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Good morning,

I am home again. Drove home early this morning to avoid traffic. Had lots of fun yesterday. Got my hair done, I needed it. We had a business/dinner meeting last night. That was fun. I haven't worked out yet. Will get D25 Legs in shortly.

Doreen - Shaun is too high impact for me. I am not even looking :) It does look like Insanity with a Step! No thanks! I still have 2 month left with my rotation. Not sure what I will do next? Probably some shorter workouts? Maybe DH and I will do some Cathe workouts, with YT workouts and yoga? Who knows what I we will do next? Are you gonna sign up for Shaun's new workouts? I agree on the price. Way to much $$.

I will be back later.
 
No - I will not. I love step but prefer choreography over intervals. They just look frantic in the preview clips. I have a list of streaming sites I plan to check out over the next few months but BB is not on the list yet.
 
Today I did Lite Cardio Party mish mosh mix of boxing and blasts (all blasts are done 3 times between boxing)
38 minutes, met 8.40, 248 calories, heart rate average 139, max 167, 3,747 steps. I then did Strong & Sweaty Ramped Up Upper Body, 52 minutes, 329 calories, met 7.50, 1,403 steps, heart rate average 106, max 146. Total time was 90 minutes, calories burned 577 calories. 5,150 steps.

Doreen, step with insanity feel seems like a good way to have injuries. Sorry about the frustration of the streaming quality for the workouts.

Belinda, glad you made it back and enjoyed your trip.
 
This morning my internet was down so I did Stepboxing 2 workout 2 plus the dumbbell drills. Love those dumbbell drills but I think I should have gone heavier.
 
Good morning,

D24 Cardio + Stretch and Release is done. The stretch was really good, my lower body is all stretched out. I need to stretch more.

Doreen - sorry about your internet. I know how frustrating it is :( Been there so many times.

Diane - great job yesterday.

That's it for me today. My neighborhood is having our first wine gathering. Every month we will meet/get to know a new winery in our area. Should be fun. Wished it would be warmer. BBL!
 
This morning I did Kelly Coffey Strength and Stamina bonus step, 22 minutes,s 164 calories,m met 9.3,heart rate average 129, max 170, 2,252 steps. I then did Coffey Fit Raw Step #3, 44 minutes, heart rate average 140, max 174, 361 calories, met 9.3, 3,953 steps. I finished off with Coffey Fit Raw Stretch, 28 minutes, 62 calories. Total time was 94 minutes, 6,286 steps, 587 calories.

Doreen, I usually go a little heavier on those dumbbell drills and I wear weight gloves throughout the workout. Sorry you internet was down. That is not fun when getting ready to workout.

Belinda, nice job today. Our neighborhood has different events, but we never go to them. Our Pools open memorial weekend. I sometimes take my grandchildren there if they are here during the summer.
 
Good afternoon,

Rest day for me today. Alesia ran her 10 miler and beat her time from last year.

Diane -The wine gathering was a lot of fun. We ended up going to 2 different wineries :) The last place Aleisa took us for our Anniversary a few years ago. The first winery I have never been, it was so beautiful. I felt like I was somewhere in Italy. We are surrounded by a lot of wineries. It was nice meeting our neighbors. We going to go to a different place food/wineries every month. Should be fun. You should go and met your neighbors.


See you all tomorrow.
 
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Good morning,

Yesterday ended up being a rest day.

Today I did D27 Week 5 Booty. I am still sweating from the workout. Great workout! She is used the loops + DB's. The loops are a killer. Really liked the workout.

Waving Hi to everyone that checks in after me. I will try to be back later. Have a great Monday everyone.
 
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I did RIP 19 Express this morning which is the Legs, Chest, Back and Core tracks.... I skipped the core track and switched over to try a BEMax Fit workout - 20 minute Total Body. I probably won't do it again but for a 20 minute workout it was very well designed to hit a lot of work.
 
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My workout today was Raw Metabolic 6 & 6, 33 minutes, met 7.8, 242 calories, 912 steps, heart rate average 113, max 148. Raw cardio and floor finisher 2 (from Sculpting RX) 19 minutes, met 5.5, 100 calories, heart rate average 112, max 170? 758 steps, finishing with Ice to the mat time saver all ball , 21 minutes, met 4.0(workout manager has 6.0) 68 calories, heart rate average 86, max 120, 119 steps. Total time was 73 minutes, 410 calories, Steps 1,789.
Raw Metabolic 6 & 6 each of 5 moves done for 30 seconds in 6 rounds I used 1# weight gloves & 12# dbs
side lunge to overhead press alternating sides
renegade row with push ups between right and left
skater swings double arm from sides
alternating lunges
connected push ups
sit ups with dbs

I keep getting side tracked during the day lately. So many things to take care of I guess.

