CABs & Abs -- Friday rocks!!!

[RunninTeach]

Good morning, girls!

A quick post here. I managed to get my butt out of bed and workout before work!! Yippee!! I did LIC u/b circuit premix minus the last step combo. The catalog listed it as a 55 minute premix but on the DVD itself, there was an extra segment which I've never even previewed before. It was a bit too much cardio for me (choreo-wise), so I left it at that and will learn that combo another time.

Angie :: we've been friends for about 5 years. We exchanged a couple of quick emails at work yesterday. That's the extent of our friendship anymore: email and an occasional text. Anyway, I reached out after not having heard from her for about two weeks. We haven't gotten together since about mid-August when, oddly enough, for about a one-week period, it was like old times again and then she disappeared again...She admitted around that time that she's had her head up her you-know-what these last few months...And it's true...she's absorbed with him and her own little world and really has no idea what's going on with me and no real interest to find out, either...Like I said, for a while, it seemed like I would hear from her when she needed to vent...By the end of the summer, I realized it's not about being too busy during the school year, which was her excuse before...It's mostly about this guy wanting to monopolize her every second, and she's just so crazy for him, I think she'll sacrifice anything...I should add that they weren't having an affair. It might have sounded like that yesterday. His marriage was already on the skids for some time when we all became friends, and as far as I know, nothing happened between them until he and his wife had been separated for a long time, and she (the ex) had moved on and found a boyfriend. Anyway, I just accept that it's different now, she's more or less "checked out," and it will probably never be the same. And the end lesson for me is that I know I need to rely less on other people.

OK, I need to get ready! ACK! It's after 6. I can tell it's gonna be a wet ponytail day.

Have a great one, chickies! BBL!

[font face="heather" font color=brick red size=+2]~Cathy [/font face] http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/wavesmile.gif
"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be." -George Sheehan

 

[Fit_mommy]

Good Morning Folks.

Cathy: Good job on the work out this morning. I knew you could do it! Your wet ponytail comment made me laugh. There was a time for YEARS when I would put my hair up in a wet ponytail on a DAILY BASIS! The ONLY time I might ATTEMPT to do something different is if I were going out but even that was a rare attempt. This is what prompted me to chop my hair off on my honeymoon. Now that I've let it grow back I only wear a ponytail to work or to work out. I guess you can say I O/D'd on the pony tail thing! I read your post to Angie even though you've told me about this before. That's so sad. What will happen when/if that relationship goes to pot? Do you think she will be knocking at your door with her tail between her legs? It's such a shame. Perhaps there will still be a point where she will wise up and hopefully if that time comes, it won't be too late...
LOL about the amount of time you spend looking for appropriate smileys. I don't use them all of the time because I tend to do the same thing!:7

Diana: I am also itchin' for the new work outs! I have decided that I am going to do a rotation with them and one day of running after my HM so now I really want them to come so I can see what I am in for!}(

Laura: Glad you had a good celebration with your friends despite the short-lived appearance of the one with the obesssive guy. How was your step class last night? Burn off all of the cr@p you ate? LOL

Angie: I don't know if I should say sorry your boys' games got rained out last night since you wanted to go to bed anyway! LOL I'm sure your boys were not happy though so I'll say sorry for them.
My chest is FINALLY doms free. It lasted a few days!}( Now my arms hurt...especially my tri's!

Today is leg day and POSSIBLY back as well. I would like to do them together like I did last week but my arms are sore from GS so I may pass on the back work for today. I'll have to see. At any rate, I'm going to be doing some form of B&G torture so I won't be able to walk tomorrow!}(

BFN!

 

[angie_nrs]

Morning girls

It's wet and dreary here this morning so even though I went to bed early last night, I did not want to get up. I have to go with MIL into town this afternoon and accompany her while she signs her will. She did not want to go alone and it seems I'm the one who has the most convenient schedule to go with her. It's OK with me since I have to get a few things at the store anyways. She's a real nervous nilly....I talked to her on Weds. and reaffirmed that I would go with her today and told her what time I would be at her house....she called me last night wanting to make sure I was still going.....I was a little peeved since I thought I had already tied up that loose end and said yes, that we had talked about this yesterday.....and she says well, it had been a couple of days since yesterday that she had talked to me.

No wonder this week feels like it will never end! I've missed a couple of days in there... Ug....gotta love her.

Cathy - I'm again in awe of your early morning workouts!

