NEW VIDEOS QUESTION

[ksandvoss]

Cathe or anyone who knows the answer,

I recently posted some questions to Cathe that really weren't answered, so I'll simplify my email and ask my questions again. I do thank the one person who tried to give me a helpful answer.

1) Does anyone know the length of each new video?

2) Can someone tell me how one uses the split videos. Would one do them one day and cardio the next, trying to do the splits 4x/week and cardio 3X. Or would one need to add cardio on the days you do splits in order to get enough cardio?

3) What is the advantage to doing splits?

4) What is the advantage to doing rotations?

 

[Connie1]

Your questions invite further questions. Cathe's videos are made for seasoned exercisers. I am wondering how you come to ask what the advantage is to doing rotations. Are you exercising now? How often? Do you do the same routine every time?

An example of a rotation is one thing one day, another thing the next day, a planned rest day, etc.

The length of the videos is not exactly determined yet because they have not yet been filmed. In their description on this site, you will read that they are all about one hour (except for some DVD compilations). To see the descriptions, click on "home" at the top of this page and then click on "Learn more about the new videos" or on "Learn more about the new DVD's."

The advantage to doing splits is this: you can do a whole body strength workout in an hour. Or you can concentrate on arms for an hour. Well, arms get worked differently if the whole hour is spent on them. Some people find this an advantage for progress, boredom abatement, building strength for a sport, etc.

Getting enough cardio varies from one person to the next. Just my own personal way of using split strength videos of Cathe's, I will do a 3-way split and 2 cardios in a week. Or a 2-way split and 3 cardios. Or 1-2 full-body workouts and 2-4 cardios. (A circuit workout counts as both.) Or split it another way using her Cross-Train Express series.

I work out 5 days a week. Some weeks I go heavier on the cardio, some I do heavy weight and light cardio, some I balance evenly. This week I am using the Slow and Heavy series, going very light on cardio and eating and sleeping a bit more than usual.

I hope this begins to answer some of your questions.
-Connie

 

[ksandvoss]

RE: NEW VIDEOS QUESTION: Connie

Connie,

Thank you for responding. I had posted an earlier email explaining my routine. I hope you check this email. I am an advanced exerciser. I alternate days of an hour of cardio (either a Cathe video or my professional elliptical trainer) with the next day of an hour of weights. I never worry about how many days/week I workout because over a months time I probably average 5/week. Some weeks I get in 7 days and others maybe only 3. I also don't worry about what videos I do. I do what I feel like. However for effectiveness, I try to do IMAX every week and I do Power Hour more than the other strength training videos. I have never committed to a rotation, nor have I tried a split video. I couldn't figure out how I would do a split and if I needed to. I am in excellent shape, but I always like a new challenge, so I thought I might try splits. I assume from what you said, one might do splits for a few weeks, then switch to full body strength tapes for other weeks. The reason I asked about the time was because I wanted to know if I could also do cardio on the days I did a split.

Thanks again for your response. Feel free to respond again.

Kathy

 

[Connie1]

RE: NEW VIDEOS QUESTION: Connie

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-02 AT 00:13AM (Est)[/font][p]Aha. Now I can add to my response. The advantage to doing splits is being able to lift heavier weights. Slower.

That takes more out of you, so you would do less cardio than if you were doing "just" Power hour (Power hour kills me). Still, you'd be building muscle faster, and burning fat just as fast (during these tough heavy workouts).

This would increase your overall ability to burn fat daily and it would increase your strength and provide more of the same esthetic benefits of improved body composition.

Well, BodyRx is all the rage these days and it is full of good-sounding theory that says an hour of concentrated, heavy-as-you-can-stand lifting is worth more than an hour of endurance or cardio.

There are lots of opinions on whether to do cardio on the same day as a split. My response would be, no. Do your one-hour split and call it a day. On another day, do the cardio.

That being said, to add more choices (!) the CTX series has wonderful half-hour cardio segments and 10-15 minute weight segments for each upper body part. The CTX DVD has a one-hour upper body split comprised of these. So it is possible to mix and match to you heart's content.

 

[ksandvoss]

RE: NEW VIDEOS QUESTION: Connie

Connie,

Thanks for responding. This is very helpful. This is exactly what I needed to hear. I am going to try to do a rotation including the Pyramid Splits from the new videos. I'll continue my pattern of an hour a day of weights one day and cardio the next. I'll subsitute the full hour split in place of a total body weight workout.

Thanks