Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 11/27

We drove way up in the mountains hoping to ski but it's too early. not enough snow low enough yet. we took our chain saw and equipment along thinking we would at least clear blowdowns off the road but it was already done. we drove home and rode the trail instead for 2 hrs 15 minutes. 25 miles. I got a flat tire and had to walk the last half mile.

Stopped at the ranger station to get husbands senior pass.. you qualify at 62. I've had mine for years. (This is payback time everyone for the money you saved me). It's a senior pass, or "America the beautiful" pass. it gives you FREE admission into all national parks and monuments, and most other federal sites. if you camp, it's good for half off the normal fee. I'm pretty sure parks are at least $25 a day these days, depending on how many people are in the car. This pass costs a one time fee of $10. it is good forever. it looks like a credit card. it has saved us hundreds of dollars over the years we've had it. If one person in a car has a pass, everyone gets in for free... If you or husband is 62, you need one of these! I have used it a lot. any facility that has an admission fee, look closely and most times the senior pass is listed, qualifying you for free admission.
https://store.usgs.gov/pass/senior.html there are lots of different passes with similar names. this is the senior one.

diane sue that is interesting to know how many calories pedal power burns. I don't get a decent reading from mine because the chest strap doesn't work very well. I think I got something like 50 calories last time!. I used to think I got a good workout from Kick Punch Crunch. I don't have a way to measure HR with any kickboxing but it doesn't seem to get me up like metabolic workouts do. this is what it feels like to me, fun, work, but not intense work. I hope your shoulder settles down. it took mine a long time but it's Ok now. I never had anything particular to blame it on.

Caroline I have the GS series too and always liked it. If I can complain about anything, it was cathe's hairdo in that series! I used it a lot but have done x-train more the last few years.
 
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Good evening ladies...

This morning was SB bounce with Barre then the barre portion of KCM's new leg workout. Total time was 30 minutes then GiGi and I went for our 30 minute power walk. She was fun today. Wanted to run so my power walk turned into a run at times. My legs are feeling it tonight. Been a while since I did these walks.

Deb...great job on the KCM. I love the Body By Design DVD too. Such great little workouts to string together or as a finisher. I used 3 lb weights for the cardio sculpt and these seemed to be fine. She recommends not going heavier than 5 in this workout. I have not previewed the other dvd. Plan on doing this tonight. Do you use handweights when doing kickboxing? This helps get the HR up. If I am not using handweights I am using the heavy bag which certainly does the trick. Nicholas did not take GiGi to the park. The original plan was he was taking her to his house in CT for the week but he ended up staying here in MA and I was fine with that!

Valerie...Flextrain fan here too and yes it creeps up on you. That stinks getting a flat tire. Good that it was towards the end though! That is a really great deal on the senior pass. Good to know.

Diane Sue...the powerjumps can be really intense. Especially the last 2 rounds. Plus I use 1lb ankle weights and hand weights. The one I did the other day was great. They are usually about 45 to 50 minutes once you cut out all the chatter in the beginning. In the middle they always have a recovery section which I always skip over. I like to keep it intense. I am so happy I found these. Interesting all the different calorie burns. I find the variance between my series 2 Apple watch and my Polar is about 50 calories which is pretty good. We had an ice storm here about 8 years ago. Was horrible. Dead of winter, 5 degrees and no power for 5 days. Some neighborhoods were without power for 2 weeks! I was cooking in my fireplace and boiling water to bathe. Told my son I will never go camping again after this. Thanks for sharing Gertie's treat recipe.

Carolyn...gym style dvds are great workouts. I always feel so strong after a really intense weight workout. I have been doing more light weigh high rep workouts this year. I do miss the heavy weights and will certainly getbthem with the new DVD's. I love you have been reminding me of older Cathe DVD's I have not done in ages. I am enabling you along with Deb...the KCM Body By Design is great!

