Jump roping: The best exercise for calorie burning

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Want to burn a lot of calories as quickly as possible, but don't feel like running? Well I have a quick tip for you: Get your jump rope and get moving! Not only is skipping a lot of fun, but it also burns more calories than running does! Jump roping burns approximately 800 calories an hour. If that isn't motivation then I don't know what is. Some more benefits are:

• It's fun. It might bring back child hood memories and if you have kids you could skip together.
• It's cheap You could buy a good jump robe for 10 euros, which is nothing in comparison to some other fitness equipment.
• You can do it practically anywhere Some of you might not be able to skip inside because of low ceilings. You can do it in your garden, in the park or even on the patio.
• It's small and light Jump ropes are the perfect equipment to take with you. They're light weight and easily fit into a brief case.
• You can use the jump rope to improve strength, agility, coordination or endurance. You can improve strength if you use a weighted jump rope and agility with a speed rope.

Now that we've established that jump roping is amazing, let's make it into a little challenge. As said before, 1 hour of jump roping burns approximately 800 calories, so 10 minutes burns approx. 130 calories. Skip for 10 minutes a day for an entire month and you burn 3900 calories, which is more that 1 pound burned! This will make a perfect addition to your workouts. So:

Skip 10 minutes a day for a month and burn more than 1 pound. Good luck!

♥ Love, Vivian

Review: Rimmel Apocalips

The perfect lipstick: Opaque, long lasting and with a reasonable price. It's like I'm on a never ending quest. Brands come out with better lipsticks every week. I'd love to try all lipsticks out there, but that is fanancially and timewise pretty impossible. I did come across the Apocalips-hype and I immediately wanted to try the Apocalips line. They might not be the perfect lipstick (they're actually liquid lipsticks), but they're pretty damn close.

Back To Fit

Something you might not know about me: I really, really like sports. I'm rubbish at most sports, but I like being active and I was very fit in 2013. I was able to do 10K's and I started to try more and more sports. Being active made me a very happy girl. But since life always has up and downs, there came a problem: My back. I've had had scoliosis surgery back in 2011 and I still have problems with it. My back was to weak for the distances I was running, my form got bad and eventually I started getting serious knee and shin problems because of my bad running problems. I was told to cut back.

 Since it was December, I decided that I could take two weeks off of all of my workouts and focus on the holidays. But two weeks turned into four weeks and that eventually turned into eight weeks. I started to get less and less happy at that time. I had used running as an anti-depressant because I was afraid of real anti-depressant medicine. My grades got worse and my relationships as well.

I could never have imagined that quitting excersize would make such an impact on the way I feel. But now, to make a long story short: Two of my friends noticed that I wasn't feeling well and being the good friends that they are, they signed me up for the Electric Run. Meaning that I have to be able to do a 5K at the end of March. I'm a little scared, but also confident that I don't have to run a good race. It's a fun-run and that's exactly what we're going for: having fun.

I'm writing this post because I want you to know what I've been up to and I want to try and inspire people to get fit as well. I will keep you up to date on my fitness journey. Even though I have to be very carefull with my exercise. I want to continue doing it because it means so much to me and it makes me feel alive. No more quitting exercise for me.

For now, I'll be focussing on the 5K and I'll be doing the 7-minute workout everyday for the next month. Wish me luck...

Do you like to exercise?

♥ Love, Vivian.

Review: Lady Gaga - Fame

A little over a year ago Lady Gaga came out with her first perfume callled: Fame. I got it for christmas last year. It's strange how this black liquid is transparent on your skin. Lady Gaga and her team to their best to keep this a secret. I have no clue how it works, but what I do know is that it smells amazing. I use this perfume almost everyday. It smells sweet and mysterious. Wanna see a breakdown of Fame? Keep reading.

Books Books Books!: The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

 

"I'm a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you; you're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? I'm not depressed. I don't need to get out more. And I can't be a regular teenager, because I'm a grenade."

This is how Hazel Grace Lancaster describes herself in the Fault in our stars. Hazel Grace is a terminal cancer patient, dispite the medication that has bought her a few years. Hazel has accepted the fact that she doesn't have very long to live anymore and doesn't exactly do anything outside of going to college and watch America's Next Top Model. Her mother thinks that Hazel might be depressed and sends her off to Support Group. Where she meets Augustus Waters. This gorgeous boy is a cancer surviver, though it cost him his leg.

Hazel's life is going to be turned upside down by this boy. She falls in love with him and he grants her his "Wish" by taking her to Amsterdam to meet her hero, Peter van Houten, who has written her all time favorite book An Imperial Affliction. The conversation with mr. Van Houten doesn't go very well, since he turned out to be a pathetic alcholic man. Other than that they had a great time in Amsterdam.

Spoiler Alert

While in Amsterdam, Augustus tells Hazel that he doesn't have very long to live anymore. His cancer came back and has spreaded everywhere across his body. He died one month after he's told her this. Leaving her and Isaac (his best friend, who went blind during the book, due to cancer) broken behind.

The book ends with a beautiful letter written by Augustus, for Hazel.

End of Spoilering Business

This is a very good book. I didn't get bored once while reading this. Just when you think you've figured it out, something else happens. The plot twists are awesome. I hated it when I had to stop reading because I wanted to know what would happen next. 

You can really feel the emotions that Hazel has. This book is very alive and there. I felt like I was part of the book and for me that's a sign of a good book. Plain books don't grab my attention so much and sometimes it even takes weeks for me to finish a book like that. FYI I read this book in two days. 

I loved John Green, the writer of this book, before I even started reading this book. He's part of the VlogBrothers and I love their sense of humor. That made me really curious for this book. My expectations were very high and, well, I was not disappointed.

This rounds up my thoughts on the book. I'd say it's a great book to read and I even got my boyfriend hooked on it.

Title - The Fault In Our Stars

Author - John Green

Language - English

ISBN-10: 9780525478812
ISBN-13: 978-0525478812

♥ Love, Vivian

Review: Kicks Nailpolish

When on vacation I'm always looking out for brands that we don't have in holland. When I was in Norway I saw this brand called Kicks and I decided to buy some nailpolish to try out. Kicks is sold in Norway, Finland and Sweden and is the leading beauty-retailer in the nordic region. Sounds good enough right? Well, let's get on with my opinion.

21 things that make me smile :)

Whenever I'm not feeling well I make lists to cheer me up. Today I want to share one of those lists with you. This one is called: What makes me smile? They are not in order of preference btw ;)

1. Grumpy cat (and other cute animals). What's not to love about cute animals? Grumpy Cat tops the scale with ultimate grumpy cuteness.