Pls check this CTX rotation (Cathe or anybody)

[vron]

I've been wanting to do a CTX rotation, but I'm concerned that it wouldn't be enough wt work for me, since I really need to tone up. Here's a rotation I came up with doing one CTX video a day (the whole thing), and adding on one additional body part (from another CTX) per day. For example:

M - Power Circuit + the tricep work from 10-10-10
T - Step & Int + shoulder work from AS
W - Kickbox + the back work from PC
TH- All step + the Chest work from S& I
F - 10-10-10 + the bicep work from Kickbox
S - Leaner Legs
S - REST

I legs are already huge. Is it okay for me to do step videos?

How does this look?
Thanks!
Rhonda

 

[Connie1]

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Hi Rhonda. I am not Cathe but here's my 2 cents. I am still working up to being able to do one CTX tape per day. I find that right now my body appreciates a longer warm-up, possibly due to 5 a.m. workouts and maybe my age (43)? Or it might be just my fitnass level because I have only been doing Cathe's videos sinch January 2002.

Anyway I think that if you can do one CTX per day already without a problem, then you might be able to ease into this rotation over a transition period.

The difference you may see is that you might need more sleep if adding a body part each day. It's not that it is a major difference, only it's the every-dayness of it.

So if you do not have children or a very intense job you could do it with ease.

But if you have other major demands on your time the extra 15-20 minutes plus 30 minutes of sleep might crowd your schedule.

Also, after analyzing the sequence of strength segments, as long as you stick to the schedule it would work. The push and pull groups are a day apart. You might consider skipping cardio 2 days a week to make sure this happens.

You would have to pick and choose you cardio segments and that is hard to do with Cathe. Try to rotate away from too frequent leg strength work (like Power Circuit and Leaner Legs) and toward a regimen of intervals alternating with steady state cardio.
Hope this helps.

What do others think?

-Connie

 

[vron]

Thanks so much for responding. Wouldn't it only be an extra 8-10 minutes a day to add an additional body part? Yikes! 20 minutes on top of 60 would be insain! I'm a believer that if you can't finish a workout in 70 minutes or less, there's somthing wrong.

Thanks again!
Rhonda

 

[Connie1]

Well Rhonda yes it works out to 7 to 10, unless you count ab sections (who can resist them?) and rewinding and fast forwarding, finding the cooldown... do you have a DVD player?

That would make it easy.

I tend to exaggerate, and the sleep time is just an example of my tendency...