Morning! This morning is a little different in the fact that I didn’t work out upon waking up.

Instead, I dove head first into a cup of coffee that’s as big as my head:

Hm. And now after looking at that photo, my coffee mug is also as white as my head. I needz some sunz. Or at least some bronzer..sheesh. Moving on!

I have to head straight to the BIC today because I’m in class all week. We started yesterday afternoon so today’s day 2.

Now normally, I’d wait a few hours before eating breakfast since I didn’t workout first, but I wasn’t sure what time my tummy would start growling in the middle of class, so I played it safe and ate a full breakfast after coffee-ing.

Noats! Pumpkin noats, to be specific. I won’t give the recipe because the other kind were way, way yummier. These were tasty, but not that tasty

I added a big ol’ dollop of cottage cheese at the end and it really paired perfectly once stirred in.

Now we’re going to switch gears and talk about a fitness tool I’ve been using both in my workouts and in my clients’ workouts lately.

Homemade Valslides

What are Valslides? According to valslides.com:

The Valslide® is a piece of foot sized specially formulated plastic and non skid foam that, with your muscle tension, slides in a controlled manner to activate stubborn muscles and body parts.

Basically, using valslides engages certain muscles that would not otherwise be utilized as much. Specifically, it calls our stabilizer muscles into play.

Although Valslides are “specially formulated” to engage these muscles, I have something that works just as well:

Paper plates?

Yep! Well, the backs of the paper plates, anyway

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Basically, you put your palm, foot, booty, or what have you on the front of the plate, with the bottom of the plate pressed on the ground. Then you can do your sliding movement.

Here I’m doing mountain climbers with the homemade valslides, but there’s a multitude of ways you can use them.

I also made a little video that I posted on my youtube page here that shows a couple exercises as well as a more in depth explanation. And a bit of goofiness on my part   Also, you know what’s coming soon…a Valslide workout. Stay tuned!

Time to grab the rest of my noats and head out the door! Have a lovely Tuesday morning, friends. See ya later

Have you ever used Valslides?

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