Hardcore Fitness Maniacs for June 2023

Today I did STS 2.0 Total Body Tri-sets 68 minutes, heart rate 98/119, 178 calories. I followed it with 2.0 Total Body Stretch, 24 minutes, 31 calories. Total time was 92 minutes, 209 calories. I don't think I would have had energy to do cardio after all of that.
Tri-sets Total Body each triset is done two times
group 1
squats 1 25# dbs 8 reps
legs alternating rear lunges 1 20# dbs 8 reps
sumo close grip squat 40# db 8 reps
same weights rnd 2

group 2
chest press 15# dbs 8 reps
chest fly pinkies in 12# dbs 8 reps
chest fly thumb to thumb 12# dbs 8 reps
same weight rnd 2

group 3
deadlifts 30# dbs 8 reps
pullovers 20# db 8 reps
kneeling one arm row 25# 8 reps
same weight rnd 2

group 4
triceps close grip bench press 15# dbs 8 reps
single arm overhead triceps extension 12# db 8 reps
lying triceps extension 12# dbs 8 reps
rnd 2 dropped to 10# for overhead extension next time I will just do kickbacks

group 5
seated overhead press 10# dbs 8 reps
standing double arm side lateral raises 8# dbs 8 reps
kneeling single arm rear delt fly 10# db 8 reps
rnd 2 dropped to 5's for double arm side lateral and 8# for kneeling single arm rear delt fly

group 6 standing biceps curls 15# dbs 8 reps
biceps seated hammer curls 15# dbs 8 reps
seated sweeper curls 15# dbs 8 reps
rnd 2 dropped sweeper curls to 12# 8 reps (no real rest between exercises and I was spent)

Group 7
step ups 15# dbs 8 reps
alternating side lunges 20# db 8 reps
double tap rear lunges 15# dbs 8 reps
rnd 2 same weight

Debbie, I am glad that you got to enjoy a step workout again. I am hoping to do an STS 2 ab workout and then one of the CDorner mobility workouts tomorrow after my eye appointment.
Nice workout today. I added a bit of foam rolling for the scap and upper back today after the stretch. I keep feeling those spots that can get to really hurting trying to come back. Those single arm rear delt flys were making me notice sore areas already there. That is why I lowered the weight second set.
 
Today I did Michelle 50 min. No Repeat Full Body Dumbbell HIIT. I absolutely loved this. Breakdown: 10 min of compound work, 10 min lower body, 10 min. Upper body, 10 min cardio, 10 min. Core. I lifted heavy. She went at a good pace. Everything got worked. 45/10.

Debbie, if you wait awhile, I bet STS2.0 workouts may be part of the daily deal.

Good workouts everyone!
 
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Evening, long day today. Just got home dropping Copper off at his house.

This morning we walked and I did STS super sets.

I will catch up on personal’s tomorrow. Good night
 
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This morning I walked on my treadmill for about a mile. Had a good, brisk walk. It was cold here this morning!! I actually turned our furnace on to get the chill out of the air. Yikes! It's June for goodness sakes! And we need rain badly, our farmers can't plant anything yet.

I also did CDorners 30 Minute Neck & Shoulder Stretch (thanks for the link, Diane!), I really liked this one. I feel pretty good this morning and the knot seems to be gone. We'll see, it can be a sneaky bugger.

Diane - Thanks for that link, I really liked it. My neck feels great right now. Great job on the Tri-sets workout, how are you liking STS? Do they feel safe to do or do you find they irritate your upper back and shoulders? Those bent over flys kill me, too, I don't like them. I really need to watch what I do for back work.

Cam - How do you find out what the Daily Deals are? Great job with your workout!

Belinda - Great job with your workout!!

Have a great day everyone!
 
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Good morning,

Debbie - great job on your walk and stretch today. You were interested in The Addiction Workout 6 DVD Set - Merle Silver Heavy Bag workout? They are now $15. Are you talking about Cathe's Daily Deals? here is the link https://shop.cathe.com/dealoftheday.asp I think, on Black Friday you will get a great Deal on STS2.

Diane - great job yesterday.

I will be back later.
 
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Good Morning,

I went for a 2.66 mile walk this morning. You all can have our rain it’s been every day for the last week and a 1/2
 
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Yesterday I rested my back, and it feels better but I am going to my Chiro today to see if she can massage it and use a cool laser to get the spasm to release. I did Caroline Girvan's Arms workout today; 18 minutes and it was short and to the point. I did not use my Fitbit because I forgot to charge it and it was dead at the time when I started my workout. I am going to baby my back this week because I do not want to run into a big problem like I have before. Why do I find it so hard to take days off to let my body heal? Who cares, it is not like I will fall apart and lose all of my muscle in a short period of time. I guess I am just programmed to workout each day and if I do not, it is like not brushing my teeth. We still have had NO sun this summer except for maybe an hour or two sometimes and it is getting depressing. What is going on! I feel like I live in Seattle, but I know that have better weather than we have here! :(

Debbie, I feel the same way about the bent over flys, I think that is what always irritates my back. I now do them standing using my cable machine and am having so much better luck keeping my back pain down for longer periods of time. Good luck with the Knot in your back, I feel ya sister!!!

