Healthy Ideas for your heart

What are things that you can do to keep your heart healthy?  Well besides the obvious working out what else is there? No matter your age you need to HAVE FUN at some point in your day.  If you hate your job, have so much stress you are a ball of knots, you have no time to hang out with your family or friends you need to make time to have fun.  Whether that be carving out 30 minutes everyday to get a workout in, read, take a bath, chill out in front of the tv, play with your dog or cat, cook a recipe you've been dying to try, go shopping.  Put it on your calendar!  Below are some other great activities you can do to keep your heart healthy!

Heart Healthy Ideas

1. Take time to laugh

2. Enjoy a cup of tea

3. Workout 4-5 days a week

4. Have a date with someone you love with either yourself or a loved one

5. Enjoy a day with a friend

6. Play with your cat/dog

7. Dance to your favorite jam

8. Eat a handful of almonds

9. Indulge in a great book (I have a lot of recommendations follow me on pinterest to get a full list) http://pinterest.com/safiretraining/

10. Eat salmon once a week

11. Go for a hike

12. Try something new this week

13. Cook a recipe your dying to try

14. Give someone a kiss

15. Take a day off 

Hopefully this list will help you relax and enjoy life just a little bit more.  Check out www.safiretraining.com for more information. 

Bucket Lists and Fitness Do Go Hand in Hand

I most recently went through a mini-fitness photo shoot (a sample picture above and one below).  I had always wanted to do one, I guess you could say it was on my bucket list.  I decided to actually make a bucket list.  Now not everything on my list is fitness related but quite a few things are.  I like to be organized so I even organized my lists into I want to do in the next year, next 5 years, 10 years, over the span of many years.  Once I separated my lists I put the next year lists into months.  One of my bucket lists challenges I'm going to attempt to do is run a 10K and the other is doing a fitness show in the bikini category.  My goal is to do one in April.  I'm very excited and will start my serious journey in December.  I will update my progress and workouts throughout the journey.  

So my challenge to you make your bucket list today.  Put things on there that will push you outside your comfort zone.  I have quite a few things I would have never tried but am now excited to, decorating cupcakes, going to a cooking class.  To some that may sounds easy but my food presentation is not always the best.  Get started today and experience yourself in a new light.