Who wants to Turbo?

veganvieira

Haha. Is in insensitive to be glad I'm not alone in my issue?


Anyone else experiencing shin pain? I don't think it's shin splints as I used to get that when I played soccer and that was at the very front of my shun. This is pain in the band of muscle (I think?) directly to the inside of my shin bone. It doesn't bother me during my workouts too much it's only if I physically press on it that it really kills! If my daughter sits on my lap and hits that spot, I yelp in pain.

I had this before when I was doing competitive kickboxing. I'm thinking it's muscular.

navy_taxi

Did HIIT 25 yesterday for the first time since week 3. Oh. My. Gosh. The leap between HIIT 20 (which I quite enjoy) and HIIT 25 (which I thought was going to kill me) is huge. So many jumps. Squat jumps, air jacks, tuck jumps. Wow. I definitely have a 9 or 10 for effort but I think that intensity was probably closer to a 7 because my body simply could not do anymore. Proud of myself for putting in a solid effort at Sculpt 30 afterwards, though I have no clue how I am going to manage to do it three times next week!

Today was EZ 55. As usual, it was both fun and painful. I find that the first 20-ish minutes are the worst. Then once you make it to the fire drills you know you're over the hump and it gets easier to keep the intensity up.

Yogamama - yes, I definitely remember having sore-to-touch shins (along with the intermittent knee pain I have experienced during TF). For me, in both cases, the key is to keep my form up and make sure I am doing my jumps on a cushioned floor of some kind. I had a tendency to stop landing properly when I'd get tired which put a lot of pressure on my shins/knees so now I tell myself that if I'm going to go for that extra height in a jump I have to commit and land softly with bent legs. (For the floor I have an elaborate set-up where most of my workout is done on my yoga mat/wooden floor except for the really jump-y fire drills which I do on my folded over rug. Living in a flat = creative noise prevention!).

Good luck with the workouts (and bladder problems!) everyone x

1a1a

Helloooooo, sorry ive been mia, stressful busy working then just plain spent and a bit depressed.

Tomorrow should be a good day for eating sensibly and there will be time a plenty to turbo. Im looking forward to it (though wont be surprised if im back to scratch aching legs wise)

How are peope doing?

Dye run idea is genius :-D you get to walk away with a unique and great looking momento

veganvieira

I've been adding Les Mills Pump to my turbo routine and I'm really enjoying it. I add it on hiit/fire 30 days and I also do it instead of the sculpt video which leaves me underwhelmed.

The scale doesn't seem to want to move but that's another story. I think I need to lower my calories a touch. Sigh

Where is everyone else? I'm on week 2

navy_taxi

1a1a - sorry to hear you've not been feeling great - hope your day was as good as your optimistic post indicated it might be!

yogamama - interesting combination. I've only ever done Pump at the gym and that was a few years ago now. The Sculpt/Tone TF workouts are not my favourite but since this is my first run through of TF I thought I would give the programme a fair shot as it was intended and see what the results were. When I next come back to TF though I think I will probably do three days of heavy weight training and three days of TF (either HIIT/Fire/EZ) for cardio (and fun!).

Congrats on making it to Week 2. I really wouldn't worry about the scale at such an early stage - like most, I have found it to be such an unreliable indicator of progress. As long as you are eating quality food at a moderate calorie deficit, you are on the right track! For the first four weeks I did very little to modify my diet and made slow progress, but I have started tracking my calories since then and found the weight loss has been a lot more consistent.

Good luck!

1a1a

Yesterday never happened but HIIT 15 and Sculpt 30 today. Done. BAM! Those of you who don't break a sweat doing Sculpt, please accept heaping mounds of my envy, can I say lactic acid BUUUUUUUUURN?!!!! (Also think you can make that harder with tighter resistance bands. Maybe mine are 'heavier' than the standard issue Turbo band.

So, had a bit of an epiphany, I can video myself working out!!!!! (Using the laptop camera, which is already out in place for watching the turbo vids). Nominally tried it so I could critique my form (it Totally works for that). But now thinking we could all post vids of us working out for accountability and motivation. Like in the group class they all have each other to try and do better than but us all separated by the tyranny of distance and time zone, have to do a bit more self motivating. Anyway, anyone wants to watch mine I'll upload it, if I can get over how trashy my house looks and how much it appears I actually walk like a man. (I'm Not a man, why do I walk with so much swagger?!! o.O )

I'm still hanging out somewhere in week 2, next workout, fire 55. Planning on not prioritising working out above work, or socialising, because last time I did that it was problematic and unsustainable. But I do want to be able to come back to it after an 8 day break and jump straight back in without getting stuck on the one week like I did last time, so I'm going to work through the program linearly, just probably with more rest days than most.

*Is still watching back video of workout* OMG back is Not flat. Got to work on that!

1a1a

Totally Turboing today, Fire 55, it's been a few and I'm psyched :-D

alechua

Turbo addict here! tomorrow's gonna be my week 8 of turbofire! i love chalene!

