New to Cathe...Need Advice for Abs

[jhr]

Hi Cathe,

I am new to your forum and am looking for advice as to which of your DVD's you would recommend as the most effective ab workout? This will be my first "Cathe" purchase, so I am not familiar with any of your workouts (yet ). I am 48 and at an intermediate level; I find that my abs seem to adjust rather quickly to workouts, unlike the rest of my body. I have read many great reviews about you and want to start incorporating your DVD's into my exercise routine. The DVD doesn't have to be an "abs only" DVD; I just want one that includes the most effective ab workout for someone like me. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

JaneH

 

[Aquajock]

I'm not Cathe, but I would like to suggest two "abs only" DVDs:

Ab Hits; and

Core Max.

Ab Hits is a compilation of Cathe ab workouts culled from previous workouts dating from around 1998 (I think) through about 2001. These workouts offer a good mix of traditional, supine floor routines and increasingly up-to-date core work with plank positions. You can do these workouts as originally produced, and Cathe has chaptered them such that you can do your own mixing and matching among workout segments. That's a good way to keep your abs from adapting too quickly, because you can do a different mix-n-match each session. Cathe also has several premixes of her own on this disc.

Core Max is from Cathe's mostly most recent production "Hard Core Series", and offers three complete routines, one on the floor with no equipment, one with a stability ball, and one with stability ball and medicine ball. This DVD has some state-of-the-art drills in it, and it too is chaptered such that you can do a lot of self-designing. This DVD also offers premixes.

IMHO, there isn't really one "most effective" ab workout, for precisely the reason you've posted here - your abs get very good at one routine very quickly, and gets too efficient at it. Mixing up the abs is the "effective" route.

HTH -

A-Jock

(and p.s. welcome to the forums)

 

[jhr]

Hi A-Jock,

Thanks so much for responding to my question regarding ab
workouts It sounds like mixing up the ab routine would be more effective as it would challenge my abs more than doing the same type of workout. I will check out the 2 DVD's that you recommend. I need to lose weight and I am finding that my body responds much more effectively to muscle toning/weight bearing types of workouts rather than cardio/aerobic only types of workouts (along with my abs quickly adapting to the abdominal part of my workouts).

And thanks for welcoming me to this forum. I look forward to reading and learning from the helpful advice here and maybe I can even offer some help to others!

JaneH

 

[GabrielleD]

Hi, I am new here and have a question.

Does anyone know how to flatten to lower abdominal region?

Seems my lower abs aren't doing anything and look heavier due to the fact that my upper abs are toned! It's very frustating.

Help!