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Kathy36

Kathy36

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Good morning ladies..

Today I am switching up the schedule. Since I am heading to my inlaws, I decided to do S&H: chest & back today, tomorrow kickmax and Sunday some treadmill workout..Monday we are coming home. So, that will be resting.. That is my plan. Hopefully, it will workout like that..

Anyway, we will be leaving after lunch. Be back before we leave (I hope)..Hubby is working from home this morning!!
 
Hey ya Kathy!

I'm off to do GS: LEGS in a few. I've been purposely procrastinating, because I'm not so excited about it. The BALL is in it... ACK! :p

You never did say whether you had DOMS after that one, Kathy! (maybe I shouldn't ask....)

Let us know how S&H goes.... I haven't done those in forever and am wondering how next week will go for me. They are SO different!...

BBL!
 
Morning guys! Oh, man, I've been exercising my yapper since my friend came down to my house. I had to crash earlier than I think they wanted me to but I was just tooooo pooped. Even waking up I feel pooped. But I have IM2 and ab work on tap. I got STS yesterday!!! I'm so happy you guys are starting in September and I'll be able to join you though I have to get on Joe's butt to make sure he gets in 1RMs in too. I'm halfway through the 4 and 5 star ones.

Kathy -- that sounds a lot like more regular schedule actually. I like having Monday as my rest day instead of Sunday since I have more time to actually workout. Enjoy it all!

Chris -- yeah, I still am scared of Cathe Leg workouts. I do avoid that particular one...
 
Hey Chris: I didn't have DOMS too bad in the legs. A little in the hamstrings. Those rollouts always get me.. I had more DOMS from chest and triceps! Slow & Heavy was tough..My chest muscles were shaking...

Hottie: That is the only way to do it. I love to make the rotation fit my schedule. Otherwise it drives me crazy.

Ok, Slow & Heavy: Chest & Back done..Man those slow/heavy workouts kill me they are so tough. I know I will be feeling it tomorrow and tomorrow I am doing Kickmax. It is really tough to do those arm movements with serious DOMS...OUCH!!

We will be heading out to PA soon...I will try to check in over the weekend. The inlaws have a computer and don't mind me using it..

Talk to you later..
 
Hi ladies. I didn't get a chance to post yesterday - work was crazy.

I kind of stuck to my lighter workout plans, well, for a day or two at least! I did Christi Taylor's Fit to Dance yesterday. What a fun workout. I was thinking it was less intense than it actually was. Today I did KCM's 30 minutes to Weights (chest, back and legs) and then one of her 30-minute kickboxing workouts. Do any of you have her workouts? I really like them.

Kathy, good manipulation of the rotation. Have a great time at your inlaws. Did you do S&H legs yet?

Chris, I'd be dreading GS Legs, too! You're probably doing those evil slow lunges right about now! ;) Anything with the ball is killer.

Hottie, sounds like you are having a blast with your friend! Yea on STS!!!

My eye is doing pretty good - still feels kind of dryish, but using drops. My eyesight is great - everything is so clear! I feel like a kid who gets glasses for the first time and sees the world in a whole new light! Hopefully it will stay like this - the dr. said there is a high recurrence rate. :(

We are having a garage sale tomorrow. Am I prepared? no. Do I even know what we are selling? No. The kids wanted to sell their old stuff, which is great. They've got it all together. But if I would have prepared sooner, I could have gone through all our "crap" and found lots of stuff to sell. I'll see what I can do tonight.

Back to work...have a great day all!

Joanne
 
Good Afternoon!!

I stuck to keeping pretty busy after my workout. I did do GS: LEGS, somehow muddled through it. The weight work wasn't bad (just the static SLOW lunges with holds and pulses at the bottom :eek:). but yeah, the ball work sucks. It's not so much my hamstrings or quads burn (they do, though), but my calves kill me up there! I did manage to eek out ALL the reps of the band work though. Even when it burned, I could get through it. It's just that dang ball!!! :p

Jake dragged me to a neighbor's tag sale to get some Rescue Ranger stuff (more, yay! ;)) and also bought a climbing tower thingie for the cats for $5! They usually go for $50-70 !! Sweet! and then , i did another dreaded thing, washed the kitchen floor !ACK!


