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Hi Cathe - I find myself thanking you a lot this week so I thought I'd share this with you, in case you check the forum. I just had foot surgery on Monday, and won't be able to put any weight on it for at least 6 weeks. Every time I stand myself up on my one good leg (without needing a...

Hi folks - I would love some hair dying advice. I have been using a semi-permanent store-bought (Garnier HerbaShine) dye on my hair for many months to make it red (level 6). My natural color is a dark blond/light brown. I was thinking of going blonde (not platinum, just a bit lighter than...

Hi Cathe - I could really use some advice. I am trying to squeeze in Meso 1 and 2 before having foot surgery in mid-June, which will take me out for 6-8 weeks. But I don't have enough days to squeeze in the full rotation if I take the recovery week. I have already compressed each Meso to do...

Hi folks - I could really use some advice. I am trying to squeeze in Meso 1 and 2 before having foot surgery in mid-June, which will take me out for 6-8 weeks. But I don't have enough days to squeeze in the full rotation if I take the recovery week. I have already compressed each Meso to do...

I only have 4 risers, but was able to do all the jumping moves from STS plyo strength on the high step. So for those of you that have done HIIT, do you think it would be ok to do it on a high step with 4 risers, or will I need to do it on the bigger step with only 2 on each side? I can't quite...

Has anyone designed a rotation with these 2 programs? I have 1 month left to go in my Insanity program, and I know I want to do STS strength next, but I don't want to lose all the cardio endurance I have gained from Insanity (plus I find these workouts totally addictive, which is weird because...

I just started Insanity this week. I noticed that, according to the rotation, the abs workout isn't done until week 3. Since I am in pretty good shape thanks to Cathe, does anyone see any reason why I can't add on the abs, even in the first week? Also, I have a DVD with Cardio Power and...

I just ordered Insanity last night and I am so excited for it to arrive! I got great results with STS, but still have a layer of fat over all my new hard muscles, so I am hoping that Insanity will help me work on that. But as you all know, Insanity is not cheap, and neither is my Shock Cardio...

I have just recently become terribly lactose intolerant, and am hoping that some others here can offer some advice. I am still learning what products have hidden dairy in them (I totally don't understand why frozen soy veggie products have milk solids!), and I know that in general, LI is...

I posted a week or so ago trying to get the smell of cigarette smoke out of a used treadmill. I tried vinegar and water solution and Febreze, and they helped but not enough. So when the treadmill was inside the house, the smell of smoke eventually (overnight) filled the whole room. Before...

I start M3 in a week (so grateful for this recovery week!), and am thinking of switching the order of the workouts. So for each week, I think it will work better in my schedule to do chest/back on Tuesdays, Shoulders, Bis and Tris on Thursdays, and save the Plyo legs for Saturday (so I don't...

After the death of our old treadmill, we bought a used treadmill. I just got it home and it reeks of smoke! Apparently, the previous owners were smokers, and we didn't know that in advance. So now it's too late -- we own it. Does anyone know of sure-fire ways to get the smell out? I cleaned...

Hi everyone - I did the 3-month rotation over the winter and loved it, but was definitely feeling like I needed my recovery week after 4 weeks. Now I am halfway through M2 on a 6-month rotation and I am totally beat (same thing happened in M1 but not quite as bad). I am desperately trying...

Has anyone else ever heard of joint pain as a reaction to being stung by a wasp? I was laying flagstones this morning, and while raking gravel/sand, hit a nest with my rake. I got stung a few times on the calf (can't tell if it was 2 or 3 stings). It turned red and swelled up a bit, but...

I thought, having finished STS last week with huge strength gains, that going back to other UB workouts would be easy. Boy was I wrong! So today's rotation called for BM2 UB only (after a 20 minute HIIT run). I decided to do the double UB since I had time, and I hadn't done any other UB WO's...

How come when I download a rotation into my calendar, each icon says the word "Rotation", instead of telling me what the workout is? The only way to find out what each workout is is to click on each day. But sometimes I like to see what's in store for the week. And if I add each WO into the...

Hi folks - DH just asked me to come up with an exercise plan for him, based on my Cathe DVD's. He is 35, doesn't have more than maybe 5-10 extra pounds on him, but knows he needs to exercise to be healthy. His only exercise is long hikes once or twice a week during the summers. He has...

We used to have 2 wonderful lovebug kitties -- they loved being held, sitting on our laps, sleeping on our bed, etc. One died a few months ago, and after several weeks of mourning, we adopted a new kitten. At the shelter, that kitten loved being in our arms. He purred the whole time we held...

I woke up this morning with a really stiff neck. At first, I could hardly turn my head at all. I took some Alleve and have been icing it every hour and now I can turn 45 deg. in each direction, but it still hurts.l Today is my rest day anyway, but I'd like to keep going with my STS rotation...

You are the only folks who would understand how much of an accomplishment this is! I have been trying to master that move for over a year. I finally figured out today that if I wedge one of my feet against my forearm, I could get it off the floor. And when I did that, wow did I feel my core...