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Today I did Rapid Fire, had a good workout. Happy Sunday
HARD CORE FITNESS MANIACS FOR SUN JAN 9
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Good morning -
Roselyn - Have you tried out your new heavy bag? Wondering what you thought about it. Hope you have a happy Sunday, too
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Yesterday, I just did biceps Very good biceps workout for all that, but it didn't feel like enough somehow. Actually, I also did some "test" moves for my leg and it felt ok. That was encouraging. I did some thinking and am going to err on the side of caution with this. I've had a couple injuries that ended up being bad and hanging around/lingering for months. I think it's because I got a "warning (like what happened with my leg last week)" and pushed it. It really has been a long time since I've had any injury or problems. I would like to keep it that way. I feel ok to try some weight training for legs today (carefully) but hold off on any impact moves (Insanity) for another week. Then, instead of jumping (literally ) into the month 2 workouts, I'l do Cardio Core and Balance as a tester. If that goes well, I'll pick up again next weekend. So, another week of staying low key. It will be really nice (and help a lot) if I can incorporate some leg training, so I have my fingers crossed about today. That is my plan.
We were supposed to get a foot of snow over last night and this morning. Nuttin' yet, so hopefully it missed us. DS is out of town at a soccer tournament and traveling back today. Kinda nervous about that
Have a great day everyone.
Lori
Roselyn - Have you tried out your new heavy bag? Wondering what you thought about it. Hope you have a happy Sunday, too
.Yesterday, I just did biceps
Very good biceps workout for all that, but it didn't feel like enough somehow. Actually, I also did some "test" moves for my leg and it felt ok. That was encouraging. I did some thinking and am going to err on the side of caution with this. I've had a couple injuries that ended up being bad and hanging around/lingering for months. I think it's because I got a "warning (like what happened with my leg last week)" and pushed it. It really has been a long time since I've had any injury or problems. I would like to keep it that way. I feel ok to try some weight training for legs today (carefully) but hold off on any impact moves (Insanity) for another week. Then, instead of jumping (literally ) into the month 2 workouts, I'l do Cardio Core and Balance as a tester. If that goes well, I'll pick up again next weekend. So, another week of staying low key. It will be really nice (and help a lot) if I can incorporate some leg training, so I have my fingers crossed about today. That is my plan. We were supposed to get a foot of snow over last night and this morning. Nuttin' yet, so hopefully it missed us. DS is out of town at a soccer tournament and traveling back today. Kinda nervous about that
Have a great day everyone.
Lori
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Today is a rest day. I sort of wanted to play around with the budokon workouts again but ended up just lying on the couch this afternoon previewing power and agility. This looks great and I think I need to work on the other two for awhile before I do that one. Maybe work on some of the moves first since it is a lot faster paced. I didn't get much sleep because the grandbaby woke up at 3 am wanting milk. Then she ended up singing. When she started to doze I started coughing and woke her back up I should have made her stay on the sofa bed! Then she was all excited about going to my church so I drug myself out this morning with her and her brother. I took the grandchildren home earlier than planned because they are saying chances of snow and there were a few flakes falling. I didn't want to make that drive in nasty weather. I made a pot of white chicken chili for out lunch and had some coffee laced with dark chocolate cocoa. Not sure what I will have for dinner. No time for breakfast this morning.
Lori, I understand you wanting to err on the side of caution. The 4 point rep on the Bowflex select tech weight dvd is just really form pointers. They take each exercise through around 8 reps. showing the proper for to get the most out of it. It also gives for pointers to avoid injury on how to pick the weights up etc.. 4 point reps are just contracting the muscle before you start moving the weight and keeping the contraction , squeezing the top of the contraction and keeping it on the way back to start. I watched some of it again today. Not sure if I will do that or something else.
I should have made her stay on the sofa bed! Then she was all excited about going to my church so I drug myself out this morning with her and her brother. I took the grandchildren home earlier than planned because they are saying chances of snow and there were a few flakes falling. I didn't want to make that drive in nasty weather. I made a pot of white chicken chili for out lunch and had some coffee laced with dark chocolate cocoa. Not sure what I will have for dinner. No time for breakfast this morning. Lori, I understand you wanting to err on the side of caution. The 4 point rep on the Bowflex select tech weight dvd is just really form pointers. They take each exercise through around 8 reps. showing the proper for to get the most out of it. It also gives for pointers to avoid injury on how to pick the weights up etc.. 4 point reps are just contracting the muscle before you start moving the weight and keeping the contraction , squeezing the top of the contraction and keeping it on the way back to start. I watched some of it again today. Not sure if I will do that or something else.
