Apple & Berries Oat Breakfast Smoothie

Here’s another throw back to keep us all motivated this week 👍🏻

How’s the ‘shaking it off’ going for you? Here at Mums In Real Life, we’re feeling mighty fine!

These yummy Oat and fruit breakfast smoothies have really given us a spring in our step this week.

Did You Know….?

That Oats are stacked full of vitamins, Fibre and antioxidants and are among the healthiest grains on earth.

Check out this link for all of the benefits:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/9-benefits-oats-oatmeal

The breakfast smoothie for Day 5 is just delicious! Give it a go, it’s super easy…

Ingredients:

150ml Soya Milk

100ml Skimmed Milk

20g Oats

4 Strawberries

1 Apple (skin on, cored)

Handful of Blueberries

Method:

Pop everything (save a couple of blueberries to use as a dressing) into your blender and blitz. Pour and enjoy!

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Tangy Orange Smoothie

To keep everyone motivated during the half term, here is a throwback post:

So far, so good. Between the two of us here at Mums In Real Life, our ‘Shake It Off’ week is going beautifully. We’ve shimmied Monday and Tuesday away so far with Boot Camp, abdominal Zoning and lots of Cardio.

Have you seen our exercise cards?

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We’ve been following our breakfast smoothie plan and we have another delicious breakfast drink to share.

Tomorrow it’s all about the Orange. We all know that Oranges are bursting with Vitamin C, are a good source of Fibre, B vitamins, vitamin A, Calcium and potassium (Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28497905/)

What’s not to love?

Ingredients:

1 Orange

Half of a Banana

250ml skimmed milk

2tbsp Fat Free Yogurt

2 Ice Cubes

Method:

Peel the orange and break into segments. Peel and roughly chop half of a banana. Place the fruit, milk, yogurt and ice cubes into a mixer bowl. Blitz until smooth.

Give it a go! Here at Mums In Real Life, we’re always looking for new tips so please share yours 👍🏻

Brunch Anyone? *Must Try* Avocado & Egg With Tomato

Recently, we were invited to our lovely friends house for a work out in her garden gym followed by brunch. What lucky ladies we are!

We started off with a warm up run, followed by circuits of planks, burpees, skipping and squats. Some kettle bells were thrown in for good measure too. Oh! And a power hoop.

We definitely earned the brunch, we were really put through our paces but managed to laugh through all the sweat! Here’s what we did:

60 seconds of each exercise, 10 secs rest. Do each exercise 4 x times. Let’s do this!!

Round One: Squats/Leg Raises/Slam Balls

Round Two: Skipping (it’s tough!!)/Lateral Raises/Shoulder Press (with weight)/Power Hoop (if not, go for side plank – 30 secs on each side)

Round Three: Mountain Climbers/Sit Ups/ Burpees/Jump Squats

You can also download an exercise card here>>

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So, let’s get on to the food. Our gorgeous host made a feast for us!

We salute you, eggs baked on Avocados! Bacon lardons, how we love you sprinkled on roasted Tomatoes! Chives, you are a show stopper! Yes, at this point we were all STARVING!

Why not team up with friends to work out? You can motivate each other, push each other to work harder and reach your fitness goals together. Life’s always better with friends! We’ve been busy with our friends at Keeling Fitness and LA Personal Fitness working on an exciting collaboration which will be on its way soon – watch this space…

Thank You!

Here at Mums In Real Life, we are so inspired by others. Thank You for all of your support so far 👍🏻

It’s Bootcamp day (again!)

So, Tuesday rolls round again which can mean only one thing – Bootcamp! Today we mixed it up (actually, Craig forgot the gloves and pads) so we had a bonus circuits session instead. It was really challenging, great fun, and involved quite a lot of running so we burned more calories than usual too.

Today we did 1-10-1 which sounds simple, but is a really challenging workout. If you’re starting out, just work from 1-10 or set yourself a time limit e.g 20 mins and see how far you can get. Most of us managed to get from 1-10 an back to 8 – setting the benchmark for next time!

In other news – am running the 20 miler tomorrow with my running buddy. I’m absolutely bricking it (as my nephew might say) but have treated myself to a beautiful new water belt so I can rehydrate along the way.

download the exercise card here

I’ll keep you posted on progress tomorrow – wish me luck!

Tahlia x

PS: Thanks to those of you who’ve been following the plans with us! As promised, Craig is writing a custom plan for beginners so keep your eyes peeled, it will be ready soon!

Tuesday is Bootcamp Day!

Ok, so I’m going to level with you here. Tuesday morning is Bootcamp day. Ordinarily. Today, I wasn’t feeling it. Legs achy, gale-force wind and rain – so I opted for fruit tea instead. (FYI I was sprung by Craig in Costa afterwards – Bootcamp Karma)

So I’ve sucked it up tonight and I’ve done a home workout based on Craig’s famous tonne up sheets. This is a good one as you can do it once, or if you’re feeling really hardcore you can work your way back up again when you get to the end. Who’s with me?

download the tuesday tonne up

PS: Thanks to Craig at keeling fitness.com for letting me share. Watch this space for more!!