Today was day 3 of Stage 2. My glutes are so sensitive that I feel them move when I walk :P It's like I was spanked for hours :P

icanm wrote: »

Today was day 3 of Stage 2. My glutes are so sensitive that I feel them move when I walk :P It's like I was spanked for hours :P

Love this! Something so so bad about sore glutes that is so so good at the same time

Hope everyone had a good weekend and is having a tolerable Monday! I was not very well all weekend and spent most of yesterday lying around feeling sorry for myself, but recovered enough today to head down to the gym.

Today was the 1B workout and this time I made it all the way through (more or less)! Yay! Upped all my weights too, though I'm still way too light on the deadlift. I'm going to have to go be brave and work out in the free weights area I think.

I found I hate the Swiss Ball crunches. I feel like I've read somewhere on a past thread that a lot of people swap them out for something else, but I'm not sure what -- planks maybe?

Pudding-yes! It isn't even thanksgiving here but the Christmas stuff has been up for a while most places. I'm with you, I like to shop when everyone else is working . Although we do some Black Friday stuff...the kids love to do that-I'm not into the crowds, but there have been some good deals.

Pmag-good to know. I've never been able to do a chin up or pull up...but I'd like to try! I'm gonna try stage 6 and if I can't do it, or feel like it's not going well I guess I can always just move to stage 7?

Did stage 5B3 today. YTWLs are still so hard for me!! And I'm only at 10 lb DBS still! I haven't made much progress there at all! Did up my weights on other ones though, so there's that!
Advice guy gave me pointers on my pjk today. Ugh. Just let me do my thing! I told him I'm just finishing up my plan...hint, hint. Leave me be!
And, bonus NSV, a lady I see most mornings there said she could tell I'd lost in my midsection/hips!! Woohoo! That's my goal baby! Made my morning!!

Julie, what a great compliment! Nice

Yes, SAHM is stay at home mom. Sorry! Taking short forms from another board full of SAHMs

I did Basic Training 3B today and it went okay. I've had to change a couple of moves though. I cannot do the offset overhead squat. It never felt great doing it in NROLFW and it somehow felt worse today. So, I did a back squat instead. Not the same at all but at least it's something to work on. Oh, and the push up with row is just a mess for me. I haven't been able to get down to many push ups on the floor so I certainly couldn't do 24 of these plus the row (12 on each arm). So I did them from a kneeling push up position but even then, I could only do six on each side I am thinking of just making that a push up so I can further work on those. Do you think its detrimental to be doing pushups in both the A and B workouts?

Juile, the festival once I found it was ok. I dragged my family all over downtown looking for it. I found a nice farmers market (by accident) that I will checkout more when I don't have 3 kids & my disabled mother in tow. Mon, Wed, & Fri I typically do double workout. I try to do some kid of cardio, or hiit M-F and I "rest" on the weekends. And 10lbs, thats awesome! I'm struggling with 7lbs.

Pudding, I also have no idea what you're talking about with the push ups & rows but its sounds awful, but good for you for trying. And I am not a fan of that over head squat either, it feels awkward.

Beeps, stay inside. That is unnecessarily cold. If you need to workout, do some youtube videos, lift the furniture, I see no reason to leave your warm house.

Doumc, sorry about the job. That truly sucks personally I find comfort in rum less calories & stronger.

Love, let us know what you decide. I'm still torn between SL 5x5 and strong curves. I wanted to look at the strong curves book before Idecide, but I can't find it in any store out here so I have to go online for info.

I hope everyone is having a lovely Tuesday. Happy Veteran's day to any of you or your family that served.

DouMc, sorry about the job. I somehow missed that earlier. I had three classes of wine on Saturday and it was way too much for me. After two kids and reducing my drinking to a few glasses a week for a while now, a few in one night does me in! Hope you're feeling okay now!

I also can't get low with the few pushups I can do on the floor. I swear my progress on them is almost nonexistent

Sam, I have coffee. Does that help?

Kiss the ground with your pushups people! lol Nose to the dirt

But I like pushups At the moment I'm doing spiderman pushups, jack knife pushups and working on my handstand pushups.

Sorry about the job Doumc (actually I was going to say "bugger about the job" but then realised that was an Aussie phrase and it may not quite make sense... lol)

I spent all day at a swimming meet yesterday. Made it through the day on breakfast and a cup of coffee as all they had on offer were lollies (candy) and variety of deep fried food. Blergh Got home and filled up on lovely lamb and vegetables instead

I'd packed yummy healthy food for the child and forgot about me - oops. The coffee was nice though.

It's definitely not cold here. Apparently we're in for another couple of warm days over the weekend - 42'C forecast for Sunday (107'F). Just need to make it through tomorrow and the school's awards night (loooooooooooooooooong night) and then we get Friday off thanks to the lovely peeps attending the G20.

Best get back to work!

Did Stage 1 Workout 6A and it felt great. I did push ups from the floor. I have never been able to do that. It was the best feeling in the world.

I also worked in with another lady on the squat rack and she was talking to her friend about doing 5 sets of 5 and I knew what she was talking about. It felt like I was part of a club that I would have never known existed until I started lifting.

