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

Hi reastie and plink hope you are both keeping ok at the moment , this virus is really unsettling 😕.

I am luckily able to work from home at the moment. Started work early and have managed to to take a break and just do a half hour les mills body balance at lunch time - felt quite nice and escapism ish to be doing the workout (even though I was totally rubbish)

My weight currently puts me at risk so the challenge now is to avoid eating all the junk food as supermarkets seem to still have lots of that!

Be lovely to hear from Roman and purple and hope you are well.

Any other people now working out from home want to post that would be great too?!

Plink, I’d say cleaning all counts to activity!! If it were me I’d schedule exercise in earlier in the day and mentally think of it as non negotiable as eating. You make time to eat and sleep so you make time to exercise. I’m not sure how that would work with mini plink though. If I left it until ‘onc I’ve done x, y and z then I’ll rout tonight if I have time’ I never would! Glad to hear all good. FWIW dd was quite quiet with her movements and never had a pattern to them, it’s hard not to get worried about it but maybe she’ll be laid back and chilled as a baby!

Hey Reastie!!

Definitely tumbleweeds

That's great news on your C25k!! Well done! It doesnt matter how long it took, you've got there. Impressive. I gave up about halfway through when I tried it many years ago not a runner

All good here though workouts still not happening 🙈 I'm already massive at 24 weeks. She's so quiet. She'll give me a couple of nudges throughout the day and then 9.30pm is her kicking warm up. But that's it. So quiet compared to my son. It freaks me out Haha.
Still got some pretty big things to sort tbh - nappies and side car crib. Been cleaning like mad but it's getting harder now to do everything I want to.

I really want to workout. I desperately do. But I'm finding that by the time I finish the day and get downstairs, I'm just so knackered. Any tips, anyone?

Hope everyone is well. Be so nice to hear from you all.

You all escaped from my threads I’m on.

How’s everyone doing? Yumy how’s the back? Plink how’s the baby prep going? Purple, Roman, where are you?!

I’ve nearly finished c25k finally. Only taken me about 6 months 🤣. But I’ve been doing it slower and steadier than I woukd have if I’d done it without the app, which is prob a good thing. Up to running for 28 mins now.

I was thinking the other day what my ideal programme for workouts would be if time/injuries etc were no issue. I decided every week I’d do one run, one spin/cycle or body attack or insanity (on weekly rotation), one pump, one body balance, and one pot luck at random depending on my mood. I’d love that combo!

Did a body balance workout on lmod which was filmed in the mountains of NZ. Only Jackie Mills and Diane doing it together (nice mother daughter combo) but worked so well as the scenery really added to the sense of calm and relaxation. I really enjoyed it. Was a bit weird at first not having it in a studio but now I love it. Also did a recent BA release (usually I just do old ones I know) and it was filmed in Asia and was disappointed not to see Mr ‘I heart NZ’ in the audience. He seems to go all around the world to the filming of them and is at the front every time then misses the one where it’s in his continent. Just wasn’t the same! But then, I may have missed him, or since my more vintage BAs I usually watch maybe he’s lost a shed load of weight and isn’t recognisable (but surely he’d still wear the T-shirt?!).

Plink that's lovely news! I have one son and 2 daughters - the girls were so much easier as babies than their older brother but the tables are turning a little bit now at 14, 12 and 9!!

Well done on body pump reastie. I have only done BB so far as put my back out last week I sound like a broken record!! But I am logging on a food app (one that is better for monitoring nutrients as trying to be mostly meat and dairy free) down another lb and have no illness or aches worth mentioning so fingers crossed!

The peloton app is free on IOS for a month trial. They offer live bike workouts every hour or so and have a big back catalogue or whatever of none live workouts not just bike stuff.

waves to purple and roman on off chance

Plink that’s fab news. I have one of each now but in the other order . Fwiw I was completely freaked out by a boy and how would I know how to look after one of those as I’d had a girl, but so far it’s exactly the same except the nappies! I always perceived girls as easier as I was one so can relate iykwim.

So Sunday I did the bb body pump 30 min workout (I meant to do the 45 min one but put the wrong dvd in!) and loved it. Modified the weights and moves for my still dodgy elbow (despite what the specialist says it’s still dodgy!) and pecs and shoulders have ached in a good way since. This morning got a bonus Ba workout, yay! Mum had Ds for half an hour so I snuck in cheeky workout. Knee started feeling questionable so didn’t go all out but feel like I got some of those workout endorphins. It’s amazing how a workout can make you feel good for the rest of the day :) . Next run is at week end and cross fingers madly for me.

