So on Tuesday I started back in with the weights and it felt awesome!! Tuesday I did Mesocycle 2 Back and Biceps. I wasn't sure if I should drop in weights since the last I did this or not but I went with what I had written down last and boy did I feel it. Felt great while working out and oh yeh, the back and biceps were talking to me the next day. It was a good sore.
Weds I had cardio and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do.... now for those that have been following my blog, don't fall over when I tell you this, but I did Insanity Max Cardio Conditioning followed with part of Cardio Abs. I'm pulling out Shaun T more often then I expected. It was tough but I made it through. Had to take some breaks during the exercises and then backed up the DVD so I could start the exercise from the beginning. I may have taken some breaks but I didn't short myself on the workout. I was a sweaty ole mess by the time I was done.
Today was Legs. In Mesocycle 2 for legs we do three different leg exercises back to back with a 1 minute rest between each grouping. We have three different groups and we repeat each group 3 times. We'll see how my legs feel tomorrow morning. I can feel it in my quads already so we'll see what tomorrow brings.
Friday I have cardio, so depending how my legs feel tomorrow will determine what I do for a workout. Was thinking of doing cardio coach 7 on the ellliptical. Not sure.
How have your workouts been this week? What have you been doing? Don't leave me out here all by myself. It would be nice if someone would let me know that they are reading my blog. :-)
If you read my blogs, I hope I help motivate you and inspire you to push yourself to the next level or try something different.
Until next time, keep on moving and sweating!!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Catching Up!!
It's been a week since I shared my workouts. Last week was my cardio recovery week from STS. Monday I did Cardio Kicks, which I haven't done in a really long time. Not a good calorie burner anymore (there was a day that I thought this was hard). I still love the workout. I love the drills in the 2nd half of the workout. Tuesday I did Imax 2.. another good Interval workout and good music. Weds I did the cardio blast from Body Max 2... good calorie burner and awesome music. Definitely a fun factor in that one. Thursday I did the Insanity warm-up followed with Cathe's MMA Fusion. (MMA is Mixed Martial Arts). That workout is not a big calorie burner but is good combo cardio/firming workout. I like the combo's in here along with the ab workout at the end. Friday I did Cathe's Intensity, which I love that workout and like the music in that one too. Saturday I ended the week doing Cardio Coach Press Play on the elliptical and did 10.5 miles. Was sweating like crazy. That was my cardio week.
This week I start STS Mesocycle 2 Hypertropy. I started the week out with cardio though. This morning I went with Cathe's HiiT 30/30. This is the one where we do a 30 second interval blast and 30 sec recovery. I followed that with Insanity's Pure Cardio. I was a sweaty mess by the time I was done. Felt tough but felt good!
Tomorrow I will start back in with the weights and I believe I have back and biceps. Can't wait to get back to the weights.
Who's been working out with me. I know there are people that workout out all the time. Share you workouts with me, I'd love to hear about them.
Keep moving!!
This week I start STS Mesocycle 2 Hypertropy. I started the week out with cardio though. This morning I went with Cathe's HiiT 30/30. This is the one where we do a 30 second interval blast and 30 sec recovery. I followed that with Insanity's Pure Cardio. I was a sweaty mess by the time I was done. Felt tough but felt good!
Tomorrow I will start back in with the weights and I believe I have back and biceps. Can't wait to get back to the weights.
Who's been working out with me. I know there are people that workout out all the time. Share you workouts with me, I'd love to hear about them.
Keep moving!!
Monday, August 1, 2011
Last Week's Workouts
To catch up on last weeks workouts. Last week was my last week of STS Mesocycle 1 Muscle Endurance. I already updated you with Monday's workout. Tuesday was cardio and I went with the Insanity warm-up from Pure Cardio and then I followed that with Cathe's Athletic Step. I really like Athletic Step but it's not a full hour and I don't feel like my heart rate gets up there until we're into the 3rd combo so I thought I'd jump start it with an Insanity warm-up. That made a world of a difference.
