curious: tell me how/when you first discovered Cathe

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Cbelle

Cathlete
I discovered her about 5 years ago. Her Pure Strength series was on I htink it was the Health Channel, similary to Fittv now. I bought it and the rest is history! I now own all but The Terminator, not sure why I havent ordered that one. PRobably scared! What's your story?

Sorry, just did a search and realized there were several other posts like this!
 
I discovered Cathe at a fitness conference, she had this awesome new step tape, and it was like trying to fight a mob of people to get one. I didn't get one, they were sold out by the time I got up there, but I started to look around and actually found one of her very first workout tapes at a used book and video store. The Home Step Workout and Fit and Firm. And I fell in love with them the moment I pop them into the VRC. It was awesome to finally see someone that skinny make a workout with weight training. And it was kind of cool that she also had her sister in those two videos as well, and I was amazed how it looked like they didn't have the same body type. Cammera changes things so, I'm using *looked*. I had a lot of her videos, and for some reason when we moved, the box with my workout videos didn't get put into the trailer. So now I'm starting my collection all over again. I did manage to a few of my workouts, as they all wouldn't fit in one box. But the old ones are lost. Which were the ones I really would have liked to have held on to. But I'm still looking for them and hoping to find them again.

Kit
 
RE: curious: tell me how/when you first discovered Cath...

I discovered Cathe about 5 years ago by 'googling' 'advanced workout videos' which brought me to the Video Fitness site which brought me to Cathe. I ordered BodyMax, PowerMax and Circuit Max and have never looked back, or better;) :p .

Take Care
Laurie:)
 
I discovered cathe when her pure strength series came out. A friend of mine who turned me on to the firm, introduced me to cathe. I totally loved it. I stopped doing her for a few years due to some personal problems, but I have been doing her again for two years.
Don't think I could go anywhere else.


kim
 
I agree, I occasionally stray from Cathe but not for long. Everything else is just second best! She does it ALL and she does it amazingly well!
 
It was probably 1994 or 1995? I ordered StepMax and Step Jam from Collage Video and have been literally hooked since. I throw in other instructor's videos/series sometimes for a different rotation for a short period of time and then go back to my Cathe rotations.

Linda
 
it was about 10 years ago. I bought her mega step blast from a store in the mall (an fyi or something) and have been hooked ever since
 
I had started with the FIRM workouts about 15 years ago and really liked the concept of weighted workouts. Then my mom got some Cathe videos and shared them with me! I've been hooked ever since!!!
 
Around 1992, I read about Step in Motion III in Shape magazine (which used to do a yearly review of new workout videos--no DVD's at that time!). That was my first Cathe workout. I really enjoyed it (and wish I'd kept it!).
 
I discovered her on Video Fitness while looking for new videos. I'd always worked out with Voight or Kathy Smith. ME was my first purchase and first experience with heavy weights using a barbell. I have lost about 30 lbs over the last 3 years thanks to her (well, maybe a little bit of me too:). She's my workout idol.
Sherry
 
I discovered Cathe about 5 years ago. I had a mentor at VF and she recommended that I try Cathe. I bought Power Max and have gone from there.

Kathy
 
I discovered Cathe in 1996 right after Step Max (my first Cathe video) came out. I was looking for an advanced step workout and saw stepMax in Collage.

After about a two year hiatus from working out (aside from occasional running), yet I still checked out the forums, of course! I "rediscovered" Cathe and started working out regularly again in March.

Jessica
 
I discovered Cathe when I saw her videos reviewed on Collage. I think it was sometime in March of this year. I am sooo addicted now it's not funny :p There are so many more things I want to buy but I will wait until Christmas to make some requests!


"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"

Debbie
 
Collage Video, which I learned about from Fitness (or was it Shape?) magazine.

But even before that, I did a google search on step aerobics and Cathe's name popped out all the time, on many, many different sites.

So when I saw Cardio Hits on Collage, I decided to give it a try. Then I got PS series from this site. After that, my Firms (which I tried once and tossed in my "clutter" basket) and Kathy Smiths all went on eBay to finance my Intensity Series purchase. My house was pretty cleared of clutter after that because I had to put a lot of things on eBay to pay for my addiction.;-) Gotta have that fix.:)

Pinky
 
RE: curious: tell me how/when you first discovered Cath...

I discovered Cathe just before the Intensity Series came out. I had been doing the Firm for about 10 years and after GT took over I became disappointed in their workouts. I read so much about Cathe on the Videofitness forum I decided to give her workouts a try. I bought Power Hour and have been hooked ever since. I have bought some of the newer Firms but I keep going back to Cathe and they just sit on the shelf usused. She is the best.:D
 
RE: curious: tell me how/when you first discovered Cath...

I discovered Cathe about 8 years ago while thumbing through a Collage video Catalog looking for advanced work outs. I ordered MIC and Body Max and I have been hooked ever since.

Beverly
 
RE: curious: tell me how/when you first discovered Cath...

I discover Cathe on FitTV. last year, I got digital cable and I was watching excercise workouts, when all of the sudden a new season started, with sharon mann and Cathe, I thought she looked fantastic, then her name clicked like from the past, back then I was overweight and didnt watched too much tv and didnt have cable, so when I discovered cathe last year I thought her step workout was too advance for me, and I kept changing the channel, one day I thought that the challenge I was avoiding was not physical, it was mental, paying attention was my problem, and when I gave her a try I started to get the hang of it, now I can do all her step workouts,I even memorize them by heart, I bought the first videos she ever made, and I am doing them so I become knowledgeable in the cathe step style, and love it, now when I do step with her, I do pay attention and I beat the lack of discipline I had, to me doing cathe step workouts is like a mind game I dont even think I am excercising, to me is like playing chess, super concentrated!!!! times past so fast.
Norma
The older I get the more I love me.

http://www.geocities.com/norma123nyc/MyJourney.html
 
2000 - VideoFitness.com - PS Legs, MIC, MIS, BodyMax were my first. MIC kicked my booty and I was hooked.

:)
 
I found Cathe ,Via my Fitness or Shape Magizine in Dec2004 . It wasnt actually Cathe in the magizine but Collagevideo.I got On thier fourms ,and This Cathe ladies name kept coming up . Soon I got on Cathes web site And The Hardcores were still on Pre sale .. So I ordered All 11 of them ... Hooked here too . I have The Intensity Series on the way and THe Body Blast series ... Here next week .I cant wait .Shes my hero forsure:) :) :) :)
 
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