Beachbody thread 7 (LIIFT, T25, 21 day fix etc) plus a lovely Beachbody new arrival!

@Purpleraindeer

Hi all! I have good news for you on the being 40 front. I am 40 (ahem - a few years beyond ) and am thinner, fitter and stronger than I was when I got married. So, don’t despair!

Welcome dueindecember - I haven’t done 10 rounds. I did try a bit of 80 day obsession and found it a bit gimicky as you needed slides and bands which I didn’t want to buy. I’m also not sure I could handle autumns chat every day. Lift is excellent though.

I finished week 2 of the work today. Was feeling smug as the last few have been hard but manageable and this was only 40mins so how bad could that be. Omg. If I tell you that it was 8 rounds, each round was 50reps of something plus a walking plank for 45secs and the first round was 50 burpees with a press up, then you’ll get the idea. It was so hard and a lot of modifying happened. In retrospect I enjoyed it though.

I love the idea of lift2. Maybe we can do a little petition to beach body to get them working on it!

I've read a bit more about 80DO and the consensus seems to be the longer workouts are because of all the chat. Think this would wind me up when I'm in a hurry in the mornings.

I'm thinking the work may be more up my street but have a few weeks to decide. Core De Force may also be on the shortlist. I love that BBOD has so much choice. I am almost thinking about ditching the gym as I'm getting more used to working out at home.

Hi all!
I have good news for you on the being 40 front. I am 40 (ahem - a few years beyond ) and am thinner, fitter and stronger than I was when I got married. So, don’t despair!

Welcome dueindecember - I haven’t done 10 rounds. I did try a bit of 80 day obsession and found it a bit gimicky as you needed slides and bands which I didn’t want to buy. I’m also not sure I could handle autumns chat every day. Lift is excellent though.

I finished week 2 of the work today. Was feeling smug as the last few have been hard but manageable and this was only 40mins so how bad could that be. Omg. If I tell you that it was 8 rounds, each round was 50reps of something plus a walking plank for 45secs and the first round was 50 burpees with a press up, then you’ll get the idea. It was so hard and a lot of modifying happened. In retrospect I enjoyed it though.

I love the idea of lift2. Maybe we can do a little petition to beach body to get them working on it!

Hello Dueindecember!

Don’t tell me this about being 40, I’m 40 next year and it’s hard enough already!!!

Purple another one here who would regularly drip sweat on the mat/floor. When I used to do heavy weights on body pump pre injury the squat track always made sweat drip off my arms! It doesn’t happen much any more because I don’t push myself as much as I used to because I’m so scared about injuries but I always have to wear a headband to exercise or I get sweat dripping in my eyes 😮😂.

Thermo I wonder if they’ll do a LIIFT2 workout like they did insanity and insanity max and that crazy hard insanity one.

Hoping for run this morning but running late with breakfast so not sure if I’ll manage to go without getting stitch.

I love that there are some team RH members who also do beachbody programs! I don't think I know anyone in real life who does either.

Welcome duein10! @Theromanempire and @purpleraindeer have done those workout I think so hopefully will be along!

How is your progress with team RH?

I def need to get disciplined with food and exercise. I keep starting diets then breaking them after a few days. I can't understand how I used to be able to diet and exercise really well and since turning 40 it's all gone to pot!

I am on week 3 of LIIFT4 and really enjoying it so far, Combining this with team RH. Already contemplating what to do next when I finish. What are people's experiences of 10 rounds please? Or maybe 80 day obsession?

Hope your DH enjoyed his lockdown birthday poppy.

Well done on the weight loss reastie. I think that is like a miracle. It’s the grazing and wine to break the monotony which is causing problems for me

So, I had an all time workout first yesterday. It was a bit hot in the house and I did my workout. It was lots of heavy weights so lots of puffing and panting from me (a bit like a hot puffed out hippo!) and then I noticed my sweat dripping down onto the exercise mat!! I was both revolted and impressed with my efforts. I also noticed that I could suddenly bicep curl 8kg. That has never happened before. Woo hoo!

Reastie sometimes the cliched workout bits do come from somewhere real - I can see why that would hit you at the moment. Really lovely that it was cathartic for you. Once or twice I have been really inspired by the little talks at end of a workout too. Well done on your weight loss

That workout sounds very hardcore purple - it must mean it is effective though?

It's Dh's birthday so I will def have gained weight this weekend. I made sangria and we have a Colin the caterpillar cake!

