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#220 Lower Body - Upper Body Dumbbell Challenge is a super tough and intense total body strength workout. The first half of the workout is metabolic lower body, so you will get cardio with your strength work, then you move to upper body which is still intense and fast paced. Your heart rate will still … Continue reading Cathe Live: Lower Body – Upper Body Dumbbell Challenge
#170 Metabolic Burn is a tough metabolic strength workout. I am using Cathe's live metabolic workouts as cardio/conditioning workouts rather than as strength workouts but this one nevertheless work all of my muscles very nicely. I was working very hard in this workout. And Cathe hits you right out the gate with sliding push up … Continue reading Cathe Live: Metabolic Burn
#281 Ramped Up Total Body is another excellent total body strength workout from Cathe. I feel well worked after finishing this workout--especially my lower body. The ball work at the end fried my legs! You do 4 circuits and each circuit consists of 7 exercises--or at least that is what Cathe said would happen at the … Continue reading Cathe Live: Ramped Up Total Body
PHA 3 is part of Cathe's new workout series Step Boss. The other two DVDs in this series are Step Sync and Imax 4. Cathe also created a Quick Start Users Guide to accompany this series. I really wasn't sure how this workout fit into the "Step Boss" idea. I mean, there is no cardio … Continue reading Step Boss: PHA 3
Torch & Tone: Cardio Sculpt is a kind of unusual workout. Maybe not for Linda @ Barlates, since she does put together some unusual workouts, but I found it rather unusual. It is effective tho. No doubt about that. I had muscle burn out multiple times. This is one of Linda's longer workouts, clocking in … Continue reading Barlates: Torch & Tone/Cardio Sculpt
Strong & Lean is a new DVD from Kelly Coffey-Meyer in her 30 Minutes to Fitness series. This DVD contains two 30 minute workouts plus a 5 minute bonus segment. This morning I did everything. I started with Workout#1: Weights, followed it up with the 5 minute Bonus Extension and ended the workout with Workout … Continue reading 30 Minutes to Fitness: Strong & Lean
Mark Lauren's 90 Day Challenge contains 8 DVDs and each DVD has workouts at 3 levels of difficulty (or 24 total workouts) plus one warm up and one cool down that are used in all 24 workouts. In addition, if you go to Mark's website you can download his rotation calendar. This review contains a … Continue reading Mark Lauren’s 90 Day Challenge (+ My Bodyweight Rotation)
Stu and Jeff are back with another tough fitness program--Rippedism 2. In their intro, they promise that these will be the most efficient workouts you have ever done. They also say that this program is appropriate for all fitness levels from beginner to advanced. The only equipment you need are dumbbells. They recommend 3 sets--heavy, … Continue reading Rippedism 2
Legs, Glutes & Core is one of Cathe's advanced Fit Tower workouts. The only equipment you need for this workout is all of the Fit Tower equipment: the Fit Tower, a flat 6 foot resistance band, a resistance loop (firewalker) and a yoga mat. This workout also includes an 11:30 minute core bonus--this is in … Continue reading Fit Tower: Legs, Glutes & Core
Total Body is one of Cathe's Advanced Fit Tower workouts. I knew the moment I started previewing this workout I was going to love it and once I did it--loved it! What an excellent total body strength workout! It is very metabolic, too. My heart rate was elevated in my cardio zone more than half … Continue reading Fit Tower: Total Body