Cathe Fans Part 5

Morning Ladies,

The Jillian workout was a lot of fun with all kicking. This morning was XTrain Chest, Back & Shoulders, and I was able to up the weights on a few of the moves. I'm still slightly intimidated to up the weight on the chest flies with the movement from pinkie/palm/thumb. Maybe just a one pound increment would make me brave.

Laurel, Great job on making your leg workout yours with the shin problem. Sounds like your spinning workout was really good also. This morning we where greeted with a half inch of ice for our walk. Talk about keeping yourself stable. I love that you had your windows open, that sounds wonderful. I think that I like that she gets those step ups in the PLB workout out of the way at the beginning of the workout. I can then enjoy the other moves without dread. I'm probably going to do a rotation of this series after the Road Trip, I still want to try out the upper body workouts too.

Thelma, I'm so glad to hear that you got all your items moved into the new house. Your neighbor sounds awesome, and how nice that you got to watch the game. I can imagine that your DH was really tired after all the driving and moving of furniture. Sounds like your new location has some really nice people living there. I think all that moving that you did is enough for working out.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Morning Ladies,

Still having the ice problems again today. It started raining while I was working out, so we didn't get out for our walk. We didn't want to attempt walking in the rain/ice. Rocket was sliding all over the place just getting into the car this morning. My workout was 30MTF Step Boxing 2 Workout 1 and Jillian's App Day 2. I think that I used the right weights for the XTrain CBS, because those body parts are sore this morning. It felt good to do some boxing moves.

Laurel, Glad to hear that you shins are feeling better. Great job on your workouts. I enjoy that Bi&Tri workout for that same reason. It seems that you can really go heavy. I'm really noticing my biceps right now. I'm glad to hear that the spinning is still feeling good, and I can understand why you would be glad to move onto other cardio after this week. Good to know on the Pyramid Upper Body about that move, I'm not a big fan. Totally understand why she does that move, but it feels so awkward. Cool on the LiTe workouts after the Road Trip.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, it's been busy around here and today I spent doing a lot of driving to the veterinary hospital because my kitty had a dental today.
All I've done is cardio the last two days. I am exhausted.

Laurie, great job keeping up with your workouts! Too bad you're having those icy conditions. Poor Rocket sliding all over the place!! Please be careful!
We were so happy to have moved all those things to GA and nothing got damaged! We are really happy with our neighbors too. Too bad the builder is selling his house though.

Laurel, I'm so sorry about your injury! Are you icing or applying heat?
How nice that you have all those walking paths around there! I can do a few laps going up and down our road probably. It's about 1/4 long and there is a hill.

I am so amazed with my DH. He is such a hard worker. He definitely was a human machine with all the heavy lifting and the driving he did during those 5 days.

Please take good care of yourself!!

Tami, I hope you're having a great time!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Not much new to report today except I am already restless. It isn’t even noon yet. Oh well. Actually, my leg aches some but it isn’t doing too badly. I had no problem sleeping last night (without the prescribed muscle relaxants) and my restlessness is a sign to me that I am not in too much pain. But I am taking it easy. I have two books next to me, movies in the DVD player, and my crochet project at my side.....so not a bad way to spend a somewhat chilly day indoors.

Thelma, I haven’t applied either ice or heat to my leg. I told my DH this last night, and I explained that it really felt like all I needed was some Icy Hot (which worked great) and Tylenol. There is no swelling, so that is why I am not icing. But yesterday since the injury was new, I was hesitant to put heat on it since it isn’t recommended for new injuries. The doctor I saw didn’t even wrap it because of the lack of swelling and the fact that, as she put it, I have great stability in my knee (which makes me optimistic, to be honest). I have no doubt you are exhausted after the past two weeks! When are you heading back down to BR? Hopefully you have a little time to recover more.

Laurie, great workout! But yikes at the weather change. I bet you are glad it is Friday. Hopefully you have a quiet weekend planned ahead and can avoid as much as possible all the bad mess outside! It is never fun being injured, that’s for sure. But this is one of the rare times I hurt myself doing something somewhat related to the injury....lifting weights. Usually I go down with a bad injury from doing something like.....sneezing. Or walking up stairs. So I was happy to be able to tell the doctor it was a fitness related injury as opposed to my own clumsiness!

Tami, hope your trip is wonderful!

Enjoy the weekend.

