Recent content by Boomer6454

Hi Clare! Excellent response! Thank you. You are absolutely right. I should not have asked such a question on these forums. I am consulting with my doctors (I have an appointment with my back surgeon this afternoon). Since my next surgery is little more than two weeks away, the PT can probably...

Thanks again Janie. My KIDS and doctors joke around and call me the bionic woman! LOL! And I'm OK with it. Without a sense of humor, I don't think I'd have been able to cope with all that life has thrown my way. There is much more to come. Eventually, I will have surgery on my shoulder and...

Hi Janie, and thank you for the reply! I've been down this road several times. Each surgery required rehab and recovery time: abdominal cystectomy, miniscus repair, shoulder decompression, lumbar laminectomy, left hip replacement, toe joint replacement, right knee replacement, right hip...

Dear Cathe, My name is Carol. I am 55 years young. Former athlete. I've been kettlebelling for almost a year but doing Cathe workouts for close to 20. (I have an almost complete collection of your videos.) I'm as enamored of both as the day I discovered them. I also love kickboxing. I've...

Thank you! :) Rheumie doesn't know what is causing my symptoms, but he ordered up a bunch of tests and cultures. He gave me some new anti-inflammatory that doesn't seem to be working very well (yet). We'll see. Normally, getting sidelined like this would drive me nuts. I'd be fixating on how it...

I love incorporating Kettlebell training with STS too, but found it brutal (PAINFUL) to do an intense KB workout after working legs really hard (STS Meso 1). So I did something else on those days; elliptical work, interval training on a stationary bike, or kickboxing. I found that it became...

Hi and Thank you Jbliff and SassyLady. I've put in calls to both my ortho (right hip so inflamed my groin feels swollen and I can barely limp around) and my Rheumie. I might call my Neuro too, but not just yet. I'll be seeing my Rheumie early tomorrow morning about the Lupus flare. I broke...

Unplanned break in Meso 2 week 3 I'm being hit with an unplanned break myself. I had a major Lupus relapse that triggered an MS relapse. I've been pretty much bedridden now for five days. The inflammation in my joints and lungs makes it impossible to even consider doing a workout (but I am...

Hi Eldeecee. You're right... there are workouts, like the legs in Meso 2, that start out hitting the legs hard with heavy squats. I remember my eyes about bulged out of my head when I read the weights I was supposed to be using. But I gave it a try anyway. My HANDS gave out before my legs did...

Hi Brenda. I noticed that too, that sometimes Cathe was using a lighter weight than I was. I noticed that sometimes even one of the guys (don't know his name) uses a very light weight too. There must be a reason for that. Sometimes, I think it's because it's not a building exercise, but a...

Hi Kelly. That's the way I'm looking at it too. Even if I'm not getting in all the reps, I am pushing myself to the max. That super challenge makes it MY workout and makes muscles grow. However, there are times doing a barbell chest press (flat or incline) that I panic a bit (no spotter) because...

Has anyone else had this problem? The weights that I managed during my 1RM tests, calculated out to target weights during the actual workouts that are sometimes WAY too heavy. Sometimes I can tell at the first lift that the weight is just too much for me to manage. I know sometimes it's lack...

Thanks Jo! I thought it was something we had to calculate, but I think the STS program does the calculations for us? Carol