RoShannonigans

From a closet under the stairs... I'm loving this new journey!!!! 🙋🏼 #bossbabe #entrepreneur

Did it!! #bucketlist

Ok, I'm doing it! Made the commitment to enter first bikini competition at 40! 8 weeks out and lots of hunkering down to do. Just needed to tell some to make it real. Thank you Jen, for encouraging me to do it! #hugsandbacon

Good morning my little friend! #liftingfrogs

Finally seeing a little more shadowing😜

Freaking Frog Farm!! Every fre💥ck'n morning I have a visitor scare the crap out of me and the all head for the same spot! #freakingfrogs #liftingfrogs. 😁😁😁

That moment you stand up after sitting for a few hours, following a killer squat workout and you just know the next 48 hours are only going to get worse.

Ok, I’m seeing some changes… This is working!

Shadows appearing! Ro had being doing such a great job following the diet and workouts prescribed by the trainer, that I started to implement a few of these methods along with him. Three weeks into this new plan and for the first time in my adult life I am seeing either some shadowing caused by the lighting in the gym or I am actually developing muscles? Either way this looks pretty cool!

As mentioned in my last post, our trainer mentioned a podcast from a gentlemen by the name of Layne Norton. "He has a PhD in Nutritional Science", she says....and my ears perk up! Holding a BS in Food Science with emphasis in Nutritional Science, 15 year career in Child Nutrition and just recently begun investigating how to further my education with a slant to Sports Nutrition & Exercise Science, this podcast could not have come at a more opportune time. One Physique Science Radio podcast and I was hooked! I finished all 16 episodes (at the time), plus a few Muscle College Radio episodes in about a week. I highly recommend.

As they were discussing the new lifestyle tweaks and commitments, something awakened in me that had been on a bit of a siesta. It was so clear, like one of those clouds that appear above your head when you are dreaming...My true passion for fitness, the science of nutrition and understanding how it all works together. I am beginning to zone out their conversation and rapidly trying to figure out what I am going to do with this new revelation? Hmmm, the possibilities! As the conversation migrated to the garage gym, the trainer began to evaluate our equipment and demonstrated a few exercises to incorporate with our current 5x5 routine. As she was filing our brains with so much great information on nutrition and fitness, she recommended a podcast that we should check out called Physique Science with Dr. Layne Norton....and so MY journey begins!

Graduation gift time! 😜 What can I get him that he doesn’t already have or can get? The gift of time! Over the past 10 years he has sacrificed his own time, health and wellbeing for others and it’s HIS time now to take it back. Me: If you were to have a personal trainer would you prefer a male, who you could relate to, or would a hot fit female be more motivating? Ro: It really doesn’t matter, as long as they have the knowledge of what they’re doing and not some cocky meathead. So, in typical Shannonigans fashion, I begin to hit the Internet, contact all of our legit hot fit couples and SCORE!! I found the perfect match for Ro and I hoped to get a few tips along the way. I mean….helllllooooo, hot mama!! A pure angel sent from up above 😇 yep, that’s Ro’s new trainer!

A BIG milestone in this handsome man’s life has just occurred this past April. After a long journey, four kids, a demanding and stressful job, he has completed his BSN and graduated Cum Laude in his class. We are so proud of you!

Every morning our Hot Fit Neighbors motivating me to wake up and get a little "Insane" with Shaun T in our make shift garage gym.