Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies! Well, as you can imagine, we had a pretty busy weekend getting ready for the movers to arrive a week from today. Then we were up before 3:00am to take DH to the airport for his trip this week. That felt very early this morning. But after I got home, I did my workout. And now I am preparing for a day of packing up stuff. I hate how movers throw clothes into boxes, often with whatever they can find around them, like lamps and shoes. So I have taken to putting all our clothes into vacuum pack bags for the move. It is amazing how much clothing you realize you have when you do this. But that is one of the things on my agenda for today.

Anyhow, my workouts this weekend were good. Saturday I did another new-to-me Cathe Live call HiiT Fit Circuit. It was five pretty tough cardio and weight circuits followed by 15 minutes of barre. I followed it with Jessica Smith Walk Strong 3 Pilates and Yoga Fusion. Yesterday was LIHI Chest, Shoulders and Triceps followed by Cathe Live Fitness Fusion. And today was LIHI Back, Shoulders and Biceps and RWH Core 2 followed by Cathe Live Rock It Sock It Live.

Tami, I am so glad you had a nice visit with your friend. I hope you can do that again soon. Yes, it looks like everything is lining up on our house very nicely right now (knock on wood!). It is so exciting to think that in a little less than four weeks, if all goes well, we will have a new home. Both DH and I are so excited we can hardly sit still and wait for the actual move to occur. Quite a different atmosphere around the house than there was before our move up here.

Thelma, I am sorry your back is still bothering you. I think you are doing the right thing by taking it slow and light right now. I hope that isolated leg/glute pain goes away soon. That is not an easy area to stretch effectively. So glad you feel you have breathing room right now and are back to purging and planning. Have all my fingers crossed that that was just a bump in the road on your way to your dream home.

Laurie, glad you survived the axe throwing. I don’t blame you for not wanting to do that. Sometimes going off the rotation is a good thing.....and that sounds like a great workout you did this morning. I wish there were more options of cardio and upper body isolation workouts. Definitely like the sound of that one. Still no snow forecasted for here at all. I also saw today that it is supposed to be warmer than usual across the northern sections of the US in November, so I am hoping this October burst of winter in places will be autumn next month....and we will have smooth sailings to Alabama. We have decided to come down through Montana and South Dakota instead of North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, which is how we came up. I will miss the beautiful scenery in Wisconsin, that’s for sure. But this route has us on a busier road leaving Canada and we thought that a bit better this time of year.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, my back is MUCH better! Thank God! All the stretching I did over the weekend helped tremendously. Tonight I did XT Tri's & Bi's, JS interval training, stretch.

Laurie, great workouts and congrats on getting the Amazon card! We have something called 'You answered' award which is the same concept. One year I was asked to work on a special project and the VP gave me a $500 card! I bought a set of Calphalon cookware with that money.
I very relieved about having that worry off my mind. I am excited again about going to GA in December.

Laurel, you sure have quite a busy week ahead of you! Great idea to use space bags for your clothes!! I might do that too. I will need a lot of those giant bags. I bought some years ago but they didn't work. I must've gotten defective bags.
The isolated leg/glute pain is still there it's much better. I am excited again about our move next year. I need to continue with the purging process even if a little-at-a-time. I really hope the news I got a few weeks ago was just a bump in the road to prevent us from rushing into buying a house. Other houses we like have been listed since we canceled our contract and we are excited to see them in December if still available.
I am so happy this move is an exciting one for both you and your DH!

Tami, sounds like you had a good weekend! So glad Bernie had a good walk and that your DH will be home soon!
Great job with your workout and Volleyball! You ladies are great!

Both DH and I are soooo relieved things being safe now. My back is definitely a lot better. Last week I couldn't even stand straight and now I am walking normally and fast. Almost back to normal!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Well, it is getting harder and harder to motivate myself to workout. But I don’t think that has anything to do with the move. The sun not coming up until after 9:00am, though......so glad to be moving south, that’s for sure. If we were staying, I would be wondering how I was going to combat the inertia for the next four months! But at least I have this move to motivate me, so I ended up with a good workout today despite the ‘I don’t want too!’ attitude I woke up with. I did another new-to-me Cathe Live workout called Long and Strong Legs. This is the only Live workout Cathe has taped without a class. It was amazing to me how she managed to keep up the energy without a class to feed off of. It was a really good, tough workout of 30 minutes weighted work and 20 minutes barre. I followed it with Cathe Live Cycle Mania.

Tami, sorry to hear about the change in plans for the spinning class, but I bet Bernie enjoyed his walk with you. Sounds like a busy weekend, though. I am sure you will be glad to have your DH home. I hope this last week out has been worth his time after having to initially cancel it. Glad you enjoyed the Lean Legs and Abs workout. What you described is one of the reasons why I have a tendency to hold on to workouts even if I don’t enjoy them initially. There are so many I have revisited, sometimes years later, and really enjoyed.

