STS first time!

[missyt]

Good Evening!!! Just finished Tri Sets Lower body and 30 minutes elliptical. I am pumped!!! So excited to be back with the LIS workouts!!!

Carolyn---I saw 2 sets of LIS on ebay!!! That is how I purchased mine. The entire set. Such a better deal than piece by piece. Good luck with returning your shoes and getting new ones. Sometimes, you just have to stick with the brand that works for you.

Jean ---Get on that elliptical girl. You know can do this. We are here for you. The LIS workouts are awesome, start slowly are gradually work you way up. Exercise will get you through your funk. I know, my period has been trying to kill me this week, but now its gone and exercise has helped me get up and go!!!

Okay, Biggest loser is on.....I sure hope Conda leaves tonight. Gotta go watch.

Chat later!!!

Have a wonderful evening!!!

[missyt]

Good Morning Friends!!!

I got off to a good start this morning. 60 minutes on treadmill and off to work. Today is CSS. Looking forward to it!!!

Well...it was makeover week on Biggest Loser---This season, the contestants were so large that some of them still look extremely obese. No one went home, but at least Conda has a 1 pd dis-advantage for next week. hahaha

On another note, I am ticking right along. Gotta go---Be back later!

Have a lovely Wednesday!

[gratefuldog]

good morning! I hope today is a better day for you Jean!
I did AT this a.m. and then did some of the upper body work from push pull.
I am off to the book fair at school. Will check in later. Although there hasn't been much to see here lately.

[marazoe]

Hi Everyone. It is a lovely day in Maryland. It is partly cloudy but the temps are going to be 75. I have all of the windows open in the house.
Today I did Afterburn. I found nothing fun or enjoyable about it. I was able to accomplish about 90%. Am I right in assuming that it is legs and cardio? I guess my legs will be feeling it tomorrow. I just feel like I need something else when I am done. I did do the Extended stretch also. I see Carolyn did some upper body after doing AT. I think I will have to do that also. Now is AT more legs and cardio? I am bound and determined to get thru this rotation whether I enjoy it or not. Tomorrow is supposed to be a rest day but I have had so many of those. I think my next w/o is Disc. 4 Ch,sh,bi. Now i will enjoy that .

Colleen I can't wait for you to get the turbo tower. I know how much you want it. Hopefully you can get it in May. Isn't Mothers' Day in May?

Carolyn that is too bad about your new shoes. I usually wear Ryka. I am not a runner so I don't need anything special but I certainly need cushioning.

Mar I hope you are safe after all of the tornadoes in Texas. I am glad to see that you are close to my age. After you get past Meso 1 , the w/o's are funner. I have done the 6 mos. twice and I so enjoyed it. I really enjoy lifting weights and I can even adapt to doing legs. I guess I don't like to combine weights and cardio in the same w/o. I prefer weights one day and cardio one day.

Biggest Loser was kind of boring last night. Why on earth did they put a layered ruffle dress on Conda? I thought that did nothing for her. Kim looked very nice. I think Kim and that one guy must almost be at goal weight. Those women have some BIG calves. I keep wondering if it is my t.v. Those thin t.v.'s make people look bigger. I was ecstatic when Conda got the 1 lb dissadvantage.

Oh well , I gues I should go do some cleaning.

Jean

[Bettypcw]

Hey, everyone! It's been slower on our thread! Like Cathe said in one of the workouts (I think it's IMAX2), it's getting quiet in the house! Chalk it up to many of us finishing STS, and the invigorating spring drawing us out!
I did the final Legs workout of Meso 2. Yay! Just don't like all those squats. Actually, my knees don't like the squats. They hurt! I tacked on Stab Ball Abs from B&G and its short stretch.
Mar, maybe that's me a few years down the road with my glasses and contacts. I've been wearing contacts for 30 yrs now, and just in the last several months or so have been finding dry eyes, up-close reading issues, and all those annoyances of aging! Hang in there with STS. A 6-month rotation is long, so enjoy it. I agree it would help to do each disc twice.
Colleen, that's so interesting about the tap water organism!!! I never open my eyes for fear of having my contacts wash away, so somehow it feels like I'm hanging on for dear life!
Carolyn, how did you make out with Beachbody? Any good outcome?
Yesterday I did something impulsive. I bought a bra top from Feel Fit Wear! It was cute and on clearance (the last one), and with free shipping! The only thing I was unsure of was the one-size-fits-all thing. I e-mailed a question to FFW (first-time purchase for me) and Veronica assured me that it would fit me. Will let you guys know how it fits. So this was transpiring at the same time that Missy posted about the bra size topic on the radio. So funnily coincidental!
On the same topic as obesity and normalization of larger sizes, just think about computers and video games adding to what used to be just television where you sit and watch a screen. And smartphones too!!! My kids are in big trouble! I joke to them about their butts spreading wide from all that sitting, but they continue to stare at their screens!!!
Missy, I subscribe to Shape mag, and yesterday the issue came with Allison Sweeney on the cover. They altered her body to make it look thin! I loathe how the media perpetuates a thin woman ideal! Since I watch Big L, I can tell it's not Allison's shape! And yeah, the contestants this season are still sooo fat! Can't figure out why they're losing weight so slowly!
Jean, hope you're getting a workout in there today! Oh, it looks like we posted at the same time! Good job working out! Your Big L comments are hysterical!

