Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies . . . Today was PHA2 , seems to be the theme for today I see. I hope to get in a Peloton ride after work. The house is nice and cool when I get home but still a sweat fest. I ended up not working out yesterday in the a.m. and after work I needed to mow the lawn before it is 100+ degrees. YOWSA. It is coming tomorrow I guess and Friday.

Being "end of the month" busy-ness all week I am not sure how I will get out of here so my neighbor offered to let Bernie in the house if I just leave our slider unlocked. So sweet of her, she has been watching out for him and brought him a special bowl of water. He has water every day of course on our deck but prefers "fresh" brand new water.

Looks like everyone is doing fabulous with the workouts this week! I am loving the PHA workouts, plan on doing PHA (#1 or the first one I should say) on Friday.

I will try and check in before the day gets away from me tomorrow! Glad you are all doing well.

Tami

Morning Ladies,

This morning was Jillian's Yoga Meltdown Level 1.

Erika, Nice workout, just wonder what the difference is with the way it feels vs STS. No instructor seems to be able to do the lower body quite like Cathe. After doing those CLX workouts I did think those where really good for the lower body. I do like Jillian's style, and have to pull our her workouts every once in a while. The only problem with her kickboxing is she only works one side, so I always do next round on the other side. I hope that your DS has a good weekend, it is suppose to be fairly nice in the low 80's.

Laurel, Great job on your workouts! Isn't it true about the routine. Your DH had gotten out of the routine, and then didn't want to go. I'm sure that feeling you have is cabin fever. I had read an article about how the quarantine would have that cause and effect. Probably why people are not following the social distancing either. DH seems to be on top of his yard, so I'm just staying out of it. He is more upset than I would have expected though.

Tami, It does look like PHA was a favorite yesterday. Great job on your workout, and I do hope that you where able to get in a ride after work. Oh my on the temps, that is really HOT. I love how your neighbor is taking special care of Bernie with some nice fresh cool water. Rocket enjoys ice cubes when it gets hot. He just chews those things like they are treats.

Thelma, Love your workouts! Was surprised about the complaints also, but I remember there where long drawn out posts about it at the time. Sometimes I think there are people that only want to complain about things. When the Gym Style workouts came out Cathe hurt her leg, and the project took a really long time to get finished. People where complaining because they had paid for the product. I was just like, you are going to get the DVD's at some point so why complain.

Have a wondersul day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a PHA combo...I did Cathe Live PHA3 into Cathe Live PHA with Cardio Blasts for a solid, tough 90 minute workout. I was dripping.

Erika, great workout. I hope your DH and DS have a good weekend. I bet it is a bit of a relief to be staying home, though. Hope you enjoy your weekend and are able to get outside a bit. I totally agree that at times this summer has felt like winter to me. I really took for granted how much DH and I get out in the summertime when he is home and there isn’t a pandemic.

Laurie, great workout. Our sprinklers are actually where they are supposed to be, and that is one of the reasons I am upset the builder destroyed them. Honestly, our builder is considered the best in Huntsville and so I don’t see them learning anything from this process or, as another example, our four month process last year to fix our shower. Everything gets met with a shoulder shrug, which is what angers me more than anything. I have never felt like an uptight northerner....until I moved here! I completely understand your rant about face masks. I am a proponent of the mandate here, but there is no way I would want to wear a mask if I could distance myself from people at work. And wearing a mask doesn’t eliminate people doing not-smart things like crowding, making the masks irrelevant. But, sadly, I think we are at that point where there are really no good answers for this anymore.

Enjoy the weekend.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

I received a notification from Jillian that she has a new program on her app called Take Back 2020 Challenge. I decided that I would try this one out for the next 28 days and see what happens. So I actually worked out on Sunday morning. The first two workouts where strength. The first one concentrated on Shoulders, Chest, Triceps and Legs. This morning was Back, Biceps and Legs. Have to say that I really enjoyed it, and tried to use as heavy of weight as I could handle. Saturday I did some weeding, and Sunday I had requests for face masks, so I spent the day sewing. It was all good because we had thunderstorms for most of the afternoon.

