I actually put out the new Monday vid early for once in honor of our internationals :) This routine will truly put your butt on FIYAHHHH!!! When you make it through, you’ll have trouble sitting and standing for the next couple days. Just warning ya ;) Now click play and have fun!

Also, for those of you asking, the BEAST MODE Booty Shorts are back! They come in Fluoro Fuschia (pictured below) and Fluoro Lime. Also, what do you think of my new polka-dotted Nikes? I was really hesitant to get them the other day because they seemed kinda weird and out there, but my heart fluttered every time I looked at them. So I took a deep breath and said, whatever, I want polkadotted trainers!!!

Aww looking at them makes me laugh! I actually went a lil cray and got 2 pairs of Nikes on Saturday but no worries my friends, I got a good deal! Nordstrom Rack had a ton of Nikes on sale and I ended up saving a good amount of $$ after my purchase. If there are any of you looking for good quality discounted Nikes, try Nordstrom Rack and the Nike Factory Store or Nike Clearance Store. I seriously want a whole rainbow shoe closet of these before I want any Jimmy Choo’s or Louboutins. I would assume a lot of you guys feel the same way :)

OK 3am and off to bed now. I have to teach my 8am POP Pilates at Equinox in a bit! See you soon my lovelies and have a FANTASTIC start to your week! Let’s go crazy and let’s KILL IT! This week is yours.

<3 Cassey

Hey POPsters!

Hope you’re all having a fantastic weekend. I loved seeing all of your Cheap Clean Crepes! It’s so cool to put up a vid and see your variations of the recipe! Look, here’s one from POPster @allaboutami who did peanut butter and banana!

And here’s another from POPster @peanutbutterdancer – look at the professionalism! Nom nom nom!!

If you wanna see your food featured, just use the hashtag #cheapcleaneats and #blogilates and I will find you! Next week, we are making some savory items. I posted this on Instagram last week as I was experimenting and looks like y’all really wanna know how I made a healthy quesadilla dontcha?

It’s flourless and nope, there are no bananas and oats in this one. Guess you’ll just have to wait til Thursday to find out!

NOWWWWWWW. Listen up. Look at this pic. LOOK AT THIS PIC!

It’s Jillian Michaels! OMG. This happened. This just happened. I was at a SHAPE Magazine event that I bought tix to a while back. It was only $5 to take Jillian’s class live, so clearly I gobbled that up! It was located at Hermosa Beach and the weather was perfect!

She commanded us through her Hard Body workout and I liked it very much. It was a HIIT routine much like my POP HIITs. We did burpees, elbow pushups, knee crazies, and all sorts of side planks. It was kinda hard to see with everyone in front of me – but that didn’t matter! I obviously worked out hard and had a lot of fun. I actually met some POPsters at the event which made the whole experience even sweeter. At the end, I was fortunate enough to meet Jillian for a brief moment. She’s very nice and I really liked her energy. Though small in stature, she has big influence. I first learned of Jillian when I was in college. She was on Biggest Loser being all crazy – yelling at contestants – but what she brought to the fitness industry was some new flavor. She caught people’s attention, she scared them, and they listened. Though my style and hers are completely different (I talk about my nails and what I ate for breakfast while I kill you), we both know what it takes to make you work and to take control of your own life. So happy to have met her…I hope to see Jillian again!

Finally, for all the Daddios out there….

Here’s a silly pic me and the parentals took after the UCLA meet up a few months ago! I just wanted to say this about my dad. We went through some hard times and had major disagreements about my career path and my passions. His wishes and mine were completely different and as a 20 year old, it was really hard to deal with. I cried a lot in college (LIKE A LOT) not knowing how to please my heart and my parents’. Though I studied Biology and respected the subject, it was not in my blood to become a medical doctor. Some of you may be thinking, big deal just follow your heart! But in the stereotypical Asian culture, “if you’re not a doctor or a lawyer, then it doesn’t matter.” So after college, I moved far far away to the East Coast to leave things behind and let my more creative side flourish. Lots happened out there in Boston…my first job was def not my dream job, in fact I got the worst review of my life from my boss! It was humiliating…but life is so funny…because at the same time, one of my oGorgeous yoga bags (I started a yoga bag company in college when I started teaching) somehow creeped it’s way into SHAPE Magazine and I was like WHAT. I remember crying on the floor of TARGET when I opened the magazine and saw my bag. This was my sign. My sign to get out. Follow my heart.

