Deb, your pants must be falling off of you at this point. Excellent job!
great progress!
Hey Deb, just catching up!
Congrats on your son (and what a cutie!)
I’m echoing everyone else here and saying, great progress!! The weights and reps are moving up, and you’re inches are going down. That is awesome!!
Nice loss on the waist/hips!
hell yeaah inches lost is a “good” sign!! better make that great an not give a rat’s ass about the scale. 
congrats on your son’s accomplishment. and that outfit is fabulous. those are yummy calves…
yippee!
whatever you are doing is working!
Tonight’s work out:
I don’t think I’ve been clear about the fact that I do circuits. So when I make the list I start with the first move, do the 5 reps and then move to the next until I’m done with one complete set. Rest a minute or two and start the whole thing over.
95 lb Squats 5x5
65 lb Rows 4x5 – 60 lb Rows 1x5
75 lb Lat Pulldowns 5x8
60 lb Supine Bridge 5x10
60 lb Floor Press 5x5
Push Ups 2x7
Was a good work out. Was a bit shaky when I got done. Squats weren’t a bit easier this week, but not easy.
Kimba, nlmain, Masch, Green, Talen and MiM — thanks for all of your words of encouragement! I’m pretty happy about those inches.
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Tonight’s work out:
I don’t think I’ve been clear about the fact that I do circuits. So when I make the list I start with the first move, do the 5 reps and then move to the next until I’m done with one complete set. Rest a minute or two and start the whole thing over.
95 lb Squats 5x5
65 lb Rows 4x5 – 60 lb Rows 1x5
75 lb Lat Pulldowns 5x8
60 lb Supine Bridge 5x10
60 lb Floor Press 5x5
Push Ups 2x7
Was a good work out. Was a bit shaky when I got done. Squats weren’t a bit easier this week, but not easy.
[/quote]
Wait…so you do:
5 squats
5 rows
8 lat pulldowns
10 supine bridges
5 floor presses
7 push ups
REPEAT
Correct?
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Tonight’s work out:
I don’t think I’ve been clear about the fact that I do circuits. So when I make the list I start with the first move, do the 5 reps and then move to the next until I’m done with one complete set. Rest a minute or two and start the whole thing over.
95 lb Squats 5x5
65 lb Rows 4x5 – 60 lb Rows 1x5
75 lb Lat Pulldowns 5x8
60 lb Supine Bridge 5x10
60 lb Floor Press 5x5
Push Ups 2x7
Was a good work out. Was a bit shaky when I got done. Squats weren’t a bit easier this week, but not easy.
[/quote]
Wait…so you do:
5 squats
5 rows
8 lat pulldowns
10 supine bridges
5 floor presses
7 push ups
REPEAT
Correct?[/quote]
Yes ma’am.
Sounds brutal, but great. I love circuits, I might steal this. Thanks!
Steal away beautiful!
Last night I did the Cosgrove metabolic workout with a twist (and not in the good way). I removed the one minute of rest between sets and kept the two minutes of rest between groups.
Squat in and out 1 minute
Toe touch 1 minute
Squat in and out 1 minute
Toe touch 1 minute
2 minutes of rest
Split jack 1 min
Burpee 1 min
Split jack 1 min
Burpee 1 min
2 minutes of rest
Mt climber 1 min
Sumo squat 1 min (ouch)
Mt climber 1 min
Sumo squat 1 min
2 minutes of rest
5 dot 1 min
Lateral step 1 min
5 dot 1 min
Lateral step 1 min
Collapse on floor and try not to say f*ck too loudly while gasping for breath.
Thennnnn the gym started a new class, Zumba, and I decided to stay for it. I had 10 minutes of rest (drinking ice water and trying to slow my breathing so I didn’t sound like a total perv). The class was 45 minutes and yes it includes a lot of dance moves. However, I LOVE to dance so to me this was just something fun to do. I ended up working up a good sweat (really surprised me) so on top of being total fun I got a bit of a work out. Staggered home, dropped into a hot bubble bath and spent the rest of the night recuperating before zonking out in bed.
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Last night I did the Cosgrove metabolic workout with a twist (and not in the good way). I removed the one minute of rest between sets and kept the two minutes of rest between groups.
Squat in and out 1 minute
Toe touch 1 minute
Squat in and out 1 minute
Toe touch 1 minute
2 minutes of rest
Split jack 1 min
Burpee 1 min
Split jack 1 min
Burpee 1 min
2 minutes of rest
Mt climber 1 min
Sumo squat 1 min (ouch)
Mt climber 1 min
Sumo squat 1 min
2 minutes of rest
5 dot 1 min
Lateral step 1 min
5 dot 1 min
Lateral step 1 min
Collapse on floor and try not to say f*ck too loudly while gasping for breath.
Thennnnn the gym started a new class, Zumba, and I decided to stay for it. I had 10 minutes of rest (drinking ice water and trying to slow my breathing so I didn’t sound like a total perv). The class was 45 minutes and yes it includes a lot of dance moves. However, I LOVE to dance so to me this was just something fun to do. I ended up working up a good sweat (really surprised me) so on top of being total fun I got a bit of a work out. Staggered home, dropped into a hot bubble bath and spent the rest of the night recuperating before zonking out in bed. [/quote]
I would have been wipe out after the metabolic workout! Do you have a stopwatch or something to use to keep track? My gym only has one clock and it’s a Bud Light clock that is super hard to read and does not have a second hand.
My gym has clocks on every wall and not a second hand to be found. I bought an electronic kitchen time, cost $9, about the size of a business card. I set it for 1 minute and when it’s done I hit the button and it goes back to one minute and I hit it again. Works perfectly.
Shit. I’ve only done 30 sec. sumo squats, and here you are with 1 min. ones. Time for me to step it up!
And I grimace and grunt through every one of them kimba!
Tonight’s work out:
Again, I did this in a circuit.
145 lb DL 5x5
35 lb bent over row 5x8
30 lb one arm DB presses 5x5
BW Bulgarian split squats 5x8
I tried the bulgarians with weights but I haven’t done them in so long I was having a hard time balancing so I switched to body weight.
I was soaked in sweat and breathing heavy through the entire circuit. Muh glutes are pissed at me right now 
Tomorrow will be my day off from lifting and my fat burning metabolic work out.
Today’s session. Did the bodyweight thing and decided to note the number of reps I did for each (Cosgrove recommends tracking for progress). Each movement is for one minute.
Squat in and out – 73
Toe touch – 23 each side
Squat in and out – 69
Toe touch – 17 each side
2 minutes of rest
Split jack – 63
Burpee – 15
Split jack – 59
Burpee – 12
2 minutes of rest
Mt climber – 52 each leg
Sumo squat – 32
Mt climber – 49 each leg
Sumo squat – 29
2 minutes of rest
5 dot – 33 front and back
Lateral step --31 each side
5 dot – 32 front and back
Lateral step – 33 each side
Took me several minutes to recover before I could get off of the floor. Good news! I dropped 1.8 pounds after holding steady for 5 weeks. Tightened up the eating and it paid off. Interesting comment – checker at the grocery store was packing my stuff into the two bags I brought in and took a look at me and said, “Yeah you look strong. You can handle these.”