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    Weight used for Leaner Legs vs MIS Legs or PS Legs...

    http://www.i-a-r-t.com/proshop/proshop.html#anchor1517488 If you're interested, the above website sells "fractional weight plates". These are weights in various packages of 1/8lb through 1lb plates. The idea is that intellectually we cannot discern an increase of about 1% when lifting weights...
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    students on videos

    Cathe answered a similar question a little while back. I can't find her post but what she basically said was that most of the cast members are participants in her live classes who subsequently became friends. The reason that it is unlikely she will use any new "amateur" cast members is that...
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    pilates reformer

    I recently bought an Allegro reformer from Balanced Body. This is the metal, more portable version of the wooden reformer. It is almost the size and quality of the wooden one and is the type many group pilates classes use. I can place it against a wall so that it doesn't take up a whole room...
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    Pound of Fat/Pound of Muscle

    Thanks for pulling up that old thread, Nikki. I read the whole thing and I am shocked at how obsessive we, as women can be about numbers. When I see Cathe in one of her videos, I think first of all, “man, she’s fit!”, then I think what a great defined shape she has—I don’t see her weight or...
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    HELPwhat kind of shoes?

    Hi Kandeycane-- I love the Reebok DMX for running but for me they just don't work for stepping. I managed to sprain my ankle twice in the space of a couple of weeks while stepping in them (duh!)--I think it has something to do with the air cushions on the ball of the foot. I just couldn't...
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    Bodybuilding Competition

    Congratulations! I hope you do well. I have no advice on training but just on something cosmetic. I had a friend who entered her first competition a couple of years ago and although she had a great physique, it was hard to see her definition during the competition, as the stage lights just...
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