Hardcore Fitness Maniacs Checkin for Tues 2-14

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lorajc

Cathlete
Hi Ladies -

This morning my rotation called for an interval workout (I added some aerobic days to it when I tailored it). I initially was going to do an Imax, but yesterday I started feeling like I'm coming down with a cold (everyone at work is sick) and since I'm PMSing and on prednisone for my sinuses (which both lower your resistance), I decided to take it a little easier....and did Power 90 Masters Cardio Intervals and just worked at a moderately hard pace. I still had a good workout.

I'm really nervous that if I get another cold, it will make me 10 times worse with my sinuses. I still can only smell when the right side of my nose is open....which means that the prednisone I've been on did not shrink the polyps like it was supposed to. I have my CAT scan tonight after work. This morning I could not smell at all, but I was able to smell yesterday for most of the day. It all depends on which side is blocked. It's frustrating, but at this point, I don't know if I'd have surgery just because I can't smell. I'm going to wait and see what the doctor says about my CAT scan. I already know I'm going to have to go to an allergist.

My boss is being something else again! Yesterday, she had a fit cuz I ordered alcohol wipes within the hospital. She asked me why I ordred them and I told her .....to wipe the phone, etc down and she said I didn't need them. I have to bring her a check to pay for them today and they were $1.16 a box! I ordered 2 boxes. Needless to say, I haven't been able to check in from work.

Have great workouts everyone.

ETA: Nicole - where is the rotation that you're talking about that Kathryn posted?
 
In case you ladies were interested in how talented the owner of the place I get my oils from is: I thought you may (or may not) find the update interesting. This series is a bit dark (the site is a Goth/medevial themed site - but she has normal stuff too). These are based on poems by Edgar Allen Poe. There was a story that went with each one, but I deleted them, as I didn't want to bore you ladies.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

PERFUME OIL BLENDS
$16.00 per 5ml bottle.
$150.00 for the Perverse Pack, Including the Imp of the Perverse.
Presented in amber apothecary glass vials.
The Maelström will rage from February 13th until May 1st.

BERENICE
A cerebral scent, dry, and white. This is a perfume of thought, not heart, and of unforeseen pain and sudden obsession, touched with uncertain twilight and ambiguous horror. Stargazer lily, white musk, clear aloe, blonde amber and winding-cloth linen.
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FORTUNATO

A deep, rich sherry encased in dusty darkness, touched by oak, and damp catacomb stone. The scent begins with a sense of drunken glee, of orange peel, bittersweet berry and rose hip, and moves inexorably towards the dread and terror expressed in black patchouli.
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LIGEIA


Jasmine, juniper berry and rose geranium.
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THE MASQUE

Bold and fiery, glowing with barbaric luster: this is the scent of the House of Prospero, the scent of hubris, mad revelry, folly and indifferent decadence, a measured passage through its lurid corridors and seven grotesque apartments. Honey and carnation, rich incense and rose accord, myrtle, red sandalwood, amber, jonquil and clove propel you through the revel, finally seating itself in the final, patchouli, tobacco and labdanum drenched darkness of the blood-tinged western chamber.
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MONTRESOR
The black fruit and vanilla oaken notes of fine Medoc and De Grâve, but not a hint of the elusive Amontillado.
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MORELLA
It is a day of days, a day of all days either to live or die. It is a fair day for the sons of earth and life - ah! more fair for the daughters of heaven and death.

Sage with orris, Florentine iris and a drop of civet.
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THE PIT & THE PENDULUM

The depths of despair, a dark Ecclesiatical triumph: the incense of the Inquisition.
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THE PREMATURE BURIAL
Oppressive darkness, expressed through black orchid and patchouli, smothered by wet soil, a coffin?s teakwood, and the funereal gloom of cypress.
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THE TELL-TALE HEART
This is a swollen, pulsating, thudding scent, heavy with dread; a steady, unceasing, throbbing harbinger of retribution and doom: blood musk, cocoa, black pepper, allspice, dragon?s blood resin and vetiver.
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USHER
This is Roderick Usher: a faded genteel light musk and fougere, heightened by hectic white mint, gleaming mandarin, ethereal tea leaf and gritty blackcurrant brushed by the scent of the tarn that surrounds the House, and the gloom and decay of the walls that hold him.
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THE PERVERSE PARCEL
Indulge your morbid fancies with a full-onslaught of Poe-inspired gloom. The Perverse Pack provides you with one 5ml bottle of each of the Maelstrom scents, plus the Imp of the Perverse: a 1/32oz vial brimming with the scent of three roses and a half bottle of cognac.
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The 2 I'm currently in love with (from the Valentine collection)


* RED LANTERN -- A tribute to the opium den cum bawdyhouses of Shanghai in the 1930?s. Golden amber, blonde tobacco, Sudanese black coconut, rich caramel, black currant, white opium and delphinium laced with a sensual blend of Asian spice.
* SMUT -- What a great freakin? word. BPAL LOVES SMUT! Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ....the are delish!! I love telling people I'm wearing Smut!!
 
