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You know that she looks like she does because she does the work that she's asking you to do. She doesn't dumb her workouts down for her audience, baby us, or give us an easier workout because she's afraid we can't handle it. She really challenges you to challenge yourself. But at the same...

You can do everything with a set of dumbbells. Cathe even says this in the videos. You do not need barbells. Mine go up to 25 lbs. and that has been plenty for me so far, and I've been doing Cathe for years. I also have an exercise band, a ball, a step, a chinup bar, and that's mostly all I use...

Thanks, Cathy. I thought I had read that the 1RMs adjust automatically, but I guess they don't. You have to manually recalculate them, but you can do that by clicking on the calculator when you enter the weights you did for a particular workout. Now my question is why some of the exercises...

I'm not sure whether this will get answered here, and I'm sure it has been answered before, but I thought the Workout Manager automatically updated your 1RMs. I've done all of week one, and now disk one twice, and I've entered the weights and reps I actually used, but when I go to print out...

Yeah, I've been wondering what IS MET?

I've done both WW (2 years) and calorie counting (6 months) and I got a lot better sense of what I could and couldn't eat, and should and shouldn't eat, with calorie counting--when incorporated with clean eating principles--than I ever did with WW. WW doesn't take protein into account, and it...

Thank you, Nancy, for such a thorough explanation. I've now done disk one and disk three (I was too sore after disk one to feel ready for another upper body workout two days later!), and I'm going to go with the six-month rotation. I like the idea of having more experience with a disk the second...

This answers my "What is the 6-month rotation?" question, so now my question is "why"? What is the difference between doing the program in 3 months versus 6? Why would you want to extend it? I am finally starting STS now, after having it sitting on a shelf for six months! I had moved on to...

I use stevia once or twice a day and have never experienced any side effects, nor have I ever read about any. Most other sweeteners give me headaches, make me hungrier, or just give me the crazies! :eek: LOL.

Growing Stevia You can grow stevia? Where do you get the seeds, and how do you use the leaves? What kind of climate does it need? I like it in liquid form. I mostly use it on my oatmeal, and I also make my own hot cocoa sometimes, with skim milk, a Tbs of unsweetened cocoa powder, and a few...

I'm wondering whether anyone has any advice for designing one's own strength workouts. I've been doing Cathy for years (strength training specifically for two years, and I have several of her videos and will be getting STS), and I'd like to take everything that I've learned from her over the...

I cancelled my order, too, a couple months ago, due to financial reasons (and also because I had foot surgery back in March and I was feeling discouraged about my diminished exercise abilities and slow healing progress). Yesterday I just reordered it (and now, of course, it costs more than it...