Cross Train Express II

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I borrowed this series to a friend and just got them back and boy did I miss the versatility of this series - - )

I love the short and sweet cardio segments - they are great to add on to the Gym Styles afterwards.....

and I like working one part per day - -

and I loved the leaner legs workout - -

and the total upper body workout

and the power circuit segment

and the abs......

I just love it - 30 mins of cardio followed by one body part thoroughly done and stretch

I also like the shorter warmups in this series :)
 
I agree -- I have CTX plus all your other ones (including the new ones!) and love them all, but I ALWAYS go to back to this one from time to time. I especially like this series when I know my week will be very busy and I won't have much time -- everything is right there each day and I stay on track. I don't have to worry about getting all of my cardio and weights in -- it's all worked out for you. It's a WONDERFUL series!
 
Agreed! CTX & Timesaver series are wonderful to shake things up as well. My body likes these shorter workouts as "recovery" weeks for 2 hour normal workouts.
 
Cathe has said that one of her next projects will be a 4-day split series consisting of 4 separate workouts as follows:

-30 min of cardio followed by upper body (maybe chest, tris, and delts)
-30 min cardio followed by standing lower body work
-30 min of cardio follwed by remaining upper body (bis and back)
-30 min of cardio follwed by floor work for the lower body

Sounds great, doesn't it????????????
 
Great idea, but I would like to see different types of cardio, in other words not use the step so much, add some kickboxing, hi/low (without the step) My knees cannot take consecutive step cardio these days even though I LOVE step!
 
Here's a copy of a post I made a little over a month ago:

As Cathe's next idea was to make a four day split, I thought I'd offer up some suggestions.

Since the majority of the workouts Cathe just released are step-oriented (LIC, BM2, and DM), I thought it'd be neat if the cardio from the 4-day split would be something like the following:

Day 1: Kickboxing - Chest, Shoulders, Tris
Day 2: Cadio using the high step (intense) - Standing Lower body work and abs
Day 3: Floor-oriented intense cardio DRILLS (no step used) (sort of like the boot camp challenge portion of Kickmax - TOUGH STUFF) - Back, Bis, Core work
Day 4: Intense Hi/Lo - Floor work for lower body and abs
 
Jillybean,
LOVE that idea!!!! I hope Cathe sees this:) Personally, I like CTX but for me it has too much step and not enough other cardio!!! great idea!

Deanie


"This is a Blast- act like you are having one!" Cathe Friedrich
 
I'll add my earlier suggestions as well:

One thing I have issue with in CTX is that 4 of the 6 workouts include step, and high-impact step at that, which for me is not enough variety to avoid the risk of overuse injuries (so I have to modify). In a new series, I'd love to see more of a variety of cardio, such as:

1-interval step (this takes care of the 'high-impact step' niche)
2-kickboxing (with plyo interval moves)
3-low-impact step (with blasts like in LIC, which are low impact, but high intensity)
4-low-impact floor cardio ('sports' cardio, using a medicine ball to add intensity without impact as well as upper-body resistance)
5-hi-lo

Of course, alternating days that high and low impact are done and alternating modalities (ie: first workout: interval step with back work; workout 2: low impact floor cardio with chest, etc.)
 
Kathryn, I love your ideas! I also love Jillybean and Gwendolyn's ideas which they posted on another thread!



>I'll add my earlier suggestions as well:
>
>One thing I have issue with in CTX is that 4 of the 6 workouts
>include step, and high-impact step at that, which for me is
>not enough variety to avoid the risk of overuse injuries (so I
>have to modify). In a new series, I'd love to see more of a
>variety of cardio, such as:
>
>1-interval step (this takes care of the 'high-impact step'
>niche)
>2-kickboxing (with plyo interval moves)
>3-low-impact step (with blasts like in LIC, which are low
>impact, but high intensity)
>4-low-impact floor cardio ('sports' cardio, using a medicine
>ball to add intensity without impact as well as upper-body
>resistance)
>5-hi-lo
>
>Of course, alternating days that high and low impact are done
>and alternating modalities (ie: first workout: interval step
>with back work; workout 2: low impact floor cardio with chest,
>etc.)
 
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