Laurel, Great workouts! I would imagine that would make you sweaty. That's to bad on the builder being one of the top in the state and treat their customers that way. Like okay we built the house, but our mistakes are nothing we want to deal with. I'm really glad that we didn't have a ton of problems with our house. Of course DH was there everyday to make sure that we didn't have any issues. So far this mask wearing is a really pain. I like to drink water all day long, and I have to take my mask off each time I want to drink.

Thelma, The weather for us this morning was really cool too. We had to wear sweatshirts on our walk this morning. We are going to be in the low 70's today, it was in the 50's this morning. Awesome job on your workouts!

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies! Hope you enjoyed the weekend. We had a nice one, if slightly busy. On Saturday, I cleaned the house and then we decided to move our two trees. DH, of course, did the bulk of the work, but it was still tough for me. But it is done, and, fingers crossed, they will survive. But given that we still haven’t heard back from the builder on repairing our sprinkler system, we both figured that is probably reflective of the type of ‘care’ they would put into moving our trees and we were better off trying to do it ourselves. If the trees don’t survive, at least it is on us. Then we decided to buy a small freezer for the garage, and picked that up yesterday which, of course, resulted in us completely reorganizing and cleaning the garage. It really needed to be done, so that was good.

For workouts, on Saturday I did a Jessica Smith Belly, Buns and Thigh walk and 30 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Yesterday I did a Cathe Live workout called Express Lower Body Burn Sets Heavy Weights and a 45 minute HiiT and Hills ride with Peloton. About the Cathe Live workout, she is normally restricted in her Live classes to a top dumbbell weight of 15# since she films in her ‘cardio’ room. She only goes higher than that if she uses a barbell. Well, since she is the only one in her gym now, she filmed a ‘series’ over the past few weeks using heavier dumbbells, and the workout I did yesterday was one of them. It was so good! It was five rounds of three exercises (35 minutes long), those exercises being various forms of squats, lunges and deadlifts. All reps were kept at 12, and the weights ranged between 20# and 40#. Honestly, I think it was the best Cathe pure strength lower body workout I have ever done. Both Slow and Heavy Legs and STS Squat Rack Legs can bore me to tears. And all of her other lower body workouts vary between endurance and strength. And this was just strength.

So today I did another workout in that series which was Cathe Live Burn Sets Biceps and Triceps Heavy Weights, and I have a similar reaction to it. Only 38 minutes long, alternating biceps and triceps, mostly between 10 and 12 reps, rests between sets and just pure strength. Wednesday I will do the Chest, Back and Shoulder one and am really looking forward to it. I love that Cathe has taken this opportunity to do workouts like this that she wouldn’t be able to do with a class. She even has a Heavy Weight Bootcamp class that I may try soon. It just feels like such a nice bonus during such a not-very-nice time. Anyhow, for cardio I picked a workout that I feel like doing every three years or so ...Kick Max! And it was perfect today.

Thelma, great workouts. I am glad you enjoyed the 4DS workout and that your DVDs arrived in good shape. I am also glad you enjoyed the cooler weekend. Ours was the same with me saying it felt more like the first of September than the first of August on Saturday. That’s one of the reasons we jumped on moving the trees....it was such a beautiful day. I really hate to blame ‘The South’ for all of the weird things we have experienced since we have gotten here in trying to get things done. But when I think about some of them....like a guy who came to fix the washer and didn’t bring any tools so he was digging through DHs tool box.....I just have to think to myself ‘this is not normal’. Like you mentioned, it is almost routine for people to not show up for appointments. In fact, I am surprised when they do, especially on time. But in my 55 years of living a lot of different places, this is the first time I have experienced anything quite like this level of utter indifference. So I kind of have to say that some of it has to be an Alabama thing, which I hate doing. But....that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. I am trying to adjust, but when it comes to damaging our property, I get a little high strung.

Laurie, great workouts! Sounds like an interesting series from Jillian. I would hate taking my mask on and off all day long. Actually, because I am so OCD, I would have to be washing my hands every time I needed to move my mask to drink water, which means the skin on my hands would flake off in three days flat. Not good. I wish there was a better option for you. My sister works in an office where she has to have a mask on all day AND the surrounded her desk with plexiglass since she deals with outside customers. It is driving her crazy because he is having a very hard time communicating with anybody through the mask and the glass. These are just strange times, for sure.

