Christmas

Christmas is coming soon. I know that many of yours don't celebrate it, but in my case I do it. I personally like it because I meet my relatives and friends who live so far from my place. We usually have dinner on December 24th and we say some words to thank for the food and the time.
Depending on the family size, people between 2 and more than 100 get together, chat, drink, and eat.
Many dishes are prepared for the dinner, you can get chicken, salmon, pork, stuffed turkey, shrimps, rice, spaguetti, pasta, many different kind of salads such as apple salad with cheese, cream and nuts, roman salad, etc, bread, beans, etc. The point is that you can share that beautiful moment and get along well with your buddies. At the end i think that everybody is your buddy no matter if they're your relatives or not.
You can also get some drinks such as wine, hard cider, wisky, scotch, brandy, rum, tequila, soda, juice, water.
Many families rent a band to have them play some music, or they rent a dj to dance all the night.
Children and youngsters buy and burn fireworks and from time to time some of them get an injury due to the bad manage of the explosive fireworks. But that's nothing that a surgeon can fix. lol
The next day like most of the people get a hangover or they don't sleep well a turkey soup with potatoes and chilli is prepared and I have to say that this is the best soup I've ever tried after Christmas dinner. The leftovers usually are enough to prepare some baggels or any other thing, and again people keep the conversation flowing.
Some people interchange gifts and others don't, that's not necessary.
In conclusion I think that this season is to be with the people we love and the rest of the things don't matter. So be happy and enjoy this time with your pals.

Merry Xmas

Working out

I try to follow this routine to keep myself fit. I don't follow any diet because I consider that I burn enough calories doing this and apart from that my meals are healthy I don't count the calories or whatsoever. I just have a pair of dumbells that weight 20 pounds each one. I drink a lot of water and I don't eat candies. What I usually eat are chicken, rice, beans, tortilla, meat, a lot of veggies and fruits. I hardly ever eat sausaces, ham, pork, fast food or junk food just once or twice a month. I eat little bread. I just have 3 meals a day only

If you don't have a good physical condition I suggest you to train little by little, you can walk first, then do some exercises, don't use any weight or use little weight. Take some rests until your heart beat returns to normality

Before and after doing any kind of exercise I always warm up my muscles and stretch them I took me 10 to 20 minutes.

If you want to loose weight you can walk 30 minutes per day during one month, work out 3 days per week and drink a lot of water. In the second month you have to jog 3 times per week and the other 3 days work out, you can interchange one day of working out, the next day jogging, and so on. Remember that after jogging you have to do abdominals.

I used to jog as well 3 times a week but I got injured so I'm getting over it. Jogging is a good cardio exercise. I suggest that If you feel any strain stop to do that until you are recovered.

Go to the doctor to have a checkup if you have any problem.

I wrote the links so you can see how the exercises are done.

If you get bored of doing this routine, look for other exercises. There are plenty of them on the internet.

Let's the ball rolling!. See you around!

DAY 1

Legs

1. Squats. 4x10.

2. Lunges. 4 x 20.

3. Inverse lunges. 4x20

4. Calf rise. 4x10. (3 different positions, normal, tips in, tips out)

Shoulders

1. Shoulder press. 4x10.

2. Military press. 4x10.

3. Barbell upright row with dumbbells. 4x10.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise. Video 2 10 repetitions each exercise.

DAY 2

Back

1. Dumbbell row. 6 x 10.

Biceps

1. Alternating curls. 4x20.

2. Alternating hammer curls (standing with dumbbells). 4x20.

3. Concentration curl. 4x10 each arm.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise.

Video 2 10 repetitions for each exercise.

DAY 3

Chest

1. Push ups 5 x 10 If can't do the normal push ups, try this.

Triceps.

1. Dumbells triceps extensions with 2 hands. 4x10.

2. Triceps kick backs. 4x10.

3. Dumbells triceps extensions with 1 hand. 4x10 each hand.

Abdominals

Video 1 30 seconds each exercise.

Video 2 10 repetitions for each exercise.

Sayings and expressions

We're going to learn some sayings and expressions today. I hope you enjoy them.



Realmente me gustaría poner a alguien en su lugar. Actually, I'd like to put someone in his place.

Date prisa! que es para hoy!. Step on it! Get your skates on!

Me importa un bledo. I don't give a damn.

Hoy por mi, mañana por ti. You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.

Más vale prevenir que lamentar. It's better to be safe than sorry

Aqui mis chicharrones truenan. I'm running this show.

Destapar un hoyo para tapar otro hoyo. Don't rob Peter to pay Paul.

Dando y dando, pajarito volando. Cash and carry.

Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. All talk, no action.

Las apariencias engañan. Never judge a book by its cover.

Hacer San Lunes. To have Monday pneumonia.

A lot of people have Monday pneumonia at least once a month.

Feliz San Lunes a todos!