Travel Tuesday: An Hour-by-Hour Guide to a Day in Monterey

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An Hour-by-Hour Guide to a Day in Monterey

Just an hour and a half away from San Francisco and San Jose, nestled along the coast, lies a stunning California beach town called Monterey. Monterey is the perfect place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city living and get in touch with nature, animals, and yourself. Unwind, turn off the electronics, and enjoy this little big town and all it has to offer.

7 a.m.: Since the drive is more than an hour away, head out early so you can make the most of your day and beat the traffic. If you don’t have a car, a car share program might be your best bet, as you’ll want to get around once you’ve arrived in Monterey.

8:30 a.m.: Head straight to the Red House Cafe in downtown Pacific Grove and order a filling breakfast in this beautiful and charming little red house on the corner. It’s so cute and quaint, you’ll feel like you’re at your grandparents’ house eating a meal.

9:30 a.m.: After breakfast, head to nearby Asilomar State Beach to walk off your meal and breathe in those cool ocean breezes as the waves come crashing in. You might just spot some whales in the distance, as well as seals and sea otters on the shore. As you walk along this gorgeous beach, keep an eye out for tidepools and the curiosities that lie within. If you’re looking for an outdoor adventure, take a 5-minute drive to the Lover’s Point State Marine Reserve to walk along this lovely little beach, rent a bike, go kayaking, or maybe even try surfing.

11:00 a.m.: Next, head to nearby Cannery Row to do some shopping and find yourself a souvenir, some jewelry, or just take in the sights as you snap some photos for the ‘gram. You can walk the entire row to check out where you’ll be eating because lunch is next.

12:00 p.m.: There are lots of delicious restaurants on Cannery Row, and you’ll find just about anything you could want here. If you’re looking for a big menu with local brew, head to the Cannery Row Brewing Company where they have 70 beers on tap, or trek to Hula’s Island Grill for some yummy Hawaiian/Polynesian food. And, of course, they have numerous seafood restaurants by the bay.

 

1:30 p.m.: After your lunch, stay in Cannery Row and head to the most infamous Monterey destination: the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Yes, it may be a bit (or a lot) touristy, but it’s worth braving the crowds to see what new exhibits they have.  You can easily spend the entire afternoon here (we won’t tell if you do)! There’s something magical about this place that will make you feel like a kid again.  

Pro tip: Skip the line by purchasing your tickets online before you go. They also offer some generous discounts so be sure to research beforehand. Lastly, if you get hungry, they have a pretty awesome cafeteria/cafe with delicious, sustainable food.

3:30 p.m.: Next, head to nearby Pacific Grove to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary where hundreds, if not thousands, of majestic monarch butterflies can be seen. They have specific times throughout the year when they can be seen the most, so I’d check their website for the best time of the year for viewings.

4:30 p.m.: Since you’re in Pacific Grove, hit the road and take the historic 17-mile drive. Take your time on the drive because you’ll pass many vista points where you’ll want to remember the views by snapping some photos.

5:30 p.m.: At the end of your drive, you’ll end up at the gorgeous Pebble Beach Golf Course. Stay for the sunset at the 18th hole, then have a drink inside the Tap Room at the legendary 19th hole. If you’re ready for dinner, the Tap Room serves a five-star dinner. They have an all-American menu, so you can choose from the sauteed Sand Dabs to the Kobe Brie Burger or even the Prime Rib. Yum!

Pro tip: “Resort attire” is required for the Tap Room, so you may want to keep an extra set of clothes in the car if you’ve been walking around in jean shorts and flip flops all day.

7:00 p.m.: After dinner and a few drinks, take a cab or Uber to Alvarado Street near Cannery Row and let loose. Here you’ll find many bars over a 13-block span that offer karaoke, live music, comedy, and more.

9:00 p.m.: Since Monterey is known for their stunning scenery, it’s time to make your way up to the rooftop of Hotel 1110 for one last breathtaking view of the Monterey Bay. The rooftop is open to the public, so you don’t have to be a guest to enjoy the panoramic views. If you’re looking to end your day in the best possible way, I suggest any of their tropical cocktails. Enjoy your drink by the fire and under the string of Italian lights.

10:30 p.m.: Sadly, it’s time to head home. If you can, I highly suggest staying the night, and why not keep the fun going and stay in one of Hotel 1110’s 17 rooms? If it’s time to get back to the Bay Area, have your DD take you back, but don’t worry — there’s always next weekend!

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  1. The glutes’ primary role is helping to drive the
    hips forward to increase the hip joint when flexed. There’s a cause back squats are the #1 glute workout
    on our record — they provide a killer burn for the butt muscle tissue
    in a method that can’t get replaced by some other weighted exercise.
    If you’re on a mission to add size and power to your glutes, hip thrusts
    can get you there with consistency and correct type.
    Nevertheless, most individuals find them too straightforward to be effective or lean back to make pumping out a lot of reps in time to music
    more manageable. Focusing On gluteus minimus and medius, utilizing a mini band and a wall eliminates each
    of those points to make clamshells much more difficult and productive.

