Hi everyone,
Many people new to Cathe (and those long timers too) often ask why there hasn't been a ranking of Cathe's videos to help them decide what would be right for them. Let's end that right now!!!!
The Plan and Some Guidelines
1. I will categorize and list all the Cathe workouts that fall in that category. Then it's up to the Catheites to score the videos on a scale of 1 to 10 in each category. A 1 will be quite easy, not have challeging choreography, and would be suited to a beginner. A 5 would be not easy, but not really hard either, would have moderate choreography, and would be a challenge for a beginner but well suited to an intermediate to low advanced exerciser. A 10 would be an 'Oh my Gosh!!!' workout, very intense, have complex choreography, and be a challenge to even the most seasoned exerciser. Think in terms of a perceived exertion scale and you'll do fine. I will track each workout's points and in the end will add up the points and divide this total by the number of voters to create an average score. Based on this average score I will rank the workouts from lowest average score (easiest) to highest average score (hardest).
2. You need not have done every single workout to participate but I do ask that you ONLY RATE THOSE WORKOUTS THAT YOU HAVE ACTUALLY DONE. Please do not rate a workout based on what you have heard from other people about the workout. I want your ratings based on your experience!!! Of course, the more Cathe videos you have done will help you when assigning a score to the workouts.
3. I'll keep voting/scoring open for two weeks (shorter or longer if need be based on interest). I will announce when I will end the scoring time. At that point I will do the tallies and post the results. I will also ask SNM if we can have the final results stickied at the top of a page (probably the Video/DVD forum) for everyone to reference.
4. I have not separated ab segments as a separate category. If all goes well with this process and interest is high, I'll tackle ab segments next!
5. Out of Print titles are excluded from the list as they are not readily available.
6. You can post your scores on this thread (paste the list into your reply and add your score next to the title) or email me your scores ([email protected]).
I will start by listing the workouts in each category alphabetically.
Total Body Weight Workouts
1. Maximum Intensity Strength
2. Muscle Endurance
3. Power Hour
4. Push Pull
5. Supersets
6. How to Get In Shape for Your Wedding (weight portion only)
Upper Body Workouts
1. Basic Step Upper Body section
2. CTX Upper Body
3. Pure Strength Back, Biceps, and abs
4. Pure Strength Chest, Shoulders and Triceps
5. Pyramid Upper Body
6. Slow and Heavy Biceps and Triceps
7. Slow and Heavy Chest and Back
8. Slow and Heavy Shoulders (part of S&H Legs and Shoulders)
Lower Body Workouts
1. Basic Step Lower Body section
2. Leaner Legs
3. Legs and Glutes
4. Pure Strength Legs and Abs
5. Pyramid Lower Body
6. Slow and Heavy Legs
Step Cardio (where Step Cardio is the dominate feature in the workout)
1. All Step
2. Basic Step
3. Mega Step Blast
4. Power Max
5. Rhythmic Step
6. Step Blast
7. Step Fit
8. Step Heat
9. Step Jam
10. Step Max
11. Step N Motion 1
12. Step Works
13. How To Get In Shape For Your Wedding (step portion only)
Other Cardio (where step is not the dominant form of cardio)
1. Cardio Kicks
2. CTX Kickbox
3. Kick Punch Crunch
4. Maximum Intensity Cardio
5. 10-10-10
Circuit Workouts
1. Body Fusion
2. Body Max
3. Bootcamp
4. Cardio and Weights
5. Circuit Max
6. High Step Circuit
7. High Step Training Advanced
8. Power Circuit
9. Step, Jump, and Pump
Interval Cardio
1. IMAX
2. IMAX 2
3. Step and Intervals
Complilation DVDs
1. The Terminator (feel free to rank the individual workouts on this DVD if you want)
2. Timesaver (feel free to rank the indvidual workouts on this DVD if you want)
Please let me know if you want me to tweak this in any way.
Hope everyone responds!!!!!!
Many people new to Cathe (and those long timers too) often ask why there hasn't been a ranking of Cathe's videos to help them decide what would be right for them. Let's end that right now!!!!
The Plan and Some Guidelines
1. I will categorize and list all the Cathe workouts that fall in that category. Then it's up to the Catheites to score the videos on a scale of 1 to 10 in each category. A 1 will be quite easy, not have challeging choreography, and would be suited to a beginner. A 5 would be not easy, but not really hard either, would have moderate choreography, and would be a challenge for a beginner but well suited to an intermediate to low advanced exerciser. A 10 would be an 'Oh my Gosh!!!' workout, very intense, have complex choreography, and be a challenge to even the most seasoned exerciser. Think in terms of a perceived exertion scale and you'll do fine. I will track each workout's points and in the end will add up the points and divide this total by the number of voters to create an average score. Based on this average score I will rank the workouts from lowest average score (easiest) to highest average score (hardest).
2. You need not have done every single workout to participate but I do ask that you ONLY RATE THOSE WORKOUTS THAT YOU HAVE ACTUALLY DONE. Please do not rate a workout based on what you have heard from other people about the workout. I want your ratings based on your experience!!! Of course, the more Cathe videos you have done will help you when assigning a score to the workouts.
3. I'll keep voting/scoring open for two weeks (shorter or longer if need be based on interest). I will announce when I will end the scoring time. At that point I will do the tallies and post the results. I will also ask SNM if we can have the final results stickied at the top of a page (probably the Video/DVD forum) for everyone to reference.
4. I have not separated ab segments as a separate category. If all goes well with this process and interest is high, I'll tackle ab segments next!
5. Out of Print titles are excluded from the list as they are not readily available.
6. You can post your scores on this thread (paste the list into your reply and add your score next to the title) or email me your scores ([email protected]).
I will start by listing the workouts in each category alphabetically.
Total Body Weight Workouts
1. Maximum Intensity Strength
2. Muscle Endurance
3. Power Hour
4. Push Pull
5. Supersets
6. How to Get In Shape for Your Wedding (weight portion only)
Upper Body Workouts
1. Basic Step Upper Body section
2. CTX Upper Body
3. Pure Strength Back, Biceps, and abs
4. Pure Strength Chest, Shoulders and Triceps
5. Pyramid Upper Body
6. Slow and Heavy Biceps and Triceps
7. Slow and Heavy Chest and Back
8. Slow and Heavy Shoulders (part of S&H Legs and Shoulders)
Lower Body Workouts
1. Basic Step Lower Body section
2. Leaner Legs
3. Legs and Glutes
4. Pure Strength Legs and Abs
5. Pyramid Lower Body
6. Slow and Heavy Legs
Step Cardio (where Step Cardio is the dominate feature in the workout)
1. All Step
2. Basic Step
3. Mega Step Blast
4. Power Max
5. Rhythmic Step
6. Step Blast
7. Step Fit
8. Step Heat
9. Step Jam
10. Step Max
11. Step N Motion 1
12. Step Works
13. How To Get In Shape For Your Wedding (step portion only)
Other Cardio (where step is not the dominant form of cardio)
1. Cardio Kicks
2. CTX Kickbox
3. Kick Punch Crunch
4. Maximum Intensity Cardio
5. 10-10-10
Circuit Workouts
1. Body Fusion
2. Body Max
3. Bootcamp
4. Cardio and Weights
5. Circuit Max
6. High Step Circuit
7. High Step Training Advanced
8. Power Circuit
9. Step, Jump, and Pump
Interval Cardio
1. IMAX
2. IMAX 2
3. Step and Intervals
Complilation DVDs
1. The Terminator (feel free to rank the individual workouts on this DVD if you want)
2. Timesaver (feel free to rank the indvidual workouts on this DVD if you want)
Please let me know if you want me to tweak this in any way.
Hope everyone responds!!!!!!
