Tag: Motivation

Planksgiving Workout 2024: Get Moving for the Holidays!

Planksgiving Workout 2024: Get Moving for the Holidays!

Happy Planksgiving! As the holiday season ramps up, it is time for my annual Planksgiving workout. I have had fun coming up with various versions of this scheme since the start of “Plants to Planks” in 2017! Time flies when you’re having fun, right? As 

Planksgiving Total Body Circuit Workout {2023}

Planksgiving Total Body Circuit Workout {2023}

Happy Holidays! This year has been quite the busy one, but I couldn’t let the holiday season pass by without sharing one of my favorite workouts of the year: Planksgiving! This year I’m bringing it back to the original workout scheme, not only hitting you 

Planksgiving 2022 {A Total Body Workout}

Planksgiving 2022 {A Total Body Workout}

The holidays are upon us yet again! And by holidays I actually mean the best one of them all–Planksgiving! Ever since I started my Plants to Planks blog, I’ve been doing this festive workout to kick off the season. Though each year I try to 

Working on Some 2022 Goals! {Personal, Professional & Physical}

Working on Some 2022 Goals! {Personal, Professional & Physical}

Hello friends! It has definitely been a minute. Or rather, many minutes. Between the holidays and the start of the new year, life has once again left me with little free time to blog. I’m still over here cooking away, visiting the farmers market, training 

12 Days of Core-Mas! {A Very Merry Core Workout}

12 Days of Core-Mas! {A Very Merry Core Workout}

Hello again, all! As with Planksgiving, the 12 Days of Core-Mas has become an annual holiday workout tradition! Using the popular Christmas carol, this workout scheme is one Excellence in Exercise clients love to hate. If it didn’t feel so nice when you get finished, 

My First Road Race of 2021! {Tear Drop 10K}

My First Road Race of 2021! {Tear Drop 10K}

Well it has been quite a while since blogging about running, so I think the first race of the year warrants a quick post. Every now and then it is fun to move outside of my normal realm of food and gardening. Plus, like some 

Veganuary 2021 {A Month Full of Plants!}

Veganuary 2021 {A Month Full of Plants!}

Looking back through my posts, I somehow missed any mention of Veganuary for the last two new years! Three years ago I put out some information to help encourage anyone embarking on a meat-dairy-fish-egg-free January, but I dropped the ball on continuing the trend the 

Planting the Seeds for 2021 {Gardening & Life}

Planting the Seeds for 2021 {Gardening & Life}

Regardless of the crazy year almost behind us, the last few days of any year I tend to get reflective about what has passed and also think about what might be to come. I can’t say I generally make “resolutions” per se, but I do 

Racing Recap: First Race Since March! {2020 Tear Drop 10k)

Racing Recap: First Race Since March! {2020 Tear Drop 10k)

Happy Monday friends! I may not be able to walk very well today, but I will take the leg soreness after finally getting to race in person yesterday for the first time since March! Though I know there is still a lot of stuff going 

The Need for Speed Returns {Running a Virtual 5k}

The Need for Speed Returns {Running a Virtual 5k}

This week I partook in my first race since the beginning of March. I was able to squeak by with a 5k right before everything shut down, but missed my planned April 10k. Along with missing the race, I fell off of my training without