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Lift, Move & Restore 2 Elevated! Heavy Weight Workouts. I usually do not care for split upper body workout, but I did not mind the two in this series. There are a total of four heavy weight workouts in the LMR2 Elevated! series. Three of them are: Upper Body Strength Chest, Triceps & Shoulders   (CTS) Lower Body Strength Upper Body Strength Back, Biceps & Shoulders (BBS) Cathe offers suggested weights in all three of the workouts. Many times, I thought the pace was quite quick for a heavy weight workout. Cathe does tell you to slow down if you find that to be the case. In Chest, Triceps & Shoulders, the shoulder work is focus on the upper and front of the shoulders. In Back, Biceps & Shoulders, the shoulder work was focus on the back. A variety of equipment is used throughout. The Lower Body workout uses the loop boss band.  BBS uses a small loop band and the pull up bar.  All workouts used a ranged of dumbbells. Upper Strength CTS - 3&1/2 stars L...

Track Pilates Level 2 workouts. Workouts for level 2 are: Track Pilates Total Body 1 Track Pilates Lower Body & Core 2 Track Pilates Upper Body & Core 2 Track Pilates Synergy Very similar to the first group of workouts but slightly more challenging.  As in level 1, Autumn delivers motivational tips throughout each workouts.  

  Track Pilates is a 9-workout system based on the Pilates Reformer.  Autumn developed a 'track' system that can be attached to any door or wall.  I have mine attached to a wall. Autumn has the program broken down into level 1 workouts and level 2. This week I did the Level 1 workouts. Which included: Track Pilates Total Body 1 Track Pilates Lower Body & Core 1 Track Pilates Upper Body & Core 1 Track Pilates Sweat Autumn offers motivational tips throughout each of the workouts.  There is no music. Just Autumn talking.  And Autumn is the only cast member. The bands/cords are cumbersome to deal with at times because you are changing them in and out quite a bit.  Autumn just tells you to get over and get used to it.  Within each workouts, Autumns leads you through blocks.  You will do specific exercises within a block before moving on to the next block. Overall I like the Track Pilates workouts, especially the length.  One issue I had w...

December 2025 - Planned Workouts Sunday: 3-mile treadmill, followed by Cathe Stretch First two weeks,  Track Pilates by Autumn Calabrese (Bodi) and KCM 30MTF Stepboxing workouts. Next two weeks, Cathe Heavy Weight Elevated Bonus Workouts and Step workouts.  Last week of the month, Lisa Hubbard Beginner Pilates workouts.   

November 2025 Workouts Sunday - 3 mile on treadmill Monday - FIRM workouts with sculpting emphasis Tuesday - FIRM & Xtreme Dance with cardio emphasis Wednesday - FIRM workouts with sculpting emphasis Thursday - FIRM & Xtreme Dance with cardio emphasis Friday - FIRM & TLF workouts with sculpting emphasis Saturday - Shantani Moore Yoga  

October 2025 This month I did: Bodi's Lisa Hubbard Beginner Pilates Ilaria's PowerStrike  Jessica Smith All Access Pass Lower and Upper Body Strength workouts The FIRM BSS1 and classic system workouts Susan Chung Rapid Fire workouts KCM 30 Minutes to Fitness Pump workouts  Amy Dixon Give Me 10

September 2025 Workouts What I did this month. A combination of:  Jessica Smith Jump Start circuit workouts  Firm Classics workouts,  Cathe's Lift, Move, & Restore bonus workouts workouts from Simone De La Rue 14-Day Challenge BODi Laura Hubbard's Beginner Pilates Sunday Treadmills walks. So, I had a lot of variety this month. My back is feeling so much better. I was trying to be really patient and not try to do to much too soon. By too much, I mean adding heavy weights. I do plan to go heavier in weights next month.  I am trying to gradually build myself back up as I don't want to injure myself again.  Having all that back pain, barely able to walk, was NOT fun.   

