TA/Meta Continuity & anything else Spring 2020

[ebianco]

Hi everyone,

I got started with my workout week yesterday with Firm Volume 4, love the cardio in this one! And I was able to keep my heart rate high through the strength and felt really rejuvenated after.

Today will be some form of cardio and Pure Barre. If I am not too tired tomorrow, I may try for another Firm instead of active recovery, and keeping to my Firm and then Pure Barre schedule. This current rotation seems to be really speaking to me right now.

Eventmom My weight has been fluctuating as well, but I have been a little less stringent with my eating than I was in the last couple of weeks. I also try to remind myself about 100 calories less in a day is 10 pounds a year, but many days that isn't enough to motivate me not to have my after dinner snack.

Buzzer Great job on your water intake! I'm glad LB can take classes again! Everyone is feeling the quarantine fatigue and things seem to be starting to go back to normal, bit by bit, yeah!

I am totally into the Firms right now and feel like I could do them forever, but will probably eventually get tired of them. But I don't think for a long time! I am slightly more tired of my Pure Barres but they definitely contribute towards the aesthetic results I think. And they are still fun when I get into them so I'll keep doing them for now, I think. I have so many other barre DVDs and I ask myself "why don't you do some other barre?" and then I'm like nah I'd rather do Pure Barre, LOL.

[eventmom]

TA hip 1.3.3 day 2 +10 min cardio

buzzer - yeah, it's so frustrating! I think I'm getting better and figuring out how much I need. One good thing is that I've figured out if I'm actually hungry I really need to eat something, it's not my imagination (when I was on antihistamines I'd get really hungry and gained around 18 pounds). but wow it's crazy.

ebianco - I'm pretty good after dinner - but we eat way too late. It's late afternoon I have to watch out for snacking

get to the thrift store yesterday - not one single exercise DVD!

waves!

[ebianco]

Hi all,

Today I did Simone's rebounding and Pure Barre Resistance #2, the warm up through seat for an overall 55 minute workout. I stubbed my pinky toe really bad yesterday and it is slightly swollen and bruised but it didn't bother me while I was working out, so that's good.

Eventmom The mid-afternoon snacking is a big problem for me too! That 3-4 pm timeframe.

Despite all the goodies VFers seem to find at thrift stores, I've never been lucky. There is a big used bookstore that has tons of exercise DVDs but they aren't exactly cheap, probably just as expensive or more than online.

Buzzer waves!

[Buzzer]

Body Beast Shoulders...DONE!

I don't like one body part a day workouts, which I will have to see how I do on the "Beast"phase of my workout, but this workout was good. Maybe I do like them, because just one body part was shorter and I got to rest more without worrying I'd be out in my workout room for forever!!

I went a little heavier one set, but otherwise I went the same weights. Amazingly, what is more uncomfortable to me today is my abs!! I tried to brace them tightly through each exercise and put tension in my body throughout. I was channeling T-tapp. Plus the final move of abs where you lay on the bench (my transfirmer, which sounds foofy saying during a body beast rotation) hold onto the bottom of the green portion and pull your knees in and away from your chest. Like a lower body ab crunch. Now my abs are talking this morning!!

I am fighting in my head about taking a rest day today, but I know I need it. I am pleasantly sore throughout my whole body! I love that feeling. I am excited to start the next go through of the workouts! I am much less anxious and stressed this time around than I was last. I think it also has to do with the fact that I have accepted my body as what I am now, and I'm not so desperate to change it. I want to, but I now know it's close to impossible and I just gotta love my workouts instead, not try to get them to change me!!

I have watched and logged my calories closely for 4 days now (or 5?). I think the most it has done is made me realize I was adding 50 extra calories a day just in the form of coffee creamer (so I cut that out), and I cut out mindless munching and snacking. I don't like having to count the Cheetos I steal from LB, and then logging them, so I don't steal Cheetos anymore. Stuff like that that I'm sure added up a lot. Yesterday I did go over because LB stayed down with DH to help him at the shop, and so I was home alone and had a Mike's hard lemonade, which put me 100 calories over. But I'm not gonna be stressed and anxious about the calorie thing either. I have to remain OK with it, and just make good choices throughout the day.

I am lifting heavy too, I did 8 reps with 25's of overhead presses yesterday!! I feel pretty proud of myself whenever I'm done with a workout. I love that! I love feeling my muscles. I just hope eventually I can see them again too!!

Eventmom & Ebianco: I think I'm getting better at figuring out what I need to eat too. I am trying to eat more filing foods, and stopping when I am not hungry anymore. I am trying not to eat a lot at the beginning of the day, which is when I am more hungry, and space it out to the evening, when I'm not usually as hungry. I think I'm working on that balance too. Snacking in the afternoon is hard for me too. If I don't, I want to take a nap. I'm sure it's a blood sugar crash. I need to find a good snack to keep me going!

I only occasionally have good luck at the thrift stores. I was seriously hoping that I would find some awesome things after the stores had been closed for a few months yet accepted donations still. I went in probably 3 or 4 days after they first opened.. it actually was more empty than before! I thought they'd be overstuffed. Both thrift stores I went to had some empty shelves. I don't get it. no good workouts either. Mostly Jillian Michaels! I knew that would happen after they were at the dollar store!

