November, 2021
Same rotation format as October.
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Cathe Live #154 Metabolic Meltdown (to floor work=29 min.); Yoga30For30 (Stamina) I was not feeling the p/u's & sit ups craziness today, so I stopped and did Lauren's class. This one had more chats than I remembered, so my wrist is aching a bit, but I managed to stick it out and got a great core focus and balance challenge.
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Yvette Fit #145 50 Min. Low To Moderate Impact Cardio Boxing; Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches Yvette's class sailed by! So much fun with kickboxing cardio (+kicks!), weights, and a few core exercises to make this a great circuit!! This is my favorite type of workouts of hers. Although I changed it up from Yvette using light weights & working shoulders only, I used heavier weights and worked chest and back only to finish out yesterday's body parts that I didn't get to. Chest presses, flyes, pull-overs, one arm rows, rear delt flyes and pull-downs using 12's, 20, and 35# pull-down poundage and usually 16-20 reps for the durations, so it really added up! Also wore 2# wtd. wrist weights so my arms got really worked with all the upper body cardio too. Favorited! These shorter, moderate impact ones are the BEST to not feel wiped out either. 393 cal burn (it seemed my HR was up quite often throughout - probably more due to the heavier wts. Bonus!).
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Perfect 30 (Mobility) This is all I could fit in since I have workers here this week. Groceries/Parents' Dr. appts today. ETA: Unfortunately, my dad fell in the doctor parking lot at said Dr. appt and fractured his hip!!
So we're dealing with all that now....sigh. He had surgery on the 4th and came out of that fine but will need to go to assisted living when he gets out of hospital. Any prayers/good vibes are greatly appreciated! <3
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Fit Tower Boot Camp; Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches I used my rebounder stability bar for the Fit Tower (@ lowest height), green/blue Boss bands, heavy red FW band and my pink loop above my knees and it all worked great! I had lots of fun today (felt good to do something to get my mind off things).
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Cathe Live #290 Total Body Fit; Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches I am going to copy/paste from a previous check-in since I need to get to the hospital. I LOVE the format of giant sets of these 3 Rounds: Legs, Shoulders, Bis; then another round of Legs, Tri's, some core exercises to give us a break from lifting, then another round of Legs, Chest & Back, but no cardio (just the cardio-effect). So, Legs get worked and HOW!!! This is a very thorough (pretty high rep-I don't think there were any under 10 reps, but mostly 12-16) total body workout and is a burner for every body part! She uses hand weights, barbell, and resistance tubing. I used 10's, 12's, 15's, 20, wrist weights, tubing, but no BB. It is one of her best Live total body workouts, IMO, when you have an hour to spend on every inch of your body!! It keeps my sanity to get in a workout. :0)
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Yoga 30For30 (Intention); 1.5 hours Mow Max/Yard Work
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Rest Day
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Yvette Fit #15 (60 Min. Boot Camp Cardio & Core); YT growingannanas (25 min. Stretch & Core Full Body Recovery - Mobility, Flexibility Workout @ Home - No Equipment) I've done this Yvette before - it's a fun circuit using the stability ball and light weights (I used 3's, 5's, & 8's; although she does use heavy for one arm rows, but I just did unweighted mobility back moves on the ball). A circuit of mostly kickboxing, high/low un/weighted cardio, and stability ball core exercises make this one fun. I enjoyed growingannana's stretch - nice to include bird dogs and psoas stretches again. Lots of core focus today!
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Cathe Live #322 Fantastic Elastic (46 min.); KCM Home Gym Intervals (Workout 1=30 min.); Olivia Lawson (Standing Abs); Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches Now that I've done Cathe's Live Boss Band workout, this one seemed really easy today. And to add to the dislike, Cathe is by herself. BUT I am still glad to have it in my collection for travel and when my hands/wrists are really achey and don't want to work with weights. I had extra w/o time today so thought I'd get my sweat on with Kelly's workout using the elliptical and doing Olivia's standing core exercises in place of the weights. Elliptical was nice used this way - easing back into it. (I think that originally had added to my heel pain over the months). Turned into a good workout day - just took me longer to get there!
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Travis' Short & Sweet #1; Perfect 30 (Mobility-20 min. TS)
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Yvette Fit #142 (30 Min. All Barbell & Dumbbell Workout - Upper Body/Lower Body); Get Fit @ 40+ (James Crossley - Full Body, minus w/u; Back Stretch) Yvette's w/o was favorited - an awesome total body weight workout - a little light on back work (for me, as I changed up the D/L's and did squats; next time I can do one arm rows). Shoulders are well worked (mostly indirectly with combination moves, so this is very much a shoulder fryer!). I just used weights and no BB. Loved it! James' workout has been sitting on my shelf for months...thought if it's a dud, I still got a great workout in! I was pleasantly surprised - it is a no-nonsense superset weight workout that his pace is slow enough to go heavier with the 10 reps; then either a cardio or core exercise follows. I did skip the last superset (D/L's and upright rows) and thought it was enough of a finisher added to Yvette's workout. I added on the Back stretch from his workout - it is a goodie AND he holds the stretches awhile.
