iStrength/iSculpt

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delicatesteph

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Just curious if anyone has ever done these workouts and what your thoughts are? I use iTread often and of course CC :D I purchased Pump from CC and it was just okay IMO.

Thanks for the reviews!
 
I *heart* Itreads. Iclimbs and Icycles are good too. I have several ISculpts and one IStrength but I never got into them. If I could return them I would. I prefer to do my weight work outs via video or on my own. I find it hard to follow a weight work out with audio cues only. JMO ofcourse.
 
Steph,

http://www.thecathenation.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1726020#post1726020
Thatis a link to a post I responded to yesterday about iTrain's sculpt/strength workouts. If you are selective in picking, many of them are a lot of fun. If you workout outside the home (in a gym / during travel) they can be useful, but at home I too agree that a DVD with the visual works better.

Pump was made as a quick total body workout with minimal equipment based on requests to Sean at his forum. I rarely use Pump as is. If I am traveling and tight on time, I can go to the hotel gym and quickly get in a workout rather than do nothing at all. My favorite way to use pump is to create a playlist alternating random challenges from across CC cardio volumes with pump tracks and then take it to the gym. I do each challenge on a different cardio machine and hop off to the floor for the intervening pump tracks to make a nice cardio+weights routine.

A good place to start to venture out into iTrain's resistance workouts, if you like their cardio, may be to try one of these cardio+weights workouts first:
a. iBiclimb Set 14 (intervals of elliptical or treadmill training with intervening strength intervals on the floor - the best in the itrain library in my opinion)
b. iClimb circuit surprise Set 11 (elliptical intervals alternating with 4 intervals of strength training)
c. iTread Ballet Set 4 (treadmill walk/jog/run intervals alternating with intervals of ballet leg conditioning where you switch off the treadmill b ut stay on for the leg work, pretending the hand rail of the treadmill is your barre)

I played iTread Ballet 4 over the gym’s music system some time ago. Every woman in the gym who was on a treadmill and even two of the men followed along. They all thought it was a blast.
 
Vee,

Wow, thanks for all the info! I may try one or two you suggested. I will attempt to create a playlist too! Never thought of that!

I really appreciate your help! Thanks again! :D
 
"I played iTread Ballet 4 over the gym’s music system some time ago. Every woman in the gym who was on a treadmill and even two of the men followed along. They all thought it was a blast."
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Man, that is funny. I bet they wish they could always work out like that. You should put on CC7 or CC8 next time. I'd be interested in hearing about that experiment.
 
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SirenSongWoman said:
"I played iTread Ballet 4 over the gym’s music system some time ago. Every woman in the gym who was on a treadmill and even two of the men followed along. They all thought it was a blast."
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Man, that is funny. I bet they wish they could always work out like that. You should put on CC7 or CC8 next time. I'd be interested in hearing about that experiment.
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I've done CC2 and CC4. I am scared I will kill people if I play CC7 or 8. No matter how much I explain the levels the younger ones go ballistic at a level 3 or level 4 by competing with each other on who can do a higher setting. We all do the count down aloud. So the gym is full of people chanting the countdown before a level 3 or level 4 "10...9...8...3...2..1" and then some people are screaming out the setting they are using at each other. Nobody has any lung power left to join in on the closing count down of a challenge. Everyone loves CC. Nobody drops out of the optional challenge, even the seniors who are walking keep going until the end. They keep asking me to "do" a CC workout.

I've even done CC this way at a gym where I am not a member. A friend works for the corporate gym segment of a large gym chain and was captivated by my descriptions of CC and invited me to play it at one of the chain's clubs. The gym offered me a free one year membership because everyone enjoyed it so much. I had to turn down the offer, so they gave me a free killer personal training session. I told them nobody can beat Cathe on intensity. They sent me crawling out of the gym after an endurance style leg workout and I had the worst case of DOMS in my life.
 
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I will be doing iSculpt Ballet - no barre workout this evening in my hotel room. I will let you know how it is.

Monica
 
i haven't read any of the posts above but wanted to reply. i took some iStregnths withme when i went away to aruba. i normally work out at home, so i don't have all the equipment nick uses. anyway, i really like the iStrengths. i have also done the iStrength at home workouts and like those as well.

another one i absoutely LOVED was nick's iStregnth boxing workout. there's a video that goes with it where he shows the punches and form.

i have a few iSculpts, but haven't tried them.
 
I just was browsing some of my old posts, and noticed that I never did follow up on my experience with the ballet workout that was without a barre. I did not care for it at all. I probably will not do it again. It was hard for me to know exactly what positions they wanted me to be in without being able to see as I don't know any ballet terminology. I also felt it worked smaller muscle groups, whereas I prefer to put my efforts towards the larger muscle groups. Oh well, at least I got to try something new.

Monica
 
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