I dedicated the next several unemployed months (my parents didn’t even know) to designing and development. Meanwhile to entertain myself (had so much more free time), I started blogging and YouTubing more. And to pay rent, I started teaching Pilates up to 12 times a week. It was really exhausting. But I also credit this time period to making me a better instructor.

Meanwhile…my parents tried to get me to go to grad school or get some job in the medical field! My dad was like any type of doctor please? Optometrist, Pharmacist, or Naturopath!? I didn’t like taking calls from my dad because it always made me sad that he didn’t believe in me. So we didn’t talk that much.

It was a time period of open-mindedness on both sides that helped us regain our relationship again. I never wanted to disappoint my parents. I always wanted to make them proud. So when I couldn’t fulfill their wishes when I was in college, I had no choice but to believe in myself and just go. I’m happy to say that today…Blogilates has brought us together again. Today both my mom and dad are big supporters of Blogilates and they love you guys. They read all of your comments and they call me daily to tell me about new ideas they have for y’all :)

So today, I wanna give a shout out to my dad for his open-mindedness and his unconditional love for me and our family. We’ve been through rough times but all that matters is that today we are happy. Thank you for being a cool dad and wearing a neon green headband ;)

Happy Father’s Day!

Go tell your dad you love him!

<3 Cassey

I’ve been experimenting and experimenting all week long, trying to find you the coolest and yummiest foods that are budget friendly, healthy, and easy to make. This week’s recipe gets checkmarks for all of those! Crepes. Healthy crepes! Ever walk by a giant glass window and see the guy pouring creamy batter onto a hot griddle, then watch him smother it with Nutella and fill it up with freshly chopped bananas, artistically fold it into a 1/4 circle and drizzle it with honey and top it with powdered sugar?

Oh yes my lovelies…this week I have a gorgeous crepe recipe for you but it ain’t gonna cost you $8.99 or anywhere near that. It’s gonna cost you 83 cents!! And you’re gonna feel like you’re having a guiltless YOLO meal. Nope, not an oxymoron. Ready for the ingredients? Here it is!

Directions:

1. Mix your dry ingredients together (oats, cinnamon) and blend into a fine powder in a Magic Bullet or regular blender.

2. Then add half a ripe banana, an egg (or 2 egg whites), and almond milk. Blend!

3. Take your batter and pour into a pan on low-medium heat. Just a thin layer!

4. After you see mini bubbles form on top, flip it! If you can flip it in the air – DO IT!!!! It’s exhilarating. This batter will make about 3 crepes about 8″-9″ in diameter!

5. Now fill up your crepe with fresh fruits! I used 4 strawberries and the other half of the banana! Roll it up. You’ll get 3 sleeping puppies that you can pet :)

6. Optional – to top, you can add nonfat Greek Yogurt and a honey drizzle!

The whole recipe without the honey and yogurt is only 250 cals with no added sugar, and using all natural ingredients! Nothing crazy here.

I hope you give this recipe a shot and wow your family with it. They won’t even know it’s good for them! Seriously!! If anyone makes this please use the hashtag #cheapcleaneats on Instagram, Twitter, and now…even Facebook! Did you see this?

I had no clue that you can hashtag on basically all social media networks now! Great!! This will make it so easy to find your food and comment on it. And of course for all y’all to find each other too when you’re hashtagging similar topics!

Look at that. It’s beautiful and so so good for you! MMMMM! I’m hungry. Want this now.

Ok go cook, eat well, and enjoy your day! We have a lovely weekend ahead of us. I love seeing your hard work from the #JuneOnFire Calendar – you guys are KILLING it and I am so proud of you! In the comments, will you let me know what I should healthify next?

Thank you and love you!

<3 Cassey

Ps…Been trying to make healthy bubble milk tea. It’s really hard to sub those tapioca pearls…they have a distinct chew when you bite into them. Trying all sorts of crazy things. Will let you know if I figure anything out!!!

