October Rotation Question-Day of Rest Between Lifting?

[iluvstartrej]

Hi:
I was looking at the October rotation-I love your rotations and thank you for doing them for us-and I saw where several times this month you have a circuit workout one day and a Weight workout the next day scheduled. For example: Body Max 2 Monday Oct. 3 and Pure Strength Back and Biceps Tuesday October 4. I like the idea of doing that because I love the Circuit DVD's (they're fun) but they don't workout my muscles very hard so I usually add on another DVD onto the day that I do the circuit dvd or do additional weight lifting at the gym but it makes for a long day of exercising. I didn't know you could do a circuit on one day and then lift weights on the next day because the circuit DVD's works the whole body. I was always told that you shouldn't work the same muscle with weights two day in a row. I really like the idea of doing a circuit workout on one day and the very next day doing a weight lifting routine that works out one or two muscles-like Back and Biceps. I will be doing the circuit DVD's more often.

I was just wondering if you could tell me why this is ok. It seems to go against what I've had trainers tell me and what I've read about. I just want to know so I don't train the wrong way-I don't just follow your rotations but make my own up too, or add to yours. I'm just hoping to understand why it is ok for me to do a circuit training on one day and a weight one on another. I'm figuring it is because the weight part of the circuit is not really challenging on the muscles-they're not being fatigued at all.

Thank you for your help.

[nivipa]

Bumping - anyone have any ideas? I suspect Cathe is really busy

[RapidBreath]

Good question, I didn't think that you could do a circuit one day and a weight workout the next. Maybe it depends on how heavy you go on your circuit??

[kblvr]

I've been wondering the same thing!

[kblvr]

Bumping-I'm really interested in knowing the answer!

[iluvstartrej]

I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering. I know Cathe is very busy. I hope to find out pretty soon though. I like the circuit workouts because they're fun, but I don't do them very often because I like to do a much harder weight workout. I don't like having to skip a day after doing a circuit workout before I can do weights again. However, if I don't have to skip a day, I'll do them more often. I just want to understand the why so I don't train incorrectly.

[tiletha444]

Just bumping...I know Cathe is probably super busy with shipping the new series (yay!!), but just want to keep the thread near the top.

[kblvr]

Bumping again

[nikkigiovanni]

I was wondering the same thing about that rotation. I usually do cardio or rest in between weight training days whether it's circuit or all weights.

[macbeanur]

Not Cathe - but since so many people have been wondering about this question I thought I would throw in an answer here. I don't think circuit training actually "counts" as lifting. For instance you can do circuit training on consecutive days (think Jillian Michael's 30 day shred) so I think that is why Cathe put in circuit training and lifting on back to back days - the circuit training is actually your "day off" from lifting.

Hopefully Cathe will answer your question as well, but since we all know how crazy uber busy she is right now I thought I would try to answer your question - I hope that is okay. Feel free to ignore me though!