Benefits of a Workout Partner

Benefits of a Workout Slave Driver Partner

Who could resist that smile?

Did you know that having someone to work out with helps you burn more calories. Yep. It's true I read it somewhere. 

Mrs. Priss & I have been meeting at the gym when our schedules allow. It has helped by making us: 

1. More Accountable

It's easy to skip the gym if you're going solo. Having a Mrs. P as my workout partner makes me stick to a workout routine because if I even try to deviate from the set schedule she will kill me. This leads to more workouts and more calories burned.

2. Longer Workouts

When you have someone to  vent with talk with time flies! When working out with Mrs. Priss, we always talk a lot, which means longer work out and therefore we burn more calories.

3. Friendly Competition

There's really nothing friendly about competing with Mrs. P. I try to tell myself if she can do it, so can I! It rarely works that way. Competition is that little extra push that you'd get from a personal trainer. Who needs a personal trainer when you have Priss? 

We recently had a health assessment & of course we made it into a "friendly competition".

She won on looks. Check out my hair?!

She won on push-ups. 

And I'm not even gonna discuss stats.

Our trainer, Zach Rohring,  was a great sport!

Zach's won all sorts of competitions. 

He's accredited with  a few national certifications.

Tweet him @TrainerZack 

He's knowledgeable & funny. 

I won't say exercise excites me at all. I will say I'm working on my fitness inspirations & working on overall lifestyle improvements.

So grab a sadomasochist workout buddy & go sweat together. You'll be happy you did. Who knows, maybe your workout buddies can get together with our workout buddies & we can all do a local run this year. 

I like this Pinterest idea, but don't tell Mrs. Priss or she'll make me do it.

Put one dollar in the jar everytime you work out. 

When you reach a goal, treat yourself with a new outfit {or an awesome, fattening dinner at your favorite mexican joint}...just saying.

xoxo ~Mrs. MontgomerySweating with my Entourage Like...

Housewives Workout Too

I don't know about you guys, but with summer officially making itself known in Oklahoma, I'm stressing OUT. Seriously.

It's hott as hel...an oven, which requires short sleeves and short pants (also known as shorts).

However, I feel totally unprepared. My skin is pasty white. I wish everyone thought it was cool to be a whitie. I mean, it's cool for the Cullens. Why can't it be cool for everyone else? Don't they kinda set the standard?

I guess not EVERYONE lives in my world.

But it's not just my pasty white skin. It's also the flabbiness. My arms give the double wave. You know what I'm talking about. You wave and your upper arm waves back. Yeah, so NOT attractive.

Well, no worries. I've found the perfect exercise video for this problem area.

Housewife Workout - watch more funny videos

If you don't have a baby laying around, I'm sure you can grab some canned goods or a bag of flour or something.

Y'all let me know if you get any good results with this.  What is your favorite exercise?  Have you found a tried-and-true way of getting rid of the "double wave"?  Do share!

~Mrs. Edwards

...who's thinking about opting for liposuction.