Cathe Fans Part 5

fitzfour

Hi Ladies, Happy Monday!

When you get a chance, message me your email addresses. I got Thelma's, just need the rest and I'll get a video chat set up for us

It was a decent weekend here, so we were able to get outside for walks and outdoor time both days. We had couple stop by that we normally hang out with and we were able to chat with them while they stood at the end of our driveway by their car and we were at the top. Definitely more than 6 feet and it felt good to see other people in person! They had some items at their house that my son left there (outdoor hockey nets and equipment) so they dropped them off outside in our yard for us and said hello. I saw that a few of you mentioned how many cases are in your county of COVID so I thought I'd look more to see if I could find them for us. We are over 60 total cases in our county out of a total of around 425,000 people. No idea where in our county they are, but it's creeping up there.

I did KCM Shape Up Saturday and Strong and Lean (Lean) on Sunday. I'm going to have to actually set up a KCM/Cathe rotation soon, as I keep going by what I feel like doing that day, but I can't remember what I've done and not anymore!

Thelma, what a special yoga flow session dedicated to your uncle! That had to be so incredibly special! I'm happy to hear he's remaining stable! Good job getting in some meditation and nice calming and relaxing workouts. Those do wonders for the soul! I've noticed a lot more people out for walks around here so we are also running into more neighbors. They are all keeping their distance, so I feel ok about it. Until they tell us we can't be outside, I'm trying to get outside each day for my mental sanity! I did pre-order the Cathe DVD's, just wondering if/when they will film. Maybe she'll do them solo?? The boys are doing online schooling and it's going well. They are starting to get bored and really want to see their friends, but I fear it will be awhile. They were saying on the news the other night that this is hardest for teenagers because they are in their prime "socialization" phase. I believe it!

Tami, glad to hear your workplace is getting everyone prepared for work from home, if needed. It's not easy to do if you're not used to it, but it does end up working it's way out. I hope you had nice weather so you could get out and enjoy it. I sure love my at home workouts, but right now I'm craving anything outdoors as it's the closest I'm getting to being out "in public"

Laurie, yay on the quilt...you'll have to post a pic when you're done! I like your weekends for crafts and weekdays for workouts/work. Sounds like a perfect mix! I did the 22 min hard corps workouts for awhile, and they are nice, quick and straightforward. They also give that great endorphin rush as well. I hope you are getting some of this warmer weather headed you way...60 today, 70 tomorrow. I'm excited!

Hi Laurel!

Have a great Monday!!

Erika

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! We had a quiet weekend and some wonderful weather. DH ‘had’ to go to Lowe’s on Saturday, which didn’t make me happy. I am hoping that his last trip there for a very long time. I don’t like telling him what to do, but he is endangering me too.....so I just might have to. Yesterday he worked part of the day at work while I cleaned the house. Like Laurie, I don’t think my house has ever been this clean. But with DH in and out of the house, I am disinfecting everything everyday. Not my hobby of choice, unfortunately. Hopefully DH’s work requirements will end this week and we can stay at home for the duration. I am looking forward to that if it means not disinfecting DH and the house every day.

For workouts, on Saturday I did a fun Peloton class called Cardio Dance Party. It was much like Shaun T.’s CIZE workouts, but only 20 minutes long....and served as a great warm up for yoga. So I followed it with a 45 minute yoga session with Kristin McGee. Yesterday was Cathe Live Give Me More Legs and Core followed by a 30 minute HiiT ride with Peloton. Today was Slow and Heavy Chest and Back followed by IMAX4 and Step Boss Abs 2.

Erika, glad you are getting out every day. I do the same thing, even if it means just sitting on the deck for an hour. It definitely makes me feel like I am a part of the world and not living in a cage. When I sent DH out on Friday, I kept telling him to be careful.....like the virus was going to attack him in the parking lot or something. Like I said, he is very patient with me but doesn’t quite share my heightened concern levels. Don’t get me wrong, he is being careful. But he just isn’t living in fear. I kind of admire that even though I can’t really emulate that yet. Hopefully I will get to that point too.

Tami, great workouts. I so hope you are home and feeling safer right now. A sick co-worker probably would have sent me over the edge. Hopefully you feel less stress at home. I know I will once DH stops going out.

Thelma, great workouts! Your Friday meditation workout sounds wonderful. I listened to the speech that Queen Elizabeth recorded yesterday about this whole situation, and she encouraged reflection and meditation, which I thought was wonderful. I am happy to hear your uncle is holding on and fighting this virus. I hope the news today is even better but can’t help but think that his improving again is so wonderful and so hopeful. Glad you were able to get out and enjoy the wonderful weather this weekend. I know it was near perfect weather here. We have a lot of cases in our county. Our population is about 360,000 and we have about 150 cases. I know some of those cases are centered around the Army base and then, predictably, because we have two colleges/universities here, Spring Break and those who went to the beach brought back quite a few sick people. Makes me angry. I am so glad the governor finally issued the Stay at Home order. It didn’t change much of anything in terms of what businesses are open or closed, but here in our county at least, the police were out citing groups of mostly young people for not adhering to the social distancing guidelines. So, since young people are one of the reasons our case levels are so high, I think that may be a very good thing in the long run. At least I hope. Regarding the rotation, I must have been getting tired when I was finishing writing down the rotation because, boy, is that a mess or what! Sorry about that. Anyhow, yes, I meant it to be Lean Legs and Abs. And then, with regard to the PHA workouts, I meant to say to choose from S&S PHA, LITE PHA 2, Step Boss PHA 3 and Flex Train for that Friday workout in the Slow and Heavy/Body Beast Tempo weeks. Hope that makes more sense!

Laurie, glad to hear you had sunshine and a good time making progress on your quilt this weekend. I like the sound of the Hard Corps workouts. It has been so long since I have worked out with Tony Horton. I miss him. DH indicated they were taking good precautions in all the stores he was in on Friday and Saturday including plexiglass, controlled entries, and even in Lowe’s they were routing people in certain directions through the busiest part of the store (the garden section). Even with that, I think I will opt for grocery delivery in two weeks and then play it by ear after that.

Until tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were BB Build Legs and walking. My legs were too fatigued to do any kind of HIIT training. I am loving the BB workouts. It feels like years since we last did them.

We had a beautiful, sunny day today.

My uncle improved a little bit yesterday and is doing well on the reduced oxygen. Tomorrow will be a big day for him. The doctors are going to wake him a little to see if he can breathe on his own because he's been sedated for too long. The doctor told my aunt to keep praying because clearly, the prayers are working. He told my aunt that today he could finally dare feel a little bit optimistic about my uncle! I'm glad you're making more masks for your family.
I just heard a doctor say that because this is a novel virus the body attacks it so hard that it also attacks the person's heart, kidneys and other organs and the body shuts down. He said the people who died most likely died because of the body shutting down, not the virus.

Laurie, I can't wait to see your new quilt! It does sound like gardening in your area is too early. Great job with the Hard Corps workout! It's good that KCM adds raw workouts once or twice a month.

We are hoping my uncle's health continues to improve. I'm a little scared about tomorrow's test. I heard that a medicine used to treat parasites is showing good results as a COVID-16 treatment.

Erika, I'm glad you had a pretty good weekend. Funny about that couple stopped by your house and stayed at the end of your driveway. We are good friends with a couple who want to do the same but I'm not comfortable even though we'd be over 15ft apart.
Our county's population is 25,336 and we have 10 cases. I'm getting worried about GA. Our numbers keep going up.

Great job with the KCM workout. I'm glad you ordered Cathe's new program. I think it will be good. I hadn't' thought about how she'll film them. I wonder if she'll delay it given the pandemic.

I had the feeling the boys would be bored. It really must be hard not seeing their friends.

