Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies! I managed to get 2 workouts today! This morning I did Jessica Smith Low Impact Hiit and tonight XT CBS w/u, HasFit Back & Biceps, Treadmill, Stretching. I am loving working out with Coach KozaK. This week's routine is all about going for fatigue with high reps so you can't really go heavy. Totally loving these workouts.

Thanks all for the congratulatory comments! What a relief! I got up early to study because there was one area I didn't have a chance to review last night. Something was telling me to review that stuff. Glad I did!

Laurie, great workout this morning! Is the wedding day finally here? Wow! How exciting! We want to see pictures!

Tami, great workouts! You had a busy weekend! Good job with the meal prep for the week! Such a time saving thing to do on the weekend!!

Laurel, awesome workouts! How exciting that you guys went to the Arctic Circle! Did you take pictures? Can you share some with us? I was just looking at some frost heaves pictures online and it can be be pretty bad!
DH and I used to watch Ice Road Truckers! They always talked about the Dalton Highway! I can't believe you did that long trip in 12 hours!
Passing that exam is a huge relief.Believe me I didn't want to take that exam or study for it. It was a mandatory thing at work that affects my performance review!
I have taken my workouts up a notch for sure. I've also cut back my calories because that is the only way I'm going to lose weight. I really feel that these HasFit workouts are changing my body. My body is actually loving these workouts. I don't dread them like I would dread some of Cathe's workouts. I think Coach Kozak is going to make it possible for me to actually have arm definition. I'm seeing my arms changing and I'm only on week 3. I am definitely going to do the 90 day rotation after I'm done with this one.

Have a wonderful week ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies ~ Last night was a good BootCamp class, felt like it flew by. It was a lot of strength based training along with some abwork; mostly back/bis and some legs mixed in. I hit the snooze this a.m. so will forsure head to Insane-X after work; we found out that the head trainer shot down Katy’s idea of the Tues/Thurs. Insanity Combo class. I thought she had it but she was actually presenting it to the head trainer who runs the classes. She is the one that took over the Thursday night Strong class and it isn’t very good since she took it over. I think she is worried Katy’s attendance will be much higher than hers. At any rate that is sad news for some of us.

Laurel: What a great picture of the 2 of you! Sounds like an amazing trip to the Arctic Circle! That alone sounds so impressive. Funny that tiny little town had like 3 buildings in it. Great job getting right back in it on Sunday with your killer workouts and again today with a great combo. Weekend was very busy and flew by for me forsure. We actually and FINALLY had weather go down into the low 80’s plus we had some wind and rain the other day so it blew all the smoke back to Canada. We are so relieved. We haven’t had clear skies in soooooo long. Its very refreshing.

Thelma: Fabulous job getting in your 2 workouts yesterday! Sounds like you and Coach Kozak are really hitting it off well! That is so nice when you find some workouts that just seem to click, so congrats on that! Yes, I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t meal prep each week ….. by the time I get home from the gym and shower it is after 7pm.

Hi Laurie – Hope you are having a good day!

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies! Another good workout today. I have really felt like pushing it with both strength and cardio this week, so I am just going with it. I know that will change back to my 'I don't want to!' whining soon. So today I did STS Disk 32/Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps, and lifted as heavy as I could. For cardio, I did a Cathe Live combo. I started with High and Low Impact HiiT w/Step from three years ago. I loved this workout! It was filmed about the time RWH came out, and it alternated Low Impact moves from RWH LI HiiT One with high impact Step moves from Plyo HiiT Two. That Plyo HiiT Two is not my favorite workout, but having the lower impact moves in between really made the workout feel safer for me. It was about 30 minutes of cardio, so I added on another class from this year which was Low Impact Cardio HiiT, which combined some RWH moves with moves from ICE Low Impact Sweat. Good stuff!

Tami, that's disappointing about the Tuesday/Thursday class. It sounded like such a good idea. I hate to think the idea of competition on one night is what stopped it......but things like that do happen. So glad to hear you have cooled down and are getting some fresher air. We have definitely hit early fall with temps in the 60s (and not going up anymore) with the leaves rapidly changing. I have all the windows in the house open as much as I can (though it has been raining) because in six weeks, we are technically (per our lease) supposed to close them and keep them closed until May. So I am trying to take in all the fresh air I can right now!

