Sweating in Style

As the NFL season kicks off, I can't help but get excited to break out new bedazzled Broncos gear, and come up with any excuse to wear workout clothes when I am out watching football. As Carrie Underwood belts out the theme song in blue sequins, I am reminded of the importance of your legs and feet looking good while watching football.

Today's blog is about sweating in style, and picking out that fantastic pair of exercise shoes. If you are looking for advice on best shoe for cross-fit, running or weight lifting, stop reading this blog. This advice is dedicated to the optics of exercise shoes on your feet.

First up, the most eccentric and impractical shoes, Christian Louboutin Louis Junior Leopard-Print Spikes Sneaker. What to say about these shoes. Well, if you are looking to drop a cool G on the most dangerous shoes at the gym, these are your speed. 

Next up, the Adidas Kea Shoes, designed by Stella McCartney. These shoes are multifaceted in their uses. The black animal print mesh is versatile with any workout attire, and they have 360 degree cooling while you workout. Lightweight and flexible, these shoes can easily take you from the gym to any happy hour. 

Now, for my favorite brand of athletic shoes at the moment, Nike. 

WARNING....if you have weak willpower for cute online shoe purchases, step away now. If you decide to continue, be prepared for some of the freshest and most innovative new women's athletic shoes. Wearing them just gets me in the mood to prance around the gym (not prancercise prance, just a slow trot). 

Options are endless on the website, with a option to customize your shoes to your desire (see below). From solid colors to prints, you can't go wrong with the options on nike.com. 

If you are feeling really creative, you can design your own shoes with Nike ID. I wasted spent a solid 2 hours designed my shoes. It's a really fun experience, and it actually gets you motivated to head out to the gym and show off your personalized shoes. 

You get about 12 options to change the color, fabric and design, and you even get to personalize the lip on your shoes. I went with "Happy Pace" to remind myself that in a moment of weakness, a friend of mine convinced me that a half marathon in January would force us continue exercising during that month long exercise void they call December. 

As I sign off this Sunday night, here is hoping that your NFL team won today, and even better success in your future shoe purchases. Signing off tonight, from the World of Cha Cha Shoes...

Incentives Part II

Some things never change...

For those of you who are like me, incentives can be a powerful thing. Whether it is starting a new project, hitting a life goal, accomplishing something in your personal life....incentives are just one way to kick start that work.

Sometimes incentives or inspiration can be as simple as fortune cookie (this was my fortune now taped to my computer). But, my real incentive...became a pair of shoes.

One might ask them self, "why the need to buy an expensive pair of shoes to get something accomplished?"

Well, each person has a different form of inspiration, and mine are shoes. No, not just any pair of shoes. These are the kind that keep you awake at night, and that get you out of bed in the morning. They are the shoes that you you slip on your way to a challenging meeting, a long day of studying or just dealing with a plain old case of the Mondays.

My rock stud shoes became my incentive to start a blog, and get writing.

The catch is these shoes remain in a box in my closet until I get through 10 blogs by the end of the month. If it doesn't happen, the shoes sadly go back to their previous home at Neiman Marcus. But, if the blogs continue...then the shoes are mine.

I mean...look at these shoes. You could rule the world in these shoes. These are kick a** and take names shoes. So, the remainder of the blogs moving forward will be about different shoe trends...where to buy shoes...when to splurge (ahem)...when to be thrifty.

So from here on out, be prepared to indulge yourself in the world of cha cha shoes.


Valentino Rockstud Patent Leather Heels at Neiman Marcus

Valentino Rockstud heels can be found here and here.

Incentives

With the start of school, I am always reminded of new clothes (I always saved my outfit for day two) and more importantly, my studies for the year. I never knew what to blame it on, but after about week 4 I had become bored with class, and wondering when the academic school year would be over. It wasn't the non-book activities that I wished flew by, but rather the grind of homework, studying and eventual finals. It was in sixth grade that I learned my first lesson of "incentives." I quickly realized that I needed an incentive to get me through those hard weeks of...well...what was really hard in sixth grade?? Regardless, I was envious of all my other friends who had their own tv in their room. Thus, my incentive for good grades was a tv in my room. 

At first, I needed a visual. A 10" x 14" box that I drew a tv face on. Laugh as you may, but that brown cardboard box taunted me every morning I woke up, and before I went to sleep. A constant reminder of that "incentive" that lay at the end of the sixth grade road.

Fast forward many years (let's not count) and I am now faced with a similar dilemma. No, not a tv...look at the pictures of my blog. Instead, the incentive became shoes. Now, if you choose to follow my blog (which I hope you do) shoes will be the centerpiece of all blogs, and there will be more than one story about using shoes as incentives. This blog..starts off with shoes as an incentive for blogging. 

I promise that this will be the longest blog without a link to my favorite pair of shoes. In the beginning, I have to lay the foundation, and then good shoe advice will follow. So, why am I starting a blog? And, why should you read it.

Sure, this blog is about shoes. But, it's more than shoes. It's about life, lust (after shoes, of course) and being able to laugh out loud. Not the LOL type..but seriously connecting to words and having that deep belly laugh. Here goes...