Yumy that’s crap about the bike. I’d love a peloton so much. They are so eye wateringly priced though. I’d be so jealous if you got one! What have you been doing on LMOD? I did a ba Remix this morning and it was fab.

Oh no yum ! What a disaster with the bike!! Bad of them to take your money with no actual bike in sight! Oooh I've seen the ada for those Peloton ones... do you log in with the class online. Like say they broadcast at 9am, do you have to log on for then or is it as and when you want to 🤔

Oh no Reastie that sucks! I think we discussed this a little earlier but are you running on pavement or concrete? May not be the best surface to start on especially if you have dodgy knees.

Not very many workouts here. Still trying to juggle. However, exciting news here. Had our 20 week anomaly scan yesterday. Baby very healthy and behaved perfectly for sonographer. And also happens to be a girl 💗💗💗 yay!! We're so happy!! One of each is going to be amazing!!! Have no idea how to care for baby girls at all but hey, that's part of the fun right? Reastie give me some tips 😂

Hope you're okay Roman and Purple 😊

Reastie that sounds really sore on your knee, have you tried running since then?

Not much exercise as still got a bloody cough and stuff but some yoga done at least. My bike order is cancelled as they took money with no sign of bike coming back in stock. We nearly ordered a more expensive one as dh started looking into Peleton and this seemed a half way house but we bottled at last minute which is a good thing!! Just going to keep my eyes open for something solid but not mega bucks. At least there is lots of other stuff on les mills. Am also tempted by fiit app.

Pathetic run this morning. Did warm up walk then within 4 minutes of gentle run my knee totally seized up and was agony. Had to stop and walk. Tried running again but same thing happened to has to turn round nd walk home. Literally looked forward all week to my run so feeling miserable now. Purple have you got any ideas on anything Incan do to help it? It was in the knee and down the inside of my leg below the knee. Never happened before. 1/2 lb on

Yumy my tummy always gets in the way 😂. Defo healthy lifestyle focus good. How are you doing with food? Body balance is good on laid. It’s like Pilates/yoga/tae chi.

Carrier walking is a good idea. I need to get one of those proper walking back pack things. The baby carrier I have is one of the best you can get for back support and I wear it every day but my back hurts every day and gets worse when I use the carrier so don’t want to use it too much but I guess needs must.

Purple I like the sound of the Jericho workout. Good luck with your marathon training

Reastie brilliant you have done a p90 lower! Purple's idea of a baby carrier for a walking workout was a good one maybe? I had a solar weave connecta carrier, it was so light I often couldn't find it in my rucksack, really easy to use - I guess it might put a strain on your shoulder though.

Plink no sign of the bike we have ordered one for £100 less from amazon as it is supposedly back in stock soon🤔 to be honest it's no bad thing as my cold cough thing has relapsed - felt really ill at weekend (don't think fri wine evening helped though!). Might have to get a dr appt if this cough carriers on next week.

Have done the first yoga workout on les mills - found the first half hard but was ok for the rest!

Am trying to take on board all your advice and focus on being healthy but my belly was getting in the way during yoga 😂

Hope your ok Roman

Did p90x3 lower on Sunday and wow my glutes and legs ached after! Felt good but if it did hurt sitting down and getting up! Feeling down at back to only 2 workouts a week. I want to do more so much!

Purple I love how you idly wonder whether to do an ultra marathon! Only you!!!

Hi all
Well done on the 145 lbs reastie. I bet the bottomless hunger is partly the tiredness talking. Sleepless nights do crazy things to you.

Good you’re feeling better poppy. Well done on sugar free. As others have said try not to compare with your dh. Mine is the same - he loses weight super fast (but also puts it back on super fast). I’m getting sick of vegananuary - so many people are banging on about it. I went to Pizza Hut with the kids (yuk!) at the weekend and it was full of vegan option pizzas - is nowhere safe?? Somehow the more healthy eating is rammed down my throat the less I want to do it!

Plink - glad to hear all is well. You sound very energetic. Or maybe that was just in comparjson to me when I was pregnant and just took to the sofa for 9mths!

