Hello Everyone!

Like many people I am starting out the year by setting some new goals. My focus this year is on my health and fitness. So here I am, back to this blog where I’ve loved sharing workouts for more than a decade and through two pregnancies, starting over to rebuild my health and fitness.

When I look back on the last year it was both wonderful and incredibly challenging. Overall the good outweighed the negative, but the number one challenge was the most unexpected…my health. For over a year I’ve struggled with intense fatigue, muscle soreness and generally feeling not like myself. My energy was low and I (a person who does not normally nap) found myself unable to get through a day without napping.

My iron was low, and I started to feel better after supplementing. I would have a few good days and think I turned a corner, but inevitably the fatigue kept coming back. As a result I’ve done some yoga, but no HIIT workouts and nothing with any real consistency.

Which leads me to Goal Number One: BE CONSISTENT.

So to start out, my goal is very simple. Participate in intentional movement every day this month. That can be HIIT, Yoga, Walking, Running or anything else. Just move intentionally and on a daily basis. To go along with this goal I’ve decided to get in one mile of walking or running per day. One mile is a small enough distance that I can consistently get it in even on the days I feel tired. It’s also long enough for the endorphins to start flowing and get me back to consistently doing longer workouts.

I started this a week or so before the new year to get back into the flow, and got in my first intentional exercise of the year. It was an incline walk on the treadmill:

Day 1 Treadmill Workout:
Speed 3.5
Incline: First 5-Minutes: 2
Incline: Minutes 6-30: 12
Incline: Minutes 30-45: 2

Finished with stretching.

I only set a goal to get on the treadmill for one mile, but once I started moving my body felt better and I wanted to keep going. That doesn’t mean there won’t be shorter workouts days, but it felt AMAZING to get moving again.

For those of you that don’t have a treadmill (or just don’t enjoy them), I’ve included a quick Tabata workout below. It was filmed shortly after I had my second child, and it’s a fun and challenging routine.

I will be filming new workouts. The goal is to restart filming this weekend. In the meantime, let’s be consistent together. Let me know in the comments what your goals are and what type of workout you are doing today.

We can keep each other motivated and committed.

Have fun today. I can’t wait to exercise with you again.
<3 Melissa

The Workout:

Round 1
1. Lateral Hop
2. Pendulum Tap: Right
3. Pendulum Tap: Left
4. Low Jack

Round 2
1. Squat Jump
2. Goblet Squat
3. Warrior III: Right
4. Warrior III: Left

Round 3
1. Plie Jump
2. Goddess Pulse
3. Lunge Pulse
4. Burpee