Wonderling

how to "cheat" at the gym.

For one of my classes we are delving into nutrition and physical fitness. During one of the discussions I remembered a fact that I'd been told many times by friends who are also personal trainers (I have a lot of them because I worked at a gym for 5 years). WEIGHTS BEFORE CARDIO. I never questioned why, I just always followed it. Because I was going to post the trainers' sage advice I figured I should figure out why exactly weights then cardio and not the other way around. What I found was pretty amazing.

When you do any kind of anaerobic exercise(such as weight lifting) your body burns glycogen (or stored carbohydrates). You wont burn fat until you've depleted your glycogen stores, which takes 29 minutes of cardio to do. The catch is that your body needs the glycogen for the weight lifting. Anaerobic activity will not usually go for fat once the glycogen is gone, it breaks down muscle instead and burns the amino acids for energy. So, if you do 30 minutes of cardio first(depleting your stored glycogen) you will most likely be destroying muscle instead of building it during your weight lifting. However, if you hit the weights first you will spend more time in your cardio work out burning actual fat!

wow, exciting! (more here)

Shark Vs. Eagle

I absolutely cannot wait for this to come out on dvd. It has my favorite hip-hopappotomus in it, Jemaine Clement. "Wot? Wot? Doan put me in dah wit him!". Now that I've finished watching the first season of Flight of the Concords I need a New Zealand comedy fix. perfect!

Last night we met with the record label to look at the pictures from our photoshoot. I can't post any yet cause I'm not sure what the deal is with rights on them, but they came out really really awesome. They should be posted by the end of the week on The Union Records website and our EPK.

Tonight I start on one of my new 'resolutions', which was not included in my new years resolution group because I made it prior to new years. I'm hitting the gym up for an evening work out. My goal is to go 4 days a week for a minimum of 20 minutes. Since I always see the gym as this big time commitment I tell myself I only have to go for 20 mins..which gets me there and once I'm there if I feel like doing more I will.

I ran across this in my blogging adventures today. It's called Snails vs. Slugs. I love that some of them are going the wrong way :)

My dad called me the other night and it reminded me that he will be here in less than a week and I still haven't finished his wife's present..eeek. I have a feeling most of my evenings will be spend finishing it, hopefully it will be done in time!

happy new year

with 2008 finally here (let's face it 2007 was SO last year) I guess it's time for resolutions. Although I find myself making resolutions on a daily basis it can't hurt to make more!

1. School. I've got to finish the education I started (and am still paying for!)
2. Relax and do what I want to. I think that doing things that make ME happy will lead to a more relaxed Jeni.
3. Clean. I have GOT to get better at keeping the clutter down to a minimum. DOWN WITH CLUTTER!

OK...so I think I got off to a good start because on new year's eve we played scrabble and I won! That has to be a good sign. :)

I've been reading a lot about Forensic Anthropology (which is what I am going to school for...eventually) and in my reading I found this

All I could think was, "this is SO me!". The look on her face is perfect...I make that look all the time in pictures...see, I'm ready!