Lifting with Caroline Girvan- keeping it real and having a laugh along the way!

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Day 17 would indeed have been very tough without the longer rests, at least the first 6 sets of chest press variations and shoulder press variations. I love push ups so maybe that’s why it was easier. I wish I found pull-ups as easy as push ups.
Tracy Steen’s anterior workout sounds like a good cardio workout with just 15 seconds of rest!

@Gobacktotheworld2 😂😂😂
I will do today’s glutes and hammies but will skip the glute complexes . I really like complexes. It is nice to finally give myself permission to switch things round with the sessions- as Caroline always suggests.i will do an arm move instead .
I remember once Mrs silly boi having an absolute fit when someone said they were doing this. She said the sessions would have no effect if not followed to the letter. Lots of people came into to say that CG herself advocated this. So glad they have crawled off and started another Kearney appreciation group somewhere.l where I can’t see them.

Also I noticed that Caroline is a really weird colour ATM

Hello all
ive been a bit quiet as I very sadly lost my beautiful goldie last week and it’s hit me really badly. I’ve kind of lost my mojo a bit
i did manage to do a couple of yoga sessions which I enjoyed, and I think I really should be making this a regular thing in my schedule.
im a little behind with Play but I’m going to try and catch up as I did originally set myself the challenge of finishing in real time 🥵

Sam- it was fun! And here's a good I just did on YouTube with Dan from tiff x Dan - lots of jumping for those of us who like that sort of thing. And abs.🥵

BB with all this reckless boasting about tinkering with Caroline's workouts you will NEVER be a High Priestess of the Cult of Caroline. I will try that Uncomplicated Glutes day tomorrow as it looks interesting. Maybe subbing in some clams and those inner thigh side lying leg lifts for the second lot of bridges- whatever these exercises are called.

And Mrs K can stick that in her pipe and smoke it. Or vape on that, as all the naughty kids at my youngest's new school appear to be doing.😳

I'm so sorry for your loss.
It's heartbreaking.
And goldies are always such special boys and girls.
Much love to you.

Thank you so much for your kind words
I truly appreciate them

@Gobacktotheworld2thankyou for the recommendations! I find I keep going back to Unleash leg days because they have jumping (at least a little!)
@whatwoulddexterdoso very sorry for the loss of your Golden 🐕. It is incredibly painful losing a wonderful dog, big hugs from me

@whatwoulddexterdoso sorry about your GR. I had one as a kid, they’re so lovely (and soppy!).

i did the 10x10 one from Play today - quite enjoyed it, although I think there was too much time. Had 30-40 second rest which seems too long for only 10 reps. Also did normal bulgarians - why is she so obsessed with those forward lean things?

Forward tilt Bulgarians target the glutes, upright Bulgarians target more the quads. And as Caroline is obsessed with 🍑 exercises that’s why there are more forward tilt Bs these days!

@whatwoulddexterdo so sorry about your lovely doggie. It is utterly horrible when you lose a pet ☹️

I did day 18- swapped the 2 glute complexes out. Did one as sumos-weights and bw and the other as triceps/
The Bulgarian and rear steps proper bit my arse really proper hard . Could see it was biting hers too.

I hazarded Day 11 of Play (hated the look of lunge hell ie. Day 16 so decided to do the previous Sunday's workout) and unexpectedly liked it, even though I only go down about half a millimetre in the sissy squats (thanks, knees!). But they were only tiny clusters and not at all a prominent part of the workout. I ended up doing plie squats with calf raises for the finisher instead. The staggered HT were awkward but infinitely easier with the barbell than with 55kg of dbs on one's (ample but not terribly stable) lap.:D Day 18 and 19 both look really interesting (10x10 for the back... yes! And chest really, given it has pullovers) and I hope to double them up this coming. If it ever comes.

I also did this Heather Robertson short tabata workout- excellent as a finisher.

Well, Wednesday is my back and biceps day so I was hoping to do Play day 17 until I saw it. 10 x 10 for single arm rows and pullovers, the tedium of it! So I went back to PE for one of my favourite B&B sessions, more variation and probably more challenging.

@whatwoulddexterdo - aw I'm so sorry to hear about your lovely dog! One of mine is getting old now, and each birthday makes me terrified. I'll be absolutely destroyed when his time comes.

@BigButtons it is my dream to not live with my partner. We both work from home these days and he rarely leaves the house. Sometimes just his breathing is enough to send me into a rage! We've been trying and failing to move to somewhere bigger for years but next door are going to be selling their house soon and now I'm fixated on him buying that (I own the one we live in) and he can just take his mess there! A little terraced cottage each sounds perfect. Maybe I'd allow a connecting door put in as long as it's boltable on each side 😀- I lived on my own until my mid thirties and have never got used to the adjustment it seems.

I did day 18 of Play after a run with the dogs. It was fine. Went quickly enough. I looked at day 16 too and thought fuck that - honestly, who can tolerate that quantity of lunging? My bunions certainly can't.

She is looking pretty mahogany this series.

She is very brown and shiny!( apart from her underarms and hands!)😀

Ha I meant Day 18. It 17, glad you enjoyed it. I’m finding lunges increasingly painful both on my operated bunion foot and the unoperated one where the bunion there seems to now be growing exponentially.
another Reddit thread on the FB community, concern about the ‘honey bunny’ guy’s comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/CarolineGirvan/s/Y7hvFZWOiX

@samthebordercollie aw that thread has been deleted already! I think he is just attention seeking tbh. He has called her that for years and occasionally people take offence. I guess if she took offence she would not allow the posts?

@Fibrous yeah- so many female friends say the same thing re living with a man. One friend on our weekend away is long term married and says should her husband die or they split she would never live with a man again. I used to have a fantasy about living with my current partner because it felt, i dunno, grown up or something . But just tonight when he called I decided- for the 2nd night running that i really really wanted my own space and it feels amazing. I am so looking forward to having the bed to myself and not being woken up by wriggling and snoring. he is tidier than me and has been a bachelor all his life. I think it suits both of us tbh.

i am looking forward to doing the next 10x10 tomorrow- I get to meditate for 45 mins.

anyway- not long until we need a new thread

Odd, the Reddit thread is still there for me! I don’t think hunny bunny guy is harmful.
I don’t sleep in the same bed as DH either, either I sleep in the spare room or he goes in his camping car. He snores and I’m a really light sleeper, I go to bed at 10 and get up at 5.45, he goes to bed after midnight and gets up at 9. I do lots of sport, he does none, we are completely incompatible!

Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton lived next door to each other throughout their marriage, didn't they? It's such an attractive idea...

One of my children just started at my old school and I had a seriously wobbly moment at the welcoming ceremony yesterday (the school year starts in January here). Isn't it marvellous being in your 40s and everything makes you so stupidly emotional at unexpected and invariably inconvenient moments? 🙄

I did Play Day 15 (the pyramid full body) for the second time last night as it's tough and even with lower weights than last time I was still constantly going to failure on the way back down the pyramid.

He has posted today and not called her honey bunny. I wonder if he read the Reddit thread ( I could see it after all)

Well, I hope he did. He's welcome to his creepy parasocial relationship with CG but it should stay in his head.

I have him blocked but he comes to mind whenever her workouts have that song that goes Hey stupid, think I want ya, just because I am a woman?

Haha gotta love Caroline's music.
Whats the song used in the cool down? Does it actually say something about feeling scabby???(I use my own music,but as I listen to rock I usually turn it off for the cool down)

It’s 🤮 even if she doesn’t mind. It makes me feel weird that he is posting about a woman like that.

Then there’s the thin man in his underpants.

No,no they are swimming trunks and he's practicing diving! So it's all OK 🙃