The yoga class dedicated to my uncle was truly special. The meditation/chanting has really helped me because today I felt calmer and didn't feel like a prisoner in my own house.
I wished people would stay inside. The only reason we walked to our mailbox and up the following road is that we hardly have any full-time neighbors. We have one at the end of our road and he is elderly so most of the time he is inside. The road that runs parallel to our house has 3 full-time residents. One is our builder and a couple just bought a house up the road. We haven't even met them yet. They seem to be staying inside too.

Laurel, I'm glad you had a nice/quiet weekend. You really have to tell your DH that he is endangering you. I did that with DH when we started our self-isolation. He understands that I'm at risk. I basically scared him. It worked. A doctor said the other day that a family should think of itself as a unit. Meaning if one person goes out and catches the virus the entire family would get sick. I hear you on the disinfecting after every outing!

I am embarrassed to say that I've been slacking on the house cleaning. I drag my body to do a little bit each day or every other day. The house is pretty clean but I've not been good about my daily vacuuming and dusting.
Since my uncle has been sick I just don't have the motivation to do much. Working out was hard last week. I seem to be in a better place this week.

The Friday meditation was really spiritual to me at least. This meditation was not your typical meditation but it was more like chanting mantras. The class was called Japa Malas. She gave us a couple of choices about what to chant about. I told her I want her the chant for healing. I believe the words are in Sanskrit. The mantra we are chanting is Om Shree Dhanvantre Namaha. You have to pronounce every syllable she told us. Everything I found online talks about this mantra being for healing but this lady says it means something else. I am sending you this link because she explains the 108 beads/twice a day/40 days. The necklace has 108 beads and you use it much like you would a rosary.
https://insighttimer.com/devavasuda/guided-meditations/om-shree-dhanvantre-namaha

https://japamalabeads.com/
Mala Beads — Tools for Meditation
Mala beads are a simple yet powerful string of prayer beads that Buddhists and Yogis have used for hundreds of years to count mantras and prayers with. Japa is the meditation technique used with malas to calm the mind and summon your soul. Worn as a bracelet or necklace, prayer beads also serve as a powerful reminder to be in the present moment and embody peace, love, and compassion.

Thankfully we got good news about my uncle today. I don't blame you for being angry with the people who don't take this virus seriously. I am with you on that. I'm glad the police were out citing the groups of people for not adhering to social distancing. I doubt that is being done in our county.
Thanks for clarifying the rotation! You really must've been tired! LOL

Hi Tami!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning was a dreary and misty morning, but the temps where up in the high 40's. My workout was the 22 Minute Hard Corps Resistance 1. Again this is an exercise for each body part, and then done in three rounds. This one did have a very short warm up, but I had done the Cold Start warm up before hand. I think that tomorrow I will do the Core workout before the cardio, just to make it different.

Erika, Nice workouts! I like the sound of Cathe/Kelly, I'm sure that you will come up with a good rotation with those two instructors. We have around the same population in our county as you do, and ours is at 165 positives and 5 deaths. The majority of the cases are in Madison and Milwaukee for us. I'm sure that the cities are the major one for MN. I'm enjoying the 22MHC, and I'm sweating buckets. This is a good series to get the hr up. I think that I will probably do a week of PiYo, 21 Day Fix Extreme, Hammer & Chisel and Les Mills Combat. Do you have the Core de Force? If so how did you like that one? I like your idea of Kelly/Cathe. Maybe I should do that with my Kelly week, so I don't miss out on my Cathe either.

Laurel, Awesome job on your workouts! LOL on your house being clean. I'm really enjoying the cleaning spree that my DH and dd have been on. They are now going to paint the bedrooms, so another thing off the list of things to do. Have to admit is was really nice to visit with Tony again, and of course this one is with military people. Some of the guys are really tall, and just dwarf Tony. We have voting going on today, I did absentee, because of the fact that I'm a person that is going to work. It sounds like they are taking every precaution at the polls, and actually being very creative. We do have the national guard deployed to help also.

Thelma, I do hope that all goes well for your Uncle, and the prayers will continue. I love that the doctor felt that the prayers are working, so of course I will continue. Great job with the BB workouts, I'm sure that you are having a great time with Sagi again. I'm sure that the doctors are testing a lot of different medications during this time. Who knows what will help with recovery.

Have a great day!
Laurie

fitzfour

Good Morning, Ladies!

I sent out an invite for next Tuesday at 5pm CST happy hour. Hopefully that works for everyone to jump on to visit for a bit.

Yesterday's workout was Shape Up workout 2. Love the Tabata style!! Followed up with a nice family walk and family game night. It was very nice!

One thing about the stay at home order, is that we've been spending a lot more time doing fun stuff together...walks, games, etc. We have nothing else to do in the evenings with no sports or social engagements, so we've been enjoying some time as a family!

Thelma, ahhh BB...I haven't done that one in ages! I actually haven't renewed my BOD subscription yet and didn't save any of my DVD's except P90X and ChaLean Extreme. The others I had I just never reached for, so I traded them. I am happy to hear the improvement with your uncle! I said another prayer last night! We have a lot of people out on walks around here (we live next to a park with walking trails) but everyone is very good about stepping aside off the trail if someone is coming by. If the virus spread gets too much worse, I'm sure they will limit outdoor time to just being in our own yards. I hope it doesn't get to that though!

Laurie, we are gloomy here today and had thunderstorms last night! Our 1 yo pup was barking at the thunder last night! But, we are supposed to get sunny and almost 70 by this afternoon. I'm looking forward to soaking up some sun! I've done all of the BB workouts, I think Core de Force was my favorite along with Liift4. The new 10 Rounds with Joel looks like it will be great too...I just wish they were releasing DVD's. I don't like not having that option.

Laurel, I had to laugh about your DH visit to Lowe's, as that is normally me. I always have somewhere I "have" to go each day, and not doing so is making me a little crazy. I've been getting curbside food and did curbside paint delivery about a month ago...that's about it. We did go to the local meat market yesterday to stock up on freezer meats, which was probably the safest experience I've had. They only had 2 people in the store, all workers had gloves and stood behind glass, and it was a very good experience. Now we won't have to go out for food (aside from curbside pick up for necessities) for awhile. I will say, having to order and not go shopping myself has made me realize how much food my boys go through! I'll be happy when I can go pick out my own items and do a run every couple days so I have fresh veggies/fruit on hand.

Hi Tami!

Enjoy your Tuesday, I hope it continues to be nice for everyone as it sounds like yesterday was nice for all!

Erika

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Slow and Heavy Legs and Shoulders followed by a 45 minute ride with Peloton. So far I am really enjoying these Slow and Heavy workouts, but, boy, do they make my muscles shake. I always forget about that until I start doing them again. Peloton has stopped filming live workouts after one of their employees tested positive for the virus. With them being in NYC (and London), I really am surprised it took this long to call a halt to production. So I have decided to take the time to reach back to some oldies, and today’s was a really fun ride.

Erika, thank you for setting up the video chat! I will be there, if only for a short while. It is my DHs birthday, but he will understand if I take a break from 24/7 with him for a chat with you all. I am looking forward to it! Great workout! Like you, in some strange way, I am enjoying aspects of this ‘quieter’ time. DH and I sit on our deck every night, go for long walks and there is no alarm in the morning. I just wish it didn’t take these circumstances to get us here. Hopefully DH can continue to take it down a notch by stopping his errands. He just isn’t really good at sitting still. While that is admirable, during a pandemic when you are supposed to stay home....not such a great trait.

Thelma, great workout! I am glad you are enjoying being back with Sagi! I know it has been well over a year since I worked out with him, which is amazing because it doesn’t feel like that long! I am so hoping you get more good news on your uncle today. I will keep sending all my good wishes and prayers to he and your aunt. Thank you for the information on meditation. Wow, there is a lot to learn about this. I think it will do me a world of good right now. I don’t blame you for not feeling like housework given all of the stress you have been under. If I am being honest, because I am so busy disinfecting surfaces and such, my ‘normal’ routine is a little....off. Open windows are recommended right now, so I have the entire house wide open and the pollen is everywhere! I was talking to my sister on the phone the other day and looked at my dark wood table....and it was covered in yellow dust. Not good! But I have been spending so much time working on disinfecting the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry room that tables like that.....are covered in pollen.

