~~~~Coolers in November~~~

Sorry I've been away a couple of days. Thursday I half heartedly finished week 2 of the Nov rotation with Cardio from 4DS Boot Camp and the upper body from LIC. I don't know if the rotation with all the leg work was getting me or what but I was physically exhausted Thursday and ended up falling asleep on the couch after work.

Yesterday we had a big snow fall! It took me almost a hour and a half to get from home to work (dropping kids off at the new school). All that driving was tiring and then in the evening went to watch ds's hockey game. So glad it was a rest day.

Patricia I LOL'd at the winter jacket. DS had a great team hockey jacket a few years ago which he left on the playground at recess (he took it off because he was too hot). It had his name, number, position, community club on the jacket. We looked for the jacket for months (at the school, and the community club) Who wants a jacket with someone else's name, and team info on it????? DS also lost a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey in florida and it had his last name put on where the players name goes. We phoned lost and found for weeks to see if they found it. I figured their was a little boy in Florida who thought that there was a famous hockey player with our last name???? Someone who didn't know much about hockey? Who wants to keep stuff with other peoples' names?

Is the tooth fixed Laurie How's it feeling??

Hoping to get the new dvds's before I get to the last week of the Nov. rotation. It looks like a killer week and the new dvds would be a good excuse to change the plan:eek:

Busy day here with swimming, hockey and piano lessons. I swear dd has grown another 2 inches so needs new pants and ds needs fabric for making pj pants in home ec. So need to get some errands done. Will try and get HIS 4ds in sometime as well.
 
Good Sunday morning all.

Hope everyone is have a fantastic weekend. Yesterday DS went to a Pirate themed 5th b.day party along with sleeping over there so DH and I went to a movie (Three days later with Russell Crowe) and then a family dinner at BILs. Was nice to have just adult conversation. About only the 4th time we've both been away from DS.

Friday night I got in YBB - Lower body and then I started packing up the basement and moved about 1/2 of it 2 flights so I figured that was my w/o:p My calves are talking to me today. This a.m. was MMA KB and now I'm off to finish some more packing/moving.

DH has taken DS to Monster Jam today and we have company coming for dinner.

Laurie - I'm sort of interested in the Peak 10's but not sure if I can talke Michelle for that many videos. Her hi-pithched voice gets on my nerves after awhile and I'm not certain if I want another "system". I've heard good things about it though.

Kim - sounds like you need to lower the intensity for a while. Why not take it easy until the new DVDs come in?
 
I am SOOOOO jealous that people who downloaded are already doing the w/os:(:(:(

Our new t.v. comes with a hookup for UBS in case I go that right in the future but I'm not ready to commit to that new technology yet!
 
Yeah, I'm jealous too that people who bought the downloads already have the workouts. I'm not really ready to bother with the technology.
The workouts are getting good reviews though.

I did get 4DS HIS done yesterday and today was Leaner Legs. DH did today's workout with me.:D I'm going to do this weeks rotation as it's okay but next week is a killer week. She has BM, DM cardio premix (72 mins), BM2, original boot camp, LIC, and IMAX 2:confused::confused::confused::confused:

That's alot of working out in one week!! But it's the last week before Mexico where I plan to be lazy all week so I might give it a go unless the new workouts arrive.

What fun Patricia to get some adult time! Sometimes you don't realize how much you miss it until yot get some time with friends. Did ds have fun at the sleepover?

Is work going to start soon on the basement? Will you have a dedicated workout area? I'm excited to have half of the rec room just for working out in my new house. It'll will actually be smaller than what I have now but now I used the family tv room and won't have to share.:D
 
Morning Coolers,

P90X Chest & Back along with Barry's Bootcamp Fat Blaster Abs. I needed a break from Ab RipperX. :D I didn't do any workouts all weekend, but DH and I did manage to get our bedroom painted. :eek: So does moving bedroom furniture and painting count as recovery work. LOL

Kim, All that driving in the snow sounds exhausting. Right now we are getting rain, so no snow for us yet. Kind of glad that we are getting the rain. :eek: My tooth is fixed, and no root canal for me. So happy about that, but it sure was a painful process until he was done. I think I'm immune to novicane. :confused:

Patricia, I'm hoping to get my workouts this week, and want to at least try out the intensity one. Maybe even the lower body, not that I want to make you jealous. :( Sounds like all of you had a great time, ds with b'day parties and you having adult time. ;)

Have a wonderful day!
 
Just finished 4DS LIS, so plodding along the November rotation. DH did the shoulders/calves/core part with me.

