TA Meta and everything else - Fall / Winter 2022-2023

[ebianco]

TA Meta and everything else - Fall/Winter 2022-2023

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!

[ebianco]

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!

[eventmom]

today - yoga basics from caribbean aerobics dvd, cross country schooling with my horse, then resistance stretch

ebianco - thanks for starting the new thread! that grow with jo looks fun. interesting about oil painting I didn't know that! So far I've painted one painting - a landscape from a photo I snapped after a storm in NM. So probably not that horse themed. The only writing I'm likely to do is screenplays so won't be illustrating. Did your mom just paint the one painting? I just started this class in August and finished one painting last week. I'm sort of slow because I have no idea what I'm doing but it's fun.

hi buzzer - hope you had a great weekend!

[Buzzer]

Walk on treadmill through Switzerland.. DONE!
Jari Love Extremely ripped and chiseled Lower body only.... DONE!
Jari Love Extremely ripped and chiseled Upper body only.. DONE!

Wow. That Jari is killer!!! She advertises on the front "2 30 minute workouts!" when in reality they are probably about 45. I will amend that further to say the lower is 45, however it also includes chest and back work. I skipped the chest and back and just did the leg work, and man, my legs were SO SORE! It's now 3 days later and my legs are still sore. A good sore, but sore nonetheless!

Most of the leg workout doesn't use weights, and the one exercise that does use weights, I just grabbed 10's. This would be a good traveling lower body workout!

Yesterday I did the upper body workout. I did start with the chest and back I skipped the day before though, so the workout was longer. I tried to use 10's for the whole thing, and was successful until the biceps. That pain is still there in my right arm, so I dropped to 5's and it was still a killer workout! I am putting it back in the player for another round for sure. Great workout!
It is lacking abs. There was one section of abs, however it was pretty lame compared to the rest of the workout. I won't stress about it though, since I am doing so many different workouts it'll even out in the "end"!

We had a busy weekend, of course. LB and I are taking care of some chickens up the street (well, she is taking care of them, I am standing in the chicken run watching them and the ducks... they have 2 ducks also). So we go there first thing in the morning and right before dark. The ducks are good and go right to bed, the chickens we have to chase around and herd into their coop. Last night they were better, they are starting to figure out who we are. I am not a fan of chickens and ducks I've decided. LB really wants me to say that they are cute and fun, but they are just chickens! HA! I don't know. I don't think I am meant to be a mini farmer.

We also met my sisters for lunch on Saturday, then spent Saturday evening hanging out and picking up the house. I will admit my house is looking better. I am noticing that the cleaning up, getting rid of stuff and organizing is definitely making it feel more peaceful. I also think taking control of things instead of letting DH control things with clutter is helping. I am constantly after Lb to pick up after herself too. Yesterday we went to see "Lyle Lyle Crocodile" and although it was frustrating from a Mom point of view (the kid is out all night with a crocodile in downtown New York.) it was a good movie. Alamo Drafthouse, so we got to eat hamburgers!!! YAY!!!

I was exhausted in the afternoon and evening, and DH wanted to work on the garage. I feel like all we do is work on the garage anymore. I am so tired of the garage. I would love to say it feels good to have the garage completed, however it's already full of stuff and we are still cleaning up outside it (which also has the stuff we used to build it all around it), moving stuff around and filling holes. I feel like we are just a slave to it. People ask me if we are enjoying the space, and we are not. We don't even go in there. My dream of extra space, open space, is gone. It's full of DH's shop stuff, LB's bedroom that we cleared out, and shelves and shelves of I don't know what. It's painful for me even to talk about. It's not useable right now at all. Plus DH's office is there so it's not like we can use it to play in anyhow.

So yesterday DH worked on the garage, we kinda helped a bit, but it is so frustrating. I am so over building and all that is going with it. So LB and I cut out and went inside to read books. I'm sure DH wasn't happy, he needs and loves the help, but I just feel like a slave to stuff and the garage.

Plus LB and I have another busy week, so I just don't feel like taking up all our time with busy-ness. I hope we can go to the bookstore between swim this morning and her Spanish class this afternoon!

Ebianco: Thanks for starting a new thread! You and Eventmom are good at that. I usually just keep going without even a thought. I had no idea about oil painting not drying! That's annoying! HA! I would always have to be careful not to pack it away or store it poorly then. I am not that careful! It makes sense though, since it's oil. I just had never thought of it. Now I know what kind of painting I would never be able to do!

I'm glad your DH is doing Ok. I've been thinking of him all week. So scary. I worry about my DH a lot, however what can you do. He's getting a heart scan sometime (he said he scheduled it) so that always gives me some peace of mind!

Eventmom: Oooooh! That makes sense, that you are doing on line classes! That's kinda nice. No commute which saves time. It's good too that it's kinda like a slow winding down too. Not just an immediate crazy schedule then.... nothing. That would be harder. I'm glad you have a plan to fill your time! Taking classes is a good way to do that. I'm not sure what I will do after LB.. I have lot of time to think about it. However taking classes would definitely be high on my list! That and reading books. Lots of books.

[eventmom]

Jacquely Umoff totally toned barre babe sculpt + 20 min TA DC

the names of these workouts sort of crack me up but how many ways can you say barre sculpt!

buzzer - I've never had chickens or ducks... I didn't know they had to 'go to bed' so to speak! Sorry the garage is already full but glad your hard work in the house has paid off. I am so busy with this on line course (they expect me to post EVERYTHING before it goes live) so I haven't kept up around the house like I would have liked. I have so much in the way of work clothes I don't need or want anymore that I'd love to start getting rid of some of it.

hi ebianco!

[ebianco]

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.