Belinda, yesterday was my rest/stretch day. I have talked to some of my neighbors and have one of the ladies phone number. People here are pretty friendly. We have those that walk their dogs daily that seem to like to walk around our circle of homes to go back to the park and water area. They wave all of the time. There is a halloween pet parade every year and judging by one of the pools with a get together, neighborhood garage sales, and meet and greet is usually at one of the pool cabanas. We just never go to those things. Loop work can burn like fire. I thought about the band portion of Ice to the mat today and thought about the burn. But, then when I did the ball work instead, it was a burner as well. Particularly the side leaning ones for outer thighs. My hips have been bothering me off and on and I was worried about setting something off.

Doreen, it is hard to imagine a total body workout that is 20 minutes. It would come in handy if wanting to get it in and not enough time though.
 
Good morning,

D28 cardio (HiiT/Core) is done. Very fun workout. I really like her cardio/core workout. I know some people don't like it.

Diane - great job yesterday. The lady I met on Saturday at the winery, she wants to start walking with me twice a week starting tomorrow. She is very nice :) People in Germany like to chit chat, get to know their neighbors. Here in the US it's different, you hardly see people outside. The only one I see/talk to are my next door neighbors. It's nice meeting new people. Since DH and I work out early in the morning, we don't have time to walk together during the week. I miss my daily walks. Sunday I met a German lady while I was signing a petition too stop the nonsense in my town. We talked yesterday, she told me she has stage 4 breast cancer. That's pretty sad :(


Have a great workout everyone. BBL!
 
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Belinda, I find people are pretty friendly where we are at. We found people here are way more friendly that when we lived in California. I think sometimes it is the area. Rural areas they are really friendly people. I think larger more congested areas people tend to be less friendly and keep to themselves. Maybe just mistrusting of others or something? I get to know workers in the grocery store and chat with them. People wave at each other driving by. I like that they are like that. Much better than looking like they would rather run you over or something LOL That would be great for you to have someone to walk with. When we lived in one of the smaller local cities I used to walk with my next door neighbor, who new everyone in the neighborhood. They used to have get together cookouts and games at their house once in awhile for the neighbors. I babysat for them from the time their two children were infants. Both adults now :) She is also the receptionist in my dental office. They helped me a lot when my husband was out of country.
 
Well - Total Body is a bit of a misnomer. Its more that it isn't focused just on upper or just on lower and used combo moves for lower and upper together to create a workout that uses both lower and upper body moves if that makes sense. In 20 minutes you really don't get a total body workout IMO.

This morning I tried out the Group Rx WAR series WAR #3 (not all the numbered workouts appear on the app - I don't know what happened to 1&2). This was a fantastic kickboxing workout! So much fun - great music too - each track I was like "oh- I like this song too".
 
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Diane - sounds like my neighborhood. Everyone is waving when driving/walking by here too. It's a very friendly neighborhood. Once my neighbors who knew everyone in the area moved away last year, things changed a little. He was my next door neighbors, his wife was different kept by herself unless there was a cookout somewhere in the neighorbood. I talked to him more than I did with his wife. He lived across from us. Hard to ignore him, lol. He was former military. We always had lots to talk about. We do have lots of new neighbors, maybe once it gets nicer/warmer we will see them more outside. We do get together once in awhile for dinner or a class of wine :)
 
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I started with P90X2 Warm up and foam roller from PAP lower, 15 minutes, met 4.0, 53 calories, 387 steps. I then did Yvette Bachman Low Impact Step workout. It was not really a just step workout!! It was circuits with a med ball? ( I question this as they did not seem like their balls were all that heavy and I used a 10#) The also used pretty heavy weights with emphasis on chest and triceps for 5-8 reps. I really did not want to do weights today. Anyway, I did the first half which for them ended at 26 minutes(31 for me trying to write and get equipment), heart rate average was 132, max 168, 1,570 steps, met 7.0, 186 calories. I stopped where they were getting ready to do bench press again which I gathered meant they were going to repeat it. I then decided to do the kickboxing cardio one that said it had no equipment and was around 45 minutes. This did not require anything. They looked like they were wearing weighted gloves and I wore my 1.5# gloves. I hate speed bags!! She does this a lot. I wanted lower impact and this had plyo jumps and lots of jacks built in. Workout was 47 minutes, met 10.0, 328 calories, 3,899 steps, heart rate average was 138, max 168. I finished off with Lite abs #2, 11 minutes, 31 calories, 77 steps, heart rate 97 average, 122 max. Total time was 1 hour 44 minutes, 598 calories, 5,933 steps.

