…so I do it at home
This workout was given to us free from Cathe on Valentines Day 2025. I snagged it, of course, but had just started a 10 month rotation so I am just now getting to it. I was immediately excited to see it is a pandemic video! I loved those Cathe Lives--when it was just Cathe leading … Continue reading Cathe Live #334: Candy Hearts Circuit
Another PHA workout! PHA stands for Peripheral Heart Action. What this means in training terms is you alternate between upper and lower body resistance exercises, allowing as little rest as possible between each movement. The lack of rest and recovery keeps your heart rate elevated for cardiovascular and fat burning benefits, while switching between upper … Continue reading Cathe Live: #348 PHA – No Repeats
I love most of Cathe's PHA workouts and she has so many Live ones! This is another great one. It moves at a pretty quick pace though she does give you water breaks, which I always appreciate. As the title says, there are no repeats. PHA stands for Peripheral Heart Action. What this means in … Continue reading Cathe Live: #366 PHA: Supersets 2 – No Repeats
I love cardio + strength workouts. I also love low impact cardio so this looked like a winner. And I was right! I found it pretty intense. It is actually a shorter version of #381 "Plyo" Legs Low Impact--but only by 10 minutes. Since this workout is so short, I combined it with one of … Continue reading Cathe Live: 408 Low Impact Cardio & Legs Express
I was very excited when I saw this workout for multiple reasons. One, it is a cardio + strength workout that focuses on the upper body. There are not many of those out there. And second, this was apparently filmed during the pandemic and Cathe is leading the workout solo--no class. Those are some of … Continue reading Cathe Live: #336 Low Impact Cardio Compound Upper Body
The word plyo is in quotation marks because this is a low impact workout. So no real plyometrics. But it is a cardio + strength workout that will fry your lower body. Though you aren't doing any real jumping (there is lots of "hopping"), every move, both strength and cardio, will work your legs. Since … Continue reading Cathe Live: #381 “Plyo” Legs Low Impact
This is a very enjoyable workout. A lot is going on! This workout consists of low impact cardio blasts alternated with lower intensity recovery moves. The recovery moves are functional core and mobility moves. It is not a huge calorie burner like a pure cardio workout would be, but I still burned 256 calories in … Continue reading Cathe Live: #478 Low Impact HIIT with Active Recovery
When Cathe had her 2024 Black Friday Sale, I decided to peruse her Live workouts and see if any looked interesting. There were quite a few! She has a lot of PHA workouts, which I love. So when I saw "heavy weight" in the title of this one, it went into my shopping cart. PHA … Continue reading Cathe Live: 426 PHA Strength: Heavy Weight Express
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich’s Lift, Move & Restore program. This program contains workouts for people who are fit but aging and want to take things down a notch but also want to age well. She notes that these workouts can also be used as recovery workouts for advanced exercisers. Functional Yoga Fusion contains two workouts. … Continue reading Lift, Move & Restore: Functional Yoga Fusion
This is the last of the Fit Tower workouts. #513 Fit Tower Sculpt is technically the last one but I did that one before I did this one. So this is the last one for me. Cathe is not creating anymore and she sold off all of the Fit Towers that were in her gym. … Continue reading Cathe Live: #430 Tower Circuit Sweat Express