Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies ~ Weekend seemed to fly by but I did get in my workouts!!! Saturday I opted for To The Max Xtreme pre-mix, which felt good. Yesterday I only had time for STS so it was STS Chest/Shoulders/Tris and then off to Volleyball. When I got home the sun was shining so I took the kids for a walk. They loved it of course! Today’s workout is BootCamp.

Laurel: Great job with the workouts Friday …. Have a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday with your mom & family! :flowerforyou: Can’t wait to hear all about it. Im sure it will be extra special.

Michelle: Sounds like Friday was an all out KB trifecta! :bigsmile: Nice work and great follow-up with some Yoga. Great job getting an early start on the grocery shopping as well. I did mine over the weekend …. Wasn’t too bad. We have decided to bring some “brunch” type food over to the in-laws and just stay for a couple hours, then DH and I will head home. It will just be the two of us & he will want to watch some football I’m sure. I’m hoping to find a girlfriend to do some shopping with maybe or? :ohwell: I can’t hang and watch football all day forsure.

Laurie: Yay for having the whole week off!!! :drinker: I was so happy knowing it was just a 3-day week this week for me. The whole week would be fantastic. Just to be off work. Great job with the XT workouts! That is the rotation that Laurel and I did and I really loved it. Such a good program. CONGRATULATIONS!!!! :drinker: :bigsmile: That is so amazing Laurie, you must feel like a million bucks. Not only reaching some fantastic goals in your fitness but some bonus gifts on top of it! Yahoo. You will get there! You are closer than you think I bet and I think XT will be a perfect way to do it. One thing I love about XT is the sequences of her workouts and the comprehensive weight work. Combined with some good cardio factor as well. How I have combined some of the XT workouts with this STS rotation is that we have an additional lower body day and upper body day added in. It can be whatever we choose. So XT has been a lot of times my “go to” for those two days. Thanks for the nice thoughts on my instructor. I do think it is so great she has remained very positive even from crutches and still BY FAR my favorite instructor there. A couple of us are planning on giving her a Thanksgiving “Thank You” because she is coming in Wed eve to do our usual spin class; not getting paid for it. Just for us regulars. Very thoughtful.
You’re welcome for the encouragement. I see you there on my phone often and just like to send you a thumbs up!

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies ~ BootCamp was pretty good last night. A lot of core/planks, push-ups. We did some ladder drills for cardio. She had a ladder like in Asylum laid out on the floor and we had to do high knees, jumping jacks forward & backward, etc. At the end of class we did 100 squats with weighted bar, 100 push-ups & 100 sit-ups. :huh: This a.m. was STS Legs and tonight will be Insane-X for some cardio.

Laurie: Great job getting in that longer pre-mix with XT legs! :bigsmile: I have XT Legs on Thurs & XT Burns Sets all upper on Friday scheduled for this week! Looking forward to those. I bet your pup was loving it. Our dogs do that too because the deer of course come into the yard at night so when it snows they are going crazy with their noses. I’m with you on wanting to know “what’s next” (as you know) but I have to say you are the Queen at getting it organized in advance! :bigsmile: Maybe you could even do a combo rotation of STS and TF?!? That might be a lot of fun That’s great you will be with your mom as well, especially after her diagnosis and not seeing her since. How is she doing?

Have a great afternoon/evening ~ Tami

Morning ladies,


I have been busy working and then this moring an early run to buy the ham and my apricot preserves for my secret sauce. I have been battling the PMs god and losing to ritz crackers:blushing: The weather is cold and rainy which coincides with my aching knee and lack of motivation, it doesnt help that all classes were cancelled at the gym.:grumble: My MIL and husband's nieces arrive tonight so after my short shift it is time to clean and start prepping some dishes.