Laurie, sounds like another good workout. I think I remember reading that many of these workouts have a total body focus. Is that right? I am glad you were able to vote absentee. I saw the line for voting in Waukesha this morning, and it looked pretty long. But I am glad they are focusing on keeping people healthy through this.

Tami, hope you are well.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Yoga Basics, Body Beast Build Shoulders and Up to BEat Fit 2 ml Walk. I have DOMS everywhere and I love it! Thanks, Sagi!

My aunt got really good news about my uncle today. He has done well with the reduced oxygen level, his fever was gone and his kidneys are either 80 or 90% back to normal. The doctors brought him out of that induced comma just enough to see if they could test his brain and to see how his breathing did. The doctors gave him commands to stick his tongue out, mover a foot or hand and he did it all! Two of his doctors are finally starting to feel optimistic about his recovery.
Thank you for your prayers. Please keep them coming. My aunt asked me to thank you for your prayers.

Laurie, sounds like a great HC workout!
Thank you so much for your prayers. They are working! A lot of doctors are testing different meds for sure. Doctors on the news are now including zinc as part of the hydroxychloroquine and z-pack treatment protocol.

Erika, thanks for setting up the happy hour! I didn't check email until 5:45 pm and when I saw the meeting time I nearly had a heart attack because I thought it was today! LOL

Great workouts! I love that your family is able to go out for walks and play games! This virus is definitely doing some good by bringing families together.

Did you trade your BB DVDs? I really love this program.
Thank you so much for your prayers. Please keep praying!

Laurel, great workouts! I am glad you're enjoying the Slow and Heavy workouts. I just couldn't get myself to do that series. Are you able to do older Peloton recordings? It does seem that it took a while to cancel live workouts!

I am really enjoying working out with Sagi and I'm loving the DOMS!
My aunts and I cried tears of happiness today with the good news about my uncle. Thank you for your prayers!
There really is a lot to learn about meditation. We have another class tomorrow at 12:30 pm if you'd like to sign up for the class.
Since the classes are online they'd have to send you a link once you sign up. I also found out today that if we'd like to have a group Japa Mala class the instructor would be able to do a private class for us. It could be a thing to do for a happy hour! I can't get over how much this chanting has helped me relax. I think it would be good for you. You can get a set of malas on Amazon.

http://www.yogaofblueridge.com/home.html

I disinfect the kitchen every day because that is the area you first hit when walking into the house and is used a lot. I've been good about the kitchen and bathrooms but I've been slacking on the things I was always so good at! I've become a little OCD about disinfecting faucets and doorknobs/handles.
I don't open the windows but we do spend time out on the deck.
How is your little grand-niece doing?

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning my workout was the 22M Hard Corps Core 1 & Cardio 1. Of course Tony always gives you a good core workout.

Erika, Great job on the workout, that is one that I did last week. Such a tough, but good one. I did get your e-mail. Oh my on your pup not liking the thunderstorm. We usually don't have a problem with Rocket, he just moves to to the floor on DH's side of the bed when the weather is bad. The sun was very nice yesterday. It was wonderful to have no coat on when walking out the door at the end of the day. I would love to try some of those workouts that you mentioned. The only one that is even available on DVD is the Core de Force.

Laurel, Awesome job on the workouts, and your shaking muscles. Interesting about the Peloton filming, that is probably a wise decision to suspend for now. Yes these are total body, even with the cardio. I don't know how many times I would be able to do a rotation of these with all the burpees though. I don't know what was going on with some polling places around here. We had some cities with 7 polling places that had 1/4 the population of Milwaukee, and Milwaukee only had 5 places open. There where plenty of national guard members trained, but not used. I don't understand why people didn't early vote in person either. My youngest dd did that last week with no problem, and our township had all the PPE and precautions in place. Personally I think that the media made a bigger deal out of all this than was necessary.

Thelma, Nice job with your workouts! I'm so happy to hear about your Uncle, that is awesome news. I'm sure that you Aunt is feeling so much better when she hears news like that. Is your family still doing okay in Costa Rica? I was going by no news is good news for them.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! DH had to go into work last night at 11pm which had me feeling very frustrated (as was DH) and concerned, to be honest. So sleep was at a minimum, for certain. The good news is that now (maybe.....hopefully) Friday will be the last day he will need to go in for awhile. I am not holding my breath since this entire process he has been going through was supposed to be done weeks ago, but I have hope. Anyhow, I got up this morning in a not great mood and with no initiative to workout, but since I am finding keeping to a routine is helping me mentally through this virus issue.....I worked out anyway. And I am glad I did. I feel much better. I did Slow and Heavy Triceps and Biceps followed by Cathe Live Jabs and Kicks. That latter workout was great for getting the remaining frustration out of my system.

Thelma, great workout! Glad you are enjoying the DOMS. You make me anxious to do Body Beast again. What absolutely fantastic news about your uncle! I will continue to send every positive thought and prayer I can in his direction. Thank you for the invitation to the meditation class. Sadly, obviously, I read your post too late to join in. But I like the idea of a group session for Happy Hour. My grand niece seems to be back to normal and, thankfully, her parents didn’t get too sick (fever and coughs, but mild). So they are all on the road to recovery. Thank you for asking.

Laurie, great workout! Burpees aren’t my favorite either, so I am not sure how I would like that. I can handle a few but endless...nope! I have read a few things about the election there yesterday, and there did seem to be some issues with polling places (especially in Milwaukee) and absentee ballots not arriving on time. But, honestly, I had no idea that early voting was available, and that tells me I am only getting half a story. I don’t like that. But since it was the first election since the virus outbreak, I suppose it was always going to have more scrutiny than it otherwise would have. It did bring up some interesting issues for November, though. Having voted much my life through absentee ballots (military life) and having early voting available in other places, it really does amaze me to be in Alabama where the latter is not available, absentee ballots are discouraged and require a notary signature and a photo ID is needed for voting. Honestly, it doesn’t seem quite right to me for that many restrictions to be placed on voting since, again, I have voted nearly all my life using methods not allowed or openly discouraged here. So, hopefully, some productive discourse (key word being productive) taking this virus into consideration in November may come out of this. Again.....hopefully.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, today's workouts were Beginner Gentle, BB Build Back & Biceps and Jessica Smith Low Impact Hiit. I also did the Japa Mala meditation class which was great. I pushed myself really hard on the BB workout. I still have DOMS!

We had a beautiful day here and our first amazing sunset of the season. The pollen is pretty bad though. I went out for a little 10-minute walk around our driveway just to stretch my legs and came back in with a very itchy nose.

My uncle had a setback but to me, it doesn't sound like a setback. During the doctor's update, she told my aunt that my uncle is still in danger. That was all she needed to hear and the flood gates opened up. She couldn't hear what the doctor was saying at that point. My aunt had a bad day but finally, in the afternoon she called me and told me that she called me because I give her strength. She added that she doesn't call her sister because she doesn't give her strength. I let her talk for a few minutes and tried to comfort her the best I could. Eventually, I was able to question her about the doctor's phone call. I asked why is it that he had a setback? The doctor told her that my uncle is not waking up the way they'd like him to wake up. I guess they want him more alert than he was the other day when he moved his hand, foot and stuck his tongue out. I eventually found out that his temp is normal, his kidneys and heart are OK. He's still on the reduced oxygen level. All that sounded to me like he's stable so I told her that. That right there made her feel better. She then remembered that the doctor told her that he possibly wasn't waking up because they've had him sedated too long. He was put in that induced coma on March 20th. I hope they're able to wake him up a little more tomorrow.

