Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was LITE Pyramid Pump Upper Body followed by Cathe Live Rock It Sock It. And I hope to go for a walk with DH in a few minutes. The first thing he asked me this morning is if we were walking today. I think he misses these walks when he has to go into work, and he has been at work the last three days. Makes me smile.

Tami!!! So good to see you!!!! Thank you so much for checking in. I have been thinking about you. I am so sorry to hear about your in-laws. I so hope your FIL starts feeling better. This is not the first time I have heard about people being sick but not wanting to think it is COVID. I agree that there probably is a bit of denial going on, which is understandable. I am sure this is tough on your DH. I am sorry his fishing season was so bad. The smoke issue out there is just horrible. My sisters are still living with daily smoke in Denver from fires. Even though we faced bad fires out there when we lived there, it was nothing like the constant smoke they have had for months, especially this late in the year. Anyhow, glad you are finding the rotation helpful. Thelma and I added a week, so we are probably a week behind you! But just so you know, I am hoping to post a new rotation in the next week or so for the winter time. Hope it looks good to you!

Thelma, great workouts! Yes, after diverging from the planned workouts the last couple of weeks, I decided to finish off this week with the workouts I had originally planned. And I am glad I did because it reminded me how good these Pyramid Pump workouts are. Like I mentioned to Tami, and since Laurie said the new DVDs are supposed to be in before the end of the month, I am going to try to get the new rotation shored up and ready to go in the next week or so. I don’t like entering the last phase of a rotation without knowing what is next.

Laurie, that is great news! I haven’t received that notification yet, so I made sure my pre-order confirmation was still out there. I can’t believe we pre-ordered these in January. For a year where every day seems to be going by with the speed of molasses, the year itself has really gotten away from me. Great workout this morning! I saw there was snow in Minnesota and Wisconsin!! It is that time of year I suppose. I am sorry to hear your MIL is not doing very well. COVID just makes what would be an already difficult situation that much worse. I am sure it is difficult for your DH trying to figure out how to help her out while limiting her exposure. Not easy. I know my MIL asks my DH when we are going to visit every time he talks to her, and she doesn’t quite seem to want to accept now is not the time for casual family visits that require extensive travel. It is just all so sad to me.

Enjoy the weekend.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Had a nice weekend, but it sure was chilly and rainy. So it was good to spend some time on my quilting projects. This morning's workout was 30MTF Body Shop Workout 2.

Laurel, Great job on the workouts! Nice that your DH was asking about a walk, I have the same thing with mine. Right now it is walking in the dark, but on the weekends we go out for a longer one in the daylight. Although this weekend it was a little to wet to go for walks. Has it really been that long since we ordered these DVD's, the time sure did fly by. I know that Cathe wanted these out in the summer. She was planning on another system this year, so I wonder when she will be starting that one up. I think that my MIL is actually serious about moving!!!! She wants DH to start taking some of the furniture. Now I really don't want all that many things of hers. A rocking chair and her sewing machine. But if those are things that she will be using once she moves, then she can keep them. DH's BIL and SIL want the player piano, I'm like you can have it. I can't imagine trying to move that thing. I would rather the girls receive the items that their grandmother feels like getting rid of.

Thelma, Glad that you had some nice weather for your weekend. Love the workouts! Now that we have our shipping notification, we just have to wait for them to get to Cathe. I know that she said that they where creating the shipping label, so that they could move them along as soon as they arrive. Yes my MIL is looking at assisted living, and I would love for her to chose a location close to us. DH's brother lives about 10 min. from us, so it would be good for everyone. She of course looks at the price of things, and they are usually not close to all of us. Your DH's vacation sounds like my DH's. But his vacation time goes from June-May, so he usually is taking his time off in the spring.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies ~ Checking back in with you. Thank you for all the kind thoughts and it is so good to check back in with you all. It's been a little lonely out here in work-home-work-home living. Looks like you are all doing good from what I can tell from reading the last few posts. That's great.

Laurie: I was thinking about your DD and wondering with her being in the same line of work. It has not slowed down at all. So crazy right now. I know our office is feeling majorly burned out right now and our manager knows it.... trying his best to buy lunches, snacks, bonuses, anything to just keep our heads up. Super nice of him. We are all encouraged to just start using vacation because we need it ..... not because we are going anywhere. LOL

We had a quiet weekend at home but that was good. DH is exhausted between worry and having the last month of getting up at 3:30 and fishing all day, etc… He always crashes with feeling the tireds but the emotional strain is ALOT right now too. His dad is hanging in there but it is definitely day-by-day. The doctor told him and my mother-in-law on Friday afternoon that if they can keep him “going” for the next 5 days he might have a chance of getting out of ICU. He definitely won’t be out of the hospital before Thanksgiving though they said. So yikes to both of those. He is still having a really hard time. His spirits are down most of the time but then he has good moments during the day and reaches out to Brett and others. Not having visitors really makes an impact with this horrible pandemic forsure. We are still trying to figure out a way to have someone help him with FaceTime or installing an app so he can have FaceTime with peeps who don't have Iphones. I think this would really help. He enjoys receiving text messages forsure but that is so brief and not the same. Brett was going to stand in a parking lot and wave to him on Saturday but he wasn't good enough to do that. WE also found out on Saturday that my father-in-law's brother tested positive. He is fortunately not having major symptoms so he will be at home quarantined and fingers crossed he is ok. Brett's dad was basically the one that gave it to him by going over to his house the day he tested .... not sure (AGAIN) what they were thinking other than denial; Sandy's symptoms are mostly just a cough and tired but she gets better each day.

Workouts are keeping me sane of course because DH is all over the map, including not sleeping well. Looking forward to this week of workouts. Maybe with all the craziness I am off a little on the schedule .... is this week PHA or last week?? I seemed to do more Peloton rides than lifting last week, so either way, this will be good. Walks have felt really good too lately to just clear my mind but our weather is changing quickly and supposed to have snow this weekend.

I also saw that the shipping is happening on the new workout series! Always a fun thing to look forward too. Let me know if you guys change it up to fit those into the rotation.

I will keep checking in ladies ~ talk to you soon! Tami

Morning Ladies,

This morning's workout was 30MTF Circuit Burn Workout 2.

Laurel, Well your weather was drastically different than ours. As I was driving home the snow was falling. It didn't stick around, but it was a little depressing to see. Glad that you are enjoying your nice weather though. Great job on your workouts, and shocking that body! Glad to hear that you got your shipping notification also. Did you see that she will be hosting a 2 day virtual roadtrip. Yesterday she asked what dates would be the best, they where Nov 13/14 or 20/21, so a Friday/Saturday. Sounds interesting, and probably not as much $$. I'm for sure interested, I could just take a Friday off of work. You are right on the sentimental things, she kind of did that with the trains. She didn't know why DH didn't want to keep them. He is way to busy to play with trains.

Tami, How nice that your boss is trying to boost the moral, my dd's boss does the same thing. I think that it does help my dd that she is able to go home, since she lives so close. She can be with her dogs, and eat her lunch in peace. I will continue to keep your FIL in my prayers, and I hope that he is able to do the virtual contact with the family. Sorry to hear that his brother also has it. Keep us posted when you are able.

Thelma, Love the workouts! The HiiT workouts that Cathe has in this series look interesting, and I'm wondering how they will be doing the rotations. Guess I will have to wait and see, but it is getting harder and harder to wait for these post to arrive. How great that your DH is able to accrue vacation like that. We have a year to use up our, or else it goes away. I'm up to 5 weeks now, so this year was difficult to use up since we really didn't go anywhere.

Have a wonderful day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Tuesday were Zumba, Yoga Basics and Step Boss PHA 3.

Laurie, awesome workout!

I can't believe you got snow already! Our temps at night are now in the 50's and 70's during the day.
It is getting harder to wait for the new workouts but I think Cathe said they'll start shipping them out on 10/21.

It really is fortunate that DH can accumulate vacation like that. Living here in the mountains we don't feel the need to go on vacation. I'm sure you'll find ways to use up your vacation time.

Laurel, fantastic workout!
Our weather is warmer and beautiful.
If you get a lot of 'ladybugs', then they're not lady bugs. You will not see ladybug swarms. They live in your garden. The Asian lady beetles are usually mistaken for ladybugs. They are different though. They form swarms and want to live inside your house in the winter.
https://plunketts.net/blog/ladybugs-vs-asian-lady-beetles

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! For today’s workout I put together two of my favorite Live PHA workouts.....PHA with Cardio Blasts and PHA3. Good but tough stuff. I was definitely dripping.

Thelma, great workouts. When we moved here, we hired a company to do outdoor and indoor insect treatment, and I asked the insect guy about our ladybugs. He told me they are a protected species here in Alabama because of what they do for the cotton fields. So I have always considered what we have as ladybugs, not the beetles you described. Except....they are the beetles you describe!! They definitely come inside, though we haven’t had swarms of them inside. But the insect guy told me that can happen. We had one land on our table on the deck last night and, yep, looking at the photo, it is a lady Asian beetle! So you have educated me on what is a pretty annoying thing during winter here. They love our master bathroom. I really don’t like that. But now I am prepared for swarms.

Laurie, great workout. Was that one where you get on and off the machine? Those are such good workouts. I haven’t commented on the dates for the Road Trip (mostly because I have sworn off Facebook until after the election....and maybe forever ), but DH let me know he is taking the week of Thanksgiving off, which means I can use him for physical labor during that week which frees up my weekend before Thanksgiving. So, for me, I think I will do it regardless of which weekend if, like you, the cost seems reasonable. These PHA workouts this week have felt so good. You can never go wrong with a PHA workout.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Rainy rainy weather, so no walk this morning. My workout was 30MTF Kickboxing Workout 2. Such a good one for only 30 min. I am changing up my workout tomorrow, and doing the PHA2. Sounds a lot more fun that the Kelly Muscle Definition.

Laurel, Awesome tough workouts you did. Of course all of you inspired me, and the PHA workouts sound so good, that I had to put it on my schedule. Interesting information on why they won't treat for those beetles. One thing for sure, if you have a vacuum cleaner like my Shark, it will grind up those little bodies and make it stink. The one good thing is that I can wash my vacuum out, but that smell is not fun. Just a warning for you if you have to suck them up. I hear you on the facebook, I just go to my groups page and don't visit my newsfeed at all. Can't stay away from the page that has my quilt a long . Nice that you DH is taking that time off. I have not decided how many days I will be taking at Thanksgiving yet. I don't really need to take all the days that I usually do, but I do have the days available.

Thelma, Great workouts! Interesting information on the Covid. We have gotten past the wasps, but yes we do have those to. Stink bugs are not as bad, but we do have them. I will have to look up that other beetle, because that is a new one to me. We have the Japanese beetle, they are really pretty, but can be very destructive to certain types of plants. The one bug I hate the most is the box elder beetles. I have had those things walk on my arm during the night, and it is a creepy feeling.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, Thursday's workouts were Gina B low impact cardio and S&S PHA Training.

Laurie, loved your workout! Good idea to switch to the PHA workout! Too bad you had to miss your walk because of the rain.

We have a lot more Asian lady beetles now! Our screened porch had lots of them inside! My biggest fear with bugs is for them to crawl inside my ears or my nose but I also fear them crawling on my skin. It is a creepy feeling.

Laurel, great workouts!
I take a multivitamin and it has vitamin D and zinc. I also get more zinc and vitamin D from my Calcium, magnesium, zinc supplement for hot flashes.
I hope you don't get a lot of Asian lady beetles. I found two inside the house today.

Have a wonderful weekend ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was another tough one. I did a 20 minute spin into S&S PHA doubled premix. That was tough! But it felt good.

Thelma, great workouts. We haven’t seen any beetles inside yet....just on the deck. But our weather is still warmer than yours, so that may be why we don’t have them inside yet. Not looking forward to that.

Laurie, great workout! I love that you are stalking your DVDs! I need to figure out where mine are too. I think the virtual road trip will sell out in a second to be honest, so I won’t be surprised to miss out on the opportunity either. But if it isn’t too much for her, maybe she will do more of them until things calm down a bit with COVID.

Enjoy the weekend.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

I have my DVD's!!! They arrived on Saturday. Had a nice but cold weekend. We had a light dusting of snow this morning. My workout was 30MTF Strong & Lean Workout 1, which is all strength. I will finish out this Kelly rotation, and then next week move on to the Perfect 30 rotation. I see that they have open days for picking a different workout, so I'm going to probably insert a Kelly one into those slots.

Laurel, Sounds like an excellent workout! I hope that you either have gotten or will be getting your DVD's today. I was super excited to get mine, and they are really cute. I don't know how DVD's can be cute, but I love the colors. Can't wait to try them out, and it appears that the weights are heavy. She is using 40lb dumbbells for squats. Looks like the highest weight for upper body is 35lbs. I hope that she is able to do more of the virtual road trips also, I'm sure that they have lost a lot of $ since all of this started. I would like to support her as much as I can.

Thelma, I do hope that your efforts against the beetle invasion works. Those things seem to be able to slip into the smallest cracks. Great workouts! Those GS premixes are good. I like the leg premix more than the actual workout. Sorry to hear about the lighting ceremony was cancelled. I had heard that Europe was having to deal with Covid again.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts today were Gina B Hiit cardio and Gym Style Legs premix.
My DVD's came arrived this afternoon so I'm going to give them a try starting tomorrow. Any excuse to get out of the hard Gym Style workouts! LOL

Apparently we're going to get some rain from hurricane Zeta this week.

Laurie, great job with your KCM rotation! I hope the dusting of snow didn't cause any traffic issues for you.

The GS premixes are really good.
We had a cloudy day so the beetles weren't around. We did find some inside today but nothing like what was there on Sunday. I don't remember seeing that many in there last year. DH worked sealing the porch from the porch downstairs today.
We don't attend those tree lighting ceremonies so it's no big deal to us but I know it means a lot to other people.
The sad part about the virus in Italy is that they are telling people to not show up at the hospital unless they're really sick. This virus is treatable when treated early. It seems they didn't learn anything from what happened in the spring.

Laurel, quiet weekends are always good!
Great workouts! I'm so glad you liked that Hiit High Impact workout! Thanks for the workout description and for sharing your experience with it.

We are having the same weather for sure! I don't mind the rain at all. We are not going anywhere so I don't mind.
We're waiting for a sunny day to see how effective the sealing job we did performs! LOL
We still found bugs but we think they were already inside. I also think they had babies in there because I found some really small ones.

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! In my excitement to post about Perfect 30 yesterday, I forgot to mention my workouts from yesterday. They were Cathe Live Glutes and Thighs and a 30 minute HiiT spin with Peloton. Today was Gym Style Back, Shoulders and Biceps followed by Perfect 30 Low Impact HiiT and the Bonus Pyramid cardio workout. I really liked the Low Impact HiiT. I was thinking throughout that I think this is Cathe’s first full length low impact HiiT workout that doesn’t use any equipment (like a mat or weights or gliding discs). Most of the moves are new variations or completely new moves, she includes a few agility drills, and it was perfectly doable. If you want to work harder, there are options for more impact, but it definitely isn’t necessary. Cathe stays lower impact throughout. Definitely a winner for me. I also did the bonus workout without a step but did do the moves with impact. It was perfectly fine without a step. In fact, there was only one move where I wish I had a step (the next to last move which is a one-legged hop over the step). For me, if I do the bonus workout after the high impact HiiT, I will use the step. If I do it after the low impact HiiT, I most likely won’t. That will keep my heart rate about even throughout the entire workout, and I like that. Looking forward to more Perfect 30 tomorrow!

Thelma, great workouts! As you can see, I skipped out on Gym Style Legs yesterday, so I completely understand using Perfect 30 as a reason to duck out of Gym Styles. I love how the Gym Style upper body workouts make my muscles feel, but I can’t say I love them when I am doing them. As far as GS Legs go, though, I have to be in the right mood, and I am not in that mood very often. I keep reading about the virus and this wave of illnesses in Europe, and it really does seem that they didn’t quite learn all the lessons that needed to be learned, which is just so sad. Right now we are in Zeta’s path too, but once again, she may skirt south of us and you may feel it more than us. We’ll find out tomorrow I suppose.

Laurie, great workout. I am glad you find my reviews helpful. Definitely try that bonus workout without the step. If you like Double Wave Pyramid, you will like this, though it is far from being as tough! Did you see the update from Cathe on the Road Trip? I talked to DH last night, and if I can sign up, I am going to give it a try. I was also happy to see that she is selling some equipment again. My resistance tubing came with those Ultimate Fighter/MMA workouts released several years ago and can use some updating. I keep expecting them snap!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

My workout this morning was 30MTF Super Sculpt Workout 1. I really enjoyed this one, it was a good mix.

Laurel, Awesome job on all your workouts, even if you missed your workout from yesterday. Thanks for more info on the HiiT workouts, I'm looking forward to trying them both out. Very nice that the High Impact HiiT workout is similar to the Pyramid one, and of course I do like that it isn't as intense. I have not tried those HiiT workout in a while, so this will be a good way to build up my endurance. I didn't see the information on the road trip, but will check it out. I to need some new bands, the ones that I had all broke. I have been using that same band, just have not looked into getting a different brand.

Thelma, Great job on your workouts! Sorry to hear about the yoga classes, and you are right that temptation would be so hard to endure. I love the smell of fruit pies! I have to say that youtube has been awesome during this time. It got me back into the quilting mode. Dang on the beetles finding a way in.

Hope you both don't have to many problems with the latest storm.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Okay, so about this next rotation, there are five sections, each lasting three week. I planned a ‘recovery’ week for in between each section. Each section will be (loosely) focused on a different style of strength training, and each week during each section will have a different style or focus, with one week each segment focused (again, loosely) on endurance, muscle building and strength. The order of these weeks will be random. For instance, during one section, the first week may be strength, the second endurance and the third muscle building. But the next section may be completely re-ordered. My goal here was to ‘shock’ the body with an undulating type of rotation as well as vary the lifting styles as much as possible to prevent overworking and boredom.

I am going to list my plans as well as several options. Whereas in the past, I tried to do workouts from the same programs, this time, I am using more random workouts.....ones that appeal to me more. There is a lot more repetition of workouts in this rotation than I normally use as well. And then I am also going to do a couple of things I haven’t tried before which will involve changing discs or chattering through workouts to the right exercise. I will try to provide options is that doesn’t appeal. Also, I am going to incorporate some random STS workouts throughout which I don’t normally do.

My plan, right now, is to challenge myself. For whatever reason, I feel like I have gotten a little lazy with my workouts, and I want to break out of that if I can. I think this winter will be a challenging one mentally, so I am hoping to inspire myself with some tough workouts. But I may get to the third section and go ‘nope!’ and pull back. It all depends on how this 55 yo body feels. The rotation only lists strength work and not specific cardio workouts to keep it as flexible as possible. So here goes!

November 8-14/Recovery Week 1

I am not going to do a daily rundown of workouts for this week, and have the same plan for all four recovery weeks. My goal during these weeks is to do 1-2 circuit or metabolic workouts, 1 PHA workout, and 1 classic Total Body workout. What workouts I select and what days of the week I do them on will depend on how my body feels. But if I were to suggest the format I may use, it would be:

Sunday-Circuit/Metabolic
Monday-Cardio
Tuesday-Total Body
Wednesday-Cardio And Mobility
Thursday-PHA
Friday-Circuit/Metabolic
Saturday-Yoga


SECTION 1 November 15-December 5/Sets

Week 1-November 15-21 (Muscle Building)
Sunday-Cardio (optional lower body workout)
Monday-Total Body Giant Sets upper body premix
Tuesday-Total Body Giant Sets lower body premix
Wednesday-Cardio and Mobility
Thursday-Body Blast Supersets Upper Body Premix
Friday-Body Blast Legs and Glutes
Saturday-yoga

Week 2-November 22-28 (Strength)—this is Thanksgiving week, so shorter workouts
Sunday-LIS Chest, Shoulders and Triceps
Monday-LIS Lower Body Trisets
Tuesday-LIS Back, Biceps and Core
Wednesday-4DS Chest, Shoulders and Triceps
Thursday-4DS Lower Body premix
Friday-4DS Back and Biceps
Saturday-yoga

Week 3-November 29-December 5 (Endurance)
Option: Do one Muscle Meltdown workout each day and ICE Lower Body once
-or-
Sunday-LITE Stacked Sets Lower Body
Monday-LITE Stacked Sets Upper Body
Tuesday-cardio and mobility
Wednesday-Muscle Meltdowns for Biceps, Triceps and Shoulders (approx. 43 minutes w/o warm up)
Thursday-Lower Body Blast or Lean Legs and Glutes
Friday-Muscle Meltdown for Chest and Back (approx 36 minutes w/o warm up)
Saturday-yoga

December 6-12/Recovery Week 2

SECTION 2 December 13-January 2/Express Workouts

Week 1-December 13-19 (Muscle Building)
Option: This week will focus on Push/Pull, and I am using the Body Blast Push/Pull and Fit/Split workouts. I will be doing premixes from the BB Push/Pull workout, but you can do the entire workout once or twice this week if desired and skip the premixes if it is too much/too long.

Sunday-Body Blast Push/Pull
Monday-cardio and mobility
Tuesday-F/S Push
Wednesday-F/S Pull
Thursday-BB Push/Pull lower body premix
Friday-BB Push/Pull upper body premix
Saturday-yoga

Week 2-December 20-26 (Strength)—Christmas Week!!
Sunday-STS Meso 2/Disc 22 Chest, Shoulders and Triceps
Monday-STS Meso 2/Disc 23 Legs (or, for a shorter workout, LIHI Legs/weights only premix)
Tuesday-STS Meso 2/Disc 24 Back and Biceps
Wednesday-cardio and mobility
Thursday-Perfect 30 Lower Body
Friday-Perfect 30 Upper Body
Saturday-yoga

Week 3-December 27-January 2 (Endurance)
Sunday-cardio (optional lower body workout such as Great Glutes)
Monday-LITE Pyramid Pump Upper Body
Tuesday-LITE Pyramid Pump Lower Body
Wednesday-cardio and mobility
Thursday-LITE Stacked Sets Upper Body
Friday-LITE Stacked Sets Lower Body
Saturday-yoga

January 3-9/Recovery Week 3

I will continue this in another post.

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Wednesday were Monica Pulgarin's Zumba, Beginner Gentle and Revive and Restore Yoga.

We are getting hit with rain from hurricane Zeta. It started to rain on Wednesday at around 4am. It's still raining and we've been warned that the dangerous part of the storm for us will be after 2am. We will see heavy rain and wind.

Laurie, that 30MTF sculpting workout sounds great! Is it one of her new DVDs?

It is too bad about the yoga classes but I've felt bad vibes from the owner for a long time. She and her best friend who is one of the instructors partnered up and bought an apple orchard. Ever since that happened about 2 months ago, she seemed to have neglected her yoga business and I don't like that. The social aspect that I loved so much isn't there due to covid and she dropped the barre classes two months ago.
YouTube is really great. I've noticed that Travis Elliot has full yoga classes there now which is great. I just have to make sure I keep the same schedule I've been following all this time so I stay disciplined.

Laurel, great workout. I can't say that I'm probably going to try the yoga workout on Friday. The mobility workout sounds really good. I also searched on youtube for mobility workouts and there are plenty of them. I'm not sure if they're good as I don't think I've ever done a mobility workout. Some of the workouts I looked at seemed yoga like. I can't wait to try Cathe's so I have a better idea of what this is like.

I found this stick mobility workout and it actually looks pretty cool. I really didn't have a chance to view the video or read about the concept but I like what I saw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZFErYy2e34

I think things happen for a reason. I feel the owner got greedy and neglected her yoga customer base. She lost three instructors this week because they're not willing to travel to the new studio and for some internal drama apparently.

OMG Laurel, thank you so much for putting that rotation together! I took a quick look and I LOVE it! I like the recovery weeks and how we'll do killer workouts the week before Thanksgivings! I can't believe Thanksgivings is around the corner!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma