paint your walls, don't have it the same like your rug or your couch, like for example if your couch is grey, don't have grey walls. If you want to paint your walls grey, because there is a tint of grey in your rug, then that fine, but if your couch is grey, and you want to paint your wall grey, that is a big NO NO. But there one thing that I figure out, that you should always have a statement piece that you can follow, especially the one that has color, Like with the rug that I chose, it have greys, blues, teals and with a mixture of white. I incorporate greys, blues and teals in with the room, I took the grey couch, with the blue walls, (which is not picture), then I took, the teal and the light grey as accent pieces, for the room. 3) Wall art You can either buy wall art or make it, or even print it online. You can always buy a canvas and find something that you actually like, cut it out and take some glue and glue it, and everyone will think that you painted it yourself. It really simple to make wall art for your home. I called it therapy, for when you are having a bad day or just feeling depressed, just do something that can relax you and have fun with, even if you have kids, make it a family night or a family project to do with the family. 4) Cabinet/dresser The room is complete when you have an accent piece in the room, that is light grey, and also that can define the room. One thing that I like about this type if piece is that you can display, your plants, lamp, and/or mirror, or basically anything that you want sitting on the dresser. The type of dresser that I like is the one with cabinets and drawers, that way I can store items in it, to hide, so they won't be all over the house. 5) Less is More Should always have less stuff in a room instead of making looking like it clutter or a room fill stuff that doesn't have a place to go. So I preferred a room with less rather then more, because I rather have room to move around in, or a place to dance in or a place to do yoga in. Remember less is more. 6) Curtains When you go and get curtains always get the second color from the rug or anything that you are using. When picking out curtains, you can always pick out 2 types of curtains, like for example, teal curtains with a light grey lace curtains or sheers, or white lace, that way your windows can pop also, not just your floor or walls or sitting arrangements. 7) Sitting Arrangements When it comes to sitting arrangement, you pick out the deep color that in the rug or anything that you like, like for example dark grey sofa, with maybe a teal chair, with a light grey chair to go with the color scheme, because one thing that I notice, everyone have to have one color sitting arrangement in the living room, So I pick 3 to go with the rug, that I chosen, it has dark, light and medium grey, teal and blues, so I pick the dark grey for the sofa, the light grey for the chair and the teal for the chair. So when it comes to picking out colors just make a color scheme that you are using, you should always have 3 or 4 color scheme that you are doing. When I was doing my room makeover, it was hard, I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know what colors that I was going to do, so I decided to do colors that I love and find a rug that I thought was pretty cool and I decided to use it. It wasn't something that I went with, I think I went thought about 1,000 rugs in order to pick the one that I like. It was hard. But hey I had fun, doing the home decor thing on Polyvore, which is one of my favorite sites to do styling and home decor, I decided to do this home decor thing, to show my readers what they can do with their homes other then listening to other designers. I hope this helps, since I am designing my own home, actually bedroom. I will give you a tour of my bedroom, once everything is complete.
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When it comes to fitness, we all get that mode where we don't want to do nothing. But we have to if we have to start getting healthy and fit, Or let make it easier for ourselves, getting the bikini body that we starve for. So when it comes to not going to the gym, I have came up with 10 ways to stay fit. 1) Create your own bootcamp - this is simple and easy, because we can always get our neighbors, to join with us, if we want to get fit. We can all do together and also we can learn the buddy system. 2) Bike ride around the your town - this way you are building leg muscles and also if you don't know where nothing is, this is your chance to find out. 3) Sign up for a obstacle-course race - this way you can build confident in yourself and also you are working on your endurance. 4) Take a hike - this way you are building up on your strengthen your legs muscles. 5) Try a track workout - this way you are building up your jogging, in case you don't know how to do it, this way you do and give a track work out a chance. 6) Turn chores into a workout - because you are basically moving your whole body and when you do chores, you are building up muscles. 7) Do yard work - This way you are working out, while you are doing your yard, like for examples, if you are raking, mowing, and picking up sticks, you are basically working out, just doing it differently. 8) Offer your services - This way you can do someone else yard work, and still keep the momentum going. 