Laurie, I bet that HC Core workout was really good. My aunt wasn't in a good place today but yesterday she was thankful and hopeful. I hope tomorrow will be a better day for them. My family in El Salvador is doing well so far. Thanks for asking! The virus is in El Salvador and the country is under a very strict shelter in place order. My aunt doesn't leave the house but her husband doesn't get it and thinks that going to the convenience store is no big deal. Our convenience stores are nothing like the ones here. They're usually at the owner's house and you can't go inside. it's almost like a drive-through minus the drive part. He's still exposed to that person who sees customers all day long. I pray they will be OK.

Laurel, I can't believe your DH had to go into work so late last night! I wouldn't have been able to sleep after that either! I hope this time is for real and he won't have to go to the office for a while. I can't believe you went for Slow and Heavy after a bad night. Good for you! Great job!
You will love BB when you do it again! I already don't want to strop doing BB workouts! LOL
The meditation class will continue if you want to send the yoga studio an email asking about it.
I've sent the instructor an email asking her how much private classes would cost. It would be fantastic if we could do a private class with Gwendolyn. I bought a necklace because I'm doing the meditations at home and you're supposed to repeat your mantra 108. The necklace has 108 beads so you don't really need to count in that case. I also asked Gwendolyn for a price range for the Mala necklace. I bought a very simple one and it was $35. The cost depends on the type of bead used. I've seen lots of inexpensive mala necklaces on Facebook but I don't know what kind of energy (?) those would have. These malas are very special and need to be treated with respect.

I'm so glad your little niece and her parents are OK!
Thank you so much for keeping my uncle in your prayers!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning was 22M HC Resistance 1. I think that tomorrow will be yoga.

Laurel, Nice workouts! Of course anything that has to do with kickboxing it a winner. I do hope that your DH doesn't have to venture out to much after Friday, and that it would only be for getting the essentials. I'm okay with the absentee ballot, but there seemed to be clerks that gave out misinformation. They where telling people that they didn't need to show ID for absentee. That was a bit annoying to hear. Overall the amount of votes that where entered was no different than a normal spring election. I'm glad to hear that your grand niece is doing well. I wish that they had the anti body screening ready, because people are getting really crabby. And it is everyone, not just the people that are essential workers. Cabin fever comes to mind.

Thelma, Great job on your workouts! Dang on the pollen, that is not something that I'm looking forward to. Yesterday we had rain, and my nose was dripping. Today I'm fine, since it is back to normal cold temps. We are suppose to get some snow later today. I to am hoping that your Uncle responds better today, and I'm sure it was just the length of the coma. It really is interesting that even though someone is in a coma, they are still going through trauma and don't want to leave the feeling while sedated. Glad to hear that you where able to give your Aunt strength. Sorry about the mix up with the country that your family is from. I have a hard time remembering. I'm glad to hear that they are doing well.

Have a great day!
Laurie

fitzfour

Good Morning, Ladies!

Tuesday was a walk around the neighborhood and that was it. Yesterday was KCM Shape Up Strength (love that one!). We started on a 2000 piece puzzle and put it right next to my work desk in the office so I can monitor emails (they are really slow now) while I work on the puzzle!

Thelma, love the DOMS you're getting, those are the best (I agree)! I traded my BB DVD's awhile back...I just wasn't using them so figured I should make room for others. Nice job getting out in the driveway for some fresh air! That helps so much for the soul! I'm so happy to hear about the progress with your uncle. It does take awhile to wake up...I remember that with my dad. It seemed like when the sedation meds were taken away he should wake up, but I recall it being a few days. I'm praying every day for him, and am keeping an eye out for updates

Laurel, funny your hubby's birthday is the 14th, mine is the 13th! Maybe we already had that discussion Bummer on hubby having to go out again for work, hopefully this is it for awhile. We just got our stay home order extended to May 4th, so we'll be all holed up together for a few more weeks. I'm actually at peace with it now...being an extreme extrovert, it was super tough at first, but now I'm enjoying the relaxing evenings and family dinners every night.

Laurie, I'm glad you got some of the warm weather and got to enjoy outdoors without a coat! I'd love to say that we had more of that here, but it's currently snowing here and expected to be in the low 40's the rest of the week/weekend. I think you'd like the BB workouts on their website, it's just that you have to have a membership and I can't say that I've had wonderful luck with the streaming. It's not terrible, but it's gone down a few times and I just can't get back in the groove. I prefer my DVD's!

Hi Tami!


Have a wonderful Thursday!

Erika

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a 60 minute Peloton ride followed by 30 minutes of yoga. And I managed to get DH to take a nice long walk during his lunch hour which was really nice. We had a couple of storms last night, but today is sunny and beautiful with the temps in the high 60s. Feels so much better than the very humid weather we had the last few days.

Thelma, great workouts! Okay, you have me convinced to do a Body Beast rotation after this one is done. I had toyed with just repeating this current rotation because I just don’t have it in me to come up with anything too creative and my need for a flexible summer rotation is unnecessary since, well, coronavirus. But Body Beast would make for a great change while still keeping the focus on strength! Are you with me? I am sorry your aunt was having a tough day yesterday. It seems to be quite a few people right now are beginning to really struggle with this situation, and her stress levels over the last three weeks exceed the stress level of most by a factor of about a million. I am glad she feels good talking to you and you were able to help her see through what the doctor was trying to say about your uncle. It really is good news that his body seems to have stabilized. Hopefully he starts waking up more soon. Thanks for all the info on the meditation!

Laurie, great workout. Enjoy yoga tomorrow! I know I loved my routine today. I agree that patience is being worn thin with people right now and this social distancing/shelter in place stuff. If I am being honest, I am surprised it has taken this long for people to start losing their cool! Of course, we here are just really getting into it, so my perspective is probably a bit skewed from those who have been under these stricter orders for weeks longer than we have. That, combined with the fact we are fully into spring, I think has helped keep tempers down here. I know for me......snow right now would not be a good thing. So take care!

Erika, great workouts! I started a 2000 piece puzzle a couple of weeks ago. I only work on it about 30 minutes a day, but it is the most relaxing and enjoyable 30 minutes of my day for sure. It used to be that I always had a puzzle going but that stopped working in our home back in the mid-90s when I kind of decided we needed to use the kitchen table for eating. But now I have a dining room table that never gets used.....so why not puzzles? Once DH can truly stay home from work (and I think that will be after tomorrow), I will be perfectly at peace with this stay at home order. The thing I miss most is trips to the grocery store when I am craving something in particular. I had no idea how much that simple freedom meant to me. The day I look forward to more than anything is the day I no longer fear my grocery store or groceries.

Tami, I hope you are doing well.

Until tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, I was busy working out today. The whole week really and my body is feeling it in a good way. Today's workouts were Yin, Sculpted-Movement Fusion, Yoga Ab Blast and Gina B HIIT for Weight Loss. The sculpting workout included a lot of shoulder work and my shoulders felt it at the end of the day.

Apparently, we had some pretty bad storms overnight but I slept through them. I don't think we got it bad in Blue Ridge but it was bad about 15 minutes from here! People were without power from 3 am till 5 pm!
We had a beautiful, partly cloudy day. Much cooler than the previous days and tomorrow the cooler temps will continue. I saw my first hummingbird so I'm happy.

My uncle woke up ladies! Yaaay! So far everything seems to be working properly so the doctors will do a tracheotomy on him. I hope all goes well. The doctor did tell my aunt that he was weak and that they plan to have a physical therapist do massage therapy on him to help him rehab his weak body. The doctor also told my aunt to keep praying so she could have him home soon! Ladies, we appreciate your prayers from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you!

Laurie, great job with the HC workout! I bet the yoga class will feel wonderful tomorrow!
I went out on the deck today and the chair cushions were covered in pollen! Did you end up getting snow?
My uncle just needed a little longer to wake up! The doctors told my aunt that at night they have to sedate him while he sleeps because of the tubes.
You don't need to apologize for the country mix up. I am the same way. I honestly never remember what state you, Erika or Tami live in. I always know about Laurel because she always mentions her current state and now we're in neighboring states. LOL

Erika, great job with your KCM and walking workouts! I've been thinking about ordering a puzzle but it's not a good idea with cats!