Weds was back and triceps. What a workout it was. Worked the muscles really good. Felt awesome!!
Thursday was cardio. I went with the Insanity Pure Cardio warm-up.... gosh for someone that got really sick of the Insanity warm-ups, here I am doing it two times in the same week. :-) After I did the warm-up, I put in Cathe's Cardio Core Circuit. Had a great workout. It felt tough, mainly because I was really stuffed up. I got through it and had a pretty good calorie burn.
Friday was legs. I don't know what it was but this workout felt tough. I pushed through and new I was going to be feeling it on Saturday and that I did. Man did I feel it in my glutes and quads. I don't know if doing a more intense cardio the day before had an impact on Friday's workout or not. I'm sure it probably did to some point. I did it!!
Then there was Saturday..... legs were definitely feeling it. I had a sinus headache and didn't feel like jumping around too much so I decided to do the elliptical and did Cardio Coach Press Play. I got 10.5 miles in. It was a little tough on the legs but not as bad as I thought. It was a good way to end the week.
Sunday was my rest day and rest it really wasn't. I didn't do a normal workout but I did workout the majority of the day. I was out in my vegetable garden from 9:30 am until 3:15pm and it was really hot outside too. I made sure I kept the water flowing. By the end of the day, I was physically wiped out.
This week is supposed to be my active recovery week. Not really sure exactly what that means. I do take the week off from lifting. I didn't want to do a really intense cardio since it is supposed to active recovery week, so I did a workout that I haven't done in a really super long time, which is Cathe's Cardio Kicks. I love this workout, especially the drills in the second half. I did change up certain moves to make them a little more difficult to get my heart rate up there more. I love the punching drills at the end. Not sure what tomorrow is going to bring. We'll see how I feel in the morning. I've been waking up lately very congested.
How was your last weeks workouts? I'd love to hear about it.
Keep on moving and sweating!!
Brenda
Weds was back and triceps. What a workout it was. Worked the muscles really good. Felt awesome!!
Thursday was cardio. I went with the Insanity Pure Cardio warm-up.... gosh for someone that got really sick of the Insanity warm-ups, here I am doing it two times in the same week. :-) After I did the warm-up, I put in Cathe's Cardio Core Circuit. Had a great workout. It felt tough, mainly because I was really stuffed up. I got through it and had a pretty good calorie burn.
Friday was legs. I don't know what it was but this workout felt tough. I pushed through and new I was going to be feeling it on Saturday and that I did. Man did I feel it in my glutes and quads. I don't know if doing a more intense cardio the day before had an impact on Friday's workout or not. I'm sure it probably did to some point. I did it!!
Then there was Saturday..... legs were definitely feeling it. I had a sinus headache and didn't feel like jumping around too much so I decided to do the elliptical and did Cardio Coach Press Play. I got 10.5 miles in. It was a little tough on the legs but not as bad as I thought. It was a good way to end the week.
Sunday was my rest day and rest it really wasn't. I didn't do a normal workout but I did workout the majority of the day. I was out in my vegetable garden from 9:30 am until 3:15pm and it was really hot outside too. I made sure I kept the water flowing. By the end of the day, I was physically wiped out.
This week is supposed to be my active recovery week. Not really sure exactly what that means. I do take the week off from lifting. I didn't want to do a really intense cardio since it is supposed to active recovery week, so I did a workout that I haven't done in a really super long time, which is Cathe's Cardio Kicks. I love this workout, especially the drills in the second half. I did change up certain moves to make them a little more difficult to get my heart rate up there more. I love the punching drills at the end. Not sure what tomorrow is going to bring. We'll see how I feel in the morning. I've been waking up lately very congested.
How was your last weeks workouts? I'd love to hear about it.
Keep on moving and sweating!!
Brenda
Monday, July 25, 2011
Catching up on the workouts!
