Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies! I did two circuit workouts today....one strength and one cardio. The strength one was Cathe Live Vertical Loading 2. This is where she does six exercises from the top of the body (shoulders) down to the legs, repeats them, and does three total segments (each repeated) that way. I like this method of training, even if it does go light on the lower body, since there is only one leg exercise and five upper body (shoulder, bicep, tricep, back and chest) each round. But after yesterday’s spin....I was good with that today. The cardio was Cathe Live Cardio Core Bootcamp. She filmed this yesterday, and it is three cardio moves—one high impact, one step, one low impact—and a core move for six rounds. When the workout started, I thought it was going to be a little too easy, but it did catch up. But, honestly, Cathe seemed exhausted in it. Finally she explained that they are rehearsing Perfect 30 now, and she was completely worn out. At least it wasn’t my imagination that she seemed exhausted. But even with that, I liked this workout very much.

Tami, great workouts. The spin I did yesterday was indeed Ally’s 60 minute Feel Good Spin. I highly recommend it if you have an hour. She just makes me smile. I haven’t been doing as many Ally rides lately, and I don’t know why but I think it has to do with the types of spin she was doing during the time they were at home. Those weeks I actually was reaching back into the archives and trying a lot of new (to me) instructors. But I did her Whitney Houston spin on Sunday and that one yesterday, and it was so good to see her again. I am glad your co-worker tested negative for COVID. I hope she feels better soon, and I hope she stays home until she is 100%. If you were able to hide your frustration about her coming to work, you did way better than I would have done. I am finding throughout this COVID experience that when I am fed up with some of stupidity I see, it just.....spills out of me. Good thing I am mostly home alone all the time these days. Nobody else gets spilled on.

Thelma, great workouts, and great modification for your leg. Lucky you getting some rain! We are getting pretty dry again, but that does keep the humidity pretty manageable. We had another school district (down in Mobile) decide to start the year with remote learning, and I think there will be more. Honestly, with the way our cases are going in this county, I would be stunned to see schools open....or parents willing to send their kids to school right now. One crazy thing my sister learned yesterday is that they are thinking when they go back that they can’t use the air conditioning. In fact, she said they couldn’t even use fans. I am hoping they get some clarification on that. I understand that AC can spread the virus pretty effectively unfortunately, especially if not well filtered. Such a policy isn’t going to work in Colorado in August, and it wouldn’t work here until at least October! So much uncertainty right now.

Erika and Laurie, hope you are well.

Enjoy the weekend!

Laurel

Hi Ladies! I hope you enjoyed the weekend. Mine was very quiet. Did my usual grocery shopping and chores and such, but it was pretty hot this weekend so I did limit my outside activities. But, of course, I still spent every evening outside on my deck, enjoying the summer air. For workouts, on Saturday I did a Jessica Smith power walk and 30 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Sunday was the Lower Body premix from Cathe’s Muscle Endurance workout followed by a 45 minute spin. Today was XTrain Disc 1/Chest, Back and Shoulders and Core 1 followed by Rockout Knockout.

During my workout this morning, I spent some time trying to think through a next rotation. This is what I have planned....a 12 week rotation with weeks 1, 4, 7 and 10 being focused on metabolic workouts or circuit workouts; weeks 2-3 High Reps strength workouts; weeks 5-6 Trisets/Giant Sets/Supersets/etc workouts; weeks 8-9/alternating upper and lower body workouts and weeks 11-12/Heavy Split Sets workouts. On the weeks with the strength training focused work, I am going to try to do some form of strength training four days a week.

Okay, so this is (obviously) just a framework, but I didn’t want to post a full rotation if nobody else is interested in this. If you are interested, let me know. And if you want me to show what workouts I have planned for each day of the week (which I didn’t do with our current rotation) let me know. I think it will feel very similar to what this summer’s rotation has felt, but with just a little more strength training. I still plan on every week being different workouts, though. And in some cases, different types of workouts (like total body vs split sets) so each week should feel ‘new’.

Thelma, great workouts! I love that Lower Body Blast workout, and I actually think it is better without the step, especially the step cardio sections. I am glad you saw a little rain this weekend. We had thunder, but no moisture. It is pretty warm and dry. I think most AC units can be updated with ultraviolet lights that will kill viruses. I know my other sister (not the teacher, but one with a daughter starting her senior year) had guidelines for what schools could use their AC depending on the age of the unit and updates and such. But older, poorer districts are probably going to have some problems, at least initially. It seems that the issue with schools is evolving every day right now.

Erika, I am so sorry that shot knocked you back like that! But I am glad you went and got one, and that you don’t seem to have developed an infection. I am also glad you let yourself take it easy over the weekend, though I can imagine it was the last way you want to spend the weekend in summer! Congratulations on finishing STS tomorrow! I always feel such a sense of accomplishment when I get through that last STS workout. Despite it being 11+ years old now, I still find it a very challenging program to get through.

Laurie, welcome back! Glad you enjoyed your vacation!!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Gina B. Latin Pop Dance Cardio, XTRAIN Tri's & Bi's, and Barre.

I had my teeth cleaned today. I was a little nervous but everyone was wearing masks. Patients are required to wear masks and the hygienist as always was well protected. I'm so glad to have gotten that out of the way. Now I have left the shingles vaccine part II this or next week.
I was glad to see some of the tourists wearing masks when I went to the dentist. I can't get over that some elderly people don't wear masks. My local supermarket is requiring masks as of tomorrow. We always wear masks. I can't wait to see if people will comply when I'm there tomorrow.
So far a couple of local restaurants have announced that they're going back to takeout only.

Erika, I'm sorry you had such reaction to the tetanus shot! I'm glad you're doing better and that there are no signs of infection.

Congrats on your last STS workout tomorrow! You did it!!
I hope everything goes well with your son's lacrosse tournament. It has to be hard to workout with a mask! Do you have those surgical masks? Does he have asthma? I seem to remember one of your boys has asthma.

My leg is doing better but I've stopped doing tae-bo because I think that is what did me in. I've also have stopped using the step for cardio or leg work. I've done a lot of deep massage using a large-hard massage ball all over my thigh. I've massaged my thigh too with a rolling massage bar. It looks like a rolling pin. If you have a rolling pin use it! Lots of stretching too. You must massage and stretch right after you workout.
I'm so glad you and your family are enjoying the boat. 20-30 minutes is not bad.

Hi Laurie! I'm so glad you and your DH had a nice vacation!

Laurel, I'm glad you had a good weekend too. It is hot here too! I can't get over the intensity of the sun! You could get a sunburn here in minutes I think. At least that's how the sun feels against my skin. I take meds that make sensitive and it feels like I'm on fire.

I love the sounds of that rotation Laurel! I think my body prefers alternating different workout formats as opposed to doing a lot of heavy lifting. I would love to see what workouts you have planned for the week. I do keep my rotation plans for every week in an electronic file so now I can just go back and look for the right workout format.

I hadn't done that Lower Body Blast workout in years but I really liked it.
It is hot and dry here ask well. It got dark and windy this afternoon, but no rain!

I hope all businesses and schools install those AC units get updated with ultraviolet lights! DH says that they've been told they'll work from home till the end of the year. It doesn't affect him because he works from home already. They are getting ready for the students to return to campus. I'll have to ask him about the AC systems!

Tami, I hope that lady at work is just tired from having been sick. Did she get tested for COVID? Sorry you're so busy at work!

I'm jealous about you getting your hair done! I'm sure Bernie is enjoying having you all to himself! We've been in the 90's here. Way too hot! I'm glad you're thinking of going home to let Bernie in. This heat isn't good for animals either.
Great workouts!!!
Thanks so much for the workout kudos. I am so glad my knee is better. I just know the muscle imbalance feeling and know that the remedy is to massage and stretch.

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Thank you for the feedback on the rotation. I will work on it a bit more and try to get it out to you next week. I can’t believe how quickly this last one is going, so I hope the 12 week one feels the same. My workouts today were Butts and Guts followed by a 30 HiiT ride with Peloton. Then I got in a good walk. When I opened the door to go outside, my sunglasses fogged up immediately from the change in temperature and humidity and I wondered whether I should just close the door again. But once I got away from the house, it felt really nice outside, and the little bit of cloud cover really helped.

