Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 4/16/2023

Just finished Shock that Body. Wow! That one has everything. Upper, lower, compound, cardio and it's very fast paced. I walked before and after breakfast because we have rain headed our way. The paths had gotten to the point where there was just a couple areas that were still a bit muddy, and now we'll see what they look like tomorrow. We've already hit our high for the day and we'll start going down. And I see they lowered our high for tomorrow to 38. And then were a roller coaster of warm to cool. But, it's April and I'll take it.

Carolyn I'm glad it's nice there again. My sister drove from NC to FL yesterday and deliberately delayed until then, so she'd miss all the rain.

Diane Sue great mix of workouts.
 
Good morning. Judy, thanks for getting us started this week. I did yoga for 18 minutes today.

Cathy, great job with Shock That Body and walking this is.

Hello to Valerie and Diane Sue. Have a nice day everyone.
 
so far therapy work this morning. it strongly resembles yoga, lots of overlap, and I do more than what's on the 20 min set of moves that's progressing each week. end up with about 45 min.
raining this morning so wiped out plan to maybe ride. April showers and all that. later today I kinda- sorta did Flex Train. went very light on weights, just "semi" did the workout. did some of everything, and all of a quite a few moves. will see how I feel tomorrow. as usual, shoulders felt fine while I was doing it, so will see if it bothers me tomorrow. I really went easy on this. we want to xc ski tomorrow, another reason I dont want to be sore.
 
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Friday I did Muscle Meltdown Back, a 15 minute Peloton Low Impact Ride and a 45 minute weight training circuit at the gym. Yesterday I did a 30 minute Peloton ride and today I did a 45 minute Peloton ride.

Cathy-Great job with Shock that Body. That one sounds really good. It’s cold and raining here now. I enjoyed the past few days but it’s time to get back to normal April weather.

Carolyn-Great job with yoga today.

Valerie-Nice job with the therapy work.

Diane Sue-Great workouts! Thanks for the link to the Yoga For Neck, Shoulders & Upper Back. I bookmarked that one and will be doing it this week.
 
Did In the Ring this morning. While it sounds like boxing, it's actually kickboxing. Definitely gets me sweating. It snowed earlier, but it's all gone now. Even at the time it fell, it was only staying about half the places it landed. My husband is finally in a frame of mind to get rid of things, so I'm jumping in while it lasts. So, I'm going to try to spend a chunk of time each day going though some things. Every time Nick comes home, I try and get him to decide about more stuff and he'll be home in about a month. Last week DH and I had the talk when I was piling up puzzles to get rid of now. Him "don't you want to save them for grandkids." Me "I'm not saving things for hypothetical grandchildren that may or may not happen, for two kids who are not possession oriented." If we have a prayer of downsizing, he needs to come to grips with that!

Valerie great job with the light weight workout and the therapy work. I hope you are able to ski today.

Judy nice job with the Peloton rides, Muscle Meltdown and weight training circuit.

Carolyn great that you are keeping the yoga going!
 
Kinda-sorta skied this morning. drove to the area, but there was a ton of snow down low and one road corner with a big drift. could not get past. we hiked/skied around the corner, but soon ran out of snow. spring can be like that..... shady spots hold snow a long time. would have been an extremely long walk before solid snow. we hiked carrying skis/ boots uphill for a mile and came back down again. I got some interesting sore spots from yesterday. nothing bad but you know how that works...., something different than usual, there is no overlap in the muscles getting worked. my bicycle muscles are fine, but the squat/ lunge muscles are not too happy. upper body is ok. I did mostly 3's, 5's, 10's. way less than normal but I haven't done "normal" for a long time now.

cathy your DH will probably figure out that kids are not into old stuff. doesn't matter what it is . go to Goodwill. see how many sets of china and glassware are waiting for a taker. paper plates are the new Lennox. tastes and convenience change with the generations. if it needs dry cleaning or doesnt go thru a DW, I dont want it either.
 
This morning I did JS 30 Minute Fat Blaster. That was 30 minutes, 224 calories burned, average heart rate 133 and maximum heart rate 162.

Judy, great job with Muscle Meltdown Back, Peloton rides, and weight training circuit at the gym.

Cathy, great job with In the Ring. That’s funny about having “the talk” with your husband. My husband has trouble letting go of things also. He always thinks that we will need whatever it is “someday”.

Valerie, great job with the therapy exercises. I’m glad that you were able to ski this morning. I’m not surprised that you have soreness from using your lower body muscles differently.

