Happy Thanksgiving!

/

My favorite holiday…

This year it also became my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She had fever since Monday night so I didn’t know what to expect today. Luckily she was feeling more like herself and I was able to get couple minutes without her so that I could cook.

IMG_9197.jpeg


This is my favorite holiday because I love the concept of being thankful for what I have. I have a wonderful family, friends who truly care and a great community at the Y… when I first came to the US, I was constantly confused around this time because everyone would talk about “Turkey”. It took me couple years not to get too excited when I saw my country’s name written all over the place. Guess what, today I learned that the name for that animal actually did come from my country. When English men arrived to this land and saw the big bird, they decided that the bird looked like a bird that they had back in Britain, called “Turkey cock” (rooster from Turkey). They dropped the word cock and that big bird ended up being named after my country. The funny part is that in Turkey that bird is referred to as Hindi, which means Indian.

i hope you all enjoyed a great meal, either with or without turkey… now it is time to think about how to get all that food digested in our body. Given that it is about 10 pm here in San Francisco, clearly my way of digesting is by being in front of my computer. However I have plans for tomorrow. Here is a snippet of how I want my muscles use up all that great food:

  1. After an early breakfast, I will have 15 minutes to myself

  2. I will start with basic moves to get my muscles firing up

    1. 5 chin ups

    2. 12 weighted squats (weights are on either side, start standing up, come down to a full squat and up)

    3. 10 slow pushups

      repeat 1-3 3 times

    4. [Burpees (20 sec) + fast feet (10 sec) + hold still (10 sec)] x3

    5. 10 Lateral/frontal lift with weights ( one hand front, the other in the side, keep alternating)

    6. 12 dips

    7. 10 Front row (Weights in front, palms facing towards your body, pull the weights up to shoulder height with elbows pointing to the sky)

      repeat 5-7 3 times

  3. I will then stretch nice and relaxed. I will actually try to have my full family join me with this quick workout too.

Of course another plan is to walk to the Golden Gate Park at noon so that we will get our steps in.
The biggest thing that I am looking forward for tomorrow’s workout is the fact that I will try to have both my kids and my parents to do it with me.
How about you challenge someone with that quick workout too? More the merrier, don’t you think?

Thank you for your continued support. Knowing that at least some of you still read my blogs make me very happy. My promise to you is: not to have you wait for too long in between entries.
Enjoy your workout and happy Thanksgiving weekend.