Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies, I did Barre today. The RA flareup continued today with stiff fingers in the morning. In the afternoon the pain in my bones brought me to tears. I finally gave in and took a prednisone pill and an Aleve. I feel better and I and I will attribute it to the Aleve.

Tomorrow is our 16th wedding anniversary. We don't have any plans except to go meet our friends at a local Italian restaurant as we do every Friday. There is a BBQ and Blues festival going on in BR this weekend which started today. Tomorrow's event is pub-crawling at specific pubs. It's pretty much like bar hopping. We don't really drink so won't be doing that. The big BBQ and Blues event is on Saturday. There will be food trucks and Blues. I would love to do the Saturday event. It's in downtown BR which is 8 minutes from our house.

Laurie, I hope you and your family have a lot of fun in England!

Goodnight ladies and have a wonderful weekend!

Thelma

Hi Ladies, DH and I had a good weekend. I had to take meds to control the flareup pain in order to function. We had a great anniversary and went out to dinner with our friends.
Saturday was housework and errands day and dinner out. Sunday was great and a totally unplanned outing. Our friends invited us on a tour of TN. We went to a little town called Tellico Plains, TN for lunch and then we went to see some waterfalls. We then went to Buck Bald Mountain. The altitude was about 2500 ft. The view was amazing! You get a 360-degree panoramic view of the NC, GA and TN mountains. It was like being on top of the world. We were gone almost the entire day.

On Friday I did the restorative yoga class and tried a new class called QiGong. The new class was almost like TaiChi, except that you never move your feet. You only move your upper body.
Today I did XT Legs and Barre.

Laurel, welcome back! So glad you and your DH had a great vacation! So happy for both of you!

Goodnight!
Thelma

Hi Ladies ~ Sorry I missed you {again} the last few days. Geez …. Work hasn’t been overly busy, just head down and getting things done lately I guess. My supervisor has been having her "off" days again, acting sort of stange again, super disappointing. Our office manager had a nice talk with me on Friday about her and said to not worry about it, to just keep my head up and he will deal with whatever she is doing. Weekend was quiet but good. I was able to get my hair done on Saturday and that lasted a couple hours + then we went and had lunch together. By then it was 4:00!! What? Where does the time go. My hair is jus a little different … at my shoulders and she put some ashy dark blonde in to “fall” it up. LOL

Workouts: Saturday I did Tri-Sets Legs followed by a Tabata ride on the Peloton
Sunday: I was pooped (from all the relaxing on Saturday I guess) LOL No workout.
Monday: Opted to workout at home so I was able to get in the Tri-Sets Chest/Shoulders/Tris from the new rotation and then a Peloton HiiT Ride.
Today: Peloton “Tuesday Tabata”

Laurel: WELCOME BACK! Sounds like you had an absolutely amazing vacation in Maui. I am so glad and happy to hear you enjoyed it and took a nice relaxing “no workout” vacation as well. All the walking/activity made up for it! So glad your weather was not like ours on Kauai …. I knew Maui would be nice though. I have always heard it is amazing weather. YAY. Excellent job stepping right back into it. Doesn’t sound like “easing” into it. Way to work. I’m on target so far with our new set of workouts and building STRENGTH! I did legs on Saturday however and Tri-Sets upper (part 1) yesterday, tomorrow will do the Back/Bi’s section as planned out.

I hope you don’t feel those DOMS on your legs for too long. Mine was full on for 2 days and then great. As they can be sometimes. This week I didn't have the same effect. Thank you for thinking of me on your trip and the “non-raindrops” LOL I hope someday I can get him to go again. If not, I will make a plan with my sister, we already talked about it since it is on my bucket list to go to a sunny location in Hawaii.

Thelma: Happy to hear you had a nice weekend and Happy Belated Anniversary! Sorry to hear about the pain flareup … dang it. Although your weekend sounds like you kept up nicely with friends and a little site seeing. YAY. Excellent job continuing to do all the wonderful classes that help your body however. My mom was 110% into QiGong before she was ill, she loved it and one time at my sisters I saw her outside doing it ….. so darling.

