10-09-22, 04:11 PM | |
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Hi everyone, I finished my workout week today with Epic Heat Day 25 - EMOM HIIT (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoTv...XkXVM&index=27) Every Minute on the Minute with three exercises 10x reps, for 10 total sets, then go onto another three exercises, then last three for 30 minutes. Let me preface by saying I did all the pushups on my knees, and I only did 5x of the last exercise (pushup variety) that she offered as an option instead of 10x. With that said, I performed all 100 burpees (10 reps x 10 sets) with a lot of stamina! And no notifications on any of the other exercises at all. I thought the burpees would kill me but I just felt energized! Actually I really felt very powerful and energized through the workout until about the 7th iteration of the last set of exercises towards the end of the workout. I did a growwithjo dance (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBb...MXm_p&index=65) with lower energy for a warm up and extended stretch for a 63 minute workout. So that was fantastic. The last few days I've really been feeling stronger, tighter, and more powerful, and so into the Epic Heat rotation and Caroline in general. Also, Caroline finally released a new workout today after about two months of silence, this one was a standalone workout but she says she's working on a new series (I think a series anyway). Now for two rest days!
Eventmom Wow thank you so much for the Shiva Rea chapters!! I am going to put that DVD in and preview all of that. Looks terrific. Horses and oil painting sounds awesome for retirement! My mom took an oil painting class and she created a really beautiful painting, if I recall it was a fruit still life. Oil painting is interesting because I guess the piece never dries, even hundreds of years old paintings are never fully dry. Creative writing sounds awesome too!! Maybe you can paint some illustrations to go with your creative writing? Is your artwork going to be horse themed? Buzzer waves!
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10-13-22, 08:00 AM | |
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Hi everyone,
I started my workout week yesterday with Epic Heat Day 26, posterior chain (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDk...XkXVM&index=28). Every week of Epic Heat is very consistent with a an upper/lower/upper week then a lower/upper/lower week, except this week where she combines glutes/back on Day 26, then quads on Day 27, then lats/triceps on Day 28. I don't like this at all because there's no chest, biceps, or shoulders at all, also, I don't want to work my lower body back to back! So I took it upon myself to make yesterday into a back/shoulder/bicep/abs workout, following all her back exercises-which were lengthy and terrific-but doing shoulders/biceps/abs while she was doing glutes. Then today I followed Day 27 quad workout (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkp2...XkXVM&index=29) closely except I subbed some deadlifts that I missed yesterday, in place of some of the relentless quad work. Tomorrow I'll probably follow as is unless I feel I need more chest. Edited for Friday: today was Epic heat Day 28 today, and it was triceps, lats, but also chest which I didn't realize so that's good, and I added some abs (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dem...XkXVM&index=30). I had a little more time today so I warmed up with Fitprime GForce again just for a couple of cardio tunes, and with stretch was a 52 minute workout. This Epic workout really killed my upper body today I don't know if it's build up from Wednesday or I'm more tired today or it was just REALLY hard (Caroline actually said this one was really hard in her intro so maybe that was it!). Anyway total body tomorrow and HIIT on Sunday. One of the things I thought I wouldn't like on preview on this system, but turns out is TERRIFIC, is a pretty short (30-35m) total body on Saturday. In my mind it should be much longer, but really they're fast and furious and I wouldn't be able to push myself any more. If they were longer I would probably have developed a real dread factor. This system is so tough!! And it's one of the "easier" of her systems. I'm just over 1/2 way out of the 10 week system! Edited for Saturday: I did Epic Heat Day 29 total body circuits (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84K...XkXVM&index=31) which I really enjoyed but I'm totally wiped out. I was scrambling a lot today because I'm hosting a party and was on a cleaning frenzy, and work is the busiest of the year last week and this upcoming week, and my energy is just totally spent. I'm squeezing in my walking before everyone comes. At least then I get to relax and eat good food and cake! Tomorrow...HIIT workout to finish the week. Will I have more energy by then? Thankfully starting next week she returns to the regular structure. Eventmom That particular grow with jo is really fun! I have many of hers saved, but that one is easily my favorite. I just really like that EDM I don't remember if my mom just painted one or she just really liked that one (she has it on display in her house). The landscape sounds really pretty! Also screenplays - fun!! Buzzer That is hilarious about the ducks putting themselves to bed I haven't had chickens but my DH did, in his "prior life" before we met when he was a farmer for a while as a side hustle to his regular 9-5. He had ducks and goats for a length of time. He still had a chicken incubator when he met me and we took a trip out to the more rural side of the state to give it to his friend. The friend has a bigger property and a lot more chickens than he had - he had about 20 at a time where she has about 100, and when he stopped with the chickens he had given them to her, so she still had many of them. Anyway I got to meet all her chickens and they were very personable! Apparently if you are around them all the time, they create bonds with you, and you can even pick them up and hold them and snuggle them. Still, I didn't know that they 'went to bed' I'll have to ask DH about that! I'm glad you feel like your house is coming along, and you're made progress on feeling organized! And got to enjoy a movie with family! Ugh sorry about the garage though. It sounds like such a headache.
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10-16-22, 02:34 PM | |
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Hi all,
I finished my workout week with Epic Heat Day 30, weighted HIIT (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xN0...XkXVM&index=32). I warmed up just like last week with Grow with Jo EDM (this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozBbxLCwemU) and extended stretch for 58 minutes. I definitely fall into my routines! LOL. I got to really sleep in today and relax, so I had more stamina to get through all those burpees that Caroline loves to do! So glad to have two rest days now. My left shoulder feels fine most of the time, even when I'm working out, but I must have tweaked it slightly because sometimes it hurts now when I sleep. I hope it won't become an ongoing problem like my right shoulder was for a couple of years off and on. This is going to be my most stressful week of work probably in the entire year. So I'm hoping by this time next weekend, I'll be so calm and relaxed! Just need to get there... Eventmom waves! Buzzer Wow sorry that LB fell down, but that showed a lot of courage and determination that she got back up again!!! I don't think I would have done that when I was her age. I know all about how the chickens attract predators, foxes, raccoons, anything, they all want to eat the chickens! And bears and mountain lions, that's even scarier! Very cute that LB was picking them up and snuggling them! And watching the cat sounds like a fun activity too. Did I tell you guys that we got another dog? Another shih tzu, very cute totally jet black. He was born on May the 4th (star wars day like "may the 4th be with you" ) so we named him Jedi. We've had him a few weeks but I don't think I mentioned it. I don't know how DH talked me into another dog, but he is the only boy and he's actually extremely calm and sweet, he picked up the "routine" so to speak in a day, puppy pads and all, and the others didn't take long at all to love him. So now we have SIX dogs, including his white german shepherd, 3x shih tzus, a pomeranian, and yorkie. And he's the only boy so I wasn't sure what to expect, but he's terrific, not really any different from the girls, they're all sweet and well behaved. I thought to mention it because I had a party yesterday and my young niece was over and she loves all the dogs, and then she asked "why don't you have any cats?" and it made me think of your LB wanting a cat LOL. Someone else yesterday piped up and said "isn't 6 dogs enough?" LOL. At least DH and I are agreed on no cats!!
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