Hardcore Fitness Maniacs Sept 18

lorajeanne

lorajeanne

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Morning Maniacs -

I had to be up extremely early today. Couldn't sleep last night either. I thought about taking a rest day, but opted for a short workout instead. I did The Firm Burn & Shape. Workout was 48" and I burned 408 calories. I will consider this an "easy" day. Thought it would be best not to skip my workout since I'm having so much stress about work.

Speaking of work - another Lancome girl put in her 2 weeks notice yesterday, but of course, my numbers still aren't good enough to transfer. I'm losing hope!

Have great workouts everyone.

Valerie Waters new DVD series is supposed to go up for presale later today. It's the Action Hero one. I can hardly wait. I loved her paper Action Hero Circuits.
 
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GM Maniacs-
yesterday I did double kickbox premix on kelly's 30 min to fitness. I agree with you Lora that her cuing is so-so. I ordered the new plyo video of hers, so hopefully she made improvements. I finished my workout with weight and plates abs from sts. total calorie burn was 839.

I changed up some stuff yesterday and I'm pretty sure I was retaining water from increased sodium intake. I made sure I got more water and cut out the pork tenderloin. I was down 2 pounds this morning. I have a busy weekend with lots of oppurtunity to eat bad, but I feel pretty confident that I can plan ahead and not have a meltdown.

Hope everyone has a great Friday.

BBL-
Theresa

p.s. I hope I only have one ticker now. I don't know how I did that.
 
Theresa - I don't know if it's necessarily her cueing...or just the fact that she puts the combos together so quickly and I doesn't do them long enough for me to catch on, but I have the same problem with Amy's kickboxing, however, I realize it gets better if you do it more often to learn it. That being said, Plyo was very easy to follow. The only thing you may not like are the breathers she takes. I sort of jogged or boxer shuffled when she took breaks. The music is good in her new series.
 
Good Morning Maniacs!!!

Yesterday I worked biceps/triceps on my own.

EZ Curls 70# 3/8
Concentration Curls 45's 3/6
Hammer Curls 35's 3/8

Close Grips 70# 3/8
Lying Ext 20's 5x's and dropped to 15's for 3x's and then 2 more sets
Chair Dips 20x's

Today is Shoulders/Back/Abs. Gonna do alot of meditation too.
 
Lora-
I looked back at the post yesterday. Sorry, I did not mean to put words in your mouth about the kickboxing video. I got confused, I thought you talked about her cueing (which I could not spell earlier either-it's gonna be a good day). She doesn't seem to do the add on style as much as cathe and some of the others, but I guess you can't do too much add on instructing in a 30 min video. I'm glad you like the plyo, maybe I'll try kb swings when she does her breaks. ...
 
Lora - sorry work is so crappy. Yep - a workout is at least not going to make the day worse!! Some days, when I feel like I could use a year's worth of therapy to deal with my issues, I sweat like nobody's business and kick my own a$$ with a workout and suddenly, all is not so bleak!

Theresa - you do some serious workouts, woman! Good luck with the eats.

Char - nice to see you! I resent that email the other day - did you get it?

So, Tuesday, I did CC#5 on the TM and ran it (except for steadies). The last challenge, I was going 9mph. I had been in the cool down less than a minute when the electricity blipped and the TM came to a complete stop. It jerked me backwards, as I was moving forwards at 4.0mph and it hurt my back at the time, but nothing long lasting. I was just so thankful that it wasn't when I was going 9mph!! Good grief - of all the things. Monday was STS legs and Wed was STS back and triceps. Today will be STS shoulders, biceps and chest. Yesterday was CC#3 on the stepmill and abs. I know I did some ab work somewhere else but didn't log it all down.

Remember that 100 push-up challenge? Now they have a 200 sit up challenge (which is really a crunch) and 200 squat challenge. Pretty fun to see what you can do and then where needed, build up to the target number over the weeks as they lay them out. I did those yesterday. Push ups...I totally suck at those (no surprise there!). Crunches were easy. I finally quit at over 200 after adding some isometric holds, pulses, etc. That was a good feeling. Squats burned like crazy because my legs were already on fire before I started, but I did over 100 and stopped because I would not have made it to 200 and if you make it over 49, I think it is, then that is the highest level that they guide you were to start (so, 49 and over, start at week three, such and such column).

Anybody ever do P90? I posted in OD about this, but Mark wants to start working out. Well, *wants to* may not be exactly right, but he realizes he needs to and P90X interests him. However, p90 was suggested since he has basically never lifted weights so that he could ease into the idea of it, and also b/c the workouts are shorter. I know nothing about P90. He would have to use bands b/c he will be in a hotel room.

Happy Friday - YIPPPEE!!!
 
We are getting ready to go out to the fair today. This morning I did Kelly's 30 minutes to fitness bootcamp Cardio session 30 minutes 303 calories, then I ran on the treadmill for 31 minutes 2.5 minutes and burned 309 calories. I finished off with abs from 30 minutes to fitness kickbox and muscle definition adding 5 minutes of the bonus stretch off of Bootcamp. Total calories burned today was 767 workout was 1 hr 35 minutes.
 
This morning was Meso 3, Disc 27 Shoulders, Biceps and Triceps. Again you alternate the exercises resting a minutes between sets and doing 4 sets total of each exercise.


EXERCISE SET 1
Standing Front Press W/U
15-22#
12-25#
Standing Front Press
8/8/8/8 - 45#
Barbell Curl
8/8/8/8 - 55#
Flat Bench Tricep Extensions
8 - 22's
8/8/8 - 20's (lightened weight to get better ROM)

EXERCISE SET 2
Seated Lateral Raise
8-18's
8/8/8 - 17's (trying to push to hard and screw up my shoulders)
Incline Curls on SB
8 - 20's (this was too easy, got the 8 and keeping going forgetting to stop)
8/8/8 - 22's
Seated Overhead Extension One Arm
8/8/8/8 - 17#

EXERCISE SET 3
Seated Rear Delts
8/8/8/8 -15's
Seated Concentration Curls
8 - 27's (again seemed too easy)
8/8/8 - 28's (by the end this was not easy:p)
Cross Body Kickbacks
8/8/8/8-17#
 
We took my laptop to the shop today so I am on my old one I let the children use.

Shana, I was once running on the treadmill at a pretty good pace and all of a sudden it stopped and jerked me back. My granddaughter let a stability ball go flying and it caught in the treadmill:0 Scared me. I won't let them play with the stability balls when I am on the treadmill anymore. Glad you weren't hurt. I borrowed P90 from a friend once. It is kind of an easier version of P90X. After doing P90X I decided I didn't want to purchase P90 myself. But it would probably be good for someone new.

Theresa, I am like Lora I keep moving during the breaks on Kelly's Plyo workout. I extend the plyo segments myself some during the rests and then jog in place. I like the Step Combo with the 2 sets of Plyos. That one is pretty good. I am finally getting the step moves down now:D
I think the mix I did today from Kelly's Bootcamp is a really good one with the cardio only. I am thinking it would be a good one to pair with the plyo one:)
 
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