Cathe Fans Part 5

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Monday were easy. Peloton Low Impact Ride and a Slow flow Yoga class. I spent my energy doing deep cleaning. LOL

The chickens are enjoying their new digs. It turns out that we have three roosters and one hen! This is a risk people take by buying young chickens. The seller who is a pro at raising chickens told us we had three females! We are going to rehome the large roosters. I have someone from the Humane Society helping me find them a home.

Laurie, I'm glad you had a good weekend and that you made progress with your yard clean up. Sorry about your Elm tree though. Good ideas to have the old one cut and the new one planted far away from the house.
Great workouts!

I keep saying that we built the chickens a penthouse! LOL
Chico loves watching the chickens. He would love to 'play' with them! We call them Chico's chickies! LOL

Have a great day!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was 30MTF Cardio Sculpt Overload, and it was a sweat fest. I had to stop a couple of times to get the sweat out of my eyes, sure do hate that.

Thelma, Great job on your workouts, and getting the deep cleaning done. Oh my on the amount of roosters that you had. Glad to hear that you are able to get help with rehoming them. I'm guessing that you will be getting more? I can't even imagine how hard it is to determine which sex is which when they are so young. That is a great name for the coop, the penthouse. I love that Chico thinks that he would be able to play with them. Those chickens sure wouldn't enjoy that.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Ours absolutely flew by in a flurry of household chores. There were so many little things we kept pushing off and I decided this 3 day weekend for DH would be a great time to catch up….and it was. So while it wasn’t at all a relaxing weekend (or much fun), it was very productive….which makes me happy. Of course we were helped by having some beautiful weather to enjoy while we were doing our outside chores.

For workouts, on Saturday I did a 30 minute Jessica Smith walk followed by 45 minutes of core focused yoga with Kristin McGee. This was a wonderful class that I think I will do a lot. Sunday was STS Disc 28/Plyo Legs and a 30 minute spin with Peloton. Yesterday was STS Disc 27/Chest and Back followed by the cardio only premix from Fit/Split Shred Cardio and the abs from Pyramid Upper Body. Today was a 60 minute spin followed by XB Pilates Core and Booty 1, which was really good.

Thelma, great workouts! I love the chicken coop. That is alot of work! But I am sorry to hear three of your chickens are roosters. I am glad they will be re-homed and, hopefully, you get chickens in their place. No doubt Chico wants to play with them, though. That barre class I did on Friday was from Cathe, and it was not at all like the barre classes from Xtend Barre. It was more like a total body workout that used a barre for some of the lower body work.

Laurie, great workouts. I am sorry to hear about your tree, though. Getting trees removed is not alot of fun. I spent about 90 minutes on Saturday trying to get some of the nuts out of the grass, and then a gust of wind hit and…..it was like dodging hail stones. And all my work was undone in a second. I will probably try to get out there again but, honestly, it is an impossible task. In 90 minutes, I filled up my bucket 3 times, and didn’t get away from a patch of grass that was about ten foot square. In a half acre…..that is not much. But I will do what I can. So I tried to find that maple recipe….and no luck. I am so sorry, but I think it was a recipe from the internet and I must have saved it to an older computer because I can’t find it. I can send you the recipe for the Butterscotch Apple Cookies, though, if you are interested. I am so sorry that I can’t find this recipe, though. But, thinking back, I think it was an experiment I did when I was baking cookies by the dozens when DH was still in the military. And that’s been a long time! But now that I have the craving, I may just try experimenting again this year.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was Jillian's Kickbox FastFix W1. Have to say that I really enjoyed this one, and loving the combo of mixing the instructors.

Laurel, Glad to hear that your weekend was so productive. Great job on your workouts, and the Kristin core yoga must be a good one if you intend to do it again. You are right about the tree removal, it can get expensive. Since this one is so close to the house, they would have to be careful about removing it. Dang on your experience with all the nuts, it sounds dangerous! All I need is a hardhat, but yours sounds like you could get multiple bruises. How frustrating that had to be. I would greatly enjoy having that Butterscotch Apple Cookie recipe. I can handle finding a maple frosting, since I have used one in the past for my cinnamon rolls. I may try out that frosting on my pumpkin cookies also.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was STS Disc 38/Squat Rack Legs followed by Cathe Live Love Me Some Cardio Kickboxing. It was a great blend of boring into fun.