poetree_n_motion
Cathlete
Diane Sue - What a night. I laughed about the singing. Your little one is so funny and precious, though it was probably hard to appreciate that at 3 a.m. Glad it was a rest day at least. I think that is a relative term with you though. I think you are always very busy . Thank you for explaining the 4 point. It sounds like a good way to teach form and help with the mind/muscle connection. I'll be interested to hear about what you decide to do. Also, I think Power and Agility is my favorite Budokon (at least right now). It's smart to take your time with them, I think. I took the same approach you described (practice run through first). It helped. For me, some of the Budokon moves were a bit intimidating. I think they are a lot less difficult than they look. On the other hand, he breaks each move down into so much detail in the tutorial (which I think is good) and I still go back to it -- fine tuning. I like that about the series. There is always room for a little bit more precision and attention to the details. The hardest move for me was in the monkey series. Funny, because the move was not at all difficult and was just very natural. I think that is why I struggled with it. I kept trying (unintentionally, of course) to make it tougher than it was. When I finally got it, I couldn't believe I'd ever struggled with it. I do still put on my tennies for the 360' turns though. Partly, I just need to get over my fear with those but also, generating enough power to go up that high/far around - I am not so good at landing as soft and silently as he is. The rest of it, I don't know. It took me 3 or 4 workouts before I really felt I was doing the whole thing properly. Practice -- like you said. Sometime you might even watch the blooper segment. I appreciated seeing that side of him (and I'm not usually a big fan of bloopers - must have been bored). The balance clip is especially good. It was, I don't know, comforting [?] to see someone so adept and Zen-like get so ticked off and "human." I thought it was cool he would share that. Anyway, I am so glad you are enjoying these. I kind of thought you would
DS is home (YAY)! His trip was great and we haven't seen the foot of snow they forecasted (YAY and YAY). There are flurries though and the temp has dropped into low single digits again ( ). Is it too early to have spring fever?
Good night.
Lori
. Thank you for explaining the 4 point. It sounds like a good way to teach form and help with the mind/muscle connection. I'll be interested to hear about what you decide to do. Also, I think Power and Agility is my favorite Budokon (at least right now). It's smart to take your time with them, I think. I took the same approach you described (practice run through first). It helped. For me, some of the Budokon moves were a bit intimidating. I think they are a lot less difficult than they look. On the other hand, he breaks each move down into so much detail in the tutorial (which I think is good) and I still go back to it -- fine tuning. I like that about the series. There is always room for a little bit more precision and attention to the details. The hardest move for me was in the monkey series. Funny, because the move was not at all difficult and was just very natural. I think that is why I struggled with it. I kept trying (unintentionally, of course) to make it tougher than it was. When I finally got it, I couldn't believe I'd ever struggled with it. I do still put on my tennies for the 360' turns though. Partly, I just need to get over my fear with those but also, generating enough power to go up that high/far around - I am not so good at landing as soft and silently as he is. The rest of it, I don't know. It took me 3 or 4 workouts before I really felt I was doing the whole thing properly. Practice -- like you said. Sometime you might even watch the blooper segment. I appreciated seeing that side of him (and I'm not usually a big fan of bloopers - must have been bored). The balance clip is especially good. It was, I don't know, comforting [?] to see someone so adept and Zen-like get so ticked off and "human." I thought it was cool he would share that. Anyway, I am so glad you are enjoying these. I kind of thought you would DS is home (YAY)! His trip was great and we haven't seen the foot of snow they forecasted (YAY and YAY). There are flurries though and the temp has dropped into low single digits again (
). Is it too early to have spring fever?Good night.
Lori
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Hermia
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Hey everyone,
Lori, glad that foot of snow never materialized. Snow makes things so tricky. My family up in Washington got positively dumped on with snow a couple weeks before Mark and I visited, so I was pretty sure we'd get more when we were up there, but blessedly we missed it (and now we're back in Southern California so we're safe...or at least I am. Mark wanted the snow).
You have your grandbabies a lot, Diane Sue. That's cool...I wish I lived closer to my mom...I mean, not just for babysitting reasons once I have a kid, but that would be nice! I know she's kind of worried about her potential future grandkid not knowing her so well since she's up in WA and I'm in CA. My sis and her three kids are up in the same city as mom, though.
So as far as workouts this weekend, Friday I didn't get anything in. My fiance had to make a late night trip to work to get something done by midnight, and I started getting ready to work out when he left, but then he called and said he'd forgotten his badge to get into the work bldg, so I had to bring it to him. It was close to midnight once I got home, which is a bit late for a workout.
Yesterday I did MTV Power Yoga (along with the little Pilates workout that comes after it).
Today was the 1 set premix of STS Total Body.
Lori, glad that foot of snow never materialized. Snow makes things so tricky. My family up in Washington got positively dumped on with snow a couple weeks before Mark and I visited, so I was pretty sure we'd get more when we were up there, but blessedly we missed it (and now we're back in Southern California so we're safe...or at least I am. Mark wanted the snow).
You have your grandbabies a lot, Diane Sue. That's cool...I wish I lived closer to my mom...I mean, not just for babysitting reasons once I have a kid, but that would be nice! I know she's kind of worried about her potential future grandkid not knowing her so well since she's up in WA and I'm in CA. My sis and her three kids are up in the same city as mom, though.
So as far as workouts this weekend, Friday I didn't get anything in. My fiance had to make a late night trip to work to get something done by midnight, and I started getting ready to work out when he left, but then he called and said he'd forgotten his badge to get into the work bldg, so I had to bring it to him. It was close to midnight once I got home, which is a bit late for a workout.
Yesterday I did MTV Power Yoga (along with the little Pilates workout that comes after it).
Today was the 1 set premix of STS Total Body.