Need help

[kersbergenas]

Cathe
My name is Suzanne and I just started using your step program "All Step-Cross Train Press." This was the movie that came with your step, anyways, some of the moves are a bit difficult to follow for a beginner and I was wondering if there was another video that you could recommend which burns fat and builds lean muscle with a little bit easier to follow steps?
My second question is in this video we work our shoulders with free weights and I was wondering what part of the arms those lifting patterns work. For example the biceps, triceps, deltoid etc?
Thank you for your time
Suzanne

 

[Aquajock]

Hi, Suzanne! Obviously I'm not Cathe, but she might be a bit tied up right now producing precisely that which you are requesting: a new mini series of exercise DVD's for the beginning and intermediate step exerciser. I'd suggest you check out the information on the new series to be produced, and invest in both of them.

As far as finding already-existing workouts that have simpler choreography, you may want to consider Interval Max (the first one) with a couple of strong cautions. The step segments are rather simple and consistently repeated, and are easily mastered (if I can get 'em anyone can, given I'm a klutz); HOWEVER, the interval blasts are extremely high intensity, so you want to pay careful attention to the modifications Cathe demonstrates before each blast begins and work your way up to doing the blasts as performed.

As far as your second question, when one is lifting from the shoulder joint, the deltoids are the primary muscles engaged, although the triceps can sometimes be recruited as assisters in overhead presses.

Hope this helps.

A-Jock

 

[clareMc]

Suzanne:

Try Bootcamp and Cardio & Weights from Cathe's Intensity Series. The cardio segments in the Bootcamp feature short bursts of energy, a single move or two moves only repated for a minute. Choreographicaly, it's a piece of cake! But, it is an intensity challenge. The other segments of the video are weight training for upper and lower body and core training, and you will definitely build some strength and leanness with this video. Work up to it gradually. It will challenge your stamina. But while you learn it, it is OK to modify where needed, take longer breaks between segments, make it work for you.

If you are a beginner at Step Training, be warned that Imax may not be for you. Cathe states on this video that it is not the video to start out with. It is seriously effective, but the toughest video Cathe has made. If you invest in it, take it slow and easy, perhaps doing no more than 4 or 5 of the intervals at one time, then cooling it down and doing some weights work, then over the months, gradualy adding another interval incrementally until your cardiovasular capacity has grown to meet the challenge head on.

In the meantime, Cardio & Weights is less intense and it is a circuit workout that combines cycles of 6 mins of Cathe's easier choreography (in shorter, repeated routines so it is easy to pick up)with cycles of upper body weight training, with light to moderate weights, but you can play around with this amd make it moderate to heavy simply by changing the weights' size and number of reps.

If the CTX ALl Step is the only video you have by Cathe that includes any weight training, you may want to invest in some of her weight training workouts so you can train the whole body! Not just the shoulders.... her PS series is often recommmended as a great starting place. As would Power Hour and Max Intensity Strength.

Hope this helps

Clare