Judy...have you been able to try the new KCM's? I meant to tell you how cute your kitties are. We have two cats. Yes in addition to our dogs! Both are seniors now. Zelda is 16 possibly 17. My husband adopted her as a stray when she was a kitty so he is not really sure. TimTim...another female (my son named her!) is 11. They both love eachother and take care of eachother. It is very sweet. Hoping your knee and back are still doing better.

I am enjoying seeing the clips for the new Cathe workouts. Thinking we should have them in a couple of weeks. I am going to try and do one of the rotations with some jumping and barre thrown in! Lol!

Have a great night all!
 
Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I did 4 DS Legs, a segment from Ab Hits, & a Jessica Smith Walk. Today I did KCM Body Design-Cardio Bootcamp, Light Cardio Sculpting & the Kickboxing segments. I haven't done a cycling workout in almost 2 weeks and my knee is feeling much better. I didn't have any problem doing 4 DS Legs, so I think cycling was the culprit. I probably just did too much at once and I need to cut back. I'll probably try a short bike workout later this week and see how it goes.

Deb- I agree about Body Design. I really like that format. I'm going to try Meltdown tomorrow or Thursday.

Diane Sue- I ordered KneeHab from Amazon and it arrived today. I can't wait to try it.

Lori-Thank you. I didn't remember that you had 2 kitties too. They sound very sweet! So far I've done all the segments from Body Design and I like all of them. I haven't tried Meltdown yet. I've been enjoying the clips from the new Cathe workouts too. I can't wait to try them out.

Carolyn-I love Gym Styles. Cathe's weight workouts are the best!

Valerie-Great ride! Thanks for the tip about the national parks pass.
 
Valerie, thanks for the link for the pass. I bookmarked it . My husband is always talking about getting another travel trailer or rv. It would be very useful. We used to go visit my Dad and his little city had an rv park that we could park in free. They had a donation box and we always put some money in it. It was a nice way to visit. It sounds like you had a good workout today along with a walk. The most calories that I have burned with Pedal Power was a little over 500 calories and that was doing an extreme premix. The longest one. Most of the time I get close to the same calorie burn with familiar workouts when I do them over and over. It doesn't vary much more than maybe 20 calories difference. Kickboxing workouts vary. I think it depends on how many high intensity intervals are thrown in like jacks and jump kicks. I think with Hard Strikes I do better on the calorie burns than some of the others. But, sometimes it is just nice to enjoy a workout, and get a bit of calorie burn out of it. We do not need to go all out all of the time. When I am not feeling motivated a fun workout is one of the best choices.
I remember one of Cathe's series, I think that she wore hair pieces?? I would imagine trying to have nice looking hair through filming a workout is a job all on it's own. Mine looks like I just got out of bed even after I run a comb through it. I workout in the mornings most of the time. It is also interesting to go back and look at Cathe when it was the curly hair style phase. I had one of those curly head perms once. I really hate those pictures !!

Lorie, I am trying to imagine jumping on the rebounder that hard with ankle weights and weighted gloves. I use the sand weights in my hands with URX-MT. Usually the 3#. I just don't know about the jacks, tuck jumps, and jumps across and off and on the rebounder with ankle weights. I am afraid I would mess up my feet or ankles or something. When they get to ab work or some of the more weight type intervals on some of them I will pick up 5# dumbbells but most of it is just the sand weights. How heavy are your ankle weights? I have some small weights that fasten onto the shoes via the shoe strings. If I remember right people were having foot problems using them and they took them off the market. I liked them for a bit extra on ab workouts. I had two bad storms like that. Both of them my husband was out of country. The winter one, I was snowed in and the closest family member was 15 miles away. They could not get to me to help. My neighbor came over and helped get the generator which had never been used out of our shed and set up. I lucked out because as soon as the power went out I quickly flipped the switch on our gas fireplace which had an electric start. I started and I kept it on the whole time. I just shut off all of the rest of the house to hold in what heat I got out of it. The other time my 8 year old granddaughter was with me and it was a mini tornado they called some other name. It took out power lines and part of my new fence went to oz. It bent the metal poles that our wood panels were attached to right over the neighbors chain link fence. We had to replace the roof on that house 2 times in 4 years due to storms. That time it was hot and humid. I thought I was going to die from the heat. We used the generator to keep the refrigerator going. Some people lost windows. I was lucky our windows were not facing the direction of the huge hail. Gertie loves to run if I choose to take off running. She does pretty well at staying at my side. That is so nice that you are having fun with Gigi. That is such a nice way to get a workout in.

