Cathe Fans Part 5

Hi Ladies, I hope you had a nice weekend. Our was good. We went out to dinner on Friday with some friends. We visited a friend who just had surgery and on Sunday we did a little garden work.

My workouts on Friday wee Peloton Beginner Advanced Ride and S&S PHA Training.
I started the new rotation with Zumba, STS Disc 1 and advanced stretch.

The hummingbirds are finally here. We have two because I saw them feeding at the same time from our two feeders. I'm happy!

We went to the Home Depot on Friday and I checked out the garden center. It was as if people had gone nuts buying all the annuals! There weren't that many left and not anything I wanted.
We couldn't make it to the nursery on Saturday because it rained most of the day.

Laurie, that tabata workout sounds fantastic! Good job!

Kelly is definitely doing an excellent job with the current rotation!
I've not seen any signs at the garden centers that say these plants are good to attract hummingbirds. The plants do have tags that specify that sometimes. I usually ask the people who work there. The nurseries are better at those things though.

Laurel, what a killer combo you did on Friday! Good job!
No humidity here at all yet Laurel, It actually felt cold last night and today we had a cool breeze.
I like those sweaty workouts too!
We had some rain on Saturday but nothing crazy.

Have a great week ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Hope you enjoyed the weekend. Ours was very nice. We spent the bulk of it buying flowers and vegetable plants and some herbs and planting them. We woke up to rain on Saturday, but it ended up being the perfect day to do the bulk of the work because there were far fewer people out, and once the rain ended, the temperatures were very pleasant to work in. Yesterday we re-visited the local nursery and Lowe’s for more plants....and they were crazy busy. But we got what we wanted, and I am very happy how things came together. Now I just have to keep everything alive.

For workouts, on Saturday I did Jessica Smith’s Core Control from her Build Balance DVD, followed by 45 minutes of yoga with Kristin McGee. Yesterday was STS Disc 1/Chest, Shoulders and Biceps, the STS Extended Stretch, and Perfect 30 High Impact HiiT and Bonus Pyramid HiiT. Today was Cathe Live Legs Express:Moderate Weights followed by a surprisingly tough 45 minute Climb ride with Peloton. I finished it with the Balanced Core premix from Cathe’s Core Max DVD.

Thelma, great workouts. I am sorry your garden centers are so picked over already. I was very happy with our selection here. Hopefully you get more in. Yay for the hummingbirds! I haven’t seen another one since the one I saw last week, but hopefully now that I have petunias and marigolds planted, they will spend a little more time here.

Laurie, I completely understand not wanting to do anything after helping somebody move! About every third night I have a dream/nightmare that we are moving again. Moving is no fun.....and a lot of work. I am sorry you don’t like what you did on the quilt. It is so frustrating having to rip stuff out. I do it all the time when I am crocheting. DH asks me why, and I always tell him that as frustrating as it is to start over, it is far less frustrating than working on something I am unhappy with. Anyhow, great workout this morning. Sounds like a fantastic workout. And, yes, Metabolic Core was FAR more enjoyable than Cardio Core Circuit!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was RAW Burnout Lower Body. Another great workout, and I should be feeling this one later today or tomorrow for sure. Another one that she did tabata style, so you get a small break. She did one weighted exercise, and then a bodyweight for 3 rounds.

Laurel, Awesome job on all your workouts! I bet it was super busy for buying plants. I think that people are just wanting to be out and getting their yards looking good again. They are saying that we might get flurries tomorrow morning, so hope it doesn't freeze. Don't need the tulips to get frost on them. One of the good things about this move, they had a lot of people. We where able to form a line and just hand box after box along the line. Our friend was impressed that we had the moving van unloaded in 45 min. I'm going to start taking the stitches out a little at a time, just to see how the quilt looks. LOL about the CCC vs. Metabolic Core.

Thelma, Great job with the workouts! Nice that you where able to score those hanging baskets. I love lilacs too! I have a lilac bush, so it doesn't get those large flowers. This one has small clusters all over. Last year was it's first full year planted, so I think that this year it should be fairly impressive. I hear you on the clay. Your area has way different clay than we have, but it is still really hard to dig a hole. Like you we have to get some plant soil and manure. Sorry to hear about the pollen though. Have fun with more garden center shopping, it is one of my favorite things. Always wanting to see if there is something new to plant.