Hottie: LOL @ YapperMax! it's fun to visit though. I bet you got that IM2 done and I know you enjoyed the crap out of it too!!! what ab work did you do? for getting STS!! Did you look at any of it yet? it is sooooo freakin cool, isn't it?? You and Joe are going to love it! I'm hoping to just use my 1RM's from my last cycle of STS.

Anyone doing them over?

Kathy: I had wicked DOMS in my chest and tri's this week too! Maybe i'll do ok tomorrow then.. .I hope so! ... You're making S&H sound even better than I was thinking, and I'm looking forward to getting to it next week. This is THE coolest rotation, isn't it??? Though I almost wish I was doing another week of GS, just to get it good....

Oh yeah, I ended up ordering P90X for Greg last night. I tried to talk him into STS, but he is totally put off by the plates and anything that ISN'T weights. So I looked on Ebay , and found it for a good price. Hopefully it's not a scam (i got scammed once on ebay on Turbo Jam :mad:)

Gotta pick up Alex and Zach from camp soon.... there goes my quiet!
 
Geesh, did I not post to you Joanne? Jake was distracting me...LOL!

Sounds like you've gotten some good workouts in there. I have a dance workout (tamilee webb, i think), and it's wicked lame/low impact. I hardly break a sweat! LOL!. ... I don't have any KCM's workouts though. I end up getting "not Cathe's" workouts, and never seem to want/need to do them so much. I hate to try someone else..again! LOL!... I do want to order the Physique57 stuff though. did you get yours?...... VERY cool you can see so clearly now. I pray it will last for you! Just seems it HAS to after so much effort, right? ... we really should do a garage sale, I just don't have the energy..LOL!...

Do you watch Big Brother at all? Just wanted to say, I LOVED what Jeff did last night,..right ON!!!! what a shake up!!
 
Hey Chris - I felt left out - you forgot me!! ;) JK!! Yes, I watched Big Brother. Wow!! I thought for sure Jeff wouldn't have the b*lls to do what he did, but good for him! I kind of wished Natalie would have gone, though - she annoys me for some reason. Not that Jesse didn't. Oh, and I just want to mute the TV every time Chima laughs. Sometimes I'll catch Big Brother After Dark on Showtime and it's even more annoying there (the laugh!). I think you might like KCM's stuff. It's pretty intense. I love Christi's workouts. Oh, I got an email that my Physique 57's were shipped!! I have P90X and was thinking of selling it on ebay! I don't think I'll ever use it having STS. Greg should like it, though.

We just signed up for a family cell phone plan since both Jameson and Ian have them now. I didn't let them text before since we didn't have a texting plan. Now we do and they were going crazy with it last night. I thought I'd use it more, but realized I don't really have than many people to text. ;( It's fun texting the boys, though. I texted DH last night while he was at Jameson's soccer game and he called me back. He's got this mental block about it! Jameson wants to sign up on Facebook. A bunch of his friends are on it. At first I said OK, but then said to hold off on it. You just hear too many stories about the Internet and kids. I trust him, but you never know about other people. Does Zach have one? I told him I wanted to check with DH.

Rambling...must go!

Joanne
 
So, IM2 is loud enough to wake up guests. :) I don't care they can deal with it...

I did IM2 and pulled out AB burner from CLX. I've been slipping up on my core work so it was harder than I last remembered it. But that said...I'm happy that I don't have the Ab circuits dvd yet. My core is pathetic and would cry. I weighed myself after IM2 and liked the number...I know a lot of it was sweat but it still was nice to see! I had wanted to lose weight befoer Joe's bday and I may actually be able to sneak a pound or here there before the deadline! :)

Kathy -- yay! do try to check in while you're gone!

