Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies, today's workout was yoga basics.

Laurie, nice workouts and a great workout plan for your vacation at the end of June!
I hope this rheumatologist is able to help me next week. I am happy that at least I can do yoga and Barre. I'd forgotten Irises came in different colors! Sorry, the wind killed your irises.

Erika, glad the bathroom remodels are going so well! Great idea to hire a painter. It will be worth it!

I am definitely having the GI doctor test me for Celiac disease.

Laurel, fabulous workouts! Sorry, the shower door guy was a no show. Nice of him to let you know though.
The hand swelling really stinks. My hands were better most of the day today but tonight my left-hand finders were pretty swollen.
I can't wait to go back to that little town so we can check out the Drug & Gun store. I'm sure you have stores like that in AL.
Sounds like you will have plenty of tomatoes for sauce and salsa! You will have a hard time going back to store-bought tomatoes for sure!

Tami, great workouts! OMG, that tourney under those weather conditions sounds awful! That was a long day too! I hope you had a great ride with your friend Ashley.

Thanks so much for those good wishes for my health to improve. I'm glad I have yoga and Barre. I can't wait to see the doctors next week!

Have a great day ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout started with Cathe Live Toasted Tri-Sets Upper Body. Then, for cardio, I did Cathe Live Step On It.

Tami, great workouts! I am sorry to hear the weather at the golf tournament was so bad though. It is no fun spending that much time cold! But I am glad to hear your weather is improving. While I am still following the format and theme of our rotation, this week has thrown me off a bit. But I plan to get back to the ‘scheduled’ workouts next week. I am looking forward to those Bootcamp workouts next week.

Thelma, glad you are still enjoying the yoga. Hope you start feeling better soon.

Laurie, great workout! I am with you on enjoying the variety. Both workouts I did today are ones I think I have tried.....but only once. I like that I need to concentrate more and focus on what I am doing some days with ‘new’ workouts. Other days I want to coast through mentally.....and those are my DVD days. I love having both options PLUS all the different workout types. It really helps to get me through my ever-increasing ‘I don’t want to workout!’ days. I am wondering if this type of ‘themed’ weeks rotation will become my norm only broken up when I want to do a longer, heavy weight rotation. Right now, that idea appeals to me. But, of course, that could change tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for a fixed shower door today! See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, today's workouts were gentle yoga and sculpting fusion. I can't wait to see the rheumatologist next week. When I was first diagnosed with Lupus and I was so stiff I was given steroids for a short period of time in order to improve my quality of life ASAP. I hope that will be the case this time too. My life improved with the first dose!

Laurie, nice workouts! I bet the car show will be a lot of fun. I'm sure you're relieved not to be dragging the classic car with you! Hopefully, the weather will be perfect! I got notified yesterday that a neighboring town has a classic car show the 3rd weekend of every month. We should go check it out!

Laurel, great workouts today! I hope your shower door was installed!

Tami, fabulous workouts! I'm so glad you had a great ride with your friend around the lake!

Hi Erika!
Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies, I had a better day today! I remembered that when I had my first lupus flareup I kept doing gentle cardio to help with the stiffness. I forced myself to move and it helped with the stiffness and swelling. In the process though I gave myself another plantar fasciitis flareup. I can't win! At least my fingers didn't swell up! No matter how fatigued I feel, I have to keep moving.
My workouts today were Jessica Smith low impact power walking, Barre, and Jessica Smith Zumba.
I finally got my car registered and got my GA tag!

Laurel, awesome workout combo!!! Yaay on the shower door!
I hope I get some meds to help me next week too. I had to take steroids for a couple of months back in 2010. They are very powerful for sure!

Hi Tami, Laurie, and Erika!

Have a wonderful weekend ladies! I can't believe Friday is here already!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! For my upper body high rep workout today, I did Cathe Live Upper Body and Core Crush. For cardio, I did a really fun combo of Cathe Live IMAX Live into the LITE Cardio Party Calorie Crush. I followed it up with LITE Extended Stretch 2. It has felt good to do a little extra stretching these last two days, that’s for sure.