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workouts on Tuesday were Pickleball and
Gina B 2000 Steps.
We went to play pickleball early in the morning because it was the only time a court was available. I pulled a muscle. It felt like something tore inside my lower glute. The injury wasn't in my glute but below the glute and it feels like it wraps around the inner thigh.

It is better but obviously the affected area is tender and tight. I've deep massaged, applied ice, a little heat and gently stretched. This morning I couldn't do a forward fold or touch my toes while seated on the floor with legs stretched out. I can do that now. I warmed up for a few minutes and did some stretching before we played but it obviously wasn't enough. It's a good thing I did legs yesterday and the courts are reserved for the rest of the week. Hopefully I'll be able to play tomorrow.

We went to the Home Depot garden center and I walked out of there empty handed. They really don't take care of their plants and again I found dead plants for sale! We will go to a nursery on Thursday.

DH saw one of the hummingbirds feeding from one of the plants in our little pollinator garden today! Yesss! I've yet to see them feed off of our deck flowers but it's not like I'm spending time out there with the pollen the way it is now.

A friend sent a screenshot of a pollen count app. The count for 4/13 was 2330 the scale says that anything greater than 1500 is extreme! Pine is one the culprits and we have plenty of pine trees around our property. I'm not sneezing anymore when I go outside. Maybe my body finally got used to the pollen.

Laurie, great job with your KCM workout! Sounds like another winner!

I was expecting these dwarf lilacs to be fragrant but I don't smell anything. According to the plant description the plant has fragrant flowers. At least it has lots of buds right now.

Laurel, great workouts!

I am glad I found these dwarf plants because I just want a small garden along a fence. I'm really excited about the lilacs. I hope they eventually develop some fragrance though.
I hope you're able to restore your grass and take care of that wild landscaping behind your house. Sounds like a lot of work!
BTW, I woke up pretty early this morning and I can see the hummingbird feeders from our bed. The little guys were going crazy feeding at around 6:30! I wonder if they show up at your feeder early in the morning.

Good night ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was a 60 minute spin with Peloton followed by 30 minutes of Pilates with Peloton. They just released some new Pilates classes with different instructors, and this was my first try with an instructor I like to spin with. I really enjoyed it.

Thelma, I am sorry to hear about the injury. I am glad it was feeling better by the end of the day and hope that continues. I am sorry your Home Depot garden center didn’t work out. Our Lowe’s garden center was like that last year (and the year before), but I think they might have a new manager this year because the plants we got from there seem as healthy as the ones we bought from the nursery. I will have to check the hummingbird feeder in the mornings to see if they are there. Thanks for that information!

Laurie, great workout. I bet that boxing workout will be good. I am hoping to do most of the workouts from Shock Cardio during this rotation at one time or another since Cathe developed them to go with STS. But, honestly, there are a couple (Circuit Blast and Travel Fit) I will skip. And CCC.....well, I did the roll from your back over your feet into a push-up move yesterday with MMA:Fusion, so I know I can still do it. But....I may do it with my own version of core moves taken from her Cathe Live CCC workout. I have no problem with the cardio in CCC (especially since she has a substitute for the roll down and jump up move), but have a serious dread factor with some of those core moves. But I have six months to talk myself out of it completely too. Stay warm!

See you tomorrow.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

This morning was 30MTF Muscle Up W1 + Boxing Finisher with 1.5# egg weights. I went as heavy as possible on the weight workout, so it felt great. LOVE the Boxing Finisher. She doesn't do a warm up, because she using this as an add on to a workout. She does have a stretch at the end though, which is good.

Laurel, Nice workouts! Good to hear that you will be getting some new pilates workouts to try out. LOL on the Shock Cardio workouts that you will not be doing. I totally agree with your choices, of course mine would include the CCC for sure. I love that you are able to do that move, I'm getting better, but still not quite there. Now that my knee isn't bothering me so much, it is much easier to try moves like that. Still not one of my favorites, but I know that it is important to be able to get your body moving like that as we get older.

Thelma, Good job taking your workouts down so that you can take care of you back. Hope you are able to find some good plants today. Our HD doesn't have a good garden center either, like yours they tend to neglect watering. I love going there at the very end to find plants that they have really reduced, and they look like crap. I have a beautiful rose bush because of that. Interesting about the amount of pollen on your phone! LOL with the dwarf sent!!!

Have a great day!
Laurie

Hi Ladies, my workout on Thursday was Jessica Smith Flat Abs Walk followed by a lot of stretching and massage.

My lower back is still tight and I can't seem to relax it and make it stick. Moving is key so I keep doing that. Today I actually felt tightness where I felt the original pull. I am definitely better though. Hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day.

I am getting my curls trimmed tomorrow. I can't wait!
We're going out to dinner with some friends tomorrow.

I was looked at the daily covid map today for the first time in months. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the entire state except for one county is yellow! Some counties are gray; which means no cases reported in the last two weeks.

It's been windy all week around here all week and night temps dropped into the high 40's, low 50's so the mornings are cool. I went out this morning wearing a sherpa lined sweatshirt and came running back inside. It felt soooo cold! LOL

Laurie, great workout! I love the sounds of that workout!

Our trip to the nursery for Thursday got canceled. We will go to Lowe's on Saturday instead.

Interesting that your HD doesn't have a good garden center either! The one we used to go to in MA was really good.

Laurel, great workout combo!

The spin workouts definitely use the inner thighs, that's why I chose not to spin.
I hope we have better luck with plants at Lowe's too.

Our hummingbirds always chase each other away so the fact that they were on the feeder next to each other was a rare moment. Sometimes we get two at the same time but on opposite sides of the bottle so they can't see each other. Does your feeder have little perches? They love perches. I hope you'll get to see hummingbirds before late summer!
I just can't understand why people quit their jobs around here. Apparently, it is an old problem.

Have a wonderful weekend ladies!
Thelma

Hi Ladies! Today’s workout was Cathe Live Upper Body Plus Core Express followed by a 45 minute Peloton spin. It felt good to touch on those upper body muscles again today, but I liked it was short and sweet and not too heavy. It just felt like a good way to end the week.

Thelma, nice workout. I am glad you are continuing to recover, and that you aren’t pushing the workouts until you do. We had the wind yesterday too, and I was fine with the temperature during my mid-day walk. But I went out dressed similarly when DH got home and absolutely froze.....even though the temperature had gone up! I am ready to be done with the wind this spring, that’s for sure. Enjoy your haircut! That always feels so good, especially after it has been a long time. Enjoy your time with friends.

Laurie, great workout. It really is amazing how the right weight....even just a couple of pounds in difference....can make a workout feel so different. Honestly, I can’t think of any 15 minute boxing segments I have on DVD besides some of the Heavy Bag segments Cathe has filmed. What I would love is something like the X10 DVD, but with five intense boxing or kickboxing segments. But I don’t see that happening. I am with you on getting slower. Going to those 2014 Cathe Live workouts makes me feel like I am the tortoise working out with the hare! Goodness she moved quickly. But she has slowed down too. Enjoy the shower!

Have a good weekend.

Laurel

Morning Ladies,

Very nice weekend, but it was chilly. The bridal shower was very nice, and of course it was great to see family. I made my niece an art piece. I took an old window frame, and some of my mothers doilies. DH put some screening on it so that I was able to sew the doilies to the screen. I added some flowers and called it done. She really liked it, and it was a great way to show her grandmothers crochet wok. On Sunday I was busy quilting her quilt, and I got about a quarter of it finished. This is not getting taken out, because it looks good.

No workout on Saturday, but Sunday was RAW Heavy Bag/Shadow Box. This morning was RAW Burnout Upper Body, and I went heavy. Have to love it when you can't lift your arms over your head afterward.

Laurel, Great job on your workouts. I was having a hard time thinking of some of those boxing segments. I know that Kelly does have some on some of her DVD's, but they really are not as good as the one she put on her RAW channel. I will just stick with this one for now, and will probably do it again tomorrow since I'm going a lower body workout. I like the idea of an X10 type workout with boxing/kickboxing segments.

Thelma, Nice job on all your workouts. Glad to hear your back is doing a lot better, and I hope that your thigh continues to improve. I can say that your peony will probably be fine. I have planted some that really look sketchy, since they where replants from my mothers garden. At first I planted them in places that they didn't seem to like the soil, and only grew about 5 inches. I took them out a couple years ago, and planted them in different places and they are thriving. We may be getting snow tomorrow, but today is rain.

Have a great day!
Laurie