15 minute basic workout plus... DONE!
I think that's what the workout was called. It was the 15 minute basic Ttapp workout plus hoedowns. It's fun, and short! My body still hurt from Sunday, so I decided to do the 15 minutes then see how I felt. It kinda wiped me out still, so I stuck to that one only. Today I will push myself harder. I guess I really pushed myself on Sunday for sure!
I ended up ordering some of the other DVDs from amazon. I figured if they go out of print and I can't get them anymore, I don't want to regret it. They were only $15 (I got the warm up workouts) so not a HUGE investment. Not like the prices that were on the ttapp site before it went down!
Ttapp used to kinda annoy me, and I tried so hard at it. Now I am just kinda "well, gonna workout. It feels good" instead of "will this get me results???? How can I help it get me results???" so it doesn't annoy me as much. I am not straining or forcing anymore. I am just doing it. I gained no matter what, my chin has expanded into this nice pillow under it, and my belly won't go in no matter how well I eat (I know this because I have been eating better than I have ever in my life and it's getting bigger, not smaller). So I have to accept at this point in my life that I need to relax and do what's best, even if it doesn't give me a 30 year old body. That's hard to accept.
I spent from June until February doing Body Beast, so obviously weight lifting doesn't do me any good. I love it, but I didn't get results at all. so much for "muscle burns fat!" because I had a lot of muscle! So I am going for the TA and Ttapp philosophy.
So funny story... remember when TA was run through the ringer for talking about how when you work a muscle at it's length, the fat squeezes out to the top so that's why you appear heavier at first? I was researching some Ttapp stuff, and Teresa said the SAME THING! She said it more eloquently, but it was pretty identical. She didn't get lambasted like TA did though. Just made me laugh that two people said it, two different reactions.
Although also in my research, it was funny that Ttapp was met with just as much anger and animosity as TA. Any thread about Ttapp had those same people over and over jumping in to complain about Ttapp. Whether they had tried it, had a perception about Teresa that soured them, just watched it, or not tried it at all just decided they were more knowledgeable, it was like reading a TA thread. I got tired of reading over and over how Alta doesn't like Ttapp because of an encounter with Teresa. I kept thinking.. that experience has nothing to do with the workout. Yet every thread about Ttapp she had to tell the story like she was trying to influence people to not like the workout because she felt Teresa had dissed her. That's just one example that I can recall off the top of my head. She was TA before TA got roasted on VF!!
So anyhow, I am enjoying the workouts, I am feeling like I am working on my posture, there are muscles I didn't know I had that are working, I am working very hard on opening up my chest and shoulders and I feel like it's working. So right now, I am getting what I should from the workouts.
Eventmom: thanks for starting a new thread! I have thought about it a few times, but I admit it's easier to keep posting in the old thread. Since I usually am checking in in the morning with my first cup of coffee (and only cup), I don't want to go through too much effort
. Thank you for doing it!
Ebianco: I am so happy for you that you got clearance to use your wrist and take off the brace! I have had so many sets of those pushup bars. I keep getting them, then get rid of them. I even had some with little bosu type balls at the bottom of them. Those were actually fun, I just never used them so I got rid of them. I'm glad you have kept yours so you can recover with them!