Shine Radio's First Inaugural Rave is Set for this Friday

I know that's a long title, but there it is. We've compiled an excellent crop of new music by artist both new and current. Some remixes and some original dance tunes. And let me tell you, we are pumped! So pumped intact, we're holding our very first, portable, mini-rave. Plug in live or DL it for later. It's your choice. The broadcast should also be available on iTunes. Whatever. Still working on that iHeart Radio application to be approved. Until then, it's just us right? The First Inaugural Christian Mini Rave will feature Thousand foot Krutch, Plumb, Chris Tomlin, Everfound, Newsboys, Capital Kings, TobyMac, Francesca Batistelli, Abandon, Group 1 Crew, and Britt Nicole, just to name a few. With remixes by: Neva, Capitaol Kings, Jason Nevins, Garcia, Karmageddon, Brownlee and Bose, and Solomon Olds. So yeah, it's gonna be pretty awesome, for about thirty minutes.

Exciting Times in Christian Music

As a host of a podcast mostly dedicated to Christian dance and remixes, I have to say at first I was struggling to find the kind of music I was looking for. Now, it seems, within the last few months new artist and current artist and creating more dance oriented music. To me this is a long time coming. As a kid growing up in a small town. I was only able to hear dance, and club music either on visits to my cousins house in Chicago (B96) or Open House Party on friday nights on Magic 104. Well that was the 90's, B96 is mostly rap and Magic 104 became Oldies 103.9 my sophomore year (94). Dance music, more specifically techno, and even dub step has been around a long time, and yet I have a hard time finding Christian Dance music. Why is that? I recently just voted for the We Love awards which featured Heavy Metal and Hard Rap artist. To me that music is almost juxtaposition when set to Christian lyrics. Still, it's some people's taste. Not mine. I know raves, and club music gets a bad rap, you can certainly link them to unproductive activities, but you certainly can't link them to Satan worship. Or can you? I love club music and dancing, and I love remixes, so why have the Christian remixes so few and far between? It's time to change all that. I remember Plumb crossed over with a remix of, "Cut". One thing I did come away from the We Love awards voting was a list of new artist with music that fits the genre of Shine Radio, Go!. Besides Capital Kings we have, Hillsong Young & Free, David Thulin, Jellyrox, Jonathan Thulin, Citizens, Family Force 5, Hillsong united, Everfound, and Young Chosen. Plus, I hope more to come. I want some Christian Dub Step. Perhaps I need to remix a few myself. Maybe this is my calling. And if it hasn't been yet, I'm looking forward to the days of Christian Raves. After all isn't that what we'll be doing in heaven? Eternally dancing, singing, giving praise in the eternal glory of our Lord? Sweet!

Today's Log

Exercised with Denise Austin:

20 min Fast Blasting Yoga (pt1)

10 min Yoga Body Burn (abs)

Accomplishments:

1.Got out of bed 

2.Applied vitamin E to daughter's cheek in a timely fashion

3.got outside for a object collection walk

4.showered

5.made healthy food

6.made a fruit Smoothy

7.exercised

Trying Something New

I haven't broadcast a live show lately, but I'm trying something new. I didn't think my currently gym routine was producing any results after a month, so I'm going back to some of my old standards. Denise Austin videos. Mainly her Boot Camp, and Fat Blasting Yoga. I thought I used to have Pilates for Every Body, but I'm not so sure. I also trying a new Denise Austin video. It's not new as in just released, jus new to me, it's called, "Yoga Body Burn". The set looked nice. I also need to see a chiropractor about my middle back. About a month ago I was doing push ups and my daughter came and sat on my back, and stupid me I kept going! Since I've been doing the Pilates and yoga videos with Denise, I've noticed today that my back doesn't hurt as much. I think a part of keeping your vertebra in line is to have strong and balanced muscles. I've been a bit lop sided since my daughter was born. First I could feel them threading my epidural a little to the left, and my left side became paralyzed and my right side was numb, but I could move my legs, my left leg was dead. Kinda scary. Then I mostly carried my daughter on my left side, for 3 years, this has resulted in a build up of strength only left side. I also did not get back into a regular cardio, weights, Pilates, or yoga routine. Until now. Is it too late? Is the damage done?

Does this Really Work?

