For Fun: If you had to go without your Cathes....

[fab40]

for 2 whole weeks, what instructors/workouts would you pick for cardio and strength? I do Cathe workouts 80% of the time, but this week I thought I would revisit some other's that I haven't done in quite awhile.

Today, I did Christi Taylor's Still Steppin' and KS, LWTLW(1)for arm work. I still love that one!

Tommorrow, I think I will do a Mindy Mylrea Awesome Intervals and Firm parts for leg work. What about you? Which would you choose?

 

[Jcrew3082]

If I didn't have Cathe (I would be terribly sad!) I'd do:

Tae Bo for cardio and Kathy Smith's Secrets of Great Upper & Lower Body videos

Cathe's KPC and all of her weight tapes far surpass those in fun and toughness though! I guess it'd be a light week or so.

Gina

 

[dutchgirl]

When I first read the title of the post I thought "what obviously cruel world would this be?!?!?". I was relieved by the two week limit. I can breath again.

Okay, to answer the question.

Cardio- a mixture of Christi Taylor and Franny Benedetto. Maybe some other CIA's thrown in for variety and these two would make up the bulk of it.

Strength- a mixture of Kathy Smith and the Firm. I would consider those two weeks 'rest' weeks as the structure of the workouts makes it hard to go really heavy.

In my current situation, I add in a lot of other instructors for cardio variety but when it comes to strength, it's all Cathe!

 

[Kathy02]

I think I would have to come up with my own weight workout, I honestly only do Cathe for weights. But for cardio, I would do Chisty Taylor Hi Low heaven or still jumpin. Get the dust off of my aerodyne and ride that (boring!), and do Tae Bo. I don't mind any of these other workouts, other than the aerodyne, I do them every now and then anyway. Oh and I would do I want those abs from Tamilee Webb. Oh, and I would do Step Heaven too! Can't forget about that one. REally there are a lot of possabilities, I could also do Zumba. But They just wouldn't be quite as intense. I use these on light days, except for Hi low Heaven that one is pretty intense. I can also get pretty intense on the aerodyne, I just don't enjoy myself and look at the time a lot.

Kathy

 

[Aquajock]

Me.

A-Jock

 

[icklemoley]

Gin Miller - Intense Moves - Ouch. This for me is harder than IMAX1 or 2, plus the moves simple.

W x

 

[mogambo]

The only non-Cathe I still own is Gin Miller's Intense Moves. I would do that, obviously, but I would run, go to spin classes at the gym, swim and do weights on my own. I have CST and BBA memorized, so I would do those. And after 2 weeks, back to Cathe.

 

[Soosan]

I would do yoga for strength and Christi Taylor for cardio.

 

[briee]

For strength: Another vote for Aquajock's strength workout.

Cardio: I'd put on a tape/music create my own bootcamp:
1 minute of plyos with jumping jack recovery for a brief period of time, 1 minute jumprope as intense as I can get, brief recovery. 1 minute of icebreakers, brief recovery, one minute of those scissor things I hate, longer recovery, 1 minute of squat/thrust climbers with airjump recovery }( }( }( , (get creative) etc......I'd do this for 40 minutes or so.

See you can be just as evil as Cathe if you set your mind to it!!!

Briee

 

[Venus]

I'd have to say I'd mostly do my own. Definitely for weights. Might use powerstrike, debbie burns, and janis saffell for some kickboxing, but I'd do a lot of biking and swimming mostly for cardio. And keep taking my regular yoga classes. I haven't found any other weight training DVDs that even come close to Cathe and I'm too strong now to do the wimpy stuff.