I guess I should just donate all my Jillians. They seem to be a dime a dozen now.

Hopefully we all lose weight on this calorie counting thing... somethings gotta help at least one of us! HAHA!!

[eventmom]

TA 1.3.3 day 3 + 20 min cardio.

buzzer - I mostly make Monday a rest day. Usually I teach on mondays so making that an easy stretch day usually works. I did a short jillian rotation once upon a time, but didn't hang onto any of her workouts. Yes logging really makes things clear calorie wise. I've just resisted it but since I was already measuring things it made it easier to go that one step farther.

ebianco - I've never done great at finding workouts at thrift stores but for it to have not one single one was disappointing!

[ebianco]

Happy Saturday,

Yesterday was active rest: Fitprime Killer Cardio and abs ~25 minutes then Classical Stretch 1029 for an overall 55 minute workout. CS always makes me feel so good!

Today was Firm Tortoise. Surprised? LOL It has become my Saturday workout. I'm sure I'll get tired of it eventually, but not yet!

Eventmom and Buzzer I still have many Jillian workouts but haven't done them in a long time. I did a Body Revolution rotation a few years ago and I am STILL burned out on Jillian!

I do intermittent fasting and I don't eat before 12:00 pm noon, which helps because I like eating more in the afternoon anyway. A big problem for me is stopping when I am full. I get fullness indicators, but I don't want to stop eating And lately I've been wanting sugary treats and need to cut that back.

[Buzzer]

Two rest days... DONE!
Body Beast Chest and Tris.. DONE!
Body Beast Legs.. DONE!

So I was supposed to do chest and tris on Saturday. I was gonna do it, DH was saying he would take LB to his shop at 7am, so I was going to workout then get ready for her party. He was still there at 8:45 (the party started at 10 and I couldn't get anything ready until he left). I skipped my workout so I could cook hot dogs and bratwurst in the oven while it was still cool and I could cool down the house. At 8:45 when he left, I kicked into action. I literally got a party ready in less than an hour. One of my sisters came at 10 and helped me with the last little bit (sweeping the deck, blowing up balloons, putting chairs around) and everyone was there by 10:30.

DH brought LB home at 10:30, just as one of her friends is showing up. Her friend, instead of the grandma telling her to stay in the car, comes wandering out while LB is getting out of the car (we were around back of the house). As LB came around toward me, I greeted her with "hey honey" and one of my sisters was standing behind me.... why? I don't know. She says "Hi LB. Happy Birthday". LB is walking slow... she walks onto the deck and everyone says "Happy Birthday!" and I had one of the cousins pop a ballon over her head filled with confetti so she got showered in confetti. It was fun!

So the whole party lasted until about 2:30, then the rain came. My sister stayed and helped me clean up, and we layed around the rest of the day, exhausted.

Sunday morning I got back into it (although I didn't feel good from all the party food the day before) and did chest and tris. I increased all my weights, and pushed. I rested a TON more than Sagi, and went slower in a lot of the places. I paused him a lot and did the work myself. I worked hard!!

Today I did legs. I hate doing legs, but it's only once a week. Again, I increased all my weights, pushed hard, and rested. Last time I did this workout, I tried to do it at his pace, and didn't rest. This round, even in the giant sets I am resting between sets. I know I am not doing it the way I'm supposed to, but in order to go heavy as well as not let my lungs explode, and still enjoy the workout, I need to rest more. So I am.

It took me about an hour to do legs, but man, am I sore!! I love the new weighted vest. I was disappointed in myself that I was only holding 8 pounds in each hand for the "Bulgarian squats" (lunges with back leg elevated on he step), but then I realized I'm wearing the vest, and I'm doing them with 36 pounds total. So then I felt better!!

I have found that I get super sweaty wearing the vest, so today I wore the vest without a tank under it, just a sports bra. WAY better.

I am tired in a good way!!

We not only had LB's party Saturday, but the senior in our neighborhood we were having weekly "chats" with in her yard, also had a birthday party yesterday. So we had a party weekend. Today I am exhausted. we are supposed to go to the botanic gardens for a homeschool day that was postponed in May, but I am thinking of skipping it.

I found a program online that offers free classes for kids, and today I signed her up for a big cats class that meets on zoom 3 times a week for two weeks, and tomorrow she is signed up for a class with Coyote Peterson, who is a wildlife guy and finds animals, bugs and stuff and teaches kids about them. Plus he's kinda cute . So I like him. We still have 5 days of school to complete before the end of July, so I will accumulate these hours and count them.

I agree with you both! I am learning more and more about intermittent fasting, and was talking to a guy (who was obese by the way, so I have to take his word for what it's worth) and he was saying how he is currently following some guy who talks about how it is natural to be a little hungry all day. Not ravishing, eat everything in sight, but to have a low lying hunger all day. I thought that was interesting, no because I want to be hungry, but because we live in a society of eat until full, and I guess I'm seeing it as "eat until you aren't hungry". He also was talking about how his girlfriend (who also is obese) can eat one day and fast for 10, and I think that's called an eating disorder, not a fast.

He was obviously quoting the guy he is following, because he said "with the time you save from making food, planning your meals, eating.. you can write a book!!" HA! that is coming from the place of the guy writing the words, not the guy talking.

Anyhow, I think it struck me because I do remember when I was younger being so active, that eating was almost a passing idea. I didn't spend so much time making and eating things. I would quick make a chicken breast, put it on a plate with some veggies and ranch dressing, and eat it. I didn't care how it tasted, I was just eating to get rid of the hunger.

I kinda feel almost that's what the calorie counting has been for me too. I am finding I eat smaller portions. I may be hungry more often, but I am eating smaller portions to fit into the calorie count.
So that may have been a lot of words for not a very clear idea, but hopefully you guys got it!!

I guess what I'm thinking is, that I have been overthinking tasty meals, and should just start getting rid of cookbooks and just go back to basics. save time, just eat. I don't know. maybe that's a good plan, maybe I'm just thinking out Loud! I do love to cook though!

Tomorrow puppy gets his staples out! It's been almost 2 weeks since his injury, and he's more than ready... so are we!! We still have about 4 weeks of restrictions though

[eventmom]

Sat - TA 1.3.3 hip day 4 + 20 min TA cardio
Sun - sara ivanhoe 20 min yoga then hauled to jump my horse at a lesson, she removed a shoe in the trailer. My coach was so nice she got on one of her horses and we walked and chatted.
today - 40 yoga + 3 min meditation yoga shakti - I actually like this meditation only 3 min so when I use this dvd I can easily add on the meditation.

ebianco - all the headache specialists I've seen (md and other) discourage intermittent fasting but it certainly works for many people.

buzzer - I think I get what you're saying about food. counting calories (which I didn't do formally for a few days but still lost a little) made me more aware of how many calories I need and how much are in most of the food I eat so I am eating more consistent portions each day. sounds like LB had a great birthday!

[Buzzer]

Body Beast Back and Bis... DONE!

I did the back with Sagi, but then the Bis I slowed it down a bit. he has a tendency to throw around his weights and do it at his speed, so I go slower so I can actually lift the weights and not just throw them up and let them fall down! I also was annoyed that he counted the pull-ups at his pace, which was very very fast. I am using a heavy band, doubled up and pulling them down as if I were on a pull-up. So I guess like a lat pull move. I paused a lot during the bicep work!

I went heavier too since I paused him. I take more time to recover, since my biceps seem to take longer to recover from the sets. The back there are more muscles, so one exercise fatigues one part then the next fatigue another while the first recovers, but not so on the biceps. So I rest more. Today I am feeling it in my biceps, so I call that a win!!

I am debating doing my buns of steel cardio or ballroom aerobics today for my cardio day, or actually trying the body beast cardio. I was thinking to myself "I want to do a cardio that I enjoy!" but I have never done the BB cardio, how do I know I won't enjoy it? I do know it involves weights, so I need to look it up for reviews and see if it's something I want to do.

it was blazing hot yesterday! Wow. They house was 77 degrees in the evening! We have no a/c, I usually have fans and windows at night and when I wake up (early) I open doors for more cool air. It gets cool here at night, usually around 60 except for a few nights a year. So far I have cooled it off 10 degrees (so it's 67 now) I always hope for around 62/63 in the house in the morning, but sometimes it's just impossible. I hope today is cooler!

Eventmom: YES! I think that's what I was getting at with my lengthy talk. I am realizing how little I need to survive, and how easy it is to eat too much, even if you think you need that much. I won't do intermittent fasting since I have blood sugar issues, but I do think some of this has become disordered eating under the guise of "this is what a cheetah does! We should too!!" or whatever. I am trying to eat what I love, if I am eating just to eat it, I stop. I'm trying not to obsess, but rather track then take it out of my mind. I am really just trying not to stress over my diet and exercise. It does more harm than good!!

I am finding I am pleasantly sore from the BB workouts, and also that I am sleeping well more occasionally. Two nights ago I got 7 hours of sleep, then of course the next night I slept crappy, up in the middle of the night, but still got 6 hours. Last night I got 6 1/2 hours!!! Maybe heavy lifting is what my body needed.

Of course, we will see if that lasts! HA!

Yesterday LB and I just sat around in the heat for the afternoon and watched "Hotel Transylvania" movies, which are my favorite. We did violin in the morning, and the puppy got his staples removed! Progress... another step forward in his recovery!! Next step is at 5 weeks post surgery where we get his leg re-x-rayed and see how it's healing!

Hi Ebianco! I hope you are doing well!

[eventmom]

TA hip 1.3.3 days 5 & 6, yesterday charlene prickett cardio, today TA DC for around 20 min.

buzzer - I need to record calories today, got off track the last few days. congrats on the better sleep every little bit helps in that area. last night some beeping noise woke me up coudln't find it, tried to sleep on the coach, this am DH snooped around it was an old alarm clock in my bedside table must have been low batteries. I'm so pissed.

hi ebianco!