RAMADAN SHAPE UP

Ramadan BOOT CAMP: Spiritual Fitness Of the Fast

Ramadan BOOT CAMP: Spiritual Fitness Of the Fast

Date: Sunday June 23rd, 2013 Time: 9:00 PM EST   About the Webinar: The purpose of Ramadan is far beyond simply restraining from food and drink. Ramadan is a time to recharge and renew your faith through actions. Although strengthening our Iman is a journey of highs and lows with little steps along the way. [...]

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Fasting To Acclimate To Ramadan

Fasting To Acclimate To Ramadan

    If you live a fit lifestyle then eating 5 times a day is your norm. When fasting begins it can be a shock for the system to go from eating often to fasting 16 hours a day.    The wonderful hikma of this deen and the example of the Prophet Muhammada ( saw). [...]

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Ramadan Shape Up Webinar

Ramadan Shape Up Webinar

By Mubarakah Ibrahim

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TRAINING

Facebook Ab Routine

Facebook Ab Routine

I promised an ab routine today and I am insistent to keep my word even if I am too tired to do the video myself   If you want flat abs you have to remember that you have to do 3 main things. Cardio:  No matter how strong and toned your abs are if you [...]

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Incline Curls

Incline Curls

Incline Curls Difficulty Level: Beginner Muscle Groups Worked: Biceps Equipment: Dumbbell Movement: Lie back on your stability ball at an incline bench and hold a dumbbell in each hand. Let your arms hang straight down on both sides with your palms facing in toward each other. Slowly curl the weight in your left hand as [...]

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Triceps Kickback

Triceps Kickback

Triceps Kickback Difficulty Level: Beginner Muscle Groups Worked: Triceps Equipment: Dumbbell Movement: Hold a dumbbell in one hand. Kneel on bench with the opposite knee, then lean forward from your waist and support your body weight on your free hand. Keep upper arm of weighted hand fixed to your side, and allow to bend to [...]

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Fit Food Tips

How to To Survive a Islamic Convention with Your Diet Intact

How to To Survive a Islamic Convention with Your Diet Intact

This memorial day weekend ICNA-MAS convention come to Hartford CT.  And we know that most Islamic convention gives you a healthy dose of spiritual food but a Unhealthy dose of fast foods.  Although we are grateful we are long pass the days of only having fish available from vendors  - we have “graduated” to halal hot [...]

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Recipes

Pomegranate Roasted Chicken

Pomegranate Roasted Chicken

Elevate plain old roast chicken with the addition of thyme, pomegranate seeds, and a pomegranate-juice glaze. Ingredients 1 cup pomegranate juice 3-pound whole chicken Extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 cup low-sodium chicken stock 1 tablespoon fresh thyme 1 cup pomegranate seeds Directions Heat pomegranate juice in a small saucepan [...]

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Grilled Chicken with Spinach and Whole-Wheat Couscous

Grilled Chicken with Spinach and Whole-Wheat Couscous

Moroccan flavors abound in this meal, which is both spicy and sweet.   Ingredients 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper Coarse salt 1 pound chicken cutlets 1 cup dry whole-wheat couscous 2 garlic cloves, smashed 1 teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger (from one 1/2-inch piece) 2 teaspoons safflower oil 10 ounces [...]

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Caribbean Rabbit [Guest Post]

Caribbean Rabbit [Guest Post]

My husband loves his wild game meat.  Especially in the winter.  I haven’t brought myself to enjoy the benefits of these nutritious meats (it’s totally psychological) but I don’t deny their benefits, Rabbit meats having the most.  It boast 100% of the recommended daily allowance of B12 can be found in just 3.5 ounces of rabbit [...]

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Events

HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT: A Community Health Symposium Public

HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT: A Community Health Symposium Public

  HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT: A COMMUNITY HEALTH SYMPOSIUM The 2013 Human Rights and Social Justice Lecture Series Presents:   HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT: A Community Health Symposium Date: March 30, 2013, 10am-5pm Location: The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, 3940 Broadway, New York NY 10032 GET EDUCATED, [...]

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PRIVATE ISLAND: Fit Muslimah Getaway Retreat

PRIVATE ISLAND: Fit Muslimah Getaway Retreat

From Mubarakah   PRIVATE ISLAND: Fit Muslimah Getaway Retreat Yesterday I posted about the opportunity to take off your Hijab with me on a Private Island Getaway Exclusively for Muslim women?  I got so many emails asking for the details that I was a little overwhelmed with excitement that so many of my Fit Muslimah [...]

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I’m Taking off My Hijab

I’m Taking off My Hijab

  From Mubarakah I’m Taking off My Hijab   Yeah, you read that right.  After 36 years of being Muslim and going to the beach in full hijab I am going to take it off.  Hear me out before you judge.   At our recent Summit in Bermuda I thoroughly enjoyed the soft sand between [...]

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FAT LOSS

How to Burn Fat In Your Sleep

How to Burn Fat In Your Sleep

If you want to get leaner, more toned and burn fat in your sleep then this is the most important article you will read today, maybe even this whole year. This highly effective fat incineration workout plan takes three major concepts for one of the most effective workouts for not just burning fat but incinerating it. Burning (stored) fat can be done efficiently, [...]

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What’s New For You

Double Detox Tonic Water

Double Detox Tonic Water

| January 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

I require each of my clients to start the day off with a lemon and water detox because it has been shown to be beneficial as a general detox and a way to stimulate the metabolism.  The short version of my weight loss detox is this.  The liver is the last organ in the body [...]

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Faith IS Action

Faith IS Action

| December 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Talking Out loud to myself: You gotta worry or you gotta pray but you can’t do both. I choose to pray but prayer doesn’t mean we do not take action. Prayer is not simply a word or a thought prayer is taking action with the consciousness that the fruit of that action is the grace [...]

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Eating Winter Away

Eating Winter Away

| November 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

  Seasonal depression happens when the days get shorter and we get less sun. The craving for sweets could be your body trying to get serotonin, the “feel good” hormone. When your brain produces enough of it, serotonin can help you feel calm, confident and happy. Sunshine stimulates our brains to produce plenty of serotonin, [...]

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Part 2: Why I as Muslim American with Native American Blood “celebrate” Thanksgiving.

Part 2: Why I as Muslim American with Native American Blood “celebrate” Thanksgiving.

| November 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

Part 2 of 2 My Religious point of view: Many Muslims have special objection to Muslims celebrating Thanksgiving. Some with the view that it is “bida” (an innovation). First let’s deal with the issue of the holiday being “Bida”.  I will go on record to say I am not a scholar and my Islamic understanding [...]

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Part 1: Why I as Muslim American with Native American Blood “celebrate” Thanksgiving.

Part 1: Why I as Muslim American with Native American Blood “celebrate” Thanksgiving.

| November 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

Part 1 of 2 This year I have more Facebook friends than I have ever had.  As an admitted Facebook addict, I am proud of that.  But that means I take the good with the bad.  I have seen so many posts of gratitude and thanks for family, friends, and life. And, It seems this [...]

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