Laurel

Hi Ladies! Not much new to report on my leg. While in some ways it feels better, when I take a wrong step . I know I am being extra cautious with it since DH is gone and I don’t want to be alone and have it go out on me completely. But I am doing okay and trying not to let it get me down (too much) right now. I suppose it is a good thing (?) that I have so much experience with injuries that I am well aware that with time comes healing. So four days in is a little early to be impatient.

Laurie, I am sorry to hear about the ear ache, but glad it feels better today. There are few things worse than an ear ache because there is no way of getting away from it. Great job with the Stacked Lower Sets workout. I love the idea of a weighted vest with that one because there are no moves where it would be tricky. Great idea! I always keep a stash of baby yarn around the house because I absolutely love working with it to make baby blankets. I find it so relaxing. So I am making a baby blanket. I figure there will always be somebody who would want a handmade blanket for their little one. I am about half way through with the one I am making right now.....and trying to stretch it out until DH comes home and can get me more yarn for another project from my upstairs stash. Stairs are just a no-go for me, unfortunately. He’ll be home on Wednesday night so the timing could be perfect.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, I finally had a proper workout today! So happy! I went to the basement to try one of Cathe's new workouts and for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to switch the tv to the dvd player. We took my other tv to GA and this tv is apparently set up differently. I ended up doing a 45 circuit Popsugar Fitness workout called 45-Minute Workout With Weights to Boost Your Metabolism. It was good and I might just keep doing popsugar workouts for now. Lucky for me right after the popsugar workout a fitness blender stretching workout started so I did it and I followed that with a spinal massage with my lacrosse balls.

Packing continued over the weekend with kitchen stuff but it's a lot less. Now it's a matter of going through things, like papers, photos that I really need to look at. Then I have to attack the attic again. Probably get rid of more stuff I've set aside to look at later. I really want to do as much as I can to help DH before I move to GA. He intends to do this second trip in one day too but it will take longer since we will have the cats. They will need food, water and potty breaks. We will be driving my Jeep and will haul a U-Haul trailer.
My BIL will come here on Monday to pick up furniture they want and will take it with him. Yes! I've been cleaning walls and that has been a workout! I read online that Mr Clean Magic Eraser sponges get scuff marks off wall, and those things do work! I've done a bedroom, a staircase and a room downstairs. I am so happy with the results because now DH won't have to paint all those walls. He will have to do the wall trimming. Once I'm done with the walls, I'll move on to cleaning windows. I have about 5 1/2 weeks left to do all those things.

Laurie, great job with your workouts! Congrats on going up with your weights! Sorry about your earache. I hope you're feeling better! Great news from the oral surgeon with the procedure taking only 30 minutes!
I am definitely busy in a much different way in a different way now that I'm not working. OMG with the icy driveway and you guys not being able to get any ice melt.

Laurel, I'm sorry you're already feeling so restless but at least you have stuff to keep you busy. I would think you could modify upper body workouts into chair workouts like I did when I had my bunionectomy, unless of course your workout room is upstairs!
Of course you may get creative like I did the first time I had foot surgery. I would go up/down the stairs on my butt with the injured leg extended out. Think tricep workout! I used to have a backup on my back to carry things up/down the stairs.

I'm so glad the Icy Hot worked great for you! I would recommend Advil or Aleve though. I like that you're being extra cautious while your DH is away. I'm surprised they didn't give you crutches Laurel.
we are thinking of making the next trip to BR on 3/23. It apparently never stops raining there! I asked the locals on Facebook today if it ever stopped raining there, someone said: "only on day that don't end in y." I guess I'll be doing a lot of reading too! LOL
Bookbub.com offers some free ebooks on a daily basis or some at very low prices. So far I've only seen romances when it comes to freebies even though I checked different areas of interest.

Tami, welcome back!! I'm so glad you had a great vacation. Great job getting back into your workouts!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Another day of nothing much to report. I am so looking forward to my Thursday doctor’s appointment so I can at least feel like I am starting to find a way forward. The good news is that I am improving every day. The bad news is it just doesn’t seem to be very quickly. But like I said yesterday, patience is a virtue.

Tami, I am glad you had a good time on your trip and were able to get in some workouts. I am sorry to hear about the rain, though. And those red eye flights are tough! Great workouts since you have been back as well, despite the long trip. I have no idea what is wrong with my leg, unfortunately. What I thought was shin splints seems to have become quite the knee injury. I remain positive that it isn’t something that will require surgery since I had no swelling and the pain is only intense if I put too much weight on it or twist in the wrong direction. I think Thursday’s appointment will lead to an MRI which will, hopefully, answer some questions about what was injured and how badly.

