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knotty, your plan for the week sounds good, and well done for exercising through the pain (I find the same re it helping a bit).

idkick I'm really pleased your DD is happier going in to school.

stunt come back to Jillian!

Last week: Ripped L1, Insanity class, 25 mins exercise bike, Shaun T's "total body circuit", and Ripped L4.

This week so far: Insanity class. We did a "fit test" which was fun!

Pilates and Stronglifts today but Jillian is much neglected of late.

Idkick, how's your DD doing?
My exercise week went as planned until Friday morning - my sides & abs were really aching after just 30 mins of Bob's Ripped Core on Weds. Managed a L1 Shred (with weights in the cardio) on Thurs, but decided to take a day off on Friday and rest the muscles. Better yesterday so I did 6W6P L2, and did 2 levels of Kickboxing Fastfix this morning (only 18 mins each so not as impressive as it sounds). Major AF pain when I got up, but I find exercise generally helps (or just distracts with another type of pain!). Plan for this week is:

Mon - 30 mins of ES&S 1
Tues - either 1 Week Shred cardio or Ripped 3 plus walk to music class
Wed - Shred 2
Thurs - 1 Week Shred strength plus walk to town & back
Fri - either Ripped 3 or 30 mins of ES&S L2

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

No JM again here but I did a mini-kettlebells workout and Stronglifts again last night. Must try harder with JM.

Ah right- sorry I am being thick! I am ok with that one. Just those other two I find really tough (I find the overall thing pretty hard mind you.)

Those are the ones I thought you meant errol - I can't do them: they hurt my wrists and make me dizzy!
Took me ages to work out how to do hip heists, without ending up crashing into the walls, too!

I may have used the wrong term - by 'crab' I mean the one where your arms are supposed to go the wrong way, the body ends up arched right up with the head down (did JM call it a wheel?). The one where she says something about messing up their hair. There's only one of those, the others the hands are the right way round IYKWIM, they're (mostly) ok.

I can do a few one-legged mountain climbers, not too fast and then have to do the rest of the set both legs (but at least can do that properly now). Those plank things aren't easy... but a year ago I'd have found them totally impossible!

Which crab one is that? There's a few of that type of move! My couple of nemesises (or should that be nemesi...?) are the single legged mountain climbers, and that push up thing from plank to push up position. They just Don't Get Any Easier!

ES&S L2 done - quite enjoyed that (mostly) though what with stops to rewind to work out what she was doing, and for breath/water it took me about an hour by itself (with no cooldown). Had to use modified versions of some of the moves - I can't see me ever being able to do that crab-type thing. If I get into that position and try to push on my hands, absolutely nothing happens.

I might give ES&S L2 a go tomorrow.

Hope your DD stays well for a good while now, idkick, and she gets over the fear. 'This too shall pass' - but so hard when you're going through it.

I meant to JM tonight but didn't have enough time thanks DH for promising to put the toddler to bed then coming in to 'help' at the last five minutes when I'd already done nappy, PJs, bottle, teeth and two stories plus hand holding in the dark to get him to sleep. Passive-aggressive rants aside I still managed a Stronglifts session and now I need to go find some protein.

Inspired by this ES and S talk I did it today. My plan was to do both levels but I was running short of time so didn't do the last circuit of L1 as I find it really easy- that capoeira or whatever seems a bit of a cop out! It's fair to say that doing them back to back was pretty tiring- and I agree there is quite a jump between one and two. Quick cross trainer session tomorrow morning as short of time. I managed to fit in a 3.5 mile yesterday which was good.

Oh right, that makes sense. I don't bother with the cooldown now, just do a few cobras if I feel I might have strained my back.

I find ES&S a bit weird, errol. L1 is a bit easy but L2 is a huge jump up. I think the timings are 5min warmup, 30 min main workout, 10 min cool down; hence the 30/45 min discrepancy.

idkick I am a veteran of the school anxiety & refusal situation - are school offering any support? PM me if you'd like to.

Rubbish week last week - only did 2 workouts - life just got totally on top of me. trying to do better this week. L1 Ripped done today.

Waves to notyummy, knotty, stunt and all on the thread. Good work all.

Hello all - not been on here for a while but I have been JM'ing - NMTZ last week, I really like that. Did some windsurfing on saturday, still nowhere like as strong as my 15yo DD but better than I was at the start of the season.

Today I finally tried ES&S - was a bit surprised, the box says it's 2x45 mins but then in the intro she says it's 2x30 and it's best to do both. Well, that seemed a bit much so I just did L1. Liked some of it, but as I've never done either yoga or any martial arts quite a lot of the moves looked complicated so I had to keep rewinding and watching again. Will try it again tomorrow, but I think I prefer simpler moves where you can gradually increase the weights (probably why I like NMTZ - except I know I should do some cardio too)

I did not do anything yesterday!! I had also been out Friday night so was proud of myself doing all of bobs pure strength after 3 G and Tees and half a bottle of wine ;-) was an even bigger night on Saturday so nothing yesterday. Planning a run tonight and some strength tomorrow. Not sure what though!

Notyummy hope you enjoyed your Sat night - did you manage anything yesterday?? Idkick, you should be proud, that's brilliant! Stunt, hope you feel OK today.
I did half of Bob's Pure Strength on Friday, nothing Saturday after a night out Friday, may have had a couple of Cosmos although I did walk an hour to my mum's & back, 6W6P L1 yesterday. Plan for the week is:

Today - SIWW 1
Tues - Ripped 2 & walk to DD's music class
Weds - half of Bob's Ripped Core
Thurs - Shred L1 & walk to town & back
Fri - One week Shred cardio

Have a good week!

Back on Ri30 L1D1 today. The Stronglifts programme must be working as I think I'm going to need heavier weights for some of the exercise but my cardiovascular fitness has declined so I was a sweaty mess by the end. I'm feeling good now, I hope it lasts and I don't get he dreaded delayed onset muscle soreness tomorrow.