Mystery Blogger Award- 2017 Edition

I was nominated for this award by the one and only PoojaG, thank you for finding time to read my post and continue to support me as blogger and for being a great writer yourself, not to mention a happy writer! If you have not already followed her blog page, please take some time to do so, as she usually keeps things short and sweet unlike myself hahaha. 

I have been awarded this award back in 2016 and well, I am happy that now in 2017 I can be granted this same award! woot! seems like people just want to keep me busy, hmm. #suspicious. I guess no one likes when I am away from my computer screen. That is okay, I enjoy having you guys nominate me. 

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand” – Neil Armstrong.

The Mystery Blogger award 

  • is an award for amazing bloggers with ingenious posts.  Their blog not only captivates; it inspires and motivates.  They are one of the best out there and they deserve every recognition they get. 
  • This award is also for bloggers who find fun and inspiration in blogging and they do it with so much love and passion 
  • The award was created by Okoto Enigma.

The Rules or Guidelines for the Mystery Blogger Award:

  • Display the award logo on your blog.
  • Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
  • Mention the creator of the award and provide a link.
  • Tell your readers 3 things about yourself.
  • Answer 5 questions from the nominee.
  • Nominate 10 – 20 bloggers.
  • Notify your nominees by leaving a comment on their blog.
  • Ask your nominees 5 questions of your choice, including 1 weird or funny question.
  • Share the link to your best post.

3 Things About Me:

  1. I choose Xbox over Playstation anyday (yes, I play video games)
  2. Favorite NFL team: The Patriots & we are going to superbowl again! 
  3. Favorite board game: Monopoly, I can play for hours with no problem!

Questions Asked Of Me: 

  1. Would you rather have hair on your gum or gum in your hair? I would rather have hair on my gum. 
  2. Do you believe in love at first sight? I wasn’t a huge fan of the Notebook, lol
  3. What is the purpose of your existence? Gym. Eat. Sleep. Repeat
  4. What is your favorite book/movie? Favorite book, I don’t know. Favorite movie: The Great Gasby (with Leonardo) 
  5. If you had 2 hours to live, what would you do? Take pictures of everything and everyone that I love, so they can have my memories 🙂

My nominees: 

dylanbnelson

justearnit

betchadidntknowthis

dailywarriors

My Questions for you:

  1. Pudding or jell-o?
  2. Favorite beverage?
  3. Favorite exercise, top 3-5
  4. when was your first job and what was it?
  5. Did you enjoy high school growing up? 

I don’t have a best blog post, I just write and allow my readers to choose what they like best. 

For more awards on this blog, click here

 

180 Squats – Squat challenge, day 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMHUsqXCT4

Watch my YouTube video I took today, performing 180 bodyweight squats for the squat challenge I am partaking in. I hope all of you enjoy it, sorry for the visuals, I always try different filters and some work well and some suck – I like doing trials runs to see what I like best (sometimes I don’t use filters at all). Know that my feet are shoulder width apart and I am going 90 degrees or lower during the movement. I am going at a faster rate, but that doesn’t mean you would need to, take your time and go through the movement with the proper form/technique. Also, don’t make light of my wonderful leggings, I kind of threw something on and went with it. If you want more photos and videos of me, subscribe to my channel and follow my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/shaylon_fitnesswonderwoman/?hl=en

Thank you for watching!! 

Liebster Award 2017

I was nominated for this wonderful award once again, I love getting this award because it brings back memories for when I had first started my blog page and received this award, I felt on top of the world. I have been nominated for this same award many times by different people and have been thankful for all of them. For some, this award is just another award, but for me, it is your way of letting me know “Shay you are doing good, keep it up” and motivates me to keep going! I am so very grateful that jbrobinblog had decided to nominate me. She is wonderful and I follow her on #Instagram (she follows me too), her pictures are always wonderful, while mine are always lame. LOL. One day I will be cool. Her blog is associated with health and wellness as well as her own adventures she takes. Her Instagram is positive and gives you an inside look at her life and adventures, if you haven’t already followed her, you should! Definitely a must read blogger 😀 P.S if you check out her Liebster blog award post, it shows a picture of me at the gym (inside the locker room) just in case anyone wants to see my hard work 😛

I feel very honored to be nominated for the Liebster award; The Liebster Award is an award that is given to bloggers by bloggers. Liebster in German means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome.

The award is a way to be discovered, to connect and support other bloggers within the blogging community. Originally it was given out to blogs with less than 2000 readers but this has slowly lowed as the reward has gained popularity. It is now only 200 readers or less.

Its a great way you get new and up and coming Bloggers a chance to be seen and discovered!

