EPIC!! Losing, gaining and groaning with Caroline Girvan

Can I join? I have just done Day 1 of EPIC 3 and my legs don't know what's hit them. Have done a couple of CG's other workouts, but never an EPIC programme. I am still pretending I am capable of completing it!

Epic Beginner day 1 done - I am puce in the face, very sweaty, and my dogs are looking worried, but I did it all. Discovered that my left leg is weaker than my right, which I suspected it would be when I got the tape measure out this morning and found it was half an inch smaller at thigh and calf. I had a dodgy ankle on that side three years ago, which I kept turning over, so favoured the right for about a year, hopefully this will even things out eventually.

@fishonabicycle, that's great to hear you've just started EPIC 3!
I also just finished EPIC Heat this weekend (EMOM ) and am taking a couple of days break to decide what to do next. Maybe Epic 3?

I did the Bowflex 3 minute plank yesterday and I succeeded! Which I was NOT expecting at all. Clearly the Epic Heat has worked wonders. I must keep going.
(This is when I lose motivation, when I've finished something and am not sure what to start next. I need a plan )

@BigButtons I’m sorry but what?? Sounds very pagan I’m in the next county from Sussex but we have nothing like that here and didn’t realise bonfires were such a big thing.
That’s why I love UK (I’m forrin) as it’s full of quirky traditions like this

Welcome all the newbies

@VeryLittleOwl yeah, start with the Epic beginner series as suggested by BigButtons
I did that first and it was so hard. In fact I repeated it the following week. I didn’t start the Epic series straight afterwards though, I did CG’s stand alone sessions for some weeks. Then decided to repeat her beginner series and to my astonishment I managed it so much better.

[quote BigButtons]@VeryLittleOwl hello! I would advise to start with her beginners series- I would advise that very strongly 😂😮[/quote]
Yes, don't worry, that's the plan!! I've had a flick through the first one and there aren't any exercises in there I haven't done before, just not for about 10 years... Though I've had to rethink my plan to do it in my office, because I'll have to come down a spiral staircase afterwards and that probably isn't going to be happening.

What an earth is that thing you’re pulling @BigButtons??? Where is this a thing??

I did EH day 33 today. I really struggled with it again, 1.5 mins of elevated lunges Am I a weakling or is the sessions particularly hard this week???

Right, I've been inspired by you lot and I'm starting tomorrow. I'm 46 and perimenopause is currently giving me a good kicking, so it's time I turned round and thumped it back.

I currently do no exercise other than having a basic level of functional fitness from looking after three horses and a small flock of sheep (which at the moment includes four trips daily down and up a near-vertical hillside to my field well, bringing 2 x 10l buckets of water up with me each time), but I've noticed in the past few months that I've lost a lot of strength and various bits of me are starting to ache, so I want to strengthen it all up.

Her HIIT (plaited hair) sessions are pretty tough! First Epic 3 was ok - legs are always tough, and I only used a pair of 7.5kg weights 😂

@BigButtons the first HIIT in Epic 1 was a killer, I remember feeling sick a lot of the way through. Well done on getting through it.

I woke up a bit stiff and sore today from yesterday’s EMOM, I guess from being immobile a week. Did the day 26 glutes, hamstrings and back and it seemed to pass quite quickly, hopefully I won’t be too stiff tomorrow. I’ve taken the morning off tomorrow to get stuff done so I will have time to fit in day 27. Finally passed halfway, every week seems to be taking me 3 weeks!

Hi all! Just finished epic heat and done day one of epic 3 yesterday. I've been doing them with my husband, so on days we can't work out together (due to work etc) we do other workouts. Do any of you use the same weights as Caroline?

I'm all for the easy life. When the going gets tough, I sit down and catch my breath 😂

@BigButtons I'll consider myself warned 😂

At the rate I'm going I'm doing one heat week over 2 weeks. Went to a soft play today which allowed adults in and the solid hour of chasing after my kid was enough workout for me. 🥵

Tomorrow will be day 20 tabata style. Looks doable. If I survive that I may do the weighted abs after.

Yes, I subbed the burpees in the EMOM with squat thrusts, mainly because I am so slow doing burpees I’d not have had any seconds left at the end! I don’t know how CG does them so quickly.

Ooo yay! Epic people! I'm on day 18 of epic heat / core and chest. I'm not doing it with heavy weights, just the heaviest hand weights I've got with sand filled weight bags strapped to them 😆 that, plus working hard at my sport and a bit of stress induced weightloss. My bf saw me without a top on outside of the bedroom the other day and commented with amazement that I was in bloody good shape 💪😁 I presume it's working, so I'm keeping on. I don't do a workout every day, as I intersperse it with sport and yoga but I really love it! So pleased to have people to chat to about it, if you don't mind me joining in?