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~
Tami

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was LIS Back/Biceps/Core premix followed by Cathe Live Rock It Sock It Knockout. Felt good!

Tami, I am sorry to hear about your boss being ‘off’ again. It is nice the Office Manager is aware and providing some top cover, but that doesn’t eliminate the fact you have a a disturbing boss. I really hope things improve for you. Great job with the workouts! I imagine for me if this had been a ‘normal’ week, these upper body workouts might have felt a bit too short/easy. But, for me this week, they have been perfect. But I am looking forward to a longer upper body workout on Friday. Next week will be a repeat of this, but then I know for the next four weeks (doing XT and STS), there will be no short or easy! My DOMS is pretty much gone, thankfully. LIS Lower Body Trisets always makes my Glutes and hamstrings a little sore, but this week. . About Maui, the one thing that did surprise me is that it reminded me of Los Angeles (without the city ). In other words, mostly desert with palm trees and ocean (with some green hills though). I think I understand why Honolulu is on Oahu, since that seems to be the most moderate of the islands. But, unfortunately, Honolulu and all the traffic and such makes Oahu not the greatest island to escape to. Anyhow, I hope you get a chance to revisit Hawaii someday with your sister. And can leave the umbrella home.

Thelma, great workout. I really enjoyed that Ellen Barrett workout. It was challenging yet gentle on the body. I am going to try a couple more from her workouts on YouTube. I like these ‘active’ yoga workouts more than the more static ones for after I spin since my body is warm and I am a little ‘fired up’. On Saturdays, I think I will try to lean more towards relaxing yoga. But even if I end up doing two active ‘yoga’ workouts a week, that’s two more yoga workouts a week than I have been doing since the move! I have been thinking the same thing about the fall colors here. It is so hot and dry, I can hardly believe it will be October next week. The leaves are just falling off the trees right now with no hint of color in them at all. Kinda sad to be honest.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies! After telling myself I wasn’t going to do Cathe’s live class today because it didn’t fit my rotation.....I did it anyway. And it was good! It was called Metabolic Meltdown, and it was a decent cardio workout without any ‘cardio’ moves. In other words, no jumping! The cardio factor came from weight, reps and pace. Since today was supposed to be low impact for me, I figured it worked! But I probably worked my muscles more that I needed to as well. We’ll see how that feels tomorrow. Anyhow, I followed it with Cathe’s Lower Body Blast and did the 76 minute premix with the barre section. It has been several years since I did this premix, and I loved it today. I think my legs will be screaming tomorrow though!

Tami, great workouts! I started my 14 day trial with the Peloton app today and hope to do my first spin workout tomorrow (if my legs allow!). I previewed one of Ally Love’s this morning and I love her energy!!! Thank you for recommending her. If the one I previewed is any indication, these classes will definitely have a bit more fun factor than Cathe’s spin. I am glad you are settled on your gym membership. That is an outrageous amount for a punch card! And here I was wondering if $20 a month for the Peloton app will be worth it! Based on those prices...it is. I haven’t really written out the rest of the rotation yet, so here is a stab at it.

For weeks 3-4 (after we finish LIS)
Sunday...XT Legs (one week) and XT Cardio Leg Blast (one week) and HiiT Cardio
Monday....XT Disc 1 and steady state cardio
Tuesday.....Spin and Yoga
Wednesday.....XT Disc 2 and higher intensity cardio
Thursday......LITE Pyramid Pump Lower Body (one week) and LITE Stacked Sets Lower Body (one week) and low impact cardio
Friday.....LITE Pyramid Pump Upper Body (one week) and LITE Stacked Sets Upper Body (one week) and spin
Saturday....Yoga

For weeks 5-6, the only changes I plan to make will be substituting STS Meso 1 workouts in place of the XT workouts on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. So I will do STS Discs 3 and 6/Legs on Sunday, STS Discs 1 and 4 on Monday and STS Discs 2 and 5 on Wednesday. I am going to try to stick with the LITE workouts for all four weeks because I truly think they are some of Cathe’s best endurance workouts and I think the shorter length will be a nice balance to those longer workouts earlier in the week.

