I Hate Cardio, 8/16

Miss Lee

Cathlete
HEEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOO!!!!!!

Where is everybody? Come on, people! Let's go! LOL! Well, in true cardio hating form, we're all hiding under our step benches. Come out from under there and let's kick butt!

Of course, my foot is still swollen so I'll watch from the sidelines;) :p

I may--MAY--try basic step again today. Definitely NO high impact for me.

I'll be back later to check up on youse guys.
 
OMG..I am here...can you believe???
Been super busy lately, DD is just running around like a mad child, gets into everything and keeps me super busy. What can I say.

I also got Turbo Jam yesterday and oh boy...I think I like cardio once again...it is so much fun! So not Cathe, but for me its a good sub since I can't do Cathe yet. About 2 more months and I should be Cathe ready. I got it at 4 PM yesterday and I have already done 2 DVD's. One last night and one this morning...OMG what is happening to me????

Michele-I think you made a great decision with the cross trainer. Not to mention you got a heck of a deal too! I think you might actually enjoy it! haha!! Give us a full report once you get it.

Diane-the kitties tags look really cute! How are the kitties?

Kate-Kate, I have now completed 120 mins of cardio in the past 24 hours.....I think I am turning into you...send help SOS!!

Dana-Dana oh Dana we miss you!!!

August-where in the world are you??? haha!!!

Ok, I am out. BBL to check in on everyone!
 
Good Morning -

I didn't get home from work until 1 am last night, so I am sooo totally exhausted today. Yesterday was a long stressful day. Tonight I have a recruiting dinner, should be the last one until the fall. It is a dinner for the people that got job offers after their summer internships (Jana - at Brennen's, yummy). So anyway, I didn't workout yesterday and I won't workout today. I am just hoping to get home before 10:30 and get some sleep.

Kittens are doing really well - they are such good little bed sleepers. Lucy used to sleep pretty good until 2 or 4 am, and then would lick my face or paw at me to try and wake me up so I would play with her. Sadie and Sydney just sleep on DH or I all night - they are so good. I haven't decided on collars yet because some different argyle ones appeared on the website yesterday that I think I may get instead.

http://www.lindsaydesigns.com/item.php?item_id=499&category_id=53

I am thinking of the Rose color for Sadie (she is a petite little girlie girl) and Opal or Amethyst from Sydney. Such a hard choice!!

Jana - I'm glad you like Turbo Jam. I have been on the verge of ordering that several times, and then I remember that I hate cardio! But it would be a nice change. But I first need to get in the habit of working out again before purchasing anything else.
 
I hate cardio too that is why I did weights today. I was going to do cardio but I just couldn't do it. My body would not let me. I did kickboxing yesterday and wore weighted gloves on my hands, nothing different, I am so bummed. And I need those arms to be chisled, or rather just toned. "Darn darn darn" as Herman Munster would say.

I am so glad the kitties are getting along. The only good thing to getting older is that in the years to come, I will be able to get more kittens! Yeah, sagging face (not body if I keep with Cathe!) and cute kittens.

Oh, I have to go, Kid problems.
 
Have y'all checked out the behind the scenes blog for the new dvds? I am getting so excited! Hopefully they will come out in time for me to be able to use them (that I am not too preggo by the time they ship). So excited!
 
Hi Kate, Janjan, and diane!

Yes, even I am getting excited about the new DVD's--lol! I love the blog--LOVE IT!! It was so smart of Cathe to do that. I think it will generate a lot of excitement over the new workouts.

Diane, I love the collars--great choices! I think if you can get back into working out steadily you should be able to do the new workouts. I know, that will be hard with your schedule, but just knock away at it a little at a time.

Kate, I haven't tried cardio today but I'm slowly leaning in that direction. My foot is still a little swollen and the bruising looks terrible but it doesn't hurt too much. I have one toe that is especially bad--absolutely black and looks like it's rotting--lol! I think I'll try to put my sneakers on and see what happens.

Janjan, I haven't bought the elliptical yet. My DH still needs to look at it and he probably can't do that until the weekend. I've been coveting an arc trainer now, too. I just checked the price--$6200 for a Cybex Total Body Arc Trainer:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: . I think that pretty much rules that out as an option--lol!
 
I could pay my car off with that amount of money....that is insane for a machine!

Kate- Did you get the gloves at Beachbody?
 
Michele - Wow, arc trainers are expensive! I like ellipticals better anyway. I hope that your foot gets better soon, that sounds aweful!
 
Oh boy!!! Guess what I did!!? I just did the 1st 4 intervals of Lowmax!! Okay, maybe not entirely, but mostly--lol! It was my first time and I think I might really like this one. I did fine with the first 2 intervals and blasts, the 3rd and 4th were a little tricky and I couldn't get the choreography down to save myself. And forget the blast after step combo 4. My foot couldn't take it. It was a little too much impact considering the conditon my foot is in. Actually, my foot is not very happy with me right now but I've got a trip to Italy coming up, bad foot or no! I need to do my cardio or I won't have the stamina for all that walking.

