Taking it to the Max-- June 2013 thru...

hi girls! where is everyone, I wonder? hopefully enjoying spring weather. none of that here this week-- it is so cold that I actually have the heat on in the house again! yuck. it has been rough here, too, as my dad has been in the hospital. he has dementia (feels just like with mom), only, in addition to that, he has become totally paranoid. he hasn't been eating, thinking that people were trying to poison him, and he is down to 130 lbs at 6 foot 1. it is so hard to see. I went to visit him on Thursday night, and they had him so doped up on different meds, that he couldn't even speak and I don't think he even recognized who I was. this sure is hard, especially after going through alzheimers with mom :-(. anyway, I didn't sleep at all Thursday night after that, and had to skip my workout on Friday. I still kept my rest day on Saturday as I have been so fried. that was a bummer. got back at it yesterday with flextrain and today with rockout knockout and some yoga. my hips have been killing me lately, too, and now TTOM is coming. I am worried after my last cycle that this could be another doozie.

ladylep-- did you get up for your workout? I love brownies, so that would be my downfall! hope all is going well this week.

renee-- I hope things are going okay with you! whatever happened at your job? how is your dad?

alright, some tv time before heading to bed!

peace,

katie
 
Hi Katie, sorry about your dad!! I can't even imagine how tough that must be,

I have not gotten any wo in since Thursday. And I was planning on getting up this morning but Little K decided to wake the whole family at 4:40am!! So I'm super tired and in bed now. I don't know what's in store for tomorrow, just depends on sleep at this point.

Hubby got me Fitbit for Mothers day!! Unfortunately I don't know how to get it connected to my fitness pal. Anyone know?

Hi Renee!


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hi girls. another dreary day here. did low impact hii1 1 scrambled premix. yesterday i did low impact x10 plus an hour of jivamukti yoga, Tuesday did LIHI back, shoulders and bis. will finish out the week tomorrow with LIHI chest, shoulders and tris. was supposed to bring Nygel for more state testing, but it got cancelled (yay!) due to some computer issues in the state. he gets excused from this round, which is fantastic, as life is insane right now. my dad is still in the hospital. we saw him last night and he was much clearer mentally-- was watching a twins game, knew who we all were and chatted with us-- but he is incredibly thin and still not eating :-(. the doctors have said that, based on his age (84) and size (probably about 127 lbs now at 6'1'') that we should all visit as much as we want to, because he might be leaving us soon. it is so difficult. I get it, though-- I know he doesn't want to be in a facility like mom was and he already has in his health care directive that he wants no ivs, feeding tubes, etc. I just wish he would stick around for a while longer, at least. alec has his graduation party of june 7, and I am praying that he makes it to be there.

thanks for the kind words, ladylep. it is so difficult. we just lost another aunt this past week, too. seems like now our generation is getting older, so many are leaving us from our parents' generation. how fun that your dh got you fitbit! I am not sure how that all works, but hoping you got it hooked up! 4:40 is too early to be up and I do way too much of that lately. :p hope all is well with you and the family.

renee-- missing your check-ins! hope that all is well with you!

hello to Caitlin!

will try and check back tomorrow or Saturday! oh, another exciting thing! the boys were featured in the new York times for a project they did at the U of M with a physics student. he composed a piece which shows how our planet is warming. the music is very simple for them to play, but it has been a great experience for them! today I am bringing Nygel to an interview/photo shoot by our local paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. nice publicity for the boys at any rate! will try to post a link here:

http://ensia.com/videos/what-climate-change-sounds-like-from-the-amazon-to-the-arctic/

hope that works!

katie
 
I'm in Baltimore visiting my sister and tonight I took her hot yoga class, my first one, I was sweating buckets!! And tomorrow I'll go to her barre class.
Quick update on the rest: the homeschool convention was great, but I completely forgot to go to the Critical Thinking booth, so I'll have to buy online, hopefully I'll have enough for free shipping.

Kids are finishing up school this week, their 180 days that is but they have certain workbooks I want them to finish. And I will try to continue with math 2-3x per week that they don't have camps and reading daily, but I haven't come up with their reading lists yet...

Food has been up and down and so has my weight. Exercise has been good, most days 30-45 min alternating DVDs from RWH except last Sunday, I did 30 min each of PRS1 and YogaMax.


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Hi girls. Very tough week here. My dad came home from the hospital last Saturday and passed away yesterday morning. It has been emotionally exhausting. I will post more later, but sending well wishes to you all. Ladylep, I wonder where Renee has gone off to? Hoping she is well.

Peace,
Katie
 
Hi Katie and Renee!

Quick check in: Pyramid Lower Body this morning. I don't remember ever doing this one! I couldn't do all the leg lifts on the ball.

Do either of you know know how big the ball should be? I'm 5'9" and wonder if mine is too small and not inflated enough.


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Quick update while at a stoplight! HiiT 40/20 yesterday and GS Legs just the warm up, floor work and stretch.

Graduation to attend tonight and baseball playoffs start tomorrow! Portfolios red to be complete in a week!

Hope all is week with everyone!