Tami, great job with the workouts! Hopefully your heat doesn’t get too bad. Poor Bernie is probably feeling it. One of the instructors I tried for the first time during that ‘break’ in studio classes was Hannah Frankson (one of the newer instructors from the UK). I have really grown to like her. She isn’t as tough as Ally or Robin or Olivia for me because she keeps the leg speed just a little slower (my little legs just don’t move very fast), but her workouts always challenge me nicely....but not brutally. She is like a good ‘in between’ for me.

Thelma, great workouts. I am glad you felt comfortable getting your teeth cleaned. I agree with you on the intensity of the sun. It, literally, cooks. I am glad more people are wearing face masks there. I am glad we have the mandatory face mask order, though I understand in some parts of the state people still aren’t wearing them because the order isn’t enforceable. But as more and more businesses start requiring them, I think that will help too.

Erika, I am sorry you weren’t feeling well yesterday. That is a little concerning about your friend’s co-worker. As you say, you have no idea if you should quarantine or not because you can’t get tested. And as more and more people get it, the chances of knowing one of them increases. It is just kind of a maddening time that makes me happy I don’t really have to go much of anywhere and that, by nature, I am an introvert. But even with that there are days where I feel like I am going crazy because I just want to do something different!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Sure was a busy two days after getting back from vacation, but I think that I'm all caught up. This week I have decided to try out the CLX workouts, and if I really enjoy them just continue on with them. So on Monday I did 10 Minute Solutions HiiT 101 and followed that up with CLX Burn 3. Yesterday was RAW Cardio Crush 2 (Kelly did this one in her driveway, and it appears that it was very hot). This one was 8 exercises done for 45 seconds, and I loved it. This morning was Jillian's 10 Minute Body Transformation Kickbox Blast and I followed that up with CLX Burn 2. So far really enjoying the CLX workouts, even though the moves are super slow. I'm doing a short warm up before each of the CLX workouts, just want to get in some type of cardio each day and those 10 minute workouts seem to kick up that metabolism for me. I am usually sweating buckets through the whole workout.

I will try to get all caught up with the posts, it sure seems like everyone was busy with their workouts.

Laurel, Your next rotation really does sound interesting, and I will see how this week goes before I determine what I will be doing next. I hear you on the humidity, it sure does not make one want to go outside. I do need to get out there this weekend though, because the weeds really love this weather.

Tami, Dang on your co-worker being sick, I hope she starts feeling better soon. Unfortunately there are other viruses out there right now, the one that she is experiencing sounds a lot like what my BIL had. This heat really isn't a dogs best friend is it. Rocket of course would love to spend his day outside, but I don't enjoy the heat and then when it does get nicer outside the mosquitoes tend to swarm.

Thelma, Sounds like a good Jessica workout, I will have to check it out. One of the reasons why they can't ask people about the masks is because of HIPAA laws. We have to deal with that all the time here are work. Sorry to hear that you are having problems with your leg, do take care.

Erika, Dang on that tetanus shot doing a number on your body. I had one at the beginning of the year, but didn't have a problem that I remember. Interesting that you can't get tested without having symptoms. We have them available for anyone that wants to get tested. We had one person positive here are work, and the people that he was with where home for 14 days. They didn't get sick, so I hope the same for you and your family.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was XTrain Disc 2/Bi’s and Tri’s followed by XT All Out Low Impact Extreme. Good stuff.

Thelma, great workouts! I have no doubt your arms were fried after that! Thanks for posting the Jessica workout. I love her workouts for my Saturday mornings. She does so many that really open up the body, which feels so good to me after a week of workouts. I am surprised your store can’t even ask people to wear masks. They definitely can and do here. My first trip to the store after our county mask order went in place had me following a guy in who was asked to return with a mask....and he did. What they mean by not enforceable is the police can’t stop everybody without a mask. The three school districts in our county this morning announced school is starting this year with remote learning. I am SO happy to see that right now, because our cases are out of control. Hopefully in another month....we will look better. And, by the way, Butts and Guts is worth a purchase.

