EPIC!! Losing, gaining and groaning with Caroline Girvan

@BigButtons it was just the lack of variety of exercise and I found the non-talking didn't really help. If she'd have been explaining the benefits of ALL these thrusts and maybe the difference between the various versions and where exactly you should be feeling it, it would have been better. I love a lot of her routines but not this one!!

@MarisPiper92 I felt shaky at the end of mine. Had to sit down to cut some veg!!

I've just done Day 8 (chest stuff), which also wasn't particularly enthralling. Did the job though, because I had quivering chest muscles by the end, which I didn't even know was possible!

Just did Epic 3 Day 13 - Hamstrings & Glutes supersets - and am sorry to say it was one of the most boring workouts I've ever done. Death by hip thrusts. Literally 48 minutes of hip thrusts with a few RDLs thrown in. Shan't be repeating that one any time soon. Never thought I'd be actually hoping for lunges, even the dreaded Bulgarian ones!!!

Legs were fine yesterday, no problems with stairs at all :) but I ended up having a rest day after getting swamped with work. Tried to do Beginners day 2 today, but the stomach muscle I managed to pull in my sleep on Saturday night (no idea how - woke up on Sunday morning and couldn't sit up with rolling onto my side and pushing myself up) says it's absolutely not ready to be doing even knee push ups yet. So I guess I'm on gentle exercise only until that heals itself enough to continue.

Everyone is still progressing - great to hear about all these different days/programmes.
Does anyone like Bulgarian lunges?? I think they're also my least favourite.

I have done day #2 of Epic III (arms), it was good. The staple was push-ups though which got harder and harder .

Need to do day #3 today...summoning up the enthusiasm for hip thrusts.....

EH day 39 for me this morning. I do feel spent and have decided to take a day off tomorrow and use the bike on Thursday. I need time to recover

@MarisPiper92 I liked the squat rocking too. And the "calf rockin" (proper term? ) too. Oh and I've learned to enjoy curtsy lunges and staggered Romanian dead lifts as well.

But Bulgarian lunges are still hard. I am much stronger now but still despise them.

Day 7 done! My first go at Bulgarian lunges (verdict: do not like), but Squat Rocks are my new favourite thing.

I did the HIIT today, da 30 EH supersets. Thankfully 20 second sets passed really quickly. CG did 6kg weights and I was tempted to do the same, but stuck with 3kg on most exercises and that was sufficient I think at the speed she was doing them.

Only 20 days to go! At this rate I might actually finish by Christmas!

I'm flitting between various programmes at the moment and did Epic 3 Day 11 - glutes and calves - today. Not surprisingly it was much more about the glutes than calves!! This routine was the first day of Week 3 of Epic 3 and I'm going to try and do the rest of the week day by day apart from the HIIT which I'll replace with a run.

Day 39 Epic 3 was core calisthenics and it killed me. Not the actual exercises (although they were really tough) but she has such short breaks. Good though.

I need to buy some knee bands.

I'm thinking of Beast Mode next - have you done that @BigButtons?

Back to Beginners Day 1 and I did find it easier second time around, but that also meant I could get deeper into the squats and lunges, so I suspect my legs are going to be just as wrecked tomorrow as they were last week.

@BigButtons

I had a really weird thing happen during triceps and biceps day 38. Started off ok with the tricep dips then went all weak and wobbly. Had to go down to 4kg and even then that felt hard. My hands hurt, I had no strength at all. I fast forwarded the tricep push ups. Heaven knows what went on there.

She really turns up the heat (geddit ) as we are nearing towards the end of the series. I defo feel like needing an extra rest day during the week now.

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@stilllockeddownnowheretogo today is HIIT day for me (day 30 Heat) and I’m still having coffee and stollen bites in bed (today is a holiday where I am), contemplating when to do it. I always feel good after but it’s just the getting to it that I find challenging.

Luckily it’s crap weather out so I won’t get waylaid by anything else, I suppose.

@Melassa, I'm with you on the HIIT! I always dread it, but it's not as bad as I think if I just start. I cannot face HIIT first thing in the morning though (nooooo way!) so I do it on the weekend in the evening.
@BigButtons, I am also guilty of extending the breaks. I see the first beep of the three beeps as the start of my rest, not a 3 2 1 countdown .

I have started EPIC III and will see how it goes! I did day 5 HIIT (because it was the weekend) and then day 1 Legs today. 40 seconds on and 20 seconds rest, seemed almost reasonable! I am using one third of Caroline's weight though . @Itsnotdeep, I'll keep following you to see how the later weeks of Epic 3 go....