    Additionally, as a result of deadlifts are exceptionally fatiguing, we don’t
    suggest beginning with any more than one deadlift session per week and never working up to more than two
    at most for most individuals. When setting up
    a weekly coaching plan, it’s most likely
    a good suggestion to coach the heavy ranges earlier than the lighter ranges.

    Because each forms of training cause fatigue, they all
    intrude with each other to some extent. Nevertheless,
    the muscle and connective tissue harm from heavier
    coaching is probably going extra substantial and presents a higher risk of injury if some injury already exists from earlier coaching.
    On the other hand, if you’re pre-damaged from a lot of units of on Monday,
    going even heavier in such a state on Wednesday within the 5-10 range is a
    bit more likely to end in harm. Analysis has additionally shown that glute activation exercises before a exercise can increase muscle
    firing and improve efficiency whereas reducing the chance of damage.

    That’s as a end result of the faster you walk, the tougher your muscle tissue need to work.
    Walking has been discovered to increase cardio fitness, decrease body fat, and scale
    back blood pressure in sedentary adults, in accordance with a 2023 examine in GeroScience.
    The review additionally discovered that people who
    live in Blue Zones, regions of the world where folks tend to live the longest, do low-impact actions (like walking) frequently.
    At the identical time, they see durations of high depth, even on a typical day, during
    activities like strolling up the stairs swiftly
    or jumping ahead to catch the door.
    This basically signifies that, generally, these with probably the most developed glutes are also the strongest, says
    Contreras. “Until you have been born with wonderful glute genetics, the one way to get your glutes significantly shapelier and rounder is to get very strong at one of the best glute exercises.” It will not be as popular as the again squat,
    but you actually shouldn’t hit snooze on the entrance squat.
    Yes, you won’t be ready to raise as heavy, and the entrance rack loading takes a little
    bit of getting used to, but front squats are an train you ought to be including in your glute workout.
    Utilizing a (light!) mini resistance band during your glute warm-up helps to prime the muscle
    tissue earlier than your main glute exercise.

    The hip thrust is a quality exercise to focus on the glute
    max, and introducing a band lets you goal the glute medius and minimus too.
    As you push out against the band, you’ll call upon the side glutes to contract to
    externally rotate the hips. This pushing in opposition to the band
    all through the range of movement will get the facet glutes on hearth, serving to to promote aspect glute development.
    Some of the best workout routines to train the upper glutes also work other
    muscular tissues in the decrease body, together with the
    quadriceps and hamstrings. Clamshells and fire hydrants are
    two wonderful glute isolation workout routines that might be accomplished with body weight
    or with added resistance. We advocate adding a band to those exercises to
    work the muscular tissues extra to construct power and muscle.
    We grouped these workout routines collectively as they give consideration to exterior hip rotation and are great
    for isolating the glutes.
    “If you’re just starting out, consider useful day-to-day functions to train your gluteus maximus, like opting for the steps over escalators,”
    Katie says. If you want to interrupt up your exercises by physique half, you might dedicate
    two days every week to your glutes, Katie says. Otherwise, incorporate a couple of of the exercises above into your
    regular full-body routine. Purpose for three units of
    eight to 12 reps of any glute train, in accordance with the NASM.
    Some of the most traditional lower-body strikes goal your glute max (not to say
    your gluteus medius and minimus).
    For the Kickbacks, place your foot in a band over
    a pull-up bar, carry your hip, and push against the band, extending your leg behind whereas keeping your toes down. As mentioned above, it
    additionally is dependent upon whether you’re performing compound lifts that
    also activate the glutes. Each time you say “glutes,” you’re most likely
    thinking of this one since it’s essentially the primary
    butt muscle. Guys, the better you understand the glute major muscle group,
    the stronger your mind-to-muscle hyperlink.
    This implies that you’ll be in a position to obtain higher
    glute muscle activation. Then I will give you all the glute exercises you’ll need,
    no matter what sort of exercise tools you’ve.
    This will practice your glutes whereas taking away any
    contribution from the other leg. Use a load
    if wanted but increase the box peak first when you’re able.

    Hip hyperextension is the last type of train that can be utilized
    to hit the glutes. Hyperextension is when you move your hips forward previous being extended.

    This is why it is mainly impossible to truly have a pushing leg day or pulling leg
    day as you train everything with lower physique compound exercises.
    We’re now going to go over a few of the basic functions of the glutes.

    Dumbbells’ glute exercises are simple to do and
    since dumbbells’ are so accessible, they are often carried out practically anyplace.
    There’s numerous variations of every exercise and a lot of could be carried out with barbells too.
    Next, lifters will open their legs away from the physique, which is recognized as abduction. Lifters
    ought to try to interact in full range of motion earlier than bringing the legs again in the path of midline.

    First, sit on a hip abduction machine with the toes resting on the footplate, knees resting towards
    the pads, and palms placed on the handles located on the
    sides of the machine. Next, flex the hips in order that the chest is parallel-ish to the
    ground preserving a tight core. From this position, lift the leg straight back,
    keeping the knees slightly bent.
    The lunge will target both the quads and glutes, as both knee and hip involvement is
    required. This doesn’t mean nonetheless, we cannot enhance the bias towards one or the opposite.
    If you lunge forward after which drive the bottom away back to your beginning position, this might be more quads.
    Because the knee is having to do the majority of the work to extend
    the knee and drive your self again up. For the best results in glute muscle improvement, add a further,
    glute-intensive exercise day. Sprinting is a powerful exercise that requires unimaginable strength.
    Introducing sprinting, which can be called “fartlek coaching,” into
    your routine might help build up your glute power.