Laurie, welcome back! Glad you have gotten all caught up. Great job with CLX. I am glad you are enjoying it. I remember being intrigued by that program when it came out, which I think was about the same time as STS. But I could never justify the purchase. Please let me know if you think it is worth it. I agree about weeds and this weather! I am hoping to get all of the lawn and garden taken care of tomorrow, weather permitting. DH is back on Saturday night and I would hate for him to think he needs to go tackle weeds on Sunday!

Okay, Ladies, I am going to post a rough draft for the next rotation. I came up with this during my workout this morning, so it may need some tweaking. I am using Cathe DVDs throughout and know not everybody owns all of these DVDs. In some places, I will try to suggest substitutes. I also know that I may swap out some of the DVDs for Live versions during the rotation but, again, this rotation is Cathe DVDs only. I have also included some of my cardio ideas for these weeks, but the rotation was formed around the weighted workouts not the cardio.

August 9-15/Metabolic.
My thinking on this week is to focus more on cardio based metabolic work than more strength-based circuits. I may include a one body part a day add-on, but I will decide that when we get here. This will be the lightest week of the rotation, but I figured that was good since we will be coming out of a Heavy week going in to the rotation.

Sunday-ICE Lower Body Blast (and spin)
Monday-RWH Upper Body Circuit
Tuesday-Spin and Yoga
Wednesday-ICE Metabolic Total Body
Thursday-LIS Turbo Barre and Spin (option of XT Super Cuts instead of Barre)
Friday-LITE Metabolic Blast
Saturday-Yoga


August 16-29/High Reps
One of the reasons I kept the first week more cardio based is I knew I wanted to do one week of high rep total body workouts during these two weeks, and I didn’t want it to feel like too much ‘total body’ work. So the first week of this two weeks of strength will be total body workouts, and the second week will be split sets, but all high rep.

Week 1
Sunday-Spin
Monday-Muscle Endurance and short cardio
Tuesday-Spin and Yoga
Wednesday-Power Hour and short cardio
Thursday-Spin
Friday-High Reps and short cardio
Saturday-Yoga

Substitutes for the three strength workouts would be Flex Train, Body Blast Push/Pull, Max Intensity Strength, or LITE Pyramid Pump

Week 2
Sunday-Spin and optional short lower body workout
Monday-XTrain Disc 1/Chest, Back and Shoulders and cardio
Tuesday-XTrain Legs and spin
Wednesday-XTrain Disc 2/Biceps and Triceps and cardio
Thursday-spin and yoga
Friday-Flex Train and cardio
Saturday-yoga

Substitutes for XTrain.....any week from STS Meso 1.


August 30-September 5/Circuits
This week I am opting for more strength based circuits, but still on the ‘lighter’ side.

Sunday-RWH LIHI Legs and spin
Monday-LIS Athletic Training and short cardio
Tuesday-LIS After Burn and spin
Wednesday-Fit Tower Boot Camp and cardio
Thursday-LIS Slide and Glide and cardio
Friday-S&S Boot Camp and spin
Saturday-yoga

Substitute for the Fit Tower workout would be ICE Boot Camp.


September 6-19/Sets

These two weeks are going to be different than I originally planned. I am going for a blend of split workouts and total body the first week, and one body part a day and total body the second weeks. If you don’t like the one body part a day format, I would suggest putting in the LIS Trisets workouts that week or doing the upper body and lower body premixes from S&S Total Body Giant Sets or repeating the first week.

Week 1
Sunday-Body Blast Supersets and spin
Monday-cardio
Tuesday-Fit/Split Push and Cardio
Wednesday-Fit/Split Pull and cardio
Thursday-spin and yoga
Friday-S&S Total Body Giant Sets
Saturday-yoga

Week 2
Sunday-LIS Lower Body Trisets and spin
Monday-ICE Muscle Meltdown x4 premix Back and cardio
Tuesday-ICE Muscle Meltdown x4 premix Chest and spin
Wednesday-ICE Muscle Meltdown x4 premix Shoulders and Lower Body premix from 4 Day Split
Thursday-ICE Muscle Meltdown X4 premix Biceps and spin
Friday-ICE Muscle Meltdown x4 premix Triceps and cardio
Saturday-yoga

A substitute for the 4DS Lower Body workout would be LITE Stacked Sets Lower Body.

I am going to continue this in another post.

