RE: How important is it to do Cathe step wrkouts for ca...
Thanks! I agree that not all weight workouts are the same, and some are much more effective than others. That is why I am switching to Cathe for my weight workouts. I am SO excited as so many of you Firm switchers are saying that REAL BIG changes started happening once you switched over to Cathe! Muscle Max should arive today, and I am going to work with it in weight and time increments for at least a month as a way to get me into Cathe, then I plan to step into the GS workouts next by the end of the summer.
In terms of the cardio, I always thought the same thing: that cardio is cardio...as long as you are up in your target heart-rate zone, it does not matter what you are doing....tennis, jogging, walking, swimming, step, kickbox, rebounding, spinning, etc.
However, being that the pure cardio/heart-rate benefits are the same regardless of the workout type, aren't there differences in the extra bonuses of different types of cardio. For example, even though the heart-rate benefit is the same, do you get better speed, agility, endurance benefits from doing Cathe step? And are you getting a better leg workout by doing something dynamic that can tone the legs like step rather than something static like spinning? Also, I would think that you would get arm-toning benefits from tennis, swimming, etc.
I'm def getting comfortable with Cathe's complexity (the Firm is just too easy for me and I need to leap sky high to feel like I am doing anything!), and I see lots of ways to modify Cathe step while I am starting out....I'm just looking to be in the best financial situation now, as money is tight for the rest of the summer. So unless there was a compelling physcial reason to invest in the Cathe step workouts right away, I was going to suck it up for the rest of the summer and keep with my Firm cardios, and add in some walking, and tennis.
