Who wants to Turbo?

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.