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

Purple I share your frustration with bad backs, it really sucks doesn’t it. All I can say is you don’t want to overdo it now and get a bad back injury as that can take yonks to recover from (speaks the woman who had a slipped disc). I know it’s frustrating and I absolutely hate it (I’m on week 2 or 3 of only 3 gentle runs a week of up to 30 minutes) but hopefully it’ll be worth the sacrifice now in the long run. Can you try the magic yoga workout again? Is it lower or upper back? I can let you know the stretches my physio has given for lower back if you like. I have to do 1-2 a day (although I still have a bad back albeit very slowly getting better).

If it’s muscular acupuncture can be fantastic, sorted my back right out in about 3-4 sessions last year.

I’m getting totally frustrated. My back is still so stiff and sore. I did yoga 2 nights and nothing yesterday and it’s still awful. I can’t get my head anywhere near the floor in child’s pose or bend forward beyond my knees (previously could put hands on floor) if that gives you some idea. It’s so bad I’ve been contemplating going back to the mean grumpy physio

Anyway - am totally sick of it. Decided to go for a little gentle run. Did 25mins and felt pretty good so did another loop. Ended up 4.5 miles in the end. We’re on hols somewhere hilly so my phone showed I’d done the same height gain in 4.5 miles as DH did when he ran 11miles at home last weekend. I was glad to see that as my legs felt knackered and I couldn’t work out why.

Anyway - sorry for the me, me, me post but I’m fed up

Yumy that’s fascinating, I never knew that, thank you.

Reastie I have never properly followed GI as a diet - but I do remember that GI is a bit flawed and you are better off looking at the glycemic load of your meal as a whole. You would probably still need to count calories even when looking at GI/GL though. With potatoes you can really improve the impact on your insulin by cooling them and then reheating them which is something that you could do with a baked potato.
www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Enjoy-food/Carbohydrates-and-diabetes/carbs-and-cooking

TBH Reastie I didn't notice Chalean's outfit - I think because I try and rattle through it a bit quicker and press forward as soon as I have done the reps!

Roman I suspect some of the before and afters like that are the ones of people who have been on holiday eaten loads of pizza etc but are basically fit and toned underneath a bit of temporary bloating.

Purple that is really great about the yoga, good choice, some exercise helping with soreness for a change! I have come to the conclusion max 30 is too hard for me as a program - I can cope with it alongside something gentle but not day in day out.

Purple you’re making me want to try it tomorrow -but I’m too scared- , glad it worked for you. I wonder if I can foam roll my lower back

Definitely not possible roman. People don’t realise how incredibly difficult it is to get a 6pk so their goals are unrealistic and these images just play into it.

Minor miracle here. Back has been so awful the last 2 days - it is just tight muscles but I’ve not been able to sit down comfortably and been in pain constantly so was taking ibuprofen. It is what I’ve had before so I’ve been stretching but barely able really even to move. Decided to do p90x3 yoga tonight to see if that helped and I’m now so much better. It’s amazing and has really loosened it up. yay. I guess I’ll be stiff again tomorrow when I wake up but am hopefully on the mend. Yoga really is amazing

Thanks for the advice. Yesterday when I came home from work I went for a 30 minute walk because I thought any activity is better than no activity and it was all I could do. Can’t fault my trying! Tomorrow is run day, hurrah! Even if it is only gentle and short it’s something and I feel a bit stir crazy at being desperate to get back to workout mode.

Thermo often feel a bit at before and after photos. Was there different lighting/positions of the people too? That can make a big difference. Maybe they are sticking their tummy out and doing really bad posture in the before vs sucking tummy in and shoulder back for after? I take them in general with a pinch of salt though, I reckon there must be loads of false ones out there. Love the making up the workout plan as you go, it’s the most fun way :)

Purple how’s the back? Hope it’s getting better already.

Yumy was Charleen wearing good gear in the workout?!!!

I was doing a bit of googling earlier on glycemic index/GI. Has anyone done this in the past? I’m interested in it as I’m so careful with not eating anything with sugar in aside from fresh fruit yet I eat potatoes most days for my lunch and the GI of baked potatoes are higher than sucrose (table sugar) . I’m questioning whether I should rethink my pretty much daily potato for lunch and try to vary it more with brown rice/sweet potato etc. It’s funny as it’s higher than white rice yet I never eat white rice, only brown, as I think of white rice being too processed and quick release but all this time I’ve been eating potatoes which are worse!! Gah

Poppy - you did a mile in 7.24?! That is seriously impressive. Well done.

Reastie - hope the appetite settles down soon. I guess it all feels very unsettling for all sorts of reasons. Hope you’re ok

I was away this weekend so no exercise on sat or sun. I just got into the habit of binning off workouts so was going to skip Monday’s too but I realised you’d all be working out so I did cardio challenge. Annoyingly I got a really sudden back pain half way through. Stupidly I continued the workout (I know!) and now my back is really sore. I’ve had to take ibuprofen. I think again it is just tight muscles so I’ll stretch, but it’s annoying. I’m wondering whether I need to alternate max30 with something else as my back obviously doesn’t like it. Will do a workout later. I’m just not sure what

Hope your back is on the mend Purple?

Reastie - maybe the best plan is to log your cals on MFP until you are back exercising more - set it for maintenance at the sedentary level? Any exercise you do manage will just be a bonus that way. It only need be a short term thing? Hope injury heals up soon.

Roman I think stretchy clothes are the way to go. I was lucky as my sister gave me lots of smaller clothes she didn't want any more (she buys way more clothes than I do and gives stuff away that looks brand new half the time). I am also terrible for hoarding clothes that are too big/small rather than clearing them out.

Chalean Burn level 1 done today - I felt quite out of breath by the end as I skip all the chat!
Feeling very flabby at the moment - which is weird because I have lost a couple of lbs.

Thermo I went through 5 dress sizes and I ended out getting stuff from charity shops as I was only in some sizes for a few months and it would’ve been wasted money to buy nice fancy stuff. Things like skirts are good as you can buy then a size smaller and they do up really high in the waist or not quite fully zipped.

Yumy that sounds great work on the run. I did a gentle run yesterday but my back is still playing up :( I’ve gone from burning in the region of 1500 cals or so a week to less than half that so weight gain is inevitable I imagine as I’m struggling a lot with hunger atm. I realised my hunger could be down to the fact I’m reducing my anti depressant medication, down to a half dose now. Have decided to due to ttc as it’s not ideal to be on and gp has said I would need to come off it before giving birth anyway or baby could get withdrawal effects after birth . When I went on medication I lost a stone in a month as it gave me no appetite as my body got used to it, I’m wondering if the reverse might be the case coming off it?

Purple hope you’re not too sore today.

Amazing Roman! I didn't get many people commenting on my weightloss for ages, then I started to get the you are too thin now comments pretty much straight after that!

Reastie that is annoying - I managed a hassle free run today - I even ran past a few dog's off leads following Purple's no eye contact tip - however there are so many dog's in our park I must have looked pretty strange running around firmly looking away from any dogs!

Purple maybe you need a massage or nice soak in a tub. Hope your back feels better soon

So had planned a run, then totm arrived this morning so was going to put it off but went anyway. I did cto5k and managed the 2 x 5 mins jogs fine for first time and was able to feel pleased when Michael Johnson said 'fantastic well done!' I wasn't sure if map my run was working properly so then turned it off and back on and manged an extra mile in 7 minutes 24, which if it was correct, I am really happy with.

Have a lovely weekend all

Wow - a stone roman?! That’s come off fast. Brilliant. I think people noticed my weight loss at a stone so I’m sure the compliments are coming! I think people are a bit nervous about commenting these days. I bet they wil if they see you in new clothes. I waited until I got to a weight I was happy with and then went through my wardrobe and threw away everything which didn’t fit or looked old/knackered. I was left with 1 top! I then had a very satisfying trip to the shops.

Reastie - sorry to hear you had another dog issue. I wouldn’t cough, I’d just loudly ask them to hold their dog. And give them the evil eye if they don’t!

Friday fight today. Argh. Hard work. Maxed at 10mins and lots of small stops after that. Have had a sore back for the last 2 days (it’s from having tight hamstrings apparently) so did lots of stretching which I’m hoping will help. The balls of my feet are sore from all the jumping. I’m like an achy old lady at the moment

Hope everyone enjoys the weekend

Purple you are a machine!! Well done, you beat insanity max! Mucho respect and going a bit slower at the start totally doesn’t take away the lack of maxing out. Anosolutely in awe and a little bit jealous!

Yumy tricep push-ups are definitely the hardest sort of push up, I don’t think I’ve ever done a full one on my toes but the more you do the better you get!

Thermo that’s amazing work on the stone, well done. FWIW I lost over 2 stone before anyone seemed to notice. It was really disheartening but you can see the difference and how clothes look. Has it swayed your dh into trying macro diet yet? Surely he must be tempted seeing how well you’re doing on it.

Went for another gentle jog yesterday. That’s my week’s quota I’m allowed until Saturday :( . Went to a park as was on way to work and don’t normally run there and forgot about the dog issue until I saw dogs on the walk . Luckily all were on leads but one still chased and jumped on me as the owner didn’t see me so didn’t reign the dog in in time. I’m wondering maybe I should do a loud cough to alert dog walkers should they not notice me in the hope it helps...

Back is still playing up so not sure I should bring back BA etc yet. Looks like another gentle jog over the week end and then see how things are.

Purple that is amazing about not maxing out! Well done You are way fitter than most of the cast!

You don't listen to shaun T does make me laugh when he gets all defensive about speaking in the 3rd person though!

I did tabata power today too. Although I just did normal press ups. Oops. I don’t listen to Shaun t anymore so I missed that they were supposed to be tricep ones.

I did sweat intervals last night and didn’t max out! Woo hoo. I’m not sure it really ‘counts’ as I was tired so moving a bit slowly at the beginning.

Good tip about eye contact Purple I didn't know that.

Tabata power today - 20 seconds suddenly seems much longer! I am so rubbish at tricep pushups even on my knees. I really need to focus on improving them as I genuinely want to be able to do them.

On the dog thing some dogs think you’re wanting to play with them when you’re running so get excited and jump. DH (massive dog lover) has always told me to slow down/stop and not make eye contact with the dog. I think the other thing to do is call out to the owner to hold or call their dog.
I’m not surprised you’re a bit scared reastie. I would be too if I had had a nip.

Ah that's a shame abut swimming Reastie, you don't want an illness on top of injury! How funny that different dogs need different whistles.

Now I’ve dropped my gym membership I can’t really go swimming as I don’t have access to pool. My local one is really dirty and has a name for itself locally as a bit of a germ haven .

Very slow 25 min run this morning, doing my best to be good! Alas purple I can’t even do yoga as physio doesn’t want me twisting.

Yumy maybe I should have made a running Tshirt that has a message about keeping dogs away from me! I actually thought about buying one of those high pithced whistles that we can’t hear that dogs can to try to deter them away from me. The plan was to run and when I see a dog blow it to keep it away from me but it turns out different dogs need the whistle on different frequencies so it wouldn’t work.

Thermo that’s fabulous on the pushups

Reastie that must have been so scary when the dog nipped you. I seem to be getting increasingly afraid of them had an incident at the weekend where I freaked out a bit It sucks about your back - what about going back to swimming would that be allowed?

Purple 20 seconds sounds much more doable for pushups well done roman on good form for a minute that is fantastic.

Did my 7k in 45 minutes this weekend