I have DOMS all over still. My arms and back are feeling the BB workouts! I try to get out on the deck or our huge driveway.
Thank you so much for your prayers. Tomorrow is another big day for him due to the tracheotomy.

Laurel, great workouts! Good job getting your DH to go for a walk with you! Sounds like you had the same storms we did. Some people said there was a tornado in the town next to us which is in the same county we are in. Others said roofs were ripped off but no one else mentioned it so I don't believe it. 5000 people were without power in our county today.

I am TOTALLY with you on the BB rotation! I like this rotation too because of the variety of workouts. I just loved the fact that I have DOMS after switching to BB from doing Cathe workouts for so long!
My aunt was in better spirits today. I told her yesterday to take deep slow inhales and slow exhales to calm herself down, she used the breathing technique while talking to the doctor today and she said it worked! People are really starting to struggle with this situation. Last week was bad for me but this week I could care less about going out. We have everything we need.

My yoga instructor would be happy to do an hour with us. She said it costs $10 for an hour per person and the malas are in the $30 range. If no one else wants to do it I'd be happy to do it with you. You could do it with your sister too if you'd like!

Goodnight ladies and have a wonderful weekend!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning I did Chris Fretyag's ACE Vinyasa Flow Yoga and the Belly Blast workout too. Felt great after all the tough Tony workouts this week.

Erika, Nice job with the walk, and I love that you are working on a puzzle. I usually do that when I'm off during Christmas. It is fun and the whole family gets involved. Going home yesterday I was in a blizzard of snow, and of course this morning was winter coat weather. We have guys walking into the building without their coats on, and I'm just waiting for them to have a cold and then our office will have to get hosed down because they think it is the virus. I have the same problem with streaming sometimes, and it can get very frustrating when you are half way through a workout and it stops. I prefer the DVD's for that very reason.

Laurel, Love the workouts! That sounds like perfect weather for a walk. DH and I usually get in a walk on the weekends and it is longer than we usually do during the week. The dd is taking Rocket on long walks during the day though. Rocket isn't going to know what to do when everyone goes back to work. Yesterday our Governor closed all the state parks because all the non-essential people where not following the rules. I kid you not, that is the explanation that was given. I guess they where littering, and not following the safe distance.

Thelma, Just reading the information about your Uncle put tears in my eyes, I'm so happy for your Aunt and Uncle. I will continue to pray for his improvement in therapy also. Awesome workouts! Yay on the hummingbird also. Love all the signs of spring. We are now just starting to see the daffodils coming up. My crocuses are blooming.

Going to make more masks this weekend and probably work on the quilt. I cut a bunch of masks out last night, because my dd's bf's family wanted some.

Have a great weekend,
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Step Boss PHA3. I made my own ‘extreme’ premix with it by doing both exercise grouping three times instead of two. I also added on the Ab Stacker workout and the extended stretch. It was about a 90 minute workout but very doable. This is not Cathe’s most intense PHA workout but I still felt I got my heart rate up enough not to feel the need for any additional cardio. Loved the contrast of this workout with the Slow and Heavy earlier in the week.

Thelma, like Laurie, my eyes teared up when I read about your uncle!! That is the absolute best news!! I am so happy for you, your aunt and your uncle. His recovery truly is miraculous. I read an article this morning about a man who was on a ventilator for six days and his experience with recovery. I hesitate posting it but I am going to if you want to read it. It isn’t bad news at all but it just mentions that the road to recovery may be awhile. I am so glad the doctors are already talking about how they will help him recover. If you choose to read it, it might also help you work through all of this with your aunt. Anyhow, here it is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/09/my-near-death-experience-ventilator/

Great job with the workouts! I am glad you have enjoyed this week. I did too! Yay for Body Beast! That gives me something to look forward to this summer. Sagi always makes me smile. Let’s discuss the meditation when we talk on Tuesday but if nobody else is interested, I would definitely take a class with you. I have been doing good most of this week, but last night, once again, I spent a night with nightmares and panic attacks. I have no idea why. So, clearly, I need something that will bring some peace to my overactive mind. I had a feeling your storms on Wednesday night were going to be worse than ours. Looks like Sunday could be pretty dicey too, but that can always change. Right now, I am loving these clear days and bright blue skies!

Laurie, great workout. I bet that did feel good after successive total body Tony workouts! I am sorry about the snow. Hopefully it just turns everything green. No doubt Rocket is going to have some serious adjustments when you all go back to work. I bet he is loving all the human interaction he is getting right now. That is interesting news on your state parks, but if they aren’t being taken care of, I guess I understand. I think our state parks are still open, but our little nature trail a few miles from the house is not. I think our county has been a little more proactive than the rest of the state in some areas, and that closure probably reflects that. Thankfully whereas the rest of the state is still climbing the curve, our county health director indicated yesterday that this county is flattening out a bit. Fingers crossed that continues!

I hope you all enjoy the weekend. Happy Easter!

Laurel

fitzfour

Happy Friday, Ladies!!!

Yesterday was a rest day for me...actually I got really into the puzzle and couldn't tear myself away! My hubby stayed up until midnight working on it...I was in bed by 10! We had the oddest weather yesterday...it literally looked like mothballs coming out of the sky multiple times. Quite odd!

Thelma, YAY!!!! I'm so happy to hear your uncle woke up! He will be very weak and if anything like my dad, lost most of his muscle in his body too. I had to go pick him and my mom up from the airport when they flew back (this all happened to my dad while at their company office in Mexico) and I didn't even recognize him. He was probably down 50 pounds and didn't even have enough strength to walk. But, he bounced back fairly quickly once he got home. I'm sure it will be similar for your uncle, but the hard stuff is behind him now! Great job on the workouts--shoulders are one of my favorites to work out. The workouts must be tiring you out from the week to sleep through those storms!!

Laurie, I feel the same about the weather and guys not wearing coats! My boys ran outside to get the mail and garbage cans yesterday in shorts/tshirts and no shoes...and it was snowing here. Boys! I'm waiting for one of them to get a cold from it. Nice job on the workouts, I bet those felt heavenly!

Laurel, awesome walk to get in with the nice weather. Those are my favorite kind! I hope your hubby is home to stay and you can then enjoy the stay at home order with him I love your self-made premix...it reminded me I have that DVD and haven't opened it yet. Maybe I'll get to that this weekend!

Have a wonderful Easter! I hope you all enjoy some good quality time at home and a great meal!

Erika

2BLean

Hi Ladies ~ What a loooooooooooooong week {again} it has been. I have been working from home since Wednesday. Our customer service gal did not come to work Monday and then the remainder of the week. Super scary and sad for her. She had a lot of back pain on Sunday night and then on Tuesday we found out she was suffering from a high fever and in bed for 2 days. YIKES. So since I work closely with her, distance but definitely in proximity they had me go home until we find out if she has COVID. I was so shaky and nervous on Tuesday all day wondering why in the world it took two days to find out she was that sick. I was about to burst into tears all day just due to the anxiety of it all. So I have also been filling in for her all week. The other two ladies in our office that had illnesses are fine and back to work. One was just a Spring cold and the other was allergies.

Workouts have been good with Body Beast and Peloton rides. Yesterday for my lunch break I did a 30 minute Peloton Walk and will do another one here in a few minutes. Also a Peloton Ride tonight when I clock out from my “home desk”.

Hope you are all doing good! I will seriously try and catch up with you all this weekend but didn’t want you to be worried. Sorry i have been MIA this week. Just trying to adjust and after Monday and Tuesday you probably all get it.

