Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout started with Bulk Legs, which always makes my legs feel shaky....but good. I followed it with my first spin workout since the move, which was Cathe Live Spin Those Wheels. It felt tough but really good. So happy to have my no impact/high intensity workout option back in play! I really missed it.

Tami, great workouts. Glad you enjoyed revisiting Afterburn. That one always surprises me with how sneaky tough it is. Glad you don’t mind a little extra lower body for this rotation. I was really enjoying doing the extra leg work before the move and think I was making a little progress on my stubborn, chubby legs. But that all got lost somewhere on the road between here and Alaska. So it feels so good to have a workout plan again. I am sorry to hear you didn’t get to put up your Christmas tree this weekend. My DH has, historically, been one of those guys who is completely indifferent to holidays, so several years ago I started putting up all the decorations by myself. It took about 12 years.....but now he gets sad when I don’t let him help. But I still prefer doing it alone because it gives me chance to reminisce....without somebody asking me where they should put every ornament on the tree. One of my favorite Christmas memories is, like you, baking cookies with my Mom. Ours were spritz cookies....and the mess we made with all the sparkles and stuff.... . I don’t quite know how she put up with it.

Thelma, yay on the punching bag! I would so love to have one, but, as you say, they are pretty pricey and take up some space. But how fun you have that to look forward to in your new home! The workout blender is part of a Cathe On Demand. It takes a little time to create workouts because you do it chapter by chapter, but this option finally allows me to retire my very old and antiquated multi disc player. Makes me a little sad to see it go....but it is time. We have ATT U-verse for internet and cable. The internet works really well. But the TV service is a little finicky. We got a couple of wireless receivers and I would not recommend them. The elimination of the one cable just isn’t worth some of the other issues. But the whole house DVR is really nice! So I am a little mixed on their service, but, so far, I am happy enough with it to not go with a dish or direct TV. We got very lucky on the snow this past weekend. We heard parts of Tennessee got hit pretty badly as well. Our temps stayed up enough, though, so that was good. If not.....we would still be digging out!

Laurie, great workout. I am glad your neck is feeling better. Hopefully it was just one of those passing things. Thank you for the info on the airports. I really don’t want to spend hours in traffic on a shuttle! I am aiming to get there mid-day on Thursday in hope that traffic even in Milwaukee won’t be too bad. And I don’t think I will mind a few extra hours at the hotel because it looks like a beautiful area. So looking forward to this! Sounds like things are getting busy for you with the holidays. Hope you get some time to relax and enjoy.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was 30MTF Athletic Conditioning Vol 1 W1 and Jessica Smith's Walk Strong 3 Barefoot Cardio Core. I think I'm going to be feeling the core work tomorrow, I'm feeling it right now. That is what surprises me about Jessica's workouts. They are not difficult, but she somehow sneaks exercises in that work the core good.

Laurel, Great job on the workouts, and that you have your spin option back in play. I always love the titles of those live workouts, they sound fun. If you are coming in mid-day you will be fine for traffic in MKE, it will be fairly light. Rush hour around here is always the worst time frame, and even that isn't bad compared to Chicago all day. Spritz cookies are so so good. That is one that the girls always enjoyed "helping" me with. You get to use the fancy cookie press and change the design. I'm hoping to relax a little on Friday, but I'm sure that I will be running somewhere that day.

Tami, Nice job on the workout and your classes. I think it may have been the way I was sleeping, but I'm really glad that it is gone. LOL, that is one thing I will never be is the boss. I love being in a position that is support, but every new boss has a learning curve. They start out trying to control the budget, and then just let me do it. I find it funny. I tend to do the same design with the same cookie, and my dd's get mad at me. They say all Christmas Trees don't need to be green.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, a quick hello just to let you know I'm alive. I've only done cardio for the last two days. I won't be able to workout tomorrow because we're taking a co-worker out to celebrate his retirement.
Great news! Our loan got conditional approval. We uploaded the w2s they asked for tonight so hopefully, that will be all the paperwork they need.

Laurie, glad your neck is feeling better. I also think you slept in a bad position. you really are busy with all that baking and cooking. Thank God the engineers don't get into potlucks or stuff like that. We just want to be left alone. LOL. I did see some people in the office carrying slow cookers and trays with food though.