Thelma, glad to hear the workouts with Jessica helped you feel better. She has some wonderful body movement workouts that are so good at getting your body going without any impact or pain. I am sorry about the PF though. Mine has being talking to me too this past week, but I think that is the transition to summer shoes which aren’t so good on my feet. But it doesn’t seem to be getting worse, which is good.

Laurie, great job with the quilt!! I tried quilting once and thought I would love it. Sadly it just wasn’t for me, but I think that’s because I lack creativity. I’m great with a pattern, but when I have to come up with a plan..... . Love your idea about making the house an old-style camper. Cathe doesn’t have too many workouts in the 10-15 minute range, that’s for sure. She does have a lot of options like that in her Live workouts because she does so many blended workouts Live, but I also know that’s not really an option for you. As far as DVD, she has a couple that are shorter, but only one that I found that was less than 15 minutes.....and that is the lower body only premix from her workout High Step Training. The upper body only premix is slightly longer, but still under 20 minutes. Do you have her beginner DVD of Basic Step and Body Fusion? She has both upper and lower body workouts on that DVD which are 20 minutes long. For upper body, I think the upper body work in Body Max 2 is about 20 minutes, but that is without a warm-up. Muscle Max lower body premix is right around 20 minutes I believe, and I think the LIHI Leg Strength only premix is not far off that. But if you don’t have 20 minutes, those won’t work. Sorry I can’t help more! Great workouts, btw!

Tami and Erika, hope you are well.

Enjoy the weekend!

Laurel

Hi Ladies! Hope you enjoyed the weekend. Ours was warm but nice. Saturday we golfed on a course in a neighboring town, which was fun. Yesterday was chores around the house, which wasn’t as much fun. For workouts, on Saturday I did a Jessica Smith HiiT Strength Pilates Yoga mash-up. It was 69 minutes long but flew by. I really enjoyed the blend and nothing about it was too tough. Yesterday was another fun blend of ICE Bootcamp with the Blizzard Blast into Cathe Live ICY Lower and Upper Body Blasts. The latter was formatted like the ICE Bootcamp workout but didn’t use a step and didn’t do a core segment per round. Today’s workout was Cathe Live Lower Body Bootcamp followed by XTrain Ride.

Laurie, glad you had a nice weekend despite the chilly weather. Bet you are ready for summer to get there. The humidity kicked in yesterday giving us a taste for what summer will be like, but that it is the middle of June and it is just getting here in force tells me the Alabama summer has nothing on the Florida summers! I am enjoying the heat so far. Great workouts! Hope some of those recommendations helped. I have not done those workouts on the Body Fusion DVD so if you do them, please share how they are. That is one (of two) DVDs of Cathe’s I didn’t have but picked up at the Road Trip. I am glad you are enjoying sewing again. My passion for my hobbies really cycles now....much more than it did when I was younger. I am always happy when I get back an interest in a hobby that I thought might be lost to me forever.

Until tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was RAW Hi-Low Cardio. This workout was instructed by Kelly's niece Tatum, and she did a great job with the workout. Going out tonight with DH's family to celebrate my MIL's birthday. She turned 94 yesterday.

Laurel, Glad to hear that you had a nice weekend of golfing and warm temps. Love the workout combos. We are still having to wear jackets in the mornings around here, but at the end of the day it is fairly nice. Just wish that I had more time in the evenings to enjoy it without getting eaten by mosquitoes. I sure can tell the difference when the humidity is around, we had fog this morning. Sure did sweat a lot. I will let you know how that workout goes with heavier weights, I will probably try them out after our vacation. Will have some time off for the 4th, so I can do some longer workouts. Of course a lot of that time will be spent in the garden. With this weather, we have not had the chance to lay down mulch. We also plan to extend our patio a little, because we purchased a swing.