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Hi Ladylep-- it seems Renee has been off this thread for a while. I hope she comes back on again. Good to hear from you-- sounds like you have been getting good workouts in.

Last week was so tough emotionally. It feels surreal to have both dad and mom gone, and with dad it all happened so fast. The doctors now think that he probably had a brain tumor. he had been telling us all a couple of months ago that he was going to die soon, and we all just thought he was being morbid. I would tell him, no you're not dad! he never mentioned, though, to any of us kids that he had been having very bad headaches. that with his huge weight loss and then the paranoia all point to a tumor, while the doctors initially just thought, given his age, it was Alzheimer's or dementia. they gave him drugs for that which totally wiped him out. the Friday before he passed (exactly two weeks ago) he was in the hospital and was telling me I needed to get him out of there-- and he was strong! he was getting up and trying to get out of the bed-- my brother had to hold him down to get him to relax. well, he went home the next day and by the time I saw him on Monday, he was no longer able to speak. he did open his eyes and smile, and when he saw Nygel, he tried to say his name. the next day (last Tuesday), he only had his eyes open just slightly and was otherwise just breathing heavily and sleeping. same for Wednesday and Thursday, and then he passed early Friday morning. it is still hard for me to wrap my brain around it all. his funeral is next Saturday, and alec's graduation party is the next day. so many things are going on in addition to losing my dad, that it is all overwhelming. anyway, thanks for letting me talk about it-- it does help.

I have been getting in workouts still-- this week was supercuts on sunday, pyramid hiit on Monday,lean legs and abs extreme premix on Tuesday, an hour of yoga on Wednesday, great glutes extreme on Thursday and today I did RWH upper body circuit. working out still feels strange, but I have been doing it anyway to try to keep some normalcy in my day to day schedule.

good luck with the portfolios ladylep! enjoy your time at the graduation! alec graduates next Thursday and I still can't believe it! I am very proud of him-- he is the valedictorian and will be making a speech. so bittersweet. time flies by way too fast.

renee-- I miss hearing from you! hoping you pop in soon!

hello to Caitlin, if she is around!

peace,

katie
 
Vent anytime. I can't even imagine.

No workouts this weekend. But I did a lot of walking both days for sports and stuff.

I think I'm going to do the June rotation! Unfortunately, I don't have any of the workouts for this week except for hard strikes. Here's what I'm thinking for this week:

M- LIS Trisets upper body premix 30 min chest shoulders triceps (Done!)
T- I will choose tomorrow: HS, timesaver with KPC in it or Hardcore extreme with KPC in it.
W- PLB or LIS Trisets lower body or another lower body wo, maybe wts from CLB or times saver legs and glutes or B&G. I have a bunch of leg wo to choose from and add in core
TH- HS
F- LIS Trisets biceps back core
S- PRS or some other fun cardio


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Hi all wanted to jump in and say hi! Sorry I haven't been on here. I just have not felt like being on much lately. I do not know why I have been exercising but not six days it is more like four or five and I am hating that! But just tired it seems.. My job is still unstable it seems. He used to look at me when we are laughing and cutting up with the patients but he can't even look me n the eyes. So far I still have a job I guess because I have not really done anything to warrant being fired and that girl still has a class or got a job? I don't know the status of her as of right now. All I know is my patients who know I am new there or who have never seen me always give me compliments and say to the doctor that I am really good and gentle and they really like me there. They always say this to him and say I have an outstanding in caring personality and bubbly .. A few even commented on how well he and I work together and how fast we get the job finished. I have NOt done anything different either! Still at times he try's to change stuff up on me when I know a number five tooth is a bicuspid towards the front and u can see it he usually does a composite( tooth colored filling) so I got that out he changes his mind and he looks at me like I'm crazy and says it an amalgam. Silver filling. And I have to get out different materials. See this he can say I was not paying attention when I know I was he usually usual white because when we smile you can see that tooth! And he needs to communicate if he is going to change it up not act like I have three heads and make me feel stupid.
But I think I want to go to night classes for three weeks and be a CNA for other days for hospice it doesn't make a lot of money and it is sad but I want to do something meaningful.

Plus I case he fires me I want to have something to fall back on other then dentistry. I just feel that if I can't do simple fillings after years of fillings, crowns, bridges, and root canals and pouring up models, and me doing the bleaching and me cleaning children's teeth and doing the temperature for the doctors and now I can't seem to do the simplest of procedures it must be time to admit defeat and say I suck and say I guess being at it so long was a fluke. I was patronized all this time and they felt sorry for me and kept me. I don't know. I can't handle anymore disappointments In a field that I had lived so much!!
Anyway we are doing okay I am going to attempt to do imax3 today. I did plyo 1 and 2 on Tuesday after work and started gagging lol it was hard


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Quick check, I'm off to a mother son retreat with CDawg in an hour or so. I did LIS back/biceps/core premix 34 min.

Welcome back Renee!! Happy to see you back! I've seen your other posts in other threads about the new DVD series. I hope they have good music too! I haven't ordered but am thinking about it!

Hi Renee!
 
