Spotlight on Push-Ups - 13 Reasons

It's been a while since I lasted posted because, I got too busy, which is great! It means my life life doesn't revolve around a screen.

Anyways, I am going to start giving some spotlight or certain exercises. Where I briefly talk about the benefits doing this exercise in your workouts. And to remind myself why I do them.

Push-Ups. We hate them. We love the. We need them. 

1) enhances upper body strength

2) boosts metabolism - revving your body into a fat burning machine

3) torso stability

4) uses every major muscle - causes every major muscle is needed to execute the move

4) improves posture

5) helps protect shoulders from injury 

6) stretches muscles - like the back and biceps

7) core strenghtening

8) can do anywhere

9) free exercise 

10) gives you positive endorphins - boost ego - feel stronger

11) enhance cardiovascular system - so cardio and strengthening in one!

12) helps prevent lower back pain

13) increased bone mass

Wednesday WORDS - Scottish Dialect - Part 1

The Scottish dialect is one of my favourite accents. It's like music to my ears! Of course, it is also very difficult to remember what it sounds like in your  head, while writing scenes with Scottish characters talking with a Scottish accent - like Tom (from my Renmington Pirate book series)!

Image is from the popular new TV show called "Outlander" (originally a book series) set in Scottish culture of the 18th c. (A few decades before my Remmington Pirates book series is set). The show is one of the ways I train my mind to be familiar and comfortable with the Scottish accent. Also, watching interviews of people from that country (i.e. Scotland, Ireland and England) helps train my inner voice and the characters in my head to use those accents when writing or simply talking in my head. 

Why train your inner voice to speak with a different accent?

As a reader, I like to be able to hear what certain accents sound like and to bring the book more to life. I do confess, though, that, that does not always happen. I mean seriously, you're trying to the read book fast, so your brain is going to switch the voice in your head to the accent that you speak in your every day life - assuming you speak???

But I like to challenge my brain to speak to me with different accents when I'm reading and writing - mostly when I'm writing. It expands my culture and makes me feel awesome! 

With writing a book that includes different accents, it helps to differentiate between how they sound when they are spelled out in writing.

So I found various websites to help me remember.

Examples of Old Scottish (before the 1800s specifically) vs English Dialect:

English say "I"

Scotsmen say "Ah"

English say "I don't know"

Scotsmen say "Ah dinnae ken"

English say "I will not"

Scotsmen say "Ah willnae"

(I will post more in Scottish Dialect - Part 2)

Scottish Accents in Interviews:

James MacAvoy

https://youtu.be/3B2ZUiO9JUQ

https://youtu.be/L_QEWb7vmT4

Gerard Butler

http://youtu.be/JgSQHKosxFw

Ewan McGregor

http://youtu.be/Y2ZLBxXJCY0

Scottish Slang Videos:

MVPT

http://youtu.be/rBaB-7Jf5SI

NEXT TIME I will show some more of the Scottish words and dialects and in examples from my Remmington Pirates book series.

By the way...buy the first 16 chapters of my Remmington Pirates book series on Amazon in the ebook edition here:

http://www.amazon.com/Remmington-Pirates-Black-Treasure-Chapters-ebook/dp/B017G49MI8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446700764&sr=8-1&keywords=hannah+lorenz

Tuesday TIP - Eat Clean Like a Nutritionist

What does "Eat Clean Like a Nutritionist" mean? What does it look like?

For starters,
Drink water before and after every meal. Drink water between meals. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Get those toxins flushing out of your system, they're better off in the toilet's system!

Secondly,
Avoid starchy carbs. Eat one serving only after a high intensity training session of at least 15-20 minutes. I don't really feel like 15 minutes is even long enough, but 20 minutes is perfect. 30 minutes is better. 40, 50, 60 minutes or even longer means you can definitely have a serving of starchy carbs - cause your body is going to send it straight to repairing your body after being torn down in exercising - which is great! That's where you're body will start to rebuild itself stronger and to be faster.

Thirdly,
Eat at least 1 cup of green veggies three times a day (like breakfast, lunch and dinner). Bonus two you for eating 2 cups!



Fourthly,
Eat meat. If you have the option of choosing starchy carbs or meat. Choose meat.

P.S. Aim for Peanut Butter without sugar. The few the added ingredients the better!

So Fifthly,
Have some healthy fat and calcium in your meals. Healthy fats and calcium help get rid of the flabby fat on the waist, arms, legs, wherever else it may be hiding.

And Lastly,
Avoid Cane sugar as much as possible and limit all the other sweeteners too!

Challenge:
Try 1-2 or even 4 days without any sugar! See what happens! How do you feel?

Which by the way, another thing I am learning to remember to ask myself - after every time I eat something, especially something not "healthy" - "How do I feel? Does my body feel great and energetic or sluggish and blah?"

Listen to your body!

I know it's hard! The past few days I have not done such a great job of that but a new day means a fresh start (even though we still have to deal with yesterday's mistakes).

"Today's decisions, decides the future." (Unknown)