    Side plank abductions come out on high with 103% MVIC, and single leg squats are the subsequent best with
    82% MVIC . What muscle tissue do you wish to work to get all these
    benefits, exactly? We simply went over one of the best workout routines and coaching variables to assist you grow some
    critical glutes. As Quickly As you start strengthening your glutes,
    you will love seeing how it improves the performance of every other lift 
    you do. The gluteus medius sits beneath the
    gluteus maximus and is situated on the outer area of the upper hips.
    Its unique function is hip abduction, which permits it to act as a critical stabilizer.
    The gluteal muscle group incorporates three totally different muscle tissue, the gluteus maximus, medius, and
    minimus, which work in unison but additionally independently.

    The gluteus medius sits above the maximus on the outer shelf of
    the pelvis. The gluteus minimus, in the meantime, is the smallest
    of the three butt muscles. Like the glute bridge, the
    single-leg glute bridge is an train that requires
    no tools, but on this variation, you’re employed one leg at a time.
    This makes the exercise considerably tougher and in addition challenges your stabilizing glute muscle tissue,
    such because the gluteus minimus and medius. The single-leg Romanian deadlift offers an efficient way to train your glute muscle tissue
    without utilizing heavy weight. This may be useful in a
    rehabilitation part or when doing leg exercises at residence.

    Plus, after you utilize these for a while, you received’t need an excuse or be convinced
    to strive one. These use hyperextension to isolate your glute muscle tissue,
    and you’ll definitely really feel it. Entrance carries are one other carry to work the glute
    muscles functionally. Carrying the load in entrance
    will trigger your torso to lean forward.
    The primary ways to vary the appearance of your butt is by focusing on either
    the muscle or fats elements of the buttocks, or each.
    Many butt-enhancing surgical procedures work by altering the fat distribution in the
    buttocks to give a nicer form. Butt-enhancing pills supposedly goal the fat and muscle layers as nicely to extend
    the dimensions of buttocks. Coaching this muscle will do wonders for the finest way your butt appears.
    Stronger muscle tissue naturally have to be larger, and a larger gluteus
    maximus will give you a rounder and extra shapely butt.
    Consistency in your exercise routine, along with a balanced food plan and hydration, also can greatly increase your chances of tightening
    and toning that saggy underbutt over time.
    Whereas doing each rep, give attention to the contraction of your
    glutes during these exercises to work the decrease glutes effectively.

    Maybe the one movement in which it is not the first mover is hip flexion, yet it
    nonetheless performs a pivotal position in stability throughout this motion.
    Second, you want the step-up as a result of it is carried out
    on one leg, AKA unilaterally. The apparent assumption is that this creates extra activation as one leg is liable for lifting the complete body.

    With your toes flat on the ground and spread hip-width aside, drop
    your glutes slowly towards the bottom. Lift your hips back up slowly and squeeze the muscles on the top of
    the movement. You can hold weights or a weighted bag on your hips to add extra resistance.

    Nonetheless, like all muscles, your glutes need time to get well, particularly
    after an intense exercise. How do you identify what coaching frequency is suitable for
    you? You can start by coaching your glutes at per-session MEV volumes.

    In addition to your glutes, the curtsy lunge also recruits your quadriceps,
    calves, and hip adductors. If you are in the market for resistance bands, explore which option may be best for you.

    Whereas lunges are an excellent transfer for the glutes and thighs, you
    may wish to keep away from the move if it aggravates any knee
    problems. Relaxation and restoration are equally important,
    including getting sufficient sleep and scheduling relaxation days for muscle repair.
    Unfortunately, there is not a single golden butt train, however there are a quantity of
    that stand out as being the simplest. And like any other muscle, you should prepare it properly and practice it often to take
    care of that stage of activation. On the floor, place
    your self on all fours, then lengthen one leg fully behind you and raise it up in path of the ceiling.

    This is the general suggestion for any muscle as it capitalizes on the muscle restoration process.
    After a workout, it takes 2-3 days in your muscle to completely get
    well. To develop, your muscle tissue need to break down from stress after which
    get well.
    When they get well, they may rebuild somewhat bit bigger and stronger.

    They want this strength because of their multiple roles in physique movement.
    In actuality, a lot of the movements you do rely on your glutes in some fashion.
    However (butt?), you’re working the muscular tissues barely differently because of the change within the loading course.
    The gluteus medius and minimus are partly lined by the gluteus maximus and are positioned extra
    to the edges. They stabilize our pelvis once we stand on one foot or do single-leg workout routines and actions like
    strolling, working, and climbing a stair. If you don’t have entry to a
    small, looped resistance band, the aspect mendacity leg lifts are another way to
    make use of abduction to focus on your gluteus medius and minimus.

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