Sorry about the job Dou, but I am sure the right thing is coming around the corner for you.

Pmag, those sound...effective! My hamstrings are crying right now just thinking about them. They are still sore from starting some single leg Romanian deadlifts on Monday in BT3B.

Snbouchard, welcome to the club!

Beeps, where in Mexico? Sounds lovely! Where in Canada are you again?

I'm supposed to see the trainer again today but think I'll have to reschedule. My youngest son is sick, just with a cold, but his voice sounds horrible and he has a cough that I think is a little too icky sounding to send him to the gym daycare. He woke up his older brother earlier, I put them back to bed, but of course I've been sitting awake since 5:30. It's going to be a LONG day! Maybe I can make the younger one have a nap at some point. Anyway, looks like it will probably just be some cardio for me today. Blech :P DH isn't hone until 8pm, so too late to head to the gym.

Oh well...hopefully I can get some stuff done around the house that has been on my list forever. I need to purge some old clothes and print some photos.

I'm back to being three days binge free again :P I got so off track there for a while. Must hang on!

Pudding1980 wrote: »

DouMc, sorry about the job. I somehow missed that earlier. I had three classes of wine on Saturday and it was way too much for me. After two kids and reducing my drinking to a few glasses a week for a while now, a few in one night does me in! Hope you're feeling okay now!

I also can't get low with the few pushups I can do on the floor. I swear my progress on them is almost nonexistent

Thanks. I am getting over it now. its just always a blow to the confidence when an interview doesn't go well, makes me doubt myself a lot! I recovered from the hangover but I think I will be going easy on the booze for a while (although I have dinner with the in laws tonight and they always push wine on me! If I refuse I swear that they think I am pregnant!)

I'm going to start trying to kiss the floor with my push ups dna but I'll probably only manage one! I have been doing jack knife push ups in BT1 and I really like them. i can feel my back muscles working while doing them. I'm with pudding on push up progress, it takes me so long to gain any extra strength with them.

dna, I would have gotten the 'bugger the job', maybe its because I wasted my youth watching home and away and neighbours but I know all the aussie slang

Beeps, I am jealous. I would love a holiday. its been too long. When I do get a job that is the first thing that I am going to do!

snb, congrats on the push ups!! Its a great feeling to be able to make it to the floor. i couldn't do that the whole way through stage

pma, I have seen people do those in the gym. They look lethal!!

I did my second BT1 workout B today. I have added more sets and changed things around a bit so it is much harder now. i like that. I now leave the gym feeling like I have accomplished something.

Julie, something simple does sound good after all this. I have this book on my kindle & I've had to make copies of the exercises so I can go back & look easily. I've had my son ask why am I making copies of my kindle. A plain old compound lift sound good & I can always so the strong curves or something else when I get bored. And WOO HOO no more BWM!!

Dna, Handstand pushups? Now you're just trying to make the rest of us look bad LOL. Do you do them against a wall or do you have the balance to do them without the wall cause that would be so freaking awesome! You are always impressing me.

Beeps, 10 days in Mexico, you're a genius. Hopefully that artic chill will be gone by then. Enjoy the beach & be safe. Living in AZ we never hear good things of Mexico.

Dou, they think you're pregnant if you don't drink, that's funny. I'd be ordering a drink as soon as I sat down lol. And good job switching it up & adding weights, Ilove that accomplished feeling.

Snbouchard, push ups from the ground, great job.

Pmag, that squat sounds interesting, I may have to give it a try.

Ali, just against the wall at the moment - my balance sucks lol
I can manage 5, but not all the way down yet. I used to be able to rap out 20 pretty easily as a teenager (okay, that was *cough* over 20yrs ago *cough*), so I have a long-term goal lol

Spiderman pushups are harder than I expected though! I think that has more to do with my core than anything else.

Pushups just make me feel awesome. That and chin-ups/pull-ups

snb, good job on your floor pushups!! As I said, they just feel awesome, don't they!

Beeps, Mexico sounds like fun. The husband is planning a trip. He was looking at Bali, but in all honesty, I don't think I want to go to Bali lol So we're looking elsewhere

Pmag, I've seen videos of paused squats. They look like a lot of hard work. I think I'll try and see if I can pop them into a workout later on - no pain, no gain lol

Pudding, hope your little man is feeling better soon! We've had something going around, both kids have been sick and today is the first day DH hasn't been wandering around coughing. I told them all to stay the hell away from me. I can't afford to get sick lol

Ellie, don't worry, you'll soon find out aaalllll about BWM lol but it's Body Weight Matrix. And it kills lol


Struggling to get motivated to work today. I need to, because so far November has been a complete bust other than a small wholesale order. And I'm taking my annual holiday come December 10. For a whole month - bliss. Well, it would be bliss except that it includes Christmas, and the older I get, the more my feeling is more along the lines of "Bah humbug, Christmas can bite me". Disclaimer: that's the commercialised version of Christmas. The religious aspect is perfectly fine. I just hate the gimme gimme gimme that seems to happen all the time.

<mentally re-applies "happy face"... smile dammit, smile >