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

[Theromanempire]

Thought I would start a new thread as we have literally run out of room on the last one

purple wow on the triple bears!! That is fantastic I can manage about 10 seconds of non-modified ones!

Operation holiday skirt! I love it. I need something similarly motivational.

I know how you feel too plink, but realistically a few days/weeks of slacking off is very little in the grand scheme of the amount of exercise and good eating we do all do. I will try to take my own advice and focus on the positive stuff not the negatives as I’ve been feeling quite fed up re my progress on liift this time. I know I’ve been holding back a bit and just cruising through some of the workouts so I’ve turned over a new leaf. I worked super hard on shoulders yesterday and tried to up my weights. Same on chest/triceps today. It has made me feel a lot more positive knowing that I couldn’t have worked harder. I need your wrist weights trick though roman - it is very hard to go up a weight when they only go in 4kg increments, so I’ve mostly done 1 set or half a set at the new weight but, every little helps right?

Have a good evening all!

I’ve got some wrist weights, I bought them years ago for a vintage Jane Fonda workout video I used to do with them! God that makes me sound so old!

Thermo good luck on operation skirt. I will have a whole operation wardrobe! Although tbh I think my initial aim will be to build up stamina, then to build up general fitness levels. I think that’s probably a more sensible mental outlook to take (along with making healthy food choices even if I am eating too much with bfing initially) than panic about losing weight quickly.

Purple do you log reps and weights with liift? I found that really helpful with p90x workouts as I could see progress and I could see how many I did last workout so I’d always aim to at least equal my last result as minimum and hope to excel from last result. I was dubious of bothering and my first round I didn’t bother as it felt like too much effort but it really helped progress.

So good news, consultant has agreed to section at 38 weeks, which is 3 weeks away. Monday week I get a provisional section date to work with! My normal shoes still fit me (I was so bloated last time none of my shoes would go on) and I’m generally not in huge physical discomfort compared to this time last time. I can’t believe the physical difference between the two pgs. No change in sickness but physically poles apart. I’m crediting being a healthy weight pre preg (was overweight already pre preg last time) and that I was in a good physical fitness pre preg making a real difference. I’ve been really pleasantly surprised with how I’m managing to do things like pick up stuff from the floor/bending etc without huge issues. Of course it may all chance tomorrow but I’m ready for that and am just grateful for it being like this up until this far.

3 weeks! Exciting. And having a newborn is just so much better than being pregnant! Your pregnancy has been so tough reastie I’m a bit horrified that it has been better than your last one.

Week6 legs done. I sat down immediately after as I had to do some work. I stood up after 30mins and omg my legs felt stiff. Excellent.

Purple every day I actually am thankful how much better this pg has been so far than last time. The only thing as bad has been the nausea, literally everything else has been much more breezy, thank goodness. You’d think it would be the opposite physically given I’m 8 years older and approaching 40! Things are starting to get more painful now but tbh I can’t believe how much I had to put up with last time! The nausea is absolutely the worst though, both physically and mentally.

Well done on the legs. I did some leg lifts lying on my side today. 6 different types of lift 15 reps x 2 sets on each side. Only about 20 mins but it was something. I’ve been really lazy this week with doing anything, even yoga, and have been feeling like the routine of attempting something vaguely physical was getting lost so had to try something! But lack of physical activity really does help = less nausea so it’s hard to get motivation to do anything knowing it’ll make me feel worse.

Hope everyone has a lovely bank holiday week end.

Hi everyone, hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday.

Reastie I am also that this pregnancy is so much better than the last one. Really makes me realise how lucky I was with my 2 pregnancies then as they were an absolute breeze compared to yours! So close to the end now...bet you cannot wait to meet your new baby

So the wrist weights are genius!! It is a bit faffy getting them on and off as I am only using them for some exercises where the current weight is too easy but I am getting quicker with them and DH has stopped complaining about me pausing the workout Did Week 1 Legs on Sunday...wow!! Used the wrist weights to increase my weights in squats, deadlifts, calf raises and bridges - can I feel it in my quads?? They are screaming everytime I sit down and stand up - love it though as it shows that it is working! Why are Legs workouts so hard??? I love working my legs but always feel like I am dying

Had a bad weekend food-wise which is not good considering my holiday is only 7 weeks away - that skirt is not going to happen Trying to think positive and know I will be at least 21lbs lighter than my holiday last year and I have pretty much had to buy a new holiday wardrobe but I really wanted to take that skirt. My own fault for having no will power this weekend

Hey everyone! What a busy bank holiday that was!

Thanks for the pep Purple you're right, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme. It's very easy to coast with the weights but like you say what matters is recognising it and then adjusting your approach. You sound like you're doing great!!

Wow Jane Fonda workouts Reastie that's a retro throwback. Was it on VHS by any chance? yay 3 weeks!!! Eeek!! How exciting! You've been doing so well. If I remember correctly, it was about this time it started to feel like the world wanted to fall out from between my legs (pardon the expression ), the pressure from the weight of baby in that one area was quite uncomfortable/painful.

Roman that's great you workout with DH. My OH and I have to take it turns - he usually does his when I'm settling DS, then mine comes after. Not sure we have enough space to do it together. And yes to legs workout = dying. My body screams at me to stop during leg workouts.
I know operation skirt was a goal of yours and you never know - if you focus inbetween now and the holiday you still might just make it! Fingers crossed for you but try not to feel too down of it doesnt happen.

I haven't done any workouts and my eating isn't great either atm but neither is it awful. So I'm just plodding on until I reach the right point to get going again.

I read something on Insta today that was interesting - and Joel had commented on it too saying it was a generally accepted theory. Someone mentioned that if you're looking to lose the last 5-10lbs you should be eating your maintenance calories. And he agreed that was a pretty standard practice in the health and fitness world. I'd never heard this but I'm going to try it. I've been feeling a bit low energy in the last few weeks and I wonder if this is why?

Hello all! I realised I hadn’t posted for a while. I had 3 days off over bank hol. I struggled to fit the exercise in but also didn’t try very hard to fit it in as I was feeling a bit tired. I decided to just go with it. Have been back on the exercise this week. Now on week7 liift. I tried to use my 12.5kg on shoulder lifts today but my arms actually just wouldn’t move! I conclude I’m not quite strong enough for that yet!
I bought some optimistic/vanity sized trousers this weekend. They are very snug but look good. 1lb of weight gain and they won’t fit anymore. Is that optimistic or foolhardy??

Roman - you’re so good at getting back on track after a bad weekend so stay positive. 7wks is a long time so there is plenty of time for operation skirt. You’ll be swanning around in it in no time.

Oops meant to say to plink - if you’re just eating maintenance calories surely you don’t lose weight? I’ve heard cycling Cals is good. So - deficit for 8wks then time at maintenance then deficit again as a way to lose the last bit.

Yeah that's what I thought Purple but Joel said it's a generally accepted practice... I'm gonna do some more research and get back to you.

Oh fgs I just wrote a long message and then mn went weird and it reloaded and I lost it.

Purple I’m so impressed by 12.5kg for shoulders. Is that each hand so you’re lifting a total of 25 kg? That’s more than 1/3 of my pre preg weight, that’s amazing! You must have super good muscles now. The rate you’re going you’ll be innthe trousers soon!

Not sure about the maintenance calories thing, surely that would only work if you upped the activity level to achieve results with maintenance calories?

Plink yes Jane Fonda vhs. Very 80s very cheesy. Lots of Lycra and bad Muzak. I just remember she had other instructors doing parts of the video who were so ott American chirpy.

My thighs are actively painful when I walk now where they chaff together. I do now have a very pronounced double chin too. I hope I have a well behaved baby so I can get back to doing spin and walks etc this summer. I’m also itchy about putting on weight bfing. I remember with dd I was so black hole hungry all the time I was incapable of watching how much I ate as idujust feel faint if I didn’t constantly eat.

Legs stuff is always hard, it’s one of the biggest muscle groups isn’t it I think. Heart rate always goes up a lot more with legs workouts than when I do other toning stuff.

This morning I managed to clean half of the fridge before giving up from the activity making me feel sick. Yes, this is the point I am at!

Purple 12.5kg for shoulder lifts - that is so impressive assuming it is per arm DH only does 10kg and not sure he could go heavier and I do 5kg (could possibly go to 6kg but haven't tried it yet!)

Reastie congrats on cleaning out half the fridge - that is half more than I would ever do and I am not 8 months pregnant just lazy

Plink I have not heard of calorie cycling - it goes against common sense doesn't it? Bit of a leap of faith to try it but I guess worse case scenario is that you don't lose anything??

Did week 2 back and biceps last night - probably one of the easier workouts as the HIIT moves are not the worst! Am at home with the DC for the next few days which is always challenging to the diet - I get bored and there is so much temptation. Must stay strong!!!!

And talking about retro exercise videos, I was trying to find a Rosemary Conley Salsacise work out on line last week! I used to have the DVD and I remember it being fun with good music and really wanted to do it last week on one of my active recovery days. Was sure it must be on YouTube by now as it must be at least 13 years old by now but no, could not find it anywhere 😫

Ahh thermo rosemary connely! Get this, I remember listening to one of her cassette workouts that she did before we had a video player! It was essentially an audio workout where she described which moves to do!

Okay so here's something I found. It's been difficult using the searches I've put in as they all have the same keywords that pop up in every weight loss blog and site 🙄

This is taken from www.ontheregimen.com. not exactly BMJ but I'm going to work on getting some more valid sources:

*This seems backwards, you lose weight, yet your calorie maintenance goes up?

Let me explain. Once you are lean, your training efforts will primarily result in muscle gain (that’s what that partitioning was all about, remember?). Each pound of muscle requires 3-4x more calories than it’s equal weight in fat.

So, lose a bunch of fat, gain a bit of muscle and the result is that you get to eat more food.

Now, if you lose 100 pounds of fat and your total muscle mass remains the same, your maintenance will decrease a bit. But for most people, at some point during or after their weight loss journey, muscle mass will increase resulting in a net increase in calorie maintenance.

Additionally, research on bodybuilders (which applies to us non-meat heads too!) has shown that we can actually increase our calorie maintenance while maintaining the same weight over a period of time. By slowly and strategically increasing your food intake week after week, you can increase your maintenance by hundreds of calories*

plink omg, that is what they call 'reverse dieting' in Team RH! When you reach your target weight, you gradually increase your daily calorie intake without putting weight on! Not entirely sure of the full details as I'm clearly not there yet

The human body is weird!!

Haha thank God Roman I'm not going nuts 😂

It makes a whole lot of sense to me. I was wondering why I was feeling so drained and exhausted. I was wondering why my motivation was dwindling.
This is why 🙈

When I measured at week 4 I was 10st 2. That's the lowest I have ever been since in was 16 years old? When I was doing insanity, I got down to10st 7 so this is really working and getting my body fat down and muscle up.

So, I think I will try and keep an eye on my weight more. I will be getting back on track. Nutrition has been good today. I'm hoping to.restart Liift on Sunday. Inbetween then and now will be knee exercises and possible exercise bands to go with them.

I'm still feeling a bit deflated from it all but hoping this will get my motivation back on track now I know what's up. I really was feeling very crappy about it all.

How's everyone been doing so far?

Ha Reastie I remember trying to clean the bathroom when I was about 2 months gone. That didn't end well. Felt faint (I never feel faint) and had to stop and lie down! Felt so sick just from cleaning. Awful. Take it easy (you're probably sick of hearing that-sorry).

plink well done on your weight being lower than ever!

Those of you with BOD - the new 21DF and 21DFX are online now. There are 21 workouts in each (rather than 7 which you repeat for 3 weeks). First week are almost identical to the original but then they get progressively harder each week. If I hadn't just started a new Liift round, I would definitely be doing this but it will have to wait! I did do week 3 Pilates tonight as active recovery...same as the original but using resistance bands for all the exercises. Can't decide if it was better or not - I felt like I was more focused on the band rather than my form on the exercises.

Hello!
Well done plink on the weight! Liift was really effective for me too. Just think of all the progress you’ll make by week 8.
Thanks for the heads up on 21dfx roman. I was wondering about doing that when I finish liift. It’s either that or p90x3 again. Not sure.
I can’t shoulder lift 12.5kg yet. I can just get them to my shoulders but somehow I cant push them up (yet). I did use them for all of the legs workout yesterday. My hands were killing from holding them by the end, never mind my poor legs. The HIIT broke me. Legs workouts are the worst for sure. Week 7 back/chest later.
Enjoy the sunshine everyone

Thermo I can find Pilates workouts difficult as it’s so technique based and if they don’t give really careful explanation of form it’s so easy to do it wrong.

Bit of a shocker of a day as had to dash to hospital after a random unexplained bleed . They don’t know what caused it but seems to have stopped and touchwood everything seemed ok. Meant the whole morning was spent in hospital waiting to see the doctor though. I feel like I live at that hospital atm, that was my third visit in a week and I have another 3 for next week. Have taken it very easy today!

Reastie that sounds scary. Glad all is ok now. Pregnancy is so weird - there is so much they don’t understand. It’s a good reason to rest up too.

I am a broken woman today. I had the most horrific Dom’s from legs on Friday and my chest and back are sore from yesterday. Ow. I decided not to do a long run as I’m too broken and it was hot so I did the total body HIIT to finish the week. It was hard, but at least it was all over in 32mins . Given how tired and sore I am I think I can conclude that upping the weight has had an effect!

Wow purple impressed managed hiit with that. I was going to suggest some core work as that might give other areas a bit of a break.

Fingers crossed potential section date from nurse tomorrow so might know roughly how much longer to tolerate this for. In bed feeling really sick. No change there then 🙄. Did some leg lifts this morning to feel like I did something.

Hello all

Reastie - you deserve a giant well done, I am so excited for you that it's just a few weeks more!

Purple well done on your heavy lifting and triple bears so brilliant to be seeing the progress in your fitness.

Plink - very interesting about the diet and fantastic on your weightloss.

Roman I am going to join club summer skirt if that's ok, we are back from a CP france hol over half term and the situation wasn't too desperate but I had one of those photos where I ended up cropping a photo to make my arms look slimmer - we have a beach hol planned in summer to aim for.

No real workouts to report but I managed to maintain weight on hol and have actually done a workout this evening - even if it was only a pre lift one! Urgh triple bears … I cant manage to get 2 inches towards the ground with my knees no matter how hard I try - think my knees are too fat or something!

Good to hear from you poppy - glad you’re back on it. Those triple bears are awful. Maybe you need more strength in your quads to get closer to the floor? Don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of opportunities to do them during liift so you’ll have nailed them by the end!

So, I did shoulder lifts with my 12.5kg. I wasn’t able to move them last week - this week they got over my head. I think it was the benefit of a rest day yesterday. I did 5reps before putting them down. I was worried my arms would collapse and I’d concuss myself!

Hope you’ve got your section date reastie

Argh - weighed myself this am. I’m the heaviest I’ve been in 4yrs!!!
I guess it’s muscle/water weight etc but I am a bit surprised.