1a1a

Bloody marvellous :-D I know right? She's an absolute gem

Fire 55 EZ done. Pretty much no stopping this time (WHOOOOOOO) but conclude I can't turbo barefoot anymore, my feet go numb, it's unpleasant.

Was looking at some people's AMAZING before and after shots doing Ripped in 30, and day dreaming about how A my fitness and stamina would be up by now if I had been turboing every day and B my shape would be changing for the better if I was on a proper deficit but ah well (she sighs), I just don't want that shape enough to go hungry and I'm too disorganised to prep good food consistently (believing if the good food is there, ready to eat, will fill up on that and not feel the need to eat over cals/do better at resisting chocolate and chips).

How's everyone else going with their eating? And are the rest of you succeeding in following the schedule properly?

navy_taxi

Congrats on getting it done both of you! 1a1a - I don't know how you can do it barefoot at all - I very much rely on the cushioning in my trainers for something with as much explosive and lateral movement as TF.

My eating has been quite up and down during TF. I didn't count calories/make a concerted effort to eat better for the first 4 weeks, and unsurprisingly only lost a couple of pounds. Since then I have been a lot more focused, tracking calories and protein levels, drinking >2l of water, etc. I've still had a few days where I completely overate but I'm also trying to recover from those more quickly. As of Friday, I had lost 17lb over the 11 weeks (with 2 workouts left for the week).

Unfortunately, this weekend was absolutely horrible for me food/exercise-wise. I have suffered with disordered eating in the past, and had something of a relapse from Friday to Sunday. However, I am determined not to beat myself up about it or obsessively focus on the scale, but will instead complete my last week of TF and take pride in having successfully made a commitment and stuck to it.

As for following the schedule, I think I've done pretty well - I missed two Stretch 40 workouts in weeks 1 & 2 (I skipped them because I thought they'd be easy/unimportant - SO wrong) and missed yesterday's workout (HIIT 25 + Sculpt 30). Today is a rest day so I could potentially make it up this evening but I am slightly concerned by the amount of knee pain I have been experiencing over the past few days. Might just do Fire 30 tonight, and then add in the missed workout at the end of the week. Meh, we'll see.

ashley0314

I did the first 4 weeks of TF back in August and loved it. Unfortuantely I got sick & never got back into it. I would love to join y'all if y'all would have me. I definitely need somebody to hold me accountable and make sure I'm doing it.

1a1a

Yeeeees, Ashley, jump in (ah ha, geddit? Jump? Cos we'll be doing lots of jumping?!! )

Mmm, trainers, may not be good for running but perhaps just the ticket for jumping. (I used to do Everything barefoot). I can't believe you're at the end, well done :-D What will you do next?

Last 3 days, no logging, no turbo, reasonable success Not being greedy with food and 2 days (tomorrow too) working manual labour job as professional roadie (haha) setting up for Bon Jovi. Although, no where near as much heavy lifting as this job normally involves, got some cushy jobs yesterday like sitting around waiting for the supervisor to tell me which buttons to press. Totally back into Turbo on friday fo shiz

1a1a

8 hours manual labour today, proper hard work, think that'll do me haha. Turbo tomorrow

1a1a

Where did everyone goooooooo?

Right, it's time, no food to digest, a few hours to spare, well rested from sleep. Go do it 1a1a!!!!!!

Aw geez, all the psyching up and it's just Core 20 stretch 40 *wonders if should do hiit instead/as well....nah.....just give Core 120%*

There will be such an awesome peanut butter and banana smoothie at the end of this, go on, chase the carrot.

1a1a

Killed it, oh jeez I cannot get all the way through those crunches with the resistance band without breaks, they burn, they BUUUUUURRRRRRRNNN

1a1a

Hope you're all still being successful with your eating and exercising.

Haven't turboed since last post because the temperature here went up into the high 30s (degrees, Celcius). I try not to use the air conditioner so this house is an oven, can't sleep, can't work, do nooooooothing, sure as hell not doing HIIT. But when it cools down.... :-)

1a1a

Finding it really hard to make this a daily thing, or even a weekly thing.

Conditions should be good to turbo tomorrow (free time, good weather)

1a1a

Fire45 today and stretch 10, really did pretty well at it, almost no stops, calves didn't start hurting until about half way through, considering how long it's been since last time, that's pretty awesome :-)

1a1a

Oh hai ghost town *cue tumble weed*.

Well, its the first day of the new year, im flat out wrecked from last night, fueled up from breakfast, just starting to hunger for lunch and ready to turbo, just have to tear myselfcaway from this awesome techno on DI FM

1a1a

Half asseyessed HIIT 25 today. Quit half way through and skipped ahead to the warm down. I'm not getting fit enough quick enough for this schedule because of all the breaks. Oh well, just have to keep trying. Even half arsed Turbo meant I burnt 200 calories today. Will try the HIIT 25 again next time.