Laurie, great workout. I am glad you are enjoying the change-up in instructors. Just a slightly different approach can make all the difference in the world. I will gladly send you that recipe. I will send it later in a private message. The cookies are a little bit of work, but so very worth it. DH and I have gone back and forth about redoing our deck on the back of the house. It is a covered deck, and we both would like to have an uncovered section. But….it would mean taking down two trees that are very close to the house. And I think we have talked ourselves out of that. If the trees weren’t healthy, that would be one thing. But I hate taking out healthy trees, then add on the cost and concern about the house….and our deck as is is just fine.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

StiringWendel

Hi Laurie. Here is the recipe for the cookies. I tried to send this as a message, but it wouldn’t let me. Anyhow, you aren’t going to believe this, but when I pulled out the recipe book to look at it, I found a maple frosting recipe on the same page. I have no doubt this is what I used. It is always the last place to look, right? So included are both the butterscotch and the maple frosting recipe.

BUTTERSCOTCH APPLE COOKIES

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
1 large egg
1/2 cup apple juice
1 2/3 cups (11 ounce package) butterscotch morsels, DIVIDED
3/4 cup (1 small) unpeeled grated apple
3/4 cup chopped walnuts, DIVIDED

Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Beat brown sugar and butter in larger mixing bowl until creamy. Beat in egg. Gradually beat in flour mixture, alternately with apple juice. Stir in 1 1/3 cup morsels and 1/2 cup walnuts. Drop by slightly rounded tablespoon onto lightly greased baking sheets.

Bake in preheated 350 degrees oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Let stand for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Spread with butterscotch (or maple) glaze. Sprinkle with remaining walnuts. Makes about 3 1/2 dozen cookies.

BUTTERSCOTCH GLAZE

Melt remaining morsels and 2 tablespoons butter in small heavy saucepan over lowest possible heat. Remove from heat; stir in 1 cup sifted powdered sugar and 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons apple juice until smooth.


MAPLE GLAZE

1 tablespoon melted butter
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon maple flavoring
2-3 tablespoons milk

Whisk together all of the ingredients in a small bowl. Drizzle over cooled cookies.

NOTE: These cookies are very moist, so I like the glaze to be a little runnier so it goes on earlier. I also think I might have added some pure maple syrup to the maple glaze and played with the milk content accordingly. Like I said, it was an experiment. Hope you enjoy!

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, somehow my post didn't post last night. I probably forgot to hit Post!
I had a chiropractic treatment on Tuesday. My back has been acting up and I could feel something was getting compressed. I do have disc degeneration. Thankfully just one. I also have something that I forgot to ask the doctor to write down for me that I'd never heard of before. One vertebrae has gotten out of alignment and I don't know that it can't be fixed.
The other issue is my never ending IT band issue on my left side. It turns out I was born with a slightly shorter right leg so the left leg is compensating for that. It seems this will explain why my IT band doesn't seem long enough and I thought it was tight.

I asked the doctor if I was a mess (LOL) and she said no because I'm active, exercise, stretch a lot and have a pretty normal weight. Exercise for my has been a matter of health for a very long time. I know I need to move or things fall apart.

The good thing is that my back and leg have felt really good since I saw the chiro. She also gave me shoe lift to put under my orthotics' heel. It feels a bit strange but it's a matter of getting used to it.

Anyway, On Tuesday I did Zumba and STS Disc 28 Chest and Back and Wed I did a Peloton low impact ride, abs and a mobility flow yoga class.

Laurie, great workouts! I am glad you're enjoying the mix of instructors during this rotation.

Having too many roosters is an issue. Thankfully only one is crowing now. We will eventually get more hens but we're afraid to end up with more roosters if we get them too young. The chicken farm people swear they are able to sex chickens. Obviously not very well!

Chico begs us to let him go play with the chickens. It will never happen! We do let him watch them from a distance when the chickens get time outside though.

Laurel, you had a busy weekend doing a lot of hard work! The weekend flew by for us too and DH had a long weekend too. He was glad he had the extra day because we got a lot of chores done too. It just never ends!

Great workouts!! Sorry Cathe labeled the workout as barre when it wasn't. I really hate those workouts that came with the tower. It isn't fun to be adjusting the bar height from exercise to exercise.