Thelma, yuck on waiting at your eye doctor's office so long....and still not being seen. I would have felt poorly after sitting there like that as well. Glad you felt better after some rest and were able to do a workout. I think I would have stayed in bed. I looked at getting some Bowflex dumbbells when we were toying with me splitting my time between Alaska and Florida if our house didn't sell since I know you and Tami use them. But I was wondering how they would feel on some moves. I think with my wonky shoulder and not having full range of motion in it I might have struggled on some shoulder moves, especially anything done at a faster pace. I may still try them down the road when I need to downsize my workout room footprint, but I think I might always keep my lighter dumbbells for shoulder work. We'll see. Maybe I will never have to downsize! A girl can dream.

Laurie, thinking of you this week and hope all is going well!

Until tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies ~ Sorry I missed you all yesterday….. was doing a little more training on our new system and then had a lunch date with my DH, so that was nice. Tuesday evening was Katy’s Insane-X and she did stations in the gym area w/ a partner. Box Jumps, Heavy Plate pushes, candlestick-into-handstands, jump ropes, Heavy KB swings, wall balls and Sprints as the last station. It was a great workout. Yesterday was High Reps in the a.m. yesterday and Spinning in the evening. Both were really good. Today’s workout was PHA Training, no workout tonight. Not going to the STRONG class tonight, it’s just not as good as what it was when the other lady had it for that very short time. I will go if I am just “needing” a workout but otherwise will probably not go back.

Thelma: What an evening just sitting at the eye doctor’s office, how frustrating!!!! Amazing after feeling nauseous you were able to get in your workout, way to go. Thank goodness your watch did not fall off anywhere but your purse. Our little gadgets are priceless to us!! Isn’t that sad about Katy’s classes getting shot down. She didn’t address it to the group, just to a few of us and we were sort of discussing our thoughts about it. So nobody knows the reason forsure. Excellent workouts yesterday. Hope you have a great day today since it is your Friday.

Laurel: Sounds like you are feeling great this week, that’s awesome. Not that I can tell from your workouts when you aren’t …… LOL just that you mention that you are feeling like pushing it this week. It is sad but I think true on Katy’s classes being shot down. There really is no other reason in our heads and the gal that approves or doesn’t isn’t going to say “because she is being selfish about her own class”. Katy is kind of the black sheep of the instructors I would say and pushes the envelope so they make it harder for her to be creative; strange. Enjoy that fresh air! I know we are loving having windows open again without our house smelling like a campfire. Low 80’s and sunshine this weekend, which will be perfect.

Hi Laurie ~

Until tomorrow ~ Tami

Hi Ladies, tonight I actually got home at early compared to previous nights and I procrastinated. I didn't want to workout so at 8:45 I forced myself to go workout. I told myself just do the HasFit workout so that is essentially what I did. XT CBS w/u, HasFit Chest and Triceps, Treadmill, Stretching.

Tami, another tough BC class! Glad you liked it. I can just imagine your disappointment when Katy told you her proposal for new classes had been shot down! I hope a nice lunch date with your DH!
I would've been devastated and lost if I had lost my fitness watch! Our little gadgets are definitely priceless to us.

Laurel, great job with that tough combo today! Cardio Slam is hard by itself.
The Blizzard workout is really good. OMG if you hit yourself with normal barbells, you might knock yourself out with the giant BowFlex ones! LOL. Funny about your husband asking you how you get beat up. I hate it when I hit my kneecaps with the BowFlex's.