Laurie- 81 minutes..yowsza:bigsmile: Have a great time with your mom.:flowerforyou:


Tami- Oh my 100 everything, is she doing the 300 workout?:laugh: Sound slike a workout my FIt instructor Becky would enjoy, hide that agility ladder.:laugh: It will probably be a quiet time here so I may rent Superman for the family movie and just relax as I work friday morning and all weekend, it seems like I may miss those Black friday deals.:ohwell: Then again I will shop online as I love that style of shopping best. Enjoy your thanksgiving with the family.


Have a great Turkey day but most of all give Thanks and celebrate all of the wonderful Blessings that we are able to celebrate.


Happy Thanksgiving Erika, Laurel, & Jessica!

Michelle:flowerforyou:

Hi Ladies! Hope you all enjoyed a great Thanksgiving. Our trip to AZ went well. My sisters and I actually had a lot of fun making Thanksgiving dinner together. I think it is the first time all three of us have been in a kitchen making a major meal like that. My mom left us to it, and in between trying to figure out where everything was and playing with different gadgets, we spent a lot of time laughing. But I must say......dinner was fantastic! My mom isn't doing very well, which was hard to see. But we all kept it as upbeat as possible and tried to make what we think will be her last Thanksgiving as special as possible.

But it was a very draining trip, and I am feeling it today. I did workout everyday we were there (and all weekend days since I last posted), taking only the days we were driving off. I am happy about that! Yesterday was back to STS with Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, which felt great! I followed it with Athletic Step. Today was STS Legs, and I think that may be it for me. I have lots of errands to run and, like I said, feel completely drained right now. So cardio may have to wait until tomorrow. :ohwell:

Tami, sounds like you had a very nice Thanksgiving!! And it sounds like your workouts have been great as well! We are back on the same STS schedule! :drinker: I loved having that to come home to, because it really motivated me to workout both yesterday and today. I might be sitting on the sofa otherwise! :laugh: What a nice Thanksgiving message to us! :flowerforyou: I feel the same way.....so VERY thankful to have these friendships here.

Laurie, congratulations!!!!!! :drinker: What fantastic news about winning that challenge!! I am also so happy to hear you are enjoying XTrain. I think the upper body workouts are some of Cathe's best, and they are definitely some of my favorites to do. I think combining STS and Turbo Fire in a rotation would be so much fun. I still love my TF workouts because of the fun factor. Combined with the more serious nature of STS.....perfect! At least for me. :blushing: I have no doubt you will reach your weightless goal! You are such an inspiration coming through your illness last year like you have done!!! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.

Michelle, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family as well. How is your MIL doing? I imagine this is a difficult time of year for her, but I am sure she appreciates being able to spend time with you and your family. I am with you on cyber shopping!! I avoid shops this time of year at all cost!!!

Erika and Jessica, hope you are well!!

See you tomorrow.....hopefully with more energy!

Laurel

Hi Ladies ~ Good to hear from you and sounds like Thanksgiving was really good for you both! STS Legs this a.m. and BootCamp after work tonight!

Laurel: I can imagine it was very tiring with the trip (which to me traveling is always tiring) and the emotional end of things with your mom. I’m sure you do feel drained. Huge kudos for you to do your workout every day while you were there! :flowerforyou: Yahoo. Did you do some that you downloaded then? That is SO great. Congrats on making such a fabulous dinner with your sisters. :drinker: :bigsmile: I bet that was so much fun and what a treat for you all to be laughing and enjoying the special moments. I’m sure it meant everything to your mom. Sorry to hear she isn’t doing well :frown: That’s so hard to see. Good that you were all upbeat and positive. Yes, I think we are on the same STS schedule now!! :bigsmile:

Michelle: Sorry to hear about your slip on the floor & your knee still bothering you . .:grumble: . definitely some modified workouts while you are in pain (which you already know) so it sounds like you have a good plan in place with Pilates and running – if your knee feels up to that. Your Thanksgiving sounds like it was very nice with your family. I’m sure that is tough to have your MIL be so down. Hopefully she felt the joy & laughter with you guys and it helped a little bit inwardly even if she wasn’t showing much on the outside.