I'm glad you liked the coop. It took us forever to get the base done but it was worth all the hard work DH put into building the base and preparing the ground and making the big sandbox. It has made cleaning a breeze.
We will eventually want to get more hens but I need to research the chickens I'd like to get. I want different colored eggs and thought I had 3 colors! The next thing would be to figure where to get them.

Thanks for sharing the butterscotch apple cookie recipe!

See you tomorrow ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This mornings workout was 30MTF Strong & Lean W2, this one was the kickboxing. I used my egg weights for the extra boost.

Laurel, Thank you so much for the recipe! I would probably use the syrup since that is what I usually have in my fridge. I'm going to make them with apples that we have gotten from the orchard. Awesome job on your workouts, and I love that you went from boring to fun! I would have a hard time taking down a tree that wasn't diseased also. That is one reason that we have so many walnut trees. When we first started to build they wouldn't allow us to cut any trees that where over a certain height. The lady that had previously owned the land was the subdivision committee. She fought us taking down trees just to put our house in on the lot. If we did it her way, the tree line would have been right out the back door of our house. Hey we kept the really really old walnut that is in the front.

Thelma, Love to hear that you where able to get to the chiro for some relief on your back. Hopefully you will adapt to the lift in a short amount of time. My Dad had a shorter leg, because of a bad reset on a broken leg. I remember him having a lift in the heel. For sure the exercise is great for all of us. Great job on your workouts! LOL about the farmers having such confidence in the identity and giving you so many males. Don't blame you for being leery of getting more. We should probably be really thankful that Rocket has squirrels and bunnies to chase.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a 45 minute HiiT and Hills ride, Xtend Barre Core 1 and 20 minutes of floor focused yoga from Peloton. This was my 200th yoga class with Peloton! I am still so happy that I found a program that makes me actually want to do yoga.

Thelma, sorry about the missing post. That has happened to all of us. I am glad the chiro appointment went well. I have one leg shorter than the other as well, but ditched the lift after a few months. This happened about 20 years ago, and I found stretching far more helpful (and comfortable) than the lift. But, back then, I also wanted to be able to wear shoes that wouldn’t have been possible with a lift…..a silly fashion thing that I am paying for these days with my feet troubles. Hopefully the lift works for you. Great workouts!

Laurie, sounds like another fun kickboxing workout. Great job. I hope you like the recipe. I would have a serious problem taking down a healthy tree, that’s for certain. And, like you when you moved in, we would need permission to do it. It is so strange in this development that some lots, when they build on them, they cut out just enough space for the house (our lot is like that), and others…..they practically level. At first I thought it depended on the type of tree on the lot, but that doesn’t seem to matter. I love that our lot is so treed (even with all of the nuts!) because it does make it feel less like we are in a neighborhood than it would otherwise feel. But there are times I wish the trees were just slightly further away from the house.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Thursday were Gina B's 2000 steps, pickleball and STS Disc 30 Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps. I am so looking forward to recovery week!

My former private yoga instructor sent me a hello message the other day and I told her that she was missing a big business opp here in BR with the over 50 class since my yoga studio moved to another town. She couldn't understand why she couldn't attract the over 50 crowd. I actually knew why because one of my friends tried her classes and was intimidated by the young bodies. Long story short, I convinced the studio's owner to offer a free class for my friends and I. Hopefully she'll be able to incorporate a couple of classes a week that will get these ladies to attend the classes. We are all super excited about taking a class together again. The class will be on the 26th.

We are going to NC on Saturday to the Punkin Chunkin Festival. We went two years ago and it was so much fun! They have these giant catapults to thrown the pumpkins as far away as possible. I'm also getting my hair trimmed.

Laurie, great workout!!

Surprisingly I've adapted to heel rapidly. It felt weird at first but not because I felt a height difference but because my heel felt like it was on a very hard surface. The best part is that I've not had the IT band problem on my left leg. Amazing! Exercise is a matter of health as far as I'm concerned.
I'm glad Chico is a small dog and is always on a leash. He would probably chase the wildlife too.

Laurel, great workouts!! WOW!!! Congratulations on your 200th Peloton yoga class!