Happy Valentine's Day!!

Lora ~ Those are some unusual names for perfumes. Sounds nice. You buy these on the internet? How do you know how they smell?

Diane Sue ~ I saw your post about watching sitcoms. I have to say the last sticoms I really watched was Friends and Seinfield. Now if I don't Tivo it and get on the treadmill I don't seem to watch anything. I do like watching American Idol and Extreme Makeover with the kids. Oh yeah, the latest one they enjoy is Dancing with the Stars. How's your back?

Lisa ~ How did the interview go?

Nicole ~ Thanks for the heads up on that TLT rotation.

Marietta ~ Thank you for your concern....always!:)

Terri ~ I got your e-mail. Thank you!

Sabrina ~ Have you gotten back to your treadmill with everyone being healthy again?

Hi Susan!

Today, I only had time for PLB and GSL floorwork. I really like putting those together. Tonight, I'd like to go to the pilates class, but it IS Valentine's Day. lol! My dd is running a 104 temp right now. I'm going to try and squeeze 30 minutes on the treadmill. Everything is up in the air...

Have a great day everyone!

Dallas
 
Hello Everyone,

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! My DH bought me a box of fannie may chocolates. YUM!!

Thought I would quick post here imbetween valentine day parties. One down two more to go!! I will have to get my workout in sometime late this afternoon or tonight some firm one, and then I will ride for 20-30 min. Last night I rode for 20min.


Lora sorry to hear you not able to enjoy all those oils you posted about :-( Hang in there I think when the wheather gets better you will to.;-) I can't BELIEVE your boss??? Sorry you have to deal with her on top of not feeling well.

Here is the link for the TLT rotation. I would place BBBB in place of lower body workout. So I could get at least 3 TLT's in a week

http://69.0.137.118/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=266143&mesg_id=266143&page=


Diane Sue I don't watch much tv, but I have seen that show a few times and think it is SOOOOO..... cute and funny. :7 Charlie Sheen is so good in that show!!

Marietta I was thinking........and I have a good glute workout for you...... I did it over a year or 2 ago, and maybe I will do it with you. It is TOTAL freestyle. step ups, lunges,.......etc..... It is a workout that some swim suit model does, and man I wish I had her glutes. I will look for it!! I have it in one of my workout folders. Hopefully I can just post the link for you, and for you other gals!!!:7 As well I know you are wanting it!!}(

Hello to everyone that follows!!


~Nicole
 
Happy Valentines Day all,

Today was Muscle Endurance and 40o jumpinh jacks. I know there is more on the rotation but it will have to wait. David and Ashley are stopping by on their way to radiation. Then I will finish today's rotation and then run before going to the movies tonight. I am going with a few of my single friends.

Nicole-That rotation sounds good. I would do it with you :)
Sabrina-I hope you have fun at all the parties
Dallas-OH NO another sick child? I hope she feels better soon.
Lora-Hang in there girl, things have to get better right?
Marietta-What did you do today?
Susan-How is the new lil guy?
Lisa-What you doing for Valentines day?
Diane SUe-I don't watch much t.v but I hear Greys Anatomy is good and the first season comes out on dvd today.


Ok Ladies I have work to do. I will check back later.

Terri
 
Terri I KNEW you would be:7 Btw Greys Anat. is the only scheduled show I HAVE to watch!! That show is the BEST!! It just makes me giggle!! When they were rolling the bomb, and the girls are talking!! Great show!!

I will find that rotation and we will start on MON}( It will give to motivation if I know someone else is doing it with me!!

~Nicole
 
Hi everyone,

Happy Valentines Day! It's just me and my two boys today. My DH is back in Maine again. This time he is so far north there isn't cell phone coverage, so we can only talk when he goes to his hotel room.

I went to the doctor this morning to make sure I'm healing fine. Everything is going well and was given A-OK to excercise!!!:D :D
Oh boy! Where to begin, it's been so long.

Nicole, maybe you could post your glute workout. I'm afraid to look what my neglect has done to me....scary! Maybe I'll try your combo Dallas that you did today. PLB and GSL floorwork.

Dallas, sorry your dd has a fever. Let us know if you make it to the Pilates class tonight.

Diane Sue, I've never watched Two and a half men, but I like King of Queens, Seinfeld and Friends. It's not often I see those shows though. I used to like Mad about You when it came out years ago. Recently, the tv was just on while I was home for the day, and Lavern and Shirley came on. I watched a few minutes of it. That show still cracks me up.

Sabrina, how's the job going? Has your MIL said anything about watching your kids?

Marietta, how did the dance go?