To catch up on my workouts since my last post, Thursday I had cardio and I put together a combination I wasn't sure about. My cardio workout started with Cathe's HiiT Pyramid. I haven't done that one in a long time. Then of course, I had to add onto that since it's only approx. 30 min. long. You will never guess what I did next.... Insanity's Pure Cardio after the warm-up. Then I followed that with some of the floor work from Cardio Abs, followed by Cathe's medicine ball abs (I skipped the last exercise). Over all it was a real good workout. I was a sweaty mess by the time I was done.
Friday was Mesocycle 1 Legs. Worked my legs she did. I was sore for a couple of days after that. It was all good pain. :-)
Saturday I decided to go with Cathe's Cardio Fusion. I really enjoy this workout because she does the warm-up from Body Max2, the finished combo from BM2, a segment from Low Impact Circuit (which I didn't do it low impact), then the blasts from BM2, and then the cardio drills from Drill Max. I'm down in my basement at 3:30am doing my thing, having a pretty good workout and here some rumbling outside (thunderstorms had rolled in), and about 3/4 of the way into my workout, I'm jumping around and boom, the power goes out. We don't lose power often so I thought it was going to come back on right away... not so much..... darn it was dark down in that basement. I managed to feel my way up the stairs to find the flashlight and what did I do.. I went back downstairs and finished my workout on my own. I knew what I had to do yet so I went ahead and did it. My dear husband thought I was insane. I had an awesome workout, a great calorie burn and sweat my butt off and it felt great!!
Sunday was my day of rest and that I did. Granted it didn't help any that we were out very late Saturday night and I was very tired. I don't do well when I stray from my sleeping routine that much. I'm back on track today.
This morning I started my last week of Mesocycle 1 Muscle Endurance. Today was chest, shoulders, and biceps. I had a really good workout. Love working the biceps. She had a lot of push-ups in this one. I never knew there were so many different ways to do push-ups until I did STS Meso #1.
Tomorrow is cardio. Not 100% sure what I'll do. Was thinking of doing an Insanity warm up and then follow that with Cathe's Athletic Step. That one is a fun step routine. We'll see what I feel like doing tomorrow morning. Not sure about the Insanity warm up though. :-)
I see that I have a few followers but I often wonder if anyone really is following my blog. I hope so and I hope somewhere along the lines that I might inspire someone to start working out or step outside of the box and push themselves a little harder then what they normally do. If you are following my blog, I'd love to hear from you and what your workouts have been.
It's never to late to start working out and doing something is better then doing nothing. Doing nothing you will continue to get the same result. Doing something is a step in the right direction to a better you.
Keep on moving!!
Brenda
Friday was Mesocycle 1 Legs. Worked my legs she did. I was sore for a couple of days after that. It was all good pain. :-)
Saturday I decided to go with Cathe's Cardio Fusion. I really enjoy this workout because she does the warm-up from Body Max2, the finished combo from BM2, a segment from Low Impact Circuit (which I didn't do it low impact), then the blasts from BM2, and then the cardio drills from Drill Max. I'm down in my basement at 3:30am doing my thing, having a pretty good workout and here some rumbling outside (thunderstorms had rolled in), and about 3/4 of the way into my workout, I'm jumping around and boom, the power goes out. We don't lose power often so I thought it was going to come back on right away... not so much..... darn it was dark down in that basement. I managed to feel my way up the stairs to find the flashlight and what did I do.. I went back downstairs and finished my workout on my own. I knew what I had to do yet so I went ahead and did it. My dear husband thought I was insane. I had an awesome workout, a great calorie burn and sweat my butt off and it felt great!!
Sunday was my day of rest and that I did. Granted it didn't help any that we were out very late Saturday night and I was very tired. I don't do well when I stray from my sleeping routine that much. I'm back on track today.
This morning I started my last week of Mesocycle 1 Muscle Endurance. Today was chest, shoulders, and biceps. I had a really good workout. Love working the biceps. She had a lot of push-ups in this one. I never knew there were so many different ways to do push-ups until I did STS Meso #1.
Tomorrow is cardio. Not 100% sure what I'll do. Was thinking of doing an Insanity warm up and then follow that with Cathe's Athletic Step. That one is a fun step routine. We'll see what I feel like doing tomorrow morning. Not sure about the Insanity warm up though. :-)
I see that I have a few followers but I often wonder if anyone really is following my blog. I hope so and I hope somewhere along the lines that I might inspire someone to start working out or step outside of the box and push themselves a little harder then what they normally do. If you are following my blog, I'd love to hear from you and what your workouts have been.
It's never to late to start working out and doing something is better then doing nothing. Doing nothing you will continue to get the same result. Doing something is a step in the right direction to a better you.
Keep on moving!!
Brenda
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Loving lifting weights!!
This week I have continued doing STS Mesocycle 1 (Muscle endurance). Monday I had chest, shoulders, and biceps. Had a pretty good workout. I'm really loving getting back to lifting weights.
Tuesday I had cardio and decided to go with Cathe's Kick, Punch, and Crunch. I love the drills she does towards the middle and I love the kicking and punching combo's in the 2nd half. It's funny though, doing Insanity obviously has improved me on the cardio side. I did KPC and it didn't seem as hard as the last time I did it. That's a pretty good feeling.
Today was weights again. I had back and triceps. Again, had a pretty good workout. Lower back has been a little sensitive so I was being careful with the barbell rows.
Tomorrow I have cardio again. I have an idea what I might do but we'll see how I feel in the morning and make sure I'm up for it.
Hope you've been surviving this heat and humidity. I love warm weather but this is too much with that high humidity.
I hope this hot weather didn't stop you from working out. Hopefully you worked out in the morning before it got too hot.
Keep moving!!
Brenda
Tuesday I had cardio and decided to go with Cathe's Kick, Punch, and Crunch. I love the drills she does towards the middle and I love the kicking and punching combo's in the 2nd half. It's funny though, doing Insanity obviously has improved me on the cardio side. I did KPC and it didn't seem as hard as the last time I did it. That's a pretty good feeling.
Today was weights again. I had back and triceps. Again, had a pretty good workout. Lower back has been a little sensitive so I was being careful with the barbell rows.
Tomorrow I have cardio again. I have an idea what I might do but we'll see how I feel in the morning and make sure I'm up for it.
Hope you've been surviving this heat and humidity. I love warm weather but this is too much with that high humidity.
I hope this hot weather didn't stop you from working out. Hopefully you worked out in the morning before it got too hot.
Keep moving!!
Brenda
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Workouts so far this week have been....
This week started off with STS Meso #1 Chest, shoulders, and biceps. Had a real good workout. I do feel like I lost some strength in my shoulders and biceps while doing Insanity. I'm still doing pretty good with the weights though. Haven't dropped down in weight too much when lifting.
Tuesday was one of my favorite cardio workouts, Cathe's Intensity. Love it, love it, love it. I like the combination of step, HiiT (hi & low impact). Did pretty good since I haven't done that one in a couple of months.
Weds was Meso #1 - back and triceps. The bent over rows have been a challenge. It doesn't help though that my lower back has been a little sensitive. I'm trying to be careful. Another weight workout that felt great.
Today I had cardio and wasn't sure what I wanted to do but since I had a nasty headache when I woke up and my head felt all congested, I decided to do cardio coach 7. Again, haven't done the elliptical since I started Insanity. Felt nice to get a real good cardio without the impact. Had a little hard time breathing since I my nose was stuffed up.
Today my head felt all stuffy. Had a sinus headache all day, eyes itch, was sneezing, runny nose. I'm going to bed early tonight so if I'm working on something, hopefully I can head it off. I know there has been enough people that I work with that have been sick. I don't want to get whatever it is.
Tomorrow I have Legs again from Meso #1. Last Friday it took me at least two days to recover. We'll see how tomorrow goes.
Who's been working out with me? What workouts have you been doing? I'd love to hear from you.
Keep moving & sweating!!
Brenda
Tuesday was one of my favorite cardio workouts, Cathe's Intensity. Love it, love it, love it. I like the combination of step, HiiT (hi & low impact). Did pretty good since I haven't done that one in a couple of months.
Weds was Meso #1 - back and triceps. The bent over rows have been a challenge. It doesn't help though that my lower back has been a little sensitive. I'm trying to be careful. Another weight workout that felt great.
Today I had cardio and wasn't sure what I wanted to do but since I had a nasty headache when I woke up and my head felt all congested, I decided to do cardio coach 7. Again, haven't done the elliptical since I started Insanity. Felt nice to get a real good cardio without the impact. Had a little hard time breathing since I my nose was stuffed up.
Today my head felt all stuffy. Had a sinus headache all day, eyes itch, was sneezing, runny nose. I'm going to bed early tonight so if I'm working on something, hopefully I can head it off. I know there has been enough people that I work with that have been sick. I don't want to get whatever it is.
Tomorrow I have Legs again from Meso #1. Last Friday it took me at least two days to recover. We'll see how tomorrow goes.
Who's been working out with me? What workouts have you been doing? I'd love to hear from you.
Keep moving & sweating!!
Brenda
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday and Saturday's workouts
Friday I had STS Mesocycyle 1 Legs. I was hoping that this workout would have firewalkers in them so I could use my new firewalker bands and it did. Weird that a person would be happy about using firewalker bands. For those of you that don't know what firewalkers bands are, you can click on the Cathe link on my blog, which will take you to her website. If you don't feel like going to her website, the firewalker band is basically a resistance band without the ends. It's about as wide as the resistance band but it's a lot short. You step your feet through it and what you do is you step out as far as you can and take another 3 steps or so and then repeat the same number of side steps going back the other way. It works the outer thighs like you wouldn't believe and you can also feel it in the upper gluteus muscle. Cathe's firewalker bands come in three strengths (light, medium, heavy just like a normal resistance band). I had a feeling my legs were going to be feeling this workout. The day wasn't even over with and I could feel it in my quads.
Saturday morning I get up to do my cardio and I try getting out of bed and OMG!!! My quads were so sore along with my glutes (the butt musle). I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for cardio. Was thinking about the elliptical but the way my legs felt that wasn't going to happen. I went with Amy Bento's CIA Hi-Lo Knockout. If you're a fan of aerobics, this is a fun one. She has great music in her and fun moves. I haven't done this one in a real long time.
Yesterday afternoon my hubby and I had a couples massage in the afternoon. It was awesome. It was my birthday present (which is first on Tuesday). Today was my day off of working out and my body needed it. My legs were still a little sore from Friday and my back was sore from my massage. The gal I had really worked on the knots in my back.
How were your last couple of days? What workouts did you do? Did you challenge yourself? Did you push yourself outside your comfort zone?
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!!
Brenda
Saturday morning I get up to do my cardio and I try getting out of bed and OMG!!! My quads were so sore along with my glutes (the butt musle). I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for cardio. Was thinking about the elliptical but the way my legs felt that wasn't going to happen. I went with Amy Bento's CIA Hi-Lo Knockout. If you're a fan of aerobics, this is a fun one. She has great music in her and fun moves. I haven't done this one in a real long time.
Yesterday afternoon my hubby and I had a couples massage in the afternoon. It was awesome. It was my birthday present (which is first on Tuesday). Today was my day off of working out and my body needed it. My legs were still a little sore from Friday and my back was sore from my massage. The gal I had really worked on the knots in my back.
How were your last couple of days? What workouts did you do? Did you challenge yourself? Did you push yourself outside your comfort zone?
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!!
Brenda
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