Tami, Great job on the workouts! LOL about the Monday mornings, they can be brutal. I think it is because we try to get so much into our weekends. The RAW workouts are really a lot of fun, and since my DVD player is acting up, it has been the best option for me right now. Thanks on kudos for the quilt. That is one thing that scares me a little about my grandmother having macular degeneration, just hoping that I don't lose my eyesight. My sewing machine is a Kenmore that I purchased when I was 18 years old. When we brought it in to get repaired, the repair guy said to never get rid of it. Apparently the new models are all built of plastic, where mine is metal. Who would have thought that ordering a sewing machine from the Sears catalog would be such a good choice. I love that you want a summer with no smoke and sunshine. With all the rain that you got, I sure hope that is something that will not happen.

Erika, I'm sorry to hear about the problems with the remodel. I'm sure that is really frustrating. Great job on your workouts, hope you enjoy the rotation. If you plan on going to classes, look at your local tech school. They have night courses for quilting, at least they do around here. The other option is to look at quilting stores that have classes. The tech course is the best, because you have a full semester for learning. The one day quilting classes do not give you enough time to really apply the techniques without help. I don't think that you can go wrong with either RAW or Cathe Live as an option. They are both really good.

Thelma, Awesome job on your yoga/barre workout. I'm really glad to hear that you are finally at the point of getting some relief. I'm sure that you are ready to be back to normal. Thanks for the kudos also.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies ~ Very long day yesterday but I was happy the meeting at Planning and Zoning didn’t go as long as the one a couple weeks ago. I headed home around 6:30 and DH had to go out with the clients afterwards. Today’s workout: S&S BootCamp! Such a fun one. I agree with Laurel on it being one of my favorite BootCamp’s of Cathe’s. Might get in a Peloton ride tonight after work. YAY.

Thelma: So glad the doctors appts are beginning and fingers crossed you can feel better very soon! Way to continue doing what you can do and taking care of yourself.

Laurie: Excellent job with your RAW Hi-Low Cardio. Enjoy your time with the in-laws tonight. WOW, 94 ~ that is something to celebrate forsure. Thank you so much for the kudos on my workouts! Love the encouragement always. Nice summer goal/wish isn’t it!?! LOL No smoke and sunshine. Maybe I shouldn’t push it. Just no smoke will be great!

Laurel: Another fabulous combo! Once again same BootCamp workout! As I said above, I agree it is one of the my favorite workouts she has for BC. That add-on sounds perfect. Way to go. Excellent job with your spin workout. I am glad you can relate to that feeling!

Have a great evening ladies!
Tami

Morning Ladies,

This morning was RAW Strength Back & Front. We had a really nice time with the family last night, sure is a bit different dynamic with my not having my FIL around. I think it was the first time that my MIL could talk about him without starting to cry. My BIL & SIL took her to the cemetery yesterday too.

Laurel, Great job on the bootcamp workouts! Nice that you really enjoy that one, I have mixed emotions with that workout. I should probably attempt it without the step once, and that would probably make me love it like both you and Tami do. I can believe that the workouts you did made you sweat buckets. For sure I'm keeping my sewing machine, it has been a great machine for me. I hope that we can use the new swing, it was raining again this morning. Hope that it clears up some before I get out of work.

Tami, Great workout, and I hope that you where able to get on your Peloton after work. Glad to hear that the meeting didn't go long, those can be so draining. We will probably be celebrating every year. This is the first time I heard her say she will live to 100. Usually she is predicting that she will not make it to see her other two granddaughters get married. I like the thought of no smoke summer, that is a good one.

Thelma, Very nice workout. So glad to hear that you are getting the support that you need to start feeling better. I hope that you hear soon about the new prescription. Yep the jackets are still on, and the umbrellas are getting moldy from all the rain. Not really about the mold, but it did sound funny. We do need to carry the umbrellas around with us all the time. I would thing that the breeze that you have is keeping those pest away, and that is wonderful. Will you be able to add in foods as you progress through this new diet? I'm guessing that you are trying to find "trigger" foods?

Have a great day!
Laurie