The background is all white which could be off-putting to some as well as a little on the boring side...but I'm used to Yvette and Cathe who make working out FUN! James is nice to look at, however, and has a great accent. :0) I am keeping the dvd when wanting some non-frill weight work that I can just veg out.
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Yvette Fit #79 (35 Min. FUN Low Impact Cardio Kickboxing); LIS Turbo Barre (Lower Body Express - 45 min. of the 52 min. premix) This Yvette is just SO MUCH fun and I go back to it again and again! I make it all low impact (she has a few high impact drills) and wear my 2# weighted wrist weights. Turbo Barre hasn't seen the light of my dvd player in Y-E-A-R-S (way before 2016!). Skipped the last leg lift segment (had enough, LOL). Athletic type barre such as this with reps that don't go on & on & on is about all that I can withstand, haha. But I did forget what a fantastic lower body stretch this one has and need to do it more often. Major dust bunny bit the dust!!
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YT 30 Minute Short & Sweet Yin Yoga with Travis (Flex. & Beyond); 1.5 hrs yard work This yin class is really nice with the shorter holds…and deer pose is included! DS helped me with the yard work, so it went quick (with my bad-@$$ blower too)!
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Rest Day
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Yvette Fit #150 BOSU/Boxing with Bicep Bonus (56/66 min.); Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches; 15 min. blowing leaves in front yard I needed a good calorie blaster today from a not-so-great eating weekend. This one did comply! It is non-stop, all standing k/b exercises, along with BOSU exercises, but a few plank variations and a couple core draped over the BOSU. Finally a water break at 45 min.! For the plank exercises, I used my cushioned step for my wrist purposes (my BOSU isn't smooth like Y's). She adds some Biceps at the end but I skipped that since I will do strength tomorrow. A toughie but oh, so funnie!!!
420 cal burn And I JUST got all the leaves out to the street before the big truck came and sucked them up (until next time!).//Gonna get to see my daddy today, woo hoo! He is doing well - seems content and didn't ask once when he can go home. :0)
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Cathe Perfect 30 (Mobility) This is all I could get myself to do after my early hair appt.
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Cathe Live #351 Intense Upper Body (54 min.); Mady's Stretches For Neck, Shoulders, & Upper Back Pain Relief This is a GREAT, thorough Live workout working each UB muscle with 2 sets of the same exercise before moving on to the next muscle group. It didn't seem repetitive to me - I like to do at least 2 sets to thoroughly work each muscle and the pace is really good in this. Al is in 'da house - all nice and tanned, chained, and showing off those muscles!
I used 5's-25# and mostly matched Cathe. A good one when wanting to spend an hour just on upper body....I'm glad I purchased....I like having this option in my library. I loved Mady's stretch---a good one for UB!//I knocked off one of my D/L choices I said I was going to purchase....so 6 D/L's for $35 is a great deal!
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Boss Loops: Glutes & Core; 30 min. Yard Work (blowing leaves) I used Cathe's green band for all today...it was challenging! I think my pink band is getting stretched out..glad to have Cathe's as a back-up.
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Yvette Fit #11 (70 Min All Out Kickboxing-37 min.); YT 30 Min. Yin Yoga "Courage" with Travis A newbie I haven't tried...but I was not feeling the 70 min. today and stopping at her water break was great since I needed some yoga today. I used my lighter gloves, as I am STILL sore from CL Intense Upper Body on Wednesday!!!! This one does have some higher impact but since I was cutting it short, I did most of it. Love how I can make Y's workouts work for me! Travis' Yin class was good...the best thing about it was cat-pulling-tail pose - love that! Another class filmed on his back porch...I keep waiting on Lauren to walk out with the baby....:0)
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Cathe Live #369 Mobility/Yoga Fusion; 1 Hour Yard Work This is the Live I was looking forward to purchasing, but I was so disappointed with this mobility class! My bad, I obviously didn't preview the clip well enough!!! I wish I would've known that the exercises are EXACTLY the same as in her DVD, just in a different sequence. Com'on Cathe, you could've at least picked different mobility exercises!!! And those sun sals, ugh, so I ended up fast forwarding (I'm not a fan of her yoga) until the floor work. But that wasn't the most annoying feature of this workout! The volume of the music is SUPER loud and I could hardly hear Cathe's cues (even after she
supposedly turns it down!). I will never do this one again, why should I, when I can do the whole routine in 30 or even 20 minutes from her DVD and I would end up FF’g thru half of it? A word to the wise: If you don't own her Perfect Flow DVD then this would be a good purchase, but if you already own the P30 Mobility DVD, no need to purchase this D/L! :/
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Rest Day
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Yvette Fit #80 (60 Min. High/Low HiiT - 40 min.); Yoga30for30 (Twists); Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches I did this Yvette before and had a note that it's a goodie to stop at the 40 min. mark since for the last half, she brings out a yoga mat and does exercises around and over it and that it reminded me of Cathe's RwH Plyo Hiit 1 (which I don't like). :0) Well, good, cause I was ready to stop there anyway, LOL. It is a good one for higher impact followed by lower impact and no equipment - just gloves. I did use my step though, for the burpees. Twists is such a goodie and today I used my 2# wrist weights which really made a difference, not only when holding out my arms - but I used them around my knuckles which worked so well in DDog etc. for my wrist ailments! I could put my hands in fists and with the weight cushion, it alleviated most of my pain. These wrist weights were really a great purchase as I'm using them A LOT and glad I tried them today for yoga!
And as usual, I added on spinal twists at the end (not sure why Travis doesn't since it
is a Twists practice!). I also needed to add on Mady's stretch as my back was feeling a little kinky with all the twists. Great workout today - getting in my HiiT and yoga!
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Cathe FlexTrain (no core); Cathe PHA3 (Extended Lying Stretch) I wore Cathe's green loop above my knees and my heavy FW band around my ankles for the FW segment - now that's a double bonus!!
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YT Michele Briehler (SOUL Fusion/Piyo/Total Body Workout/Light Weights-49 min.); 1.5 hours Yard Work I don't know why I chose this workout - it popped up and thought it looked fun. I used my 2# wrist weights instead of 5's (which she uses for the weight segment) - I thought they would be too heavy the way she was slinging them around. There was cardio, weights, PiYo and core segments. I did like most of this workout - until the yoga part...It's typical PiYo style (being in DDog and not being able to see the screen). Michele does cue well but it was still hard to know what to do. I liked the cardio, weight, and core segments and thought the balance work was superb. It was good for something a little different today. I didn't want to work too hard - lots of yard work today got accomplished.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Yvette Fit #149 (70 min. Step Workout & Ankle Weight Bonus); Mady's Back Pain Relief Stretches; Michelle's Yin Yoga This was a total calorie buster and I hung tough to the end! I used my 2# wrist weights & topper, (Y uses 1 riser), and got a great workout. Non-stop cardio using the step until the 45 min. mark. It was tough - I'm not used to her 70 min. workouts! Then the last half of the workout, she adds gliders, ankle weights and a KB for the core work. She does cardio with the ankle weights on,
(which I was taught long ago not to do that for knee/back issues later on), so I did lying quad and inner thigh work for those 3 minutes. Not too many burpees in this but lots of arm raises and I had to remove my wrist weights for the last half! Only about a 2 min. stretch, so I added on lots more stretching, as my legs really needed it. 469 cal burn for that yummy turkey meal later. Hope everyone has a great day!!!
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Yvette (w/u); YT (Vera LaRo 40 Min. Resistance Band UB workout At Home - 20 min.); Cathe Butts & Guts (Floor Work & Abs - 43 min.) This band workout popped up and thought I'd try it....it was ok-pretty boring so I quit at the first half. I can't imagine doing this workout, though, without shoes or lifting gloves since she puts the band around feet and hands/wrists quite often. I used Cathe's long blue band, diff tension FW bands and my long stretchie, so figuring out which band to use was the biggest challenge of the workout! Added on a dust bunny in B&G - at least this premix...love those bonus glute squeezes on the ball! I already felt my inner thighs from Yvette's workout yesterday so not sure this was a good idea! Pondering an unweighted lower body segment amongst my dvd's and this was the lucky draw! Good fat burning workout today.
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Yvette Fit #142 (30 Min. All Barbell & DB Workout UB/LB); Cathe's Mobility (20 min. Premix) Love this Yvette strength workout - similar to a PHA where she alternates UB then LB but some of the exercises are total body too. Switched up the D/L's to 1 arm rows or pull overs. It sails by and love how I can make it work for me. She hits it all in 30 min.! (She does a few core exercises at the end but I do more biceps since she goes light on them). Not feeling too beat up after doing Yvette 3 days this week + all the yard work...surprising!
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Rest Day 30 Min. Yard Work
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Yvette Fit #151 60 min. Cardio/Boot Camp/Strength Workout = 64 min.); Mady's BPR stretches Burpees right out of the gate is a surefire way to know this one will be a butt-kicker!
And it was! Very fun circuit with Cardio, BW, & core exercises in first half and jump rope, k/b cardio, KB, weighted shoulders mostly and ankle weighted leg work in 2nd half. Loved the variety! Definitely needed an add'l stretch though. 501 calorie burn - woo hoo!
Cool tidbit/Side note: I noticed doing Yvette's low squat holds seem a lot easier since I've been doing Cathe's Mobility workout regularly. In fact all the lower BW moves seem easier.
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Yvette Fit (w/u); Barre 3 Flow With Katie (30 min.) At the last minute, I caved and subscribed to B3...at least for 3 months. This class was nice and the "flows" supposedly improve mobility, increase stability, address imbalances, helps with body alignment and are used for recovery. That would be superb if they did all those things for my wonky body issues!! ;0) Love that there's a music-off option for any audio imbalances, too.