I’m still plugging away at 100 day meltdown (with Jericho). I’m not loving it but it will do for now. Some workouts are great (LIT cardio is 20mins and nicely hard but over quickly) others have too much compound weight lifting so you can’t use the right weight (eg combo of biceps and squats). I think LIFT is much better for weights but it is nice doing something different. I’m doing more workouts as they are shorter and easier. This is also good as I can focus on long runs for my hard workouts. Ultra marathon in 4wks. I’ll be glad when it’s over as I’m looking forward to changing my training up again.

Hope you’re all well

Hey everyone!

Ooh yum has the bike arrived yet? Exciting! I second the previous advice on focusing on you and the way you feel rather than pounds shed. Especially when comparing to your DH. Men lose fat quicker than women do. They also hold body fat very differently to what we do and have lower percentages of it. So comparing to DH isn't fair on your progress. You're taking steps towards getting where you want to be and that's already half the battle I think.

Oh Reastie I get you. I really do. DS never slept in pram. Only on very rare occasions. We got a hiking carrier (which we still have and it's awesome). It's an Osprey one and we got it at a discounted price from Go Outdoors (cue adverts now appearing for Go Outdoors ). It's like a bergan (sp?) for your little one. It has a waterproof cover and a sun shade that pops up.
So, I used to take DS out in that when I was trying to encourage him to fall asleep without the boob. It'd take about half an hour to get him to drop off so I was walking for a good hour! And with the added weight of him it really made for a decent walk.

It's not the same as a workout I know but at least it's better than nothing and you can go all sorts of places with him instead of a pram!

Scan is on Monday 3rd so we're very excited for that. Nesting has kicked in! Yaaas!! I never iron and yesterday I got it all out to iron the muslins (something which won't happen once baby arrives ).

I feel like there's so much to do and so little time. Managed some yoga last night but I haven't been working out anywhere near as much as I'd like to. There always seems to be something we need to do 🙈🙈 things to do in the house, making sure I get some decent time with DS, spending time with OH, working out, sending off documents, working online, listening to my Hypnobirthing audiobook, having some me time. Feel like I barely have enough time to wash my hair. God knows what state I'll look like when baby does arrive think I'm going to have to invest rather a large amount in dry shampoo.

Yumy I think LMOD is fab, so much choice. I think I read when I signed up for a year the current offer with I think 4 months free is only up until end jan. Pretty sure you can sign up to that with 10 day free trial first so might be worth it to try and see? I know gonoodle as at dds school they often do one together before home time or as a reward for good behaviour! Fwiw with your dh losing weight, focus on health and fitness not lbs! Do you feel better for it yet or are you still feeling the withdrawl? Alas can’t bribe ds with snacks as he’s on purées still as can’t work out chewing and has really freaked us out with choking. Maybe in a few months... although running buggy is forward facing so couldn’t go for a run as couldn’t see him eating!

Reastie your ds won't go in the pushchair - that's a real pain can you bribe him with rice cakes. My dd has been doing some really fun dance workout thing on YouTube your dd might like called go noodle blazer Fresh.

I am thinking of signing up to les mills - it keeps coming up on my phone ads! 145 is amazing well done. We have been sugar free (kinda) as a family for a week or so and trying to do it for a month. Only prob is my weight was the same as dh at the start who is almost a foot taller than me, then he lost 4lbs on sugar free and I stayed the same so now weigh more than him 😬😱 no bike yet I need it to arrive!!!!!!!! Will have to get down to yoga if I sign up to les mills.

Hi all, dh back to work now so regular workouts are stopped 😭. If only Ds would go in the buggy I could run with him in the buggy, but no, he is a contrary boy.

Struggling hugely with hunger and keep seeming to eat more and more but touch wood still somehow managing to lose weight very very slowly. Down to about 145 lbs now. Yesterday was the day of bottomless hunger where I literally had two breakfasts and two lunches, not good. But Ds has been up ALL NIGHT feedimg this week so maybe I needed it.

Oh, I signed up to a year or LMOD as had 4 months free when you paid upfront. Dd joined me for a BA on Sunday as it was too cold to run [lightweight] but did 2 songs then sat in a heap in the corner needing to recover. We enjoyed high diving each other as we ran in tiny circle around the dining room in the running track .

Yumy has the bike come yet? I thoroughly recommend LMOD for indoor cycling workouts, they are fantastic. They usually have a couple of weeks free trial if you wanted to have a freebie to see.