For weeks 7-8, I will be doing the 4DS Lower Body premix (which is on the KB/BC DVD) on Sunday, the 4DS Chest, Shoulder and Triceps premix on Monday and the 4DS Back and Bicep premix on Wednesday. These last two workouts are on the step DVD from 4DS. These 4DS workouts are shorter again (more like this week) BUT they don’t include warm up or cool down. I usually just do random warm ups and cool downs/stretches from the 4DS workouts. Since these are shorter workouts, I think I will repeat the Thursday/Friday workouts from our current section (Butts and Guts and Lower Body Blast on Thursday’s and Pyramid Upper Body and CTX Upper Body on Friday). But I may also substitute in workouts from Cathe Live for those days.

Hope that makes sense! Let me know what you think!!

Erika, glad to hear you are enjoying your rotation. Yay for running! That has to feel good. I hope you can find a good app that helps you keep track of your boys. But it sounds like they are being pretty responsible in letting you know where they are, which is fantastic! I hope your crown replacement went well.

Thelma, great workouts!! That’s a lot for a day. I am glad it felt better than last week. Today I did quite a long workout (about 2 hours total), but I have to admit, my dread factor goes way down when I get that under 90 minutes. So I am hoping to keep my workouts shorter if for no other reason than I enjoy them more. So when I do the longer strength workouts (like today), my goal is to keep the cardio at 30-40 minutes tops! I think my body will appreciate it too. We have hints of some red and yellow in a couple of trees but, mostly, they are just turning brown. It is as hot as it has been all summer right now. I have to admit....I am finally ready for fall. I am ready to open some windows.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Cathe's XTRAIN Chest Back & Shoulders, Barre Level, and Walking with Leslie Sansone.

I took a nasty fall this afternoon. I stepped on a small wooden step stool to catch a bug in the porch and somehow fell backward and landed on my butt on the hardwood deck. Needless to say, my tailbone is not happy. I was home alone and thankfully I was able to get myself up. I did the Leslie Sansone workout right after my fall so I wouldn't get stiff. I could pretty much do all the moves except for kickbacks. I took two Aleve and I've been icing. I walk OK but stairs are not good. I can't bend down and if I want to get something off the floor I have to lean forward and lift my right leg behind me. I've also been doing a lot of stretching (in bed) and I have been trying to realign my tailbone because I think it's tilted forward.

Laurel, thanks for posting the new rotation ideas. What an amazing workout you did today! WOW! Great job!

Good for you for figuring out that shorter cardio workouts = more enjoyable workouts!
We had a beautiful day here today and we actually got some rain! YAAY! I think our temps are in the 80's during the day so it's very nice. I'm happy with the lower temps and no humidity.

Tami, awesome workouts!
I am really enjoying my classes. Your gym definitely wants people to have a gym membership and not a punch pass.
I'm glad you have support at work about dealing with your boss. I used to have a nasty boss and developed an ulcer because of her. It is so hard not to take things personally. You know these people can't possibly be happy.

Goodnight ladies and have a wonderful weekend!
Thelma

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a nice weekend. DH and I had a nice, quiet weekend. We went to TN for dinner on Saturday.
My workouts have been limited to Leslie Sansone walking workouts. Stairs are still difficult, especially when they're high steps. Bending down really hurts my tail bone and pretty much the same if I want to lean forward and touch my toes. I discovered that I have a massive bruise on my upper right calf. I guess my calf landed on the edge of the step-stool.

We finally got some much-needed rain on Friday and Saturday. It wasn't nearly enough but it eas better than nothing. We hadn't had rain since August 28 someone told me. Yikes! We'll have temps in the high 80's during the day and high 60's at night. Hopefully, we'll get some rain.