Hello Erika, Laurie & Jessica …. Hope you are all doing well and had a nice Thanksgiving.:flowerforyou:

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies ~ Last night’s BootCamp was pretty good, lots of squats & lunges, along with some upper body at the same time. She often squeezes in upper body with a lower body to maximize our efforts I suppose. :laugh: Sometimes it feel a little awkward . . .rear lunges with tricep extension or squats with chest press. This a.m. I was running a little short on time so for Cardio day I did X10, one of the 40 min pre-mixes and tonight will be Insane-X!

Laurel: Nice that you got your energy back so quickly! :drinker: I had no doubts that you would be up to regular speed by today forsure. Great job with KPC yesterday and X77 today! :bigsmile: AGAIN we reach for the same one …. Your workout being much tougher with the “77” premix but still . . . pretty funny! :laugh:
Yes sorry about your weather :frown: We are at a high of 24 I think today and then dropping down tomorrow, next day etc. I heard on the news about your drastic temp drop. :noway: YOWSA. Bundle up. Thanks for sharing your workouts you did on your trip. It is SO great that you were able to do those and bring your weights as well. I’m sure the workouts did feel amazing after being in the car that long. Yikes. My ongoing interest with that of course is because I will be visiting my sister in LA for Christmas and once again wonder how I can get some workouts in. Not really an area I can go to other than their front room but then I will probably wake my mom who will be on that main level ….. outside maybe since their weather is always so amazing. We’ll see, but once I can figure something out it will be great.

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies! Insane-X was tough but not like last week. She incorporated some jump ropes into each round and we did do a few sets of lines as well.:huh: Seems like we did have a lot of burpees though :noway: STS Back & Bi’s for me today but getting my hair done at 5:00 so no Spinning tonight. Looking forward to getting my hair done though …. Kind of driving me crazy lately. I think the cold static air doesn’t help either! :laugh:

Laurel: Awesome job today! :drinker: Sounds like it was the perfect tri-fecta for today!! What a great day to stay in and make Christmas cookies is right. :bigsmile: That sounds so nice. We don’t have the snow, just cold. I think the forecast is just for COLD weather, but no snow … yet. Thank you SO much for your suggestions on the workouts:flowerforyou: Maybe I will purchase at least one of the downloads and I do have TravelFit with the bands so that is quiet. If I stay in the house I need to be quiet as to not wake everyone :frown: so that is the only thing with an Insanity DVD being my "go to". In the a.m. is the only time I will be able to get in a workout with my nephews up and about. If I go outside then I forsure need it downloaded on my Ipad or something to follow along. OR I do the homemade workouts maybe incorporate some Insanity moves and bring my jump rope as well … again outside. We’ll see. I have a few weeks to figure something out.

Thanks again …… talk to you tomorrow!

Tami

Hi Ladies! Today started with Great Glutes, which I really enjoyed today. I followed it with the Scrambled Eggs premix from Body Max 2 which hit the legs a bit more. Then I did the core work from that workout since my ab/core work this week has been kind of light. The workout felt good today.

Michelle, what a great combo of workouts!! Sounds like a great blend of different styles. $10 gift exchange? Those are hard. My lazy fall back for things like that usually ends up being a Christmas ornament, but, anymore, nice ones are hard to find for $10. Other options might be a box of notecards (if they are notecard people), a bottle of wine (if they are wine people), something like a fleece throw (which I think you can find for around $10 at places like Ross or Marshalls), a candle, or a coffee mug (Michael's has some big Christmas mugs for $3.00) filled with chocolate or a packet of hot tea/cocoa/etc. Just some thoughts. Hope you have fun!! My secret when I make cookies is I leave just a couple out for DH and I to share....and the rest go right into the freezer since they are gifts. That way we get to enjoy a little......but not over-enjoy, which I have been known to do at times.

