Spinach Nerd

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?

When I finally got over my fear of fresh spinach and discovered that it's pretty much the same as any other lettuce, but much better for you -- I went hog wild with it. Did you know that you can work spinach into breakfast, lunch, and dinner if you want to?

Here's how you do it:

Breakfast:
4 egg whites
1 TB milk
salt
pepper
1/4 to 1/2 cup spinach, chopped

Mix ingredients in a bowl and scramble yourself some eggs! Add some cheese when it's mostly cooked

Lunch:
Add a nice handful of spinach to your sandwich. My favorite sandwich of late consists of whole wheat sandwich thins (otherwise known as "Special Bread" at our house), hummus, deli turkey, avocado, tomato slices and a handful of spinach. Yum.

Dinner:
Spinach salad on the side. If you want to be super fancy, get some walnuts, feta cheese and some raspberry vinaigrette dressing and toss them with your spinach. It'll be like a 4-star restaurant up in your house!

Spinach is a nutritional powerhouse. It's got calcium, folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, and vitamin A. And it's high in fiber. The list goes on and on!

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Zach and I wake up and do a workout most days of the week, but I don't talk about it much here. So I'm implementing a new feature, and it will be The Workout of the Day. On the days that I post, I'll offer a quick note to say what workout we did that morning. In honor of the first Workout of the Day note, I'm going to post the whole workout we did today. It's a gem. 

Most people I know who do P90X have a love/hate relationship with Plyometrics. We're no different. I'm still scared of that workout and we've been doing it for more than two years. It's terrible while you're doing the workout, but you feel fantastic afterward. 

Zach came up with an alternate Plyo workout just to mix things up. We still use the video for timing purposes (and to get a daily dose of Tony), but we do our own moves. 

Plyometrics consists of 5 sets of 4 exercises. You do each set of 4 exercises two times. The first three moves are 30 seconds long, and the fourth is one minute long. After those sets are completed, you do one bonus set of three exercises, each one minute long. Altogether, it's about an hour long.

Here's our alternate Plyo workout. If you want to try this workout but are unfamiliar with the moves, shoot me an email or leave a comment and I'll try to explain them. We gathered these moves largely from other P90X, P90X Plus, or One on One workouts. Suicides are from the Insanity workouts.

1. Plyo Frog Squats    30 sec 

2. One Leg Pumpers   30 sec 

3. Side Long Jump     30 sec 

4. Side Speed Kicks   60 sec       

(Repeat)

5. Chair Jump Squats           30 sec 

6. Run Stance Squat Switch 30 sec 

7. Suicides                           30 sec 

8. Towel Hoppers               60 sec       

(Repeat)

9. Jack-in-the-box Knee Tucks 30 sec 

10. Press Jacks                         30 sec 

11. Step/Hop Overs                  30 sec 

12. Jump Rope                         60 sec       

(Repeat)

13. Plyo Runner Lunges   30 sec 

14. Speed Skaters          30 sec 

15. Wacky Jacks            30 sec 

16. March and Reach     60 sec       

(Repeat)

17. Spinning Fighter Squats 30 sec 

18. Deep Jack Seats           30 sec 

19. Side Lunge Reach        30 sec 

20. Eagen Brothers            60 sec       

(Repeat)

21. Pitch and Catch      30 sec left/right 

22. Jump Shot              30 sec left/right 

23. Football Hero         60 sec  

Get out your buckets! It's Plyo Day.