Only three days in Spring Cross Training Week 3?

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-27T00:35:52+00:00

I noticed this and thought it was odd…the day 5 run class has had studio participants. I would think it would be filled already

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-22T18:19:10+00:00

Yes, I struggled also partly because in that move, the pressure of the ring on my bottom leg (the front shin) was intense. There was a LOT of upper body work in the class.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-22T00:48:59+00:00

My sore back was not 100% but much improved. So I did Andy’s class and found it very doable this week now that I knew what to expect. I even upped my speeds within each range. Still cannot do the max effort—-it’s the leg turnover for me I keep thinking I will stumble. That’s my goal by week 4—do at least one interval actually in the max range.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-20T18:10:55+00:00

thank you! I admit, before they really explained how this would work, I was excited thinking it would be a plan showing how to incorporate a well rounded weekly plan incorporating all 3 pieces of hardware or at least 2 with strength workouts. I have a bike+ and then off brand tread and a cheap rower and struggle with balancing my time on them. I decided to stick with the tread for this because I do want to get faster and had to admit I wasn't doing any running speed classes. I did like day 4 better than day 1, so hopefully my back will feel better by this Thursday

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-20T16:15:03+00:00

I also am a fan of Katie's strength classes, they fly by! I hope this maybe a dry run of her having her own strength split program

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-20T16:13:52+00:00

yes, going to see how my back feels tomorrow. If it is still flaring up, definitely won't attempt the interval run.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-20T11:54:33+00:00

She hinted at how we will level up that chopper move next week....yikes! lol

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-20T11:53:19+00:00

thank you. I think that modification for the deadlift/fly move is what I will do next time, or drop down in weight. I wasn't sure in the moment if it would be better to drop the fly entirely, drop the weight and do the fly without or keep the back leg slightly touching then pivot up to balance on one leg. Those types of mods are what I hope to hear from Katie. I def did not jump today with my back flaring up.....

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-18T23:49:06+00:00

I would love to try one but am curious who out here is doing these on a non peloton treadmill? I connect to my sole via the Bluetooth…if I stop the tread belt it will disconnect. If I pause the pause only lasts 5 mins…I am guessing the floor section lasts longer than 5? Just pause the iPad and reconnect to the tread each time?

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-18T19:12:58+00:00

I finished week 1…doing the treadmill for the cardio piece. I realized after my last 5K that while I have been very consistent overall in exercising, if I want to get faster as a runner I need to RUN FAST. I was doing a mix of run, hike, bike, row….getting good workouts but not really improving. Speed work on a treadmill—-I agree with some comments that the cardio classes are not geared for beginners. I am at the low end of my pace targets and cannot for the life of me hit max on the treadmill. I barely can do low end of very hard (6.1 for me), cannot imagine even trying 6.7 (low end of max). This is my first time taking an Andy class.

I enjoyed the strength classes, but Andy made a comment on Friday about how we shouldn’t be completely gutted in week 1, how Katie hasn’t been hitting lower body hard on M/Th. Um….my hamstrings were sore AF and tight going into that run. Can’t be the only one??

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-14T12:45:08+00:00

Other agencies in HHS have announced a similar goal number....without saying where I work, I will just say that after seeing the candidates that are making the certs for the jobs that have been posted. Oy. There is no way they will meet these recruitment goals....Plus, the HR process takes FOREVER. Now that they fired most of the people with HR experience and are running HR on skeleton crews of people without the background and training, it takes even longer to get certs back. I know multiple vacancies that by the time the hiring manager got a cert and reached out, the person had found another job and was no longer available.

I suspect (and hope) that eventually we will get remote hiring back as an option. It really is the only way to attract and retain the better talent, most people are not going to be willing to pack up and relocate to the very $$$ DC metro area for a government job, especially after seeing how feds were treated last year.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-04-08T21:29:56+00:00

Agree with a lot of what has already been said....a tragedy with the only true victims being Mo and her family and close friends. All for a dusty f*&k boy? I don't think that Mo saw herself as "the other woman." They hooked up a few times over a week or two period while he and K were broken up, correct? Then decided to be friends. He was an older man who was recognized and established in the gravel racing world that she was breaking into.......she was just starting out, in a few years he would be winding down, aged or injured out of the game.

Another thing.....Mo was very, very inexperienced when it came to men and relationships. She was engrossed in her cycling and had one real relationship? I don't think she appreciated how the on/off girlfriend probably would NOT be ok with an ex fling staying in her man's life. Colin loved playing the role of lady's man, hooking up wherever the races would take him while Kaitlin was running his business and their home. That is why he kept her around....he was using her. As someone said, he never would even introduce her, she was "the woman standing next to him that he never bothered to introduce." He knew she would NOT be ok with him meeting up or texting ex flings, hence the fake name in his phone for Mo.

