Update: More Freebies!

Starting August 1, 2010: 

Freebies to be offered twice per month!

Due to the tremendous response from top Brands that strive to make our so much easier and healthier...we will be offering Freebies/Give Aways on the 1st and 15th of every month! Get your fit on!

Interested Brands who want to offer Give Aways for our www.kiana.com viewers: email info@kiana.com

Kiana's Core Exercise Tricks

I love tips and tricks that can easily be done throughout the day. Better yet, here are my favorite tricks to do while you are working out. It doesn't require any more time, but will give you faster results.  Since you are "changing up" your regular exercises and routines, you are making your core work harder and more efficiently.

Motivating millions around the world!

Focus on each and every exercise you are doing. Visualize your muscles literally contracting and releasing with every rep. Concentrate on feeling the muscles work from your "nose to your toes."

Close your eyes when you do abdominal floor or fitness ball exercises. Visualize your abs contract and release and focus on your abs doing all the work-not your arms.

Hold a heavier dumbbell in one hand when doing strength training exercises like side raises, shoulder presses and biceps curls. The instability will naturally cause your mid section and core to work harder to keep your body balanced.

Perform standing exercises on 1 leg as opposed to both legs. Maintaining your balance will strengthen the muscles in your calves, hamstrings, glutes and abs more so than with both feet on the ground.

Bikini Photographs of Kiana

This is in response to thousands of Google Searches for Sexy Bikini Swimsuit Photographs of Kiana. Enjoy!

Professional Photographers - Opportunity

*Attention Professional Photographers

We are currently interviewing professional photographers to photograph Kiana for her website and press materials that will go out to all major television networks. 

Selected photographers will have the photographs they take of Kiana featured exclusively in the opening montage of Kiana.com for 3 months and then in a permanent link on the "links page" after the 3 months, a link to their website, recommendation by Kiana and photography credit on all photographs used in press materials that will go to major television networks, sponsors, ad agencies and many Fortune 500 clients. This is a great opportunity to have your work enjoyed by millions worldwide and reach potential clients and customers. 

Serious inquiries and professional photographers only. Interested photographers email: steve@kiana.com.

Kiana's Motorcycle: Custom Leopard Harley Davidson Motorcycle

This post is in response to the thousands of Google searches for "Kiana's Motorcycle."  This is my 1st baby. I love, love, love my motorcycle. Just haven't had much time to ride her lately.  My Harley and I were featured on Steel Dreams TV and Hot Bike Magazine and countless interviews and TV spots!

Here are the details:

2002 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail
My Kiana Fitness logo on the side of the gas tank, dragon tattoo, I had it painted leopard print of an exact copy of one of my favorite leopard skin blankets I bought in New York- after I had my first meeting with ESPN, Custom leopard paint by Al Martinez (Celeb vehicle painter).  Details: Vance and Hines pipes that sound like a loud tiger growl, billet Chrome Bikini Bra Gas Cap, Custom leather seats with Dragon inlayed in ostrich, Miss Kitty kickstand with fishnet/handcuff/pump, Mud Flap girl shift linkage, Eyelash rear view mirrors...much more.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures:

Parsley Pesto Grilled Shrimp

We love summer! We barbecue a few times per week and enjoy healthy food, relaxing music and time with our family.  We love hanging out in the back yard, looking at the blue sparkling ocean, feeling the warm breeze and relaxing in the shade of the palm trees.

Here is one of my favorite Grilled Shrimp recipes. As you know, I love recipes that are simple to prepare, require a minimum of high quality ingredients, that are easy to clean up. This Parsley Pesto sauce is so easy to make and you can store the extra in the refrig for up to a week! Enjoy!

Parsley Pesto Shrimp


1 lb. shrimp: rinsed and deveined
2 cups parsley
2 cups mint leaves: packed down to measure
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 Tbs. lime juice
1 cup pumpkin seeds aka pepitas: toasted (save 1/4 cup for your salad topper!)
2 cloves chopped garlic
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1 cup extra virgin olive oil

Directions:
Combine all ingredients (except oil) into food processor or high speed blender.  Pulsate on high until finely chopped.  With food processor or blender running, slowly pour olive oil into the mixture.

Skewer shrimp, brush with olive oil and grill. Use medium/high heat until the shrimp changes from transparent/gray tone to opaque.  Appx. 2 minutes per side. Brush with Parsley Pesto. Serves 4.

Tip: Serve with crunchy romaine salad topped with pepitas (pumpkin seeds), brown rice and steamed asparagus.

Nutrition: Shrimp is high in protein, low in fat and calories. It is a good source of vitamin b12 and zinc.

Opposing Muscle Groups

Here is your weekly workout! It's an Opposing Muscle Groups workout routine that I've led for years on Kiana's Flex Appeal. Do 10-15 reps. of each exercise, proper form, move from one exercise immediately to the next.


Exercises:


Full body dips
Pull ups

Incline dumbbell chest press
Bent over barbell rows

Cable chest flys
Seated rows

Turkey Surprise

Here is one of my favorite recipes! I make this every week and keep it in the refrigerator to add to lettuce wraps, in taco shells, in pita bread, put on pizza, or stuff bell peppers.  It's great for lunches and to put in air tight containers to enjoy with baked tortilla chips for lunch on the go. I love topping it with hot sauce, low sodium soy sauce or amino soy sauce.  You can use as much or as little of the ground turkey, brown rice, black beans or corn as you like.  You don't need to measure. I like extra turkey and veggies in ours. Enjoy!

Turkey Surprise:


Ingredients:
1 package extra lean ground turkey
1 red or green bell pepper
small diced onion or chopped garlic
1/2 cup frozen peas, frozen asparagus or any fresh veggies you like
1 can black beans
1 can corn kernels
low sodium soy sauce or amino soy
salt & pepper
brown rice-prepared according to package instructions

Directions:
Heat 1 tsp. oil in pan, add onion and garlic until brown.  Add ground turkey to pan and brown.  When brown, turn down heat and add diced bell pepper, frozen peas (or asparagus, broccoli...)corn, black beans, salt, pepper.  Fold in brown rice.

Tofu Protein Shake

We all know protein is a necessity for building lean muscle. I love TOFU. I will often add it to stir fry dishes to add variety, texture and protein with noodles and veggies. You find it in the grocery store in the cheese dept.

What is TOFU?

Being of part Chinese decent, I grew up eating tofu. It is made of soy beans and is also called bean curd. The taste is very mild and you can use it in place of meat or eggs and add it to puddings and protein shakes!   There are different "firmness" to buy: extra firm: (for sandwiches or stir fry), firm: for eggs, silken: for puddings or shakes. Hope you enjoy it like I do!

Try adding TOFU to your protein shakes, it's an easy way to add variety and extra protein to your shakes! Because it really doesn't have a definite flavor, you can add it to every type of protein shake from fruit to chocolate.

Each 1/2 cup serving of tofu has:
10g protein - wow!
2g carbs
5g fat
1g sugar
88 calories

New Kiana Items!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July Weekend~ I wore a few of my new Active wear tops-they are so cute, comfy and fit! Wanted you to be the first to see them! Be quick to order your colors and sizes, last time they sold out fast! Enjoy! XO Kiana