Thelma, so glad to hear you are feeling better. Great workout!! Just a thought on moving....before you pack all your clothes out of dressers and such, make sure the packers want the drawers empty. We have had some moves where they let us keep the stuff in drawers and others where they don’t. And, honestly, I can’t figure out the reasoning on any of it. So just a thought to ask first. But I am happy to hear you are back to getting ready for your move and all is moving forward. Like I said before, I am a firm believer in the idea that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes it is difficult to find the reason, but I think there is always a reason.

Laurie, sounds like another great workout. I was surprised you said we might have gotten great fall colors in WI coming through in a few weeks. I guess I thought all the leaves would already be gone by then. We have been leaf-less for a few weeks now. But you have given me hope that we may still see some great colors in Tennessee and then where we are at in Alabama. I love the idea of enjoying another autumn this year. And, yes, go Brewers! Can’t say the Dodgers are my favorite team, that’s for sure. So I am definitely hoping the Brewers take this series.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

I'm still waiting for that Brewer win, I had to go to sleep last night in the 7th inning. I had this feeling that it was going to be a long one. Hopefully we win the next two. Anyway this morning I did GHUTV No Running Cardio for a warm up, JNL Fusion TKO Fat Blast and then I did GHUTV Total Body Stretch. This workout was a good one, with a boxing move and then cardio again 30/30.

Laurel, Love the workouts, and of course your one on one with Cathe. That is the way that Kelly's RAW workouts are, just her. There are some that she has with another person, but the majority are just her. The total fall colors are in the middle of the state right now, and we have about half color. I think that you just might have some fall colors to see. I have absolutely no love for the Dodgers, they just play dirty and are hot heads.

Thelma, You got in a workout so that is a bonus. LOL, I wish that I would get bonuses all the time, but I guess they figure that is part of my job. I enjoy getting these every once in a while, they also look good on my year end review.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies ~ Sorry I missed you all yesterday! So lets see I went home on Monday actually since it was my LAST at home “evening” workout I could do for a while and did XT Chest/Back/Shoulders, such a great workout. Yesterday was XT Legs and then I headed home in the eve so I could see DH at a normal time vs. racing in from the gym. No workout this am. …. As you ladies are familiar with hearing, when DH returns the sleeping factor gets a little tougher for me for a while. He came to bed a lot later than me due to being wound up from his day of packing up and leaving/excited to just be home and I woke up PLUS his alarm went off full volume at 3 AM. Yikes. But I will head to Spinning after work so that will be something.

Thelma: Glad to hear your back is doing better. Keeping everything crossed and sending good wishes that your house will sell fast! Very exciting for you both. Good job getting in your workouts too, I am sure it feels great.

Laurie: Sounds like you are getting in some nice combos that you are enjoying a lot! Your new ones, that is so fun how you achieved those. DH and I are rooting for your Brewers as well! He cannot stand the Dodgers (lol) and since the Yankees aren’t there he has to root for someone. Yes, as you and Laurel both mentioned that is exactly why we do hang on to these workouts. Some how they can come back around and be a favorite! We have had dark, cold and very foggy mornings so far this week. FALL is absolutely here. Beautiful days though, so I love that.

Laurel: Fabulous workouts! I am always wondering what workout you did following “I didn’t feel like working out mode” because it is still a killer combo. Way to go. Sounds like another great workout today. I wondered when you ladies have talked about the LIVE class formats if the camera is on the instructor (like our DVD’s) or not. Sounds like for the majority it is but sometimes pans to the class then?

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Morning Ladies,

Had a really good workout this morning, I'm enjoying these JNL workouts even though they don't have a warm up/cool down. I started out with KCM Strength & Stamina Bonus Step then into JNL Bicep Builder. This one was 3 circuits of biceps and then 3 chest. Now the chest work was all push ups, but it was so doable because it was for 30 sec at a time. A couple of caveats that I put on these workouts, Jennifer talks alot. If you are okay with Jillian, then you wouldn't have a problem with these. I'm always able to tune people out, so really have never had a problem with instructors like this. She also takes time to bring people up to the front. I'm okay with that also, it gives me a little break to catch my breath. Each workout has the option of music louder too. So far these workouts are great for add-ons.

Yesterdays Brewer game was a little disappointing, but they are headed home, so I hope that the fans can give them the boost to win two more.

Laurel, Wow sounds like you picked some really good workouts. So the step workout was Imax minus the choreographed step portion? I purchased the JNL set on Amazon, they have two different ones. The Basic is $15 and has 10 workouts. The complete systems is around $25 and that comes with 12 workouts and the speed rope. I ordered the complete, the speed rope is actually nice to use for jumping rope. She only uses it for one cardio circuit in each workout that I have done so far. You are right it is good for the boredom factor, since you are moving on after doing 3 rounds in each circuit. You can go heavy on the weight also, because she doesn't do any combinations, and you can go at your pace. The guy that she has doing the advanced is using heavy weights, and does move slower than everyone using lighter. Both options come with the tape measure also. I have so many tape measures it is getting crazy.