Chris -- I can't find that original article about running barefoot but I found this which was equally interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/11/barefoot-running-shoes Greg didn't want STS?!?! Did you tell him that Joe refuses to any weight work that isn't Cathe now? I asked him about P90x but he's turned off by the beachbody commercialism of it. He fell in love with the GS series so now he's a die hard fan. (And then Cathe talking to him ~1hr about weight lifting helped when we went to visit new jersey...)

Joanne -- gl on that garage sale. As for FB, I know one parent that makes her kids friend her on facebook so she monitors who is posting to their wall and that kind of stuff. it's true that they can get personal messages, but its so funny, people even only ten years younger than me or so desensitized to the idea of privacy that they usually keep all their convos up on the wall or comments. and sometimes the friends of your kids will friend you just so they can say I have 300 friends on facebook regardless of the fact that you're someone's mother. (Btw, I told my mother if she joined FB that I wouldn't friend her but for her sake -- I curse too much and am wayyy too depressing for her). And texting is weird at first. I got unlimited texting on the phone and at first we weren't using it and now joe and I use it to communicate with each other all the time. Often we need information but we don't want to make noise by talking on the phone but not leave our desk/benches so we can shoot quick replies. Also, I let him know which cross street I'm waiting at a red light at when I'm going to pick him up so he knows when to come down to the street and he lets me know which train stations he's passing so I know when to pick him up at the train station...its weird at first but now its pretty integrated in the way we communicate...

Man, why am I so sleepy? My jaw must be tired from talking...
 
Joanne: HA! I knew you'd watch BB! Yeah, Natalie annoys me too. She was such a "leach" when it came to Jesse. It's going to be interesting how things pan out with him gone. And Chima...oh God, she is just so freakin dramatic! I was reading on line how she threatened to LOSE IT (as in swear/cuss and possibly nudity?) if the coup de etat was used, on LIVE TV. I think the producers must have had a talk with her, because she was very well behaved and I heard her at the end saying "They better let me in the house, I didn't cuss!". .... Funny, when we got Zach a cell phone this past year, we had texting in the beginning too. I just never "got it" (I don't GET it still.. I only use the cell phone for 'we need bread/milk', 'i'm going to be late' kind of stuff). So anyways, Zach was the only one texting, and we warned him, and he went WAY over in texts, so we had to take it away. he wants it back..LOL!.... He used to do MySpace, but he's not so into it anymore. He made a FB account, but doesn't use it either. I agree with Hottie, if you let them do it, make sure they befriend you and keep an eye on them. AND, make sure their settings are secure (ONLY friends can see their stuff).

Hottie: WOO HOO for IM2 and waking the company! LOL!!! ... Does Joe do the plate work and the stability ball stuff from Cathe too? Greg has no desire to do that stuff, or even the band work. He just wants to do "guy weights". So whatever. I can play with P90X too :p . I mostly wanted to do the YogaX. have you ever done that one, Joanne (?). cool on the scale being nice to you! when mine is bad , it won't even change after a workout, so you're not doing too shabby there!

Got a call from our pregnant sitter that does Sundays. Apparently she has WICKED bad vomitting, and has been in the hospital a few times for hydration . She's into her 13th week, and it's worse even. She lost 5 lbs this week!! She said she'd be willing to come out on Sunday, if the boys could be quiet-ish and she could just sit on the couch and watch movies. Ummmm... my boys can't physically ever be THAT quiet. So my mom is going to pinch hit for us this weekend (which is nice, really, I like that she'll spend time with the boys)... But the future is so uncertain, it stresses me !!! UGH!
 
hottiescientist said:
Chris -- I can't find that original article about running barefoot but I found this which was equally interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/11/barefoot-running-shoes Greg didn't want STS?!?! Did you tell him that Joe refuses to any weight work that isn't Cathe now? I asked him about P90x but he's turned off by the beachbody commercialism of it. He fell in love with the GS series so now he's a die hard fan. (And then Cathe talking to him ~1hr about weight lifting helped when we went to visit new jersey...)

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OMG, those are COOL!!!!
 
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