unpaid rave review for lululemon’s speed short.
here’s the deal: i cannot for the life of me recall a time when i wasn’t completely aware of the size, position, and shifting of my workout bottoms. that is, i couldn’t until this past Monday, May 28th, 2012.
as both a lacrosse and field hockey player for most of the years of my life, i’ve had the pleasure/disdain of wearing “skirts”, or kilts, to workout. don’t get me wrong, the kilt was kind of cool and cute to wear on “uniform day” in high school. the irony of running around in a miniskirt while elbowing a chick in the stomach to push off/cut for the ball was pretty bad ass. but kilts require bike shorts/spandex/M.J. Soffes underneath, the honest truth is there was always bunching, riding up of the spandex, winding up with your kilt completely backwards. you get the point.
so fast forward to adult/non-team sports life. freedom of choice! cute workout clothes! woo, i said! yay, i thought! but in reality, the non-bike short choices were limited and while i’m a fan of the Nike & Under Armour running short, there was still the wedgie dilemma, the muffin top concern, or unavailability of an accurate size because medium was too small, large was too big. (#firstworldproblems, i’m well aware. but this is a product review for running shorts, so get off your high horse.)
so, without getting any more verbose, you need to know that on Monday i did “Murph”, (or 3/4 of “Murph” scaled to accommodate weak arms & inexperience) which is a workout done each Memorial Day at CrossFIt gyms around the country/world to commemorate a true American Hero who made the ultimate sacrifice. during this workout i wore lululemon’s speed shorts for the first time. for me personally, it involved, for time:
Run 1200m
75 Pull ups
150 Push ups
225 Squats
Run 1200m
the whole ordeal took somewhere around 40+ minutes, bringing us to my groundbreaking announcement: i, quite literally, never ONCE thought about my shorts throughout the duration of the wod. people: 225 squats and no wedgies? no muffin top creepin’ after flailing my body on banded pull-ups? this was nothing short of a miracle.
and so I say to you: go ye forth and purchase a pair. not only are they functional, with pockets to spare, built in liner, and sneaky ventilation – they’re also quite flattering to the legs & bum (as are most of lululemon’s bottoms).
so there you have it: miracle shorts do exist. and i’ll now be spending all my monies purchasing them in every color.
I’m calling it “lazy primal lasagna”. Zucchini, chorizo, marinara & feta/mozzarella. (Taken with instagram)
Bacon wrapped chorizo & spinach made by Jason.
If you ignore my husky Kathleen Turner voice and focus on the meat at hand, you’ll then be pleasantly surprised by Jason’s annoyingly cute happiness at the end.
(via healthy-fit-happy)
The Knocks - “R.O.Y.L.”
disco + rollerblades + catchy hook.
new favorite group.
Broccoli, Bacon and Apple Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette
i’m going to let you in a not-so-secret secret: i tend to be extremely frugal, forgetful, and hungry Monday through Friday. this doesn’t always bode well for dinner, when i don’t feel like buying more groceries, or dicing up a million onions, or wasting time cooking a million different parts. but every so often laziness pays off i make it work.
so my goal last night was to make some sort of paleo side dish to accompany roasted chicken thighs last night, hence i googled one million and forty-two recipes. usually i’ll combine my top three favorites recipes into one and consider it a win, but last night i chose one and literally nixed half the ingredients. the results were [the ever hackneyed] delicious, nutritious, and simple. here they are, with crossthroughs on the steps/ingredients i omitted.
Broccoli, Bacon and Apple Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette
(adapted from Holly Would If She Could)
Salad Ingredients:
2 small heads of broccoli, chopped1/2 small red onion, finely diced
1 apple chopped (I like Gala or Fuji or similarly sweet apples)1/2 cup raisins
8 slices of bacon, diced
Warm Bacon Vinaigrette Dressing Ingredients:
2-4 TBS of Hot Bacon Renderings1 Shallot, finely diced
1 TBS Apple Cider Vinegar
1 tsp Dijon Mustard
Salt + Pepper to taste
Method:
1. Cook bacon over medium heat until browned. Dice once cooled.
2. Add all other salad ingredients into a medium sized bowl and stir to combine.3. Drain bacon renderings from pan leaving only about 2 to 4 TBS left in the pan. Add diced shallot and cook until softened about 2-3 minutes. Retain 2-4 Tablespoons of bacon fat, pouring into a small bowl and whisking together with mustard, vinegar and salt/pepper.
5. Pour desired amount onto salad, toss, and eat! If you have an leftovers, throw in a glass jar in your fridge. To use again, just put glass jar in a pot of warm water on the stove and let warm up again. There was no leftover dressing because, duh.
Exciting new paleo side dish discoveries! Broccoli salad & sweet potato hash. (Taken with instagram)
(Source: i-am-the-oracular-spectacular, via imgfave)
i’ve been telling Jason for weeks that this song was by Skrillex mostly because i’m assuming liar who knows nothing about dubstep. alas, i was proven wrong on Saturday night - so this post is quite timely.
(via megrock)
(Source: kidsean403)
Hulk pound. (Taken with instagram)
happy friday from Johnny Depp and his striped-turtleneck-wearin’, lap-dog-totin’ self.
from buzzfeed’s How to Pose Like a Hot Guy With a Cute Dog, borrowed from my cousin’s facebook status.
gmail needs to expand this option to real life.
lately (in bullets).
- CrossFit
- numb thumb
- i’m really weak
- broccoli
- chicken thighs seared in bacon fat
- cashews
- sugar addiction
- ASOIAF finished until book 6 is out (which i’ll have to read in pergatory according to the Mayans)
- Season 2 of GoT is almost done?! i call bolsheviks.
- spending freeze 2.0
- anticipating July (but trying to realize that waiting for a month to come makes the other months seem long & miserable when they should feel summery & wonderful)
- life goals (what the funk are they)
- going on a month of gchat blocked and tumblr inconsistently available
- camping twice in June
- CAROLYN’S COMING TO WINEFEST!
- what would i do without email?
- ya motha.
good night, sweet dreams, fare the well, i’m no longer a living breathing specimen.
(via pleatedjeans:via)