Hi Ladies ~ I ended up doing a Peloton Ride last night (45-min Intervals & Arms) after I came home and vacuum sealed some fresh Sockeye Salmon that was left on my front porch; DH had taken some people and asked them to drop this on our front door in a cooler of course. Hottest day of the summer and a cooler of fish sitting there. At any rate, it was still somewhat frozen and fine, just needed to get them all taken care of and then jumped on the bike. Today: XT: Bis/Tris and not sure if I will do anything else.

Thelma: Way to go with your workout(s) ~ it sounds like your knee is doing pretty good with some higher impact workouts!?!? That’s great. Yes, Bernie loves it when I am home or if DH is home with home. Poor guy, I do start wondering about having another dog for him. I feel like he is pretty lonely these days. ….. but this is my “human” brain thinking for him and feeling guilty. He may just feel like “oy, what did you bring him/her home for?” I was loving my life alone. Hard to know.

Erika: Sorry to hear you weren’t feeling well again … I am sure you did start to panic a bit after hearing the news of your husband’s co-worker. I know in our area they do a “virtual” doctor appt and then advise on getting tested and where to go. That’s what happened with my co-worker anyway. Funny about the hair appt. because I remember that’s when we were chatting about our “slow boat to China hair growth” It did feel good to get it done forsure, plus seeing my BFF. Congrats on finishing up STS. What is your new rotation going to be?!?!

Laurel: WOW! You put in a TON of work with this new rotation …. THANK YOU as always for that. This looks amazing! I cannot believe how fast this one is going either. CRAZY. Eventhough times seems to be standing still despite how busy I am, it is still like groundhog day since I go to work-go home- go to work-go home. It’s auto pilot in my car it feels like. I saw Hanna Frankson in one of the “All for One” classes I did with multiple instructors; I like her and love her accent forsure. We are still waiting to hear on mandatory face masks everywhere ….. most stores do ask that you please where it and the bigger chains it is a must.

Laurie: Welcome back! I know what it feels like trying to catch up. I do it every week lately it feels like. No worries … Way to go with the CLX workouts and the others you have done as well. Funny KCM did one from her driveway. Sign of the times right now however. Thanks for the well wishes on my co-worker, she seems pretty much back to normal today; not as tired. So that is good.

Talk to you ladies tomorrow ~ Tami

Morning Ladies,

This morning I did 30MTF Plateau Buster Workout 2. I know that I would need to change up the workout with something besides Chalene, so I know that most of the interval workouts that Kelly does would be a good sub for the interval workout. The only difference is the amount of reps, it appears that Chalene does a lot of them. I still feel like I got a very good workout.

Erika, Congrats on finishing up the STS rotation! Sorry to hear that you are having to stress over those C19 issues. I had realized that all of the warm ups in the weight workouts are exactly the same, so that is why I'm opting to put a 10-15 min. cardio workout before I start the weight work. I really do like the weight work, but for sure the warm ups are going to not be done by me.

Laurel, All I can say is WOW on your rotation! I will have to look at it closer, but you have really put some thought into this for sure. Great job on your workouts! I hope that you are able to get the lawn taken care of before your DH gets home, but after being in Alaska this long he may want to do some yard work. We are still slowly getting our landscaping taken care of, but with this heat it slows down. Of course today is nice and cool, but it is still humid. My glasses where fogging up this morning on our walk. Probably because I was still sweating from my workout.

Tami, Very nice that you where able to get some of that tasty fish all vacuum packed. I sure do love my sealer, it sure has saved a ton of Money. Great job on your workout, and I hope you could get the weight workout added. LOL about the way Bernie might be thinking about a younger dog. I had that same feeling when we introduced Rocket to the house. Cami was such a good teacher for him, and I don't think that I could have gotten him to enjoy daycare if it wasn't for her being there. He is such a chicken. You can tell that it was hot for Kelly's RAW workout, two of her back up crew took off on her and only came back for the cool down.

Thelma, Love the workouts! Sorry to hear that your knee didn't appreciate all your hard work though. Hope today is a better day for you. I'm really glad that everything here at work was a little slower, so the catching up wasn't to bad. I have to make sure that I don't take vacation at the end of the quarter, because that is when I get really bogged down with to much.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, I felt lazy today but I finally got myself to do High Reps! OMG! She wasn't kidding when she called this workout high reps! My knee thankfully felt better today .