9) Practice Yoga at home - We all have a laptop at home that we can easier turn it on and watch yoga and do it. 10) Join a team - If you see a group of people doing workouts, ask them to see if you can join, or simply ask them if they are full, because you would like to join. courtesy of Health.com ![]() When we embark on the month of June. We get fitness fever, because we all want that bikini body, then we hit the wall of what fitness should I do. Then we start to mope, but what we all don't realized is that, we need to sit down and think, and just stop being lazy and just do fitness, but we don't know what type of fitness we need to do. So I decided to come up with a series of terms for different types of fitness. So it to being summer, well almost summer, I think we all need fitness in our life, but for some we are already doing it. We first began with Aerobic Exercise, the first term. Aerobic exercise is sometimes known as "cardio"- exercise that requires pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles. Aerobic exercise stimulates the heart rate and breathing rate to increase in a way that can be sustained for the exercise session Aerobics - is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness (flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness). It is usually performed to music and may be practiced in a group setting led by an instructor (fitness professional), although it can be done solo and without musical accompaniment. With the goal of preventing illness and promoting physical fitness, practitioners perform various routines comprising a number of different dance-like exercises. Formal aerobics classes are divided into different levels of intensity and complexity. A well-balanced aerobics class will have five components: warm-up (5-10 minutes), cardio vascular conditioning (25-30 minutes), muscular strength and conditioning (10-15 minutes), cool-down (5-8 minutes) and stretching and flexibility (5-8 minutes).Aerobics classes may allow participants to select their level of participation according to their fitness level. Many gyms offer a variety of aerobic classes. Each class is designed for a certain level of experience and taught by a certified instructor with a specialty area related to their particular class. Circuit training- is a high volume (repetitions), low resistance (weight) workout with short rest intervals and is geared primarily at improving muscle tone and definition, while improving cardiovascular fitness. This workout involves exercising all major muscle groups (stations) in one continuous cycle, alternating between the different areas to allow for muscle recovery and to force your heart to work harder in pumping blood (and oxygen) to these constantly changing areas. Given the nature of your short rest periods, it is strongly recommended you use machines that do not require much time to select your weight (as opposed to free weights) and that the machines are in close proximity to each other. A circuit should work each section of the body individually. Typical activities include: Upper-body- Squat ups, Bench dips, Back extensions, Medicine ball chest pass, Bench lift, Inclined press up, Core & trunk, Sit ups (lower abdominals), Stomach crunch (upper abdominals), Back extension chest raise Lower-body- Squat jumps, Compass jumps, Astride jumps, Step ups, Shuttle runs, Hopping shuttles, Bench squat Total-body- Burpees, Treadmills, Squat thrusts, Skipping, Jogging Cycling - is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. Hiking- a usually long walk especially for pleasure or exercise. : a usually sudden increase in the cost, level, or amount of something. Running- Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is in contrast to walking, where one foot is always in contact with the ground, the legs are kept mostly straight and the center of gravity vaults over the stance leg or legs in an inverted pendulum fashion. A characteristic feature of a running body from the viewpoint of spring-mass mechanics is that changes in kinetic and potential energy within a stride occur simultaneously, with energy storage accomplished by springy tendons and passive muscle elasticity. The term running can refer to any of a variety of speeds ranging from jogging to sprinting. Skipping rope- Skipping may be used for a cardiovascular workout, similar to jogging or bicycle riding. This aerobic exercise can achieve a "burn rate" of up to 700 calories per hour of vigorous activity, with about 0.1 calories consumed per jump. Ten minutes of skipping is roughly the equivalent of running an eight-minute mile. Jumping rope for 15–20 minutes is enough to burn off the calories from a candy bar. Weighted skipping ropes are available for such athletes to increase the difficulty and effectiveness of such exercise. Individuals or groups can participate in the exercise, and learning proper techniques is relatively simple compared to many other athletic activities. The exercise is also appropriate for a wide range of ages and fitness levels Swimming- Swimming is primarily a cardiovascular/aerobic exercise[12] due to the long exercise time, requiring a constant oxygen supply to the muscles, except for short sprints where the muscles work anaerobically. As with most aerobic exercise, swimming is believed to reduce the harmful effects of stress. Swimming is also effective in improving health for people with cardiovascular problems and chronic illnesses. It is proven to positively impact the mental health of pregnant women and mothers. Swimming can even improve mood Walking- Regular, brisk exercise of any kind can improve confidence, stamina, energy, weight control and life expectancy and reduce stress. It can also reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, bowel cancer and osteoporosis. Scientific studies have also shown that walking, besides its physical benefits, is also beneficial for the mind, improving memory skills, learning ability, concentration and abstract reasoning, as well as ameliorating spirits. Sustained walking sessions for a minimum period of thirty to sixty minutes a day, five days a week, with the correct walking posture,[7][8] reduce health risks and have various overall health benefits,[9] such as reducing the chances of cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, anxiety and depression.