Thanks for congratulating me on my review. Glad you counted how many work days you had left in the year! I have 5 more! I searched for Ulta Salons in Blue Ridge but they don't have them. The closest one I found was 1 hour away!
Keep up the good work with your workouts!

Laurel, awesome workouts as always!
I am excited about the punching bag. There was a kickboxing workout program that used one of those bags a few years ago. I'll have to find it because it looked like a lot of fun. So glad you can retire your multi-disk DVD player! I still love mine and someone in town gave one away last year so I have a backup! LOL Glad to hear you have ATT but Blue Ridge doesn't have U-Verse! Looks like we'll be stuck with Direct TV for cable. We do have whole house DVR with Verizon and we do like that too.
did you feel the earthquake TN had the other day? Glad you didn't get hit with that snow storm!

Tami, fabulous workouts! I'm glad you liked the BC class and instructor!
Thanks for the congrats!! I'm so excited about that punching bag!
So looking forward to my time off!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Well, the raking turned into a nightmare yesterday. Three hours, 15 bags of leaves and a very sore back.....and the yard looks the same. But at least I tried. If I had it in me, I would head out there again today. But I don’t have it in me. Could be my workout this morning because, despite being sore and tired, I decided to challenge myself. I started with Bulk Arms, which is my favorite in the series. My arms were feeling very tired though from the raking, so I did have to take some of the weights down a bit. For cardio, I decided to do a play on my HiiT Trifecta.....which is when I put together the three Shock Cardio HiiT workouts into one workout. Today I chose three different HiiT workouts and combined them into one. I started with RWH Plyo HiiT One into F/S Mixed Impact Cardio into RWH Low Impact HiiT. This was tough! But I loved the variety in it. Tomorrow will be a much lighter day, though, that’s for sure.

Thelma, thanks for checking in. Congratulations on the loan approval! I know I felt a huge sense of relief when that stage was met in the whole process. Such good news. We didn’t feel the earthquake here at all. I was surprised how close it was....but we felt nothing. You will have to let me know how you like Direct TV. We are going to stick with ATT for awhile, but if it continues to be so finicky, we may have to change. I will be curious how you like Direct TV.

Laurie, happy Friday-early! Hope you enjoy your potluck. I haven’t done that WS3 workout yet. Glad you enjoyed it and it sounds like it may be another versatile Jessica workout. Hope you enjoy the Deep Stretch. I have done that one and enjoyed it. It is a very thorough but pretty basic stretch routine, which I like. I think I will be reaching for her Yoga for Back Pain on Saturday since that one seems to work best when my body feels particularly tired. Or maybe Eoin Finn and his Magically Hips if I have more time. But, boy, whatever I do is going to feel good after this week.

Tami, hope you are well.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Cathe Live Rapid Fire Legs and Core followed by Cathe Live Jabs and Kicks. I am so looking forward to a break tomorrow, but it has felt really good this week to push my body a little. It needed it.

Tami, great workouts! I am glad you enjoyed your evening out. I am not a big fan of slush, that’s for sure. I like rain and snow, but that in between stuff.....not so much. You perfectly described how my raking excursion felt on Wednesday. I better get used to it though......or hire lawn care. I don’t have an instant pot simply because I feel I already have too many kitchen gadgets I don’t use enough. But I am intrigued by it. Hope Thelma and Laurie can provide some insight for both of us. I am sorry about the long week. Hope you get some time to relax this weekend and do something you enjoy.

Thelma and Laurie, enjoy the weekend!

See you Monday.

Laurel

Hi Ladies ~ Quick check in before the weekend! This a.m. was 21DFX Extreme Legs and tonight I will go to Spinning. I am also doin the Spin for Tots with my friend tomorrow a.m. at 7-8 and then we will go out for coffee. It is our Saturday to meet up anyway, so that will be fun.

Laurel: Excellent job on your workouts this week! I am enjoying the BB rotation. Thank you for being in it together, always provides good accountability .... which is what I am needing right now. lol

Laurie: Great job with the Sweat & Burn along with WS Boogie. Thank you for the insta pot info. I may truly consider it. IT is on SALE at Costco right now.