My Questions given to me by jbrobinblog:

  1. What is the most extreme thing you have ever done? Hm, I don’t know if I have ever done anything too extreme, but I would have to say is climb up a 500 ft tower when I was in middle school. That was pretty extreme to me then. 
  2. If you can take someone with you in your travels, who would it be? Either my best friend, or possibly my youngest brother (he is 8) but him and I are close. My other brother would probably decline the travel with me, (he is 21) 
  3. What is the scariest thing you have experience while traveling? Crossing really HUGE bridges that make me think I may not live driving over it. 
  4. If you could give someone a 1,000,000 dollars, who would you give it to? Is it bad, I would keep it for myself? lol. Fine, I will be nice and share it among my mom and siblings.. jeez. I might even give the dog some money 😛
  5. What inspires you the most, to do what you do everyday? Being alive and able. 
  6. Do you find it hard to stay motivated & stick with exercise routines everyday? Honest answer: no. I love what I do inside the gym, some days are not always great and those days really test my mental state and challenge me to keep going. 
  7. What is your most constant rule you believe to stick to? “If I don’t give it my all, I don’t deserve the prize”  (yes, I did just make this one up)
  8. Do you feel it is important to have a routine? Yes, routines keep me grounded. 
  9. If you could quit your job and do anything, what would you do/where would you go? Oh goodness, where do I get started. I would move to a bigger city, become a really popular trainer in the area, train celebs and travel to different locations helping people get in shape, I would be the next mogul of fitness. I would be the name you think of when you think of health/fitness. Yep, that is what I want to accomplish 🙂 Also, I would be such a GREAT athlete, that I would make it to the CrossFit games and olympics, all in one year! hahaha. That would be pretty amazing. 
  10. Do you think education as it is today, does justice to life and learning? An interesting question, I think education today has changed quite a bit since I have been a student. I am not sure what to think of our educational system much anymore. I think education gives people a running head start but it fails to give people the real life experience they need in order to make it in this world. 

What to Do if  Nominated for the Liebster Award:

Back in 2011 the rules were a simple case of acknowledgement of the nominator and to nominate 5 more. Now in 2017 it is a little more involved and will continue to evolve as blogging becomes more accessible.

If you have been nominated for The Liebster Award AND YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT, write a blog post about the Liebster award in which you should do the follow:

  1. Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog. Try to include a little promotion for the person who nominated you. They will thank you for it and those who you nominate will also help you out as well.
  1. Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.) go to The Global Aussie for a whole lot of images you can use for your 2017 Liebster Award.
  1. For the 2017 Liebster Award they will be shaking things up! Write a 150-300 word post about your favourite blog that is not your own. Explain why you like the blog, provide links.
  1. Provide 10 random facts about yourself. (This year I’m making this optional. If you wish to engage with your readers it’s a great idea to include random facts about you.)
  1. Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 200 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!)
  1. List these rules in your post (You can copy and paste from here or simply link by to this post.) Once you have written and published it, you then have to: Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster award and provide a link for them to your post or mine if you don’t have all the information so that they can learn about it.

My Favorite Blog to Read:

Okay so, since starting my blog there were people whom I connected with and others who I never had the chance to spend time talking to. this was a hard decision because I pretty based this on those that I had a conversation with and who were a huge supporter of my blog when I first got started. I would like to mention there were plenty of you that could very well deserve this award from me, but I want to give this to someone who no longer blogs as of now but who I enjoyed speaking with and reading their work. Grant Norris. I know many of you probably didn’t the chance to connect with him but his blog was also a fitness blog, mostly about being a strongmen but also about other things that caught my attention. The reason I enjoyed this blog was because he was a young writer but making such huge sacrifices to be the best athlete he could be and I looked up to him in a way that inspired me to go after my dreams when it came to being an athlete.  If he was still around on the blogosphere, I think he would be would happy that I continued to write and would be excited that I granted me as my favorite blog to read. If you ever get the chance, stop over to his page and look at some of his post, they might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it was one of mine. Thank you Grant @ https://heavybarbell.com/ for being a great writer and giving the chance to talk to you on so many levels, you made me laugh more than most dude. 

My nominees will be: 

1ellen23

purplebutterfly964

ourglife

braddahr

strongbodyhealthymind

My Questions for my nominees:

  1. Have you ever lost passion for something you once loved doing, what was it and why?
  2. Was there ever a time you were scared enough that it made you cry? what was it?
  3. Do you think it is difficult to be an adult? why?
  4. How do you handle the days that bring you to your knees?(the really, really bad days)
  5. How would you spend 10.00 dollars if that was your last 10.00 dollars? 
  6. If time machines existed, would you use it?
  7. What do you think life exist outside the planet earth? – humans, aliens, animals.. etc
  8. What is Giant Spiders became reality (the movie 8 legged freaks)? 
  9. Which would be worse, watching someone you love die, or killing someone you love in order to save your own life?
  10. If you had the opportunity to be the next President of the United States, would you do it or not? and why? 

