Hi Raquel,
Well it depends on how much you want to workout as to how you want your roation to be, do you want to only do one video a day or two? YOu said you run and sometimes use a stationary bike, are you willing to do that on a full time basis, or is it more when you get bored you run or bike?
The simpliest is to rotate cardio with strength training and never to work the same muscles on consective days and always allow at lest 48 hours of rest if you work the same muscle more then once a week.
Once you answer the other questions I'd be more then happy to set up a rotation for you, but I do neec a bit more info.
Also I'd really recommend adding a stretching workout to your collection, this can work wonders on making your muscles lean out and make you look smaller. Also not if you are weight training, you may not lose 5 to 10 pounds, you'll lose the fat but you'll maintain the same body weight. Also note those weight charts that you see that have how tall you are and then two or three catogories of how much you should way in that catogory, do not use people who tone muscles much. These people are naturally thin for that catogory, never heavy a day in their lives. So if you have been working out for a while or have been using weights with your workout, it is very easily not to be in the catogory. Also it is based on people who have the same body frame threw out their body. 75% of the average human do not have the same type body frame through out their body. So of you got tiny hands but wide shoulders and hips, don't use the small frame catogory, as your not small framed.
My recomendation is to find what is the right waist measurement for your body type, then go look at a catolog that has measurements for the clothing and when you see your *ideal* weaist measurement, you'll know what your ideal size is, and also be able to tone your body to that size. The scale is the absoulte worse indicator to ever go by. As it lies a lot and tells you things that are not true. Just because your 5 pound over weight according to the scale means about as if some stranger handed you a hand full of dirt.
Go by inches and work that way, your body will thank you, as well as you won't feel like throwing the scale through the window when you do all this work and you gain weight, and you acutally lost quite a few iniches, and have a nice toned body, that is very healthy and very trim and skinny.
Besides it is so much more fun knowing that everh 1/16 of an inch of fat you lose you released the contence of 3000 fat cells, when you start multiplying that out, you'll really see how much fat you were carrying as well as how much you lost.
Also pounds can be a mixture of everyting. But the majority of time, when you lose a pound it is mostly water and minterals, waste products, and then a little tiny bit of fat. So you are losing some important stuff you need to gain back and then some stuff you can really live without, but the stuff you really can live without is very small compared to all the water, so one week the scale will go down, and then the next week or two it goes back up, and then it goes down and then it comes back up. Inches if you workout at least 3 times a week will always be lost, and you can really chart your progress. One of the things I have found that really help my clients is to actually get some graph paper and mark all their measurments down on it, and start making a graph of what they lost. Most don't believe how fast and now much they have made the line drop in such a short time, and still haven't lost a pound or lost just barely lost a pound. With the workouts you have, going for inches would be a lot better as these will add lean muscle onto your body and for a while that scale will go up not down. As muscle weights much much more then fat. Think of your normal dinner plate, now put a 5 inch cake on top that covers edge to edge. That right there is basically the size of one pound of fat. Now go to your supermarket and look at the leanest cut of meat you can find, that is 16 ounces. That is bascially one pound of muscle on your body. There is a huge difference in size, and that's why there is always a huge conflict with the scale. As you are toning and bulding muscle losing a ton of fat and inches, but it says you weigh the same or weigh more. But on the other hand you can get into that skimmy bathing suit and have every male in the area drooling all over you. So you will need to decided, a few pound over and a super trim body, that makes other women green with envy, or the right weight but still have a good size layer of fat, and not so trim. As 78% of women have got to decide this when they start wanting to lose weight. Which way do they want to go. As it makes a whole lot of difference in what they do to get there. As I wouldn't recommend the tapes you have if you decided to go for the perfect weight. I'd put you on a very strict diet, a semi truck load of cardio, and very light weights and over repping. So you don't gain that muscle mass, as that will just add pounds. But you will still get rid of the fat, with all the cardio and the over repping will strengthen and tone and give you a muscle burn, but it will only build a very tiny bit of muscle.
Cathe's tapes are made for msucle sculpting, to really tighten the body and build muscle mass to help burn the fat way, as well as to re-define the body and make it very shaply, to have a supper tight stomach, a good set of biceps, thighs that don't have a single wobble when you run, and over all to improve your strength and endurance. And yes she has cardio as well as everyone needs cardio no matter what your doing.
Hope that helps,
Kit
