Power Hour (or, the Chihuahua workout)

[kathryn]

I Love IT! I Love It! I Love It!
My triceps are sore in places I don't remember them being sore before (way high up near my underarm)! Every other muscle feels well worked, as well. I first thought that the weights I had chosen for some exercises were a bit "wimpy", but after you said you--great goddess of weight training--were using 15 pounds for biceps, I decided to stick with 12 pounds, and got a great workout!
I'm putting this one in my rotation 3 days/week for a while to see what happens.
(Guilty confession---having a DVD player allowed me to completely skip the lunge section---oh shame! Well, seeing that I had done Rythmic Step that morning, and was going to do a tough kickboxing workout the next day, I felt justified in skipping that section, just this once! Next time I do it, I'm sure I'll appreciate the fact that you split the squats and the lunges!).

 

[Cathe Friedrich]

Great to hear this. Hopefully you are equally as excited about this workout after the lunges are included (evil laugh inserted here, )

 

[DaphneM]

Not to scare you or anything, Kathryn

But the lunges are TOUGH! Chihuahua, meet your doom.

 

[ellenellen]

This lunge segment is the best

I think the lunges in this video are the best I've ever done. Mainly, because they are all static lunges and I can really isolate, concentrate and feel the muscles I'm working.

 

[Patti]

Hi Cathe,
This is the first time I've "messaged" in awhile, I just got my new set of tapes a couple of weeks ago, and have been doing them over this past week, well, yesterday I did Power Hour. Oh my Lord!!!!!!!!! How you manage to do the squat section with 40 lbs. is well beyond my imagination! I did the entire tape, and what a fabulous workout! Every muscle group was worked to failure. You know, I am so surprised when I do your tapes, that even though I weight train hard 3 times a week, and teach 4 classes a week plus do cardio a couple of extra times a week, they absolutely kick my butt! You're a real blessing to the fitness world! By the way, congratulations on your pregnancy, I wish you the best!
Fondly,
Patti

 

[kathryn]

RE: Not to scare you or anything, Kathryn

I did the routine WITH the lunges yesterday--yeow! My legs were sore like they haven't been for a long time. I even said a nasty word [:-o during the final set of 7 low-end reps! Yikes!