[cokonkel]

Today I did KPC minus the stability ball abs at the end. I would've done it but I ran out of time! Plus I've been having fun with a new ab video I got from Amazon this week called Gorgeous Core with Suzanne Bowen. We were buying something else off there for Mark and we just had to get the total to $25 for the free shipping, right? It has 6 short ab segments and I did one 12 minute segment yesterday so I'm not slacking too much on the abs!

I really like kickboxing when I'm having major lower body DOMS. It really helps get some blood flowing to the muscles with the cardio and the kicking helps to dynamically stretch and lengthen those poor legs. Disc 14 slayed me yesterday! Not quite as bad as the first time I did it but I'm definitely feeling it today.

Oh crap, they just handed me a file...be back in a few to write more!

[cokonkel]

I'm back!
So Jean, did you do the shorter premix of Afterburn? I think that would make it less dread inducing. It is definitely legs and cardio! I always got glute DOMS after than one when I first started doing it. I've noticed the last two times I did it though I wasn't really sore the next day. Disappointing (for us masochistic exercisers!) but surely that means I've progressed. I find myself doing AB a lot...I swear I literally feel thinner when I complete that one! I really only feel that way after doing one other workout (PowerStep by Kathy Smith, an oldie). I know it's gotta be all in my head but I swear I feel it! I consider AT a leg intensive workout too, although not nearly as much as AB. The first 20 minutes of AT is tough with the legs, so I would definitely recommend lowering the step height when you do that one and remember...the pause button is your friend!

Betty- I totally have to watch my form with squats to keep it nice for my knees. I always used to let my knees bow inward just slightly when I did squats and lunges before PT. They taught me that by strengthening the glutes and hamstrings it would help with keeping the knees aligned properly. Even so, I still have to be mindful of it. If I'm having a tough time and my knees are wobbling all over I have to lower the weight or risk cranky knees. I can tell as soon as my muscle has fatigued and I'm bearing the brunt of the move in my knee joint. I noticed with the sliding back disc lunges yesterday I was getting pretty wobbly! I probably should have lowered my weight there but I was being stubborn!

Mar- I forget, do you live close by Dallas/Fort Worth? Were you affected by the tornadoes there? I have a feeling this is going to be a really bad year again for tornadoes.

Do any of you guys get deer ticks and Lyme disease problems in your area? We have it so bad here, it's pretty much endemic. The ticks are already out causing Lyme and they usually don't get bad until May! It's going to be a tough year for that. Those things are so little and Lydia has such crazy thick hair (plus she hates to even have it brushed and cries that it hurts), it's really impossible to see if she has one on her! Mark just pulled one off himself on Monday and I already have patients reporting they are on antibiotics for Lyme's!

Better get going! Later girls!

[gratefuldog]

Hello
I am trying to figure out what rotation to do. Help! I feel like ever since I stopped sts I am lost. I thought I would have a blast doing my old favorites. I did, but the fun is over. I like having a schedule! I feel like I am not good at picking out what goes good with eachother. I don't have any of the yoga LIS or the cardio supersets or low impact challenge. So i feel like I can't really do the sts/lis rotation. I love lifing! I like working each body part atleast twice a week, if not 3 times. What to do what to do!
Colleen what are you doing? A rotation? or your own thing? I forget!
Betty, are you headed into a rest week?! Wow! I can't believe you are almost done! I can't wait to see what you think of meso 3!
Jean, sorry you didn't like AB. what a bummer. I find that one really invigorating! I feel super strong after I do that one.
TIme to make supper. I at really bad today. I picked up some peanutbutter filled chocolate mini bunnies for the kids. i ripped into the back on the way home!

[huecotx]

Today's treadmill day.

Since my husband and I live in far west TX, the tornadoes were nowhere near us but both of us grew up in Fort Worth so we have a lot of family there. Thankfully, no one was in the direct path of the tornadoes.

Jean - yes, it's nice to know we have similar ages in common. I started working out regularly when I was 18. These last few years weren't as regular but getting back to it feels like the most normal thing for me to do. Not that I quit altogether, but I lacked the structure that seems so important to me. That's why doing STS really appeals to me. I had charts made up for months at a time for my workouts, in the past. This is getting me back to that way of scheduling, which I seem to thrive on.

[marazoe]

Carolyn You really should look under the "Video and Dvd Rotations" section. There are a zillion to choose from. I don't know all that you have but look at the rotation for Oct. 2010 and Feb. 2012. I also do better with someone telling me what workout to do each day.

I previewed AT again today. Oh my. I probably won't be able to walk for a week after that. Today i didn't do a premix. I push go to the play and let her rip. I would rather try to do the whole thing.

Mar I am glad you are safe. I pretty much started serious wkg out when I was 49. I have always loved exercise but had no one to lead me in the right direction. Then I found Cathe and she is pretty much all I do.

Betty I am excited to hear how you like your new Feel Fit bra top. I really need to buy something from them.

Time to eat. Carolyn look at those rotations I suggested and let me know what you think. I will look somemore later for you.

Jean