Purple I always find core workouts some of the hardest. I’ve always had to heavily modify as my core has never been great. It’s amazing how much you can feel it so quickly!

Plink dh was in and out in half an hour. Amazing! Hope you’re doing well and enjoying being able to work out again. When’s the next scan?

Reastie well done on runs hope your dh is back to normal now ... I casually suggested dh might want to have the snip - it was a big no!

Purple this 100 exercise sounds intriguing- which trainer is it?

Plink well done on liift and yoga that's pretty amazing to do both!

Finally feeling better but still struggle to find time to exercise however we have gone ahead and ordered an indoor bike. Dh will use it too and has been using current cross trainer for 12 years. Excited for it to arrive but might take a while.

Hope you are ok Roman

Reastie that is fab on the running - well done! A good run is such a boost. I had a really good one on Friday and it gave me a lift for the whole weekend

Did core workout from 100 melt down last night. Was 24 (well, 21 for me as I skipped the cool down ) minutes of misery. My abs hurt after 3mins. I’m amazed I’m not really sore today.

Oh yum hope you feel better soon!! Defo no exercise. Wait til you feel up to it.
And you purple , get better soon. You'll be back to it in no time. Just need some rest is all.

Oh poor Mr Reastie apparently it's really quick? As in it gets done pretty quickly? I remember talking to OH about that a few months after we had DS. We were obviously in that stage where we wondering what on earth we had done to ourselves. DS was hard work so we didnt feel like we wanted anymore for about 18 months after there's a possibility of a number 3 at some point (speaking as someone with great naivety about life with multiple children ) so won't rush him to the docs yet

I managed to do a Liift 20 mim workout the day after yoga. God, it felt great! Just medium to small weights. Nothing heavy and all my ab work was heavily modified. Stand up crunches and stood up side reaches.
But after then we took in our neighbour's dog for a few days and its safe to say I got distracted/didnt care I wasnt working out because i was getting doggy snuggles

She's gone back now which we're all thoroughly depressed about. There's something about dog company makes the house feel complete. Maybe instead of a 3rd baby we can have a dog instead

Ohh, meant to add, did piyo lower last week. Haven’t done it for years and my glutes are mega weak atm. Really felt it the next day despite only being 20 minutes long so that was good (I like the muscle ache pain!)

Yumy and purple hope you both feel a lot better soon.

Managed 2 runs of non stop running for 25 minutes in last few days. Hurrah! Feels like I’m making real progress with c25k atm.

Dh doing a lot of slow walking, especially walking on the stairs and bending 😂.

Hi all
I’ve been feeling a bit poorly this week so no posting/exercising for me. Sounds like you’ve been the same poppy.
I wear trail trainers which have little studs on the bottom to stop me slipping in the mud. They’re great.

Slow running is the way to go poppy. If you feel tired, have a walk - that’s my motto.

Managed a run on Friday and then 2x morning melt down over the weekend. It is ok, but the cueing is awful. Even the lady in the front row of the cast can’t work out what Jericho is on about. I’ll stick with it for a few more weeks. All workouts are under 30mins which gets the thumbs up from me!

Unicorn/rainbow yoga sounds like the sort of thing dd would like

Sorry to have disappeared again this cold is really bad, literally no energy and at the awful chesty cough stage - def no exercise at mo.

Plink I used to love hearing heartbeat 🥰

Purple I will def be careful if running - there is an interesting thread on here about slow running and staying under a certain heart rate. Might give it a go 🤔 worried about looking daft but me stomping around with a bright red face trying to be fast doesn't exactly look good either.

Gonna have to check out this unicorn yoga 😂

Ooh the snip reastie, hope your dh breezes through and you get a run in (I was going going to say workout but sounded wrong in context 🤣)

Hope your all have a nice weekend

Plink lovely to hear hb. I remember massively gritting my teeth through the unicorn rainbow thing. I think I only attempted her first and third trimester yoga as second was too much for me!

Interesting re running on grass. I actively avoid that as near me all the grass is so long or ground so bumpy it makes my ankles worse and feels like I might twist them.

C25k this morning hopefully. Dh having the snip this afternoon so hoping the pain won’t be so bad he can’t have Ds tomorrow morning for another cheeky workout.

Purple do you have spiked trainers? I always worry about slipping when running in mud. Btw do you eat/drink during your runs? That’s a long time to run for! After an hour I’d need a wee and a snack 😂