Tami, sounds like a good class. Hope you enjoyed your hair appt. My hair isn't enjoying the dry air either. I have taken to trying to 'heavy condition' it a couple of times a week, and the lady who does my hair is impressed by the changes. But, sadly, it is time consuming and when I don't do it (like when we were in AZ last week) my hair reverts to the dry bird's nest that it usually is. :ohwell: :blushing: Anyhow, I have been meaning to bounce a thought off of you about Meso 3. I am thinking about substituting out the Squat Rack leg routines for other Cathe leg workouts. I would, of course, do the Plyo Leg routines as we have them scheduled. But as we get closer to Meso 3, I find myself dreading those really heavy leg routines where I have to strap on a weight vest and wrist weights (along with my dumbbells) for 6-8 reps and then those LONG breaks where I usually wander off to do some housework. :laugh: I have thought about doing our rotation as is one week out of the two we are doing each disk. But I have also thought about moving Plyo Legs to Monday or Tuesday (we currently have cardio scheduled for Monday and Squat Rack Legs for Tuesday) and handling Thursday and Friday like we are right now. That would eliminate Squat Rack legs all together. Anyhow, I just wanted to share this with you in case you wonder why I am going off-task come Meso 3! :laugh:

It is definitely cold here. We got to about -8 last night, and it is 10 right now. We only got a few inches of snow, which is good. To be honest, I am enjoying this weather right now. I like it to feel like winter around the holidays!! Of course, I haven't had to spend too much time out in it the past couple of days, so that opinion may change very quickly as I get busier today and over the weekend!

See you tomorrow!

Laurel

Hi Ladies, very quick check-in for me today as I am headed out to a Christmas brunch. But I got my workout in early, so that makes me happy. And I am taking fruit, so I know I will have something to eat! I started my workout with Pyramid Upper Body today, which is always good. I followed it with the cardio combo of Hard Strikes (cardio only) and Turbo Fire 60. Fun!

Tami, yay for being on the same wavelength with Meso 3 Legs! I usually enjoy the heavy stuff, so I have always enjoyed Squat Rack Legs. But, like I said! I am dreading them for some reason right now, and I am just going to go with that!! Glad you are enjoying the new hair do! Did you do anything different? Hope you have fun at your Christmas Party. Yep, I end up baking every year, no matter how many times I say I am not going to. But, at the end of the day, I enjoy it, and I think my husband's staff and co-workers do too. At least I hope so! :laugh:

Cold again today. It was -16 when I got up but has warmed up to -3!! It is supposed to be a bit warmer this weekend. Hope you all enjoy the weekend!

Laurel

Hi Ladies – Workout today was Pyramid Upper Body, which is always a great workout! Headed to a couple holiday parties right after work. Really missing my pm cardio just from Wed & tonight :frown: but next week will be back to normal other than Friday. I’m planning on getting in a good cardio this weekend at least. Maybe not tomorrow but Sunday forsure! Volleyball is over for the first league until beginning of Jan. so I will have more time on Sunday a.m.’s

Laurel: Hope you had fun at the Christmas brunch. Sounds nice. :bigsmile: Great work getting the workout in before you left ~ fantastic cardio combo! Oh, and good pick on the upper body workout today :laugh: I’m sure it was lots of fun. Nice job preparing something you know you will eat. I have learned to do that as well. Our staff potluck is coming up and I am planning on bringing something hearty & healthy … maybe good Quinoa salad. Most of the ladies that attend bring really heavy foods or desserts. Nothing different with the hair, as usual it’s just a color touch up and trim. I’ve been wearing it longer this year and often think about “something different” but that would mean cutting it shorter most likely. So for now, same ol! :laugh: :blushing: Hope your temps do warm up a bit. That is TOO cold forsure!

Michelle: The scarf is a perfect idea, everyone loves a scarf & in leopard print, you can't go wrong there I hope you are enjoying your day off and good on ya for getting in your treadmill/Pilates workout prior to your R&R.

Hope you ladies enjoy your weekend! Talk to you on Monday :flowerforyou:

Tami