Judy, you are probably right about maybe just doing too much at once. You have been doing spin workouts for a long time so it must be doing such long ones so often. I guess we can all get overuse injuries from doing the same thing too much. I try to remind myself of this when I find myself doing the same type of workouts over and over. There is always a favorite type of workout :) I think that you will like knee hab. I started with the first one shortly after surgery on the torn meniscus. Once the pain and healing was well on the way on moved to the second one and used it for quite a long time before going on to the Knee how segment.
 
Good morning,

Yesterday I did the other new KCM "Meltdown". Workout #1 is a total body workout, supposed to be a metabolic one. She doesn't have the "metabolic" thing down like Cathe does. I could not get my heart rate past 125.. Some good new moves though...and she uses a BB a lot which is not like KCM. All moves can use DB's if you don't like using a BB. Workout 2 is a kickbox workout, which I will try maybe today. Had a good time with Kylee at the airport. She is such a cutie. Kids really like her a lot.

Carolyn, 42 days with no rain...wow that is unbelievable. I am anxious for the new series too. I like the clips and it seems like Cathe has done this series a little quicker than past ones.

Diane Sue, good spin workout, and great calorie burn! I hope your neck heals soon...can you call the DR that did the procedure and ask if this length of time and how you feel is common? Thanks for the recipe for the dog biscuits. I use one that uses flour and baby food. I get the baby food that has nothing in it but strained vegetable. I like your idea of using rice flour and will switch to that or something else instead of wheat. KCM's Meltdown is a weight workout, the second on the DVD is boxing. She uses a heavy bag, but there is someone in the crew that does not use one. Those storms sound really scary...good that you had a generator.

Valerie, that was nice that you found that someone else had cleared the trail! I think if I went up to do a ski workout, and couldn't because of no snow, I would not be doing a 25 mile ride when I got back including a flat tire and half mile walk ....you are amazing. :). Thanks for the info on the passes...will need to go and look at what might be listed for around here.

Lori, it sounds like Gigi will be a running partner for you by the spring! I will use hand weights for the new KCM kickbox workout. Did you try the Meltdown weight one yet? How does Gigi do with the cats?

Judy, good that you are able to identify that it is the cycling that bothers your knee. I'd like to hear what you think of Meltdown (the weight one). I used a 20# BB and 7 &8 pound DB's.

Maybe a workout, then a manicure and meeting an old work friend for lunch.

Take care,
 
Hello Everyone,
Today I did Cardio Supersets. This is one from the Low Impact Series that I do frequently. I am on week 4 of Cathe's November rotation. The rotations do force me to look at some of the older workouts. I am realizing that the LIS was much harder than ICE. When I received LIS I was excited to have some "easier" workouts!

Judy, the KneeHab dvd definitely sounds like the better choice for you. Strong Knees is very basic but is what I needed at that time.

Have a great day.
 
Good morning!. Deb, all I did was sit and drive in the morning. we were ready to work but the snow accumulation needs to be lower elevation for this area. It felt good to do the ride since I was psyched up to do something. the ski is actually an old logging road. we drive as high as we can until the snow gets deep and ski from there. usually there are some blown down trees that need to be cleared. there is always a chance something will fall down after you have driven through, so it's good to have a chain saw 'just in case." a lot of people cut the trees up for firewood. it's pretty simple to do when trees are lying across the road to begin with. people get free wood and they keep the roads open.

Carolyn you said better what I was trying to say. Because of my shoulder injury, I'd backed off on Cathe workouts somewhat last year and early this year. when I started back up with ICE I didn't realize these are much easier than LIS. Flex Train is pretty tough too if you do the whole thing including the abs. when I did it the other day, I was surprised at how hard it felt. but I did it, with mostly 5 lb weights.