It would be nice if we lived closer....you sound like a girl right after my own heart. I'm sure it's more difficult to fuel relationships, even good friendships, when you are trying to pep up your love life, but geez....ya gotta have friends! I remember when I met Mark, I was pretty consumed with him, but now, I have all kinds of time for my friends...lol. Actually, it gets busy at times, making it hard to get together, with football games every weekend or camping or stuff like that, (mostly kids activities) but it just takes a little more planning to get together....and then there's these things called phones. *lol*
I can relate to the wet hair thing too. I usually show up at the soccer field with wet hair to watch Cam's games. Folks are probably wondering what the heck is this girl always doing with wet hair? I do have an odd exercise time...usually between 4-6pm every day, but hey, it works for me. Since Cam has to be at the field at 6....well, there's just no time for hair drying. They should be happy that I had time to squeeze in the shower.

Wendy - I still didn't get home super early since they kept the football team in the locker room for over an hour hoping the weather would calm down....it never did. Cam also had his year end soccer party too, so it was subway subs at the gazebo in the park. It was nice, but I just wanted to get the heck otta there.
I think I have legs on tap today as well....I just haven't decided if I'm gonna do it this morning or put in another day at work. I really should go to work since quarterlies need to be done. I haven't planned my day yet.....so I should get going and figure out my day.

Hope the rest of you girls have a super Friday!!

BBL

Angie

 

[rmrmr]

Hi Ladies,

I went to bed early and slept like a rock! I did Muscle Max this morning and loved every minute of it. The ab section is awesome. I did mangage to go for a 40 minute walk yesterday at 4pm. It was nice to just get out of the office.

Cathy-I'm so proud of you for trying LIC. You will pick it up in no time, just keep practicing. Cathe uses similar choreography so once you have a few w/o's down the rest will come easier to you. GREAT JOB

Wendy-So your up for B&G torture today!! I've been adding extra glute exercises (from the Butt Book)every few days. Hopefully I will see some changes back there soon!

Laura-Super Step Cardio-that sounds really fun and right up my alley. It sounds like you had a wonderful bday celebration. Don't let your one friend ruin it for you.

Diana
Angie-You had a really long day yesterday. At least you survived the field trip. You always have that one trouble maker or someone who thinks they don't have to stay with group. Sorry about the rained out games, what a bummer for the kids. Will they have makeup games? Jerod's football team is in 3rd place out of 9 or 10 teams. If they lose even one game from here on out, they won't make it to the superbowl.

 

[Poochy]

Afternoon again ladies!

We had a benefit for our friend that is in TX getting cancer treatments .. hamburger plates ... made about $2700.00 .. ..

I smell like a burger .. and I am dog tired .. I sweated like a maniac .. and my feet and back are hurting!x(

super step cardio class went great .. LOTS of sweating going on .. had a new student and it is a complex class . . but she said she enjoyed it .. she followed pretty good to be a newbie .. it felt really good to sweat .. ..

tonight .. DH on midnights .. so a short date night .. LOL .. and tomorrow going to attempt that long run I never was able to do! TB is feeling MUCH better!! thank goodness!

OK . . gotta run .. will try to BBL for personals!!:7

have a great one!!:7

 

[RunninTeach]

Afternoon, girls! http://www.smileyskit.com/happy-lol-dancing-smileys_files/banana.gif *doin' the Friday dance here*

Wendy :: OK, I have to admit ~ I’ve done the ponytail thing every day this week. *lol* It’s not the most polished look, I guess, but I have a lot of hair and it takes so long to dry. Sometimes I just don’t feel like it…Ya know, I don’t think their relationship *will* go to pot…I think she is in it for the long haul…and is willing to overlook what I would consider to be some red flags…Ya know, in the end, I try to appreciate and learn from everyone who touches my life somehow, even if it is temporary…yeah, I’m hurt by her choices http://www.smileyskit.com/sad-tired-bored-smileys_files/unhappy.gif , but I wish her well and hope she's happy…I just know to expect nothing…Those dang smileys…*lol*…I can’t stop!…I’ll be surprised if I don’t join you in some tri DOMS…LIC got me good this mornin’! http://www.smileyskit.com/music-sports-props-smileys_files/muscles2.gif

Angie :: hey, thanks! Those early AM workouts don’t happen too often, but I’d like to work on that. It is hard sometimes to bust a workout at 7 pm after a long day’s work. But it does make me appreciate my weekends!…Re: friends…Definitely, I expected to see her/them less – that I do understand – but yeah, how hard is it really to stay in touch w/ people who matter to you? http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/images/smilies/102.gif …Agreed about us living closer together! I have a feeling we CABBERs could get in trouble together!…how’d it go with MIL? She call you again to confirm? ;-) Nice of you to go w/ her…So whatd’ja wind up doing for a w/out?

