Invested in Strong & Sweaty and ICE

[Kellyro77]

These two series popped up in the Daily Deals earlier so I took advantage and ordered them. I've been resistant to ICE for quite some time - not sure why since I see so many people write about how much they like it. I've had To the Mat for a long, long time, though - always enjoyed the versatility of having a floor work-only DVD. I did trial them when I had Cathe OnDemand, but I was dealing with a lower back issue at the time, so don't think I was able to get the full experience from the series as I was having to be careful of my back.

Figured I should get ICE since it pops up in a lot of Cathe's user guide rotations as a companion series to any given new series.

I got Strong and Sweaty as I wanted another series that had an emphasis on strength training. I can't remember if I trialed any of these workouts when I had On Demand - I'm assuming these workouts are perhaps more akin to XTrain's non Burn Sets upper body workouts where # of reps and rest times are concerned?

Since it's looking more and more like the LMR2 series is likely to not make it out until fall/winter, I tagged the 4-week SS/ICE rotation onto the end of my current XTrain rotation. Anyone do that rotation? It was probably a long time ago, haha!

 

[Debinmi]

Congrats on the additions to your Cathe collection! So fun to get new workouts!

I have used the S&S Giant Sets, RUUB, & the Bootcamp a lot. I used Cardio Slam for a bit too. The PHA, being the 1st one is my least favorite of Cathe's 3 PHAs due to the repetition but there are some premixes that help eliminate that, but also shortens it. Before STS2.0, I used RUUB frequently as a companion to many of Cathe's LB workouts for which there wasn't a compliment - it's a solid UB workout IMO. And Giant Sets & Bootcamp are favorites too.

I still use the ICE cardio & metabolic workouts quite a bit. I would sometimes sub in the CLB for Xtrain Cardio Leg Blast in an Xtrain rotation for variety as well as TTM for Xtrain Legs & LIS for AOLIH. Otherwise the UB/LB split is mostly used for a back-off week now. I think the ICE series has a lot of similarities to Xtrain as you can tell by my substitutions. You'll probably enjoy it! (And I think the kickbox is way more fun than Hardstrikes so that was a sub too ;-))