Caroline Girvan 2026- sore but still scrolling.

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Can I ask what happens when this Play programme ends? How long does she normally leave before she starts a new 10/12 week one?
I am about a week behind but I have done every workout-The hardest days so far for me have been Day 16 and 26 -both quad sessions.

I hope everything dies down soon @AtomicBlondeRose, much sympathy for the situation. I have a team in Dubai and they’re all safe, but very anxious about what is to come.

a bit delayed as I’ve been scrolling backwards to see what I missed when I was away, but thank you @Gobacktotheworld2 for that kettlebell challenge. Here I was thinking I was hardcore for doing 50 swings most mornings. Because of that challenge I felt compelled to add 200 onto my pathetic 50 swings from this morning. I did the weight exercises too, but never made it to the chin ups (and suspect I never will). All to a soundtrack of Erasure, which somehow made the swings pass more quickly.

I’ve not been doing much CG lately as been busy with work and travel, the Olympics and family stuff, but I have been walking and running a fair amount, as well as the aforementioned kettle bells, so I’ve not been entirely immobile. Thinking of restarting Heat, plus more outdoor stuff like interval training, as the weather and temperature are starting to get quite pleasant and I spend far too long indoors at the moment. Come summer it will be too bloody hot so getting as much as possible in now. I might shell out for the app for my birthday but still on the fence about that, from all your comments.

@BigButtons i hope your partner is recovering well
Did days 40 & 41 back to back whilst catching up on my soaps on tv (guilty pleasure)
liked the full body but the lower was just ridiculous, I don’t do sissy squats as my knees are nearly 60 and to attempt 100 of them at any age is insane
This workout was beyond dull with 70% dedicated to just 2 moves 🙄
I did a staple of a barbell squat and then donkey kicks and various lunges and leg raises

Thanks @whatwoulddexterdo he is! I loved today’s one- live 10x10. Have hated her previous quad days in play though🥱🥱

I enjoyed Caroline’s latest article. It had the usual mystery nice lady who had asked her a question . Still is made sense and I always always hated that people in that group are so passively competitive about lifting as heavy as they can, matching Caroline when Caroline herself seems to lift at half her max most of the time and still get excellent results without injury. It gives me impetus to actually drop the weights and perhaps stop these niggles I have.

@TessTickle0 Caroline's already said there will be a new programme in April, but no idea if it's 6 or 10 weeks - previously she had a 6 week programme in January then the longer programme in April so this year is different. In the meantime as GBTTW says there will be new workouts and maybe a mini series dropped. At the very least she provides a calendar with recommended daily workouts in between programmes.
@BigButtons did you really do the 100 sissy squats? I'm not bothered about lifting heavier now, reducing the risk of injury is the most important thing so I'm increasing reps for progressive overload now, although I just want to maintain as far as hypertrophy is concerned.

@samthebordercollie I managed 50 before my right knee started complain and I did wall sits for the rest which felt more brutal tbh!
it’s lovely to have sun here today at last. Hope you are all getting some rays😎

Day 42 done
All unilateral upper body so felt quite easy which to be honest was much needed today as had eaten a very heavy lunch prior!
We finally managed to have our team Christmas lunch after several postponements due to the venue being shut because of the no water issues we had over December and January
Felt very odd exchanging secret santas and very warm in a Christmas jumper 🙄🤣

@Gobacktotheworld2 I find it all very confusing tbh. I am just Mrs Joe blogs trying to prevent myself breaking a hip falling some years from now. I want to be strong. I also want to stay injury free. The sessions I enjoy most are the ones where I drop the weights. I liked today’s shoulder one because I felt I was being very controlled and careful and I took the weights down to do so.
I mean in reality most people aren’t ever going to pick up a dumbbells are they ?so what we do has to be good even if not ‘optimal’?

Did Play day 43 glutes and hamstrings in an attempt to grow a backside. It was neither 'intense' or 'brutal' as the comments would have you believe. I did it as an add on to Intent Day 33 glutes and hamstrings which was both intense and brutal with sets of 90 seconds and 30 seconds rest. A really good workout.

Play day 41 for me here quads. I did 90 sissy squats. I tried to sub with wall sits but they were worse so I just went back to the sissies.

Had a few days off as we had some viewings. My house is now sold - that was pretty straightforward. Now need to secure somewhere to move to. My DP is so fussy I have a feeling we will end up living with his dad as all the properties I've sent him he's ruled out without even wanting to look. We do still have one up our sleeve but it's a bit of a wildcard so we shall see.

I am going to cry when I leave here. It's my first house, it's beautiful, all the neighbours are lovely, the views are lovely, and it's cheap. It would be my dream house if I wasn't living with dogs and men, who have ruined it for me.

Okay 43 was so bloody tedious- was not in anyway no repeat and also not hard. I loathe glute days like this

@Gobacktotheworld2my favourite quad workout is PE Day 23, wall sits, squats, step ups, and 3 sets of a rather brutal lunge to squat (did you know CG invented them 😂), superseted with elevated weighted lunges. It will definitely get your heart racing!

@Fibrouscongratulations on your house sale, that was quick! Agree, avoid moving in with FIL if you can possibly do so. Does he like dogs?

@GoneBackToTheWorld 😂😂
maybei could revisit some of intent. I don’t think I finished because it was just tiring me out. I think it was one of her toughest series for sure. Those sound like pretty bad doms! I remember once have the most hideous quad doms from CGX iron- so bad I found walking difficult and had to sit and stand with assistance for a number of days!

@Fibrous wow that was a quick sale!🥳 Hope things progress smoothly for you and that you find something you love to move to.

Thanks guys! Yeah nice terraces with nice views in this part of the world get snapped up.Father in law is a very gentle and benign presence so I could live with him for a bit if all else fails. I'm not sure how he'd feel about all the mess and noise descending on him, though, he's used to a quiet life - just him and his tortoise (who looks like him). He loves all our pets, though, so that's not an issue, would just have to stop them all eating the tortoise. His house has lots of bedrooms but is actually no bigger than our two bed, it's quite cramped. But we'd manage. Hopefully it doesn't come to that. Finding a rental with four pets would be a challenge, though.

It is proper sunny here today. I'm going to get out for a run.

@Gobacktotheworld2I’m glad you ‘enjoyed’ the PE quad session, I’ll be doing it again tomorrow, love it! Do you mean Intent Day 44? I think it’s a very good workout, have done it a few times. One of her ab workouts I do on repeat is the weighted abs from her 2024 Advent programme. Do you have any other weighted abs you recommend?

Thanks for that recommendation @Gobacktotheworld2- those were the days when 8kg were light weights 😂