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Jen: exactly! Perfect description. Linda has experience with a wide range of instructors and she takes the best and then, inspired by what she has seen, makes up her own fusion workouts that she finds interesting, that are challenging her at the moment, and that she thinks we will enjoy also...

Linda is releasing some of these yoga barre fusion workouts in a boxed set sometime soon, so I am going to get that, and she has also released these bootcamp workouts in a boxed set with the Sweat series under the name Cardio Sculpt Fusion: available on Mary's site. CLare

My deepest sympathies. I know exactly how you feel. It can make a person quite desperate. How to get a good workout in when your energy levels are dragging along the ground? I didn't manage it yesterday, nor today. Then that just adds to the anxiety because I rely on my workouts to help...

Yes, I've had 4 migraines in the last 4 days. The brain feels sluggish. Between those and the lack of quality sleep,, I haven't worked out in a week. I am heading out tomorrow to walk. At least that, I can do. Interesting off-label use of the Nortriptyline, and it has less side effects than...

Sadly, the sleep aid in it is Melatonin, which I have tried and do not respond well to. It leaves me feeling drugged out the next day. Keep the suggestions coming people! Clare

Either the 30 day XTrain or an XTrain/ICE mix might be good right now, since you are coming off 'lighter workouts,' so some ICE mixed in would help bridge the gap between intermediate and advanced workouts. Clare

Another 52 year old functioning on what must be the lightest, most disturbed, most-interrupted, least nourishing sleep on the bloody planet! This perimenopause/menopause is no damn joke, for sure. Sometimes I can't fall asleep --last night, lay there from 12 until 2 am, sat up and read and ate...

I'm going against the grain and saying: CTX series. I love separate, individual workouts from each and every series, but CTX is the one series I still get stacks of use from. I have done and do each and every disc and I cannot say that for any other series. Leaner Legs is still mean, but...

Yeah, the clothing is weird, but these step workouts are no push over! Have fun!! Clare

A swollen, tight knee? Please stay away from cardio and lower body workouts until swelling and pain are gone. Focus on core, upper body, maybe barre, pilates, yoga. Introduce cardio again slowly with low impact. If the knee swells again, you need tog o see a sports doctor to get diagnosed...

Oh yes, it's a real weepie! Funnily enough, my favourite book by Jo Jo Moyes is The Peacock Emporium. I have listened to this one on bocd several times already. It is a more complex narrative than her recent books and it influences the emotions in different ways. See if your local library...

Well done Gobias! Yes: we still love Step! Athletic step please, with intensity bursts. I am going back to doing Powermax and Step Works, which I used to do assiduously until RS and Step Blast came along. But I am realizing again how fab they are. I previewed Step Works again last night...

Attention all book lovers! Laure Lippman recently made this excerpt from her upcoming new novel available for her fans. Book to be published in Feb 2018. Lippman is quality writing. She's the author of the Tess Monaghan PI series, based in Lippman's home town of Baltimore, but she also has...

Absolutely agree with this. The total body weights premix in the 4DS series is the ONLY THING I use the entire set for. Well worth it! Clare

Get the latest Fit Tower workout for barre work. I'd be surprised if the legs and glutes workout in the new series had a barre focus quite honestly. It might be too soon for Cathe after the Fit Tower releases. You might look to other instructors for more barre work in the meantime: Linda...

Elsie: quite honestly, with some of these DVDs in the ICE series, there isn't much difference between some of Cathe's other Advanced workouts and these ones. I find it a very useful little series, not easier at all than the Strong & Sweaty series in fact. I also think that the series is worth...

Very minimal equipment with Linda. Chair is fine. It's what she usually uses. Clare

I just bought the Sweat series and Double Loop series, of which you have 2 workouts showing above. Downloads aren't my thing and I don;t have the tech set up for them yet. Alas ... but luckily, Linda still releases DVDs! Enjoy and come back and post your feedback on these workouts, OK? Clare

I keep picture of my father in a little frame on my kitchen window shelf. It is a photo taken in the UK the day my first child was born. Even though I had to cut the baby out of the picture --so to speak!-- in order to make it fit the frame, I know that she is there as a swaddled bundle in...

Yes you can. When there are exercises that require the use of the Fit Tower with the bar set really low, simply lean on a fitness ball or your step. Where Cathe uses the Fit Tower with her barbell, use your squat rack or just work it lying on your bench as per usual with a weight lifting DVD...