Back On Track

The view from the 22nd floor of our building, simply fantastic. The other side is even better, more natural

Here I am , filled with energy and motivation.

Maybe you've noticed that I was absent the entire past week as I caught a very bad virus, which deprived me from working out and from being overall active.

I was lying on the couch, wrapped up like a burrito in my bathrobe and a cozy fluffy blanket, watching my series all day long. The only time I moved was when I had to prepare and cook my breakfast, lunch or dinner... For the rest I remained the blanket-burrito. 

Some of you might think that it's not THAT bad to stay home, sleep longer and don't have to work. But for me it was a nightmare because I couldn't workout either and that made me quite grumpy since the first competition is in two weeks now.

But now my battery is fully charged ; and so I got back on track during today's lunch break as I lost an entire week of training. I put on my workout clothes, my nikes, power-beats, selected my bad-ass hardcore play list while walking down the stairs of the skyscraper (which has 24 floors) I am working in and hit a nice cardio session. 

I ran up and down all the floors from -2 to 22 four times , which counts up to 960 stairs up and 960 down. Although I was totally done when I arrived the 4th time at -2 , I still had to go upstairs to the 13th floor again to get out of the staircase without releasing the alarm. So this equals 1.090 stairs up and 960 down and a LOT of sweat. 

After a good hot shower I went back up again from -1 , but this time with the elevator. After all I didn't take the shower to sweat my office-clothes afterwards. 

And guess what, in the early evening I still have to train my legs and hit another cardio session . The next 4 weeks are going to be the toughest I will ever experience in my life I think. Last season I only did 3 competitions with a 'break' of 2-4 weeks each time. But this season I have 3 competitions within 3 weeks, followed by a 'break' of 3 weeks, then 1 competition and afterwards again a 'break' of 3 weeks and hopefully  finish my season with the world championships in Warsaw, Poland. 

Let's train for the best. 

Have a great week.

I definitely had to lay down for that one or another minute after this insane workout

Pumpingsession on Sunday

Usually I spend my Sundays at home cleaning the house, doing the laundry (mostly gym clothes) and recovering from my workouts. 

But now that my coach changed my training plan, I have to workout six times a week to get more shredded than last season. Yes I know this might sound very hard for some of you but it will be totally worth it. #nopainnogain, right?

My life has changed so much during the last year. I could never have imagined that I would spend my Friday and Saturday nights at home on the couch recovering, to make sure I'm not too tired the days after... But now we are here... I even spend my sunday afternoon in the gym to hit the 6th workout of the week.

Back in the days I was lying on the couch recovering from the party the day before. 

But to be honest, I don't miss anything about it. When I look at all those people working off their butts in the gym during the week, paying attention to their alimentation and on weekends they drink alcohol, eat crap and turn their body's rhythm upside down and mostly destroying the progress they made during the week, well then I really prefer to get up early in the morning, have my healthy breakfast,feel good and fit...but most of all feel HEALTHY. 

If you want to suceed , you have to leave your old and bad habits behind you and move on... Even if this means to give up that one or another bit of your social life... but hey friends will come and go, ' but 200 pounds will always be 200 pounds'.

That being said, I hope you enjoy my video. Leave a message on my channel and enjoy the last hours of your sunday evening.

Impressions Of a Fairy's Weekend

Annoyed because my hair was so electric this weekend...

How was your weekend? Did you do anything special, or just couch-potatoeing at home?

Compared to the last weekend I was highly productive.

If you have been on my Instagram-account lately, you already know that Saturday was kind of an exciting day for me. Along with other bloggers from Luxembourg, I was interviewed by our local TV-channel, namely RTL, about the development of the blogger-scene here in little Luxembourg. The interview was held in a very original cafe called 'Konrad', which I haven't know until Saturday. Honestly, I was so excited because being interviewed without knowing what they are about to ask you is pretty thrilling. But so far, I think that we did a pretty good job and we all had a lot of fun with Nora M. interviewing us. I hope that we will see each other again very soon. Even though the others were enjoying delicious pieces of cake, cookies, lattes or hot chocolate, I was just sitting there with my lunch-boxes by 6PackFitness and eating my raspberries and drinking water. I will surely go back to try out their cakes and cookies when the season is over in 3 or 4 months.