Thelma, sounds like you remain very busy with moving but are making good progress. We get about five inches less rain a year than you will have in Blue Ridge and, yes, it feels like it rains quite a bit. I thought it was an unusual amount of rain when we got here until I realized that everybody seems to be always prepared for rainy weather. But I will take it over snow any day, that’s for sure. DH did offer to bring my weights down stairs while he was gone this week for me to do upper body work, but, honestly, I decided a week off wasn’t going to hurt. But next week......I will have those weights down here and start doing something. This has actually been kind of a nice break for my body (injury aside) but much longer and I will go crazy!

Laurie, great workout! But yuck on the snow. I am glad your DH has the day off so you can find your house at the end of the day. My only thought about using the weighted vest on both the LITE lower body workouts is deadlifts. I think it would be okay with the Stacked Lower Body because if I remember correctly, there are only 10-12 reps on deadlifts per set. But in the Pyramid workout, there are, of course, 70 reps, so I don’t I would do that with the vest on my upper body. But maybe it is just me not liking to do deadlifts with the weighted vest!

Until tomorrow!

Laurel

Tami, it snowed in Hawaii!!

https://www.geek.com/news/snow-has-fallen-in-a-hawaii-state-park-for-perhaps-the-first-time-ever-1774043

Morning Ladies,

DH was a good guy and the driveway was cleared enough for me to get up the driveway. This morning was another day of just me and Rocket on our walk, because DH had to do some more snow blowing. The snow has stopped, but what a mess. There are a lot of cars that are buried in the snow, and it sure is causing some traffic situations. My workout was LiTe Rev'd Up Rumble with weighted gloves, and this one is fast becoming my favorite. I might try out the mish mosh with the abs mixed in at some point.

Laurel, I admire you taking care of your leg and not being tempted to try anything to hurt it further. I agree with you on the deadlifts. I have a vest that I can easily take off, so I'm going to for sure use it for the Meso 2 Legs. She gives enough time between exercises, that I think I can take if off or put it back on if need be. You are right that Pyramid workout wouldn't work to well with the vest. I have been watching some of the tips on Cathe's youtube channel from when STS first came out. I should probably have been watching them more often, because there are some really good tips in there. I'm really bad with push-ups, and now I'm going to wear my weighted vest to help strengthen my core in the future. I guess I should wear that thing more often, it appears to be a good tool.

Tami, Nice that you class was a good one, and great job on the workout. Don't you just love all of this snow. NOT, I'm really over it. Right now it is sunny, but cold. This week is my last week of the first month, and next week is a rest week. I really haven't figured out what I will be doing next week. It for sure will incorporate the LiTe Metabolic workout and probably the Upper Body one. Will mix in some Kelly and Jillian too. I will then move onto Meso 2 workouts. Dang on the snowblower hitting a rock, I hope that he is able to fix it. Dang on Katy's injury, hope it heals fast.

Thelma, Great job on the workouts, I was looking at a Popsugar boxing one yesterday. It looked fun. We had weather like yours last week, and then we got dumped on with all this snow. Tomorrow they say rain/snow mix, so that will not be a fun day either.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies ~ Workout this a.m. was XT Chest/Back/Shoulders, always a good one! Tonight I am headed to Spinning. I imagine we will have a sub-instructor since Katy is hurt.

Thelma: I saw that about Hawaii on the news! CRAZY weather. Great job on your PS Strong Legs and Core workout, Cardio Pilates and a Stretch. Way to go. I feel for you and Laurie with your super cold temps and all the snow. We have been hammered with the same thing but you guys have been dealing with it much longer. Yikes! We had a small break after last night’s storm and now we have more coming. BANANAS! I love that it feels like such a long time ago you were at work, I knew you would feel that way. You’ll be surprised how good it feels when you talk with your old co-workers and how glad you will be you’re not there.

Laurie: UGH on all the snow clearing you guys have going on. Our neighbor did our driveway this a.m. (SO NICE!) DH just hadn’t made it out there yet, but he did get it fixed luckily so we are ready for the next storm. DH pays him in Salmon filets when he helps out. LOL Excellent job on RU Rumble, I really enjoyed that one the other day! That was my first time trying that one. Thank you for the info on our rotation. I will need to make a plan as well for next week.

Laurel: I ditto Laurie on the admiration to just take a break …. I know its super hard right now mentally. I am glad your appt was moved to today. Can’t wait to hear your results. Thank you for the update on our rotation ….. once again I am not in the loop. Thank you for keeping me on track.

Have a great night ladies ~ Tami