Doreen the Group RX War sounds fun. It is funny how music we like can draw us to a workout. It makes them so much more fun.

Belinda, some of the homes in our immediate circle have been either rented or sold. We did have all elderly people or people a bit younger than us. I guess being in the 60's we are probably considered elderly LOL
Across the street there are two duplexes that have been sold or changed renters. They are younger people with children. Since most are only two bedroom, you do not see so many families move in. Ours is a town home, not connected to the neighbor, but close together with a walk way. The man next door passed away, but his son who is a lawyer stayed with him since he had cancer and now lives there. His daughter comes there to stay once in awhile. There is 3 of them that used to be out walking their dogs around here all of the time, but seem to stay in most of the time now. I think age has made it hard for them to get out. The one woman had told me she could no longer climb up to her upper floor. I had wondered how much the area would change when these older people are gone. Although one home has a couple about our age that purchased one of the homes. They seem nice. At first someone had moved in with children and they were only there for a few months. That seemed odd to me.
 
Good morning,

D29 TB is done. Holy crap!!! That one was tough. She did a few exercises getting up/down. My knee started to hurt really bad. Had to modify that one on my own, the modifier was doing the up/down :( There was another move were you do triceps dips on the floor than swing around. Not happing with my back. I just did dips. Those are the only 2 moves I had to modify. I will google on how to modify those 2 moves today. Maybe I can find something?


Happy Hump Day, everyone. Going for a walk with the lady I met at the wine gathering. She lives in my neighbor. I will catch up on personal later.
 
Good morning! Good work getting through that one Belinda - you are making me want to try it the series.

I did Rip 21 this morning. I figured it was time to add weight to my barbell since I've been using my 45 bar the whole month.... woah- maybe a bad idea since there were a lot of low-ends in the squat track. I had to slow down some of the singles too. They did dolphin pushups in the triceps track - that was a new move to me- kinda tricky and I felt like I might fall on my head!! Then the video and audio cut out and stopped syncing at track 8 (shoulders) so I stopped at 45 minutes.
 
Today I did Kelly Coffey Amped Up Cardio Both combined, 57 minutes, 389 calories, met 8.0, 4,988 steps, heart rate average 139, max 167. I then did Rev'd Up Rumble Calorie Crush (rebounder for some of the impact) 9 minutes, met 9.0 (I lowered the met .3) 81 calories, 946 steps, heart rate 127 average, max 150. I finished with Cathe's Yoga Max time saver #1, 33 minutes, 80 calories, met 3.0, 28 steps, heart rate 86 average, 118 max. Total time was 99 minutes, 550 calories, 5,962 steps.
I ran outside to mow the grass. It looks like we have rain coming and cooler temps. It has been in the 80's for the last few days. They are even talking about snow in the northern part of the state. Weird weather. I didn't want the grass to get longer before I had to mow it off. Wind is blowing and my allergies are through the roof.

Belinda, I am not a fan of those flipping over and over doing one move and then another. I use the edge of a step or my rebounder for squat thrusts and that sort of thing a lot. My knees really do not hurt kneeling on them most of the time. It is more getting up and down quickly if my legs are a bit sore or my low back. I am getting better at pulling out my foam roller before and after and sometimes before I go to bed to just roll out the achy areas and my back. Kelly said something about her doing that before bed.

Doreen, I have seen different variations on Dolphin push ups. Kelly does them in one of her workouts. I just remember this as I did it recently. Maybe it was the metabolic workout I would have to look. I do not like to go very heavy when there is all of those low ends. My knees and low back do not like me when I do that. 45 # is a good weight for that.
 
Good morning,

D30 lower body is done. First she did a DB exercise followed by gliders. On the end she did surrenders as a bonus round. I modified by doing a squat/lung back instead.

Boy was I tired after that long walk plus my TB workout yesterday. I ended up resting in the afternoon. Well, still had some stuff to do for work.

Diane - I also use a step/chair for some of the moves. I have to be careful with my back. I had too many slipped disc. Don't want to go down that road again. Couldn't workout for weeks. I had a sharp pain in my knee yesterday, that was enough for me to modify. I have arthritis in both my knees. Some exercises I just can't do anymore. Better safe than sorry. Great cal burn and step count yesterday. I should do more foam rolling.

Doreen - I like the program. Have you done 21 DF? Some people find Autumn annoying. I personally like her. I find her workouts fun and effective. You should try them. I think they offer a free week? If I am not mistaken.

I will try to be back later, if not have a great day and workout.
 
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