Thanks !! I can t wait for new workouts!! Lol intermediate will be so fun ! I need some of those I think if u do HIIT and hard ones like we do all the time inflammation sets in with some people me in particular and the body needs workouts that are not as hard everyday! But not to easy to.

Have a good time with the son! I love doing things with my son still and he is 27 and just today we went and seen soy together! It was funny but I didn't like they said G D in it a few times the rest was good !i will order the new series but need good music and I hope there is a premix of all muscle parts on one DVD. And I'd love a restorative yoga that is on floor for before bedtime to help with sleep! Longer stretches and deeper! Delicious


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Renee, We had a great time, shot a rifle and bow and arrows. But we had to leave early for his playoff game where he was starting pitcher. Unfortunately they lost. Semifinals on Thursday and championship on Saturday if they win Thursday.

No wo for me over the weekend. I did go out to the driving range with CDawg and Hubby yesterday. Today I'm not sure if I want to do Hard Strikes and yoga max 30 min of each to make up for lost workouts and then feel behind all week or just move right into 4D HIS today and maybe pick the other 2 on a scheduled rest day.

Portfolios are finished! Evaluation is Thursday. Either basketball or playoffs every night this week. Next week we have Camp Little Bear every morning and then I'm basically free! The kids will have their camps but they will be staying at my moms or it will be overnight camp. Then I can really work on getting the rest of my school materials for next year/planning and planning for Disney in Nov. I hope to get some relax time this summer but also some house projects.

Hi Katie!


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Hi girls. Pretty intense weekend here. Had dad's funeral on Saturday, then a concert that night, and on Sunday had Alec's graduation party. It felt like too many huge life events at one time, but it was good to see all the family and we did give dad a nice service.

I did a workout by Tracie long on Sunday and total body trisets UB today. I can't remember when I was on here last
 
That cut off too soon! Darn smartphones! I was going to say that I did 30/30 hiit last week plus two days of upper body, one of yoga plus low impact RWH.

Renee-- I am sorry for all the crud at work, but I know you will find the path that you are meant for. Hospice would probably be a great job for someone as caring as you. Good luck with everything.

Ladylep-- glad you had a good weekend and congrats on finishing the portfolios!

Will try to check in again soon--

Katie
 
Hi! Headed to the pool with friends so this will be a quick check in. Yesterday was supposed to be steady state cardio since I don't have any bike wo's and I had PRS1 planned but I decided that I was doing a lot of step this week so I decided to do Butt and Guts and boy does my butt hurt to sit!! Today I did 4D HIS tomorrow I'll do 4D Kickbox. I switched them up a bit so I could have abs every other day. So I did 4D LIS Monday hat has abs and didn't do abs yesterday with B&G and tomorrow's Kickbox will have abs and Saturday is intensity with core max. I may decide to do another leg wo. Or I may not be able to do anything we have 3 possibly 4 baseball games that day!


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Katie I didn't get to say I am so sorry about your dad! It seems u had just got to get a good relationship going even. But I am so glad you did! I hate this happened. I can imagine how it must feel having both them gone! I know I am thinking the same about my dad. You know what in the world is it gonna be like knowing I will have him mom and ryan gone it seems like it will be indescribable. But I guess this is the circle of our life's. But it is part of it I dread so much!
I have been exercising still, I did lower body circuit RWH. Yesterday was rest day, day before that was ripped with HIIT chest, shoulders, Tri ceps.
Anyway I got my pool fixed to. ! Finally! It felt so good!




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hi girls! so busy again! the kids' program at the U of M has started, so I am gone everyday, all day. poor bugsy and henri! the kids are loving it, though.

thank you so much, renee. you are right-- my dad and I just got close over the past two years. it makes me so sad, as I was planning on another summer of get togethers, but I am also grateful in that it happened at all. it is strange to have them both gone. it makes you feel like an orphan. I hope your dad continues to do well and you get to visit him often. time is always too short. great job on the workouts! looks like lots of rwh for you! :)

hello ladylep! hope all is well with you!

I got in a tracie long workout today, but did crossfire plus core on sunday. I only have about 30 minutes in the mornings before I am heading out the door, so workouts will have to be short for the next four weeks!

hugs,

katie
 
Hi Katie and Renee-

Quick update here, CDawg won the first game of the Championship! Double elimination, tomorrow is the next game. And Camp Little Bear (CLB) is this week, Little K is my camper and the other boys are all helping in some way.

I've kept up with my workouts:

I did Kickbox last Thursday, Friday day off (unintentional), Saturday I couldn't take the time for all of 4DBootcamp, so I did just the upper body and CoreMax 2. Sunday also, off unintentionally. Today I did LIS upper body for 30 min. Here's the plan for the rest of the week:

Tues-TTM Less Impact 39 min
Wed- PUB
Thurs- GS Legs
Fri -Intensity with CoreMax 1
Sat- Imax 2 with CoreMax 2

They are all an hour or longer, so I may have to do shorter premixes. I have to workout before 7 every day this week because CLB is every morning and I'm just not going to get it done otherwise. And Saturday we have 3 events but only one that I need to be there for and then Father's Day we are headed to my dad's with my in laws, who I just saw him yesterday for the first time since before Christmas because we were so sick over the winter!
 
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