I'm very happy with myself right now:+

August--are you here yet? I'll bet your flight was close to 24 hours long. I'm trying to remember how long DH was in the air when he flew from Australia to London. I think the leg from Bangkok to London was something like 23 hours. I wonder what route they take to go to Oregon? I hope you took stretch and walk breaks on the plane:eek: ;).
 
Hi Dana!! I just saw that you logged on--lol!

I know you have your own elliptical--do you love it? Do you feel that you're getting a good cardio workout from it? I'm probably going to buy one on Saturday so I just wanted your input. I haven't used one in over 2 years but I remember it as a kick butt form of cardio.

We have missed you around here, missy! There are often posts asking for/about you:* :*
 
Hi Michele. I just logged on, starting typing on this thread and the little bugger crawled under the desk and turned off the power. It took me about 5 minutes to get back on. He is so BAD!! ha!

Yes I do like my elliptical. As a matter of fact I used it last night. Did my 20-min HIIT. Now I don't know how accurate the calorie thingy is b/c you do not have to program your weight, or age or anything in, but it says that I am burning like 376 calories in 20 min. It is probably wrong but hey, I'm gonna keep believing that I"m a calorie-burning-machine! I see that your foot is still giving you trouble. Is it the same problem that you were having? I haven't done LowMax in ages - I could never get the pivot-turn thingamaggies right. What type of elliptical are you getting? I hate to sound dumb but what is an arc trainer? I just can't believe the price of it though.

Diane - sounds like you are having a lot of fun with your new family members. Have you been able to get in any workouts? I see that you worked late again. I don't know how you do it. They'd be waking me up at my desk if it was me.

Kate - what's up?????? Are you still doing your cardio marathans?

Jan-Jan, sounds like you are one busy mommy. Gannon is into EVERYTHING too. I mean everything. I no longer have any pictures on my end tables, no bowls, nothing. I've got a totally empty coffee table and one endtable with a tissue box and the remote. That is it b/c he destroys everything. Last night I was wondering why my dishwasher was taking so long. Here he pushed all the buttons in - who knows what kind of wacky cycle he had it on. The boy is BAD!!!

August - is Michele correct, your in the US know? If so, have a great time!

Not too much going on with me. I can't use the gym anymore. School starts back next Thursday so we can't use it anymore. So I"m back to walking at lunch. Sat I walked 4 miles, Monday I walked 6 miles and did PowerHour (man do I hate PH), yesterday I walked 2 miles, did 20 min HIIT and abs from SPJ and MIS, today I walked 2 miles and am hoping to do GS Shoulders/Back/Biceps. My fave DVD!

I think my co-worker really does not like me. Remember how I told you she kept using my printer? Well I never said anything to her. She kept printing everything to it. So my boss came out the other day to pick her stuff up off of it and noticed that most of it was the other ladies, so she told her not to use it. Thank God she told her b/c I know she wouldn't have listened to me. But she is so snappy towards me. In person, I think sometimes I come across as up front, bold type of person and I have a crude and sarcastic sense of humur But I am def not a *B* but I think she takes me the wrong way. B/C I will say something and she'll be jumping down my throat, it is like lady CHILL OUT! Today it was funny b/c I had a helper. One of the teacher's dropped off her son and he was helping get stuff ready for a training tomorrow. Well this other lady (who does weigh around 400+) lbs, breaks out all this candy and tries to give it to the little boy. This child is about 15lbs over weight and his mom is trying to get him to eat better. She sent him a bottle of water and a bag of pretzels if he got hungry. Well, one of my other co-workers (aka food nazi) went through the roof and told the little boy not to eat anymore junk b/c he should know what his mom said. Well then the lady who had all the junk food started getting all weird and saying that "oh no, she got out the contraband". Me being me, told him that if he ate anymore he would have to jog a mile wearing a vest filled with bricks. She did not think it was funny. Anyway, work is getting weird. I try to eat healthy and I work out all the time, my friend (aka food nazi) lost 152lbs and walks 10 miles a day and then the new lady is seated next to us. It is VERY awkward to say the least.

But enough of that, look at what I want: No I am not getting him, my DH will not pay $700 for a dog but isn't he the cutest thing:

http://www.greenfieldpuppies.com/product.php/Puppy_Name_-_Bandit/903/

Well I gotta get going. My taters are almost done and I"ve got to put the chicken on the grill.

Talk to you all later!
 
Dana - Sounds like you have quite an ackward situation at work. One person that is over the top healthy and one person on the other end of the spectrum, and then you in the middle, the reasonable person that is healthy. I can't even imagine how long it would take to walk 10 miles a day. And who is this lady thinking she can override what the boy's parents told him to do? That is just wrong, even if the parents were feeding him lard sandwiches, you shouldn't but in. Bandit is really cute (was he the white boxer? The link didn't work for me so I did a search). We used to have a boxer growing up and he was a good dog.
 

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