Erika, glad you enjoyed a cooler weekend and were able to relax some! Great workouts. I am glad they are worth sticking with despite the repetition. I am not quite sure I could workout in a gym in a mask. Hope your DS is okay with it. All of Cathe’s Live PHA workouts are different from her DVDs. Her Live PHA 3 for me is, I think, my favorite of her PHA workouts because it really gets the heart rate up....and she does it without a step. The combo of those two factors—no step and high heart rate—make it a winner in the category, I think just ahead of S&S PHA. But, really, with PHA, there really is no ‘bad’.

Tami, hope you had a good weekend!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was another beautifully cool morning. I completed Day 3 of the Take Back 2020 Challenge. This one was all cardio.

Erika, Great job with your workout. Yes I do have the app, it is actually very good. shrsl.com/26knl You can use your own music instead of listing to Jillian, and she keeps putting on more and more of her DVD's. The app can create a workout for you also. She does have programs that are very similar to Body Revolution and Body Shred too. We had a lot of county sheriffs that said they where not going to enforce the mandate, because it wasn't law. They said to contact the local health official to complain. Of course when you have people calling 911 on the day before the mandate goes into effect, that can really make officials a little upset. That rain was pretty impressive, some areas received over 6". I know my sister was cleaning up her basement afterward. Glad that your DS was able to get in his game.

Laurel, Glad to hear that you where able to move your trees, I'm sure they will survive if you give them the loving care that they will need. LOL on having to clean the garage, but nice that you have a freezer. We have had one for a long time, and I sure do love it. Wow on all your workouts! They all sound really good, and I'm sure that you are really enjoying exploring some of those LIVE workouts. I would feel isolated if I had to be behind plexiglass. There is one guy here that had it put up, and he can't hear behind it. I had to yell at him to get his attention. I have a hard enough time hearing, so don't need to add that to the mix.

Thelma, Awesome job on your workout! Sounds like you had quite the adventure beforehand. So far I'm really enjoying these workouts. Short and sweet, but effective. Plus I need to make sure that I take advantage of the $ I spent on the app. I like using the app instead of her DVD's, because then I don't have to go through all the warnings and production material before I finally get to the actual workout.

Tami, I hope your week is going well.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, I had a really good workout day today. I found another JS HIIT/Core workout but I didn't like it as much as the one I did last week. It was good though. I did JS HIIT Cardio and Core, Yoga Basics and 4DS Kickboxing-Boot Camp Circuit Upper Body. I really like the 4DS boot camp premix.

Laurie, great job with your workout challenge!

It was more of an annoying experience at a sporting goods store! I do love those short but effective workouts too. HA! Definitely need to take advantage of the $ you spent. Not having to go through the warnings and production material before a workout sure makes the app's cost worth it!

Laurel, another great workout combo! Great job!
I agree that a refrigerator like freezer makes it easier to find things. I think that whenever ours goes we would get one like that.
We are fortunate our husbands are both handy. DH has fixed a few things that needing fixing but the house is fairly new so not much work needed.

Hi Erika and Tami!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Cardio Ball Blast, Butts & Guts Overall Legs
and Revive and Restore Yoga. The Cardio ball workout is really good. I used a 5lb KB instead of the soft yoga ball. I got a good ab workout.
My arms were killing during the Butts & Guts workout warmup. She swings that big stability ball from side to side and up/down! You get a good workout right out of the gate!

I found out today that one of our 4 supermarkets went out of business due to the pandemic. Another supermarket has empty shelves because they are having a hard time getting inventory! People think it's because there a lot of tourists in town buying food and also because it's now the only supermarket not requiring masks. The supermarket we go to require masks but the rule can't be enforced so there are customers without masks.

Laurie, great workout today!
I'm happy with the 4DS workouts. The step workouts can be done on the floor so I would do that until my knee is better. I can't wait for Cathe's new program!

Erika, good job getting a workout after such crazy work day! 4 hour office meeting! Those are the most boring meetings ever! At least you were home. Sorry you didn't like the Shift Shop Strength program. Thanks for the offer to gift it to one of us. I'm not interested. For me the beat Beach Body workout I have is Body Beast. I find it safe and effective.

It was a long trip to Cabela's. It would've been a good experience if we hadn't had to wait so long. I prefer REI but I don't think they have those stores around here.
We don't have a mask mandate

Laurel, great workouts today!
I think you should incorporate one of those 4DS circuit premixes into the new rotation! I can't believe we start the new rotation on Sunday!!
I ham not handy at all but DG like your husband just know how to fix things. He says he learned on his own too. How about connected all those different devices together? OMG! You should see the setups DH has!
I was on Facebook this afternoon checking our town news when I came across this post and I just had to take a screenshot for you!


Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Cathe Live Burn Sets Biceps and Triceps Heavy Weights followed by Cathe Live Cardio Core Plateau Buster. DH is at work today for the first time since he has been back, so I took the opportunity since we are supposed to get hot weather this weekend to get the lawn mowed. I really couldn’t see not doing it today when the weather was so nice only for him to suffer with it this weekend. Besides, we have plenty else to do in the yard on the weekend.

Thelma, great workouts! Thank you for the recommendation in the 4DS circuit workout. I will look to see where we should fit it in. It won’t be next week since I am aiming for more metabolic/lighter workouts next week. But maybe the second or third ‘circuit’ week. That Facebook post is perfect....and says it all! I am sorry to hear about your supermarkets. We haven’t seen too many closures yet, but I think they will be coming. But I am surprised how many empty shelves there are in all the stores. As DH pointed out, it is probably due, in part, to trucks/trains being needed for higher priority items, but I don’t think that is all of it. I would be lying if those empty shelves isn’t one of the reasons we bought a freezer.

Laurie, great workout. That is really interesting that she is taking feedback like that to modify the workouts. What a great idea. Enjoy your cooler weather. It has been a near perfect week here for the first week in August, but that is going to change a bit over the weekend. I don’t mind....since it is still August. Of course last year our hottest weather came in late September/early October so who knows what will happen next month. But it has been a pretty tame summer for sure. It is funny you mention the Ben Franklin closing. We had one in North Pole, Alaska that has probably been there forever. DH mentioned when he came home they are going out of business, which makes me sad. It also makes me wonder if all Ben Franklin stores are closing.

Enjoy the day.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Busy Friday so this may be short. This morning was Day 7 and a yoga day. It was very good, but the flow was a little different. Overall the week has been really good, and I'm looking forward to next week.

Laurel, Great job on your workouts and getting that lawn mowed on a nice day. Very sad that the Ben Franklin franchise might be gone. I just loved roaming around there, and they had such nice material and yarn. I will have to get there before they close completely. We are suppose to go to a car show this weekend, but I think that I will be staying home. Just to much to get done around the house. DH can enjoy it, I'm just not wanting to have to wear a mask if I can help it.

Thelma, Love the workouts! The app takes "moves" that Jillian has filmed, and then you do that move for a certain amount of time. They last from 20 to 60 seconds. The yoga workout she was having me hold the pose for 30 seconds. So depending on the move and what intensity you chose, she gives you a workout. You can also generate your own workout depending on what you want to work. It actually is one of the better apps that I have purchased.

Have a great weekend!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a nice weekend. We had a nice and quiet weekend as always.
My workouts on Friday were GinaB low impact cardio, Restorative Yoga and Sculpting. Today I did a GinaB Hiit workout. I was feeling tired. I may do two rotation workouts tomorrow.

Laurie, great job with Jillian's app workouts. I'm glad you're enjoying them.
The app sounds really good! Does she give you a choice to select warm-ups and cool downs?

Laurel, what a great workout combo you chose on Friday! Wow! Great job!

I think it's taking my body longer to recuperate from heavy workout week. I am looking forward to this metabolic week. I can't believe you haven't found paper towels in a month. It took a while to get paper products here in the beginning of the quarantine and right now that is not a problem. I subscribed to Amazon for toilet paper because we couldn't find it for a while. I'll probably do paper towels too.
We definitely seem to have fewer meat choices. I have not seen empty freezers since March 13 when POTUS announced the quarantine. It really is time to start buying more food just in case. DH has taken inventory of what we have in the freezer and we plan/prepare meals based on what is there. We cross items out that we consume so we know what to buy next time we go food shopping. We haven't been buying a lot of meat like we used to but for now we'll start doing that. We have a food vacuum machine and DH packages the meat we buy with that machine.

Hi Tami and Erika!

Have a lovely week ladies!
Thelma