Talk to you soon ~ Tami

fitzfour

Good Morning, Ladies!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter (I almost said Thanksgiving-haha) and weekend. We enjoyed the warmer weather on Friday and Saturday hit mid 60 here so we enjoyed some outdoor time. Easter was greeted with 6" of snow, so we hunkered down and enjoyed time together as a family. Card games, a nice Easter dinner, movie with the hubby and snuggles with the pups. It was great! I even got in a Cathe workout--RWH Upper Body Hiit Circuit. I spent most of the weekend typing up a spreadsheet of all of my workouts (a lot of pre-mixes) that are 30-45 minutes, so I can have a quick snapshot of options on days where I just want to randomly pick a workout.

I hope you all are safe after the storms that hit yesterday. Laurel/Thelma, all ok down there?

Tami, great to hear from you! I'm glad you are adjusting to working from home, and still getting in some fun workouts too! I hope your co-worker is doing ok and you are feeling good as well. Send me a message with your email, I'll send you the invite for tomorrow's video chat in case you are able to make it.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday! It's my birthday today, so I'm going to cut out of work a bit early and enjoy some time with the family.

Talk to you tomorrow!

Erika

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

What a wonderful weekend, and Happy Easter! I was busy sewing all weekend, and got masks made for everyone in the house and the youngest's bf's family. On Sunday I did some more sewing on the quilt, and then at 2pm I stopped and had a Bloody Mary that my youngest dd made. They where very good. We then had Easter dinner with just the four of us, and a on line chat with my oldest. This morning my workout was 30MTF LIFT Workout 2, which is a really good metabolic workout. I don't do this one very often, but really glad that I did. My arms are talking to me right now.

Laurel, Sounds like a great workout! I'm glad that you where able to make the workout yours. The snow really didn't amount to much, and our weekend wasn't all that warm. We did have some bad rain, and I heard that the south went through some really tough weather. I hope that you all are okay. I think Rocket is enjoying getting to go outside all the time. DH said that he is driving him crazy with always wanting to go outside. Our state has a bunch of information out on the web page, but it really doesn't say all that much. I don't know who is doing the graphs, but they are trying to be different instead of giving good information. I guess that I'm biased, because I deal with graphs all day long. I hope that our Governor doesn't go as crazy as the one in Michigan. She won't even let people go from one resident to another. Some people care for their parents or grandchildren, so need to go back and forth. Then she shut down all the garden centers, and we get most of our plants from there.

Erika, LOL about the puzzle, that has happened to DH and I. Interesting weather that you had, got to love living in this area. One minute it is warm, and then it can be something else within minutes. Living by the lake it can be 20 degree's warmer where we live than where I work. The young ones don't think about getting sick. They must enjoy getting outside. I can't imagine what it must be like for them to not enjoy visiting with friends.

Tami, Dang on that scare. I know what you are going through, we have had to deal with those type of situations around here too. It has really gotten to the point that I don't even react anymore. The anxiety level has lowered for me since the beginning of this for sure. Great job on your workouts! My DH needs to learn how to clock out of his home desk, I caught him on it this weekend.

Have a great day!
Laurie

ThelmaSW

Hi ladies, we're safe here in Blue Ridge. We survived the tornado watch. It was a scary, long night.
Laurel, you and your husband were in my thoughts and prayers last night. I hope you're both okay.
Thelma

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Hope you enjoyed the weekend. Ours was good. Saturday was a beautiful day so we decided to take a drive.....just to see things. We drove by one of the local golf courses that is still open (with restrictions) and it was absolutely packed! After seeing that, I am not wanting to play golf for awhile. If it was quiet, I wouldn’t mind, but we saw groups of people on groups of people and that is decidedly not how I want to play golf during the best of times, much less during a pandemic. But it was nice to get out and see some of the blooming shrubs and trees. Spring really is beautiful here. And it managed to keep DH out of Lowe’s, which is quite an achievement. Yesterday, they were calling for horrible weather all day, so we decided to have a nice Easter breakfast and not do our ham for dinner in case we lost power. We never did lose power, but it made for a nice relaxing day of puzzling and watching movies. We did have rain, lightening and thunder all day and even some pretty decent flooding behind our house last night. But the very violent storms went just south of us. I did read that some counties in Northern Georgia were hit hard, so I am hoping Thelma and her husband are okay.

For workouts, on Saturday I did a 20 minute cardio workout from Peloton followed by 30 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Yesterday was LITE Pyramid Pump Lower Body and Abs 1 followed by a short 20 minute Peloton spin. Today was Burn Sets Chest, Back and Shoulders followed by Cathe Live Twenty-five, which is a fun cardio/metabolic workout.

Tami, sounds like a horrible week last week! I really hope you get an answer soon about the COVID test on your co-worker. I, too, would have been wondering why it took so long to find out how sick she was. I am glad you are home and, hopefully, now you can stay working from home. I can only imagine your DH’s reaction to this right now since he was trying so hard to get you all to be working from home before this happened. Hopefully it turns out not to be COVID and you can breathe again. Great job with workouts while going through all this!

Erika, sounds like a very nice Easter. I find it so easy to lose myself in puzzles! We are finally beginning to make some progress on the one we are doing. I love that RWH workout! Hope you are having a wonderful birthday!!

Laurie, sounds like a really nice weekend of crafts and family and Bloody Mary’s. Great workout this morning. After doing that PHA workout on Friday, I realized how much I was missing metabolic workouts since I haven’t been doing them because of the arm injury. So doing Burn Sets this morning followed by a metabolic workout definitely has my arms talking to me too! There is definitely no consistency between states when it comes to the stay at home orders. DH talked to my in-laws yesterday, and Missouri is definitely under stricter restrictions than we are. But I suppose every mayor and governor has to assess their own situation, including the economic impact of it all. In our county, we have almost reached a turn around point (according to our health guy), but in Mobile (south Alabama).....cases are exploding. As a governor, I imagine it would be difficult to come up with a cohesive plan that covers such different responses to the virus. Given that the cases in the south are exploding, I am not quite sure our governor has found the right response.

Thelma, I hope you are well and safe!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a good Easter weekend. We had a very quiet weekend. I did some house cleaning on Saturday and DH made
me pulley systems for my hummingbird feeders. I had the idea and even told him which parts I thought he needed and he executed my vision. The pulleys work beautifully.
We are OK but Sunday night was a very scary night. I was very scared and spent a good part of the night praying for our safety. We were lucky to not get the wind part of the storm. It rained like there was no tomorrow. We lost power at 12:06 am and it was restored at 4:10 am. The rain finally stopped at about 3:40 am. It was so scary because all of a sudden it was quiet. The scary rain sounds were gone. I fell asleep just to be awakened at 4:10 by things beeping around the house when the power was restored. I was able to go back to sleep just to be awakened by a very strong and loud gust of wind. It took me all day to get going today. I was so exhausted.

I exercised all day on Friday and it felt good but my body felt like lead on Saturday. Friday's workouts: Restorative Healing yoga,
Barre, Step Boss PHA 3, and Sunset Yoga Flow. The PHA 3 workout was a killer. I don't think I'd done it before.
Sunday - XT Burn Sets - Chest, Back, Shoulders and Monday I did Total Body Giant Sets Lower Body.

My uncle is stable. I thought he was fully awake but he is semi-conscious. He can't breathe on his own yet as his lungs are damaged probably permanently. I've read the virus hardens the lungs and his lungs are hard but it could also be by the ventilator. The doctors were trying to get him to try to breathe on his own throughout the day but it was stressing him too much so they had to sedate him. I imagine it is a struggle to try to breathe as his lungs can't expand as they normally do. the doctors are consulting a lung specialist to figure out what they can do for my uncle. Hopefully, we will know more tomorrow.
He had a little fever yesterday but the doctors managed to get it under control. He doesn't have the lung infection anymore. My aunt is much calmer and today we talked for almost 45 minutes and I even made her laugh.

As of today, our county has 12 cases. Rumor has it that some of these cases can be traced back to Home Depot but who knows if that is true.