On Sunday I actually wanted to be part of a pole-dance workshop again, but I didn't feel very well so I had to cancel my participation. It was a special workshop just for Valentine's day. I always enjoy the time at workshops as the atmosphere is always very enjoyable and familiar. 

If you are in search for a great studio for aerial arts in Luxembourg, I highly recommend Pole&Aerial Art in Differdange. We offer poledance classes of every level, combo and choreography classes for poledancing, aerial hoop classes and on Saturday you can stretch to the max in the 'Extreme Flex'-class.

So the only thing I did on Sunday was watching 'Batman begins', drinking some teas and preparing my meals for the next week. We only have 8 weeks left until my first competition for 2015. I am really looking forward how far I can get and how shredded I will turn out to be at the end of the season. I am happy that my coach was satisfied with my form on last week's check-up and that my arms, shoulders and back improved within 2 week. Let's hope that I will improve that way for the next 8 weeks too.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend and had a great start into the new week so far.

During the interview. Isn't that pic cute of Yayavanchique?

Yep we are taking picture of taking pictures of a picture. #bloggerissues

Mealprepping on my sunday evening #routine

Happily our FlavorGod seasonings arrived. Checkout the review here.

FIBO 2015

How was your weekend my lovely fitfam? Did you rest and recover enough to start all fresh into the new week?

I definitely did. I was such a couch-potato this weekend and did nothing productive, except meal prepping of course, walking my best buddy Mumble, and finally buying my tickets for this year's biggest fitness exhibition: FIBO . 

The FIBO will be held from the 9th to the 11th of April in Cologne again. With over 116.000 visitors and 700 exhibitors, it has become one of the greatest meeting point for Bodybuilders, Weight Lifters and the Martial Art community. Last year was my first time visiting the FIBO, and I was overwhelmed by all these fitness and sports-fascinated people and of course by all the awesome stuff you can buy and try. It was quite funny to cross all these bad-ass athletes and bodybuilders who are, most of them, very tall. So just imagine me next to a huge bodybuilder? I looked so tiny and felt like 'do I even lift?'... 

The FIBO is actually divided in two different exhibitions, the FIBO and the FIBO Power. The FIBO Power is mainly about Bodybuilding, Weight Training and Martial Arts. There you can also meet A-list bodybuilders like Ronnie Coleman, Jeff Seid, Kay Green or Jay Cutler, but also famous female athletes like Dana Lynn Bailey, Ramona Valerie Alb or Stephanie Davis. 

Besides this you can enjoy the many different shows such as the Miss FIBO Power Beauty Contest, the DBFV Men's Physique Cup, a Terminator Show, FIBO Power Strongest bench-presser contest or the Strongman Championships League. 

You may be wondering why I am already so excited about this year's FIBO, don't you? 

If you have read my posts about the new year's goals, you already know why.
I am aspiring to participate at the Miss FIBO Power Beauty this year, but there is still one thing to do... Get a top8 ranking at the online-voting. Only the first 8 are actually allowed to participate in April. To be honest, I don't think that an online-voting is really fair, because first of all you can photo-shop your pictures. Second, you can manipulate your voting, and third; if you have lots of friends on Facebook or on your Facebook-page as an athlete, you are more likely to get more votes. But still, if you place top8 and participate at the contest in April, you are the one that has to step on stage with the physique you have.
Therefor I don't see the point of cheating in the voting, but you know, there are always people who don't play a fair game. I personally  think it would be best if they would organize a prejudging the day before the show to judge the athletes in real and not via an Online-Voting. 

If you haven't bought any tickets yet, or booked an hotel, hurry up because a lot of hotels are already complete and the prices of the rooms are sky-rocketing day by day.

And don't forget to vote for me HERE (Jennifer Ries). You can vote once a day to help me get a top8 ranking and participate as the only Luxembourgian athlete at the Miss FIBO Power Beauty.

Many thanks in advance already and I wish you a great new week. Keep pushing

The beautiful Winners of the Miss FIBO Power Beauty 2014