Beachbody Thread 6 (Insanity, T25, 21 Day Fix, 80 Day Obsession etc)

So I got jealous of all the liift talk and thought I’d give it a go with the leg workout. It was a really good workout! I really enjoyed the hiit bit at the end and it felt like it was more of a good all rounder with the mini round of abs at the end. Joel was a good instructor and not annoying but the man at the front doing the moves I did get a bit annoyed by. I noticed he was doing a really deep squat with bum lower than knees which the physio has told me not to do as bad form and noticed Joel made a comment to him about only going to knee level and he cooorectdd his form and I felt a bit smug that I must be good on form to notice (I’ve clearly done too many workouts!). Made me think though, I often copy form of these people, are they actually doing the right form when they aren’t being watched by the instructor.

Couldn’t do heavy weights as hurts my shoulder but did a small weight and did a few extra reps or adapted to make it harder when needed.

Hahahhahhahaha I was not embracing the doms when I was struggling to get out of the car this morning! Amazingly my arms are mostly ok despite Joel’s punishing tricep routine yesterday. I am still suffering from 21 Dfx 2 days ago. I am now a bit at the thought of the lift legs workout. Rest day today though. Yay!

Oh, was reading an article in new scientist (an ancient copy from January) and it was saying Doms is where the muscles in your body have tiny little rips from exercise then when it renews and fixes itself it makes the muscle bigger and stronger, so embrace the Doms as it’s your muscles getting better!

I’m envious of the liift as I know I’d like it if I could do it.

Doing a lot of very short workouts atm to squeeze it in but wondering if it’s at the detriment of fitness .

Purple exercise does help I think, I’m trying to keep it up as much as I can but I’m feeling very lethargic and heavy iykwim.

Did spin today with my bike inside on the turbo but my bike is so rubbish I can only get 3 gears out of it so it’s limiting progress but despite that I’m still dripping in sweat by the end!

Sorry to hear you’re feeling low reastie. Does the exercise help? I hope so - it sounds like you have a good routine. I personally found ttc the most stressful time and found the constant thinking about it exhausting.

Roman you got me so interested in Liift I tried the first one. Omg. My arms are jelly now, that was hard! I also can’t walk properly after doing dirty 30 yesterday and doing the one legged squats with a bigger weight. It is great to get back to doing some weights though. . I think I’m going to carry on with liift - I really liked it. I am a week behind you, so you can tell me what is coming.

I’m here too! Sorry, been a bit down recently (coming off my anti depressant medication due to ttc and it’s causing me various side effects. Ttc is temporarily on hold, I’m really scared about it and thinking of changing my mind) but have been working out. General pattern which was ok’ed by physio is 1 30 min run, 1 30 min spin, 1 45 min ba workout, 1 cheeky quick 20 min run (whilst dd has piano lesson so time is limited but making use of time!) and one free choice (this week it was step). Also doing some strength exercises from physio but they’re only mini circuits that take maybe 10 mins, have one for arms/upper, one for lower and one for core and am doing them after workouts.

Purple I love how you can’t wait to the back to healthy eating and drinking after holiday, for me it has the opposite effect and I just get used tonrubbish and it becomes habit!

Thermo sounds like you’re doing really well and the lift workouts sound great. I agree that I like strength stuff but it does give me a different type of fitness feeling than cardio, I used to like alternating programmes to get cardio fit then strength etc too to vary things.

I’m here! I’ve just been quiet as I’ve been on hols. I’ve been exercising whilst I’ve been away - a bit of t25 and some running. I’ve got that post hol feeling where I just want to drink water and eat salad after a holiday of wine and heavy meals. I think I’m going to start back with 21dfx which is very effective for me. Also considering a new ‘challenge’ race or event or something. I can’t really decide what. I will need to get googling I think.

Are the lift4 workouts on the secret site roman? How long are they? I found I lost cardio fitness when I did p90x3 but I quite like getting strong and then switching it up and focussing on cardio for a while. That’s great about your holiday weight too - I guess it was just water?

Hope poppy and reastie are about somwhere. Come back and say hi

Hope you’re enjoying your holiday purple, glad you’re managing to squeeze in workouts, I remember t25 being challenging but agree I think max30 was a different level, maybe you’d got used to max30 so shaking it up is good.

Did ba on LMOD today which was good, enjoyed it. Going to try a spin in the morning if I have time but taking dd to ikea to get playroom furniture. Physio yesterday who has pumped up my toning exercises to make them harder.

Purple my resting hr with chest strap (so I know it’s accurate) can often be in the 50s but I’ve never seen it in the 40s before! I’m not sure if it’s wrong or if I do have a lower than I realised hr. new watch can be annoying though as it’ll buzz at me to move even when I’m wandering around the house moving!

Heart rate in the 40s reastie? Wow. Mine never gets below 60.
On hols at the mo. No proper WiFi and the only workouts I can do from secret site are a few t25s. The others don’t work . Has been a bit of a shock as I always think t25 is easy as the cardio is a lot easier than max30 but overall I’m finding them quite tough going - did the beta abs one today and it was hard. Anyway - I need them as I’m eating non stop holiday food. Yum. Hope you’re all well

Wore my new garmin watch for first time today. It’s got a hr monitor in the watch but I got the optional chest strap too as I’ve found in past wrist hr wasn’t v accurate. Excitingly it seemed a lot more accurate than my old Fitbit but I’m going to try the chest strap on to see. Weirdly it got my lowest hr viathe wrist today as being 40. I know I can get readings in the 50s but I’d be very surprised if it ever went down to 40. Upper hr seems relatively accurate though. Looking forward to seeing how the app is different from polar and hoping there are more stats. It gave me a vo2 max (I think that’s what it’s called of 42 which when I looked it up seems really good so I’m hoping that was accurate so I can feel good about myself! —it probably isn’t—

Did a run this morning, just under 5k. Was lovely and breezy and went quite fast for me but was annoyingly hindered by stitch, grr. Hope you’re all enjoying working out in less heat.

EArly is the only way reastie. I didn’t work out tonight. I was in London today and it was 35c. I feel I’ve sweated enough!

Was up at 5:30 this morning to do a quick 30 minute spin workout on LMOD. Glad I did it early as so hot today I’m seriously flagging. It’s just so so hot! Really struggling in the heat. I’ve just got out of a cold bath and I’m already starting to sweat again

It’s roasting here! Im also hot and sweaty.
Did max out cardio last night and got super hot but actually really enjoyed it. Tonight - max out Power which was grim. I just kept stopping. I really struggled. I’m hoping to workout tomorrow and thurs too with rest day on fri but that might be temperature dependent.
Not sure on next challenge. Might just try to get my 10k time down. I’ll have to do some ‘speed training’ gulp.

Urgh, it is so hot! How is everyone coping with workouts? Did a spin at home on turbo on Saturday and sweated buckets. Yesterday did a strength workout devised by physio and today went for a gentle run but couldn’t go until after 10am as had to wait to drop dd at a club thing and it was ridiculously hot already so had to take it really slowly and got so horribly hot and sweaty. Tomorrow will likely be a rest day as busy unless I get up early enough to do a cheeky quick express something first thing.

Purple so what’s the next challenge then?!

Legs almost back to normal. Phew. Went for a run this am - bailed a bit early as legs still felt a bit tired and I tripped up (usually a sign of tiredness). Was nice being able to go for a run and not have to find a 2hr slot in the day. And is a lovely sunny morning so that is always nice.

That is fab on the weight roman. Your Xmas goal is definitely achievable

Well done on the turbo reastie. You have officially now done more training on your turbo than I did on mine!

Purple how are the post race aches?

Thermo that’s fantastic to get the holiday weight goal, now go and have a brilliant holiday.

Well, I got the turbo set up (thermo it’s a machine so you can use your bike as an indoor exercise bike) and did a bike based LMOD workout. I have never done spin in my life but I’m assuming this was spin type class, lots of fast, slow, harder gear, easier gear, stand cycling etc. It was only 30 minutes by my goodness it was hard! I was dripping sweat and had to go easier than the video people. Thought I’d ache the next day but shockingly didn’t! Will try and do it weekly as part of my holiday routine.

Yesterday did BA 45 in the garden and this morning ran laps around the playground dd was in then did 10 minutes on those adult playground/workout machines as I got bored going round and round and round the same small field! Wasn’t that taxing or full on but at least I did something.

Enjoy the turbo reastie. I got a turbo when I was pregnant and I thought I’d use it for exercise. Needless to say it has gathered dust in the garage. I’m sure you’ll be more diligent

Did speed 1.0 today to try to work off the doms. Omg. Bad plan. Legs still in agony. At least DH is in the same boat so we can laugh with/at each other

Wow purple that’s fantastic. You know how to challenge yourself and not pick an easy option with that half marathon!

Thermo did the refereeing work?

Back from holiday now so getting into a summer holiday routine. Did a run on Sunday and a super quick bonus one this morning. It’s still so hot here that it’s so sweaty to workout.

my bike turbo arrived today and dh is going to set it up tomorrow so fingers crossed on Wednesday I’ll be doing either a homemade style hiit workout or a LMOD bike workout on my bike indoors, I’m so excited! Hope it all works.

Hope the cake refeeding worked roman. I have been away for the weekend and have done some refeeding of my own. Everything was so yummy I just couldn’t help myself!

Did my half mara this weekend too. Was absolutely great. Was a trail race over a mountain so VERY hilly. Lots of walking as the ground was steep. We climbed 10x the height I climbed in my hilliest training run . No wonder my legs are thrashed now. The best bit was the downs. They were super fast on rocky ground so lots of concentration required but it was really exhilarating. I definitely would do something like that again. My legs aren’t so sure. I have super DOMS now and I know tomorrow will be worse.

Hope you’re all ok