Archives

Category Archive for: ‘joy’

Happy Birthday to Bethany

Yes, that’s me. I’m wishing myself a happy birthday. I’m 33 today and I’m so excited for the coming year of my life. Here are some of my favorite pics from the past year :)

That’s me: The minivan mama with my two kids smiling behind me!

A cute shot of my kiddos playing at my daughter’s school playground

Getting recertified was necessary this year, although I won’t be going through AFAA again because they are WAY behind on diastasis awareness and prevention. They’re still teaching crunches, and their educational videos are from the 90′s!

I have no idea why this picture is sideways… but I still love it!

I’m leapfrogging over my boy’s go car!

My husband took the picture above, and here he is…

He’s cutting a new hole for our stairway light and vacuuming the dust at the same time and balancing on a precarious scaffold that he built himself. Love this man!

And here’s my little man who put himself to bed early in his Spiderman outfit!

Speaking of sleep, here’s what I look like in the morning. Now, what other fitness expert do you know who gets this real with her mamas?

Here’s some more reality for you. My daughter brought home lice nits from her 1st grade class back in September. We all showed solidarity, wrapping our heads in saran wrap after mucking our hair up with mayo and tea tree oil. It worked! 

No fitness blog is complete without pictures of the family pet! Here is our cat, Lily Unu, more commonly called “Kiddle Little.” She’s laying on one of my own hand-made crocheted rugs that I fashion out of t-shirt yarn. She says, “I could do yoga here all day.”

I love this one! Me and my life-long best friend, Karyn, coat shopping in the Hawthorne District. 

I have so many more pictures of my fit family and happy life that I could post, but I have to run and enjoy my birthday with my hubby and some friends. Here’s to a great year of ministering in the fitness world, continuing to raise awareness about safe exercises for diastasis prevention and treatment, and being THERE for my kids as they grow up!  Love, Bethany!

Thank you for reading the Fit2Blog today! What are your thoughts about what you read? Please leave a reply or a question, and be sure you’re taking advantage of our amazing TummySafe™ workouts!

Why sex is healthy

We are a family friendly site, but it’s hard to have a family without sex. Thus, every now and then I dare to deliver a discussion on delicate matters that relate to our health. God has an incredible plan for our bodies and our health. As it turns out, fulfilling sex does great things for our brains and bodies. The following video proves it. Just watch what goes on in a woman’s brain during “The Big O.”

Of course, two people cannot fit into an MRI machine, and some might be offended at this woman’s “experience” of self- pleasure even for the sake of research. But take a moment to look at this information with objectivity: Sex floods a woman’s brain with oxygen-carrying, life-giving blood! My motivation in posting this on our blog is to help the women out there who have never experienced orgasm to find one more reason to pursue it. Imagine what this woman’s brain would have done if she could have experienced this orgasm with a monogamous partner who she truly loves and is committed to! Not only would the MRI pick up on the pleasure centers, but also on the love and emotion centers!

However, new moms can have an especially hard time reconnecting to their pleasure centers after pregnancy or difficult births; even if they really want to “love up” their husbands, the fear of pain can outweigh the notion of pleasure. Women who have been abused can also have a really hard time seeing sex as a good thing. If you’ve never associated love-making with positive, God-given joy, then it’s time to take a look at the video above. Sex is healthy, and it’s a great workout, too! So grab that spouse of yours, and… well, you know…Give your brain some much needed “oxygen.” That’s what the “O” stands for, right?

Thank you for reading the Fit2Blog today! What are your thoughts about what you read? Please leave a reply or a question, and be sure you’re taking advantage of our amazing TummySafe™ workouts!

Making Fitness Fun 4 Kids!

Kids love to have fun, and if fitness can be figured into the equation then that makes parents happy, too! It can be as simple as a quick trip to a neighborhood park or turning on some dancing music with a good “pop” that gets little feet – and maybe even your bigger ones – jumping and twisting to the rhythm.

This is a picture of my silly kiddos jiving to the beat and getting a good amount of exercise in without even knowing it. All I have to do is turn their favorite music up really loud, and they go scurrying to their room to choose “dancing clothes.” What’s interesting to me is that they have never taken lessons, but they can already interpret music with their bodies. It’s a joy to watch my kids smiling and getting healthier all at once! And I get even more out of it when I join them :)

The Things We Find Inside

>

Thank you for reading the Fit2Blog today! What are your thoughts about what you read? Please leave a reply or a question, and be sure you’re taking advantage of our amazing TummySafe™ workouts!