Great job on the workouts yesterday to all of you.
 
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Today I had my eye appointment and then came home and did STS 2.0 Standing Abs Metabolic Warm Up + Core plus floor, 27 minutes(actual 25 but I forgot to stop my watch), 108 calories, heart rate 113/162. This uses a 5 and 10# weight plate. Mostly the 10#. I then did 2.0 Active Recovery, 11 minutes, 12 calories. That is it for the day. shoulders and upper back are kind of sore today. I woke up with a headache.
Funny, the eye doctor asked me if I worked out and said you could really tell looking at my arms. We talked about shoulder injuries, and he is worried that he will have to have surgery and is going to PT right now. He says he has really been trying to work on the scapular area and posture muscles and strengthening the traps. Anyway, I got a compliment which made me feel good. I can tell I am making progress again.

Debbie, I am glad that stretch worked for you. I return to it a lot. I will make some adjustments on tri-sets next time and made a couple of notes. I think sometimes I go to heavy and do not concentrate enough so I end using the traps and muscles that I do not want to use. I did drop weight on those back flys the second rnd. Nice job on the walk as well. I have our furnace off. Fortunately the temps have been nice , but we have off and on showers. I thought today was supposed to be sunny, but this afternoon the clouds came back. I think the tri-sets work affected my upper and lower back more than the other two total body workouts did.

Jolie, I am getting better at taking days off from working out than I used to. I swear my days always seem to be a bit off without the work out in the mornings. I hope the chiro helps. Nice work on Caroline's Arm workout.

Belinda, nice work on getting in Super Sets and a walk yesterday.

Cam, nice work on Michelle Bo repeat full body dumbbell hiit.

Roxie, nice walk.
 
I am back:

I did STS mobility 2 and Active Recovery. I liked both workouts. I reviewed Active Recovery on Saturday, I thought it wasn't for me. I decided to give it a shot today, I modified some of the moves like I do when I do yoga.

Took Sadie yesterday to get the influenza vaccine. In 3 weeks, she gets the 2nd shot. Well, before we left for FL, she already had one shot. Since so much happened with my health I kinda forgot about her 2nd shot. Long story shot...Sadie needs to start all over with the vaccine. Today, she was not her self, the area she had the shot hurt her, she cried when I got near it. Her little body felt very warm. We called the vet, she ask us to bring her in to take her temperature which we did today. Sadie doesn't have a fever. The vet gave Sadie some meds to make her feel better. We also had to take Cooper (DD's dog to our vet). He had diarrhea on Sunday with blood coming out. Our vet put him on meds. He is doing much better today too. The contractor has to come out again in a few day's. The kitchen is on hold, until the contractors brother comes out. We could get another contractor, we know him since 2015. He usually dosen't do private work anymore, he works for the government. DH and I work on the living room tomorrow, I need to get my furniture out of my kitchen, lol.

Cam - nice work on Michelle full body workout.

Roxie - great job on your walk.

Julie - I hope the Chiro helps. Great job on your arm workout. Maybe take shorter walks. I noticed, if I walk over an hour, my back hurts like crazy.

Diane - that a nice compliment from your eye doctor. Hope your eye appointment went well today. Great job on your core and Active recovery workout. What did you think of the active recovery workout?

Roselyn - great job on STS Trisets total body.

good night.
 
I wasn't feeling like a workout today, but I did a Michelle 30 min PiYo & Yoga Flow. That was good for today. I think tomorrow will just be a walk.

Belinda, did you like the active recovery? That would be the only other dvd of the series I would buy.

We need rain. Its strange that the beginning of June and our lawns are brown while other states are getting dumped on.

Good workouts everyone!
 
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Today I am feeling much better, my Chiro adjusted my low back, it was out really bad and no wonder I was in such pain. I still have a bit of a spasm but it is going away slowly. It should be going away with the amount of Magnesium and Alph Lipoic Acid I am taking along with a ton of other supplements. My Para Thyroid is not functioning well again so I had it cool lasered, I had them drained and then kick started again and almost instantly my spasm started to subside. I am also getting treated for chemicals in my system, I was muscle tested and that came up big time. I will drink this concoction for 2 weeks each morning and it gets rid of all the chemicals and heavy metals that cause destruction in the body and brain. Today I was able to walk on the TM, no incline, I did not want to irritate the low back with an incline, and I walked 3 miles, 66 minutes and burned 405 calories. Afterwards, I did some yoga with my son who was doing it because he was going out surfing and he never misses stretching before surfing. I really liked what he taught me, I felt so good afterwards.

Cam, great job with the stretching workouts last night, I bet you feel great today! You can have our rain, CA has gotten so much rain this year compared to previous years.