We had a beautiful sunny/low humidity day today.

Laurie, nice job with that workout substitution! Rocket is a chicken? No way!

I have to take it easy with this knee and massage is a must.
I am glad work was a little slow; which made catching up an easier task. When I used to work in accounting I couldn't take vacations at month, quarter or year end.

Laurel, great job with the Peloton and Lawn Beast workouts! Is your husband returning home next week? I seem to remember you said the end of July.

I am looking forward to the new rotation too.

I just realized that I was probably dragging yesterday due to the shingles part II vaccine's reaction I got the day before!
Thanks for the feedback on the Butts and Guts workout. I always do the elevated lunges without the step. I love that she uses ankle weights! I am definitely getting it! Thank you!
Laurel, I found the workout on eBay for $15 and it says it's brand new. I also bought a used set of 4 Day Split. Who knows what it will be like once I get it but it was $20.

Have a great weekend ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a great weekend. We had a nice and quiet weekend. We did get a little rain today.

My workouts on Friday were Restorative Healing yoga, Sculpted-Movement Fusion, and Gina B. Latin Pop Dance Cardio. On Sunday I did S&S PHA Training. I actually used the step with two risers for about 1/2 the leg exercises which was good. My knee wasn't happy but I stretched and massaged really deep and my knee felt pretty good.

Laurel, great workouts and good job listening to your body.
I hope your DH made it home safely! You two must be so happy to be together again!

I don't remember the first shingles vaccine making me feel tired but the second part sure did!
I'm excited about the 4DS DVDs. I've refused to pay so much money for the new set all this time! I'm looking forward to trying the workouts out. I think that the cardio step workouts I have to try on the platform only for a while.
If the choreography of the high impact workout gets you confused, then it will definitely get me lost!

Have a great week ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Hope you all had a good weekend. DH made it home on Saturday night, and it is so nice having him back. I forget how much I enjoy talking to him when he is gone! Poor guy was exhausted, though. Not only was the trip home long, but he was putting in 80+ hours a week up there and worked every weekend. I am hoping he can take a few days off here soon, though I don’t really know what we would do with it at this point. Maybe golf, which would be nice.

For workouts, on Saturday I did a Jessica Smith Cardio Abs walk and 45 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Yesterday was Cathe Live Plyo Legs and Core followed by a 30 minute Intervals spin with Peloton. And today was Cathe Live PHA 1 followed by Cathe Live Step On It.

Thelma, great workouts. I am glad your knee recovered after that PHA workout. Hope you enjoy 4DS when you get a chance to try them. The upper body and lower body premixes would work well for next week’s heavy focus. There is an all upper body premix and an all lower body premix, but the upper body work is also split into body part, which are much shorter than the all upper body. One is something like chest/shoulders/triceps and the other back/biceps....or something like that. I am going off memory here, but I don’t think those premixes have a warm-up or stretch, but I usually just do one of the cardio warm-ups and then go to the premix. Just an idea if you were wanting to try them out and wondering when you might be able to. But of course feel free to go with your original idea for next week!

Laurie, great workouts! I am glad you are enjoying CLX. I am glad you got a chance to visit with family this weekend. I am with you on the heat. I was showing DH some of the issues we have in our yard yesterday and pointing out what I didn’t get done when I mowed on Thursday because it just got way too hot. I think the houses will be done in the next two months (I hope). Then, hopefully, the builder will fix all the damage they caused to our yard (which is pretty substantial on one side), the builder is also supposed to move two of our trees off of the property line since, well, they had marked our property line wrong when we moved in (this is one the side that isn’t damaged). After that, hopefully we can move forward with making some improvements to our yard. But I think it may wait until spring.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies, today's workouts were LITE Cardio Party, Barre, and Ashtanga Yoga. The muscle imbalance kicked in during the cardio workout but I stretched and did deep massage and felt fine.

Laurie, great workouts. I'm glad you got to visit with your DH's brother and wife. How much gardening do you have left to do?