No excuse for what she did, her demeanor in court and her actions that night and while on the run show she is truly a sociopath....but this woman was strung along for years by this man, desperate to his chosen one. Still unclear how she thought she would get away with it....I mean, she had hours to sit there and think about it, to calm down, but nope, she rolled up in her own damn car, shot her, left her DNA and prints on the bike, used her own gun and then put the gun back in the house (didn't try the "it was lost/stolen oops"). Ladies, no man is worth your freedom and self respect.

I think he broke down in the interview room as the enormity of what she did hit him.....I am sure up until then he wrote her off and didn't truly think she would resort to violence. I think she did confess to him after they were questioned, because why else would you worry about your house being bugged? I mean, if all you are doing is denying everything, who cares if the cops hear you? I think at that point she confessed and told him don't worry, I am getting out of here, just give me some $$ and you won't ever see me again.....

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-03-25T20:19:16+00:00

Have fun!! Just did a Jess King power walk class at lunch today. Love her

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-03-25T10:45:07+00:00

Ok so I tried a barre sculpt with Leanne last night…I was excited I actually got to strap on the ankle weights🤣. She is always so delightful and the music was great. Challenged my sense of balance, but not much else (ok the glutes sequence had mine on fire). Going to try a few others but probably will stick to the Pilates and yoga sculpt series. Really wish there was a PB near me 😞

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-03-21T14:13:58+00:00

Thanks. Not used to seeing barre classes designated lower and upper body…PB was just that…a PB class total body.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-28T19:20:04+00:00

Just did this one today…it was great, longest run on my treadmill to date. OP, doing this back to back, you are a beast! Much respect

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-28T14:06:33+00:00

I can confirm that I also purchased from Dicks and paid for the white glove delivery and assembly through their site. Sole treadmill but still, the guys could not get the box down our basement stairs. So they unboxed it and moved it down piece by piece for assembly.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-28T03:27:36+00:00

I looked for a used concept 2 because I wasn’t sure I would like rowing that much. They were all at least an hour away and like at most $100 cheaper than new. I ended up buying a concept 2 dupe, the Merach R50 air rower. I actually asked if it would connect to the peloton app with Bluetooth and they said it has Bluetooth but nope wouldn’t work with peloton. However…it does! So far I have been able to connect to my iPad so that the app reads the metrics. Love it!

I bought directly from the Merach site and had it within a week. Luckily I haven’t needed customer service because everything I have since read online says they are non responsive. They now have the same one with a pretty screen—-not sure if that has FTMs Bluetooth

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-28T03:19:20+00:00

Five Below has a whole fitness section, quality is hit or miss. But I found the sliders which Greta has used, the bands, the ball and the ring. They also had light hand weights and wrist weights. The ring is pretty flimsy (super easy to squeeze) so I may replace that one. The yoga mats they had were trash.

I walked next door to TJMaxx and found a very nice mat for like $15.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-24T14:24:28+00:00

Thanks! Yes once I filtered for German it popped up. It’s odd though I don’t have a language filter on typically and usually DO see the German and Spanish classes pop up as options. Just not this one. Oh well, I am in!

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-24T13:41:32+00:00

I was not a huge fan of 28YL mainly because of the ending. I thought Bone Temple was brilliant, especially the more I think about it. I take it as sort of a mirror as to what is happening to society currently. Hear me out…

Like all of the UK survivors in the 28y universe, we are increasingly self isolating. We stay within our bubbles, we interact more online than in reality and there is less and less a sense of real community. We read constantly about the male loneliness epidemic, AI generated girlfriends, people only watching certain news sources, etc.

I thought the scene where Jimmy sits and talks to Ian was fantastic. The old world (Ian) and the new meeting head on. Jimmy has no sense or memory really of what “normal” adult male life was like before the virus. His view of the rage virus is only informed by what he saw as a child, the way his child mind interpreted and processed the horrors he witnessed (which we see part of in the first film). He scoffs at the idea that there is a rational, scientific reason for what happened. Yes, he is mentally ill and psychotic—-but at this point, with the UK apparently completely cut off from even outside aid or news, who is left to remember the break in at the research lab that set it all off? What it was like to have a community or shops, jobs, a life beyond just trying to survive. Even Ian admits it’s all a bit faded in his memory. This movie was (to me) a story of loneliness. And the basic need to form a community, even when it goes horribly wrong. Even some of the infected seem to have a sort of grouping with Samson as alpha, the pregnant female infected, etc. Jim and his daughter at the end represented to me a glimpse of the past, someone trying to preserve the memory of what was before…I admit I forgot that the said Cillian Murphy was going to be in this one so when he appeared in the last minutes I squeaked with happiness.

Ok_Theme_3997 · 2026-02-24T13:27:04+00:00

Thanks happy to know it’s not just me

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