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

Reastie I have only done a few, but so far a smidge repetitive and the music isn't as good! Makes sense to not push yourself to exercise if it's making you feel worse.

Look at how much chunkier my legs are now

Yes, I remember with dd having to push myself up from the sofa with my hands or I couldn’t get up! Haven’t quite got there yet but sure it’ll be here soon enough! Pretty much given up on physical activity now and touchwood it is making a difference to nausea. Did a few stretches this morning figuring at least taking some time to do something a few times a week will help keep the routine in place.

Purple I hope the cough goes soon, so annoying how the can hang around.

Yummy I enjoy Les mills step but I find even that quite repetitive and dull at times. My step class I used to go to was quite routine focused. Is Shaun t even more repetitive?

Purple well done on triceps - fingers crossed it doesn't affect your cough too much. I think my tiredness could be partly day to day work stuff, not eating very healthily etc making me feel a bit bleh and low energy.

Did another shaun t - I love that it is only 20 minutes, and it is really good for getting a sweat quite quickly. I think I might get bored after a while if the workouts are quite samey. Les mills step workouts are probably a bit more fun.

Roman really fab you're getting the results. I did think when I was packing up clothes that I probably should donate them but I am such a yo yoer with weight I probably need to keep them.

What was the new Shaun t like poppy? Sorry to hear you’re not back to yourself yet. Did the doc say how long it might be?

Yay for the ab definition roman. Fab! I bet that is super motivational. You’ve always liked pyramid. I really don’t like that one at all.

I agree re standing up with no hands whilst pregnant. I could barely lift myself up from a chair even pushing with both hands!

Did week 2 triceps today. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t aggravate my cough. Those quad sets felt bloody hard today

Hello! Yes loving the sunshine here!

well done on day 1 swimdory.

Purple that is really annoying about your cough - I hope you feel better again soon.

Reastie that is fantastic about the getting up without hands - I am not sure I can do that even minus a bump I always used to struggle with stand up sit down on 22 HC.

Roman I need to channel your skirt challenges as I have just packed away at least a suitcase worth possibly 2 of stuff that is all too small. size 10, 12 and 14 stuff basically.

So I haven't done much exercise recently been so tired again (although D3 officially worked for my periods as I have had 3 in a row at approx. 25 day intervals), but we did a massive spring clean which took about 3 days so I feel that counts for something!

Week 1 day 1 of the new shaun T done today.

Hope you are OK plink?

Hi all - hope you’ve all enjoyed the sunshine. No exercise for me this weekend (except some gentle walks) as my run really aggravated my cough. Hopefully will be better tomorrow but thought better safe than sorry.

Your fb friend sounds like she’s in a pyramid scheme reastie - like the younique products. I read a really great blog by someone who was in one and got out. It rammed home how horribly exploitative it all is.

Thanks purple. Glad you got a run in, you’ll soon be back to normal speed and minus the coughing.

No workouts this week. Gentle walking past couple of days for tiny tiny walk. Am going to do yoga on Monday. Just tried my fitness test which is can I stand up from sitting cross legged on the floor without using my hands and with the strength of my legs to get me up. Saw on a bbc docu last year this is a good test of fitness as people get older and figure this is a good pg gauge. Good news is I managed to stand up with no help and visually it looked relatively decent but internally I felt wobbly and my back hurt . But I did it so that’s reassuring.

Amazing weather here today!

A Fb friend of mine (don’t know her very well, we were childhood friends) has recently started up her own personal training business and selling weird supplements with crazy claims. She’s gone from not being an active person at all to constantly spamming my Fb wall with posts about fitness and I can’t help but feel a bit . I can’t believe how many pictures of before and after she has from people that have supposedly had their lives changed by these weird nutrition/herbal pills. The amount of claims about how many health issues they have cured is scary. I trust none of it and am seriously dubious and surprised she’s been caught up in it. Maybe she believes it. Maybe she just thinks she can make decent money selling it (which I presume she does, but obv no prices or info other than supposed stories of people who have had their lives changed by it and making comments about messaging her for details). People must buy this stuff and think it will cure everything. I’m surprised it’s legal.

Got out for a run today for the first time in 5 weeks! The last time I was running it was freezing and I had 2 tops on. Was warm today. Lovely. I was very slow but it was good to get out. My cough has come back though. It is not fair

Have a lovely Easter everyone

Reastie it’s easy for me to say, but at 30wks not many people are exercising anyway so perhaps just dial it down to yoga and see if that is better? If it makes you feel nauseous there doesn’t seem to be much benefit in it and you’re eating healthily anyway.

I started t25 8 wks post section and it was fine. Well, knackering as I was fat and unfit but no c section related issues. I was v careful in the first 2wks though which helped I think.

I’ve done wk 1 Legs tonight and back/biceps on Monday. I’m feeling the liift tiredness now! It is good to be back on it though. I remembered how much I dislike triple bears too.

Purple how long before you were exercising after your csection? Glad you’re feeling better.

30 weeks now and close t giving up on exercise. Every single time I try and do even super gentle stuff I have an awful nausea day, it’s like my body is rejecting exercise. I’ve spent months trying to hard to push myself into still doing some kind of activity but it makes me feel so awful. I’m going to try maybe just yoga and see how that goes. I don’t want to give up on it but it makes such a difference in how bad I feel I don’t feel I have much of an option. My aim is to be 50lbs up at the end of pg, which I know is a massive gain and more than I should (and I moght not even manage that) BUT I estimate I put on over 65 lbs with dd so if I can manage it that would be a good improvement.

Swimming good luck with 28df.

Thermo brill news.

Thanks @Purpleraindeer I hope so! Just need to keep myself on it!

Hi swimmingdory - well done for getting started. The first week is the toughest as your body gets used to it. You will feel a big difference in 21 days so it is really worth it.

Very new to exercise.... started 21 day fix (not the food side) today. Cross country skiers nearly killed me, as did the frogs abs things... but I've done day 1

Hello all - I’m back!
I’m finally feeling better again (only took 4 weeks ) and I’ve had a fab holiday too. It was an all inclusive place, and it was very difficult to just maintain my normal eating. After a couple of days I found I really did NEED a 4pm snack, a 6pm canapé and also a 3 course dinner.....
Anyway, we got back this afternoon and I did a workout to get me back in the swing of things. I’m restarting liift, so was chest and tris. Surprisingly my strength was ok, but the HIIT was a shock. Anyway, glad the first one is done.

Boobz - lovely to hear from you. I hope you restart posting on here, i bet you’ll be back to fitness in no time. I’m really sorry to hear about your mum

Reastie - I had an elective section and it was really easy and recovery was fine so don’t let that worry you. 28 weeks? That’s great.

Poppy - are you managing to fit the workouts in? It is hard when there are lots of other things going on too - i hope your work stuff is getting better.

And fab news on the skirts roman and your all time low weight! I had good intentions of starting some healthy eating on return from hols, I’m not going to be too strict for now. Unless I get a fright when I step on the scales tomorrow

roman have you fitted in to all the old too small skirts now?! Who needs scales - I am imagining a really gorgeous summer skirt

Reastie I am glad this pregnancy has been a little easier at least. Sorry you have had a cold to boot though - I remember any illnesses or colds seemed to be much worse when I was pg, which is really helpful!

I have been crap and not exercised - been some stuff going on at work, but that's not a great excuse tbf. Hopefully will do something tomorrow.

Boobz! Welcome back! I think last thing we heard from you you’d moved and got a busy full time job? I’m still here but not working out really. I’m now 28 weeks pg and having a nightmare time with nausea which has made me pretty much housebound since October. I try doing gentle exercise but it aggregates my symptoms and I feel terrible. It’s also led to giant weight gain. I’m having a csection which won’t help matters but I can’t wait to get physical again. I literally feel like I’m practically on bed rest the amount of resting I have to do. So sorry to hear about your mum.

Yumy I found that autumn and baby workout onnthe secret site and found it so funny. These women were all jiggling their babies around it was looking like they were just asking for them to posset milk everywhere with all the jiggling! I love the sound of the new step workout. I do love my step! Insanity is so a million miles away from what I can achieve for such a long time now though. I’ll have to build up to it! But would love to try it at some point.

Purple that sucks being ill again. It might be better in the long run to just have a workout break tonget back on full strength. Or can you do something gentle to keep the routine of doing workouts still like body balance?

Haven’t been on as have been ill with cold which has made everything else horrible. Haven’t managed even yoga for a week but hoping to do little bits this week. This morning I managed to walk over 1000 steps this morning innthe garden. Might seem tiny but it’s progress on last week. On the plus side (and I know this will change soon) physically I’ve found this pg so much easier than last time with aches and pains etc (and I think my old fitness level has really helped this), it’s just the sickness.

Oh my goodness Hello Boobz! {Welcome back hugs}

I am so so sorry to hear about your mum

I think there are three of us who have been on here since the first thread started, but some of us might have new names.

Hi everyone! Long time :)

I'm going to have to go back and catch up with people's news..

Haven't been exercising for a good 6 months due to work, mum dying, renovating house, but need to get back on it.

How are you all? Who is still around?!

Sounds promising poppy. I was wondering whether I could do it using the little step we had for the kids to reach the sink in the bathroom as I don’t want to buy anything. I feel it might result in a broken ankle though!
I’m signing off for a week as we’re off on hols with no chance of exercise. I’m hoping I’ll be all recovered by the time I’m back. Have a good week all

soooo I did the sample workout for transform 20 sample workout - shaun T describes it as insanity on a step - and that is accurate, it wasn't the gentle workout I was hoping for expecting! My garmin watch counted it as a workout automatically which is a good sign, although it did think I was on an elliptical trainer when I was doing the school run earlier this week I obviously have a very weird gait

Reastie, I feel slightly mean posting about a step workout - maybe if you have BBOD/ secret site when you are back to standard workouts we could do this one at the same time!

Obviously there is some self interest here as I want a workout buddy but I actually quite recommend getting a step, it does make for a fun workout. Mine is quite high but some of the cast were using slim ones which would easily go under a sofa or bed. I used to keep mine between the wall and the sofa and it couldn't be seen, but now I keep it upstairs behind the door in dd2's room next to a tall drawer thing from ikea so it cant be seen when the door is opened against the unit - never really close the door so it's fine.

The main problem with this workout for me is that you need a fair bit of space - but tbh it was only a problem occasionally and space has been an issue with other workouts too. I am also a bit worried it might be too noisy for my neighbours if I do it 6 days a week.... BUT I love Shaun T's cheesy motivational speeches so I might have to see how it goes and try and follow the programme for a bit - at least it is only 20 minutes.

Hope everyone is ok x