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Feb 18 2015

Let’s start juicing!

Here’s to Wednesday and feel good juices! Today’s masterpiece is called KIWI KALE HEAVEN! It may not appear very appealing, but I can assure you that it tastes just delicious. Right amount of kiwi is balancing out kale’s just slightly bitter taste and lemon to make it fresh and tasty. Yammmmm!

As I prefer not following specific recipes, here are the ingredients:

2 kiwis

kale (a good handful)

4 small apples

1 lemon

1 small piece of ginger

Kiwis contain fiber, vitamin C, A, E and K, iron, potassium, folate, copper, choline, magnesium and phosphorus. They are known for maintaining healthy skin tone and texture, reducing blood pressure and preventing heart disease and stroke.

Kale contains vitamin A, C and K, copper, potassium, iron, magnesium and phosphorus. They are known for improving blood glucose control in diabetics, lowering the risk of cancer, lowering blood pressure, improving bone health, lowering the risk of developing asthma.

Apples contain dietary fibre, magnesium, potassium, iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, K, B, riboflavin and thiamin. They are known for improving neurological health, preventing dementia, reducing the rick of stroke and diabetes, lowering cholesterol and fighting against breast cancer.

Lemon contains fiber vitamin C and B-6, thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper and manganese. It’s know for lowering stroke risk, combating cancer, maintaining a healthy complexion, preventing asthma, increasing iron absorption and boosting the immune system.

Ginger is known for fighting against inflammation of the colon, muscle pain caused by exercise, nausea caused by chemotherapy, ovarian cancer, asthma symptoms, liver damage caused by acetaminophen, high blood pressure, painful menstruation and migraines.

So if that looks appealing to you, get your ingredients and let’s start juicing!

Love E

Feb 11 2015

Let’s start juicing!

So I’m finally reacting to many requests from my ever so demanding customers and as such I have decided to occasionally blog about different types of juices I’m rewarding myself with to stay healthy and fit (perhaps some recipe ideas in the future also)!

Here is my BEETROOT STRAWBERRY HEAVEN! Overall I am super happy with the taste of this beautiful juice. Just a right amount of beetroot so it won’t take over your tastebuds and a tad of strawberries to add a bit of sweetness.

1 medium size beetroot

5 strawberries

4 small apples

1 carrot

1 lemon

1 small piece of ginger

Beetroot contains potassium, magnesium, iron, vitamins A, B6 and C, folic acid, antioxidants and soluble fibre. It’s know for blood pressure management and some studies suggest that it may be able to fight the progression of dementia.

Strawberries contain dietary fibre, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, vitamin C and A and folic acid. They are known for working against heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Carrots contain calcium, iron, beta-carotene, fiber, vitamin A, C, K, potassium, folate, manganese, phosphorous, magnesium, vitamin E and zinc. They are know for reducing cancer and cardiovascular disease risks, also restoring vision.

Lemon contains fiber, vitamin C and B-6, thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, copper and manganese. It’s know for lowering stroke risk, combating cancer, maintaining a healthy complexion, preventing asthma, increasing iron absorption and boosting the immune system.

So if that looks appealing to you, get your ingredients and let’s start juicing!

Love E

Feb 06 2015

Glam vs Cheerleaders

I am extremely happy to be blogging about our next dance and fitness event, which will be held in Liffey Trust Centre on the 21st of March and this time with me and Nike Master Trainer Sandra Raju from Estonia.

We’ve decided to make our event slightly different this time and on top our good old Reggaeton adding a serious workout from Nike called Nike Training Club as well as combining the one and only Glam – with Cheerleaders Dance. You are probably wondering, what the hell is this? Well stop wondering and book your place to find out! A beautiful opportunity to spend the Saturday afternoon full of dance and fitness and get motivated and inspired with me and Sandra!

For those, who haven’t yet had an opportunity to take Reggaeton classes with me, take a look at the video below to see what it’s all about and look no further than joining our event on the 21st of March.

Now… Meet the next rising fitness star and Nike Master Trainer Sandra Raju from Estonia.

With over 8 years of professional coaching experience in dance and fitness areas, Sandra’s work varies from coaching, motivating and inspiring people from all levels of fitness and different sporting backgrounds. She has been co-coaching and managing the best cheerleading team (TTÜ Tantsutüdrukud/TUT Cheerleaders) in Estonia and Baltics for 7 years and as she likes to call it – her hobby is her work is her hobby. Her training style is Functional Training because she believes that challenging the whole body will get results the fastest, and help develop everyday strength to live a healthy life. Her main goal as a trainer is to provide safe and effective classes/programs that are challenging enough to make you a standout in your everyday life, sport or training, and enjoyable enough to keep you coming back for more. Sandra is a Nike Master Trainer for Baltic countries and will be spreading the word about NTC wherever and whenever she can. ”There are seven days in a week and ‘someday’ isn’t one of them. If you love what you do and do what you believe in, then the rest will just come together naturally. Just get up and start doing!”

So you are wondering what exactly is NTC? Here is a short description to put your mind at ease. Nike Training Club is a full body training created for women by world-class trainers and specially designed for You to Make Yourself whatever you want to be. NTC gives you the opportunity to train like a Pro with workouts created by and for the biggest sports stars today like Serena Williams, Gabby Douglas, Maria Sharapova, Marie Purvis, Alex Morgan, Paula Radcliffe and so on. It focuses strongly on functional training and how human body is supposed move and work naturally. In NTC class, your trainer will be your best friend and your biggest enemy – both at the same time but trust us – you’ll ask for more!

Here is a video from Sandra’s NTC class on Võru Aeroobika Õhtu in December just gone demonstrating extremely well what lies ahead of you.

And to sum up this Saturday afternoon me and Sandra will be surprising you with a different type of dance class. Want to find out what it is? Join our event to see what we have planned for you!

Love Erle & Sandra

Nov 19 2014

Dublin Autumn Day 2014 second half…

So I managed to upload final videos from Dublin Autumn Day yesterday, but decided to share them only today as I already posted something yesterday yet my fantastic students, who somehow (I think YouTube notifies them ;-)) got a sniff of them, already managed to share them with you.

Anyway, here are the links for my Reggaeton and our pumping team class.

Reggaeton Erle Liivak

GlamDance Erle & Cristian

And I gotta share this one… Fantastic way to wrap up our event! Thank you Dorota for baking that little piece of heaven and thank you Aga for decorating it!

Here are a series of group photos and the more you look the funnier they get

Cristian, Monika, me & Elena posing away

The 2 who always make me smile Justyna & Monika, you are fantastic!

Thank you for reading my blog and watch out for my next one!

Love E

Nov 18 2014

Festive Season Special Edition – Heels Are The Girl’s Best Friends

As promised here is the info about festive season special edition – Heels Are The Girl’s Best Friends with me and Justyna.

Why join our event? Because not only that you have a chance to dance into nice latin rhythms, but also it is a perfect opportunity to get comfortable in heels so that once Christmas parties knock on the door, you can party nonstop without feeling uncomfortable or perhaps even put some sexy moves on.

So check your calendar and block out Sunday the 7th of December from 2-5pm.

Location:

The Liffey Trust Centre

North Wall

Dublin 1

Timetable:

2pm – Zumba® Party Justyna Mikolajczyk

3pm – Reggaeton Erle Liivak

4pm – Heels Are The Girl’s Best Friends Justyna & Erle

Price: Adult €30; Student €15

Registration:

Erle Liivak