Hi all-
This is my first post to the Cathe forums, though I have been working out with Cathe for about a year now and reading the forums for a few months.
I started working out regularly with the Firm about three years ago and through hard work and diet, lost about 75 lbs. (From the date I started dieting - at my heaviest I was almost 90 lbs heavier than I am now). About a year ago, I added Cathe weight work, after a few months added her circuit workouts and now do Cathe cardio as well. Actually, except for Power 90X Ab Ripper, I use Cathe's workouts exclusively. I have seen tremendous strength and definition gains in my upper body and even greater improvements in my cardio capacity and power. Right now I am starting to plateau and could use some advice.
My current rotation is based on how I worked out with the Firm and incorporates a lot of circuit work, which I enjoy, modified to reflect that Cathe has a lot more pure cardio and pure weights workouts. I generally work out with weights-only twice a week, do cardio twice a week and circuits twice a week. I always do full body and have yet to try a split rotation. For instance, this is my current rotation (it incorporates all of the DVDs I own):
Week 1&3
Sunday: PLB, PUB (Pyramid down premix), Ab Ripper
Monday: BC/ME Premix, BC Kickbox only premix, Power Hour Abs
Tuesday: Kickmax & Abs from PUB
Wednesday: Muscle Endurance (plus a set of plie squats) & L&G floor work
Thursday: KPC, PLB floorwork, and Power Hour Abs
Friday: Bootcamp & L&G Ankleweight work
Weeks 2&4 - Same except for Sunday and Wednesday
Sunday: Leaner Legs, Power Hour Upper Body only, Ab Ripper
Wednesday: Maximum Intensity Strength (plus two sets of leg presses and maybe a little calf work)
I work out in the morning and also try to add in one or two evenings a week of a segment or two of StretchMax.
I am thinking that I need to mix things up a bit to remain interested and to keep improving my fitness level. I think I may need to do more cardio (not step though - don't have the space or the interest). I was hoping maybe the rotation gurus out there could help me come up with some ideas using the workouts I currently own - I don't want to invest in new workouts until after the holidays.
Do you have recommendations? A little more about me - I would consider myself an advanced exerciser, perfectly healthy, with about 1.25 hours a day to work out on weekdays and 1.5 to just under 2 hours on Sunday. I like to take Saturday off. I am at a healthy weight, with obvious muscle definition, but would like to get rid of that little bit of jiggle around my inner and outer thighs and the cellulite on my thighs and improve my leg and ab definition.
Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading such a long message and thanks to all to contributing to these forums, they have been enormously helpful and motivating for me!
-EANND
This is my first post to the Cathe forums, though I have been working out with Cathe for about a year now and reading the forums for a few months.
I started working out regularly with the Firm about three years ago and through hard work and diet, lost about 75 lbs. (From the date I started dieting - at my heaviest I was almost 90 lbs heavier than I am now). About a year ago, I added Cathe weight work, after a few months added her circuit workouts and now do Cathe cardio as well. Actually, except for Power 90X Ab Ripper, I use Cathe's workouts exclusively. I have seen tremendous strength and definition gains in my upper body and even greater improvements in my cardio capacity and power. Right now I am starting to plateau and could use some advice.
My current rotation is based on how I worked out with the Firm and incorporates a lot of circuit work, which I enjoy, modified to reflect that Cathe has a lot more pure cardio and pure weights workouts. I generally work out with weights-only twice a week, do cardio twice a week and circuits twice a week. I always do full body and have yet to try a split rotation. For instance, this is my current rotation (it incorporates all of the DVDs I own):
Week 1&3
Sunday: PLB, PUB (Pyramid down premix), Ab Ripper
Monday: BC/ME Premix, BC Kickbox only premix, Power Hour Abs
Tuesday: Kickmax & Abs from PUB
Wednesday: Muscle Endurance (plus a set of plie squats) & L&G floor work
Thursday: KPC, PLB floorwork, and Power Hour Abs
Friday: Bootcamp & L&G Ankleweight work
Weeks 2&4 - Same except for Sunday and Wednesday
Sunday: Leaner Legs, Power Hour Upper Body only, Ab Ripper
Wednesday: Maximum Intensity Strength (plus two sets of leg presses and maybe a little calf work)
I work out in the morning and also try to add in one or two evenings a week of a segment or two of StretchMax.
I am thinking that I need to mix things up a bit to remain interested and to keep improving my fitness level. I think I may need to do more cardio (not step though - don't have the space or the interest). I was hoping maybe the rotation gurus out there could help me come up with some ideas using the workouts I currently own - I don't want to invest in new workouts until after the holidays.
Do you have recommendations? A little more about me - I would consider myself an advanced exerciser, perfectly healthy, with about 1.25 hours a day to work out on weekdays and 1.5 to just under 2 hours on Sunday. I like to take Saturday off. I am at a healthy weight, with obvious muscle definition, but would like to get rid of that little bit of jiggle around my inner and outer thighs and the cellulite on my thighs and improve my leg and ab definition.
Suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading such a long message and thanks to all to contributing to these forums, they have been enormously helpful and motivating for me!
-EANND