Not only does this girl-on-the-go love to eat, drink and be merry, she loves the endorphin rush she gains from working out. I have joined up with two other fellow Portland fitness fiends on a health and fitness facebook page called Drop And Give Us 20!
Our mission is this: We believe that balace in life work and play is what creates a healthy mind body and attitude. Because the mind leads and body follows and that is the difference between hoping and doing. The Drop and Give Me 20! girls are dedicated to a healthy life style through fitness, clean eating, positive thinking, and fun! Follow us as we strive for sky ~ we are ALLERGIC to mediocrity. Helping to motivate and inspire YOU beyond what you think. Follow us as we travel, learn, set even higher fitness goals, do a few races and have one hell of a good time along the way.
With our trip to Cabo planned and our daily sessions at the gym serving as a sweaty countdown to bikini beachwear; the idea hit us like a kettlebell ineptly swung overhead- we should take our Drop And Give Us 20 page international! If people bought the shake weight, surely they will listen to 3 fit women talking fitness on the beaches of the Sea of Cortez! So the idea was born and we ordered 300 imprinted silicone bracelets that promoted our Drop And Give Us 20 fitness page as well as my Girl On The Go PDX page.
The goal was not merely to ask hot guys to drop at our feet and do push ups while we enjoyed the view (although that was a fringe benefit and genius!) but also to promote fitness in a fun and motivational way. And it worked! We gave out bracelets to those adventuresome spirits who dropped and gave us 20! The fantastic part, aside from seeing their bewildered faces as we asked them to drop and give us 20 right there where we were standing, was how many people said they didn’t think they could push out 20 but then did- impressing both us and themselves!
Our Drop and Give Us 20 players included some of the following: the bachelor party we encountered in the lobby check-in line, the family including their 3 year old and her grandparents, the Riu Santa Fe entertainment staff who humored us daily with multiple displays of their push-up skills, club-goers that hopped up, one after the other, on top of the bar to “earn” their orange bracelet, the unsuspecting couple celebrating a milestone birthday, the ladies who powered out 20 while wearing their dresses, the already fit dudes who challenged one of our own to 20 “drop-and-release” push ups – for which she rose to the challenge and shined, the waiters around town. We loved encountering the couple at the Cabo airport that were sporting their orange bracelets!
After 5 days, 300 bracelets, 1 black-eye that required 5 stitches from a rogue banana boat participant and not an unsuccessful Drop and Give Us 20 participant. We initiated over 6,000 push-ups, taking into account all the push-ups we did to help encourage some of our more shy players. Not bad for adding some fun fitness into a vacay!
We’d like to think, even that tiny blip in their vacation, along with our orange bracelets as reminders, will inspire people to check out our facebook page and hopefully motivate and encourage them to fit fitness into their lives. We have more bracelets in stock and will be looking for our local players to Drop and Give Us 20! So look for the girls with the wrists adorned with, way more than ever fashionably acceptable, orange bracelets and if you see us before we get to you, we’ll drop and muscle out 20 with you!