Have a wonderful weekend and I hope Laurie's DD has a beautiful wedding day. Lots of happiness to her and her new DH!
Thelma

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Hi Ladies! Tonight I did HasFit Home Bicep Workout with Dumbbells + Triceps and I walked on the treadmill for a little while. These two arm workouts fried my arms! Really good ones! I love that these workouts are really working my triceps like no other workout has done in a very long time.
In case you're interested here are the links. You're on your own for warm-up and cool down but they have links on each workout page that point to a warm-up and cool down routines.

http://hasfit.com/workouts/bodybuilding/bicep/home-bicep-workout/
http://hasfit.com/workouts/bodybuilding/tricep/tricep-workout-with-dumbbells/

I managed to get tomorrow as study day as opposed to taking the vacation day I was scheduled to take. Not only do I have to study for the exam. I have work training due and I have to review a document that is so badly written that I already have lots of anomalies to report.

Laurie, great workout! I hope I can stick to the attic goal! I googled how many days till 5/31/2019 today and I have 657 days till retirement! LOL. This doesn't mean I have 657 days to clean up the attic.

Laurel, wow! What a combo! Great job!
I'm so glad you checked out the HasFit workouts! Some are really, really good. I like that he does the exercises in different positions than I'm used to. They do have lots of workouts and they are free! I discovered that they also have a 90 Day muscle building rotation so I printed it out for later. I am thinking that I might want to do that next.

Tami, good for you for allowing yourself a relaxing night. Katy is going to love you attending her other classes! I hope you really like them!

Thelma

I just checked out HASfit.. I never heard of it. Looks like loads of free workouts. Thank you for the links!

Morning Ladies,

I'm off work today, but this will be short. I hope to post again later today with more "workout" information. Wedding update: The day was beautiful, and my dd was beautiful. The youngest did a wonderful job on all the hair, and the wedding started on time. Right now my parents are still here, and they will be heading out this morning to go home with my niece. My dd and new SIL held a marvelous party, the food was delicious, music was good and everyone commented that they had a great time. The wedding planner was well worth the money that dd spent. I'm going to make sure that everyone knows about her service, it they are planning on getting married. Here is a pic of my dd, hope to have a few more later in the week.



Talk again this afternoon,

Laurie

Sorry to intrude on this thread, but I have been considering trying Cathe workouts. Can you tell me what results you all have gotten? I am looking to get leaner and smaller and am worried about bulking up (I know some people say it is almost impossible for women to bulk from weights but that has not been my experience and I have seen some friends also get bigger without trying to--not that it is a bad look, it is just not what I am looking for so if that is your aesthetic please don't take offense). Would this be a good program for me? Thank you!

Hi Ladies! We had a nice weekend. It rained all day Saturday, but we got some work done around the house and some errands accomplished. I didn't workout, per my usual. Yesterday was the start of upper/lower week. I did S&S Total Body Giant Sets Lower Body Only premix x 3. I remember Tami did this premix and said something like 'it was beginning to feel a bit tough by the third round.....or something similarly mild. My reaction was definitely more . That is one seriously tough Lower Body workout, and I could feel it all over my body this morning. Wow. I did follow it with Cardio Core Circuit. Today was the Upper Body tripled premix from the Giant Sets workout (also tough!) followed by a fun cardio combo......Hard Strikes cardio into RWH Low Impact HiiT Two. Felt perfect on this tired body.

Laurie, that photo is amazing!!! Your DD looks so beautiful. I am so happy to hear that all went well. I am sure it will take a few days to catch your breath though.

Thelma, great workouts. That Boxing Abs looks good! Congratulations on getting back into your skinny jeans. You have inspired me to get serious again! I have been doing great in the workouts, but the diet......not so much. But with winter coming, I want to be able to wear my cute jeans. So the Fitbit is back on my wrist, and DH and I have promised each other we won't lead the other down the path towards cookies all winter. Want to feel more like myself before the first snow falls.

Tami, I am so sorry to hear about your DH! Back spasms like that are so painful. Hopefully some rest and medication will have him on his feet soon. Great workouts this weekend! As you can see above, I followed your lead in doing that triple lower body premix from Total Body Giant Sets. Yowza!! Thanks for the motivation. Don't know how often I will do that one, but I am glad I did it at least once!