Count Down Workout
Perform 10 Reps of kettlebell (or dumbbell) swing
Without rest, do 10 reps of burps
Still without resting, do 9 reps of kettlebell swings
Now do 9 reps of burps

Continue this pattern until you do just 1 rep of each exercise, trying to rest as little as possible (or not at all) between moves.


This is a Burpee

This is a Kettle Swing

Get back to me on this!

*Shine.yahoo! 

Today's Power Smoothy

Georgia Peach Bliss

1.5 cups of soy milk

.5 cups of whole milk (optional)

1 ripe banana

Hand full of frozen:

Peach slices

Rhubarb slices

Strawberries

I get all my ingredients at Wally World, so it's not too expensive. You can use fresh fruit, but if you use frozen it will make a nice thick frozen Smoothy. 

Rainy Sunday Rosie

Or go away GERD. This Smoothy has ingredients to calm acid reflux and GERD.

1.5 cups of milk

1 cup of vanilla soy milk

2 bananas

1.5 cups of raspberries

Mother's Day Special Heart Smoothy

This is a lovely rose colored Smoothy full of goodness.

2 cups of soy or any kind of milk

6 or so strawberries

1 banana

A handful of:

Cherries

Raspberries

You can add ice if you want it it a little thinner or the stretch the recipe.

Charley Brown Glass optional

Shine Radio, 30 Day Challenge

Sounds like a rehab program, I guess it kinda is, rehabbing my health, detoxing from all the garbage I consume, and still consume. I don't feel like the exercising is doing anything, or the smoothies, but I think you need to give anything about 30 days of consistent effort before you see if it's working or not. I remember when I first started doing cardio and weights consistently back when I was 25. At first I was a very puffy 150 lbs, with bad skin. I started in October, and it probably took a year to really look different, with better skin and less poundage. But I did start losing weight within a month and kept on until I hit an equilibrium about 2 and a half years later. It started slow, with simply doing cardio and weights with Denis Austin. Then over time I eliminated and changed things in my diet, as I wanted to. I can get obsessive though, so I need to be careful. I was driving trucks about 12-16 hours a day, so I was always trying to squeeze in exercise where I could. I would walk around a shipper or receiver's building or do lounges, squats, and wall push ups in the empty lady's room. I would do step aerobics in and out of empty trailers. I would do leg and ab exercises while driving long stretches, even lift a 5lb weight. I would squeeze a water bottle or tennis ball to work my inner thighs while driving. Or do knee taps up to the steering wheel to work my abs. I was a pretty creative and talented driver. It all added up in the end and helped me lose flab and gain muscle. It seems like a reached a low weight in 2003 and once I started taking Effexor my weight slowly began to creep up. Despite being a vegan and doing a job that required strenuous physical labor for 10-16 hours a day. Pushing and pulling heavy carts of laundry. Then I moved to Georgia in 2005 and even though I rode my bike a lot and still did some cardio and weights my weight still kept creeping up. Then I started driving for JB Hunt in 2007 and drive over the road with them for 8 months. I would be out for 12-14 days sometimes 3 weeks and home for 2-3 days. I had a mini stepper in my truck, weights, and resistants bands, I mostly ate well with salads, fruit, veggies, salmon, my weakness being pretzels. I would also go for long walks and tried jogging, but didn't like being so sweaty with no place to shower. I really needed my rollerblades or my bike. I'm always more aware of my eating habits when I'm trucking, because I'm afraid of getting fat from sitting there for so long. 8-11 hour stretches of driving, broken up by the occasional Wal-Mart visit. This is really where Shine Radio began. I noticed a few of the Christian songs I've heard would make good aerobics music, so I downloaded some and would exercise on my stepper to it. Despite all my efforts to keep further weight gains away, I must have gained some weight because when I went to Delta's ramp training the outfit I brought to go home in was way too tight and almost didn't fit. This was an outfit I was able to wear a year before. Kinda depressing. The only other time I was able to drop a lot of weight was in early 2008, I was doing a lot of Enduro riding and starving myself. I lost weight, but looked kinda sickly from it. Then I got pregnant at the end of 2008, and immediately started swelling. I think if you have any fat cells they can swell up from time to time, like once a month and when you're pregnant. Mine did, within a month of being pregnant, my thighs where so wide that my pants didn't fit. I come from heavy legged women. Even at my thinnest (117) I still had fat legs, fat calves. By the time my daughter was born I was a very round 185lbs. I tried to eat sensibly and do water aerobics, but it was like my genetics had other plans. In all honesty, if we ever have a famine, my people will survive, because our bodies are so good at retaining everything we eat into hardy fat stores, nothing gets burned off. We are so efficient. After my daughter was born I stayed at 185 for about 6 months and then I started to lose weight and within a few months came back down to what seems to be my natural weight of 145. Only now a more flabby and wide looking 145. I look like I've been run over by a steamroller. What happened? It's like I'm all stretched out, all my ligaments and stuff that pulls your abs together in the middle got all stretched and weird. And I also have something I didn't have before a pot belly and a muffin top. Even in my chubby days, I didn't have love handles, muffin tops or big round belly. Plus I just look bad. Bedraggled. Tired. Puffy. My big mistake was not getting into some sort of cardio and weight routine right away. Forget waiting six weeks, I was healthy and strong enough to go exercise right away. But I kept putting int off out of depression and what not. I didn't get fed up enough until last August of 2012. I remember my niece was staying the night and it was really late and I had enough of feeling so gross and fat. So I went for a jog with my little radio and listened to our Christian music station called Way Radio. I had a blast and felt like I had connected to something as well. So I decided to keep it up. That summer I had been so depressed that we never even went to the nice pool that was always empty. I had started an Appalachian Trail hike training program almost a year earlier. It consisted of weights and lounges, no cardio. But it was making my knee twitch, and I got turned down for a job near the trail head, so I just kinda stopped my program and sank back into my depression. The jogging was challenging and I felt like it was a nice time to commune by myself through Christian music. But after a couple weeks I started having pain in my left hip and the outside of my right knee. I didn't want to stop what I was doing so I decided to break out the rollerblades and see if the neighborhood had good roads. It did, and it was pretty quiet, with no cars coming and going. At 2 am I could jam skate all I wanted without worry of anyone seeing or hitting me. I had also been developing over the summer a terrible pain where my left shoulder met my neck. At my job we look down 99% of the time, and I had a lot of pain while at work, even though I was only part time. I also carry my daughter on the left side. A chiropractor said I was off balance which was the cause of most of the pain. I was built up more on one side from carrying my daughter around all the time. It's funny though once I quit my job, and we got rid of our mattress, the pain started to go away and is now gone.
But what about now? We moved in November of 2012 and didn't have a residence until February of 2013. I've just now been able to pull myself out of a funk enough to attempt another regular cardio program. But it's been about 4 years since I've exercised regularly. Plus, this might have been during a key age 31-35. It's like any work I had done has been erased, drained, and replaced with free radicles, cortisol, grey hair, dry skin, and sag. I'm only 35, but I look and feel so old and worn. I've added in the smoothies for a nutrient boost, but I'm worried that the extra calories from drinking and eating more fruit will make me gain weight. It's like I can't win. Oh well, if it makes my skin look better, then it's worth it. Still got about 3 weeks left in this trial run. Having Shine Radio to do helps keep me on track.

