Cathe Fans Part 5

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

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Perfect 30 Upper Body, and I did the premix with the bonus upper body exercises and tacked on the core routine at the end. I loved this upper body workout! I lifted what Cathe did except for on overhead triceps extension (I will never use 35lbs for that ), and for being a relatively short workout, I can definitely feel it in my upper body. For cardio, I did the Low Impact, High Impact and Bonus Pyramid premix from Perfect 30 and yowza! That was a tough workout! My plan was to use a step for the bonus but by the time I got there, I pulled out my 4” platform and only used that for about half the exercises. I think these are Cathe’s most enjoyable HiiT workouts.

Thelma, great workouts. I hope you didn’t suffer too badly from the storm. DH has some co-workers in Atlanta that are without power today. We had quite a bit of rain here, but that is it. And now it is perfectly sunny. I am glad you like the looks of the new rotation! I am excited about it and very curious how it feels on the body.

Laurie, great workout. And I don’t think I would be doing that kind of jumping on a 10” step either! Even 8” anymore feels dicey to me. I think why I feel I am slacking is more mental than physical. I am just like ‘ho hum, here I am working out’, and not putting my all into much of it. But having new workouts helps! About the Perfect 30 Flow workouts, to me, they didn’t really compare to what she did at the Road Trip. What I remember from the Road Trip felt more like challenging flow segments that were at times athletic and at times more mobility or stretching focused. But it felt like, well, a flow workout. While the yoga has some athletic segments and a little flow in the sun salutations part, the transitions between sections and moves felt more jarring to me, if that makes any sense. That is why I described it as a series of exercises or postures as opposed to a flow. But, being quite honest, one of the things I loved about the Road Trip and that workout was the music, and the music for the yoga workout on the DVD is more standard ‘yoga’ music, and while the mobility workout music has more of a beat, it is still instrumental. So, for me, this didn’t quite hit my memory of that class, but both of these workouts are better than her LIS yoga workouts in my view because she is much more natural in them. And, of course, I could have quite a faulty memory of that Road Trip workout as well. Enjoy your day off tomorrow.

Enjoy the day.

Laurel

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Perfect 30 Lower Body with the Bonus lower body segment and a 45 minute spin. I absolutely loved this lower body workout. She used pretty heavy weight, but the reps were controlled, there was a variety of moves and it didn’t feel at all endless like some of higher endurance workouts do to me......yet I still feel it in my legs. So good and highly recommended. So that means I have done all of Perfect 30! It gets two thumbs up from me for sure.

Thelma, I was worried about you when I heard how hard Atlanta had been hit. Yikes! That sounds like a scary storm. Like you, we had a nice day in the afternoon yesterday but the wind last night was crazy. I think it was this cold front that pushed through because it is much cooler here today than it has been. We got a generator after we lost power for hours in January and it really does give me peace of mind when we get these storms through. I am glad you are excited for the new rotation. Me too! It is different than anything I have really done before.

Enjoy the weekend!

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Sorry I didn't post on Friday, but I was just taking it as a lazy day. Did get some more quilting done this weekend, just really enjoying it. My workout on Friday was 30MTF Shape Up Workout 2 and this morning was my first Perfect 30 workout and I did a premix of Upper Body the Bonus and Extended Stretch. Really do love this workout, and since it was my first time with this one I took it slightly lighter than Cathe. Since I don't have 35# db's, I just stuck with my 30's. My upper body is really feeling it right now.

Laurel, Great job on all your workouts! Thanks for the information on the lower body, I'm looking forward to that one too. My first shot at the HiiT workout will be tomorrow. I'm not planning on doing the bonus one yet. After your experience I'm a little scared of the High Impact one though, but I'm still planning on trying it out tomorrow. The only thing that saved me on that Kelly workout with the 8", was that it was just jumping up. Even with Cathe's workout I step off the step. I tend to trip more when I'm jumping off than jumping up. I don't understand why that is.

Thelma, So very glad to hear that you both are okay after that storm. Great job getting something in despite the fact that you didn't have power. I hear you on not being a workout instructor. I know that I really enjoy following along. Great job by the power company to get so many homes back on the power grid. I can't imagine what that wind was like. We had wind on Saturday, but nothing like what you have been through.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi ladies, my workouts on Monday were Gina B Halloween low impact cardio and Barre.
Our temps dropped into the low 30's last night and the strong wind continued all night long. Tonight our temps will drop below 30. We had a little wind today but nothing like the previous night.
These winds caused more power outages which is terrible.

Laurie, sounds like you had a great weekend! Great workouts! You definitely feel the Perfect30 workouts!

Thank God we survived the storm! Our power company did an excellent job. As of this afternoon there were still 400 meters out.

Laurel, I'm glad you had a good weekend. Great workouts! Cathe's Halloween class sounds like a lot of fun. I can't imagine working out while wearing a mask! Gina B also had a custom on.

We were supposed to have a frost last night but it didn't happen. I think it may happen tonight. I have two tender plants in the garage that I want to save. Did you know you can keep ferns alive during the winter? I have this massive fern and it is in the garage now. The wind here has been insane! It is definitely fall!

Goodnight ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Well, DH and I were up before the sun to get to our voting station this morning. We got there about 45 minutes before they opened and were second in line. I am so glad we did that because by the time the polls opened, the line was wrapped around the parking lot and down the road leading into the area. But we got it done, felt it was very safe and clean, and home in time for a good workout. For my workout, I did RWH LIHI Chest, Shoulders and Triceps followed by RWH Plyo HiiT One doubled premix. It has been a long time since I did that HiiT workout, but since we got Perfect 30, I wanted to try it as a comparison to the Perfect 30 High Impact HiiT. RWH is more intense, no doubt, but Perfect 30 is far more enjoyable and plenty intense enough.

Thelma, great workouts! I have two plants sitting in my garage too....and two in the house. Every spring I see people buying the most beautiful ferns and wondering how they keep them alive not just through the heat but the winter. I may have to give one a try next year because they are so beautiful. Let me know how it goes in keeping it healthy all winter long if you think about it.

Laurie, great workout. Good idea in watching the move in that workout before doing it. The burpees in that one don’t bother me because she doesn’t do them endlessly. I am not much for 16 burpees in a row, but four or eight in just fine. The Hocus Pocus workout was fun, and even more fun since I had just watched the movie about two nights earlier.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel