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

I fixed my pull up bar and did a double today! Woo hoo! It was triometrics and then the challenge. I missed my Tuesday workout so was making up for it today.
Hope you’re all well

Hello!
I totally nailed cvx last night so I was pleased with that as normally I struggle with it. Sadly tried to repeat the feat with warrior today and struggled so I think my cvx triumph was more to do with doing it after 2 rest days rather than significant fitness improvement on my part. Never mind. My pull up bar needs a new nut and bolt which I haven’t bought yet so I’ll have to do some substitute workouts until I can get to a diy shop. This is a mixed blessing as I really hate pull ups but I know they’re good for me. Hope no one else has had a pull up bar injury to complete Reasties hat trick!

Well done on getting to phase 3 roman. You should try my trick of taking 2 days off and then trying one of those hard workouts. Being rested made a massive difference for me. (I may have also been eating cakes and scones and generally bad things for the last few days too so maybe that also gave me more energy ..... )

Hello all, hope you had a good Monday. I did the BA remix on LMOD today, really enjoy that one. Dh was sitting in the room I was doing it in doing paperwork which was a good thing because if someone is there when I workout I try extra hard! So I was dripping in sweat at times. There was one move in the agility track where you had to do a big step forward then to a high jump up with hands up in the air then another big step forwards and repeat. My room is quite small so I aimed to do one in the dining room then a big step into the kitchen for the second jump but misplaced myself and was too close to the door frame and my shoulders banged into the pull up bar and knocked it on the floor! So my pull up bar has been in the wars too purple. Usually things happen in 3s so if any of you have a pull up bar be very very careful with it!

Oh no purple, is it a rummage in the bin job or is it too late for that/too grim to do?

Did stomp fx on you tube, mashed up some different ones to get a 50 minute workout. Wasn’t hard but wanted to take it a bit gently today. Hoping for dvd tomorrow but still haven’t decided what. Might have to be a quick one as dd has been unwell over the week end so may be off school tomorrow.

Disaster here. My pull up bar is broken . I did find a random bolt on the floor the other day and threw it away but now realise it was a vital part of the bar. I guess I should be relieved it didn’t fall off whilst I was mid pull up....
anyway - had to substitute the pull up moves in decelerator today but am hoping I can repair it.
Hope you’re all having a good day

Reastie I remember that - I got so sick of lying on my left side!

Thanks. Did ba 45 mins this morning, 97 or 98, forget which, but really enjoyed it and even snuck in some burpees. LMOD are doing some upgrade work tomorrow between 9-10 so offline which is exactly the time I do my workouts! Will have a think about what B.B. or step workout I might do instead. Don’t fancy a run with the snow out even though the roads seem ok atm.

Purple gosh to blacking out lyin gon your back. I remember feeling percliar on my back so I didn’t do it and literally fantasising about when I could lie flat on my back again as I really missed it! Well done on the jack squats, they are evil.

Thanks Purple good idea - Shaun T tomorrow then.

Reastie I would also carry on with exercise without modifying if I were you - just try and keep things as normal as possible for as long as possible!

I thought the ab exercise thing was more when you got a bit further on in pregnancy actually - when I got bigger with dd I used to immediately black out if I lay on my back - it’s to do with the placenta stopping blood flow. Seems like a massive human design flaw if you ask me

Very quiet day here. Am totally sick of winter and snow so I’ve opted out and refused to go outside. I did manage triometrics though. Got through the whole jack squats move which is a first.

Good work on the push ups roman. You could try doing that every day and adding one each time if you want to be able to do more. You’ll get it back poppy. I think doing Shaun t is the key - t25 and max 30 seem to be non stop push ups. After doing max30 for 60 days I beat DH in a press up challenge. He was a bit horrified.

To dispel the back to back thing I was literally bed bound most of my pg and never really left the house and did absolutely no exercise and didn’t even really wak much as I also had spd and dd wasn’t back to back!

Looking forward to a workout this morning after 2 days off and eating a lot this past week and feeling very fat. Think I’ll do BA but now I’m not sure if I should do abs work just in case I could be pg in 2ww but I’m presuming it’s fine to do until I know it’s I’m actually pg (??)

how weird we were all back to backers!

4 is really good! I wish I could pushup properly, I was better but seem to have lost it

Wow - great NSV roman. I quite like burpees but the ones you’re talking about with the press up are hard. Fab! Good on the side planks too - your core is obv loads stronger. I bet your shape has changed you just haven’t noticed it yet. I’m also very impressed with BA at 7mths pregnant. I was just sat on the sofa by that point (and I had a back to back birth proving Poppy’s point!)

