Debinmi
Cathlete
This week I'm including the Slow & Heavy series in my rotation for weight training. I didn't purchase this series for over 2 decades thinking the slow pace would drive me nuts. But with encouragement, aka enabling, from Cathletes I finally bought it a few years + back.
Cathe's form is impeccable; form pointers are good; Cathe demos listening to your body and paying attention to your form by swapping out weights between sets when her form starts to suffer. It's Jai's 1st series; Cedie is back from her maternity leave & keeps Cathe on-count - so they're all pretty young. The pace is supposed to be 2/6 for each rep, but it's often about 2/4 to 6 - still slower than usual which allows me to really focus on my form and feel the work. It's usually about 3 sets of 8 reps for each exercise. It can be easily done as a "Parts" series ala STS2.0, so I've subbed it in for that in this last week of my STS2.0/Xtrain.rotation.
My muscles often start quivering in the 2nd set and I sometimes lower the weight I use for the same exercise I did last week with STS2.0. The rest between sets is shorter than in STS2.0, but I sometimes pause play to give my muscles a little more recovery. If you do the series remember this was filmed in the late 1990's and Cathe's weight selections were sometimes lighter than they are now for the same exercise. So I suggest you select your weights based on what you do for STS2.0 for the first set, then adjust from there - that slower count can get'cha!
Even though S&H is an older production, it still warrants consideration in your weight training rotations IMHO. Just thought I'd share.
Cathe's form is impeccable; form pointers are good; Cathe demos listening to your body and paying attention to your form by swapping out weights between sets when her form starts to suffer. It's Jai's 1st series; Cedie is back from her maternity leave & keeps Cathe on-count - so they're all pretty young. The pace is supposed to be 2/6 for each rep, but it's often about 2/4 to 6 - still slower than usual which allows me to really focus on my form and feel the work. It's usually about 3 sets of 8 reps for each exercise. It can be easily done as a "Parts" series ala STS2.0, so I've subbed it in for that in this last week of my STS2.0/Xtrain.rotation.
My muscles often start quivering in the 2nd set and I sometimes lower the weight I use for the same exercise I did last week with STS2.0. The rest between sets is shorter than in STS2.0, but I sometimes pause play to give my muscles a little more recovery. If you do the series remember this was filmed in the late 1990's and Cathe's weight selections were sometimes lighter than they are now for the same exercise. So I suggest you select your weights based on what you do for STS2.0 for the first set, then adjust from there - that slower count can get'cha!
Even though S&H is an older production, it still warrants consideration in your weight training rotations IMHO. Just thought I'd share.