I’m very excited to see all your posts!

Shay-lon xoxoxo

 

My Gym Workout- Another lengthy one.

FitFam Monday Jan. 9th 

Remember how I shared with all of you about my workout on Saturday being lengthy, well come to find out, today’s workout was also very lengthy as well. I didn’t mean for it to happen, but realized I had to make up for another day at the gym I missed. I woke up this morning getting my workout together on paper, when I realized, holy shit, I missed another day, I was trying my best to talk myself out of caring, but just couldn’t do it. LOL. So cheers to another time consuming workout that really challenged my mindset and my time management skills. 

 

I did not do a “warm up”, but instead did my 1st cardio workout first to get my body warmed up for my lifts afterwards.

 

Workout Session:

 
  • Cardio: Steady state (any mode of your choice), 45 minutes, 65%-75% of HR
  • Dumbbell push up to row: 3 x 6-10, 40 lb
  • Romanian Deadlift: 3 x 6-10, 155lb Superset with DB sumo squat: 3 x 6-10, 30lb
  • Pronated wide grip pullup: 3 x 6-10
  • DB lunge: 3 x 6-10, 40lb Superset with leg extension: 3 x 6-10, 110 lb
  • Standing calf raise: 3 x 6-10
  • Overhead press: 3 x 6-10, 40lb Superset with lateral DB raise: 3 x 6-10, 30lb
  • Triceps dips: 3 x 6-10 Superset with barbell bicep curl: 3 x 6-10, 40 lb
  • HIIT Training: 20 minutes, 30 seconds all out, 90 seconds recovery

I did some good PR’s while I was at, I did one for the push up to row (went up about 10 lb) which made me happy, plus my form during that exercise was a lot better and I was able to keep my balance better as well. Overall the workout wasn’t horrible, just long and tons of cardio got worked in. Hopefully tomorrow my workout won’t be as lengthy – fingers crossed.

Feel free to leave your workouts and gains in the comment section, share this with your friends/family and follow me if you don’t already.

 

Your Fitness blogger,

 

Shay-lon xxx

My Gym Workout – A lengthy one

FitFam,

I didn’t get the chance to write out my workout for you guys on Saturday, so I decided I would tonight.  This particular workout is extremely long (took me nearly 3 hours) but mainly because I was making up for the 2 days that I didn’t make it to the gym and wanted to push myself since Sunday’s are my rest days. I don’t recommend that anyone spends this long inside of a gym if you aren’t used to this, it is something you gradually work up to if you would like, but it isn’t always necessary. As long as you find some way, sometime to be active in your day, you are doing something right. The length of time and the kind of workout is up to you, but finding time to do it, there is always time, you just need to find it and use it. 

 

I did not do a warm up because I figured since I was starting with cardio, I would add it in with the actual workout instead of doing them separately. 

 

Workout Session:

 
  • Steady-state cardio: 45 minutes, 65-75% of HR.
  • Romanian Deadlift: 3 x 10-12, 105lb, 155lb
  • Bench DB step up: 3 x 10-12, 40lb
  • Bodyweight Wall squat: 3 x 10-12 
  • DB lateral to front raise: 3 x 10-12, 10lb
  • DB Flye: 3 x 10-12, 30lb
  • DB kickback: 3 x 10-12, 15lb
  • leg extension: 3 x 10-12, 70lb
  • DB push press: 3 x 10-12, 30lb
  • Pullup: 3 x 10-12 
  • Bentover barbell row: 3 x 10-12, 65lb
  • Cable hammer curl: 3 x 10-12, 20lb
  • Pike crunch: 3 x 10-12
  • Plank: 3 x 30 seconds
  • Air squats: 160 reps
  • Cardio: HIIT Training, 20 minutes,30 seconds all out, 90 second recovery

Overall a long workout but not a horrible one. It has been my first time being at the gym for so long actually, and time went by fairly fast while I was doing my workouts, it didn’t help that the gym was packed because of New Years, so some of the machines I had to wait to use them, etc. I enjoyed my HIIT Cardio workout at the end, it definitely made a difference in my workout since I don’t do a whole lot of cardio exercises.  Feel free to leave comments and share. 

 

Your Fitness blogger,

Shay-lon xxx