I feeling weird about having a short leg but it sounds like it is something common. I wear sneakers 90% of the time now and the lift hasn't been an issue. It's very thin so the change was very subtle. Women do crazy things in the name of fashion, like wearing pointy shoes!

Have a great weekend ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was RAW SlimSculpt. This one was a lot of fun, and I was able to use fairly heavy weights.

Laurel, Congrats on the 200th class! That is a great accomplishment. Great job on your other workouts also. That is the way I feel about the walnut trees. I will deal with the nuts, because the trees are so nice. I can't even hug the old walnut that we have, and I have very long arms. I would hate to see that one die. That is the one that drops the most fruit though. We have those neighborhoods that where built in what was previously a corn field, and I really feel sorry for the people. They don't have any shade. I will let you know what the cookies where like, I'm planning on making them this weekend. We had temps in the 40's this morning.

Thelma, Awesome job on your workouts! I love that you are able to get the gang together again to have a yoga class. I hope that it will be a regular class again. Have a wonderful time at the festival, I know that is something that DH and I would love to go to. Chico and Rocket would probably have a great time together.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was STS Disc 29/Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps followed by Perfect 30 High Impact, Low Impact and Bonus HiiT Mish Mosh premix. I love this workout. Like Thelma, I am glad next week is recovery. With all the work we have been doing on the house and yard…and these heavy workouts….I am feeling it in my arms. So for recovery week, I am going to attempt to do just lower body workouts (and cardio and yoga and core….). We’ll see how my legs respond to that.

Thelma, great workouts. I love that you convinced your instructor to give your group a yoga class! I hope it works out that you can get back to a routine class in person. Your weekend outing sounds like so much fun! I got my hair cut last week, and it felt so good to get that done again. It had been too many months.

Laurie, great workout. I hope your walnut tree lasts forever. They are so beautiful when they are that size. Our neighborhood in Alaska had no trees. They just bulldozed them all down when they built the neighborhood. And Alaska is very forested, so I compared living there to living on the surface of the moon. It annoyed me to no end to turn off a beautiful tree-lined road into our flat, barren neighborhood. I will never understand why the builder did that. But after living in one of his houses for 18 months, that is just the tip of the ice berg when it comes to things about that builder I will never understand. I really hope you enjoy the cookies! We are supposed to have lows in the 40s this weekend too, so maybe that will put me back in the mood to bake.

Enjoy the weekend.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a great weekend! Ours was great but busy.
The Punkin Chunkin festival was a lot of fun. It rained pretty hard on Friday night and early Saturday. Thankfully the sun came out in the afternoon which was perfect for the festival. There were only 4 catapults but it was still a lot of fun. There weren't a lot of people either. Everyone had lawn chairs to watch the pumpkins fly out into the air.

We tried a famous Cuban restaurant in the area. The owner is famous for her Paella and it just so happened that it was the weekend's special! It was delicious! The lady only makes it five times a year. The next time will be Valentine's weekend. I already setup a reminder to call for reservations! The Paella dish was big so DH and I split it and I let him have most of it because I wanted desert! They had sweet fried plantains with flan ice cream! OMG! It was sooo good!

Sunday was busy with house chores, cooking and farm chores.

It's been pretty windy since Saturday and tonight we have a chance of frost and possibly Monday night too. We brought the plants I want to save into the garage and covered my mums with tarps.

My workouts on Friday were a Peloton ride, a Mobility flow yoga class and pilates abs.

My workouts on Sunday were a Peloton ride, Xtend Barre Legs, stretching.

Laurie, great workout on Friday!

Getting the old gang together for a yoga class will be great. I hope they do show up at the yoga studio! I'll message them a couple of days before to remind them.

I am sure Chico would love playing with Rocket!

Laurel, great workouts! I am thinking of doing more Xtend Barre classes this week. Any Cathe strength workout I do will be done with lite weights. For some reason these STS workouts are killing me energy wise.

I really hope we can get this new studio to come up with a class my friends feel comfortable with.

It is always such a good feeling to get a haircut! I've been getting a haircut every 6 weeks but this time I am going for 8 weeks.

Have a great week ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

Had a busy weekend, but did get a chance to make some cookies. They where super yummy. We had really nice, but cold weather.

I didn't workout on Saturday, Sunday was a very long walk with Rocket. This morning 30MTF Sculpting Rx W1 was my choice, and this was a total body strength workout.