Hi Terri!

Susan C.M.
 
Hey Guys!

Busy morning for me....just getting a chance to check in.

This morning I did Muscle Endurance and 200 jumping jacks. My calves were fried at the end of 200 so I stopped there. I went for a 5.5 mile run and did some shoulder work lunch.

Lora - Sorry your boss is giving you the blues...that has to be very frustrating.

Nicole - That rotation sounds good...can't wait to see it.

Dallas - Sorry you have yet another sick one...when will the madness end??

Diane Sue - I don't watch much TV. I don't watch any particular shows. When and if I have chance to sit down I just watch whatever is on. When I run on my treadmill in the mornings I'm usually watching the news or a talkshow. I check out Discovery Health Channel and TLC when I can.

Terri - Have fun with your friends...hope you can find a place that's not too crowded.

Hi Lisa, Susan and Sabrina!!

Gotta run...I'll be back later.


~Marietta
FITXME
http://www.picturetrail.com/fitxme
 
Good afternoon,
Today I did Cardio Coach #3 and P90X Chest,Shoulders,&Triceps. I didn't do the hand clapping push ups. I could feel my back on that one. The one thing I don't like on this series is all of the pushups. I hate push ups. I can do tham but I hate them. They have push ups in the yoga and core workouts as well. I dreaded every push up segment which was every third set. Maybe It will grow on me and get easier and then I wont dread them as much. I feel like I need to throw in some bench presses of something because this is about all that is done for chest.

I am off to do a lesson with my grandson on the Amwerican flag.

Hi to everyone
Have a great day
Diane Sue
http://wd.1ww.us
 
Afternoon Everyone!

My dd is resting and my little guy is almost out. He did another 5AM'er. :-( He's got to be tired.

Nicole ~ You have to spill the beans on that glute workout!}( How were the parties?

Susan ~ Glad you got the A-OK to get back to your workouts!:) THe pix are adorable!

Terri ~ How's Ashley doing? That is a lot of driving for them. Have fun tonight!

Diane Sue ~ You really like the whole series (P90X)? Like I said before I was just going to get a few, but that's what I thought about the Hardcores. I could kick myself for not doing the presale on that or at least buying them all at once! P90X keeps popping up on ebay, but I keep getting outbid.

Marietta ~ Hopefully, this will be the end of the sickness for awhile. All three kids will have had it then. I can only hope! Great workouts..of course!:)

My other ds wants me to play a game with him. It looks like I'm going to that class tonight. I'm going to try and leave a few minutes earlier so I can do the elliptical first. We'll celebrate V-Day Friday on our date night.

Dallas
 
Hey guys....

Nicole - The moves look great, but I'm just a little confused on "how" to put it together. Is she saying that on the exercises listed she completes each exercise 3 times? Like she starts with the Kickbacks, does 20 and then proceeds to the next exercise and then she goes back to the top of the list and starts over until she completes 3 sets of everything? Let me know if I'm thinking right. Heck!

I'm ready to go...when do we start this??

Hey...how'd the partys go??

Susan - Hi! You seem so much better...you can workout? Awesome!! Where the heck will you start...take it easy. The dance went great...I've got to come up with a couple of more in the next couple of weeks.

Dallas - I'm not goin out tonight either...at least I don't think I am. My DH and I have date night on Fridays as well...when we can.

Diane Sue - Pushups...you either love em or hate em...that's all there is to it. For me, just depends on the day...

Have a great evening everyone...


~Marietta
FITXME
http://www.picturetrail.com/fitxme
 
Good evening,
SO any of you that have done P90X had to alter it. I am looking at the phase 2 schedule and wondering why back is not separated more. Since cst is first then one day between each workout that includes back. Now I am having back issues so this has me woondering how to arrange it for more down time on the lower back. Maybe that is key as legs and back doesn't really hit the lower back (my problem at this point). Maybe a cardio day. I am not sure about Plyo X I will have to see how I feel in the morning. Then I will go for legs and back, cardio (Kempo or Plyo X ), and then the Yoga X. If it wasnt kind of cold I would go sit in the hot tub. I'm alright until I sit in one position for awhile.

More dances Marietta? I bet you have fun doing it.

I am off to the office to do some paper work. Yew!!

Diane Sue
http://wd.1ww.us
 
Evening Ladies!

I have not read all the posts but I wanted to pop in and say "Happy Valentine's Day"!! I have a touch of what everyone else had. I have the stuffed up but runny nose. It is driving me NUTS!!! I hate it. I also have a headache. I can barely smell the dozen red roses DH bought me. They are very pretty! I hope everyone had a wonderful day! I will check in tomorrow and try to catch up to what is going on. I have to feel better since I have Bunko tomorrow night and I work Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1-5. DH and I also have the Gala Saturday evening. It should be sooo much fun.

Night all!
 
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