Caroline Girvan 2026- sore but still scrolling.

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For me her best core is the standing abs one. Wish she would do another. I loathe abs work but live the standing abs.
i had a shitty day at work with my mad class who were extra punchy today. I came home and primed the whole of my new mdf double wardrobe for 4 hours- will try and do day 44 tomorrow

Agree that sounds like hell, BB!

@GoneBackToTheWorld I did play day 44 this morning. My arms are now feeling it so that's a good sign. The ab was indeed very dreary and I also couldn't really feel it so I don't think it did much good. I just felt like I needed to do some yoga as my neck was stiffening up. I've been seriously neglecting the yoga lately.

Agree about the abs on day 44. The rest of it went fairly quickly.

I have been busy this week and not had a chance to do yesterday’s upper body. Will tag that into the end and do the full body today as that looks interesting for once. I hate her an sessions- I don’t see the point of them as my core is always braced when I lift anyway🤷🏻‍♀️

I did play day 45 this morning - full body. I was in a bad mood so it went pretty quickly.

Do you all follow a upper body/lower body regime?
I am following the playlist but am behind owing to days off and days when ive just thought nope not today caroline.
I also do one day of cardio.
I keep seeing everyone commenting about doing the most recent day and am like how??

@TessTickle0 I've only done about half the play program. I can't train five days a week so I just pick the days I fancy the look of. I probably do one upper, one lower, and one full body a week but it does vary.

Me too. I just can’t get into this programme enough to follow it too closely.

I do upper lower but chop and change from different programmes, mainly PE and Intent, sometimes Unleash because it’s tortuous fun. I was really looking forward to Play because of the format but haven’t found it either challenging or enjoyable enough to follow 100%. I’ve been a huge CG fan for the 3 years I’ve been strength training but honestly if her next programme isn’t more interesting or effective I’ll look elsewhere.

I liked today- went to my favs - I normally hate fb days

Well I can’t quite understand the Caroline hate one here- I like her- this is becoming quite negative

I would rather we focused what we loved and why what worked

I’m enjoying Play. Even days when I think ‘urgh that looks dull’ I end up enjoying. My bum needs the hip thrusts - it’s massive so needs to stay muscly or it’ll sag and look awful.

I’m only doing it 3 days a week - weekends are Heather! I’m working through the power hours. This morning’s had a finisher of jumping jacks, then high knees, then repeat.

perhaps today is a good day to die, I thought.

Sorry if I sounded grumpy yesterday- didn’t mean to. There is a lot of negative at work atm and I am just feeling the need for a nice space 🥰

That's OK @BigButtons and I'm sorry that work is so negative ! I don't think anyone was being especially critical here! I am really grateful to Caroline for having got me off just cardio and into lifting. I'd always thought that lifting would be really boring and the fact it's indoors - I prefer exercising outdoors - but her YouTube programmes actually made it fun and I looked forward to the sessions as much as I used to look forward to running. I also appreciate the fact she hasn't sold out like many online fitness instructors, she could be immensely rich if she wanted to, and her ethic of hard work, doing all the programmes herself and not subcontracting out to others is really impressive 😀

Ooh thanks, yeah I like Charlie, and I can definitely force myself to do fifteen minutes later. I got out for a run this morning but didn't stretch after so should do something as I can feel the aches.

@BigButtons I had presumed you had a few wines and were wanting a rant. We've all been there :) Don't think I've been particularly negative about Caroline, I enjoy the sessions if I'm in the right mood for them, which is nothing to do with her and all about me. Sorry to hear work is getting you down. I think I spend 50% of my time at my PAYE job listening to people complain about our company so I know the feeling. I agree with them but it does wear you down.

@Fibrous maybe couple of🍷🍷! Everyone at work is just always moaning about verifying all the time and yeah if does really get you down.

Thanks @samthebordercollie 🥰
I am looking forward to next week being the last week of play just because I finally managed to get to the end of a programme without phoning it in. 😂

Finishing a programme is definitely something to celebrate @BigButtons! Did you read the preamble to week 10 that Judy dropped? I think Caronline’s getting a bit paranoid about the criticisms of her RDLs 😂

DId the latest Play full body (day 45) over the weekend, which was good.

I've only managed 19 of this series so far, so I will try to squeeze in a few more.

Did the Play day 47 workout this morning and really enjoyed it, possibly because it was just like the PE workouts I love!

What is the difference between a deadstop bridge and a regular bridge? I thought that ‘deadstop’ means coming to a stop, so for chest press your arms touch the floor each rep. But for bridge shouldn’t you come to the floor each time anyway?