Who wants to Turbo?

How's it going, people?

1a1a - Congrats on getting that HIIT workout done! It's crazy how little time you actually spend working out during a HIIT workout yet it completely takes it out of you.

HIIT 20 & Tone 30 done this morning. And because I'm such a glutton for punishment I'm playing an extra game of netball this evening... not sure I'm going to have much in the legs for Fire 45 tomorrow morning!

Roll on Wednesday Rest Day....

I think i'm going to join this 20 week Turbofire program.

I've started it before (stopped at week 14) but let's hope I can keep it up now.

Woke up late this morning and had to hurry up and get ready to work from 1-10. I was exhausted when I got home..but I forced myself to workout today! HIIT15 is completed and although I didn't work as hard as I would have liked, I'm just glad that I did it. I also realize that I don't like to work out at night haha.

I'm actually doing the 20 week TF/CLX hybrid because my body always responds better to weights AND cardio. I love the way weight lifting changes my body comp so I'm doing them together.

The first 3 weeks of the program is all "Recovery" and focuses on a lot of abs/yoga and I've decided to bypass that, but didn't want to miss out on the burn circuits, so I'm doing the cardio set out in week 4 and supplementing in the burn circuits from CLX as fit.

Monday I did Fire 45
Tuesday I did Fire 30

Tonight is Burn Circuit 1 and I'm going to add in HIIT 15.

I'm going off the grid a little bit to change it up to suit my needs but I absolutely LOVE turbofire. It's sooooo much fun!!

Can't wait to lift those weights tonight.

Anyone doing this program, or both, feel free to add. I'm very dedicated to it.

So last night was hiit 15. I felt stronger and less likely to keel over this time compared with the first time I tried it.

I feel my muscles getting stronger already.

I feel like that last hiit was designed for folks who haven't had children!! All those squat jumps in the last hiit make me want to invest in some adult diapers. Am I the only one with this problem? Will my bladder get stronger? Sheesh. Day to day life I have no bladder issues and general high impact jumping is fine. Jumping and landing in a wide squat is no good for me

Today is supposed to be my rest day but i'm moving on. Does anyone else not schedule their rest days? With 2 kids, a full time job plus running my own small business, life usually forces me into a rest day.

I'm 28 years old, I have 5 year old twins....and I have SERIOUS issues with jumping and bladder control. It's appalling. I literally have to slow down on the jumping jacks or the jumping squats etc. It's also not that I have to pee. I will pee before I workout and within 5 minutes of the intense jumping, it's happening. I can relate and it's so annoying! Sometimes instead of doing all the jumps when it starts happening, i'll do the skip rope movements OR I don't jump into a squat quite as much OR i follow Ally's low impact movements, whatever helps. It doesn't affect my burn AT ALL and I'm always burning an insane amount of calories, so I don't push myself to do things that I just don't feel comfortable doing with the issue I have.

I don't take rest days. I find that If I do, sometimes I don't start back up again. It seems like even ONE rest day is enough for me the next day to feel like "meh, I don't want to" so I continue on with the program. Although if i'm feeling tired, one day I'll put on yoga or a lower intensity workout but I always keep those shoes being tied and the play button pressed. This is the only thing that works for me. If I put on those workout clothes and tie those shoes everyday and do SOMETHING, even if it's only 10 minutes, it works better for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where is everyone else? I'm on week 2

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

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

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

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

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