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies ~ Sorry I missed you all the last few days! As it goes sometimes for me lately. At any rate, weekend was VERY COLD but good. We actually had snow – yes SNOW both days. It stuck slightly in the yard but has left. We are only in the 40’s now though. Yikes. Snow is on the mountains around us however. So it went from summer, brief Fall to winter it feels like.
Workouts: Sat: PHA Training + Peloton Ride, Sun: Lower Body Tri-Sets + Peloton HiiT Ride
Mon: Metablic Blast + Calorie Crush and today is Tri-Sets Upper Ch/Should/Tris w/ a Peloton ride to follow!

Laurel: Excellent job with your workouts! I did change it up yesterday/today a little bit but again, loving the combos you have put together. THANK YOU. I am so excited to hear you loved your Peloton ride! Did you do one of Ally’s Country Rides? She plays such good music, I agree. All her classes have a “flow” and plan, never exactly the same unless she is doing a 4-part series of Tabata but it still changes from class-to-class, always different music. Yay. Were you able to follow along just fine despite not having an actual Peloton? I would imagine you could because if you understand resistance and cadence you can pick up what she is saying.

Yes, that was the Lower Body Blast workout I pulled out and forgot how challenging it was . ..OR “is now” anyway for me. WOWSA. I am glad I picked the right one. I actually thought, “I need to ask her if this was the one she meant?” Dusting off forsure, I had to lookup the picture online to find it in my cupboard. Thank you so much for that Yoga recommendation …… I really tried to mentally make myself do something the other day and didn’t so this gives me something to shoot for! YAY. I do like more active Yoga forsure. If I can find one that doesn’t make my mind wander right into doing something else (until I get myself more disciplined in this practice) it will be great. Thanks again. That is fantastic you are having such great weather.

Thelma: Sounds like a great weekend with your sweet hubby and dinner out is always fun. I am going to see my DH this weekend for my annual fishing trip. His Birthday is tomorrow. They have been catching some nice fish so I hope I am lucky enough to do so as well! I’m sorry to hear about your fall off the small step stool. That can be so scary. Just the smallest thing …. OUCH. Good you are taking it easy and recovering your poor body.

Have a great evening ladies ~ talk to you tomorrow!
Tami

Hi Ladies, still doing lite cardio and stretching. I was able to do a slow forward fold and touched my toes, and do a couple of squats without my tail bone hurting. The stairs, though are a different story.

No rain today and it was hot in the afternoon.

Laurel, awesome workout combos! Great job! I'm glad you're enjoying the Peloton app!

I am not having problems with MFP tonight. I did have internet problems. My internet connection kept disconnecting. Weird that it only happened to me at home. DH's connection was fine at that time.
I can't believe how hot it is there! I hope all of us in the south get some rain soon.
This back injury really needed rest in order to get better. Definitely a scary thing.

Tami, I can't believe you had your first snowfall! I'm afraid that temps in the 40's will feel quite cold for us now that we've been in the south for a while. I've been in BR 6 months now! WOW!
Good job with those workouts!

DH and I had a great time on Saturday. It's so strange to be at the border of GA and TN. On one block you are in GA and on the next, you're in TN.
Happy birthday to your DH! So glad you're going to spend this coming weekend with him! I hope you catch some big fish! Speaking of fish! I had grouper for the first time last week and it tastes a lot like salmon. Its color is a light salmon color. I've yet to try trout even though BR is famous for its trout fishing.
DH's bday is next month.
The fall was kind of surreal. Almost like a dream. I don't even know if I felt the step stool give out from under me. All I know is that I felt like I was falling in slow motion (the surreal part). I know I was real because of the loud bang my body made when it hit the floor.

Erika, congrats on finishing up Cathe's September rotation!
So glad the crown replacement went great!
That good driver app sounds really good! I'm so glad you found it! Does it alert a driver when going too fast?
Almost sounds like you're having New England weather! We've been staying in the 80's during the day. Please send some rain our way!

I can't believe you're landed on your tailbone several times! I did slip on black ice many years ago and landed on the sideway on my butt. That was my first tailbone injury. It does take time to heal. Such a fragile area!
I'm so happy you're getting so much use out of your air fryer! Talk about saving you lots of time!
I've actually been using the regular oven more to do some sheet pan recipes the skinnytaste site has. Very good ones. I suppose you could make them in the air fryer too.

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma