Cathe Fans Part 5

Morning Ladies,

Sorry I was MIA all the time I was off, but surprisingly I was so busy that I kind of wished at some points that I was at work. We did go to visit my parents, because they needed to go to the dentist and didn't have transpo. I know that it was just a good excuse for my Mom wanting us to be up there. Hope everyone has had a great Christmas and start of the New Year. I'm only going to start my workout list from Sunday, because it would just be to much info anyway. Sunday I did Perfect 30 Perfect HiiT High Impact. This morning was LITE Strong Body Stacked Sets Upper Body. I'm going to be following the Perfect 30/LITE Rotation this month. Can you believe that I did a workout on a Sunday! I will keep this one short, since I have a ton of work to catch up on but will look at all the post at some point tonight when I have a chance.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Monday were Ice Rock'm Sock'm Kickbox with boxing gloves and Peloton Intermediate Yoga.
I did a Kristin McGee workout and I liked it a lot. Her speed was a little too fast for me but definitely something to work up to.

Laurie, welcome back and Happy New Year! I'm so glad you got to see your parents!!
We had a good Christmas and New Year. As always it was just the two of us.
Great workouts and congrats on the Sunday workout!

Laurel, I'm glad you had a nice holiday! Same here!
Great workouts!! I'm glad the storms avoided you last week too. We're hearing it might snow here toward the end of the week.
The pizza shop I wanted to try told us they weren't taking take out orders. Last time we tried to order from them they didn't answer the phone. I am taking these as signs that we shouldn't try that place. The pizza we ordered was from one of our favorite restaurants which we knew we liked. I was hoping for better pizza though. I told DH we need to lower our food standards here! LOL.

I hope you try that chicken recipe. It really is good! It's going to become one of my go to recipes.

I signed up for the Barre class so I'm ready for Wednesday afternoon!

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a good one. I pieced together two Cathe Live workout to make a total body workout. They were Touch Up Training Lower Body and Touch Up Training Upper Body. It was long (almost 90 minutes) but only moderately intense....which is what I was looking for. I added on a quick cardio—Cathe Live Move It—for a nice finish.

Thelma, great workouts. I definitely recommend trying Kristin’s beginner workouts for a slower pace in her yoga. She does many of the same moves, just slower. Her flow yoga is also slower than her power yoga. I am glad you liked her. We may be getting snow later this week and over the weekend as well....but we’ll see. I think our temperatures may stay just a little too high. I agree about needing to modify your food standards. On Sunday I was craving pizza and DH asked me what kind. My response was ‘a good kind’. We ate at home. I got signed up for the Barre class too so see you tomorrow!

Laurie, great workout! I definitely prefer the Stacked Sets workouts to the Pyramid Pump workouts just because of the repetition in the latter. I really have to be in the mood for it. I haven’t seen that January rotation yet, but that is another duo of workout sets that would be perfectly matched. I am glad your parents are doing well. No doubt the visits helps because this winter could get very, very long without them.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was LITE Strong Body Stacked Sets Lower. I forgot to mention that I got the new Cathe Firewalker Resistance Loops, and the blue exercise mat. My dd and sil gave them to me for Christmas. The mat is really nice.

Laurel, Great job on combining those workouts, and of course getting in some additional cardio. I hear you on the Pyramid workouts, but I must like that repetition. It is going to be hard to resist all the rotations that my favorite instructors are putting out right now. I'm tentatively planning on a Kelly one next month, or Jessica. She is suppose to be coming out with a 12 week series called Lift & Shift. Will be curious to see what this is all about. Of course I will be checking out the monthly rotations that Cathe has, just to see how she will incorporate these P30 workouts.

Thelma, Awesome workouts! We didn't have time to get a test done. We had not planned on visiting my parents, but she insisted that we visit. Neither dh or I have been sick, and no one at work has been exposed or sick. DH told my Mom that she needed to sign a waiver for us to come and visit. I also take the Saturday off, but I do have the P30 Yoga planned for that day. Will see if that happens because I have early morning plans to be at church for a meeting and taking the Christmas deco down.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Wednesday were Zumba and Barre. The Barre class was a killer. My thighs and butt were killing me.

Laurie, awesome workout! Are those firewalker bands the cloth ones you told us about? I bet the band and mat are great! Who is coming up with the Lift & Shift rotation?

LOL about your DH telling your mom she needed to sign a waver for you to visit them! LOL
My instructor is teaching the Saturday morning yoga class and sent me a note telling me about it. I don't know that I want to do it but I feel guilty not supporting her. I'm with you on the Saturday yoga class! LOL

Laurel, awesome workouts Laurel! Barre was good but too bad the music was too loud. It hurt though so it was good as far as I'm concerned. I really like her ab routine.

Someone posted a weather map on FB today and we're in the 1-3 inch range for Friday morning.
I love Naan bread! Great idea! I used to make pizzas with pita bread. I'm totally with you on the pizza crust and sauce! Trust me, you won't like bad pizza!
You do know the vaccine won't prevent you from getting the virus right? It will only lessen the symptoms.

Good night!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Cathe Live PHA Supersets followed by Cathe Live Cardio Core Bootcamp. I am having a no energy day today so I am glad I got those done.

Thelma, great workouts. I am so glad I wasn’t alone in thinking the Barre class last night was killer. My legs were screaming at me. I still feel it in the back of my legs. Thank you for saying something about the music because I was having a hard time hearing her last night. One of the things I like about her workouts is she really focuses on the entire body, so I feel everything has been worked at the end....which is a good feeling. Yes, I know I can still get the virus with the vaccine. But, sadly, I know a few too many people now who have had horrible cases of COVID...and are otherwise pretty healthy....so that is incentive enough for me to stay as safe as possible before a vaccine. Stay safe if it snows!