I had my hair done on Sunday, and dd informed me that she is now a Master Stylist. I'm so proud of her, and that means that she is eligible for benefits. Of course my bill was $20 more because of it.

Laurel, Awesome job on your workouts. I'm sure that your legs will have some interesting recovery workouts to try out this week. I did make the cookies this weekend, and DH just loved them. I did put some in the freezer so that we can have them again in a few weeks. Now he wants me to make a pie with the remaining apples. Have to stop at the orchard again to get some more. I'm sure it was way easier for that builder to take bulldoze everything, just very unfortunate that there where no trees to block the wicked wind that I'm sure could pick up in a winter in Alaska. We had temps in the 30's this morning, and I had to put a heavier blanket on the bed. I usually have a light blanket, plus a smaller one. DH just has the light blanket. He requested the additional blanket, so he was cold. Of course he also said that he isn't turning on the heat, so I'm going to have to dress in a lot more layers.

Thelma, Great job on your workouts! Glad to hear that you had a good time at the festival. The food you had at the Cuban restaurant sound absolutely delish! My mouth watered when you mentioned the desert. Sounds like a very busy Sunday.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! I hope you enjoyed the weekend. Ours was very nice. On Saturday we went furniture shopping. I have two cabinets in our living room that we bought back in the 90’s….and they show it. Not only are they dated, but all of the moves we have made have taken a toll. And I finally found cabinets that I wanted to replace them with. We also have a new coffee table and end tables coming. So it was a very productive—and expensive—day, but I am so happy that we did it. Yesterday was spent on chores. We keep chipping away at things we have neglected for too long, and with every passing weekend, I feel better about it. Our weather was breezy and chilly on Saturday, but yesterday and today have been picture perfect for fall. I finally have all the windows open, and I am hoping the AC is done until spring.

For workouts, on Saturday I did XB Pilates Cardio Fusion 1 and 45 minutes of yoga focused on the hips. Yesterday was a 45 minute climb ride with Peloton followed by Xtend Barre Booty 1. Today was Cathe Live Glutes and Thighs, followed by F/S Mixed Impact Cardio only premix and a really good 20 minute core segment from Peloton.

Thelma, great workouts. I am glad the Punkin festival was good fun. And the Cuban food sounds amazing. Like Laurie, my mouth is watering. I am not quite as tired by Meso 3 as I was Meso 2, but, boy, am I feeling it in my joints for some reason. All of my planned strength workouts this week will be Cathe Live workouts, which means the weights will be relatively light. And I plan on my fair share of XB workouts as well as yoga. I keep telling myself ‘Just four more STS weeks!! You can do it!’ But, if I am being honest, I think it is amazing that both of us have done these workouts for the last seven months or so. When I think about that, I know I will push through to the end….and celebrate!

Laurie, great workout this morning. I am glad you were able to enjoy a long walk with Rocket this weekend. DH and I walked both days, and it just is so pretty this time of year. I am glad you and your DH enjoyed the cookies. I think if I had an apple orchard nearby I would be there all the time this time of year. I seem to crave apple everything in the fall. We got down to 39 degrees this morning…..which is getting close to perfect sleeping weather for me. Unfortunately this is the coldest morning predicted for weeks, but at least the lows in the 70s are behind us for awhile.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Monday were Gina B 3000 steps, KCM "RAW" Upper Weights & Legs followed by 15 of Xtend Barre Total Body Stretch. I love, loooove Andrea's stretching routines! I also took Chico for a walk up/down our road. He's been wearing his fleece vest! So cute!

Temps got cold last night but we didn't have a frost. The lowest temp I saw was 37 degrees early this morning. It was cold all day and there was northern wind that didn't help!

DH turned the heat on yesterday and today AND this isn't the first time this month.

Laurie, I'm glad your cookies were yummy! Good workouts! Walking is a workout!
How exciting about your daughter becoming a Master Stylist! congratulations! she's going to put you in the poor house with those hair styling charges!

The Cuban restaurant is definitely one of my favorites now. There are two really good Cuban restaurants in that town. We'll be going back with a group of friends on the 29th. Hopefully the other dishes are tasty too.

Laurel, sounds like you had a great weekend! Congrats on the new furniture!
We are having the same type of weather. I hope we are done with the AC too.

Great workouts!
It's been decades since I last had Paella. I can't want till Valentine's 2022 weekend to have it again! LOL. I would've never thought of pairing sweet, fried plantains with ice cream. I'm glad someone thought of it because it is a winning combination!

I don't know why Meso 3 is hitting me so hard. We have to keep the weights lite on recovery weeks in order for our bodies to really recover from the previous two weeks.
I can't wait to be done with this rotation! We are so close to the end now; which is very exciting!

Have a great day ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was 30MTF Step Boxing #1. I used my 1# egg weights.

Laurel, Fun weekend even though you spent a bit of money on replacement cabinets. Every home needs and update once in a while, so totally understand the other purchases also. Great job on all your workouts. Interesting that your joints are feeling the heavier weights. I really notice my bad knee doesn't like a lot of leg workouts, and I think that is why I enjoy Kelly's workouts. We have three orchards around us, so it is really nice. One of the orchards had Bobby Flay at their establishment. He lost to them. Guess his pie, baked in a paper bag, wasn't as good as the guys that own the orchard. I do find that I sleep so much better when the temps start to get down into the 30's to 40's.

Thelma, Nice workouts and getting Chico out for his walk. I'm sure that he looks adorable in his fleece vest. We have not had to put that on Rocket yet, but he is wearing his reflective vest when we go for our morning walk. That one is in total darkness. LOL about dd putting me in the poor house. I don't know if I should wish for my head to go totally gray faster, or just be glad that I get to enjoy her company when I get my head pampered.

Have a great day!
Laurie

StiringWendel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a 75 (!) minute spin followed by 20 minutes of yoga….all floor stretching. I also enjoyed a nice walk as our weather is just gorgeous again today.

Thelma, great workouts. I bet Chico is so cute in his vest. I will have to try Andrea’s stretching. I know she mentions how much she loves and values stretching in a few of the workouts I have done….which I really appreciate hearing from an instructor.

Laurie, great workout. I forgot to pass on my congratulations to your DD yesterday! That is a wonderful accomplishment…and probably worth the extra money just knowing she is doing well. That’s funny about Bobby Flay losing an apple pie contest to a local orchard but, honestly, the people who work with apples all the time are probably the best at knowing how to highlight the apple and not do anything too fancy. I think my issue with Meso 3 right now is doing Meso 3 and doing a lot of arduous yard chores at the same time. My shoulders and elbows are both screaming for a break. But the question is whether that is Meso 3 or hours and hours and trying to pick up nuts with a nut roller. Hopefully a week off from all of that will help.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

ThelmaSW

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Tuesday were Gina B. Latin Pop Dance Cardio, Pickleball, Heart Opening Flow Yoga, Xtend Barre Stretch.

We had a beautiful day here in BR. It was sunny and in the upper 60's.

Laurie, great workout!

I can't wait till it gets colder so Chico can wear his winter coat! LOL

I think you should enjoy your DD's company and head pampering as much as possible!


Laurel, fantastic workouts!!

Chico does look adorable with his little vest. All he needs is bowtie! LOL
Andrea's stretching routines are just wonderful and you should try them. She does the kind of stretching I used to do in one of my favorite yoga classes at the studio. I'm so happy I tried them.

Have a great day ladies!
Thelma

lvnascar

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was ACE HiiT Vinyasa Flow Yoga & Ab Blast. This is the one with Chris Freytag as the instructor. Most of her ab work is pilates, and of course I really love her yoga even with all the Vinyasa's.

Laurel, Great job on your workouts and walk. It has been wonderful weather, can't beat fall for that aspect. I hope that is the case with your yard work and doing Meso 3. As I'm getting older the joints just don't appreciate the really heavy weights. I do see these older women lifting very heavy weights, so I may just be a wimp. Of course they may not have participated in sports like volleyball and basketball in their youth. All I know is that I'm happy when my right knee isn't the size of a cantaloupe, and so far Kelly's weight workouts have the best option for that.

Thelma, All of your workouts have a great title to them, and sounds like fun. Can't beat a sunny day, we had that yesterday also. Even though some people think it is silly to put coats on dogs, they sure do seem to like dressing up. Like Chico, Rocket doesn't have that really thick coat like a golden retriever or like our german shepherd had. He doesn't like the super cold that we get.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie