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

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plink I love the circuit workouts but they always fool me into thinking they are going to be easy but they hurt!! Shoulder intervals are definitely the easiest of them all and there for my favourites

Oh no that’s a pain (literally!) about your foot poppy. The stretches can take a while to work so try to keep at it. I lost faith in it when I had a sore back but it did eventually work.

I’m just back from my run. Due to very poor route planning by me my 16mile run ended up being 18.5 miles . I walked quite a bit but feel pretty ok now which is surprising.

Thanks Purple wow that is AMAZING that you have done 18 miles recovering from a cold!

Wow 18.5 miles is huge Purple! Well done! How do you feel today?

Yumyum My pilates teacher had these little (roughly plum sized) hard rubber balls that she bought from a toy shop, and she had us roll them around under our feet to stretch out the muscles and ligaments. They were much better than using a tennis ball because they were so small and hard so they really pressed into pressure points in your feet. Maybe you could try those to help your feet? You have my sympathy; you don't realise how much you need your feet until they are cruelly snatched away!

I missed Dirty 30 yesterday, so I'm going to do that and Yoga Fix later to complete week 2 of 21DF. Woohoo! What does everybody recommend as the next step after 21DF?

I've done T25 before and like it, but it starts to feel a bit samey after a few weeks. 21DF Extreme has a difficulty rating of 4/4 on BOD (compared to 1/4 for 21DF Normal) so that is scaring me a little, is it really that hard? I attempted LIIFT4 earlier this year and loved it, but I don't think my core and form are good enough because it hurt my back so I had to quit in week 4. I'm hoping a few rounds of other programs will prime me so I can go back to LIIFT4 in a few months.

Happy sunny Sunday everyone!

Hi all
My legs are fine. I’m surprised really - I was very sloooooow on sat so I’m sure that helped. I did a 3mile run yesterday - apparently it is important to do back to back runs to get used to running on tired legs so I’ll start to build those up too. It has given me some confidence which is good.

Tilikum - id try 21dfx real time next - the first week of it is easier than the original 21dfx to help the transition between 21df and 21dfx. Or you could just go to 21dfx and just drop the weights if it’s too much. Basically the difference between the 2 is that the moves in 21dfx are done with weights. I found it harder than t25 but on a par with insanity max and liift.

Hope you’re all ok
Legs day today. My legs feel all wobbly now. Excellent. Made a slight error as did core workout in another room, couldn’t remember what weight I needed and strangely opted for an 8kg. I realised my mistake after about 30s. I dropped down to no weights by about the 4th move

Tilk being bit scared is good I think! Sounds like a sensible move to build back up to liift though. I did that with insanity, I did a programme (not beachbody but was very cheap to buy) called xtrainfit to build up fitness to do insanity. Maybe when doing liift start with light weights and slowly build them up?

Purple that’s brilliant about all those miles! Your legs are going to be super strong!

Things slowly improving here. I’m not not taking painkillers most days (4 weeks post section today) which is big progress. Fingers crossed the infection is improving with the abs and is healing up slowly. I’m moving a bit quicker than I was around the house but can’t really walk that far still (3000 steps on a good day). Past week I’ve lost I think 1 lb but not really sure if it’s just normal fluctuation or actual loss. I’ve certainly been eating a huge amount and barely doing anything physically. Ds is a hungry munchkin and constantly bfs all day every day. Quite literally. He laughs in the face of the idea of 3 hourly feeds like dd did! The only exercises I’ve done is pelvic floor squeezes and a few breathing exercises clenching and releasing my abs. Another couple of weeks and I truly hope I’ll be able to walk a bit more and take dd and Ds for some small walks in the pram.

Glad you’re starting to feel recovered reastie. You’ll be out and about soon. My ds was exactly the same - I used to regularly spend the whole day on the sofa breastfeeding. I watched a LOT of box sets. I will always associate those first few months with binge watching gossip girl!

My legs are tired. It was probably 10days between the 21dfx legs workouts and I was really stiff the next day. Run later. I predict I’ll be slooooooow

Oh that's good to hear reastie . Sounds like you're healing nicely! Haha oh yes, Netflix is a good investment when you have a hungry baby. DS was a big feeder, I remember MIL questioning whether it was normal or not for him to be so hungry

Glad you got some stretches in yum hopefully that will go some way to recovery. Pretty hard to avoid using your feet 🙈 have you been avoiding working out because of it?

Good to hear you're doing well too Tilikum I found T25 a bit samey aswell. I stopped after week 5. Got bored I'm not sure what to recommend tbh, but after I've finished Liift 4 I might give 22 Minute Hard Corps a go?

Sorry I haven't been on for a little while. Super busy. But I have managed to keep going with workouts. I'm on week 6 now!! 🤩 this is where I stopped last time and I'm feeling much stronger now and less drained. Probably because I ate my weight in curry during my birthday week so I've got a backstore of carbs to fuel me

Since birthday treats I've gotten right back on the nutrition. And I'm loving it!! Last night I made tacos with the recipes for Homemade Salsa and Homemade Guacamole from the Fixate cookbook. OH. MY. GOD. It was so good. I highly recommend it. Even OH was super impressed and couldn't stop himself from eating more.

Also...who knew cilantro was coriander?! I'd seen and heard of it like 6 years ago but couldn't for the life of me find it in the supermarket. Turns out it's bloody coriander

Well done on getting to week 6 plink - did you up your weights like joel said? You’ll be on to the final 2 weeks with full body hiiit then the post liift grief before you know it. Are you feeling/seeing the difference yet?

I finished 21dfx real time last week so have started doing the original 21dfx. I am not enjoying the music. It’s that awful tinny, cheap techno. Yuk. Mind you it is better than the cast cracking in jokes with each other.

Hope you all had good weekends.

Thanks purple I did and OW. I'm up to 8.5kg on the big ones now. I won't be able to up my medium and small weights until I get those wrist weights though. That bugs me a bit. Yeah I definitely feel it and I can see it... I took a before photo so I'll take an end photo and put it on here.

Well done on completing 21dfx real time!! Ugh no... T25 has rubbish music too. Part of the reason I'm looking forward to Jerichos Morning Meltdowns is because of the live DJ. It'll make a refreshing change.

On a side note, did anyone see the convention Beachbody had on Joel's Insta? It looked amazing. 20,000 people under one roof doing workouts and seeing coaches and stealing Joel's cardboard cut out Almost made me want to be a coach! I'd love to go to the one in London they have.

Knee playing up again. Put in a referral for physio. This time for the backs of my knees think I'm always going to have problems with them.

Hope everyone smashes it this week!!

Am not sure I’m smashing it, but I have done 3x 21dfx workouts this week. I felt quite tired this am so was pleased it was a rest day. The original 21dfx is definitely better than the new real time version. The moves are harder than wk 1 and 2 of the real time version but simpler. The real time version had all of these really complicated moves which I struggled with the coordination of.

Sorry to hear re your knee plink. I had a weird back of knee pain too. Turned out to be tight hamstrings/glutes/calves. Stretching hasn’t totally sorted it but it is a bit better so hope the physio helps you too. Well done on upping the weights. Ive actually come down in weights - I’m struggling to do 8kg shoulder press- when I did lift I managed 12.5kg. oh well

Hope everyone is ok

Hi, can I join? Just started Insanity, I have done it before years ago but recently let myself go... I need some support to stick with it and want to find out about other beachbody programmes. Do most of you have a subscription or have you bought specific programmes?

Ah I'll give some stretching a go then, see if that helps. It does feel pretty tight around there. 12.5kg is pretty damn impressive purple !! Jesus! The comforting thought is that you know you can get there again though.

How are we all doing this week? Gone a bit quiet but hope you're all ok?

Hi @LostaraYil ! Welcome to the thread!! Of course, join in wherever. I use the free 14 days for Beachbody on Demand (I keep creating email addresses) and have a couple programmes on disc - Insanity and T25. Insanity is a beast of a programme. At the moment I'm on Liift4 and I've fallen in love with it.
The online stuff is pretty good, plus you can download the 21DayFix app to track your portion tubs during the day which is pretty awesome.

Had a few days off tbh. And my nutrition hasn't been on peak. Not bad but not super either. I made the mistake of trying a new protein shake. It's called Vega Clean Protein. Supposed to be a good brand but my god does it taste like crap. Bluergh. Sorely tempted to get my money back on this one. I was expecting loads better at £25 for 15 sodding servings

Hello - nice to see some posts on here - I’ve been wanting to post but I felt a bit silly just posting to myself! I’ve enjoyed 21dfx this week. Did a ‘fast’ 5miler on Friday - needless to say it was not actually fast, just not the plodding I’m used to! Then did a 19mile race today. It was self navigated and I got a bit lost so ended up doing a nice round 20miles. Was really nice - out in the countryside. Had some chats with people whilst running so that was good. I was so impressed with some of the runners though - there were some super speedy people. We got left for dust by the people doing the 50k ultra who passed us like we were walking and they had done 20miles by that point. Not sure how my legs will be tomorrow. Im guessing they’ll be sore!

Welcome lostara - definitely join us. What programme are you doing? I’ve got bbod which is good value for me as I do 4x workouts per week.

How is the knee plink? Funny you say that re the protein powder. Mine ran out a few weeks ago and instead of reordering from Amazon I saw some on special in Holland and barrat. It was half the price of my normal one and just tastes of sawdust. I will finish it as I hate waste but it made me realise there is a lot of duff stuff out there.

Happy weekends to reastie, Roman and poppy. Come back soon! Sorry for my epic post

Hi everyone.

Urgh, I hate the rubbish bb music, this is one reason I like Les mills as even though they use covers they are real songs.

Plink I bet they have to pay a lot to go to the convention though... hope the knee settles quickly and the referral comes through ASAP. Knees can be a pita to recover from. Have you got a foam roller you can try using on the legs to help? Remember the source of injury isn’t akways where you need to work eg I had a knee problem but the issue was in my Glute! That shake sounds ridiculously priced.

Hi yosta how are you finding it?

Purple 20 miles?! You’re practically on marathon length already!

Will update myself later, Ds just started another feed!

So I’m still bfing pretty much constantly all day and night. In the day it’s rare to go longer than 90 minutes between feeds! I’m hoping all this will equal mammoth calorie burn but in turn I’m eating a huge amount despite feeling ravenous. past couple of weeks I’ve continued to lose a little weight but it isn’t visable at all. I still have about 26 lbs to go. Physically I’m very weak. I go for short walks and find I’m shaky very quickly. I can’t imagine doing insanity ever again! But my hope is to manage up to an hours walks in September and then build from there. It seems a long way off but then a month ago I was on constant painkillers and barely walking at all.

90min feeds sounds familiar reastie. I comforted myself with the thought that all that feeding would make ds put on weight and sleep through quicker.....
Jessica Ennis has released a training programme for post natal women - might be worth a look when you’re feeling stronger. She says people do too much too soon and has a bit focus on core etc for the first few months. Sounded very sensible

And 90 minutes is when I’m lucky!! Thanks for the Jessica Ennis thing, I looked it up and it looks really good but it’s just over £100 for a years subscription! It looks like there’s only 6 short workouts for that which just seems like so much! I need to think about it as obv I need to do this right but I wonder if there’s anything equivalent and cheaper.

Eek sorry for mammoth post!

Well done on the race purple extra mile as a bonus how are you feeling now? Well I've taken a bit of a break for a few days but back on it today. The stretching really does make sense as I get the pain and swelling when I do weird movements that involve elongating my muscles, like trying to silently climb over the stairgate across DS's doorway at night

Well, I originally went with MyProtein and they did some fabulous flavours but I'm trying to cut out crap ingredients. So I thought I'd try a cleaner protein. I'm thinking of sticking with MyProtein now though. They do some great sales.

Reastie I remember this well. It sucked. Just permanently had my boob out it was exhausting. I hope you're getting some reasonable sleep. We used to keep the tv on in the bedroom during the night as DS woke up for feeds. Quite often I'd be sat up with him watching shopping channels - our hoover is the result of that time 😂
It will pass. It will get less frequent and you'll start to feel a little bit less like a milk machine.

Today, I'm planning on doing the stretch workout a couple of times before I go back into the programme. I'll pick up where I left off but won't dive in without a good stretching session first.

I am seriously thinking of cutting out sugar. Specifically the white refined kind. I keep reading some pretty convincing evidence from various doctors and nutritionists that it's pretty detrimental to your brain, specifically regarding Alzheimer's. I'm reading 'Genius Foods' by Max Lugavere at the moment but there are a few others on my list I want to get round to. 'The Obesity Code' by Dr. Jason Fung, 'Feeding You Lies' by Vani Hari, 'The Longevity Solution', 'Super Fuel' and 'The Salt Fix' by Dr. James Dinicolantonio.

I didn't really care too deeply about this stuff when I was younger but now I have DS... I worry about the future. I don't want him to be caring for me when I'm older. I don't want him to see me lose my memory through Alzheimers. It kind of hits home with me as my mum used to come home and tell me about her patients at work, how difficult it is for families to deal with etc. I want to live the fullest, healthiest life I can for him... I just hope I haven't got there too late after years of bingeing on absolute rubbish a d pure sugar

Plink that’s so funny as I have the tv on all night too! I tend to have it on ‘home’ channel so I can watch all ancient property ladder/diy sos type programmed as they’re easy to dip in and out of when I’m in a hakf skeep half wake but then about 4am they switch on their adverts! If you want any info on cutting out sugar let me know, I’ e been refined sugar free for nearly 2 years now (apart from tiny blip when pg and I couldn’t eat anything except a breakfast cereal with very low sugar content but still was gritting my teeth as it had refined sugar in). My rule of thumb is nothing with added sugar/syrup or anything sweet really to anything including no sweetners but I do have fresh fruit and a small amount of dried fruit and I do eat carbs. So I’m not strictly sugar free but I think I’d be classed as refined sugar free. It took a lot of label looking to get used to what I coukd and couldn’t eat but I’m used to it now. When I first gave it up the cravings were insane, to the point I couldn’t even watch bake off as the need for sugar gave me the rage and it was just too much salivating to watch! I also got random physical issues for the first week or two like an insane headache like I was giving up caffeine from a heavy coffee habit and some kind of random leg problem too which ?I read online was to do with magnesium and imbalance from giving up sugar or something. Once i was through the first week or so though I felt so much better and I don’t reallt miss it now. Sometimes I want chocolate, but I just sniff some and then remember how the want to eat chocolate is often nicer than the actual taste anyway and it passes. Please do send book recommendations as you get through them from your list, idybe interested to read. I didn’t know about the Alzheimer’s link. When I teach about added sugar to foods and how much sugar children are advised as a daily maximum it totally freaks me out how it’s in everything and how much over the guidance dd must be. You have to look out and buy things like special baked beans with no sugar in (and no sweetener if you’re being fussy like me).

Haha!! Ours was on Challenge so we were constantly watching re-runs of Bullseye (we still watch them now as they're hilarious- so awkward and dated) but then it switches to the shopping stuff at about 3-4am 😂😂 brilliant tv when you're half asleep!

This is what I know I will find hard. The cravings. I can't stress enough how much of a sugar fiend I am. I always have been. Dessert is my favourite meal! I've had to work really hard to cut back on things. At the moment I have a pack of gluten free shortbread and a dairy milk fruit and nut bar in the fridge (courtesy of OH as it's my time of the month). So, I'm going to eat them up and then not buy anymore.
I'm hoping my 2 portions of fruit will be enough to tide me over.

What surprises me is how many words for sugar there in labels. It's disgusting really. I find myself disgusted at the crap they put in food. The other day I found out about carrageenan. Awful thing put in food. I think it's a preservative but it is responsible for gut inflammation along with a few other things... I have enough inflammation as it is without that adding to it.

I'd definitely be glad of your advice reastie !

Plink effectively I was the same as you with sugar, I was totally a sugar addict and ate it all the time! It was really tough at first but once I’d done it a while I lost the cravings and felt so much better! Give it a go! It depends how strict you want to be too, because effectively all carbs (bread etc) are polysaccharides which are long chains of simple sugars and the body breaks down carbs into sugars in your body so you still ingest sugars, but because carbs are very long chains of sugars they take a while to break up in digestion which means they don’t spike the blood sugar in the same way as sugar. I’m not sure how that figures with your research though and whether you have to stop all foods made from simple sugars or just the sugars themselves.

If you will still eat dried fruit then I used to find when first stopping then a couple of raisins would help give me that sugar taste in my mouth. Or fruit, but fruits like mango or peach used to be better at satisfying cravings. I think they are higher GI so release their sugar quicker into the blood, so aren’t great (I try to avoid fruits like that now in general in preference to berries which are lower) but help in the interim. My go to snacks to help a sweet craving now is a small bowl of porridge with a small amount of raisins in or plain yoghurt with berries and sometimes nuts or a little of my homemade muesli added.

Fwiw I know about the carrageenan, it’s annoying as I have dairy free milk and many of them have it added so I have to be reallt specific with which ones I can eat to avoid it.

Ps I’m an all or nothing person so I personally find it easier to have none at all than to eat a small amount, as I don’t do small amounts and just crave it constantly!

Reastie, well done on 2 years sugar free! I keep trying to do low carb and am on it again, but the longest I ever lasted was about 4 months. Then all the weight I had lost came back and I have lost and gained 10ish lbs a few times. If I ever get to a weight I'm happy with I will try to eat carbs but no sugar, but I'm also very much all or nothing and usually any carbs trigger crazy cravings!
Purple, 19 miles is amazing! I'm on day 3 of insanity and starting to remember how much I both love it and hate it... once I get started it's ok because after the warm up and stretching there is only just over 20 min left in the early workouts and I can handle that. I suck at pushups though so I'm always giving up early on those!
Plink, which myprotein flavours would you recommend? I have some cheap protein powders to finish off but want to find something less disgusting!