Belinda, you are doing great with the STS series, I bet you are so happy to be able to do weight training again. I think I need to stop walking up so many hills, it strains my back big time.

Debbie, How are you feeling today? I hate these knots and aches and pains so much I feel like just doing cardio anymore! But, I love lifting weights and I think it would be so hard to stop. What I have decided to do going forward is 2 weight workouts per week and 3 cardio/walking workouts per week. This is the time of the year that I love to be outside, so walking will be a big part of my routine for a few months. I am also using my Max Trainer more going forward, my son is using it and loves it too! They say as you age, getting high amount of steps in with stretching is more important than lift a lot, so I am going to try it and see how I feel. I may walk every day and do one body part per day.

Diane Sue, It is so awesome that you got a compliment on your arms at your appointment!!! Now it makes it all worthwhile, all the hours in the gym. I hope you have a good workout today.

Roselyn, great job with STS.

Doreen, where have you been lately???

Roxie, it is great to have you back!

Make it a great day.
 
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I've been sitting in interviews all morning and we have two more coming in this afternoon so I don't have time for presonals. I will try to be back later.

Real quick, I did RAW Step #2 and had a great workout. My legs really feel these step workouts, I guess it's because I haven't done them in forever.

Workout was 42 minutes, burned 354 calories, did 4348 steps and HR wa134/162. Glad I was able to get some steps in, I've sitting all morning. I hate that!!

Have a great day everyone. Hopefully I'll be back later!!
 
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Belinda - thanks for the comment on the Heavy Bag series. I had my eye on it at TotalFitnessDVDs after i got my heavy bag but couldn't justify $80 for the set.... but $15 I can handle!! So I ordered a copy.

Today was a 30 minute bike ride and 2.0 active recovery until the dog started jumping on me.
 
Today I did Tracy Steen 45 min No Repeat Fun Fast Arms, Abs & Cardio. It was fun and sweaty. Each circuit consisted of a cardio, an arm, and core exercise. 40/10. I got a good arm burn. Soon I will walk the dog. It's a little windy and cool today. I may have to wear a jacket. Haven't needed one in awhile.

Debbie, I don't do much step anymore, but when I do, my legs are always sore the next day.

Belinda, good luck with your floor. I know its a lot of work. Are you following Cathe's rotation?

Diane, its nice getting those compliments.

Jolie, I think that the East Coast could definitely use some of that rain. I couldn't believe how black the air is in New York. Yuck!! We have had a little haze lately, but not any today. The sky is really blue.

Good workouts Ladies!
 
Today I did STS 2.0 Giant Sets, 56 minutes, 171 calories, heart rate 104/136. I followed this with CDorner Full Body Feel Good stretch// post workout not to be done before a workout that is her newest, 29 minutes, 43 calories. I feel a lot less sore than I did when I got up this morning. The stretch and movement helped. I kept the weights the same as last week. It has been a busy day and I got a new replacement tablet that I was trying to get set up. My daughter and grandchildren came over for a visit which was nice.
Since it is after midnight I won't post the weights. I am off to bed.
 
This morning I walked on my treadmill for a bit. I really want to start running again but I just don't think my body will let me. I will try a little this summer to see how I do. I miss that so much. There has to be a safe way I can start back up again and not injure myself.

Workout was 35 minutes, burned 342 calories (not bad!), did 1.75 miles, went 4128 steps and HR was 145/172.

I also did CDorner's Stretch where she is outside. I like that one.

Belinda - Thanks for the link on Cathe's Daily Deals. And I don't remember the Addiction workouts, I'll have to look into them. Thanks!!

Roxie - We haven't gotten rain in 22 days and counting. We have fires all over the area which is unheard of and the smoke haze coming from Canada is putting us in dangerous levels in air quality. It is scary. I hope we get some rain soon.

Jolie - Glad your back is feeling better. I didn't think you could get heavy metals out of the body? Don't they get stored in your bones? I heard when older people fall and break their hip or bones, that is usually what causes them to die - infection from heavy metals that are stored in the bones that end up getting released into the system. I'd be interested in what you are drinking to get this out of your system, I'd love to try it. My knot is almost gone but yesterday I sat all day through 6 interviews and when I went home and started cooking, I turned and my neck pulled really bad and I had a spasm going on. I quickly got my body buddy and pressed it out and then after I took my hot shower I iced it. It is fine today. I really hate that my muscles are attacking me like this, makes me wonder if something deeper is going on with my body. Sucks.

Diane - Great job with Giant Sets, I think I might purchase at least that DVD. I'll check them out soon, read about them and then make my decision. I'd like to have a couple of the lifting ones. That is cool that your eye doctor noticed your toned arms. I haven't received a comment like that in ages, even though my arms are still pretty defined. I bet that made you feel great!! Especially an eye doctor, I didn't think they noticed those kinds of things. LMAO!!!

Hope you all have a great day and workouts!! We are having a cookout at work this afternoon. I love the last few days of work!!
 
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