Simone De La Rue's Full Body Workouts from her YouTube 14-Day Challenge series. The 14-Day Challenge Series include 14 workouts. Day 5 and Day 12 are Full Body workouts . In these two workouts, Simone starts off with her signature warm up and then she moves into a cardio dance segment. The cardio segment in day 5 is Sixteen Candles. After cardio segment, Simone moves into Upper Body.    In Day 5, Upper body was biceps and triceps. In Day 12, upper body was shoulders. This was followed by another cardio segment, where Simone picked up on the early dance cardio segment and taught the rest of the choreography.  After the second cardio tune came the legs segment. In Day 5, Simone uses a loop band and she had you do a series of squats, leg lifts, abductions, and band walks.  In Day 12, the leg segment was floor based in mostly table top position. Day 5 concluded with a stretch, and Day 12 concluded with core/abs and a brief stretch.   14-Day Challenge Day 5 - Fu...

JumpStart Challenge Total Body Circuits 4, 5, & 6.   Each circuit clocks in at less than 30 minutes.  Jessica uses a variety of tools to include body weight to add resistance to each of the exercises. 

The JumpStart Challenge is a 4-week plan developed by Jessica Smith. Amongst other things, the JumpStart include six easy to follow circuit and mobility style workouts.  Each of the circuit workouts are less than 30 minutes.    

August 2025 Workout Rotation At the beginning of the month I was still nursing a low back injury. So I tried to stick with  yoga, Pilates, mobility and low intensity low impact workouts.  Half way through the month, the back started feeling better so I added in some modest weight workouts.  

July 2025 Workout Rotation First I was on vacation and then I hurt my back. So for most of July, I have been nursing a sore back. I took quite a few day off and then I started adding in back specific pain relief and prevention workout routines. I continued the month with short walking treadmill workouts and  a fusion of yoga and Pilates workouts. This week, I am doing the 12-minute The FIRM Basic workouts programs.    

June 2025 Workout Schedule Continuing with my rotation of Cardio, Lower, Upper, Cardio, Lower, Upper, Recovery. June features Cathe workouts in these categories.    This is what I did for the month of June 2025.

Walk On Metabolism Booster with Jessica Smith. Just realized when I was planning May rotation that I never reviewed this workout. The DVD Menu Play All Upper Body Circuit Walk Lower Body Circuit Walk Total Body Time Saver Bonus Routine for Stronger Knees Lower Body Circuit Walk clocks in at just under 35 minutes.  Jessica uses a pair of weights to increase the intensity of the resistance moves.  You are doing each of the exercises for two sets of 16 or so reps. Jessica adds cardio breaks in between each grouping of exercises. Upper Body Circuit Walk clocks in at a little over 35 minutes.  In this workouts, Jessica performs three upper body exercises back to back, repeats those exercises and then moves on to a cardio break, before taking on another group of three exercises.  The last grouping are standing core exercises.  Jessica uses a pair of weight for the strength exercises. Total Body Time Saver clocks in at 16:45. It is  circuit style working in whi...

May 2025 Workout Routine For the next 5 or 6 months, the plan is to follow the same workout routine. The routine is: Sunday - Cardio Monday - Lower Body Tuesday - Upper Body Wednesday - Cardio Thursday - Lower Body Friday - Upper Body Saturday - Recovery May 2025 features strength workouts from Jessica Smith, Cathe, and Autumn Calbrese. Cardio will be treadmill on Sundays and Discount Workouts Kickboxing DVDs on Wednesday.   Recovery workouts will be from Michelle Dozois, Jessica Smith, AeroSpace and Tamilee.  

Cooper River Bridge Run 10K Race On April 5th, I participated in the Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston SC. It was a 10K race. It had been a couple of years since I ran my last 10K. This year, I did it in a 1 hour and 20 minutes.  I was in Coral G. All total, there was over 36,000 participants. The actual race was fine. Getting to and from the race was a bit of a hassle but then it usually is in these big races. All in all, I felt good about the experience and may do it again sometime in the future.  

April 2025 Monthly Workout Schedule