How are you? I hope your training has been amazing! Here is the new video of the day in the Workouts on Fire series…ARMS ON FIRE! This vid is no joke. You will be super duper sore the next day because I was. Yup. I was. So…have fun :)

I hope you’re enjoying the calendar this month. I am seeing a lot of great pics on Instagram! I love seeing your sweaty smiling faces! When you hashtag #juneonfire or #blogilates, I get to sneak up and check in on you, like and comment on your pic! Loving your hard work and dedication. You guys look AMAZING!!!!

Also, a POPster had a GREAT idea today on twitter and I think we should all do it.

I get tons of emails and messages and tweets from you guys daily, but you know what? If I can’t get back to you in time, you have a WHOLE WORLD full of bright, smart, and amazing POPsters who may have experienced your same concern! So let’s use the power of the Blogilates Community to help as all! Whenever you have a question for our community, use the hashtag #askPOPsters. You can look this up and answer questions for other people! It will be so helpful! Of course you should tweet at me @Blogilates but that hashtag is important! Use it on Twitter to get a convo going. I already see some great questions!

Yay yay! Ok will be back for more later! Time to go eat my yummy salad with homemade turkey burgers. I’m hungry! Bye for now!

<3 Cassey

How’s your week going so far? Are you killing it? I know you are!

Today is National Donut Day! Isn’t that fabulous? Oh but don’t be so quick to drive out to your nearest Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme – nuh-huh. You better check my recipe out for healthy donuts made with almond flour!

INGREDIENTS:

Isn’t that fab!? Omg. Each one is about 128 calories and is super filling compared to a regular donut. It’s all healthy fats you’re getting with no added sugar. Amazing. These tasted so good that when I was done, my friends and I wolfed it down in 2 seconds.

I ended up topping them with a banana almond milk glaze and dipped that in shredded coconut and walnuts. HEAVEN!!! Look at these babies!

If you have a Babycakes donut maker like I do, it will take about 5 min to cook! But you can also get a donut pan at Target and cook it at 350F for about 10 min and I am sure they will come out the same! For those of you with nut allergies, I did not try this with oat flour but I suspect that it would turn out very similar.

Have a wonderful day…and for those of you working hard on the BlogilatesBet, I’m so proud of your progress so far! As a team we’re down nearly 7,500 lbs! I myself have lost 1.4 lbs this week , I feel energetic and strong…so I am on track to meeting my goal. I saw some comments with POPsters being disappointed about slow progress, but please do not worry. There are a few things you can do to remedy this:

1. Take a second look at your diet. Snacking can be the culprit. If you snack, snack on fruits and veggies. Banana pancakes are cool too.

2. Increase your intake of veggies. This is a nutritious and low calorie way of filling your stomach up volume wise so that you won’t FEEL HUNGRY all the time. Thus…less snacking.

3. Drink more water! This is imperative. It flushes you out, makes your hair and skin look great, and will again, fill you up! If you’re bored with water, then make your own version of HINT water by mixing 1/4 cup of juice with water. Tastes the same ‘cept you don’t have to pay a bunch for basically…watered down juice! Or cut up a few slices of fruit and put it in your water. Also gives the same “hint”.

4. Your workouts need to make you sweat. You need to work hard. No going around this. If you’re “working out” then checking your phone, then doing some earthquakes then going to check facebook…ummm no. I want you to commit your 45 min to 1 hr a day SOLID. GO BEAST. I’m serious. Commit, then play. I want sweat dripping into your eyeballs and down your collar bones! If you don’t feel challenged, your body and your strength will not change.

Those are my tips of the day! Hope that helps. As always…tweet me questions @Blogilates if you need more advice! I’m always by my phone.

OH! And one more thing!

I just released some cool new tops in ShopBlogilates.com! I’m all about backless right now. You can actually wear a strapless bra with the Oh So Low top, and for the Open Your Heart Crop Top, I suggest a cool sports bra with a fun back.

And many of you do not know, but it was one of my childhood dreams to be a hand model. I always believed in my feminine fingers and nimble knuckles. Today I am happy to tell you that finally made it, guys. I finally made it.

Beast Mode Gloves, $16.

LOL. It looks like an ad for manicures at one of those nail salons at the mini mall down the street.

Love you!

<3 Cassey