Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Monday were Gina B. Low Impact Cardio and XT Burn Sets All Upper Body premix. Between pickleball and Barlates my inner thighs and glutes are a bit sore! Good stuff!

Laurie, congratulations on finishing the paraments for your church and on your smaller waist!! Great workouts!!

It must be exciting and bittersweet to have your youngest move out. It's hard to cook just for two. I don't think it would be enough food for DH if I did that.

It really is nice that we've been able to play a little pickleball in our driveway. We have to be careful though because our property slops downward and we can't have those balls rolling downhill. DH wants to make sure I use the right technique.
I'm glad you also went out to dinner to celebrate your youngest dd's birthday! I am not sure we would feel comfortable yet in a packed restaurant but one thing is for sure, we've had enough of of this self imposed lockdown.

Laurel, I'm glad you had a good weekend! You two were busy! Great workouts!!
Pickleball is a lot of fun and I love that DH and I can do it together.

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was STS Disc 17/Legs followed by an oldie but goodie....Kick, Punch and Crunch. It felt great.

Thelma, great workouts. I have finally typed up the next rotation. I will probably email it to you tomorrow. It will be in three parts (one for each Mesocycle). I want to look it over again today to make sure that it will make sense. Like I mentioned before, I am trying to include more recommendations for this rotation than I normally do when it comes to things like extended stretches, core work, yoga, barre and cardio lengths. I feel I need to do this for me to make sure I keep this program balanced with all types of exercise.....but without overdoing it. By tomorrow, I should feel a little more comfortable with it. And, as you know, you don’t have to do what I am doing at all! But I feel like I have lost some focus over the last couple or few years, and I want to get that back a bit while respecting that I am a few years older too! Anyhow....more tomorrow.

Laurie, great workout. Lately you have had me thinking about what type of activity I am doing for cardio and whether it is doing anything. Your results from the Boxing rotation make me think I may be losing something with all of the spin I am doing. You are right about measuring. If you don’t have some baseline, how will you know you are doing something effective? I am going to have to give this a little thought, because I really do want to move forward during this six month STS rotation. But I shy away from things like scales and measurements anymore because I can become very number focused....and not in a healthy way, unfortunately. I even ditched my FitBit a couple of years ago because of that. So I have mostly relied on my clothing as my guide.....but I have spent a year in workout clothes now. When DH and I played golf a couple of weeks back, I wore golf pants and was constantly wondering why they didn’t stretch. Hopefully I will be wearing more ‘real’ clothing soon because, like you and Thelma, I am beyond done with all of this now. But I am not quite sure that is the right tool for measuring the effectiveness of workouts.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was RAW Day 2 Strength Chest & Triceps. Same concept as yesterdays workout with the 5 sets if 10-8 reps, and ended in a round of ab work too. I have to say that I really enjoy these workouts. Next time I do these, I will be upping the weights for the chest work. This round was just getting used to the workouts.

Laurel, Great job on your workouts! KPC is always a good one, and the ab work is so tough. I can understand that the number thing can get to be the only focus. I think that is why I made sure that I took the measurements over a month ago. If I measured every week, then I would make myself crazy. It has been an eye opener for me to realize that I may have been doing the wrong workouts for my body at this time. Just listening to Kelly about how the body changes through menopause, and taking the impact out has really helped my joints. Now I only took the waist measurements, but I do see and feel it in my hips also. I would be in the same boat as you if I was home, just love being in comfy clothes.

Thelma, Love the workouts, and LOL about the plie squats. We do enjoy torturing ourselves. Boy time sure has flown by, can't believe it has already been to years. My parents are doing fairly well. We got a lawyer for them, just to make sure that all the ducks are in a row. I knew that my Mom wouldn't lose her home, or my Dad's social security. Mom is now less stressed to know that the financial part of Dad's care is in order. I have attempted to call my Dad, but he must be busy with therapy or meals when I call. Will keep trying, since of course he is bored.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Wednesday were a Peloton Beginner Advanced Ride and a Flexibility, Mobility & Relaxation Routine.

I felt really tired today and just didn't have the strength to do barre after the Peloton ride sweatfest. I found that Flexibility, Mobility & Relaxation Routine and it was exactly what my body needed.

We're under flash flood warnings for Thursday and Friday. I hope it's not too bad.

Laurie, great workout! Those RAW workouts sound great. I love how she can give you a fantastic workout in 30 minutes.

We sure enjoy to torture ourselves! I'm glad your parents are doing fairly well and that you got an attorney to make sure everything is in order financially for both of them.

Laurel, great workouts and thanks so much for putting that amazing rotation together for us!
It's hard to believe that we've been here for two years. It actually feels longer than that.

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Perfect 30 Perfect Pump Upper Body with the bonus upper body and core workouts followed by LIS Low Impact Challenge Extreme. It has been a few years since I did that latter workout, but I was surprised that I remembered the choreography pretty well. We are under a flash flood warning and tornado watch and the humidity is as high as it can get, so I was definitely sweating. Fingers crossed the weather doesn’t get too bad, but it has already been worse than what we got through here last week.

Thelma, great workout. I am feeling that fatigue today for sure. I am glad you found a workout that worked for you. I am looking forward to this next rotation very much. It feels good to want to try something like this again. Stay safe with this weather.

Laurie, what a fantastic sounding workout. Your rotation sounds so good. I think one of the reasons I started developing my own rotations is because I know what I can do and what I can’t....and I avoid the latter. But at the same time, I always reach for the workouts I enjoy more than the ones that may be more effective. I suppose that isn’t too much of a problem since I am still at least doing something. This STS rotation, though, will make me stick to workouts that I don’t always enjoy (Mesocycle 1) but have proven effective. It has been a few years since I have even attempted something like this, so I am looking forward to seeing if it proves effective again now or not.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was Kelly's Strong & Lean Kickboxing.

Laurel, Nice job on the workouts! Very cool that you remember the the workout so it was enjoyable. Dang on the weather that you are having. We are just getting rain right now, but it is in the low 30's. I'm surprised that it isn't snowing. You are right that we tend to avoid the workouts that are actually good for us, because there is probably a dread factor to it or it drags. I hear you on those Meso 1 workouts. They are so good for the body, but they sure do require a lot of equipment and move quick.

Thelma, Great job on the workouts! Hope you are able to get your yoga classes figured out, now that everything is moving in a different direction. Sorry to hear about your storms also. Enjoy your dinner tomorrow, and of course the pickleball. We are heading out with DH's best friend tonight. Tomorrow DH and I will be going to the church to set up for Palm Sunday with the new paraments. I'm a little nervous that everything will look okay.

Have a great weekend,
Laurie

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a nice weekend. We had a very nice weekend even though we had another scary thunderstorm on Sunday morning.
We had a lot of fun with our neighbors on Friday. Pickleball didn't go as expected because DH didn't think we needed to reserve a court. Wrong! We ended up playing in the parking lot for about 1/2 hour because it started raining. Five minute south of the center the ground was completely dry so it wasn't raining at home. We played a little more in the driveway until it started raining. We also got up early on Saturday morning and visited a very popular garden center and bought a some perennial plants that attract pollinators. This is the first time we will plant anything on the ground here in GA. I want to see if I can attract more hummingbirds. I bet I'll just attract bees! LOL
The storm Sunday morning was scary. It was super windy and it rained hard. The wind was blowing the rain horizontally across our deck and into the screened sunroom. Most of the storms seem to happen at night when it's dark so we only hear the wind. It's a totally different story to see it happen during the day.
I found out that the storm on Thursday made creeks become powerful rivers. Someone who owns an old cabin 50ft away from the creek lost TWO decks and a a huge stack of firewood! OMG! They still haven't found the decks.

My workouts on Friday were Popsugar Cardio Boxing and Perfect30 Lower Body. On Saturday we played pickleball and on Sunday I did ICE Boot Camp Circuit.
It looks like I'm going to be down to one zoom yoga class after this week. The owner moved the late afternoon yoga class to 8am! That is too early for me and I can't do yoga first thing in the morning. I would have to do 1/2 hour of lite cardio before the class as a warm up.

Laurie, another fantastic KCM workout! Great job!
I hope you and your DH had a great time Friday night! How did your paraments look? I bet everybody loved them!