Laurie, great workout! I really love that one. I was afraid my tubing was going to break as well. Cathe has a bands only workout she recently did on Live that I may try soon to just test these bands out. Where Cathe has a tendency to grab one band for a workout....I can’t do that. There are just some moves my shoulder does not like as much with heavy or even medium bands bands.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

I was able to use my new mat this morning by doing LITE Metabolic Blast.

Laurel, Nice job on the workouts despite the lack of energy. The one move in the low impact HiiT workout I love is the Heisman rock & run. It just makes me smile every time I do it. I think that I just enjoy that Heisman type move. I have to do the same thing with the bands, because my shoulders can't handle that heavy or medium band either. Hope you are able to try out that band workout. I remembered that I need the larger bands also, but Cathe doesn't have that available for purchase as far as I can see.

Thelma, Love that workout! Of course it is on my rotation the month, so will be looking forward to doing that one. I don't think that Cathe has a workout for the cloth bands, just the elastic ones. Not that you couldn't use them in some instances, I have done that with some of the workouts to give them a different feel. My bands feel like cloth and are very tough. For the most part they are easier to use on the upper thigh than below the knee. Of course I try to protect my knees as much as possible. I don't know how much I would use the subscription, so will have to think about giving the barre workout a try.

Have a great weekend!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a nice weekend. Ours was nice and quiet as always.
The snow never really happened. It probably snowed for 5 minutes.

On Friday I did Gina B low impact cardio and ICE Metabolic Total Body.
Sunday: Gina B. Hiit and STS Disc 26/Plyo Legs.

Laurie, great workout! How did you like your new mat?
I like the idea of using the cloth/tougher bands for the upper thighs. The elastic ones always roll up on me!
The Barre class is a zoom class. This week the class will be from 6:30-7:30 EST. You are on Central time right?

The class this week is just too late for my taste BUT if you'd like to do it I will do it with you!

Laurel, great workout combo!

Sounds like you got as much snow as we did!
I feel that you need to apologize for the rotation for the next three weeks too! LOL. Just kidding! I will be hard but it will shock the body which is good.

We've talked about another STS rotation so this will be a good test. I think we could do two weeks STS, one week recovery. If we do it we have to make so that we don't burn out.

Did you see the barre class schedule for this week? 6:30-7:30pm. That's kind of late! Are you going to do it? My mind doesn't want to do it at that time.

Have a great week ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Hope you had a nice weekend. Ours was very quiet. It was cold and gloomy on Saturday but the sun finally came out yesterday which improved my mood tremendously. I did manage to convince DH to take walks with me both days, and even though it was pretty chilly on Saturday’s walk, the fresh air felt good. Today we are back to gloomy with some snow. So far, this is the most ‘January’ January we have had in Huntsville. I don’t mind too much.....yet.

For workouts, on Saturday I did Jessica Smith’s Core Control from her Build Balance DVD and 30 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Yesterday was STS Disk 26/Plyo Legs and a 30 minute HiiT and Hills ride with Peloton. Today was STS Disk 25/Chest and Back followed by Cathe Live HiiT It, Strike It and Crunch It. So far so good with the STS workouts!

Thelma, great workouts! It is funny you suggest a two week on, one week off schedule for STS because I was thinking the same thing. But.....I am thinking about doing each week of workouts twice. So, for instance, we would do Disks 1-3 for two weeks, take a week off, then do Disks 4-6 for two weeks, take a week off......you get the picture. I have always had better results from STS doing each week twice. But.....this would make for an extraordinarily long rotation. So, I might suggest we only do that with Mesocycles 1 and 2....and then do Meso 3 in its entirety in one four week push. That way we retain the concept behind Meso 3 (improving strength by 5%), don’t die of boredom by extending it at all, , and maximize the other two Meso’s better with breaks. I think this rotation would be just over six months, taking us into the autumn. Let me know what you think. Thank you for letting me know about the time change for Barre this week. That is too late for me too, unfortunately. Hopefully it will be back to normal time next week.

Laurie, great workout! I am glad you enjoyed your weekend and got to see your DD and SIL. I am glad you got new boots for your walks. I think you would enjoy that Cardio Boxing Bootcamp workout I did on Friday. Cathe did a similar one a few weeks back, but I enjoyed this one more. It was six rounds of one cardio boxing segment, one weighted compound exercise, and one core focused exercise. It just flew by and felt cardio throughout. The other one, if I recall, had groups of four segments (one cardio and three strength), and I remember it didn’t feel very cardio to me. But I have also learned I have a very different impression of some workouts the second time through, so, no doubt, I will give that one another try.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning I did Kelly's Real RAW #2 Cardio HiiT. Didn't think that I would be willing to do the same HiiT workouts for 4 weeks, so changed it up a bit.

Laurel, Sounds like you had a very nice weekend. You had our type of walk it looks like, and you are right it was nice to see sun. I absolutely love the sound of that workout, kind of wish that she would make a DVD like that. I'm sure that will happen at some point. Really like your idea for the STS rotation, just wish that I could participate. Some day I'm sure I will be able to handle a longer workout, but right now I enjoy my sleep to much. I have had that experience with workouts not feeling to cardio, but you are right, it is always different when you try them a second time around. Must be that you are more familiar with the moves.

Thelma, Love the workouts! Hope that you will have a nice sunny day at some point. I think that I had heard that we are going through the opposite of El Nino? I don't know what that all means, but that could account for the normal type of January. So far I'm loving my new boots, they are much more comfortable to walk in. I really had to make sure that the traction was good. I tested it on the floor, it they slipped to much then I figured that they where not worthy. I don't need to be falling on my butt.

Have a great day!
Laurie