EXERCISE: Do you know the secret to your metabolism? *Bonus: Spiritual Fitness

As I did a final stretch on my red mat this morning with my magenta shirt drenched with sweat, it really clicked as to why I had gotten so sweaty from Chalene Johnson's "Buns" workout that's included in her PiYo program.


"You know why it's so important to work your legs?" Chalene asked me from the TV screen.

"Your legs are the secret to your metabolism" she answered. "There's more muscles in your legs. So, when you build strength in your lower body, you build your metabolism. That's your calorie-burner right there,"she explained.

Chalene's dynamic and fun 25-minute "Buns" workout focuses on the glutes, but I just did not to expect to sweat like I did from this one. By the time we got down on all fours to continue sculpting lower parts of the body, beads of sweat were just dropping onto my mat from my face. Naturally, the "Sweat" workout in PIYO makes you sweat, but "Buns" made me sweat just as much...or more. I can only imagine what PiYo's "DRENCH" workout will do when I get to that one in nine days.

Because of very limited workout space due to my son's Ping Pong table being housed in our family room right now, I was prevented from going as big this morning with some of the moves as I would have liked to, but that didn't stop the sweat or the wonderful feeling these exercises offer.

I give this workout a two-thumbs up! Lots of variety and all in the right amounts...even the squats! :-)

Remember:

 "Your legs are the secret to your metabolism. There's more muscle in your legs. So, when you build strength in your lower body, you build your metabolism. That's your calorie-burner right there."

Now on to some spiritual food for thought: A quote from "The Call" by Oz Guinness that I read in an article on Today's Christian Woman:

"Our primary calling as followers of Christ is by him, to him, and for him. First and foremost we are called to Someone (God), not to something (such as motherhood, politics, or teaching) or to somewhere (such as the inner city or Outer Magnolia). Our secondary calling, considering who God is as sovereign, is that everyone, everywhere, and in everything should think, speak, live, and act entirely for him. We can therefore properly say as a matter of secondary calling that we are called to homemaking or to the practice of law or to art history. But these and other things are always secondary, never the primary calling. They are 'callings' rather than the 'calling.' They are our personal answer to God’s address, our response to God’s summons. Secondary callings matter, but only because the primary calling matters most."

See my article about what I believe is one of my callings...