Got some extra exercise yesterday with shovelling and pushing the car out:mad:

Oh, what colour did you paint Laurie?? I have a terrible colour sense. DH picks out all the paint colours. The real estate agent said alot of people at the Open House were commenting how much they like our colours.;)

The reviews on the new dvd's are sounding great ! I'm looking forward to the Intensity one the most!

So Laurie, how did he fix the tooth if he didn't do a root canal?

Are you going to finish your rotatin before trying out the new workouts ? How much longer do you have in your rotation?
 
Laurie - I'll let you count painting and moving furniture as a w/o if you let me count spending time over 2 days going up two flights of stairs moving junk from the basement into my workout room:p My calves are really sore!

No w/o for me last night. I'm starting to get a cold + the t.v. repair man was coming anywhere between 6-8pm. He showed up at 8:30pm:confused: Anyhow, we feel like fools as the only thing wrong with the colour was a loose wire from moving the t.v. to fit the Xmas tree next to it last weekend:( So $50 later.....

Kim - I'm really looking forward to TB STS and the Leg Blast. We did the Leg Blast on the RT and it was fun. Yikes on the shovelling. That reminds I still need to make an appt this week to get my snow tires on. How are you liking your Hyandai (sp?) You bought a Tuscon last year didn't you? Just talking about cars to a co-worker and I've had my eye on it a bit.

My w/o room will eventually be the spare bedroom. It is smaller than what I had before but atleast it has high ceilings. Our basement is only 8' so I'll be grazing my knuckles:( But DH is already asking if I want mirrors and where. I told him I want everything up off the floor to maximize the space. Anyhow, he is aiming to have the basement done by mid-Feb. then it should be a quick job to do my w/o room. We will see as thats a bit ambitous of a timeline.
 
Morning Coolers,

Our weather went from 60F, raining and tornados to 20F this morning. :confused: My workout for this cold cold day was Insanity Max Cardio Conditioning.

Kim, Dang on the snow, I'm not ready for the shoveling. Our snowblower is still getting checked at the store. Yes the tooth did get fixed, the cavity wasn't as deep as he thought. I was happy about that. I'm going to be finishing this rotation, before I can try out the workouts. I might be able to do the Intensity and Lower body workout. Have not decided if I will try them out yet.

Patricia, Oh yes hauling all the equipment upstairs is a workout. ;) You new workout space sounds like it will be great, I have to wait for my dd's to move out of the house to get that type of space. :D

Really quiet around here this week, everyone is either gone because it is a short week or they are off hunting. :rolleyes: I like it though, makes for a relaxing time before I have to cook like a crazy woman. :D Got my Cathe DVD's last night, and took a sneak peek at the Intensity one. I'm thinking that I will try out the Hiit work.

Have a great day!
 
Got my 2mile tm run and CM1 done this morning before work. Relaxing and watching TBL tonight.

Laurie So winter has arrived for you too Laurie! Will you be driving to relatives for Thanksgiving dinner? Let us know your impressions of the new workouts!

Patricia, we actually have the Hyundai Santa Fe which is the larger model. It's great on the ice! How frustrating waiting on the repairman! Well at least it was an easy fix. How exciting to be designing your workout space! What kind of floor are you putting in?

We have another snowfall warning in place. We're supposed to get another 20 cm over the next couple of days:rolleyes: So looking forward to the driving tomorrow.
 
Morning Coolers,

So all my dental appointments are now done for another 6 months. :D They are going to have to watch this tooth, because the cavity was all the way to the nerve. :confused: This tooth didn't even bother me at all. :confused:

P90X Shoulders, Biceps & Triceps for me this morning. Didn't have time to get an ab workout done, and really don't have the time tonight. I will just do an ab workout with my yoga tomorrow. I'm thinking that I might have to add some cardio into the day with all the eating I'm probably going to do. :D

Kim, I just hope the snow/ice stays away while I'm driving on Friday. We are hosting DH's family at our house tomorrow, and then we head to Wisconsin Dells for some fun at the indoor waterpark resort. This is something that my family has been doing for years, and since we are all there at one time we have the kids open Christmas presents from their cousins. Hope that you don't get as much snow as they predict, you only have a couple more months to have to drive so much.

Have a great day!
 
HAPPY THANKSGIVING LAURIE!!! Enjoy your time with the family!

So yesterday I was driving home in the winter storm, it's was blustery, low visibilty just not very nice out and we drove by the new house and two nice young guys were building our deck:eek::confused: It seemed so strange for them to be building a deck during a snow storm, I'n not sure if that is even a good idea. I was under the impression that it was not going to get done till spring.

