Help with my first Cathe rotation

[lil_lyte_skin]

Hello Cathe,
I'm fairly new to your workouts. I've been doing the Firm tapes since August last year. Since December 2003 I started building my Cathe collection. I now have several of your DVD's / tapes and I would like help from Cathe or any members that can assist me in a rotation. Currently I workout 4 days a week. I'm new to exercise and I consider myself intermediate level. Right now I lift weights twice a week and do cardio 4 days a week. Two days out the week I'll do a cardio workout and a strength workout. This way I get 6 workouts done within a week. I weigh 180lbs at 5'6". My goal is to get down to 155lbs. or as close to Serena Williams body as possible. Let me add that strength training is very important to me. If I need to increase my strength workouts per week please let me know. The tapes I currently have are:

Get in Shape for your Wedding
Step and Intervals
Muscle Endurance
PUB / PLB
Step Blast / Step Jump and Pump
Interval Max
IMAX2 / Cardio & Weights


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

The spiritual journey is one of continually falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God, and taking another step."

Trina

 

[Aquajock]

Hi, Trina! Welcome to the Cathe Gang! Obviously I'm not Cathe, and in all honesty I don't follow formal rotations myself as many others here do, but I thought I'd take a whack at helping you design something to get you started.

From your list of what you currently own, and your stated goal to lose storage fat AND your valuing of strength training (and, btw, GOOD FOR YOU!), I would like to suggest adding to your Cathe collection with one of her 3-part split-set strength series, either Pure Strength or the Slow and Heavy Series. Each of these offers really good, targeted strengthening workouts for select muscle groups, and can be wonderful strength- and mass-builders.

With what you've got right now, let me suggest the following schedule:

Week 1:

Mon.: Interval Max
Tues.: PUB
Wed.: Step Blast
Thurs.LB
Fri.: Cardio/Weights cardio-only premix
Sat.: Muscle Endurance
Sun.: REST

Week 2:

Mon.: Step Jump Pump
Tues.: Get In Shape For Your Wedding
Wed.: Cardio/Weights as produced
Thur.: PUB/PLB premixes that are briefer but provide a total-body workout
Fri.: Step Blast
Sat.: Step Jump Pump resistance cycle premix
Sun.: REST

Week 3:

Mon.: Step Interval cardio only, followed by last 3 intervals of I-Max 1
Tues.: Muscle Endurance
Wed.: I-Max 2
Thur.: Cardio/Weights weight cycles only (repeat each cycle twice if preferred)
Fri.: Step Jump Pump cardio (step AND hi/lo) only premix
Sat.: Get In Shape For Your Wedding weight cycles, and Step Intervals weight cycle
Sun.: REST

Repeat above 3 weeks to complete a 6-week cycle.

Again, I think you'd really benefit from one of Cathe's 3-part targeted strength workouts. Also consider investing in some of her kickboxing routines (Cardio Kicks, Kick-Punch-Crunch, the CTX Kickbox video {or the whole CTX series!) for added cardio variety.

Hope this helps!

A-Jock

 

[lil_lyte_skin]

Thank you so much for this rotation! I plan to purchase the other strength tapes you listed next month. Monday I will start this rotation. I'll post any results.

Thank you

The spiritual journey is one of continually falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God, and taking another step."

Trina