Superman Row, Overnight Oats, Tortilla Stratta

This morning I got up ready to hit my workout hard with Mike (my Evil Training Monster) knowing full well that my arms would feel like jello after an hour of punishment.  Today's featured "move" from Mike is the Superman Row.

This exercise is for active strengthening of the upper back muscles, lats, rhomboids, and trapezius while simultaneously work the core muscle of the lower back, pectorals, abdomen, glutes and engaging the muscles of the legs, hamstrings and quadriceps.  The move is moderate to advanced.  A good starting point for those just starting out is to do the move without weights (pictured below).

  Mike Rouillard

Superior Personal Fitness

Okay, that's a whole lot of words to say that this move works!  It has really helped me develop overall upper body strength.

If weights are too much for right now, try the move without.  Still a pretty hard workout!

After my workout with Mike I was STARVING and happy to have a bowl of Overnight Oats waiting for me at home.  Today's oat mixture contained:

• Steel Cut Oats
• Quinoa
• Dried Sour Cherries
• Wheatberries
• Almond milk
• Organic Peanut Butter

We spent the day in Los Angeles at the Western Foodservice Expo looking for companies that might be a fit for our upcoming San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival and The Gourmet Experience events.  Needless to say five hours of walking in 31/2 inch heels can wear a girl out.

I knew it would be a hectic day so last night I used up a bunch of leftovers to make a tortilla stratta.   Have I ever said how much I love breakfast for dinner?  I'll post the recipe tomorrow (I sort of made it up so I need to put it all down for you), but in the mix is:

• Ground Turkey, cooked and seasoned with cumin, oregano and red pepper
• 1/2 cup of onion, cooked with turkey
• stone ground corn tortillas
• black beans
• jalapenos
• zucchini
• lowfat cheddar cheese
• egg whites
• lowfat milk
• cilantro
• green onion

SO good! 

Overnight Oats, Where Have You Been My Whole Life?

I recently found out about Overnight Oats, and feel just a little more nutritionally enlightened because of it.  I'm always on the hunt for good-for-you foods that smack of decadence and I gotta' tellya, Overnight Oats are G- double O-D.

I need to work on making this look as tasty as it is.  For those of you who are Overnight Oats newbies like me, the OO's are basically oats that are soaked in all kinds of good stuff overnight so by morning, you get a chewy, crunchy, yummy bowl of raw goodness.  Here's how I did my first attempt:

• 1/4 cup of steel cut oats
• 1 tbsp of Quinoa
• 1 tbsp of Wheatberries
• 1 tbsp of dried cherries
• 1/2 cup of nonfat milk (switching over to Almond Milk now though)
• tiny dash of cinnamon and vanilla (careful with the cinnamon, it can really overpower!)
• 1 tsp of slivered almonds
• 1 tbsp of peanut butter

Combine ingredients (I put the PB in the mix in the morning), and stick in the fridge overnight.

Careful on the calories with this though.  Oats and grains, while great for you, can get high in calories, not to mention the peanut butter.  I did this on a very intense workout day.  Future combos will be a little more calorie friendly (maybe I'll omit the PB for a bit of Flax Oil instead.)