It's been over a week since I posted anything. I've been busy with my full time job and then taking care of stuff at home, which makes it difficult to post as often.
Last week I finished my last week of STS Mesocycle 2 Hypertrophy. I had a great week of workout. I was making sure that I was pushing myself in my weight workouts. I know I was pushing myself when I finish my workout and my muscles are totally spent and I feel it the next day or two after.
I've been trying to do at least one or two high intensity workouts during the week. Usually my third cardio day I would do the elliptical and give my joints a break. As happy as I was when I was done with Insanity, I still pull it out from time to time and do the warm-up portion to get a short quick calorie burn. I've also pulled it out when I did one of Cathe's HiiT workouts which are 1/2 hr long, then I would pull out one of the Insanity workouts to finish the hour off.
This week is an my active recovery week. Yesterday I did Cardio Coach Press Play and got 10.5 miles in and a really good calorie burn. Today I went with Amy Bento's Advanced Step Challenge 2. It's a fun step workout with good music and a good calorie burn. On that workout, to make it more difficult for me, I use an 8" step for the warm-up and the first 3 combo's and then I put my step back down to 6" and finish off the workout. Tomorrow I think I'm going to do Cardio Fusion Max. It's a premix on Cathe's Cardio Fusion DVD. One thing I really like about Cardio Fusion is that she combines sections of 3 different workouts into one DVD. I love the variety. It makes the time go by faster.
I have seen Supreme 90 in by Wal-mart and in the LTD catalog. Contemplating getting it but I haven't heard much about it. I'll have to do some checking online to see what the feedback is. I anyone has any input on Supreme 90, I'd love to hear from you.
I hope you haven't been slacking off on your workouts. What workouts have you been doing? Have you been challenging yourself?
Keep moving!!
Brenda
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The workouts have been great!!
Would anyone like to hear how my workouts have been and what I've been doing? If not, you're going to hear about them anyway. :-)
Last Thursday I had legs and OMG... what a workout. The leg exercises she did got the heart rate up there and worked my legs really good. Talk about DOMS. I had them for two days.
Friday, with my legs being quite sore, I decided to do Cathe's Kick, Punch, and Crunch. Ran short on time so I wasn't able to do all the ab work. Overall I had a great workout. I know I have shared with you already how much I like this workout.
Saturday it was time for Chest, Shoulders, and triceps... another OMG..... I believe this week we were doing 70% of our 1 rep max. I worked it hard and more DOMS. My triceps were still a little sore today.
Sunday was my rest day. More like an active recovery day. I did house work and then in the afternoon I was out in my garden.
Monday I started with cardio. I wanted to do something tough and intense. I did one of the workouts I'm a little afraid of. Cathe's HiiT 40/20. Once I completed that, I did 3/4 of Insanity's Max Cardio Conditioning. Wow, did I get an incredible cardio workout. It was tough, but I did it.
Today I started week three of Mesocycle 2 and had back and biceps. Amazing..... I love the feeling of having the power of lifting heavy weights. You think, "I can't lift this" and then you surprise yourself and do it. I have a feeling my back and biceps will be feeling it tomorrow. I love good pain!
Tomorrow my plan is Cathe's Intensity. Another cardio workout I love. Hopefully I'll stick to my plan once morning comes. To see if I do or not... I guess you'll have to stay tuned.
Have you been working out with me. What have you done. Did you push yourself to a new level.
Keep the sweat rolling!!
Last Thursday I had legs and OMG... what a workout. The leg exercises she did got the heart rate up there and worked my legs really good. Talk about DOMS. I had them for two days.
Friday, with my legs being quite sore, I decided to do Cathe's Kick, Punch, and Crunch. Ran short on time so I wasn't able to do all the ab work. Overall I had a great workout. I know I have shared with you already how much I like this workout.
Saturday it was time for Chest, Shoulders, and triceps... another OMG..... I believe this week we were doing 70% of our 1 rep max. I worked it hard and more DOMS. My triceps were still a little sore today.
Sunday was my rest day. More like an active recovery day. I did house work and then in the afternoon I was out in my garden.
Monday I started with cardio. I wanted to do something tough and intense. I did one of the workouts I'm a little afraid of. Cathe's HiiT 40/20. Once I completed that, I did 3/4 of Insanity's Max Cardio Conditioning. Wow, did I get an incredible cardio workout. It was tough, but I did it.
Today I started week three of Mesocycle 2 and had back and biceps. Amazing..... I love the feeling of having the power of lifting heavy weights. You think, "I can't lift this" and then you surprise yourself and do it. I have a feeling my back and biceps will be feeling it tomorrow. I love good pain!
Tomorrow my plan is Cathe's Intensity. Another cardio workout I love. Hopefully I'll stick to my plan once morning comes. To see if I do or not... I guess you'll have to stay tuned.
Have you been working out with me. What have you done. Did you push yourself to a new level.
Keep the sweat rolling!!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Update on the workouts
Hello any followers I might have. Here is an update on my workouts.
Friday I had cardio and did Cardio Coach 7 - 10 miles on the elliptical. My legs didn't hurt as bad as I thought Friday morning from doing legs Thurs. I definitely had DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) because they felt worse on Saturday then Friday.
Saturday I had Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps. I had a great workout. Great strength but I new I was going to fell it the next day. Oh boy was I right. I think my chest hurt the worst. It was a good kind of pain.
Sunday was my rest day (from an actual workout that is). I did do yard work in the morning and in the afternoon we had a graduation party.
Monday I had cardio and went with the warm-up and cardio blast from Cathe's original Bootcamp and followed that with Cardio Core Circuit. The workout felt a little hard but overall it felt good. There are times when I struggle with a workout it feels more worth while when it feels hard and I made it through.
Tuesday I had back and biceps. Had good strength. It's always on those days that I had good strength that I feel it the next day. Man did I. I love the feeling of my muscles being worked. When I got home from work, I wanted to give myself a little extra calorie burn so I did the warm-up from Insanity's Pure Cardio. For a warm-up, it's a good calorie burn.
This takes us to today, Weds... I had cardio today and went with Body Max 2 Cardio Blast. I love this workout. I love the music, the step combos, its a good calorie burn. I definitely feel like I had a good workout when I'm done.
Tomorrow I have legs again so we'll see what exercises I have to look forward to.
How have your workouts been? What have you been doing? Have you tried anything new?
I'd love to hear from you!
Keep moving and sweating!!
Brenda
Friday I had cardio and did Cardio Coach 7 - 10 miles on the elliptical. My legs didn't hurt as bad as I thought Friday morning from doing legs Thurs. I definitely had DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) because they felt worse on Saturday then Friday.
Saturday I had Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps. I had a great workout. Great strength but I new I was going to fell it the next day. Oh boy was I right. I think my chest hurt the worst. It was a good kind of pain.
Sunday was my rest day (from an actual workout that is). I did do yard work in the morning and in the afternoon we had a graduation party.
Monday I had cardio and went with the warm-up and cardio blast from Cathe's original Bootcamp and followed that with Cardio Core Circuit. The workout felt a little hard but overall it felt good. There are times when I struggle with a workout it feels more worth while when it feels hard and I made it through.
Tuesday I had back and biceps. Had good strength. It's always on those days that I had good strength that I feel it the next day. Man did I. I love the feeling of my muscles being worked. When I got home from work, I wanted to give myself a little extra calorie burn so I did the warm-up from Insanity's Pure Cardio. For a warm-up, it's a good calorie burn.
This takes us to today, Weds... I had cardio today and went with Body Max 2 Cardio Blast. I love this workout. I love the music, the step combos, its a good calorie burn. I definitely feel like I had a good workout when I'm done.
Tomorrow I have legs again so we'll see what exercises I have to look forward to.
How have your workouts been? What have you been doing? Have you tried anything new?
I'd love to hear from you!
Keep moving and sweating!!
Brenda
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Yeah, the end of the week is here!!
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!!
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!!
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
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