Lifting like girls

Karen, I like the I Dream of Jeannie description. Sums it up perfectly. Also sounds like you are going to have to start giving me Rave Fit recommendations on You Tube. I checked out the channel but couldn't figure where to begin!
 
Tom, if it helps, place your heels on a 2X4 or a weight plate, until you get the feel of the move. You can really feel it in your quads, and it helps with stabilization.

Lisa, I've done one of her workouts. Really liked it. Will try to give a heads-up, on the good ones. But, I've read that you can't go wrong with any of them.


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Karen, I used to do them on the soloflex and my heels were elevated on the board so I will try that..thanks! Today I stepped off the edge and did....CARDIO!! "Rode the Schwinn cause I hadn't been,hiit the cardio for da heart yo!" ( I am equally proficient at poetry and cardio!) I did 5 miles or about 18-19 minutes, varying intensities, kinda hiit style, then for abs I did a couple of 100 rep things, crunches x50 x30 x20 and cable crunches x30 x25 x25 x20. Hope the upcoming week treats all Commandos well! Justine, Roz, Meliffy, hope all is well with y'all!!
 
Ugh, is it really Monday?? Today was chest and tri, and I got a lot of reps in,,finally, but not real heavy..yet? I did a 9 set pyramid, but in between each bench set I did a set of 20 range of motion isos and I feel like chest finally got worked! for tris, I did tri pushdowns x10 x10 x8f, crossbody tris 3x8 and finished with kickbacks 2x20. I'm working Mon and Tues this week, so I wont complain, but Mon mornings are STILL the worst!! Have as good a Monday as possible ladies!
 
Tom, yay, cardio! Cool that cardio brings out your inner poet/rapper! Don't you love the endorphins? Good pyramid workout today!

Tom, Karen, Mondays are just like every other day of the week for me...same underaged bosses, same nonexistent paycheck...but even so there is something about Mondays in particular that are just BLECH. It's inescapable, I guess unless you are on a tropical island vacation somewhere.

Karen, thanks, yeah I looked at that thread and she seems super popular. Haven't come across a complaint yet. What are you up to today with your workout?

I needed to punch the socks off of this Monday so I did another Kelly Coffey Meyer boxing workout today. Good outlet for aggression!
 
Today was Monday's workout. Chest, shoulders and triceps. Then I did a HoCo, sweating bullets through that one.
Oh my! I'm looking out my living room window, and the setting sun, is shining on a mountain peak. What a great pic. Wow!
Got my flu shot today, and I feel kind of achey, and sore. I never have a reaction to the flu shot, and I usually don't feel it. But,
when she was pushing the plunger thingy, I was like, ok, enough already. I hope I'm just achey for tonight.
Think I will just go watch TV. I'm on my second watching of "Last Tango in Halifax," nice disfunctional family. But, a very entertaining cast.
Have a great evening, all!
 
Morning Ladies! Today was back and bi day. I love pre exhausting arms then "frying them" I get to hit them twice/ week...crazy bout that! Did chins x10 x8 x8, pullovers 3x10, lat pulldowns 3x10, then dumbbell curls 3x8, hammer curls 3x8, and finished with ezbar curls 3x10 then did 1 set of conc curls 1x8. Yesterday I hit the prison gym before work and tried to max out on chins. I only got 14 this time and was a little disappointed because I thought I might do better, but then I weighed and came in at 193, which is heavier than the last times I was hitting the neutral bar regularly, 20# more, so I didn't feel as bad. I think I could have cranked out 1 more, but other people were in there and all the grunting, cursing, and kicking MIGHT have been distracting!!! Have a great Tuesday fellow iron enthusiast!
 
Karen, yowza, hope you did your workout before you got the flu shot! I can't imagine pushing through Chest, Shoulders, Tris PLUS HoCo with a sore arm. What is Last Tango in Halifax? Is that a movie or a TV show? I am so out of it but always love a good recommendation!

Tom, when you're in the prison gym is it an employees' only gym or is it for all the inmates too? Eek, that would creep me out but you're a dentist of steel and I'm definitely not! Definitely feel proud of those chins, harder to do with the extra bulk for sure!!!

Today I did a hodge podge workout. Cross Fire Quick Fix Plus Core Live (8/18/16), which is only 34 minutes, so I added XTrain Burn Sets Chest and Back. In and out in 59 mins flat!

Happy Tuesday. It's rainy and dreary over here. Wish I could've been looking out your window at the mountainside sunset yesterday, Karen!
 
Leg day done!...no world records and really shortened the squats, but felt it and will probably be sore, so mission accomplished! I only did 4 sets of squats and didn't go heavy, but the back was still a little sore so, in my infinite wisdom, I backed off a little, Then came gob squats x20 x15 x20, 1 leg deads 3x10, and for calves I did 5 sets of 1 leg calf raises with a 50# KB, and boy is my left weaker than my right! I knew it was smaller and was harder to finish sets on the left, but it was glaringly apparent the discrepancy today...gotta work on that. I am right handed, but my left arm always measures larger and my legs are bigger on the right side??Guess no bodybuilding competitions for me! (I can hear the scoring now....catastrophe calves.... bipolar bi's...decrepit quads and last and definitely least...geezer glutes!!! At least lack of symmetry will save me from THAT embarrassment! Have a great Wed friends! Lisa, the gym is a staff gym, the residents have their own rec area. Karen, that view really sounded beautiful...and adding hoco to those workouts is insane!~ "you da girl" and hats off cause that would kill me!!
 
Tom, I wanted to do legs today, too, but I had a specific Cathe Live legs workout in mind and my Internet wasn't working so it was on to plan B. Glad that you got your legs fried, and I feel better about you working out on the job now that I know employees have a separate gym space!

Hi Karen!

Today I did Plan B, as mentioned, which was 30 mins from Cathe's Athletic Step DVD and then XTRAIN Biceps and Triceps
 
Hey everybody. Well, I must say, I don't think I want another flu shot, ever. They usually don't bother me at all. This one, knocked me on my butt. Every muscle ached. Yesterday was a bear. Barely made it through work. I'm feeling better today, and had some other business to take care of, so today was a PTO day. Upper body, mostly back. With a HoCo thrown in.
Glad Plan B worked out for you, Lisa, and yes there are times watching British TV, when I need closed captioning.
Glad you're not working out with the inmates Tom, and just for grins, my right side is bigger, but my left side has better definition.

Yesterday, was a leg day, with a little Mark Lauren thrown in. I thought working out, would get rid of some of the aches. Not so much. If I get the flu, after all of this, I'm gonna be really upset!
Have a great day, everyone!
 
Karen, sounds beautiful. We have also had a beautiful fall...would take 77 every day! I always get sore after my flu shot, but I haven't had the other issues with it, but sure messes up delt stuff. Glad you survived it! Today was shoulders for me, and I started with strict press, but couldn't go heavy...sucks! I did 4 light sets of these, then 3x12 side laterals, 3x12 rear delt flys, 3x12 barbell front raise, dumbbell shrugs x 35 x30 x25 and finished with heavy cable crunches 3x12. Lisa, hope your internet issues improve, or I fear a "Cathe live withdrawl crisis"! Have a great day ladies.
 
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