[10] Life expectancy is also increased even for individuals suffering from obesity or high blood pressure. Walking also improves bone health, especially strengthening the hip bone, and lowering the harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and raising the useful high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.[11] Studies have found that walking may also help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's. Power walking- is the act of walking with a speed at the upper end of the natural range for the walking gait, typically 7 to 9 km/h (4.5 to 5.5 mph). To qualify as power walking as opposed to jogging or running, at least one foot must be in contact with the ground at all times (see walking for a formal definition). I got the definitions from Wikipedia, ace fitness and also Merriam-Webster dictionary. I don't know if the terms are correct. But to be honest, I think nobody knows the true definition to something these days, because first of all it means something different to us all ![]() 95 degrees here in Michigan, on a Friday afternoon. Question of the day, is what to do on this beautiful day. One word that strikes my mind, is fitness Fridays. When it come to fitness, I am a lazy horse, don't want to do nothing, except my job, which is working on my blog and my 7 days a week job. I decided to come up with Fitness Fridays, because I thought that it would help me with my lazy days. Sometimes I feel like being skinny should come naturally, instead getting in the workout mood. During my time on figuring out, what to come up for Fridays, I decided I called it Fitness Fridays, every Friday I will come up a fitness Friday routine for everyone to start getting into the mood of Fitness. I know how being lazy is and sometimes it is not good for us to be lazy, for some of us, we may work 7 days a week, I know I do, and sometimes when we come home we don't want to do nothing, except sit on the couch and just Relax and maybe just tune into Lifetime, sometimes I do which is always good. Sometimes getting into the routine of things, it hard, so that why I created Fitness Fridays, also Men don't worry this is for you to. When we come home, we can relax for a minute, cook dinner, clean up the house a little bit. Here a thing for you all, we are actually doing fitness, we just don't know how to take it further, like a little cardio here and there, and a little push ups, a little sit up, a little crunches, we are already doing fitness, by cooking dinner, cleaning the house, chasing the kids around the house, if we just booth up our confident and start getting into the swing of things and get into what we should be getting into and start making our lives healthy and more fun for us, not just being at work and being lazy. So I will be creating anything from exercises to tips to recipe for fitness Fridays, and I hope that we all can take care of our lives better and have more confident in ourselves and also have more fun with it. I am sorry if I offended anyone, by being lazy, if you are, your not the only one, cause I am the lazy one, I think I might be the biggest lazy one, if that even a word, or even a phrase, and lets starts taking care of our selves together. Also I will create a discussion board that will be in the comment section of this blog and every fitness Fridays post there is and we can all share what we are doing, that way we all can do this together and also it can be anonymous if you chose to be anonymous. ![]() WHO READY FOR WORKOUT WEDNESDAY? I know I am. When it comes to working out, we all need motivation to get us thought the day. But the Question is? How can we find it? Well I came up with some simple solutions for all our problems. 1. is find something that you love to do, for example, I start with me, I always have a hard time finding motivation to workout and eat right, but my solution is starting to come clear to me, I will just workout, even thought, I don't want to. I know that it lame, but I don't have a simple solution for me to have motivation. The only motivation that I have is to write for my blog and that I can't really do as often as I like, because I work at a full time job. But I love writing, and I will keep doing my blog. I have come to terms that my readers and followers are my motivation to work out and to eat right, I know it probably lame, but it the truth. I want my readers to eat right and workout. Solution #2, it finally spring time, and you know what that means, it time to clean up the yard, plant flowers, and even paint your house, if you want to. When we all clean up our yards, we are actually working out, and also doing the thing we don't want to do and don't have the motivation to do, but we are doing it, it called, Work out Wednesday's. Solution #3, is find the piece of clothing that you once wore and that you really love but you cant' fit into it anymore, and hang it on your wall, that will be the reason for you to start working out on Wednesdays. When I first came up with this term, workout Wednesday's, it was hard, because seem to me, everything and everyone has a name for it, like for Tuesday Ten, which I find it as an inspiration from LaurenConrad.com blog, So I decided to add it to my blog, because we all have different purposes that we want to write about. Then we have Workout Wednesday's, which I have not found it on anyone site yet. This was fun to come up with something like this, because it gives me the opportunity to talk about something that I know that people are having a hard time to do, I will write about my challenges when I do workout Wednesday's. I will share my stories and I hope you guys also share your stories. |
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