Tami, Great job on the workouts! Those guys and their snoring. My boss said that his wife was sleeping on the couch one morning, and he found out that he snores. I told him that she needs to wear ear plugs at night. I don't have to many problems with DH's snoring anymore since I started wearing them. I'm glad to hear that your DH is rooting for the Brewers, I'm hoping they beat LA, but our bats where pretty silent the last two games.

Thelma, Good job with the workout, and getting things all stretched out. LOL about Peanut that is great. I have only had Rocket lick my face when I'm on the floor. We have about the same amount of houses for sale in our subdivision, and personally I think some of them are over priced for what you get. I hope that yours sells quickly.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies ~ I had a great Spin class last night. It was not completely full but it was a good, tough class. Katy is fighting a hamstring injury so she had to go slower than normal but still always provides a great class. This a.m. I fought to get up but I did and did XT Bis/Tris. No workout tonight.

Thelma: Sorry to hear your back is acting up again. Good job getting in a little JS dance and stretching. I hope today your are feeling some relief and it isn’t worse. Yes, it is definitely exhausting for a while when he comes home. Just getting used to the “difference” again. LOL

Laurie: YAY on liking those workouts so much (again) sounds like there hasn’t been one you didn’t enjoy yet. I wouldn’t mind all the talking I don’t think either. Keep giving us reviews …. Sounds like a great one. I love how you mentioned the tape measure. I have several of those as well. Hopefully the Brewers will do good at home! DH does not want to see 2 teams he can’t stand face off in the World Series! LOL

Laurel: That does sound like a fun combo! Way to go. I am hoping to one day partake in one of those LIVE classes. DH and I were visiting about getting a new TV soon, so if it is a SMART TV I could try this out someday! Love how the ladies were flat on the floor and/or looking at Cathe. Hopefully I will be used to DH being home and the sleep very soon. I will remind him tonight to turn OFF his 3 AM loud car horn alarm.

Have a great evening ladies ~ Tami

Morning Ladies,

My workout this morning was KCM Lean Body Circuits Boxing Premix and JNL Fusion Lean Legs. This JNL workout wasn't as intense as the other ones this week, but it was all concentration on the legs/glutes. Again it was 6 circuits, 3 rounds for 30/30.

While I was walking into the building this morning I could see Miller Park (I work about a mile away from the baseball park), and the roof was open and the lights where on. We are going out to eat with our friends, but it is at a place that will have the game on.

Some not so good news, DH's Dad was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and it is aggressive. The boys are going to tell his mom today, and this isn't going to be good. She has this guilt thing going on right now. One comment yesterday was that she was murdering him. I don't think there is a day that DH isn't yelling at his mother, and he doesn't yell or argue with people. I feel so bad for him. I understand that this is hard to deal with, but don't take it out on your sons.

Laurel, Now those workouts sound awesome! I just love the sound of kickboxing and barre. Is the barre work like what she did in Kickmax at the end of the workout? Cathe class participants are doing the same thing that I do on tough core work it seems. Sometimes you just can't do one more, but these instructors are going like energizer bunnies.

Tami, Great job on the workout and your spin class. Sorry to hear that Katy is injured, but can still give you all a good workout. Sometimes it is so hard to get motivated in the mornings. LOL about your DH and the world series. There was a head honcho from the Marlins that let slip that MLB doesn't want the Brewers in the world series, because we are not a huge market. I know that I will not be watching if the Red Sox and LA are playing.

Thelma, Dang on you losing a person for your project, that has to be tough. The neighbors that we have across the street just put up the sign for accepted offer yesterday. I'm glad for them, and hopefully a younger family is moving in. That's what I need a cleaning lady.

Have a great weekend,
Laurie

Have a great weekend ladies! I will check in with you on Monday

Tami

Morning Ladies,

On Saturday I did 10lb Slimdown Xtreme Yoga. I took a day of rest yesterday, it was a cleaning and outdoor day for us. I still have more of the JNL workouts to try, but my knee was acting up so I may need to slow down on those, they are like the Jillian workouts for my knee. So I tried out a new RAW workout called Cardio Overload vs 1. In this one Kelly uses a weighted vest, and does low impact moves. At the end she put in some core/chest moves. Doing push ups with a weighted vest is difficult, but I did it on my knees of course. Overall a really good workout that I will do again. I then plugged in a Michelle Dozois Next Moves Cardio Core, this one is all standing core work. Nothing hi impact, so a good compliment to the RAW workout.

My MIL is doing okay with the news, only because DH and his brother explained that there was nothing that could have prevented this. They are not going to pursue further treatment, since he is 89 years old. He will be under hospice care, and they will make him as comfortable as possible.

Laurel, Great workouts, the leg workout really sounds tough after all the leg work you have done this week. I'm a little bummed about the Brewers, but they had a great season, so they don't have any reason to hang their heads. I'm looking forward to next season already. I hope that you have an uneventful moving process.

Tami, Hi back at you.

Thelma, Great job on the workouts, and your treadmill walk. I'm so glad to hear that you back is feeling so much better. I hope that your week is a good one.

Have a great day!
Laurie