Hello to Diane Sue.
 
Did All In Upper Body this morning. Lots of varied rep speeds and a lot of reps, so I pretty much dropped down a weight from Cathe's. Definitely a good workout, but not easy.

Valerie sounds like you got a decent workout even if the skiing part was minimal. Glad your soreness is the I worked an area kind and not the bad kind. I have serious doubts my husband will ever get it. LOL He has not embraced things from the last oh, 20-25 years. Music, TV, movies after about the mid 80's cannot possibly in any way be decent let alone good. :rolleyes: And lucky him married to me who listens to and watches new stuff. Derek pretty much only has a TV because he inherited the one Nick bought for college and no longer wanted when he moved to TX, and the only thing he uses it for is to watch Islander's hockey! They have everything they want on their laptops and phones.

Carolyn great job with 30 Minute Fat Blaster.

Hello to Judy and Diane Sue!
 
Today I did RWH Back, Biceps, and Shoulders, a timesaver with two sets and no finishers. My time was 40 minutes and 225 calories burned. Average heart rate was 125 and maximum heart rate was 152. It was quite a workout even without the finishers. This is a challenging workout using heavy weights.

Cathy, nice job with All in Upper Body.

Hello to Judy, Valerie, and Diane Sue.
 
Today I did a 45 minute Peloton ride, a 20 minute Peloton upper body workout and 30 minutes of Yin Yoga.

Cathy-Great job with In The Ring and All in Upper Body.

Valerie-Great job with the hiking/skiing.

Carolyn-Great job with JS 30 Minute Fat Blaster and RWH Back, Biceps & Shoulders. I love the RWH timesavers. I'm not sure I would even try to do the full RWH workouts again. The timesavers are challenging enough.

Hi to Diane Sue
 
I have been busy. I thought today would be better, but multiple people calling and coming to the door. An ATT person needed in our yard to hook up new neighbors behind us. If we would have known what we were going to be putting up with utility companies for neighbors, we probably would have chosen a different house. I keep getting a little outside work done here and there. We had a great time with family Sunday for Easter festivities and a birthday.

Yesterday I was still hurting all over so kept my workout light. I did Raw Step Boxing, 29 minutes, heart rate 130/152, 153 calories, 2,497 steps. I then did CDorner Core Mobility, 34 minutes, 55 calories. Total time 63 minutes, 208 calories. Saturday I was putting mulch in the planter and stood up holding a bag of mulch and turned my knee wrong so that it was hurting and wanting to give out on me again. Thankfully it is feeling better now.

Today I did CDorner Total Body with Bands from yesterday, 61 minutes, 125 calories, heart rate 86/128. I followed this with CDorner Neck and Shoulders Stretch that she did today, 23 minutes, 28 calories, heart rate 72/87. I like the different things Chris does with the bands and tubing. Some of the tubing work she does without the handles on, but they can be done either way.

CDorner Total Body with bands (tubing, fabric loop and regular loop required)
moves are done for 1 minute each 3 groupings done 2 times each and finishing with a bonus 60 second plank on forearms

Group 1
curtsy with chest press wearing fabric loop and tubing for the chest press right
banded RDL fabric loop
curtsy lunge with incline chest press fabric loop and tubing
lat pulldown with good morning wearing fabric loop and loop band around wrists
repeat all

Group 2
seated rows with tubing
banded slow roll up with tubing around feet
banded leg extension right with one foot in handle and other foot on the band holding it down Lying down
(you can really feel the quad in this)
banded leg extension left
repeat all

Group 3
wall sit with fabric loop and loop band doing abductions with legs and pull with loop around wrists (works the upper back and chest)
triceps extension right tubing standing on one end and using the other for OH extension
triceps extension left tubing
seated V-sit or not with loop over arms doing robot arms
repeat all

bonus plank
 
did 30 on the spin bike and 45 min of therapy work. need to get a u/s scan tomorrow so if that goes Ok we think we will try to mt bike at a state park we haven't been to since late last summer.

cathy that is so funny about your DH. I find plenty of movies and TV things to watch, and things to read but for me music pretty much ended sometime around 1990. I'm not terribly musical. some is lack of exposure. if it's not on the radio, I don't come across it. and face it, not much is on the radio! except maybe rap which I absolutely hate. awful obnoxious noise. if a tv or movie has rap in the soundtrack that's a deal breaker. not listening to that ugly stuff. I dont care who does it. ugh.
we've seen a lot of excellent TV, movies & series. almost all the good writing has gone to TV IMO. we have family members still watching Bonanza and Gunsmoke!
We watched Top Gun tonight. about as stupid and cliched as a movie could be. I need to look up where "jumping the shark" came from, but this definitely qualified. Fonzie? it was Ok as a silly popcorn movie with no connection to reality but not a favorite category for me. it moves along quickly but definitely geared to appeal to 16 yo boys. interestingly, all the music was from the 70's and 80's. completely and totally ridiculous events. if you want a silly popcorn movie, this qualifies. Tom Cruise still looks good and at least they didnt hook him up with a 20 yr old.
 
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Just finished Wicked Lower Body and Core. Heart rate stays up beginning to end on that one. With the exception of 90/90's, all the core moves used disks.

Valerie when it comes to music my husband has an addiction to buying CD's. I'm not exaggerating when I say he has 3-4000. It's crazy. Thrift stores, library sales, friends getting rid of things. 90% of the time he's awake and in the house, he has music on. Fortunately, I have the ability to just tune stuff out. I also sometimes just use ear buds, or go downstairs to do things. It's really rather fascinating as he has rules, many of which I don't understand for playing things. He will rotate throughout the day to playing things he already owns in order, with one part being classical and the other being everything else. Some things he owns a lot of so I can have days of listening to the Beatles etc. Then he also works in new stuff. A few months back someone gave him four decent size boxes full of CD's, and he had to listen to them all. I greatly benefited from this as a fair bit of it was stuff I like that he normally wouldn't play. When I asked him why he was playing things he doesn't like, he said that he had to. Go figure, I gave up trying to figure it out a long time ago. I listen to both my Apple Music and Sirius. Sirius has a huge variety of options, so I have 70's, 80's, pop, rock, classical, country and I can just flip through them. Nice job with the spin bike and therapy. Hope the scan goes well and you are able to Mt. Bike today.

Diane Sue I'm sorry you are having a lot of pain. Great that you were still able to get workouts in. Such a pain for you to keep having to deal with the utility people. Things like that should be disclosed when a house is for sale.

Judy nice job with the Peloton ride, upper body and yoga.

Carolyn great job with RWH Back, Biceps, and Shoulders.
 
This morning I did Low Impact Sweat, workout one for 28 minutes and 160 calories burned. My average heart rate was 124 and maximum heart rate was 154.

Judy, great job with Peloton ride, Peloton Upper Body, and Yin Yoga. I’ve done the full RWH workouts, but the timesavers fit me just fine. My biceps and rear delts are really sore today.

Diane Sue, nice job with Raw Step Boxing, CDorner Core Mobility, and CDorner Total Body with Bands. I hope that your knee is better.

Valerie, nice job with the spin bike and therapy exercises. I love music but I don’t listen to it very often anymore. It can be such a mood lifter for me.

Cathy, great job with Wicked Lower Body and Core. Your husband does sound obsessive about his CDs. He must have a good organizational method that works for him.

Have a good day everyone.
 
cathy we have Sirius. DH has some rock stations he listens to when traveling. I either listen to music or do something else. music takes over my brain so I cant do anything simultaneously. it doesn't go to "background" for me. I hate ear buds, anything right in my ear. I can't tolerate them. most dont fit in my ears to begin with because I have very small ears. I cant even get ear plugs to stay in.
we had vinyl from when we were young. bought an inexpensive turntable to replay. went thru quite a few of them but not impressed. most albums had one or two good songs, the rest filler. no good way to pick and choose. we found a retro vinyl store nearby, and sold the whole business. turntable too. the store had tons of CD's, even cassette tapes. no 8 tracks. a fun store to visit. your DH would go crazy there!. a lot of great music but no easy way to enjoy it. current music doesn't compare to the range and variety from that era. just flipping thru albums you get remineded of songs and artists that you loved but didnt make it to the status of the Beatles, Led zeppelin, Stones, Queen etc. I think it says something when a 2022 movie has a soundtrack from 40 years ago.
U/S scan went fine, a minor cyst and everything else fine. no stones, clogs, or unexpected findings.

ride wont work today. raining on and off and scan and drive took some time. going to do another cardio/weight thing or kick boxing.

diane sue hope your knee improves. maybe it needs a rest day or two.
 
Today I did CDorner Fast Basic Step #283, heart rate 121/151, 158 calories, 3,153 steps 33 minutes. I then did her Step and strength with bands that she did today, 33 minutes, heart rate 126/154, 157 calories, 2,304 steps. This used a loop band and alternated basic moves with a loop band segment. Most bane work hit lower body and there was some robot arms, and rows mixed in. No overhead or shoulder work :) .
I finished with CDorner Stretch after Step, 17 minutes, 33 calories.
Total time was 83 minutes, 348 calories, 5,457 steps.
 
I went outside and barely got started on the front planters when it started raining. It was one of those times where the sun was shining, and it rained. It stopped and then came back hard. I did not get much accomplished outdoors.

Cathy, I think that it is hard to get rid of some things. We have loads of dvds that I put in a huge holder rather than have all of the covers on them. My husband has replaced all of his favorites and the new stuff online purchase. He prefers not messing with the dvd players. We did toss all of the vhs tapes though. We like to watch old stuff as well as new stuff. We never watch basic tv channels. It is usually Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Fire tv or Vudu. We have records and no player. We gave them to my daughter at one time and she gave them all back except the Beatles albums. That tote is large and also has singles in it. My granddaugter came over several years ago and we listened to records on her player. My thoughts were sort of nostalgic and then again some of it I wondered why I had liked it. Saving Toys and puzzles is sort of useless unless one of your children have a fond memory and want something. I still have a tote of toys I set out on the patio and was cleaning up outside and thinking I should get rid of that as well. My youngest grandchild is almost 9. They come over and even the games, and arts and craft things sit as they play on their cell phones and tablets. I would like to get everyone's faces out of those things. I saved some things like a car seat and stroller etc and my daughter told me to just get rid of them as her daughters would buy new stuff. It really is a different generation.
Nice work on the all-in upper body and the lower body workouts.

Valerie, it sounds like you are doing well with the therapy work and getting some light weights in. I am glad you are able to get out and do skiing and cycling. I do not listen to a lot of music, but tend to know quite a few artists and something that they sing. I tried to listen to some older 60's and 70's music on Amazon and most songs I was not all that thrilled with. I don't get Amazon music's format. I pick a song and it shows the title then says it is shuffling and plays something else. It is annoying. I have been trying my new ear buds and they fall out. I have tried all 3 earpieces and they still fall out. I lean over or something and they hit the floor. I do not know how people work out with them in their ears. I am mostly listening to podcasts and informational stuff with them.
I love quiet myself but have become acclimated to the tv being on constant when my husband is home and up. I forget all about it after he leaves till I sit down and am reading something or looking at the computer and suddenly it dawns on me that it is still running. I cannot sleep with sound going. I have a clock that has white noise I won from Amazon once and I tried the sound and had waves in the background. It aggravated me and I had to turn on the light to figure out how to stop it before it was scheduled to stop. I am glad that your U/S scan came out okay.

Judy, nice job on the Peloton Ride, Upper Body workout, and Yin Yoga.

Carolyn, nice work with RWH back biceps, and shoulders yesterday and Low Impact Sweat today. My knee if feeling fine today.
 
weather cleared enough for a few hours so we did a round of gardening. its been a cold wet spring but things need to get planted or they will dry out in their little peat pots while we're gone. ended up being a fair amount of walking up and down hill etc. I did therapy work after for 40 min but that was it. the scan I had yesterday is fine. I'm relieved. an abdominal scan. showed all major organs clearly and all is fine. a minor cyst on my liver that showed up on another scan that needed to be checked out to be sure it wasnt 'something" .

my ear canals are not wide enough for ear plugs. Ive tried every kind, they wont go in. pop out instantly. if I need ear protection I need to wear muffs. for maybe the same reason ear buds transmit sound so directly I can't stand it no matter how low the music is. never been able to use them. of all the problems to have, this is a minor one. going to go ride this morning, a road ride instead of mt bike. we plan on traveling this weekend.
 
This morning I did RWH Legs. That was 42 minutes and 210 calories burned. My average heart rate was 118 and maximum heart rate was 147. I had a few errands to run after my workout. I was tired and hungry my the time that I got back home.

Diane Sue, great job with the CDORNER workouts and stretch. I’ve had the same experience with saving things that I have collected over the years and things from my children. Books and board games have gone over very well. We have plenty of both!

Valerie, I’m glad that your scan went well with no problems. I can’t stand ear buds in my ears. I could barely use the headphones for music during my workouts on cardio equipment.

Hello to Judy and Cathy.
 
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