Laurie, great workouts. That Vinyasa Flow must've felt good!
Good job making masks for the entire family! I'm glad you got to enjoy that Bloody Mary and that you got to chat online with your oldest!

Thanks for the prayers for my uncle and for those tears when you read about his improvement. The valley is looking beautiful now that the trees have leaves and flowers. People posted pictures of daffodils weeks ago here. I always got excited when I saw my daffodils come up and crocuses bloom. We have none of that in our property. The previous owners didn't plant anything. I wanted to plant some perennials, but we are feeding the wildlife now so it doesn't make sense to do it now. I'm stuck with container gardening on the deck but I can't go out to buy plants. One of our local garden centers will deliver for free with a purchase of $35 or more. I think I'm going to call them and have them pick plants for me.

Hi Laurel, I am glad you had a nice weekend and even got out for a ride. Good job keeping your DH our of Lowe's! I'm so glad you didn't have to live through the tornado scare! I can't believe the golf club was packed. People just don't get the seriousness of this virus.

Great job with those workouts! I can't believe you made PHA3 into an extreme workout! The workout itself felt like a killer workout to me! I am so looking forward to doing a Body Beast rotation again!

Thank you for your prayers and for feeling such emotion when you read about my uncle's progress. I read that article. Thanks for posting it. I don't think I can tell my aunt what to expect. The doctor did speak of permanent lung damage so I imagined that he'd need an oxygen tank. I imagine it is traumatizing to feel like you're drowning. The article is very scary. We weren't even thinking about psychological damage!

No one else mentioned anything about the Japa Mala meditation so I would think the ladies are not interested. I'll mention it tomorrow but like I said before if you want to have a session with Gwendolyn, I'd be more than happy to participate too. I think you will find it calming. I kind of treat it as a chance to pray.

Erika, good job with the puzzle and your workouts! I saw a post on FB today about a mother and daughter team finishing up a 40K part puzzle! OMG! I'm glad you and your family had a nice Easter. Too bad about the snow after some warm days!

We are happy about my uncle's progress but it sounds like his recovery will be a slow one. I was wrong about him breathing on his own but we hope the lung specialist will guide his doctors in the right treatment direction.
I still can't believe through those storms last week. I've not slept well since my uncle has been sick and it's getting worst. I think I sleep much less now.

Tami, I'm so glad you're finally working from home. I hope your co-worker doesn't have the virus! I can only imagine how nervous you are about this situation.
Great job getting workouts in even though you're so busy with work!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

fitzfour

Happy Tuesday, Ladies!

Yesterday's workout was KCM Total Body Kickbox Workout 1. I haven't done that one in a long time. It was really fun! It was a slow day at work, so we started birthday happy hour a little early and cracked open another puzzle. We had some fun card games with our youngest (oldest is a true introvert and wanted to play video games with friends after school was done for the day) as we watched the snow come down (yep, more came yesterday!). Today is sun again in the morning and snow in the afternoon. Then, we should be done with the snow!

Thelma, I thought of you when I heard of the storms wondering if they were near you or Laurel. I'm glad you were spared any damage, but they sure sound scary. I talked to my co-worker in Connecticut and he said they were getting up to 65 mph winds and torrential rain. I'm hoping they made it through the night ok without any damage there either. Great job moving your body on Friday, but I see why you'd be sore. That's a lot of working out, especially with PHA3 thrown in there! Awesome on the pulleys for the feeders...what a great idea! Still praying for your uncle! I'm sure there will be some permanent damage (there usually is, even in my hubby who just had a bad pneumonia) but over time it gets better and easier to breathe.

Laurel, glad you were also spared of any damage! I'm glad you were able to get out over the weekend for a drive, sounds absolutely lovely. We do not have any signs of spring here yet...I don't seven see buds on the trees yet. But, when that all starts, I love to drive around and look at the trees, especially the cherry blossoms! I can't believe how busy that golf course was...my hubby is hoping they open them here, but I just don't see that happening. Nice work with the mix of Peloton and Yoga, and that Cathe Live sounds really fun!!

Laurie, what a fun weekend of quilting and a nice Easter dinner with the fam (plus one virtually)! I just did that Lift 2 workout last week (I think) and I was surprised how much I liked it. Some of these I haven't done for months, so I forget how much I like them! I hope you are getting some warmer weather there...we are just above freezing here...and you can feel it for sure!!

Hi Tami!

Talk to you all at 5pm CST tonight!

Erika

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning my workout was ICE Rock'M Sock'M Kickbox Timesaver Premix #5.

Laurel, Awesome job on all your workouts! I hear you on the metabolic workouts, it is such a nice change of pace when you are heavy lifting. Nice that your arm has improved enough for you to do them also. Very glad to hear that the weather missed your area. No golfing around here, but your courses do sound like they where not managing the distance thing very well. I think that is something that the business have to figure out, just like the grocery stores have been adapting. It appears that our state is on the down side of the virus, and I think that we have had this virus around here previously. They did a study in Chicago for antibodies, and 50% of the people tested already had the antibody. So this makes me wonder if DH and I didn't have this at the end of December when we where both so sick. I'm ready to get tested to make sure. Then they need to go about protecting those vulnerable people. I think that we have figured out what works and doesn't work with this whole shut down. I love the ingenuity of the people in this country.

Thelma, First off I'm glad to hear that you both made if through the storm, but sorry to hear that it left you exhausted. Love the pulley system for the feeder, I'm sure that you will be enjoying watching those wonderful birds. Great job on all the workouts! Small improvements with your Uncle, and hopefully he will have them as the days progress and the doctors can figure out the next steps for him. I will of course keep praying for him. Glad to hear that you where able to make you Aunt laugh. You will have to find some perennials that are deer resistant. We have that same problem around us, so I make an effort to only plant ones that the deer stay away from. That is probably a good idea to have the plants delivered. I always enjoying going and picking out the plants. It will just be a bit different this year.

Erika, Great job on your workout! Sounds like a nice day with the puzzle. Have to say that I'm not a huge card game person, but I do enjoy Smear. One thing my DH doesn't like is card games. He is like your ds, rather do things on his own. We have had the cold and rain, but not the snow. We are still pretty cold in the mornings, and by the afternoon it warms up into the 40's. The grass is turning green though, and DH may have to mow it soon. One of our neighbors has already mowed his lawn. See you tonight when I get home.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a 45 minute climb ride with Peloton followed by a really good Slow Flow yoga class with Kristin McGee. It wasn’t actually slow at all, but she introduced some new moves that I really enjoyed. Good stuff.

Thelma, I didn’t see your post yesterday as I was probably writing mine when you posted. I am so glad you didn’t get too much damage from the storms and that your power was only out for a few hours. Those storms are scary in the middle of the night. I don’t know how the storms missed us because there were tornadoes both south and north of us. We got so lucky. I am sorry to hear your uncle is struggling with his breathing. But I am glad to hear your aunt is in better spirits right now. One of the reasons I found that article I posted interesting was because of the after-effects of being in the induced coma. Great workouts! Glad you enjoyed the Step Boss PHA3 workout. I find it feels very different to me than the other two PHA workouts Cathe has on DVD. I really enjoy the compound move aspect of it.

Erika, great workout. I am sorry about the snow though. Talking to my sisters, they got 10” of snow yesterday in Denver. They were both very glad to be working from home yesterday! Sounds like some good family time celebrating your birthday. I think the reason some of our golf courses stayed open is because they are open year round. I think if they were closed, they never would have brought on staff to open them up. But since they were already open, if they have a system for pre-pay, they stayed open. I will only go play once they lift the stay at home order and if the course is one we can walk. The idea of spending four to five hours in a golf cart used by anybody else does not sit well with me at all! But I do miss being on a golf course for sure.

