Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 11/20

Deb, another rest day is good. I saw the crowd at one of the malls on the news and was glad I did not go anywhere. I have one of the early Sony readers. It is just a black and white reader. It still works. I charged it up recently to look at some recipes on it. Most of the stuff I had transferred to my iPad at one tim e. Sony quit selling the books and set up something with Kobo so customers could get their books they had ordered previously. My daughter in law got the Nook afterward. I think she upgraded to a newer one though.

I checked my Fit Bit graphs from yesterday and it says I was 60% cardio with Flex Train and 48% with Cardio Supersets.
 
The first clip is up for the Strong & Sweaty series....the Bootcamp one....it looks great! Cathe even shows modifications! :) :)
 
Good morning ladies!

Good to be home. We missed our animals and our bed!!! GiGi was out of control happy we were home. Was cute. Nilla was thrilled too...she had a look like "please do not ever leave me with that monster again!!!!!" All in all my son said they got along for the most part.

I did a SB lower body interval workout in the morning before we left and that was my only workout. I am sure I will be doing a power jump workout then followed up with SB rebounding workout she posted right before I left.

My son is staying for most of the day. We are frying up a turkey and having our Thanksgiving together.

Deb...hard to workout this time of year. I was thrilled to get a 20 min workout in yesterday. I have a kindle and love it. It is the kindle touch. Not sure if they still make it. My DH has one too but never uses it. I considerbhis my backup. :)

Carolyn...Seems like we did nothing but eat and drink wine while in Florida. Even though I worked out it was not enough to counteract all the calories. Going to wait a couple of days before I get on the scale. I tend to put on weight easily. We need to get back in check. If I remember Afterburn is tough! Congrats on finishing it!

Caitlin....congrats with the new laptop!!!

Valerie...I think it is great ordering a turntable. Wish I had the insight to save all my vinyl records. Glad your dinner went well. I love leftovers as much as the original meal. :p

Judy...I had ordered the JS 10 minute walks before I left. I love these little workouts and plane to add them on here and there. I am really glad I starting trying her out. She really has a place in my workout routines. The knee stretch sounds really great.

Dianne Sue...seems like everyone has been doing metabolic! How did you like the Christmas Stretch. I previewed it and it looks so calming. The karoke used to sign Christmas music sounds like fun and enjoyable to all.

Josie...hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Have a great day all!
 
Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I did Muscle Meltdown Biceps & Shoulders and a segment of Ab Hits. The new KCM dvds arrived yesterday. I'm going to do one later today.

Deb-rest days are good. I'm learning that I need more rest days now. We went to Vitamin Shoppe yesterday and it wasn't too bad, but all the other stores and malls were crazy. I love Barnes & Noble. I might stop in there today. There is one next to the Bed, Bath & Beyond and I need to go there to pick something up. I've been following JS's Facebook page and website. She has several new ones that came out this month:

I saw the clip for Strong & Sweaty, it does look great! I love that Cathe was showing modifications!

Diane Sue-I have the Yoga Tune-Up dvds for upper and lower body and the Yoga Tune-Up massage therapy balls. I didn't know she had a Knee program. I'm going to look for that one too.

Carolyn- I'll look for the Chantal Donnely knee DVD too.

Caitlin-I bet you can't wait to get your new laptop! I love the ICE workouts. Chiseled Lower Body Blast is tough for me, even with the lighter weights.

Valerie-I consider the metabolic workouts to be cardio. Even in workouts like Muscle Max & Muscle Endurance, I get my heart rate up enough that there is a cardio effect. I like to repeat workouts too. The first time doing one I feel like I am learning it and not really get all of the benefit of the exercises.

Josie-I hope you had a good Thanksgiving!

Lori-I bet you did miss GiGi & Nilla. We always miss ours when we travel. It's great that your son was able to stay with them. I have a Kindle Fire that is 3 or 4 years old. I only use it for reading books. It looks like they have some newer Kindle Fires out that are pretty nice.
I am so glad I started using the JS workouts!

Judy
 
Today I did a JS 30 minute Flat Blaster walk from her 30 day plan. It was just enough before I needed to start my activities for the day. My youngest daughter tried to do After Burn yesterday but was only able to finish part of it. She was embarrassed because she thought she was in good condition.

Valerie, I agree with Diane Sue on the benefit and purpose of metabolic workouts. I still have to do something else for strength training.

Enjoy your day.
 
Glad you all agree with me that metabolic workouts are cardio. DH should do one of these. I did elliptical yesterday for 30 min and then floor leg work for 20 minutes.
My heart rate gets higher on metabolic workouts than it did on the elliptical. I was around 130. that is my 'work zone' and where my rate tends to settle on longer time cardio. when I first do a new workout, it's not as much "cardio" as it is after I'm familiar with it. too many pauses getting the right weight etc. after I've learned it, like you said Judy, then I go more quickly and it's more cardio. total body metabolic is hard enough to keep my rate up there!.
Afterburn I remember well... that was tough. sometimes the tougher workouts slow me down. I haven't done that one in a long time but I have it. I should invest in a better device to measure heart rate. I get a rate on the elliptical & treadmill and the spin bike (after 10minuites) but my polar wrist watch died and I don't get any feed back for floor work like TBM. I KNOW my heart rate is respectable though and stays in the zone. Carolyn that is too funny... your daughter gets an A for effort. that is a tough workout! IMO conditioning is specific to the activity. I don't get much of a crossover effect from hiking or riding. the only thing that helps is doing the specific activity you want to be better at.

I must have I missed seeing Josie's post... need to look back.

it sounds like all us who do the cooking get to the same place.... all distracted, and tired of smelling food all day. Lori, yes, all the workouts in the world don't help much if the kitchen and bar are calling your name. I used to be able to get by more easily, now every calorie sticks like destiny.
deb, I am off to try to see that clip you mentioned.
 
Today's workout was 4 Day Split Double Cardio, 58 minutes, 407 calories. I then did STS Ab Circuits stability ball abs, 20 minutes, 64 calories. Since we were talking about knees I put in Jill Millers, Knee Hab and did the knee how section., 18 minutes, 47 calories. Total time was 96 minutes, 518 calories.
I saw the Strong and Sweaty Bootcamp clip on facebook. My neck hurts today and I was looking at the barbell stuff with the step and overhead stuff and was kind of worried. I am sure I can use dumbbells and modify though. I went back this morning and did Suzanne Bowen's upper body stretch since it really does help the neck and shoulders.

Judy, I will enjoy hearing your thoughts on Kelly's new workouts. Thanks for posting the Jessica Smith clips. Knee Hab was my go to workout for my knees. I always wanted the balls. I should have purchased them because I ended up buying two balls for hand workouts from Walmart. I never felt they were quite right when I put them in the nylon and tied it in place of the therapy balls. This workout was like physical therapy. My knee surgeon gave me a authorization for physical therapy but said I probably knew enough to do it on my own. I never went to a physical therapist.

Carolyn, I need to check out more Jessica Smith on You Tube. I have only done a couple of her workouts. Everyone seems to like them.

Lorie, I think that dogs are a lot like children. They might be a bit excited about someone else being around but they prefer their people. I am sure they were beside themselves with happiness when you came home. The Christmas stretch was nice. There were a few moves from her stretch dvd that I have. It was a nice slow relaxed pace and I liked the background music with the stretches. It seemed she held some a bit longer. I usually stay off the scale for at least a week after a food fest ;) I know I would just be disgusted. The couple of Fitness Blender once showed revealing pictures of their bellies and how soft they looked after a big meal. Showing that in a few days it is gone.

Valerie, I always feel I have not worked as hard with a new workout for that reason. Pausing to get things and change weights etc. slows the pace down. Floor work shows very little on a heart rate monitor. You can throw on ankle weights and everything else and it does not show much. The same goes for most abs workouts and yoga workouts. I know I am burning some extra but a calorie benefit is very negligible.
 
Question... you all know the plastic angled pieces cathe uses to make the step into an incline? does anyone know what they are called and if they are available?

After looking at the clip from the new series, that clinches it. I will ask santa for a step this year. I have enough risers because of the high step that I use rarely. we will need exercise equipment for our new house and I would like to spend less than what we've spent here. a step might be a good choice. Dh is talking about a nordic track. I don't think I'd be happy with one of those.

ETA I answered my own question. they are 'slanted" risers, not angled risers. when you google them they come up several places at fairly a high price. they show up on the cathe page with ICE and Sweat series, so it looks like it's a current product.... but it is not. I got fooled like that once before a few weeks ago when Caitlin was looking for a high step topper. a set is about $75 which is ridiculous for simple pieces of plastic. I was thinking about a step plus slanted risers instead of a regular bench.
 
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Valerie, I bought slanted risers a few years ago , but I don't use them anymore. I use the regular risers and remove two on one end. I haven't seen the clips yet but will look for them. I told my daughter the same thing about conditioning being specific to your activities.
 
Valerie, I agree with Carolyn. I bought the slanted risers (yes they are expensive!) and found it easier to just remove one or 2 of the regular ones from one end to get the inclined board. I never pull them out anymore.
 
so you get a stable surface without them ? there is a newer version that uses a different approach... a groove on the top of a riser similar to the regular ones. a gyms size step plus 2 reg risers, and 2 of the grooved ones for about $99. the plain large step is currently about $65. seems to change but stays around that number.

at our current house we have an incline bench. I thought this would be better than buying another bench but DH is not liking the idea.
anything else you can tell me/ thanks for that, you may have saved me some $$.
 
I can't wait to get the laptop as I cannot get a password for my Amazon account. I only have one email address now and it is not associated with Amazon. I said that Chiseled Lower Body Blast seemed advanced to me. Today I did the Step Portion of Low Impact Circuit and my back, bi's and tri's.
 
Valerie-I have the incline risers too and I agree with Carolyn & Deb-I never use them. It's easier to just take risers out and get the incline that way.
 
Valerie, the newer grooved step and risers looks like it would work well. I have never had a problem using my regular step as an incline bench. I never purchased the slanted risers. It really depends on how high you are trying to elevate the step. Generally up to 3 risers on one end and one on the other works just fine.
 
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