Morning, friends!

If you missed any F&F posts this week, here’s the recap:

• Sunday Sweat Talk {Unstable Surface Training}
• Life Lately {April 2014}
• Sweet Potato, Farro, and Veggie Casserole
• Hopster’s Brews and Boards

And now it’s Friday Favorites time. Enjoy!

Fitness

• For my fellow instructors: How do you handle emergency situations?
• Get your plank on: 17 plank workouts from Fitfluential Ambassadors
• Squats! Favorite squat variations
• Favorite read of the week: Something a group fitness certification won’t teach you
• Looks like a good one: AMRAP quickies workout
• No equipment necessary: 12 minute high intensity workouts

Foodie

• Helpful: Tips for making green smoothies that don’t taste green
• So obvious, but easy to forget: The truth about overreating
• Good recommendations: 10 nutrition documentaries and lectures to watch

Recipes

• Must make: Springtime strawberry lime mango crisp
• Um, yum: Raw chocolate chip cheesecake bars
• The options for quinoa are endless: 27 ways to cook with quinoa
• Great roundup for grill season: 15 healthy recipes for the grill
• I keep saying I am going to make chia pudding: Almond joy chia pudding

Inspiration

• On loving your body: Being happy with the body you have right now
• The beauty of saying no: A four word phrase that might change your life
• Embrace the untidy: The over fixing syndrome
• For a more productive and happier day: How to de-stress your to do list
• Take baby steps: What defines us is how well we rise after falling
• Good post: Breaking down excuses

Blogging and Online Stuff

• 5 good tips: Ways I’m making my blog content go viral
• On blogger guilt: So you want to take a blogging break?
• Who knew: 33 amazingly useful websites you never knew existed
• Helpful: 99 sites that every professional should know about and use

For my Boston Peeps

• I <3 roofdecks: 13 rooftops you should be hanging out on right now
• Check out this fitness for a cause fundraiser this weekend at Reebok: Cardio Kick and Barreless Barre workouts
• Stuck on something to do for Mother’s Day? How to celebrate your mom

–Let’s chat–
What were your favorite reads of the week? Any link love you’d like to spread? What was the best thing that happened this week? What’s up for the weekend?

One last thing: My friend’s roommate is doing some awesome volunteer work with Operation Touch of Home. If you know a solider stationed overseas who would appreciate a care package, please let her know via the link. She is preparing for the next care packaging event this weekend and is in need of more address referrals. Such a great cause!