Woke up feeling so sore. I did 4 days of p90x3 in a row and I felt it this am! Rest day today. Had a burger for lunch but in a nod to healthy eating I asked for it with salad

Reastie a lovely baby will be totally worth it {gets broody}
Rest day today.

Roman that is amazing about your full push-ups well done.

Thank you, I’m sort of dreading it but willing to go through it again for the end result iykwim. Was due to have a quick pop to the gym this morning but got really bad tummy troutlets involving lots of loo trips (sorry for tmi) which I have pin pointed to my prenatal vitamins! So have had to stop them and meant an extra rest day (boo) but I’m looking forward to a dvd on Saturday, maybe BA.

Thermo I’m seriously impressed by BA up to 7 months pg and that’s a fantastic NSV.

Purple I think cvx was one I hated doing but it felt like it was good for me iykwim.

I was just coming on to post something about cvx which I did this evening. (It’s still hard basically!) and then saw reasties much more exciting posts!

There is such limited understanding of what causes miscarriage so I think any answer you get is a bit of a guess. I had a LOT of miscarriages and docs always told me it was overwhelmingly likely that it was a problem with the embryo rather than something I had done. The actual advice is to do the same level of exercise you’ve always done. My friend did a triathlon in her first trimester. Having said all that - I immediately stopped exercise when I got pregnant as given my history I didn’t want to take any chances

Sounds like you had a rough pregnancy so no wonder you’re a bit anxious. Doesn’t mean it will happen again though - I had a horrific (think vomiting 4x per day for 5mths) pregnancy first time round but my second was much easier so fingers crossed and

Oh god that sounds awful Reastie, hopefully it will be different. Def enjoy your workouts without worrying for as long as pos x

Thanks yumy, love the mental image of her cycling round London eating blue cheese at the same time! I am an anxious person and whilst I’d love another dc I’ve almost become phobic of pg after my previous experiences where I was literally bedbound with terrible pregnancy nausea for the whole 9 months (I have emetophobia which didn’t help!). Last time I was on medication and signed off from 4 weeks to give you an idea of how much my body doesn’t sent like being pg! Right now I’m trying to enjoy every single workout thinking I don’t know when I’ll be up to them again.

friend wasn't actually eating the blue cheese while cycling btw

Reastie as far as I know unless you are at risk for miscarriage in some way it is fine to exercise at the same level as before, just don't push yourself to do more. Especially as you are trying at the moment and it could take a while. It is probably good to be exercising, apparently sitting on the sofa is why there is much higher rates of back to back labours nowadays (I had this for all 3!).

I was very anxious when pregnant with my second as the first birth and recovery were very difficult - the actual pregnancy was fine though so not exactly the same situation as you, but I would feel dread just going past the hospital on the bus. it actually turned out to be a really positive experience so hopefully things will be different for you second time round. I used to get overly worried about things like exposure to chemicals and eating the wrong foods - the stress was probably more harmful than any of these things would have been! I had a workfriend who didn't know she was pregnant for the first 5 months and did lots of stuff you are not supposed to and her baby was totally fine! She was cycling in London traffic eating blue cheese, drinking etc etc

Body balance done today.

It’s the talking at the same time that must be so hard, I can barely do it sometimes let alone speak without sounding like a crazy out of breath woman!

So, dh and I are unofficially ttc (I say unofficially as my last pg was so horrible and hard going I said I’d never do it again. It’s taken me 7 years to consider it and even now I’m very scared). I did BA class this morning and yoga this afternoon. This afternoon some of the yoga moves have really pulled something or given me pain kind of in my uterus type of area and now I’m panicking if I should be modifying exercise in any way and if I overdo it could it cause a mc before I knew I was pg iykwim. I googled exercise in first trimester and it said do yoga but no twists with abs (we did those) and I’m sure a full on BA class isn’t exactly recommended although I know one of you became the go to class expert on Ba in pg (who was that?). Last time I was pg I never exercised so it’s wasnt something I ever oooked into. Do any of you know if I should be taking it a bit easy this early on (ie I may not even be pg yet but if I am I don’t want to cause a mc to something that would otherwise not have happened if I hadn’t). Gah, I’m probably overthinking this it’s just the weird groin ish pain is not feeling good.

Reastie it's amazing how fit she is - and able to talk at the same time!

LMOD update - so just cancelled and an offer for 12 months for £95 came up, so a small saving, I but cant afford that at the mo! It was easy to cancel online. My account says I don't have an active subscription now but I tried playing a video and it worked so hopefully I will still be able to watch the videos until the month I had paid for runs out in a few days time.

She has better fitness than most 20 years olds at 50! Interesting bio, thanks for the link yumy.

Another non pauser here, I just get back in as quick as I can.

Rest day today but BA and yoga tomorrow. Want to try to squeeze in up to 30 mins of something on Thursday but not sure what yet.