TA Meta and everything else - Spring / Summer 2021

[eventmom]

We started out as a TA/Meta thread and some have moved to other types of workouts so all welcome. We post sometimes everyday sometimes less often.

So ALL WELCOME!

[eventmom]

yesterday - yoga basics from caribbean aerobics, the took a jumping lesson, then did most of Kathy Smith Walking workout, I think it's matrix or something and most of the stretch from that.
today - essentrics stretch and 9 min qi gong.

The second dose of the vaccine has made my headache worse, a little achy, and run down but the headache part is the worst for me.

buzzer - that's a crazy amount of bricks to haul, be careful and get in some good stretches. Glad your wardrobe is working out, isn't great when you solve that type of problem!

hi ebianco!

[ebianco]

Hi all!

So on Friday I got the clearance from the ortho to take my brace off for good except for when I'm exercising. Yeah!!! As for weights she told me to go ahead and try out light weights starting right away, and then I can see how it feels and work up from there. She told me not to start on pushups for another month, and then work up from there. But I told her I have the pushup handles (that keep your wrist straight) and she told me I could carefully try it out. So yeah!!

So on Friday (before my ortho) I did some gentle cardio and then Fitprime the yoga compilation for a 40 minute workout.

Saturday, after a 20 minute walking warm up on the treadmill, I decided to do High Reps with Cathe knowing that I would get a really good burn with light weights. I started with 2 and quickly realized I could go up to 4 easily, and started with a 9# barbell but finished with a 15# barbell. I think I could have gone even higher but that was more than enough starting out. I even very carefully did the pushups on my knees (not even slanted knees like a modified plank but straight up and down knees in the easiest modification possible) with the perfect pushup handles, and they were fine, and I still felt some challenge! I got a great burn and a HUGE mental boost getting back into my routine. It was so great to do the type of workout I wanted!!!

Sunday I was tempted to do another Cathe weight training workout but decided I wanted to get right back into my old routine so did a Pure Barre. First I ran/walked outside for 45 minutes, the weather was gorgeous, then I did Pure Barre Results Arms warm up through seat, then Callanetics stretching for a 100 minute workout! That's the longest I've worked out for a really long time! I was totally wiped. The Pure Barre Results Arms is a really tough workout. It always gets me for the legs portion, and the seat portion is really hard because I use a thick loop.

Today and tomorrow planned rest days! My wrist is slightly sore at times but the ortho told me I can just massage in there to work out any scar tissue. She didn't think I needed PT or to even see her again, unless I have any problems!

Eventmom Thanks for starting a new thread!

The barre amped you did sounds good!

Thank you and I did try to keep up my workouts while I was injured, but I'm sooo glad to be doing regular workouts now even if I am lifting really light for a while!

Buzzer Ah that makes sense about DH and the donkey. I was thinking it was LB that lost interest in the donkey. The 2nd degree black belt for LB sounds like a wonderful idea! That is a time commitment but so good for her, and hopefully you'll cultivate a great friendship with the other mom!

Yes, I think it's good to listen to your own body even before a doctor. Although I really liked my doctor, she was laid back and not judgy like a lot of doctors can be it seems. But still, it's good to have validation that I am in the clear to start resuming my activities!

[eventmom]

the bar method change your body - at one point I owned pretty much all the bar methods then dumped them in my post TA purge. got this one back at some point. It's pretty easy which is fine right now. I like Burr.

ebianco - great news that you can resume normal workouts and ditch the brace except when exercising! I really liked the barre amped workout - a step up in difficulty compared to most barre work.

hi buzzer!

[Buzzer]

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!

[eventmom]

gina b 50s walk, turned out horses, did 40 min essentrics barre workout.

buzzer - I was deeply into procrastination mode the morning I started our new thread. The vaccine has me feeling off but not as bad as the first does. That's funny about TA and Teresa! I hadn't noticed that. I've found that any instructor that gives me results gets bashed on VF GD - so TA and Joyce Vedral are really the only workouts that change my body. Sure, I love Margaret and have loads of other DVDs but only TA and JV made me look better. Of course, both I discovered on GD so there you go, then someone decides to hate on them and I just have to ignore it. Right now I've got 5 more days of being careful then I'll work my way back to TA and see if I can drop some of this weight that my body seems to so happy with.

hi ebianco!