Recent content by Kellyro77

I think I understand why so many people dislike Meso 1 - For me, especially, the first two weeks felt really rough. I was still kind of fumbling around with weight selections, and the quick moving around from one body part to the next meant a lot of swapping equipment - and as short as I'd like...

Haha - yes! Join the insanity! I had fun setting the rotation up and especially customizing the two rotations posted by Cathe (May 2022 and January 2019) since I didn't have all the titles she listed. I've determined I won't worry much about the two weeks of cardio - I think you're right, in...

Thumbs up to that. Out of all the lives I was attracted to and have downloaded, it was these in particular and 458, 459, 460, 461, and 465 the "Strong and Fit" workouts.

I think I'm going to be setting up a series of rotations that are going to take me through the entire year after I've finished with the 15-week STS rotation. When I was poking around looking at other optional rotations that included STS, I came across the Body Building rotation thread. I was...

I was doing some digging around, looking for more video clips of STS since, with the gradual discontinuation of DVD sales on Cathe's shop site, the product description pages and accompanying videos have been disappearing. While searching on YouTube, I came across this entire playlist that Cathe...

It's a bit early yet for me to provide feedback on its uses with the above workouts. I've so far only used it once for the Back & Triceps STS Muscle Endurance workout in week one. I'll be using it again for week 2 today, at which point I'll remove the padding on the bar and see how it goes...

This workout as the combo premix today felt especially good after starting in on STS for the first time. Very appreciative to have this option to add in on my recovery days, especially following pretty intense weight training.

Alright - week 1 is in the bag. I feel much more prepared for week 2 coming up knowing the following: 1. The workouts in the following weeks will be very similar to week 1, just with some variation. 2. For any exercises where I had to lower/raise weight and did fewer reps, re-calculate them in...

XTrain's Tabata workout might be something to consider as an add-on - nice thing is she's got each one chaptered out so you can just pick a particular one or two and go with it.

Agree - there's no way I'm going to exactly match some of the weight increments that get spat out by the calculator. I'm opting for whatever's closest that I can manage... trying to push myself if my closest match is a slight bit heavier. Bright side of this program is that I get to use my...

The 1RMs were kinda tricky, I guess, in that I did all those tests completely fresh - so I wasn't already fatigued from doing 50+ pushups beforehand. I know I can do 30# flys, as I learned during STS 2, but of course that program was slower, less reps, and longer rests (at least compared to...

Thank you! Super helpful. I'm not sure I'd have figured that out without spending a ton of time digging through the various old discussions in the forum, so thank you for sharing your experience!

Finished Disc 1 with Chest, Shoulders & Triceps. As I suspected, although it suggests that 60% of my 1RM for incline chest flys should be about 25lbs, I was dubious I could do 15 reps of them at the speed she was going. I only managed 13 reps. So - my question here is this: Next week when I'm...

My tennis elbow likes the sound of that. lol If you have weights all set up on a stand that's about as tall as your thigh, I'd also argue rear delts become accessory helpers for all the heavy weights, too. My SelectTech stand is about that tall, and whenever I'm doing any workout that has me...

Oh I had no idea the workouts in the mesos use repeat footage. I was assuming each workout was unique and freshly filmed. Thanks for the heads up on that! :D