Today's Power Smoothy

Potassium Power House

Or KMax for short, oh my that is piffy

2 cups OJ

1 cup milk of any sort

1 cup or so of pinneapple chunks

A hand full of:

Peach slices

Mango slices

Ice

Some squeezed lemon quarter 

Some drizzled honey to sweeten

Shine Radio Wants to Know.....

What your favorite way to get your cardio on? Running, walking, swimming, cycling, ice skating, B-ball? We wanna know!

Today's Power Smoothy

Georgia Sunrise

2 cups of OJ

1 cup soy milk

1 banana 

1 hand full each:

Strawberries

Raspberries

Rhubarb 

Mango slices

Peach slices

Sweeten with honey if too bland

Hands and Feet Project

I just want to share with you about Mark's work with the Hands and Feet Project in Haiti. The project works to build family style living situations called, "Children's Villages" for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti. There are many opportunities for personal involvement with the project. From simple donations, child sponsorship ($30 per month), all the way to mission trips.
The Hands and Feet project was founded by Audio Adrenaline in 2004. Drawing inspiration from the popularity of their song, "Hands and Feet." they goal was to create family style care for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti.
Currently all the children's villages are at capacity and expansion is desperately need. You can help by contributing to the Kings and Queens Capital Campaign. 100% of all donations will go directly to the expansion of the Children's Villages. Providing a safe environment for orphaned and abandoned children to grow and thrive so they may reach their God given potential.

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