Did 4DS KB yesterday and am supposed to to 4DS BC today. Didn't happend this morning, I'll see about tonight.
 
Morning Coolers

Let's see, I did Jari Love's Get Ripped last night. Still fighting a cold so didn't want to do any cardio and this was just right for intensity. My triceps are sore today:)

DH wants to do some batch cooking so last night we had a family discussion of what he should cook. It was so cute seeing my 5yr old take it so seriously and tell Daddy what he wanted and what he wouldn't eat. DH makes this pasta soup with sausage and chicken. DS says "I won't eat the sausage but I'll eat the pasta and most likely not the chicken". It was just too funny to watch we could barely keep a straight face:):p He said don't forget vegetables too! I guess we're doing something right with his eating habits!

Laurie - glad to hear the Dentist visits are over for a while. Now you can enjoy your holiday. I'm trying to convince DH to go back to Great Wolf Lodge and he won't. Is that similar to where you're going to? Sounds like a great family weekend + an early Xmas. The kids must be excited.

Kim - we're starting to get cold her but no snow thankfully yet. Where we used to live they got it last week. Soooo glad we moved:p I'm putting in a cushioned gym floor in my new w/o room. I really hate working out on a rug:( Your vacation is just around the corner eh? We're second guessing about going on a cruise in Jan. what with finishing our basement this winter + we're going to LV in March as it is.
 
HOW I SPENT MY DAY

Got up at 6:30 and decided to avoid 4ds Boot Camp. Wake up kids make breakfast and pack lunches. The radio is still saying there is a winter storm warning better leave early.

Decide to go warm up the car. Who needs to zip up the boots just to run to the driveway? Okay I have wet socks now there is 3 ft of snow on the driveway. Sit halfway in the driver's seat to turn the car on. Who needs to close the car door as I'm just starting the car. Oh yes, the wipers are still on from the snowstorm yesterday and there is a foot of snow on the windshield. Nice snow shower I have no jacket on. Okay, wet socks and wet sweater. Okay inside better get the kids moving as it's stormy then I realized. They can eat breakfast in the car.

In the car, first 3 miles on the gravel road goes okay. I get to the highway and accidentaly cut off a school bus. We both go fishtailing all over the highway. Okay everyone is okay.Driving really slowly on the highway.Only saw 3 cars in the ditch, it's much better than the radio says. SOmeone took out the railway crossing light. The same one someone took out last week and they just fixed on Tuesday must be very slippery part of the highway. Drop kids off at school and head downtown. Oh, the traffic on the bridge to downtown has come to a halt, spend half a hour stuck on the bridge. Get to work 20 mins late, patients are waiting. Took me one hour 40 mins to get to work.

My mom phones me at work asks me to please not take the highway home as the radio says it's terrible. She spends too much time listening to the radio. Leave work, get stuck on the same bridge going home. Some lady is driving 10 miles an hour over the bridge. WTH???? Then I realize that she has Georgia license plates. What is she doing here? I pass her she looks scared to death.

Pick up kids. Then spend 10 mins waiting for a train to pass. Get pass the train go another mile. Then got stuck behind traffic when we finally get further ahead, the problem was a tow truck driver stuck blocking the intersection. Who tows out the tow trucks?

Pick up a pizza on the way home as dd won a gift certificate get home with 15 mins till we have to leave for hockey. Made it home in under 2 hours! But we can't get in the driveway as DH has got the car stuck in the snow again. We shovel /push the car and able to move it over so it's out of people's way for now and then we ditch it as we have to get to hockey. Off to the hockey game, another train!!!!!:mad: Get to the arena just in time. DS wins 14-0, not a evenly match game.

Yeah, finally get to go home. It's still snowing out. Get home oh yea the car is still stuck. Get to shovel for a hour. Then spend 1/2hr trying to push out the car. Great way to spend quality time with the neighbours. :eek: 3 men and one ds to push, while I drive.

4DS is not happening tonight!
I posted some snow pictures under my album "house"

Hope you're feeling better soon Patricia! What a great family event, planning meals together! Are you going with friends to LV? 8 more sleeps till Mexico, not that I was thinking about it today:cool:
 
I'm soooo sorry Kim but I was laughing my head off at your day. It was either that or cry as I'm sure that's what you were close to doing:eek::mad: I so hope Friday goes so much better for you today.

