Rotations definition??

[susan-lynn]

Please bare with me, I'm fairly new to Cathe, and this forum. The term rotation keeps reoccuring, and I'm not sure I have a full understanding of it. I've been doing aerobics & stepping at a gym for a few years, so didn't concern myself with rotations. But now I'm exercising at home, with videos. I only own 3 different step videos, and a couple of hi/lo ones. I just ordered CTX because it sounds like a lot variety and I don't want to get bored. Basically I just switch around the videos to prevent boredom. Is the CTX meant just to do for a few weeks and move on to something else? I'm confused with what 'rotation' means. Thanks!

 

[jillybean]

My understanding of the term 'rotation' is that you rotate a specific group of videos for a specific amount of time, and then move onto the next group. Typical rotations include:

Doing 1 CTX tape per day, 6 days a week for 4-8weeks
Doing a S&H tape on M,W,F and a cardio tape on T, Th, S for 3 weeks
Doing a PS tape on M,T,W a cardio on Th&F with a total body tape on S for like 6 weeks.

The rotations vary depending on goals, time, the videos you have, etc. There is a thread on this forum titled something like, "I have Kathy S.'s rotations" which I assume has lots of rotation ideas. I hope this helped.

 

[susan-lynn]

Thanks for the help - I just was confused as to how long you were supposed to do the CTX series, because I had bought it thinking I could do it for any length of time - then I've been seeing all these rotation conversations. In my exercising, I've never done rotations - maybe it has to do with breaking plateaus because your body is getting too used to the same routine. Anyhow, thanks again for your insight.

 

[prfitness]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-09-02 AT 01:04PM (Est)[/font][p]I only started doing rotations recently and I found that they help me put a little forward planning into my workouts. When I was doing videos on an ad-hoc basis, I was unable to work out what my body responded well to. I also found that I ended up making mistakes like working the same muscle group too many times, not enough variety in the type of cardio I did, insufficient flexibility exercises, not enough rest etc. A rotation allows you to avoid all these classic mistakes. Hope that helps.

 

[starlight6]

Very well put...that's exactly how they helped me as well.
Ruth

 

[susan-lynn]

Thanks for everyone's input, it helps me to understand it a bit better. I'll hopefully be receiving my CTX series this week, so I'm going to try this for a couple of months, then take it from there.