Diana :: so glad you had a good night’s sleep!…Great job with MM…Thank you! I think I’ve only attempted LIC in full once. I assume this premix was the same thing, just without the leg exercises, so I’m encouraged that I *will* eventually be able to master the whole thing…That’s great about Jerod’s team. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/sign/sign0075.gif they keep the wins going.

Laura :: what a great thing to do for your friend…mmm, burgers! http://www.smileyskit.com/gestures-expressions-smileys_files/licklips.gif They must’ve been quite tasty!…Glad to hear the TB is on the mend!

It feels good not to have to worry about my workout in the evening. I wonder if I can get into a routine where I do an AM workout on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Eating has been good all week, so today was a "cheat" day. http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Food/ready-to-eat-19.gif I ate half a Danish and a teeny sliver of cake at Border's (where they had teacher appreciation week - sweet!). I don't think I can really say it's a true cheat, though, because I'd saved up nearly all of my flex points, so I'm entitled! Oh boy, here goes the WW babble. Sorry! *lol*

[font face="heather" font color=brick red size=+2]~Cathy [/font face] http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/wavesmile.gif
"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be." -George Sheehan

 

[angie_nrs]

Hi girls!

It was another busy day, but hopefully it will save me some work come Monday. It seems that the office is always better when I go in on Friday to wrap some things up.
When I got home I did GS legs and CM3. I forgot that GS is over an hour long and then to add a segment from coremax....it was a longer workout than I really intended...but it's done. Tomorrow is supposed to be a kick box but since I dont really like KB, I will sub StepBlast. Then....Sunday off

Cathy - Yup...you have an addiction....to smilies. I hope you keep it up b/c it so makes me smile and giggle. Sometimes your smilies say it all. Cam glanced over my shoulder last night and saw the 5 smilies chasing the one and was laughing his butt off. I told him that it was me and his 5 monster friends.....it was too funny.
Would you believe MIL called the house and then tracked me down at work today to see if I wanted her to pick me up?x( ACK! I'm thinking....we made a plan...let's just go with it OK?? She just has too much time on her hands I guess.
So, is that....a.......banana? (doing the Friday dance) :7
I think your MWF plan for a.m. workouts sounds good for you. I would just die....but it would probably work well for an early bird like yourself. You'll probably have run several miles by the time I get my butt out of bed in the morning.

Diana - So glad you got some good sleep! Good job on MM too...it's a toughie.;-)
Cody just missed practice and I'm hoping Cam's game will not be made up. I'm ready for soccer to be over.
Go Jarod go.....hope a superbowl is in your near future.
We have a 1.5 hour drive to go to Cody's game tomorrow and it doesn't start until 6, so it's gonna be a long day. Home games all start at 4....I sure wish away games did too.

Laura - Yah on the $$$$ you all collected on the fund raiser! That is awesome! So did you get time off work to do this? Have you been noticing the full moon at work this week?? I know the crazies are out driving....I don't even want to get on the road tomorrow.
Good luck on that run tomorrow....hopefully the TB won't be an issue with that.

Wendy - So what have you got goin' this weekend? Isn't your big run coming soon?

Hi Nancy Where you hiding girl??

Nighty night!

Angie

 

[Fit_mommy]

Hey!

I'm back for a late nite quickie check in. I'll do personals in the morning!

So I dd B&G Leg Blast and CTX Kickbox cardio today. AWESOME COMBO! My plan for tomorrow is to bang out back and abs before DS gets up and then head to the gym for a run. I have a family party of sorts to go to in the afternoon so I'll need that run to counteract the fat and cals I'll be consuming later!}(

So BF weighed herself this morning and then we measured tonight. She's down 7 pounds and 4.5 inches in one month! She's doing GREAT!!! I'm so happy...for both of us!:7 More so for her though. I would love to see her get her confidence and energy back!

DH worked a 12 hr day today as opposed to 10 hrs so by the time DS and I got home from training he was already in bed. He was still awake so we could say goodnight but that was it. He will probably do another 12 hour shift tmrw and Sunday too. He said Sunday could be even LONGER if they need more time to get something done! The hours stink but the cash is a beautiful thing!!!!

Okay....time to hit the sack if I want to bang out some of my work out early tomorrow morning!

Night girls!:+