Outdoor Fitness for Women
An abundance from the earth was shared at our Harvest Picnic.. many mother – daughter teams ran and walked the trails together… and it was simply an altogether lovely September day to share fitness, camaraderie, fun and food!
Thanks to our awesome sponsors and camper crafters… our campers went home with drawing prizes that included fresh produce boxes from FREGGIES, Mean Girls Massage, Communichi Acupunture, and Camper Tina Fogall’s Big Spoon Jam! xoxoxoxoxo
What’s At the Core?
Moving from a strong CORE could be the most important element in your approach to movement and exercise. A strong core allows you to move through life with control because the muscles in your abdomen, lower back, pelvis, and hips are all strong enough to work together in concert toward balance and stability.
A targeted core exercise is any exercise that asks your abdominal muscles and your back muscles to synchronize. HOWEVER, bringing an engaged core to almost every exercise will extend the exercise to building the core and use the core to make sure that the correct muscles are doing the work they should be doing.
You may notice that if you’ve spent some time focusing on engaging your core in your workout that you move from your core more in your every day activities like standing up, sitting down, carrying groceries, and even sitting at a desk. This is terrific! We want our workout to add more physical strength to our everyday life and we want our movements in everyday life to reinforce our strengthening.
For Active Imaginations:
Imagine for a moment that you are laying on your back and you are about to do a bicep curl with a weight that is a bit heavy for you. Imagine first that you are going to do this curl with a core as relaxed as jelly…
If your imagination is active you might notice that tiny back muscles in your upper and mid-back might jump up to help do the job but that these same muscles might become injured in the process.
Now imagine that you are about to curl with the same weight but this time you first engage all your core muscles. Now as you do your bicep curl you may notice that you feel your core supporting all the muscles in your arm. That’s what we want!
Assignment for the week:
See if you can engage your core in EVERY single exercise you do and then see if you can engage your core when you are doing daily tasks including sitting at a desk or table. Building your core is less about crunches and more about bringing a level of awareness and engagements to all of your movements and exercises.
– Becka Tilsen, Booty Blogger, Camper and Coaching Consultant Extraordinaire
We had a 25 campers and friends turnout Saturday and clear weather for our end of the season 5k/10k on the beautiful trails of Seward Park.
Everyone got their sweat on… but special congrats to Jeni P, Laura S, Lynne G, and Sylvia G who all completed the 10k in just over an hour! This was incredibly impressive especially because the route was quite hilly with lots of obstacles like logs to jump over and tight turns. In fact we didn’t expect to see anyone back in under 35 minutes for the 5k but a good group made it at 30 minutes – for 10 minute miles even with the challenging terrain.
Afterward we enjoyed food and door prizes and we also collected $100 for Booty Camp Scholarships!
Thanks all for your support! Big Hugs!!
Black Doily creates design for print and web and is one of our Season Sponsors here at Southside Booty Camp. If you check out their website, they impress one as a youthful, cutting-edge design company, which is all true. I was lucky enough to grab coffee with Quintella and Rodney Pruitt the other day and was immediately impressed by warmth and sincerity of these fabulous graphic artists who are Black Doily.
You might know that they are responsible for our logo, holiday calendar cards and t-shirts. Here’s some stuff I bet you didn’t know. Quinn (a former Seward Park Booty Babe) and Rodney moved here from North Carolina in 2007, each having worked in graphic design and production for over 10 years! As the demand for their freelance design work increased, they left their day jobs, stepped out and formed Black Doily in January 2010.
Black Doily has built a name serving small and local businesses like Southside Booty Camp. Not every small business knows what they need to present professionally in the advertising world. Black Doily wants to help. They offer design for print and web, search engine optimization, social media integration as well as connecting clients with local print vendors and (my fave!) use earth friendly printing solutions! They also build websites using modern standards that value and maximize usability and accessibility.
“Black Doily is a sponsor for Southside Booty camp because we see it as a dual opportunity to support localism and strengthen women-owned businesses in the region.”
– Quinn and Rodney Pruitt
(206) 455-0110
8560 Greenwood Ave N
PMB 611
Seattle, WA 98103
Southside participated in the Rainier Valley Heritage Parade this August. We rocked some very well rehearsed ; ) and choreographed Booty Camp moves all down Rainier Ave. to the throngs of cheering Southside folks! AWESOMENESS!
Booty Babes rocked the soccer field at our annual learn soccer day! My personal favorite since soccer has been a lifelong passion.
This is a great challenging one to do whenever you see a swing set! Fabulous for the deep lower core. Make sure you don’t allow your lower back to dip towards the ground- only extend legs as far as your core can handle without losing your lower back!
