Granola

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Posted on 22nd February 2012 by fasolane in Recipes

So healthy and yummy. Mix into yogurt or just eat as cereal. I make mine with no dried fruit but you can add dried blueberries, cherries, cranberries, raisins, or whatever strikes your fancy!

4 cups rolled oats

1/2 cup ground flax

1/2 cup sunflower seeds

1/2 cup chopped almonds and pecans (1/4 cup each, chopped but leave some big pieces in there)

2 T coconut oil

2 T brown sugar

2 T raw honey

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp ground cinnamon

2 T water

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Mix first 4 ingredients in large bowl, set aside.

Mix the rest of ingredients together in microwave safe bowl. Microwave, stirring now and again, until sugar and honey dissolve.  Add to dry ingredients and mix well.

Place into a thin layer on cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes. Stir/mix it around. Bake for another 10. You may need to stir/mix again and bake again for 10 if it isn’t too brown.

Remove from oven and let cool.

Store in air tight container. Enjoy!

 

Fun Tabata Filled Cycling Class

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Posted on 13th February 2012 by fasolane in Cycling Playlists

This is the playlist from class this morning. Kicked butt!

Warm Up- Every Teardrop is A Waterfall-Coldplay

Fast Flat- Bridge Burning -Foo Fighters

Climb- Uprising -Muse

Jumps- Rain Over Me -Pitbull

Interval Sprints- Metal Tabata (with coach) -Tabata Songs

Low Climb- Country Grammar -Nelly

Freezes- Club Can’t Handle Me -Flo Rida

One Leg Drills- Sing -My Chemical Romance

Heavy Climb- I Can’t Dance -Genesis

Jumps- Blow -Ke$ha

Interval Sprints- House Tabata (with coach)-Tabata Songs

Cool Down- I Will Always Love You -Whitney Houston

Stretch- Greatest Love of All -Whitney Houston

Those Tabata’s are killers. Whew.

Awesome Cycling Class – July 27, 2011

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Posted on 27th July 2011 by fasolane in Cycling Playlists

Such a great class this morning! Lots of energy and some new cyclists, too. I am going to miss all the teenagers when they head back to school in 2 weeks. They have been so much fun to have in class this summer. See you guys for Christmas break! Here is the playlist from today’s class.

I Know You Want Me – Pitbull (3:40) Warm up and get ready for a class full of sprints and climbs!

Pretty Vegas - INXS (3:28) Increase the resistance to 7/10 and start climbing. Halfway through, increase to 8/10 and stand for the rest. Now we are warmed up!

Fat Bottomed Girls – Queen (3:25) I love Freddy Mercury. Let’s isolate those quads and do some freezes during the verses. Bounce it out on the chorus.

Shake Senora – Pitbull (4:12) Sprints! I think this may be my new favorite Pitbull song. A lot of great energy.

Big Love – Fleetwood Mac (3:39) Get low and work those glutes!

Telephone - Lady Gaga (3:40) One leg drills. Should be hard.

Whenever, Wherever – Shakira (3:16) More sprints. On the chorus. After each sprint, increase the resistance. The last sprint should be very tough.

In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel (5:27) Max climb. Get to the top!

Til The World Ends – Britney Spears (3:58) Lead leg jumps for the first 2 choruses, for the 3rd, 2 count jumps. We are almost there.

Proud Mary – Tina Turner (4:57) Starts nice and easy. Work a slow climb at 7 or 8/10. When the song gets “rough” so do we! Stay at 7 or 8 and stay with the beat of the song until it ends. Whew!

5 O’Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson (3:49) Cool it down. Get ready for some arms and abs!

Push It – Salt N Peppa (4:28) One heavy weight, held lengthwise in both hands. Bicep to chest to shoulder to tricep dip and back down. Change it up with just biceps, then just shoulders, then just triceps…the song has the perfect bpm for weightlifting to music.

How You Remind Me – Nickelback (3:43) Planks. V sit with twists. Leg lifts.

Breathe Me – Sia (4:35) Stretch. Thanks to spinmuse for suggesting this song. Beautiful ending.

Cycling Playlist for July 11, 2011

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Posted on 10th July 2011 by fasolane in Cycling Playlists

I love teaching cycling at the YMCA in Mesa.  Come on out on Monday and Wednesday mornings. If you can’t make it, here is a song list for tomorrow’s class!

Give Me Everything – Pitbull (4:16) Start with a nice warm up to loosen those legs up. Stretch a little.

Don’t Wanna Go Home – Jason DeRulo (3:26) Work our way into a good climb. Increase the resistance and start climbing.

Evacuate the Dance Floor - Cascade (3:26) Sprints! Give it your all for 20 seconds. Rest for 10.

F*in Perfect - Pink (3:33) Isolation. I call them freezes. Working those quads!

Dirty Dancer - Enrique Iglesias (3:34) Climbing again. This time in position 3. Love those glutes!

Where Them Girls At? – David Guetta (3:14) Another climb. Keep the beat at a med/high resistance.

How Do You Like Me Now? - Toby Keith (3:26) I have a cycler who is obsessed with Toby so I throw her a bone every now and again. We are going to do single leg work here. Each leg gets 1:40.

No More Tears - Ozzy Osborne (7:24) Try not to cry! Real heavy climb here. Hit your max resistance around minute 3 and try to sustain it for the rest of the song. For the last minute, try and go faster!

Police On My Back - The Clash (3:17) We climbed the mountain, now let’s spring down it! Give me one big sprint. Act like the po po’s chasing you.

Roxanne - The Police (3:12) One last working song. Jumps. Every time Sting sings “Roxanne” you change position. Harder than it sounds.

Rolling in the Deep - Adele (3:48) Finally, let’s cool down. :-) But we aren’t done. Arms and Abs to follow!!

Rock Your Body – Justin Timberlake (4:27) Planks. One minute front. One minute on each side. Add some crunches to round out the song.

Wanna Be Starting  Something - Michael Jackson (6:03) Get some medium weights. Bicep curls, triceps, shoulders. Work ‘em all. Pushups at the end.

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole (3:28) Stretch. See you Wednesday!

Christmas, already?

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Posted on 21st December 2010 by fasolane in Just Blogging

Where did the time go? I feel like summer was just here. I have been baking up a storm for the holidays and the kids want nothing to do with helping, but they come running when it is taste testing time! The hot chocolate cookies were a big hit.  I didn’t let them try the whiskey cake, but I enjoyed that one!!  Snickerdoodles and toffee blondies rounded out the holiday baking this year. Maybe next year the boys will want to help out in the kitchen…