Now that we really don't go out anymore, I don't even pay attention to the weather forecast like I used to before this plague. I don't think it was that humid here today. We did get a little rain this afternoon.
AWWW! Poor Rocket! It definitely sounds like he had a traumatic experience.
I won't be doing the 4DS step workouts! They look like they have very complicated choreography.

Laurel, I am so glad your DH is home now! He was working really hard! No wonder he was exhausted!
Great workouts! I love Jessica's cardio Abs workouts!
Thanks for mentioning that I can use the 4DS workout for next week's heavy focus workouts! I hope the DVDs get here soon!

Tami, thanks for letting us know you're OK. How nice that you got to spend some time with your DH!
I hope you guys won't be so busy at work much longer.
Great job getting your workouts in!!

Hi Erika

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Morning Ladies,

This morning my workout was Jillian's Kickbox FastFix Workout 1.

Laurel, Glad to hear that your DH made it home safe, but tired. I hope that you are able to get in some golfing. Great job on your workouts! I always enjoy seeing those three instructors in your workout regime. That still is a huge mistake on the part of your builder to not have the correct property line. Just hope that the trees will be fine with the move to a different location. At least you don't need to mow as much lawn with this mistake.

Tami, Awesome job on your workouts! Glad you where able to see your DH for a bit before he left. It doesn't sound like work will be slowing down all that much. Guess everyone finished up projects at home and then sold their houses. Hope it doesn't get to hot for Bernie, those temps are really really hot.

Thelma, Nice workouts! I'm sure that you will get those muscles back on track. I think that I will have to take some more time off, just to enjoy a day outside not doing anything. Most of the gardening that I have to do is the weeds. Those things are loving this weather. If I remember correctly the step workouts in 4DS really where more complicated to follow than most of her workouts are. She had some complaints from what I remember.

Erika, Great job with the workouts. I'm so sorry to hear that your DS had to go through the heat exhaustion. If he likes V8 that is another thing to drink to help with that. They always had that available for us when we where at the faire, and boy did that help revive us during those really hot days. We only have mask mandates in counties that are at or above 2% for the infection rate. I think that Walworth county has a mask mandate, so you may have a very different experience in that area. Of course that is where all the people from IL have been going this summer also. We are in Waukesha County which is at 1.4%, so we don't have the mandate. Of course it would be super hard to enforce it, since we have a lot of rural area around here. I would love to do the CLX rotation with you, it always helps to have someone motivate me to actually do the rotation.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Yoga Basics, RWH Low Impact I & II, and Cathe's LITE PHA2.
My knee is definitely better. I did most of the PHA2 off the step but I still felt a little discomfort. I can tell I've kneaded out a lot of the muscle tightness that caused the imbalance. It is the head of the quads right at the panty line; which is exactly the same injury that happened to me over a decade ago. This is a recurring thing for me. I had been slacking on the stretching and massage I have always done but my knee is telling me I can't afford to do that.

We had a really nice and dry morning and some rain in the afternoon; which brought the muggies back.

So I did a thing today! I gave myself a haircut with DH's assistance in the back. It actually came out pretty good. I still had traces of my layers so that helped. Of course, the fact that I have curly hair made it easier too. I've been cutting a little bit of this hair since last week! LOL

Erika, what a weekend! I bet you need the rest of the week to recover from that! Thank God your son is OK and was able to play all day on Sunday. What a relief about your neighbors testing negative for COVID!!
I would be very nervous about going to a place where most people didn't wear a mask. Was there any social distancing?

The Shift Shop workout program sounds really good. Have you done it before? I think it's good that you're giving your body a break from the heavy lifting.

I think the knee injury was caused by doing Tae Bo and then I aggravated it by a step workout.

Laurie, sounds like a fun kickboxing workout! Good job!
Thankfully my thigh muscles are getting better. They just wanted to teach me a lesson!
Between the rain the hot weather the weeds and grass grow like crazy! I don't think I'll ever do those 4DS step workout and if I do I'll just keep moving by doing my own thing. LOL. They have to be really complicated if people complained about them. She's amazing with that choreography!

Laurel, great workout combo today! It must've felt so good to your daily walk with your DH! Is he loving the heat? Is he working from home again?

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma