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

Welcome Insanity - love your name please keep posting!

Roman - hopefully something new will be out soon that appeals to you as a program. I still think the ultimate BB program still hasn't happened!

How is your back Reastie?

Purple ouch re doms - I hate it in thighs worst of all!

We went away towards end of easter and I have failed to get on it for a few days but have done 2x Insanity m30 and 2 x chalean so not so bad!

Have a lovely weekend all

reastie - you know you haven’t lost fitness in a week! It will be back in no time.

Welcome insanityrocks. It’s good to have a fellow max30 convert on the thread. No idea re 80do but I do think autumn’s workouts are very effective. I’ve done 21dfx and am doing it again now and I’m properly sore from the workouts so it must be doing something right! I woke up this am and my bum and hamstrings meant I struggled to sit down. Dd thought that was hilarious. Did cardio fix extreme tonight and wasn’t as bad as I remembered - all of those times doing cvx must have had an effect after all. It was boiling hot though

Hello everyone, I have been lurking but thought I should say hi. I've done max 30 a few times and have now signed up to BBOD to do 80 day obsession. In the second week of phase 2 and really enjoying it at moment, though is tough. How have you found it overall Thermo? I feel like I've already toned up a lot but sadly I've also been eating more as I've been so hungry so no weight lost.
Rest day today and I'm glad as so hot, I don't think I could face it this eve.

Gah I’m trying so hard to be healthy here! So yesterday decided to do a nice walk in a local park before picking up dd as my workout (ok, it wasn’t a workout but I decided was better than giving myself more of an injury and was a bit of physical activity) as the weather was so good. Somehow I gave myself a painful blister! So the run I was going to try this morning didn’t work out. I did a bodybalance dvd instead but I can feel after nearly a week of gebtle workouts my fitness has reduced already! Hopefully will get it back soon. Have spotted my local leisure centre have BA classes at the week ends so going to ring up and see how I go about booking for next week end.

The body balance dvd I did had what’s her name archer mills in it. I didn’t realise she was Jackie mills’ daughter [palm face]. She was quite heavily pg in it and was doing better than me, she was amazing!

How is everyone doing in the hot weather?

Cross posted with poppy. I’m sorry to hear about your back. Why don’t you try a stretch/strength workout like yoga or isometrix (can’t remember whether you have p90x3) - the stretching will help mobilise it but obviously stop if it starts to hurt.

Hi roman - my twinges and sore legs are better now but I really struggled yesterday! Running gives me terrible DOMS and the off road bits always make my ankles sore until I get used to it so i was like an old lady limping around. I did manage incinerator (upper body workout) on Sunday but I think limping through it is the best way to describe it. Have started 21dfx again as I finished p90x3. Autumn has killed me on day 1 with dirty 30. I know you like that one but it is so hard!

That’s amazing on the weight loss. I bet you feel really motivated now. 2lbs for the week sounds great and 5lbs overnight even if some of it comes back on it won’t all come back so that’s even better

Friendly my weight?! I mean FWIW my weight

Thermo I remember Shaun t always saying in one of his workouts legs exercises make you sweat a lot as it’s such a big muscle group but I agree, it’s weird doing a non cardio type move but find it so heart beatingly challenging and feeling like it’s cardio. Have you weighed yourself again since to see what’s happened? Friendly my weight varies regularly 3-4lbs depending what time of day I weight myself.

So, I need some advice. After falling off my step on Saturday my back began hurting a lot after doing a core workout the next day. I had a day off workouts yesterday to try to rest it up and it seemed to be improving, barely a twinge today so took mysekkf for an off road bike ride. Was only 30 minutes (and my speed was so slow I could have actually run faster!) but when I finished and was getting off my bike my back twinged big style and has been feeling very very questionable.

Now, usually I’d do BA tomorrow morning but I realise this probably isn’t the best plan. So, should I have another rest day or despite thingy back should I try body balance (which is gentler but does have various twisting type moves, it’s like yoga and Pilates type stuff)? I’m thinking thr sensible answer would be another rest day but I’m getting fat and need to up the exercise not reduce it! But to get a proper bad back would be awful, it literally took over a year before I was recovered enough to do exercise without pain after a slipped disc some years ago...

My ankle and foot and hurting weirdly this afternoon, I think I might be an enforced rest day tomorrow as I have a feeling it’s going to ache more tomorrow.

Purple your fall doesn’t sound nice, I hope it wasn’t too muddy when you fell and well done for dusting yourself off and carrying on (with an extra detour too).

See, I really like running and look forward to going running but I only really enjoy the last 10 minutes as I know it’ll be over soon! I enjoy getting th fresh air and feel amazing afterwards which makes me do it. It’s the buzz afterwards that makes me want to do it rather than loving the whole run itself, although once I’ve got a steady pace and some good music time goes a lot quicker.

Sorry - me again - got interupted whilst posting!

That’s funny about the 80do cast roman. I suppose if they picked people who really would transform over 80 days we wouldn’t find them sufficiently inspirational in the workouts as they’d just look like all of us.

I missed a lot of workouts this week. Eventually after 4 days off (!) I did total synergistics yesterday and 7mile run today. Was supposed to be 6 but had to take a detour. Felt ok as I was moving very slowly but anticipate some sore legs tomorrow. And I feel a bit the same as everyone else on here about running - it’s ok and I don’t mind it, but I don’t love it. I would prefer a dvd. I live in nice countryside though so runnning gets me out to see that which I like. Hope you’ve all enjoyed the sunshine today.

It must be accident day today. I went for a run, was daydreaming a bit and suddenly found myself flat on my face. Was in some soft mud so no harm done apart from to my pride! Hope you’re ok too reastie.

Bodystep this morning and actually fell off my step ten mins in, a proper slip and fall . Landed on my dodgy leg (of course which end weirdly tingly afterwards but pressed through and finished the workout, phew. Dh is setting up a trampoline for dd in the garden today and will probably have a go on that for some extra fitness points.

Charlene looks like she’s had work done to her face or a lot of botox, she doesn’t quite look real. Never one to shy away from brave fashion choices!! I got emails from her a while ago (not me personally, I think I must’ve signed up to her mailing list or something) but I unsigned up for them as they were really annoying trying to sell me things about making my life more enriching, in a hydrate your life type of way!

Thermo I bet the people on the video are regular workout people already and so they were more maintaining their level rather than looking for real differences (sort of like autumn).

Purple, you know we need pictures of the leggings!

Just had delivery of a full length mirror for the dining room on advice of physio so I can —admire myself when working out— check my form on moves. Got one as wide as I could but it’s just a regular mirror rather than an actual gym type mirror. I don’t particularly like the idea of a full length mirror in the dining room —watching myself eat— but it’s a necessary evil.

Did a legs workout yesterday morning then ended out doing a ski lesson in the afternoon, so legs are aching today! Not well planned at all.

Sorry I meant well done! Not well done?

Well done on tabata poppy? Presume was tabata power? That’s one of my faves as it does abs, arms and jumping around. Awesome. I bet it was the tricep section which has given you the under arm DOMS. No idea re behind the knees - impressive.
I’m all miserable and flabby here. I’ve been ill for a couple of days and not been fit to workout. Hopefully tomorrow. On the bright side I just bought some new leggings to wear outside the house - in a size 8. They are both a NSV and a mid life crisis! I can’t decide whether to keep them. I suspect DH might have a view.....

tabata done but mostly modified - I have DOMS in weird places like the back of my knees and armpits haven't been doing pullups so that's not the answer!

Purple that is so cute! My dd2 was complaining the other day as I give her remote controls to use as weights In general though I tell them to keep clear as usually in a bad mood in the morning well done on your run.

Roman you are describing how I feel about running to a T - the feeling afterwards is brilliant but during is horrendous. I would love to be able to properly run though.

I was feeling a bit mean to Chalean and wondered what is chalean wearing now in 2018 - nah - still not shopping at john lewis

3rd chalean weights workout done this morning. I only went as high as 12lbs for this one but that was the main weight I used - I did wimp out at rep 7 for one move though - think it was a lunge and lift above head one (am rubbish at lunges)! The squat with 24lb weights were easy tbh as not really lifting just holding them only 3 reps. Hopefully insanity max 30 tomorrow - fingers crossed I survive the full 30 minutes!

24lbs is heavy poppy - was that handweights? Impressive. Outfit sounds horrific. You can’t buy that sort of thing in John Lewis!

Managed my first training run yesterday. Nearly didn’t go as was raining and I hate running in the rain but decided it was a bit pathetic to wimp out on day 1. Did 5miles. I’ll add 10mins time to my run each week from now on. my legs were battered after about 20mins. My calves and quads were killing. I guess they’re not used to it! Also did a hilarious eccentric upper workout with the kids on sat - they took a smal handweight each and did the exercises alongside me and then gave me water in the breaks. Was very fun.

How is everyone, hope happy easter hols all round.

So did most of the 1st insanity max 30 w/o had the modifier on and switched between modifiying and non modifiying - still maxed out on pike up spider lunges round 7 minutes and was properly sweaty after 15 minutes.

Also did chalean extreme - outfit update - shiny tight gold top with black trousers and shoes - gold trim; other workout was identical but silver - cast coordinated of course I quite like the lean phase (level 3) workouts but there is a lot of standing on one leg while lifting to make it harder. In this phase you do 12 reps have a 10 second break then do 3 slow 'extreme reps' I used 24lbs for one of the 3 rep squats which was fine but I need to get the weights ready one at a time on a higher surface next time ready to lift both together.

Hi all

Purple it was all the training putting me off as I would rather do dvds so that is interesting. I really like warrior too! Think I will do an insanity max 30 today eek.

Reastie I think I read some advice given to me after having dc that it is best to wee at least every 3 hours but not more frequently than every hour - a quick google suggested 4 - 10 times a day is within normal but it depends how much you drink so that will be why you wee more often.

Roman glad your day worked out better being bit more relaxed.

Purple I know some people take training for runs very seriously and say you need 3 runs a week with hill training etc but when I was running longer distances I did it by just one week end run and gradually increasing the length and doing my next rank workouts in the week like you plan to so I think you should be fine, it’ll be a good challenge! I agree warrior is a really good workout.

Thermo I have big pint mugs for tea and big glasses for drinks! I was thinking earlier how many times a day I go to the loo....on average I reckon about 15 roughly. Is that a lot? I think it probably is. Often when I go out I do an extra loo trip ‘just in case’ I wonder what the average amount is, dd only goes probably about 5-7.... I do notice I go to the loo a lot more than anyone else I know!

Was busy yesterday but needed to sneak a workout in so do 30minute bodystep but was disappointed it was only 27 minutes long and had two warm up tracks as well as longish cool down. It didn’t really feel like it counted but I guess better than nothing. Hoping to do a little core workout later today despite the fact it’s a rest day which I’ll mentally tag into the end of yesterday’s mini step workout.