“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home”
-Edith Sitwell
Equipment Needed
- some type of weight preferably a kettlebell or dumbbell but you can use a household item
- a box or something for step-ups and dips
Weekly Wednesday Workout
30-20-10 reps of:
- Kettlebell swings
- Jump squats
- Up/downs
Right into
10-20-30 reps of:
- Tricep dips
- Step-ups.
How to Do the Moves
In today’s workout, you will do one workout right into another one. If you need a small break in between, feel free to take one, but try to move into the next one as fast as you can. You will do 30 kettlebell swings, 30 jump squats, and 30 up/downs. Then 20 kettlebell swings, 20 jump squats, and 20 up/downs. Then 10 of each. Right into 10 tricep dips and 10 step-ups, 20 dips and 20 step-ups and 30 of each.
Click here for the video.
Don’t forget to warm-up! Make this workout work for you! Enjoy!
“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.”
-Sara Coleridge
We love Rogue products.
Since it’s the holiday season, we thought we would do a few posts about the products we use and because we love them, we also applied to be an affiliate. If you order through our links then we may get a small commission, which we would really appreciate.
EQUIPMENT
One of my favorite purchases from Rogue has been my jump rope. During quarantine, I ruined my first one by jumping on the cement. But I loved it so much, I bought another one exactly like it! For Christmas last year, my husband got me this amazing Toomey Edition Women’s Bella barbell. Baby Blue is my favorite. The rowers we use at home and at our gyms is the Concept 2 Rower. We also just ordered the Rogue Vertical Plate Tree. We are working on building our home gym. We love working out with the CrossFit community but it is nice to have the option to do something at home, especially when we feel like sleeping in!
OTHER STUFF
I bought my husband this hat, which he loves. Although I don’t use it as much anymore, I used to use a lot of tape. This goat tape is the best. We also have these Rogue Bumper plates.
We believe Rogue has great quality products. Many of the CrossFit gyms we go to use them as well as people who have created gyms at home. If you decide to order, please go through this link or the Rogue ad below. The links to the products don’t have my affiliate ID in them, but I wanted you to see what we use. Please let us know if you have any questions. Happy shopping!
“It’s easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all,”
-Karlie Perrin
One of our favorite things to add to our eggs in the mornings is chicken apple sausage. We found this at Walmart about a year ago and love it. This summer, we realized it tastes even better when cooked on the grill. Problem is, it’s sausage and more processed than what we really want to eat. For years, I have been making turkey breakfast sausage so I decided to Google homemade chicken apple sausage, and I found a wonderful, easy recipe.
Ingredients
- For recipe click HERE.
- Coconut oil
- Yellow onion
- Apples — We used Granny Smith Apples
- Ground chicken
- Ground sage
- Fennel seeds- We did not have these so I just left them out.
- Salt and pepper
- Smoked paprika
- Cayenne pepper
Stacy’s Suggestions and Preparation
- We followed the recipe through that link without the fennel seeds. I am not sure if the seeds would help the patties stick together better or not. I did try sprinkling a few bread crumbs into the recipe the other morning, but it didn’t seem to help.
- We added 1 tbsp ground flaxseed
- We also added 1/2 cup of mushrooms
- We pan-fried the onion, apple, mushrooms
- Then we mixed it all together
- Then made it into patties and pan-fried it in the same pan for a few minutes on each side.
Although it’s not the same as sausage links, it does the job for us. Like we said in previous posts, there are good, better, and best options. In this case, chicken apple sausage is better for you than beef sausage, whereas homemade chicken apple sausage is the best option, and you can eat it every week if you choose!
Stay Strong and Be Inspired,
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
—William Arthur Ward
Stay Strong and Be Inspired,
Equipment Needed
- ab mat
- kettlebell or some type of weight
- resistance bands
Weekly Wednesday Workout
It is almost Turkey Time! I hope you can get together with your family and friends. Since today is usually the biggest going out night of the year, I thought you might want to sweat a little before you partake in any kind of celebration or eating of pumpkin pie 🙂
- 100 jumping jacks
- 90 abs of your choice
- 80 squats
- 70 kettlebell swings
- 60 lunges
- 50 step-ups
- 40 stutter steps
- 30 shoulder to overhead presses
- 20 push-ups
- 1:00 plank holds
How to Do the Moves
Here is your Weekly Wednesday Workout.
This is similar to the Long One. You can do that one and time yourself to see if you have gotten faster with your workout. I also found a fun Turkey Day Burner if you need other ideas. Have a wonderful Holiday and be safe. Make this workout work for you!
Stay Strong and Be Inspired,
My favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving is my mom’s homemade stuffing. Therefore, with her permission, I am sharing it, just in case any of you want to try it out next week. I think I love it so much because it was a rare treat that we only had at Thanksgiving or when she made her famous “Chicken Stuff”. Another amazing recipe I will have to share at some point 🙂 So from an email from my mom, here is her famous stuffing recipe.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 small to medium onion
- 1 piece of celery
- 3-4 heaping teaspoons chicken bouillon ( I use a small spoon and granules. Watch what you buy)
- 2 cups of milk (I don’t measure it, so not sure)
- 1 big loaf of bread
- Salt, pepper, garlic salt, celery salt, onion salt (maybe a 1/4 tsp each?)
Stacy’s Mom’s Suggestions and Preparation
- Melt butter in a small bowl in the microwave. I use my grinder to slice the onion and celery. Put onion and celery in melted butter and microwave for 3-5 minutes. Just until they’re soft. Dissolve chicken bouillon in the butter mixture. Add milk. Microwave for 5 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Toast bread. Tear into pieces in a large mixing bowl. Salt, pepper, celery salt, onion salt, and garlic salt to taste. You can probably use powder, but taste it and see if it needs more salt.
- Pour warm milk mixture over bread crumbs and mix. I add extra cold milk if needed. Taste it and add salt or other salts.
- Cook in a covered bowl for 30 minutes, then uncover and cook for 15 minutes. If you don’t have a bowl with a cover, cover with aluminum foil.
- If you think you need a double batch, I would just make two batches instead of doubling and trying to make it all at once.
- If you cook the lizards and gizzards in water, put onion and celery in with it. Salt and pepper it and use that instead of all the milk.
Stacy’s Substitutions
As you read in, “Sub This for That“, we would use the following substitutes for the above recipe: Cabot grass-fed stick butter or avocado butter, almond milk, and bread with no high fructose corn syrup. You could try with wheat or gluten-free bread, but I am not sure how it would turn out. Although stuffing isn’t really how we normally eat sometimes you just have to have one of mom’s old recipes and enjoy it! If you are looking for a healthier option, here is a link. I am interested in trying the crockpot stuffing. Maybe next year!