DS keeps asking when I'm putting the winter tires on (why does he think about these things?) and I finally made an appt for next Tuesday so I don't want to see any snow until after that:D

Last night was Hiit 30/30 and STS Abs - med ball. I'm looking forward to going with my sister and niece to see Wicked on Saturday.

Laurie - gobble gobble gobble - did you turn into a turkey yet?
 
Morning Coolers

It's trying to snow out there today. Brrrr. Last night was Michelle Dozois' YBB - Circuit - she uses the resistance band a lot in this series. I like the change up from dbs. Today is my rest day as I'm off to do some shopping and see Wicked.

Have a fun Saturday.
 
It's snowing again this morning. I didn't think we were supposed to get more. Goodness, we have lots of snow! I posted some snow pictures under my house album.


Patricia, I sure laughed at your ds's question about the snow tires. He is sure growing up and interested in the adult world. Does he tend to be a worrier??

Sounds like you have a fun day planned out Patricia!

Yesterday, the driving felt such a treat, the roads were nice and clean! It had felt like such a long week! But we headed out again to watch ds's hockey game. He was playing across the street from his great grandma's apartment (DH's Grandma) and the plan was for me to pick her up to watch and she was very excited so no cancelling that.;)

I sure wish I could curl up at home today but kids have swimming, piano and hockey.:rolleyes: Got to stop by the library for books for the trip.:cool:

Yesterday was my planned rest day and I think I'll just forgive the missed workout on thursday and move ahead with the rotation. Today is the first day of week 4 of the Nov rotation and it's a hard week so didn't hurt to have 2 rest days anyways. Today is BodyMax and I'm going to wait till the evening to do it because of it's length.

Stopped by the new house yesterday, the interior had been painted and stipling put on the ceilings.
 
Morning all

Just getting ready to head out for DS's skating lessons. Bought Karen Voights foller roam w/o Sleekphysique and did it today. A nice light workout but I wanted a w/o to use with my foam roller. I'm doing community service work tomorrow through my company. Most likely painting so won't need anything too taxing today or Tuesday:D

Wicked was really good. Definetly a different perspective from the witches point of view of the Wizard of Oz.

Kim - It just crossed my mind that most likely the new dvds will arrive just when you're leaving for vacation! That s**cks:( Exciting stage now in the house. I saw your snow pics. Better you than me:D The only problem is its cold here and I'd rather have the snow with it as atleast you can go outside and play in it rather than just hibernate. Yes, DS is a bit of a worrier. Its amazing what pops out of his mouth at the oddest time so you know he's "thinking".

Take care
 
Well I figure the dvds will give me something to look forward to after my trip. Maybe will just play with the new workouts in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas as never feel like working out that much during the holiday season.

Did the entire 90 minutes of BodyMax yesterday;) DH walked in the room at once point and asked if that workout would ever finish, LOL. This morning I've done DM Premix #4. So far so good on this super duper heavy workout week, let's see if I can make it to the end. Tomorrow is the original Boot Camp, I like that one.

I haven't hear about that movie, Patricia. Glad it was good. The whole family wants to get out and see the new Harry Potter movie but didn't want to fight the crowds the first week and then this week has been busy.

What will you be painting?? I'm sure that would be a nice change from your regular work duties. Anyone watching the Grey Cup at your place? Everyone will be glued to it here. Never seems to be much interest in the CFL east of the Manitoba border.

Laurie, hope your travels were fun ! I'm sure getting back into real life will be difficult tomorrow!
 
Boy, I'm tired and my arms are sore. Up at 5am today to meet my carpool. Painting went well at Variety Village then at the end we got to learn how to play wheelchair basketball. I couldn't shoot worth a dang
from the chair but it was fun whipping around the court:p So that's my workout for the day!

Kim - yep, watched some of the Grey Cup. Had my BIL and his wife over for dinner for the last 1/2 of the game. Not something we generally watch though. I have 2 co-workers who flew out to the game. Not for me to sit in the cold like that. Wow, I'm not sure if I've ever attemped the complete BM or BM2. Just way too long for me. And then you did DM today! yikes. I really want to see Tourist that comes out Dec 10th with A. Jolie and J. Depp. You might be on vacation to see that one.

Off to bed...
 
Sounds like a good workout Patricia! Back to the office for you tomorrow?

Just finished Bootcamp (the original one), Dh did it with me:D, so only 3 workouts left in this rotation. If I can finish BM2 tomorrow then it's downhill from there. I might leave the upperbody for the evening as it's too long to fit in before work unless I wake up early.

We got kitchen cabinets at the house!!:D
 
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