Have a great weekend ladies! Tami

Morning Ladies,

I did the Deep Stretch from Walk Strong 3, and it did feel really good. Sunday morning was Fit Split Bootcamp / Legs & Glutes. This morning was X-Train Bi's & Tri's. See how this goes, with doing the FitSplit & XTrain. I haven't really tried out the FitSplit workouts, so this should be a good way to try it out.

Tami, Great job on the workouts, and spin. Sounds like a good way to raise $, get your exercise in and have some time with your friend. I think that you would really enjoying having the pot, it would come in hand during the summer for sure.

Thelma, Dang on your DH having to work the weekend, I'm sure that he will enjoy the time off for Christmas though. Only a few more formalities before you have a new home.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Quick check in ladies ~ Saturday was such an awesome day! I feel so good when I hang out with my friend Carly. We did the Spinning for Tots for an hour, went to this super fun and healthy juice bar/breakfast lunch place and then did some power shopping all by 10 AM! The rest of my weekend was pretty productive but no tree. DH’s back is hurting still and so, well it just didn’t happen. Sounds like we are going to the in-laws for Christmas anyway, so I think it will be ok. I did bake some cookies for my sister yesterday, putting together a box of goodies, cards and misc. to send this week. Keeping it light and “emotion” free other than fun things for her.

Yesterday I combined BULK Chest and Back, knowing 99.9% of the time I don’t make my 4:30 wake-up on Monday’s anymore. So felt good about that. Today will be BootCamp after work.

Great workouts ladies! I will check in better tomorrow. The day just got away from me.

Tami

Morning Ladies,

This morning was FitSplit Mixed Impact Cardio and Bonus Abs (the ab workout is tough). I was okay with this cardio workout, it will probably get better the next time I do it. This was the first time I have done that workout, so I'm sure that once I get used to the moves it will be fine. Had to take some of the moves down to low impact, just didn't want to do to much to the knee with all those hops.

Laurel, Glad to hear that the yoga workout was a good one. Great job on the workouts, and going heavy with the weights. I'm going to try going up on the weight workouts each week on these XTrain workouts. Thanks for letting me know your favs for the cardio workouts on the F/S ones. It looks like the Shred Cardio is next week, so we will see how it goes. If I do the combo of weights with the F/S workout, I'm going to do the weight work first. I should have done that with the BB/L&G workout. Not that I didn't get a good leg workout in, but I don't think that I could go has heavy as I normally do. I want to try using my weighted vest for that leg workout also. That is a lot of trees, that explains you being so tired and still not being finished raking up those leaves.

Tami, Great job on the spinning and your workouts this weekend. I'm glad to hear that you had such a good time with your friend. What a great way to spend time with her. Dang on the tree, but it is totally understandable if your DH is having issues with his back. All of the things that you are getting for your sister sound wonderful. It has been really hard for me to get things for DH this year. All the things that he wants are items that I purchase on a daily basis. I told him that my heart was not into the items he wanted this year. I know they are things that he needs, but he can purchase them on his own for doing his car things. I found some Oldsmobile related items that he should really like, and he isn't expecting to get. I like to have some surprise involved.

Thelma, I think that you are looking forward to your time off just as much as I am. It is really hard to be at work this week. I just have to make sure that everything is done before I leave. Very nice that your DH received kudos for the hard work that he put in this past weekend. It will be interesting incorporating XTrain and F/S workouts. I don't think that I would have enjoyed just doing the F/S workouts alone, so this way I get some good weight work done also. Hope you hear some good news shortly on the loan.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Morning Ladies,

This morning was XTrain Chest, Back & Shoulders. Always a good workout. Only a half day of work for me today, we are going out to wish my old boss fond farewell. Nice way to end the work year.

Laurel, Great job on the leg workout and spin, I'm sure that your legs where feeling that. With this rotation tomorrow is suppose to be a spin DVD, but of course I will not have that. I'm going to dust off the elliptical, so that should be a good way to get in a good steady state workout. Thank you for the information on Shred Cardio, I'm planning on doing it on a 4" step. I'm going to preview it also, just to make sure that I have the low impact option in my head before I start. I know that Cathe does show the low impact in some cases, but it usually isn't until after the first pass thru. I plan on doing a lot of step ups and v-steps instead of jumping onto the step. It makes the workout so much more fun when I can take if down to my level, instead of trying to keep up with Cathe.

Have a great day!
Laurie