Laurie, great workout! That is still my favorite Cathe kickboxing workout. That is really interesting about Chicago and the antibodies. I read a similar report about the possibility of this having already been in California, and that may be one of the reasons they are not getting hit nearly as hard by the virus as expected. I think the key to going back to some normalcy will be testing for the virus and testing for the antibodies. Scientists amaze me with this stuff.

Talk to you all tonight.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Yoga Basics, XT Burn Sets Biceps & Triceps, and Up to the BEat Fit 2 mile walk.
I slept like a baby last night for the first time in about a month. I was really tired after the storm on Sunday night.

Ladies, I loved meeting you today! Erika, thanks for setting up the meeting!

My uncle now has a bronchial infection. My aunt is very scared. The doctor says he is very weak. I hope he is better tomorrow. The doctors woke him up just a little today and asked him to move hands, feet, head and he did it. They keep exercising his lungs by decreasing/increasing the oxygen levels throughout the day.

GA's virus cases keep going up every day. 14,500+ cases as of today. I have the feeling our shelter in place order won't expire on 4/30.

Erika, great job with the Kickboxing workout! Those are always so much fun. I love all the things you and your family are doing together during this quarantine period. I hope you'll be done with the snow soon!
We were lucky that the storms didn't cause too much damage around here. We had no damage to our property. I always worry because our house is like a fish tank with floor to ceiling windows on 3 out of 4 sides of the house. Those were strong winds in Connecticut! I hope there wasn't a lot of damage there. I did get carried away on Friday with all those workouts. They're not back-to-back workouts. I take breaks between workouts. The yoga sunset flow class is wonderful.

Laurie, Rock'M Sock'M is such a great workout! Good job!
Interesting that the study in Chicago revealed that 50% of the people had the virus antibody already. I really think this virus was going around in the country in December too. DH and I had a dry cough but we really weren't that sick. I did end up getting antibiotics.

It is good when my uncle has little improvements but when he takes a step my aunt worries. She was a mess today.

I will have to find some deer resistant perennials. The problem is that where DH is feeding the wildlife is the perfect area for plants! I am going to have to trust the garden center to pick the best plants for my container garden. I love picking my own plants too and the temptation to go to the garden center is getting stronger and stronger.

Laurel, great workouts! That slow Flow yoga class sounds great.
I agree that the storms in the middle of the night are very scary. It is pitch dark around here even when the power is on!
I can't imagine what shape my uncle will be on when he recovers but the thought of it is scary.

The PHA3 workout is definitely different than the other PHA workouts.

Hi Tami! We missed you tonight!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

Very cold this morning, but I got in a really good workout. 30MTF Plateau Buster Harder Premix #1.

Laurel, Sounds like a good workout combination. Kind of envy you getting to do those workouts with Kristin. It was very nice to talk to you again yesterday, and I look forward to another. Hope that your DH had a very nice birthday, even with all the non-normalcy going on around the country.

Thelma, Awesome job on your workouts! Glad to hear that you slept really well also. It was also very nice to talk to you yesterday, so much different than chatting on line. Sorry to hear about the set back for you Uncle. I'm kind of hoping that I did have the virus, because I am just wanting to have a normal life right now. I know that DH would be super happy, he isn't enjoying his stay at home. I think it would be better if we had warmer weather so that he could enjoy being in the garage.

Erika, Thank you for creating that meeting.

Tami, I hope that you are doing well.

Have a great day!
Laurie

fitzfour

Good Morning, Ladies!

It was fun talking with you last night! I'll get another one scheduled once we hear from Tami and make sure we can find a time that works for her too!

No workout yesterday, I decided to unwind with the puzzle, which I finished up this morning. Now, we are officially puzzled out here and no one is interested in starting another. We'll have to find something else to do! I'm shipping off a couple of the puzzles to my parents (or maybe we'll drive out there and drop them off, so my youngest can get some drive time in...we'll see).

Thelma, I'm glad to hear you slept well...I bet you feel like a new person! Absolutely love your combo of workouts, a little bit of everything! Those darn infections pop up so easy when one had a virus/pneumonia...it's amazing to me. He's in the right spot and getting the care and rest he needs, so that's a good thing! Hopefully this is just a minor set back and he can be on the mend soon. I'm happy to hear he was responsive when they asked him to move his limbs! Baby steps

Laurel, wow Denver got a lot of snow! One of my college roommates lives out there, but she never posted anything about the snow. Maybe she's just over it like most people! I have a question about your Peloton...was it difficult to find shoes for it (I'm thinking that's a lot of shoes if all 4 of us use it here) and also did you have to buy special padded shorts/pants for riding (I've heard of people needing that because their butt gets sore). I'm still looking at Peloton and the Nordic Track bike (which doesn't need special shoes, which may be more economical for the family), but wanted to get your take.

Laurie, that premix sounds awesome, I need to check that out! It's cold here today too, but the sun is shining. As long as that's out, I feel better. It's when it's cold and cloudy that I struggle. Hoping the winds stay down so I can get out for a walk with the dogs, even though I'll have to bundle up!

Hi Tami!

Have a great Wednesday!

Erika

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! It was so great talking to you yesterday! Thank you, Erika, for setting it up. I hope we can get Tami to join us next time. We had a very nice evening celebrating DHs birthday. He wanted steak and potatoes, so that is what we had. I baked him a cake. We shared some wine. And we watched a ‘guy’ movie (where lots of people die). So it was a good night and felt almost normal. Today.....he is at work. Sigh. But, once again, I am hoping this is the last day for awhile even though his company sent an email out yesterday asking for information on who needs to be in the building as they come up with a plan for when things ‘open up’. But I will think about that when the time comes since there is no telling when that will be.

Anyhow, my workouts this morning were Burn Sets Bi’s and Tri’s followed by XT Core 1. For cardio, I did Cathe Live Boxing and Leg Blasts which is one of my favorite Cathe Live boxing workouts. Tough and fun.

Thelma, great workouts! I am glad you got some rest after that storm on Sunday. I am sorry to hear about your uncle’s infection. Whenever I start getting frustrated with this whole situation, I remind myself of your aunt and uncle. I just cannot even imagine the roller coaster ride your aunt has been on and how much she would like to turn the calendar back a few months. But it is encouraging that he responds when woken up, so I hope this is a minor setback.

Laurie, great workout. I bet you are ready for warmer weather. This will be our third night in a row near freezing, and I am fed up with it. But, of course, part of that is because I have had to move my ‘garden’ inside and I have tomato plants taking over the house. This virus thing is leading to some interesting internal philosophical conversations for me because, like you, I just want ‘normal’ again. So I ask myself at times that if this goes on for two years (as some are saying) and I have a choice of sheltering and limited activity and hopefully not getting sick or getting sick with a gamble on the severity but also gaining immunity, which would I choose? Right now, I would still opt to not get sick, hands down. But down the road....I don’t know. But since they don’t guarantee immunity from having the virus, it really is just a philosophical thought right now.

Erika, thanks again for last night. I saw some photos of the snow out in Colorado and it was a lot. But with spring snows out there, they go away quickly.....thankfully! Regarding my spin cycle....I don’t have a Peloton. I have just a basic spin cycle (Sole SB900) and I use the Peloton app (I hook my phone to my TV and play it from there, but there is an option for a tablet stand on the bike so you can stream directly from a tablet). My DH got me this cycle when we were living in Alaska, and it is the only good one he could find with the option of shipping to Alaska. But I love it! We toy with getting a Peloton, but unless my DH starts spinning regularly, I can see no reason to change bikes. So here is the answer to your question with my bike. I wear normal shoes, but I prefer shoes with a slightly harder sole than I use for my standard cardio workouts. But any running shoe would suffice. I also don’t need any extra padding for my backside (I have a lot of natural padding ), so I just wear my usual workout clothes. DH felt like he needed padding, though, when he tried it. Let me know if you have any other questions. Tami has a Peloton, so she could answer your Peloton-specific questions. I will say this about Peloton workouts.....I love them. I cannot say that enough, to be honest.

Tami, hope you are well.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel