It’s super fun to have full classes and feel the great energy you all bring to the gym! Make sure that you are signing up for your classes, and just as importantly, make sure you cancel out if you can’t make it. People are putting themselves on the wait list when the classes are full and we want to know when we need to pull in an extra coach and let those people in! As always, our first priority is making sure that you get a good workout each time that you come to the gym, so thank you for helping us out~

The MOD (Meal of the Day) is inspired by my deep love of Mexican food. When you start eating clean, Mexican food just tastes different. I was the girl that ordered the massive monster flour tortilla burrito filled with everything under the sun, topped with gooey cheese, yummy sour cream & salsa verde and served with a plate full of Spanish rice and black beans, and yes, I could usually polish it off and follow it up by some deep fried Mexican ice cream. Delish!

Well, if you are craving some Mexican food, but can’t stand the thought of another taco salad, here’s a meal that will get your taste buds running for the border- and you’ll get more than 40% meat substance in your meal too!

Bake up some sweet potatoes (1/2 of a potato for each person) and then prepare all of your taco fixings. We cook up ground beef/sausage or chicken with some taco seasonings, dice green onion, tomato, red pepper, lettuce, olives & avocado, but you can use what you like, just lots-o-veggies! Then take half of a sweet potato and pretend it’s your taco shell or flour tortilla. Top it full and throw some salsa on it. Sounds odd, but I promise you it’s ridiculous! Even my picky kids eat this, in fact, it was Skyler’s choice for our dinner tonight.

Today at Body & Fuel:

Partner Competition WOD:

3 Rounds- Person with the most push-up in the pairing wins!

Person #1 Does 35 Double Unders

Person #2 Does Push Ups until Person #1 is finished with their double unders

Switch places and repeat

Both people run a 400m run to finish the round.

When both are back, repeat for round #2 & #3

Shout out to Barb who won the day with a total of 155 push ups. Way to go Barb!!

On the countdown to Thanksgiving and all of the food choices you will be faced with, I am posting links to great alternatives.

Focus on eating well, even when everyone around is not.
You choose what goes in your mouth.
You choose how you will feel later on (or the next day).

One of our FAVORITE sites is whole9life.com. Melissa and Dallas are geniuses when it comes to ‘Tough Love’, great nutrition information, and loads of articles that give it to you straight.

I have a link here – Thanksgiving Part 1 – that will take you to their awesome recipes posted by their fans.
YUM!!!!
‘Stuffing and Cranberry Sauce‘ Paleofied…

(Picture courtesy of Whole9)
~Mike
WOD
As many rounds as possible in 20 min
15 KB Swings (1p/1.5p)
30 Sit Ups
15 Overhead Squats (65/95)

It’s Monday – for many of us, this will be a ‘Short’ work week.
If you are in retail, this is the mother of all weekends coming up.
At the gym – it’s another day.

Today we turned you upside down, lifted you over the bar, flew threw the air, and defied gravity.

Again – just another day at Body & Fuel.

This week I am going to post a ‘Link’ to a different website that will give you some GREAT Holiday Food options.
The first one is from Robb Wolf’s website – robbwolf.com
The Sweet Potato Stuffing on here is to DIE FOR… OMG. You will think anything else is BORING after trying this.

Start planning out your Thursday Meal… know what you are going to eat. Hold onto your goals.
BE STRONG
~Mike
(Picture from Robb Wolf’s site… I just wanted to make you drool)

WOD
7 Rounds
5 Handstand Push Ups
10 Deadlifts (125/185)
10 Chest to Bar Pull Ups
20 Double Unders