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Jen, you make me laugh! I bet most of us have Ruthless because of you! Those are the 20-minute workouts with Steve Uria (sp?).
Nathalie - I will soon revisit High Step Circuit which Cathe considers intermediate. I didn't find it too easy previous time. I'm curious what intensity I can expect from ICE series
You seem to manage complicated choreography (PRS1 etc). My noble envy for you! Yesterday I attempted again Cathe's Step Blast, which has a great music, is effective and the participants look so gracious. Gave up after 7 minutes....I wish I could follow.
SarBear--what is Ruthless? Should I know what this is?
Hi Everyone,
Jodi: I knew you were going to love Power Hour. It is a great workout.
Sarbear: Hope you manage to clear your head and do not let stress win! 100 pull up is impressive.
I should join you on this challenge.. What I noticed with pull up is more often we do them
better and quicker we gain strength. So I need to do them consistently. Do it at your pace. In fact
I will be doing them slowly cause I need to build up the technique. It require a lot of focus.
Last time I did pull up was when I did STS. So I appreciate you sharing your 100 challenge with us.
you are motivating me.
Mary: Sorry to hear about how your feel about this year. Try to get up and running for fall so we can re-start STS.
I can not wait
Regarding t-shirt---Jen I like cathlete t-shirt too. I think I will get the brown in future. Will also get the ICE
one. Purple would match my fitness shoes. Jodi to reply to your question. I have not bought any yet.
I am not sure about the size I should get. i do not like baggy look on me. I do not want it too tight either.
Based on various review on the site, It would be wise for me to get the L one.
Tom: How is your form while executing deadlift. Are you happy with it? Have you had any review on your
form from any friend.
yesterday workout was PRS#1
Wod Pedal Max xtr 71 minutes and an hour yoga relax.
Svetlana: Yes cathe's 3 high step circuit are must have in my opinion.
They hardly get mentioned here on the forum but they are pure gems
The one I like the most is HSC.
11 o'clock here buddies Good night
Sarbear I know what you mean about pullups!! I was doing day 3 of week 2 Nia's Simple Strength 2 and it calls for 4sets of 10. I ended up with sets of 10 8 6 6! Wasn't happy, but when they are one after the other at the end of a workout its tougher!! I AM going to do 4x10....It just wasn't going to be yesterday!!!I decided I wasn't going to use any assist(probably not smart) and would build my endurance to do 4x10. Pullups are something I do a lot and I thought it wouldn't be that bad but 4x10 pretty well kicks my.... (you know!!!) I found even on bicep curls, I dropped the weight by 15# when I started Nia, but 4x10 was much tougher than expected. Usually I either superset with tri's or, like in sts, triset, and wow, less rest makes a BIG difference!! Hang in there it sounds like you are working hard!!Today's workout was Ript90 arm annihilation. Holy smokes this workout has a lot of chin-up! 10 sets of 5 to be exact! At first I didn't think it would be that bad since you are doing them in sets of five, but boy was I wrong! Because the sets are performed back to back with only a tiny rest in between, I really found myself struggling--even using an assist. Definitely was not feeling as strong as I did on Sunday when I did the Minute by Minute workout. I kept burning out after 3 reps! I don't like skipping out on reps so to make up for not being able to hit all five chin-ups I would quickly move to our nautilus machine and finish each set with 3 lat pull downs with a chin up grip (technically I guess I only needed to do two reps, but I threw the third one in there for good measure, lol). Since I wasn't moving at the same speed as Jodi and his team, I ended up just pausing the DVD and worked through the ten sets on my own. At the end of the workout he has you do 3 sets of 50 full sit ups! No doubt my abs will be feeling that tomorrow.
LOL, Jen!!! I was rereading your review of Ruthless earlier today and I have to admit, I'm getting a little nervous to try them out. Sounds like some of the workouts really live up to the name!
Nathalie I tried several different things and my last set that I videoed looked and felt the best. My shoulders were pulled back and used more legs and back was straighter....work in progress.Hi Everyone,
Jodi: I knew you were going to love Power Hour. It is a great workout.
Sarbear: Hope you manage to clear your head and do not let stress win! 100 pull up is impressive.
I should join you on this challenge.. What I noticed with pull up is more often we do them
better and quicker we gain strength. So I need to do them consistently. Do it at your pace. In fact
I will be doing them slowly cause I need to build up the technique. It require a lot of focus.
Last time I did pull up was when I did STS. So I appreciate you sharing your 100 challenge with us.
you are motivating me.
Mary: Sorry to hear about how your feel about this year. Try to get up and running for fall so we can re-start STS.
I can not wait
Regarding t-shirt---Jen I like cathlete t-shirt too. I think I will get the brown in future. Will also get the ICE
one. Purple would match my fitness shoes. Jodi to reply to your question. I have not bought any yet.
I am not sure about the size I should get. i do not like baggy look on me. I do not want it too tight either.
Based on various review on the site, It would be wise for me to get the L one.
Tom: How is your form while executing deadlift. Are you happy with it? Have you had any review on your
form from any friend.
yesterday workout was PRS#1
Wod Pedal Max xtr 71 minutes and an hour yoga relax.
Svetlana: Yes cathe's 3 high step circuit are must have in my opinion.
They hardly get mentioned here on the forum but they are pure gems
The one I like the most is HSC.
11 o'clock here buddies Good night
Thanks Nathalie. The nail thing makes sense!!Hi Everyone,
Jodi: Holy moly leg press on High step training...I hear you. While doing HST I always feel those leg
press will never end. Have a great trip.
You Ruthless ladies are enabling me!!! Oh well it sounds like this Weider ruthless stand for it's name so I should consider
try it . I should find out if I can get it shipped in europe.
You ladies are all working really hard---Thanks for motivating me.
Yesterday workout was: 4ds kickboxing plus CTX upper body. As you probably know this workout contain
eccentric moves therefore I am feeling serious DOMS on my upper body. My shoulders are feeling it today.
I planned to do my one rep max but I would rather leave it for now.
Today workout was Cathe's Ride an hour main program.
Jen: Let's stay strong in this IF trial. I suppose you are going to review Butt Bible. How are you doing
trying Butt bible. Do you like Paulin Nordin personality. I think she is hilarious LOL.
Tom: Very well done trying to get your form spot on. Deadlift is a staple strength compound exercise.
It is worth investing time and effort getting the form corrected and right. Hope you get to the point of feeling
move where you should feel it.On your legs. May you should try a variation with lighter weight , just to
see and feel the difference.
Cathe's deadlift is different. It is what is called stiff deadlift aka Romanian deadlift with no pause.
This is even more challenging. There is more tension keeping throughtout the movement.
Here is a link about deadlift and variations.
http://www.fitnessrxwomen.com/training/perfect-form-with-jessie-h/how-to-deadlift/
BTW...I love trying all deadlift variation. I did one leg stiff deadlift with dumbbell 2 days ago.
this one of the best to recruit muscle on hamstring. IMO. I love doing this one below
http://www.fitnessrxwomen.com/training/the-fit-life-with-nicole-wilkins/the-single-leg-deadlift/
Wish everyone a good week end.
Hey, my member status changed to Cathlete!