Laurel, great workouts! I'll have to try that Barlates class soon! I cracked up with your 'not in the brutal category' comment! Too funny but true with those workouts! LOL

Hopefully I can find some good local classes. Not so much for the classes but for the social aspect of it.
Thank God we live on a hill too. Our neighbors live at the bottom of a hill and they told me today that it looked like a river was going down their driveway toward their house Sunday morning. Scary! They and their house are OK thankfully. I went out on the deck at about 7pm and it was freezing! All week we're going to have low temps at night again. This is what people call our second winter here in the mountains. LOL

Have a great week ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! I hope you enjoyed the weekend. Ours was very relaxing. We were supposed to have storms all day on Saturday, so we planned some chores around the house. But since it wasn’t raining when we got up, we went for a walk, came home and did the chores....and still no rain. So we went to play golf. Again.....it was wonderful. And there wasn’t a drop of rain at all. It was 80 degrees and cloudy, so really wonderful weather to be out in. Yesterday was spent on a really long walk, some errands and some puzzle work.

For workouts, on Saturday (after the walk), I did 45 minutes of yoga from Kristin McGee. Yesterday was Cathe Live Total Body Mashup, which was a fun circuit workout, followed by Cathe Live Cardio Kickboxing Mashup. Today was a 45 minute spin with Peloton, followed by 45 minutes of barre with Peloton, followed by 20 minutes of mat yoga with Peloton. Good stuff.

Thelma, great workouts. I am sorry about the pickle ball experience, though. I am also sorry you are losing another Zoom class, but I agree about doing yoga that time of day. I need to be good and warm before I do yoga. We had a similar storm like you described through here about 4am Sunday morning. Thunder, lightening, wind, rain, hail, etc. DH slept right through it, which is kind of amazing since he had brought his phone into the room because we were under a tornado watch when we went to bed. So we got quite a few emergency alerts when the storm hit and he just slept.....until I woke him up to check his notifications! Anyhow, I did Ally Love’s 45 minute barre class today with Peloton, and it reminded me in format of Erin’s class, but it wasn’t nearly as tough. I really enjoyed it if you are looking for a solid barre class (with a lot of focus on balance) that is not completely over-repped.

Laurie, great workout. And great work with the paraments. They are so beautiful! You really do some amazing work. Sounds like a busy but nice social weekend as well. I can’t believe your DD is 28. Didn’t she just graduation high school? Time just keeps flying, that’s for sure. I am glad you have a quiet Easter planned. Hopefully you have some decent weather for it.

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Hi Ladies! For today’s workout, I reached back into the archives of Cathe Live for a couple of oldies. They were Cathe Live Total Body Tone Up and Cathe Live Gloved Up and Ready. Both were really good without being super tough. I also just got back from a wonderful walk since it is 70 and sunny. More rain is expected tonight.

Thelma, great workouts. I am so glad it was a better experience with Pickleball this time. And I am glad you are seeing improvements too! It’s nice you have a friend who is able to join you, but I understand about the one-on-one time with your DH. When people ask me why I like playing golf my answer is ‘being outside and spending hours of time with my DH away from phones, work, computers, TV, etc’. There were times in DHs military career that our lives were consumed by his work, and when I took up golf, we found something else to talk about! Anyhow, that is interesting you heard they didn’t have bad storms there. Huntsville has always had them, unfortunately. Back in 1989 and again in 2011 it got hit really hard by strong tornadoes. Yay for being ready for STS! I need to do the same thing. I am really beginning to look forward to it!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Sorry I wasn't around, but had a busy day going right from the start of the day. Didn't help at all that I was tired, because I was up for some of the night with a really horrible headache. The grass is starting to come out, and we had some high winds going. So yesterday I decided to sleep in and didn't get a workout. Today I did RAW All About Glutes.

Laurel, Lot's of great workouts! Nice that you where able to get out again for more golfing. I know that time has really gone by fast, dd seemed to enjoy spending time with us on her bd. I'm looking forward to this weekend, because we are suppose to have temps in the 70's. I'm sure that DH will be in his garage for some of that time, and I need to catch up on some sewing projects that I have going. I also have a hair appointment on Easter Sunday. I think that will be really nice and quiet at Alta that day. Will have to plan a nice meal for the two of us on Sunday though. Looking forward to some ham. Thanks for the kudos on the paraments.

Thelma, Awesome job on all your workouts! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the pickleball, and that you are now reserved on courts. Your 1:1 with your DH will be interesting, and of course a very good workout. Our youngest dd just turned 24. Both of the girls have birthdays in March. Thanks for the kudos on the paraments, I have been getting messages from people with their thanks. The letters on the banner are actually painted on, it was so much easier and cheating.

Have a great day!
Laurie