Getting Buff! January 2021 Challenge To Keep Moving Weeks 0-4

[Vantreesta]

Hey, guys. I woke up with that awful feeling of anxious dread and doom for some reason. This hasn't happened in quite a while. Not sure what's up. I'm hoping it's just bc my hamstrings hurt more than usual, the fingertips on my right hand have been kind of numb since lifting weights on Saturday and the toilet seems to be clogged, and not bc smthg actually bad is on the horizon. I need to get outside for our walk and see if I can shake the feeling.

Wed and Thu I don't think I worked it at all. I was in such a state of waiting and wondering if I would need to go stay with my father-in-law and I am VERY bad at being in that state! His treatment on Wed went fine and so far he is still feeling some sick and very tired but nothing worse than that. Praying it stays that way. I really appreciate everyone's prayers and good thoughts for him.

Friday I did workout some. Trying to remember what I did though! I think I did another Tae Bo Express workout, a Barre3 segment and Rodney's AM Yoga for Your Week hip openers. My phone was almost dead and rapidly going down even while plugged in so I wasn't able to do Rowvember (the intervals were set in an app on my phone) or Fightmaster yoga (no internet so no YouTube). Saturday I did Crossrope day 5, Perfect 30 Upper Body (I didn't like the premix with the upper body bonus bc it felt so disjointed and more rushed since it interjects the bonus exercises into the main workout) and the next day of Fightmaster. Yesterday was a big fat nothing! I slept in till 9 and still ended up taking a 2 hour nap. I worked on my workout catalog/spreadsheet and thought I had index cards for every workout until I sorted and found many still don't have them. Groan. I love doing it but I never seem to get it all done. Many still don't have physical location listed either but I'm not working on that till I can actually get them reorganized like I want.

We got another 6-7" of snow on Saturday. When I took Cyric out to do his business first thing yesterday morning the snow was almost up to his belly! I think we should have enough to kind of snowshoe now so my goal for this week is to find the energy to load up my gear and Cyric an go to the nearby state park to snowshoe a little. He has never gotten to go. D'Argo and Chianna always seemed to enjoy it. Well, I KNOW Chianna did being a snow dog!

[SandyO]

February Thread

http://forum.videofitness.com/showthread.php?t=230288

So far this month I have done a Caroline G and the Lauren B KB challenge everyday. Still liking both. Lauren was a 21 day challenge, but I'm redoing 10 days to get to 31 for the month.

Sandy O

[buffmama]

Vannie - Hope you're feeling more settled today and your father in law is on the mend.
Sandy - You must be feeling strong - yeah!
Helen - Talk about heal thy self! Way to go.

Really liking Cailin's latest. The different approaches give me something to bring to the following practices. My shoulders are feeling the brunt of EPIC. Maybe that's why this week is leg week?!

[Vantreesta]

Hey, guys. Sorry I didn't post yesterday after feeling all gloom and doom the day before. Yesterday and today have been much better. Monday I finally convinced myself to do Rowvember day 10. I couldn't mentally muster anything more but I was happy I didn't bail completely. I've pretty much convinced myself the numbness in my fingers is a carpal tunnel type thing. I shredded a 3 lb roast and by the time I was finished all my fingers were numb, and it reminded me that when I worked at the ice cream shoppe in college the same thing would happen on nights I had to chop a lot of veggies for pizzas. I had some problems with pain in my right wrist when I was at my last job until I bought a mouse pad with gel wrist rest. Plus my dad and all his siblings have had carpal tunnel syndrome and Dad is the only one who hasn't had surgery for it. I freak out anytime I have unusual symptoms bc I'm so scared it could be ALS. Dad reminded me that if I live in fear of it then the disease wins even when I don't have it. Most of the time I don't let it enter my mind but there are days I can't fight the thoughts about it even though I know he's right.

My father-in-law said he is feeling much better and isn't even exhausted. So thankful! Our old pastor had been in the hospital with covid then moved to rehab and he got to go home yesterday. More to be grateful for. My grandma got her first vaccination today.

Yesterday before breakfast I did LWR Fitness Advent day 9, which was a short walking type workout, and then Fightmaster day 15. After our walk I ran 1.988 mi on the tm for wk1 day2, which was still run 60 sec walk 90 sec. I bumped up the speed a little on the runs but still not trying to go fast (for me). Then I did a premix of Super Cuts. I was thinking there was smthg else but now I can't remember. This morning before breakfast I did the next days of LWR (short "HIIT" workout which was not actually HIIT) and Fightmaster. After our walk I shoveled for 70 minutes. This was the hardest shoveling bc it was the ice chunks and hard packed snow the snowplow threw onto our sidewalk. It needs about that long again but it's passable for dog and human side by side and I didn't want to push my back too hard. I ended up skipping the rest of my planned workouts after that. My knee is hurting so I figured it was just as well not running and jumping rope on it today. It hasn't bothered me in close to two years so not sure what's going on with it.

[buffmama]

No words of wisdom Vannie. Just keep breathing deeply. You're doing so much. Things should just work themselves out.

Sandy - You're ahead of me on the latest pilates workouts. Would love to hear your opinions on those and your other workouts.

Helen - How are you liking mixing up all the yoga challenges? Some are just hard to work in with the strength work. (I'm looking at you Tim.)

[Vantreesta]

Thanks, buff. I wish my brain had an off switch sometimes!

[SandyO]

buff, I have been using the pilates as a cooldown/stretch after the Caroline G classes. I found them all effective, but I always love the ones with equipment the best (ring, foam roller, small ball...). I have been doing my rehab to get warmed up for the KB squats which gets me warmed up for the Carolines. I will continues doing the Caroline G classes into February, but I won't worry so much about doing one everyday.

Keep on Keepin' on, everyone!

[Vantreesta]

Yesterday I never did workout. I baked two kinds of cookies and put away laundry and that was pretty much it. This morning before breakfast I did day 11 of Lucy's Fitness Advent calendar (another "HIIT") and Fightmaster yoga day 17. I had a bit of a headache I was hoping wouldn't become a migraine. By this afternoon it hurt worse but still wasn't a migraine so I decided to try working out anyway. I started with Strong Knees 7 Minutes to Save Your Knees then did 2/3 of Rowvember day 11 for 3.2 miles. I think the motion was increasing tension in my upper back and neck making my head worse so I settled on doing that much. Next was 10 minutes on the elliptical for 1.25 mile. By then I gave up hope of running and just hurriedly did Slim & Limber so I could eat and take smthg for my head. It's much better tonight but still a hint of it left. I was laughing out loud at 3rd Rock From the Sun while I was on the rower and elliptical and that felt great even if it didn't improve my headache.

We're under a winter weather advisory. They're calling for freezing drizzle and then, depending on which report you go by, anywhere from 1-8" of snow.

[Vantreesta]

I'm feeling Helen's Mondivation for tmrw and the new month.

[Helen]

Hey everyone!!

VANNIE
So pleased to see my 'Mondivation / Monthivation' words have caught on!
Love it especially when it's BOTH - which is EXACTLY why I'm here!!
Fell of posting as caught up in back-to-school prep big time.

BUFF
Stopped mixing the challenges, and switched to just follow through with Tim. It was just easier. Besides, his dog looks more like my Alice than Adriene's does.

SANDY
Oh yes, I was very proud to be trusted by the physio!
Thank you for the Feb thread - heading off to put in my weeks now.

Shall see you all there!