Gosh look at me, you don’t hear from me for a couple of weeks then you get a blooming essay!

Thermo I’ve found some workouts really bad on my knees. It’s amazing when I got my physio to watch me doing some moves how much of a small tweak she made to me that made such a difference. She also was very against a number of exercises saying they did more harm than good even when form was fine. I know physios can be like that bit she was really good at wanting me to continue exercising. Can you work out in front of a mirror to check form? That really helped me. If not, maybe stick your phone on camera on yourself to keep an eye?

Yumy I know what you mean about the work thing, I’m having similar thoughts (although I am a teacher!). The things I’d love to retrain in wouod take so long to do and cost so much it would take years to make it worthwhile financially. All I’ll say is consider your mental health with what you would get the most from in your decision. FWIW I wouldn’t say don’t go into teaching, but I’d you do, go in with your eyes open that it is really hard, stressful, exhausting work, and I do think of it as more of a vocation than a career iykwim. The holidays are great from a childcare pov but if I work out an hourly rate for how much I get paid for how long I spend working it’s literally not much more than minimum wage. But it can be incredibly rewarding. I’m secondary but happy to answer any questions you might have. TA would be a great idea as you get to see how things work and if it’s for you.

Purple at the burns! I haven’t heard of the work but it doesn’t sound easy just from the name!

Well, somehow I’ve bucked the trend and lost a couple of pounds in the past couple of ,months! I’m eating a lot more thanPre preg (although still bfing 4xday) and very sedentary so I’m guessing it must be down to having longer runs as I was doing 20-30 mins maybe 4K and now I’m trying to do 6-8k. Atm I’m doing one run a week for 45 mins or so, one cycle for about the same and one bb or LMOD work out. Yesterday I was struggling so much mentally with everything I did body balance 85 (the outdoors one) and it was just what I needed. I LOVE the balance track so much. I kmow this sounds totally cliqued but I was in such a bad mental place and then doing that and I was just totally in the emotion of the songs and moves and Diana was doing a move where you kind of balance to the point of almost falling over and she said something like ‘what if you fall, it what if you fly?’ And it just made me weep and I was in tears because it felt so relevant to me and returning to work in a week from mat leave and I did the track with tears down my face! Which I kmow sounds ridiculous and probably highlights my mental state atm, but I was so grateful for doing the workout.

Hi all
I just finished week 1 of the work. Omg it lived up to its name. The workouts have been good but the doms has been horrendous! I’ve been waddling for 2 days after too many squats and lunges. I’ve had that ‘not being able to get out of a chair or pick things up off the floor’ feeling for days. Went out for an intervals run last night and could barely get my fast bits above a jog!

How annoying for you re your knees roman. Knee pain for me is always muscular - too tight muscles normally calves or bum. Or IT band (the tendon which goes down the outside of your thigh). Might be worth trying to stretch or foam roller if you have one.

Sorry to hear you’ve lost your mojo a bit poppy. I hate that. It always comes back but it’s frustrating. Glad you’re finding a way through on the job.

I saw something on mumsnet last night with loads of people commenting on how they had LOST weight during lockdown. How is that possible?

Roman that's annoying about your knees. Drinking water and dropping carbs down seemed to help my knees a couple of weeks ago (this could be bollocks though - I have just eaten 4 slices of white toast with butter so that might test my theory tomorrow!)

I feel low on energy and crap right now it's annoying as I was on good form a week or 2 ago.

With job situation I did get invited to an interview but for lots of reasons including corona it wasn't right for me at the moment so I declined. Have applied for a ta job in a school rather than leap into teaching - fingers crossed. The only thing I am good at is reading but my SPAG is rubbish (hopefully good enough for early years teaching!), which rules out related careers! My attention to detail is also rubbish for data type jobs... sigh.

Hope your burns have recovered purple

Oh no purple! that sounds like a painful workout all round!

I have lost exercise mojo again but def going to do another workout tomorrow. Hope everyone is ok.

Did 4th work out of week 1 the work today. One of the blocks was 3x 15 inchworms going from plank to Sphinx at the bottom. I now have the most alarming (and rude looking ) carpet burns on my elbows!

Hi!
Roman congrats on finishing 10 weeks (is that what it’s called?). It is impossible to lose weight at the moment, for me at least but building muscle has to be good for the day when we’re all allowed out again and we can move a bit more and burn some more calories. I can’t believe you’ve been into the office already - that was super fast. Ours are all still closed for the foreseeable future. They said they’ll be doing a deep clean before they can open - given the cost cutting on cleaning I think we might be very surprised when we see what a proper clean really does to the carpet!

I hope you sort your dilemma poppy - that is a tricky one - no wonder you’re thinking about it a lot. I had a total career change a while ago - i remember the agonising over it well.

All my exercise got messed up this weekend so I did my intervals run on sat and then had to do my long run today. Unsurprisingly my legs were really tired today so I cut my run short. Annoying.

I hope you all had good weekends!

Thanks both, it looks like my current job is coming to an end soon but I am technically self employed so no redundancy etc . I do admin and it was always part of the plan that I would retrain and get more of a focused career/vocational job when the dc were older (they are in y4, 8, and 10). I did an English masters originally which isn't hugely useful! I am kind of thinking about training for teaching primary but everyone seems to say don't do it! There is another idea but that would mean 3 years at uni and no income - we could cope but potentially that means a cost of 75k if you add in likely lost income. My earning potential once retrained would go up a bit but would take several years to make up the difference. If I ended up being good at whatever job I end up in it would be worth it though.

Roman I was reading on here that psychological transition to high school stuff is the reason for year 6 going back but I genuinely don't think my eldest 2 would have blinked an eye about skipping the end of year 6 if it meant longer off school!

Purple your muscly man story made me laugh. I sometimes end up doing the muscly man stuff in yoga type workouts because I am so inflexible and often the super muscly men are similarly rubbish

Hi poppy!

Are you being asked to go back into your workplace now or is this not covid related? I hope you get to the answer you want - it sounds a bit unsettling. I’m feeling a bit the same. I think current circumstances are leading us to think about what we’re doing with our lives more

I’m enjoying 6wks of work. You need resistance bands and slides which I don’t have so I’ve modified a bit. My legs are ruined after leg day and that was without the bands so goodness knows what they would have been like with them! I think it is aimed at men who do lots of weights as the cardio/HIIT bits I think are not particularly challenging but the weights bits are hard (and I’m a bit weak after a lot of HIIT and no weights for ages). On the workout today which has a lot of jumping the really muscly guy in the cast kept stopping and was obviously really struggling and then the trainer told him he was a quitter and he looked furious. After max30 it felt ok to me so I couldn’t work out what his problem was

My only issue with it is that the workouts are all 40-45mins
I’m going to finish the week and then decide whether I buy some resistance bands. I don’t want more crap in my house but I think they might become more necessary.

Hope everyone else is ok

What is 6 weeks of work like purple?

Having a slightly extended rest days here!. Will need to get back to exercising tomorrow and rescue the week!

I am thinking about work a lot as things are a bit in the air, so I am considering my options around retraining and going round in circles with stuff.

Hope everyone is ok

Pure cardio is my nemesis reastie - well done! It is such an exhilarating workout to do! Good on the run too - who cares about how fast you go - the most important thing is to get out.

Glad you’re enjoying les mills poppy. I tried but didn’t enjoy them. No idea why really

I started 6 weeks of work last night. It has a new trainer so felt quite different. It is a bit macho and shouty but it was a great strength workout. I had to go down to my smallest weights as my arms are now so weak! I will do a week of it and see how I get on

Purple that is really rubbish about those dog owners - I agree with Reastie totally off of them not to stop their dog jumping at you.

Reastie well done on insanity and your 8k. I will be back to bb after les mills. I do like lmod though and

I did body pump today - was quite fun!

Purple I’m Annoyed on your behalf. I’ve had so many dogs chase me or try and jump on me when I’ve been on runs and it really upsets and scares me. To the point where I’ve changed running routes in the past on purpose to minimise the chance of having a dog off the lead come near me. It’s so frustrating. Why can’t dog owners realise that we don’t really like being chased and we don’t like having random dogs running up to us and jumping on us!

Did insanity yesterday! First insanity since pre-preg I think. I decided to do pure cardio, which is my favourite one. Found I had to modify a lot, which I wasn’t really surprised by! I enjoyed it but I do ache a lot today! My stomach Muscles are hurting so much. And I didn’t even do any actual stomach exercises. I assume that the moves work your core without you realising.Nice to have a Shaun T work out after such a long time. Run on Saturday which was nearly 8k. Took me about 50 mins which is rubbish slow but includes warm up walk at beginning and end.