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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
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I love it when Caroline creates these short workouts! I love her longer ones, too, but these are perfect to add on to the end of another workout. This morning I did an upper body cardio + … Continue reading CGXmas 2024 Day 1: Squats and Bridge Supersets
Lower Lift & Kick is another YouTube workout from Kelly Coffey-Meyer. I was really excited to try this workout when I saw it. It looked like a ton of fun. Lower body strength training that contains strength exercises that I enjoy and lots of kicking--and I love kickboxing. It was not as enjoyable as I … Continue reading CoffeyFit Raw: Lower Lift & Kick
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
Upper Box Lower Tone is a YouTube workout from Kelly Coffey-Myer. When Kelly started her streaming service, CoffeyFit Raw a few years ago, she uploaded 6 workouts to YouTube and they were awesome. Then she deleted them. It appears she has returned to YouTube with more workouts. I have been meaning to try them for … Continue reading CoffeyFit Raw: Upper Box Lower Tone
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
NourishMoveLove has actually been on my radar for a while. I have quite a few of their workouts saved to my "Need to try" YouTube playlist. This was the right length to add onto the end of another workout and finally sample one of their workouts. This is a short but very enjoyable and effective … Continue reading NourishMoveLove: 15-Minute Zone 2 Cardio with Weights (All Standing, No Jumping)
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