afcgirl, I have done Cathe workouts for close to 20 years. To be honest, my results really depend on how much effort I am willing to put into the workouts. But I do credit Cathe's STS for helping me to lose 50lbs almost nine years ago. That was when I joined this website as well. She has a huge variety of workouts to choose from to help you achieve your results. To prevent bulking, I would suggest focusing on her more endurance-based workouts (higher reps, lower weights). She also has some great Circuit or Metabolic workouts that are great for overall conditioning but aren't traditional strength/muscle building programs. I don't know what your level of exercise is or how much equipment you have, but if I had to suggest a series to look in to, I would recommend Cathe's ICE series. This is a more intermediate series, but it has so many options to it that it is great for advanced exercisers as well. The series contains a couple of cardio workouts (Low Impact and Kickboxing), a Bootcamp workout (circuit), and Metabolic workout, two lower body workouts (one standing, one floor), and a very light upper body workout. Each workout also has an optional 'blast' you can do as an add-on or a separate short workout that is more advanced. In addition, the series has five Muscle Meltdown segments, each containing a high rep program for each upper body part. Finally, there are two good core workouts. So, in other words, there is a lot on a few discs, and you can use the program in a hundred different ways depending on your time, your ability, etc. But, again, that is just a suggestion. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. Between all of us, I think we own all of Cathe's workouts. So if you have a question about a specific workout, again.....please ask. Hope this helps!!

Hope you all enjoyed the eclipse today. We only got a 33% coverage, so it was like a cloud passing over the sun. I saw a total eclipse back in 1999, though, so I know how fantastic they can be!

See you tomorrow!

Laurel

Hi Ladies! Tonight I did a really good combo: KCM 30MTF Your Best Body Cardio/Legs Pmx, HasFit 15 Minute Leg + 12 Minute Obliques Workouts, Treadmill, Stretching. I feel like I'm doing baby versions of Laurel's killer combos! LOL
I'm happy to report that I went shopping up in the attic tonight. I was specifically looking for my denim, white capris. They fit me again! This means I'm almost where I was last summer at this time! YES! I think I'm about one inch (literally 1 in) away from being where I want to be. I tried on the shorts I took to NC last September and they fit! I feel like singing "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it...." LOL

I just can't even begin to explain how much this HasFit workout routine has helped me. I think this is the shock my body needed as Laurel has mentioned in the past. My body feels different. My jell-o abs are starting to tone up. I can see it. I'm starting to feel athletic. Not that I know what that feels like but that is the word that comes to mind. I can see that my shoulder line is changing. I'm standing straighter. It's all good. I'm inspired to keep going. One of the things I love about the short workouts is that they allow me to incorporate a cardio workout which I couldn't do with the lenghty Cathe workouts. I think the cardio is making the difference.
BTW, that Obliques workout was a little bit of a killer but very good!
https://youtu.be/GZz5gw9l9Lg

Laurie, your daughter looks lovely. I was just looking at the picture and your yougest did an awesome job with her hair. She is really GOOD!


afcgirl, I really can't add anything more than what Laurel has told you. Definitely chime in any time you need help with choosing a workout or if you need inspiration!

Tami, great workouts this weekend! OMG your poor DH!!! Do you have a heating pad? That might help get the blood flowing in those tight areas.

Thanks so much Tami! I am very inspired to keep going thanks to these YouTube workouts.

Laurel, glad you had a nice weekend! You didn't workout like you normally do? Seriously? Your workous sound like killer workouts to me. So I think you DID work out as hard as you normally do!

The Boxing Abs workout is really good. I think you would love doing it.
Thank you on the congrats for getting into the skinny jeans again. I can't believe how good I've been about food. I wish I could always be this committed when it comes to food. It has been a learning moment for me. Clearly I was eating too much. I basically have cut anywhere between 50 and 100 calories a day. Normally I wouldn't have cut 100 calories given that my allowance is 1200 calories a day but I have limited time to lose the weight. This strategy is working for me. I'll have to count calories for the rest of my life cause it's too easy to eat too much. I also could never be without my fitness watch. This is an instrumental tool for me.
Laurel, I'm so happy to have been able to inspire you! Normally all of you are my inspiration! The diet is definitely key because God knows that I workout all the time and the weight stayed on. Clearly that says I was eating too much for the calories I was burning. You will feel like the Laurel you love in no time!

Good night ladies!
Thelma