I hope some of you can take advantage of the pass. we've used it to park at Federal dept of fish and wildlife sites too but be careful.. state dept of fish and wildlife ( at least here in WA) is separate and you need a different pass. DH and I do a lot in nat parks and monuments and it's worth it for that alone.

Diane sue and Lori, those storms sound awful. we've been without power for 3-4 days and it is rough. very rough. It is a strong reminder and lesson of how convenient things are when there is power, and how dependent we all are on it. Reminds you of being pioneer woman. We have frequent power outs, but usually not for days at a stretch. a lot of people here have generators. Carolyn, we would say here lately that 42 minutes without rain would be good.

I think it was the GS time period with the fancy hair. maybe cathe wore a fall? way too fussy looking but styles change. remember the leg warmers and outfits from the jane fonda days? (I never had any of those) I keep my hair long-ish so I can do a pony tail and keep it out of the way. short hair is a lot more work for me.

Lori that is a thought, use weighted gloves for boxing. I'm not sure I have Hard Strikes.... If I do, I don't think I've done it. I used to do KPC a lot, and thought it kept my heart rate up so maybe Rock 'em sock em is much easier.
 
Today I did To The Max warm up, step, and step tabata, 22 minutes, 197 calories. I then did Legs and Glutes from the body blast series. I used Cathe's weights except for ankle weights where I used 5# weights. I have not done this one in years. I can't believe I used to do the Extreme mix all of the time. This was 51 minutes and calories burned 270. Total time 73 minutes , 467 calories.

Deb, the only Kelly Coffey workout that I can think of using a barbell is Olympic Lifting. I sometimes switched to dumbbells for that one. IT sounds like the newer metabolic work of hers is on the lower end of being metabolic but still would be considered metabolic. I had a dog treat recipe that used two ingredients and one was baby food. I couldn't find the meat pumpkin combo it mentioned and most seemed to have foods that I worried about giving to Gertie so I gave up on it. I really like that these are crunchy and don't get soft. I think the white rice flour was the best option. Coconut flour has two much fat and fiber. Also coconut flour does not give a nice baked texture to foods. Brown rice flour would have more fiber than I think I would want. I bet kids do love Kylee :) How could they not? The one obstacle with the generator was getting it from our shed to the house in the bad weather. It was too heavy for me so I had to have help. I tried and it was a step down out of the shed with it and when it rained the area filled with water. I was just glad that we had one.

Carolyn, I revisited the Low Impact Series more recently and you are right, it is harder than Ice. Some of those workouts are a real challenge. I even felt it was harder than the X Train All Out Low Impact Hiit workout. You are right, Strong Knees is Basic but I used the 20 minute stretch on it quite a lot with other workouts. For some it would not be basic but with all of the instructors and workouts that I have done the stretches were not new to me. That does not mean they are not effective for sure. I remember once when we had a long drought of no rain here like that. It was during the summer and everything was looking pretty dead. When it did decide to rain people were all walking outside to enjoy it. That was soon after we moved to Oklahoma and we were living in an apartment. That is when you really appreciate it.

Valerie, I wish I had your energy and want to go out and do things like that. We have those bikes here and I have just not had the energy or desire to go out on them lately. That makes sense to have a chain saw with you. What I remember of Washington is lots of wet weather. That is why all of the beautiful forests. Yes, when you experience no power you appreciate it. The first time I was without power I went out and purchased a batter back up for the cell phone and laptop and loaded up on batteries for flash lights. I bought rechargeable flash lights and a lantern. Ones that I could charge with the car if needed to. I did not want to be isolated like that again. That is when I discovered I would never use ATT Uverse for the land phone again because it quits when the ATT back up battery runs down. It had got where I could not call out for help. Hard Strikes is part of the X Train series of workouts.
 
Good evening ladies!

This morning I took GiGi for our walk and that was my only workout. I woke up the usual time but was not feeling a workout. So I relaxed, had my coffee and watched the news.

Judy..glad your knee is better. You'll be back riding in no time. Nice mixture of workouts. I love mixing things up. Makes the workouts fly by.

Deb...I reviewed the Meltdown dvd and thought it looked good. But reviewing and doing are two different things. I plan to do the heavy bag workout first. Been so long since I used it. My shoulder had been bugging me off and on so I layed off for a while. I just need to get back in to it. Shoulder has been pretty good for a few months.

Diane Sue...I only use only 1lb ankle weights and 1 or 2 lb hand weights when I use my rebounder. I started off using 1.5ankle weights but felt it was an accident waiting to happen. I do use the 1.5 for barre though. I also have 5lb ankle weights and using them for slower structured workouts. My ankle weights strap tightly and I do not feel them at all. Winter storms can be horrible. We have a generator now but did not at the time of the ice storm. Great workouts today. Those Extreme premixes always destroyed me. Not that I did many but every now and then (back in the day) I would try one out.

Valerie...I love that you and your husband are so active together. Would love for my husband to be but will never happen. Oh well..that is why I have this group to chat fitness with! Cut the trees blocking the road and free wood. Win win to me. Did Cathe really have a fall on GS? I guess I always thought it was her own. Going to revisit these DVD's to check out her hair!

Carolyn...yes LIS is hard! Who would think Low Impact would wipe you! I think you mentioned you were following Cathe's rotation. Makes sense now with the older DVD's.

Have a great night all!
 
Lorie, sometimes just relaxing in the mornings is nice. I kind of wondered if you were using light weights for the rebounder. I used 5# ankle weights today with the standing and floor work on Legs and Glutes. I almost changed to 3# on the standing. I used to use 5# all of the time. Cathe really showed some definition in her legs on that workout. I have a pair of 5# ankle weights that are adjustable so right now I keep them at 3# which I have been using on some of the barre workouts and a pair of 5# that I purchased when the others were in storage. We had the generator for several years before it was actually ever used. I love the heavy bag but have laid off because of the neck and shoulder problems.
 
Good morning,

No workout yesterday. I had a nice visit with an old work friend and did go to agility class with Kylee.

Carolyn, you are doing really well with Cathe's November rotation. I need to go back and try the Live rotation that "2Lazy4thegym" put out. Will you continue with her December one?

Valerie, one "nice" thing about living in Buffalo...most winters you can x-country ski in the winter right from your front door to wherever you want to go...:). I think some of Cathe's more recent KB workouts have more standing boxing and less kick combos...just my observation. That could be why they don't have as much calorie burn. Like Lori, I didn't realize Cathe may have had a "fall" in the GS series...LOL...it must have been stuck on with tons of bobby pins to hold it...:).

Diane Sue, wow, everyone is pulling out all these "oldies but goodies" for workouts! I think I kept KCM's Olympic Lifting DVD because I really liked the other workout that was on it. I did not like Olympic lifting at all. I had found another grain free dog treat recipe on Pinterest...uses almond meal and coconut flour, and a sweet potato. I didn't realize coconut flour has too much fat and fiber...is that what gives Gertie stomach problems?

Lori, I have not tried the new KCM boxing workout yet, it does look like it would be more fun with a heavy bag. Let us know what you think of it.

A workout, then I think I will tackle the season clothes switch...have been putting that off and going into totes to get winter clothes!

Take care,
 
Deb, those are ingredients than increase loose stools . Yes, I tried coconut and almond meal. If much was consumed we were in trouble. Now I have found a solution I am afraid to try anything else. I remember liking the other workout on the dvd with Olympic lifting as well. Maybe someday when I get the shoulder and neck feeling good I will check it out again.
 
I was trying to interest my niece in doing weight workouts and she commented negatively on 'the hairdo". I'd have to go back and look again as it's been a while since I did the GS series and I'm not an expert on hair add-ons. I remember a sort of curly "up" hairdo with some sort of pony tail hanging down. something like that. maybe it was an add on, maybe her own. the make up and hair for the photo shoots is nothing most women would do for regular use.
Lori, Dh and I have always been outdoors people and did things together. no one else will go with us... so it's good we have each other. we did a lot of hiking and backpacking over the years and used to run together all the time. I've never been a "get me room service' type of vacationer. rather be backpacking or camping.

Deb, we have vacationed at places like that, where you can ski from your door. Not sure I'd like that right out my door at home. It's harder to get to good places to ski than it used to be. the way the forest service maintains roads has declined, and there are fewer suitable roads, plus a lot more people have snowmobiles and like to use "no cost" forest roads rather than pay parking fees at sno-park lots. xc skiing and snowmobiling are not compatible activities IMO. I'm not a good enough skier to do real back country skiing.
I think you're right...the older kick box ones used a lot of jump kicks and those get the HR going.
 
Today I did Gym Style Legs timesaver premix. I was not in the mood for a 67 minute leg workout. The premix was 44 minutes. The hair styles were all long and hanging down the back, but I couldn't tell if Cathe is wearing a fall. The hair and clothes really make me smile on some of the older workouts.

Deb, I will look at the December rotation to see if I want to follow it. She usually does some type of timesaver rotation for December because people think they are too busy to work out. If it doesn't interest me I will plan something else. I have to plan my workouts in advance which helps me to be more focused. If I try to be more spontaneous I find myself making excuses to avoid the workout. Not sure why that is since I really enjoy working out!

Valerie, I agree that Cathe's more recent kickboxing workouts are more boxing focused. If I use the boxing gloves it makes quite a difference in getting my heart rate up and calorie burn. KPC was a favorite for a long time, but I like Hard Strikes a lot.

Hi to All--have a wonderful afternoon.
 
Today I just did Kelly Coffey Anped up Cardio workout 1, 32 minutes 2h05 calories. My husband and I took a day trip out of town. We stopped for an Italian lunch.

Valerie, I would have to go back and look at the GS series. I just remember her having shorter hair and suddenly it is long and not so wavy mostly on the back of her head. I never thought it looked bad. Just a real change. That is great that you and your husband have both loved getting out and doing the same things together. Our outdoor things in the 43 years of marriage have been mainly walks and motocycle riding. We went for a run together once. I need more of a warm up than he did It did not last. Maybe the bikes one day will happen.

Carolyn, I think it was the Circuit workout in that series where it seemed her hair was really different. I like the floor work using the stability ball in in GS legs.
 
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Good evening ladies!

This morning was the jumpsport workout I had created a few weeks back and I added on one of the "Electric Intensive" (as they say) sections of the powerjump 46. I then followed up with KCM's 15 min upper body from her new dvd. Total time was 50 mins. Good morning workout to get me going! No walk with GiGi. It was raining. :(

Deb...not sure it you saw 2lazy4thegym posted another live rotation today. I have not reviewed it yet. I feel for you switching clothes. Hated doing that. But now that I have my awesome closet downstairs (if you remember I built it last summer) I never have to change things out again. I have a lot of clothes and everything has its place. Skiiing from your door is not nice in my book.

Valerie...that is great you do so much together. You met in a hiking club or something like that correct?

Carolyn...is Gym Style legs 67 minutes? That's a lot of legs. I would not want that either. Funny years ago while flipping thru the Collage Video catalog I would not look at a workout unless it was at least 60 minutes or more. My have times changed. I guess that is why I like the recent kickboxing because of the focus on boxing and upper body. I use my heavy bag on just about all of her live workouts instead of shadow boxing.

Carolyn...congrats on 43 years! Very nice. I completely forgot about KCM's live kickboxing workout. I need to pull this one out since it is a lot of fun!

Have a great night all!!!!
 
Lori, it looks like you got a great workout in without it being extremely long. Those are the best. I bet Gigi was missing the walk. Since we were out of town I had my grandson come over and let Gertie out and feed her dinner. Funny doggie thought I was supposed to feed her too. She kept following me around the kitchen and perched herself in her waiting for her food spot at the opening to the kitchen. She is quite the con. :) She has done that with us and got my husband to feed her after I had already fed her and went off to do something else. Now he asks me first and says Gertie tells him she did not eat. Meanwhile she is by his chair peering over the arm at me. We laugh at her all of the time. I know she ate before we got home because my grandson left the cabinet door open where her food bin is. I did not think that he would forget anyway.
 
Good morning,

Yesterday I did Live PHAT #2. Can't wait to try the PHAT workout that comes with the new DVD's.

Diane Sue, I agree, I would not vary your recipe if Gertie does well on the ones you make. Great that you took a day trip...and Italian lunch...mmmm...sounds good. Gertie is a con, just like our bird, "Frits". He gets a treat of popcorn every night from John around 7:00...if I happen to give it to him earlier because John is not around, he then starts "asking for it" once John is back, thinking he will get a second treat.

Valerie, funny that your niece would comment on Cathe's hairdo...I barely look at what they wear or hair and makeup...Yes, there were winter's that we x-country skied to my brother's house from ours because the streets were so clogged with snow you couldn't drive. Granted, they only lived about a mile away...:).

Carolyn, did you ever sign up for the Live workouts? I don't remember if you had or not. I looked just now and did not see a December rotation posted.

Lori, poor Gigi missed her walk yesterday but I fully understand...we don't walk the dogs in the rain either. I did miss a new Live rotation...have to go over and find it. Was the closet the one with the barn door? or was that for something else?

A workout, then maybe going to visit my friend, if she does not have to babysit her sick grandchild...I will probably have to take a ride to the vets office to pick up heart worm meds....was supposed to give them yesterday and found I was out of them...

Take care,
 
Lori yes, DH and I met at a mountaineering first aid course. so long ago! I was trying to learn outdoor things, be a hiker and backpacker as was DH. neither of us were given chances as kids. anyway, it all worked out pretty well... 37 years later.

Deb, I don't pay attention to the hair or makeup either, but my niece, who is not a snarky person, jumped on that hairdo right away. I assumed it was a generational 'thing" where people of the older generation wore something that strikes horror into the hearts of the younger one. maybe like how we mock the overly frizzy poodle perms our mothers used to get. the niece works out regularly and is quite fit, she does different things than I do ... but whatever works. she is the only one we visit and expect to go hiking, snowshoeing, or mt biking with. I started this, I should pull out that disk and take a look!.
I need to call in this weekend about my jury duty group for next week. I'm hoping my group is excused. I need to get a bunch of things done this weekend in case I end up being selected.

Wed I did 30 on the elliptical, time got away from me that day. yesterday I did total body metabolic again along with icy core1. yesterday the music got annoying. I will move to a different workout for a while. I used to like Cardio trisets or cardio supersets.. forgetting which one. I also should take a look at Hard Strikes. I'm pretty sure I have it and I have weighted gloves I can use. I don't remember why I never used it. Barre and step the only workouts I dislike.

talking about animals hitting you up for extra portions... my kitty never ate any kind of soft food even a bit of chicken or fish. suddenly he has decided he likes chicken! I give him a few shreds of chicken or turkey but he is cruising the kitchen behind me and almost begging. he gets at most a teaspoon full if I offer it in little shreds. he comes over and would stick his nose in my dinner plate if I let him.
 
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I didn't have much time for working out this morning, but I did manage a walk on the treadmill. I did a 30 minute interval walk, varying the speed and incline. I had to rush out for a medical appointment after that.

Deb, I did try Cathe Live for two months but found that I was not using it much. I just cancelled it Tuesday but I might change my mind and try it again. I saw on the thread about the new app that the 15% discount was extended and there are still a few Live workouts that I want to try. I looked at the December rotation but I'm not excited about it. I will probably use it with some substitutions. The format seems to be total body, lower body, and upper body with cardio in between. I know that I will substitute low impact HiiT for the higher impact ones in the rotation.

Waving hello to everyone.
 
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