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I am fairly new to Cathe. I have had MIS and Step Heat for a couple of years now but recently recommitted to the workouts. If you are supposed to work out with weights roughly twice a week for each body part (upper, lower, upper, lower) AND do cardio for about 30-60 minutes five or six times per week, how can you do this without working out two hours per day?!!

I just ordered The Classics DVD (should arrive tommorow..yippie!) and I really want to start a rotation for real fat loss and health. But, doing something like MIS AND Step Heat on the same day would be like working out for two and a half hours on just one day! How do you manage your workouts timewise and still get in the recommended strength training AND fat loss workouts? How do you guys/gals manage it?
 
Unless it is a circuit workout, i don't usually do a total body workout like MIS with Cardio . i either do cardio with upper body or lower body, or i just do a total body workout. But, i am no expert and there are alot here who do the kinds of workouts you are talking about. either get up at an ungodly hour or stay up late, lunch hour, stuff like that. After a while, it's kind of like brushing your teeth...it just becomes part of your daily routine and you have to do it. Cathe is addicting! have you heard?

jes:7
 
I only do cardio 4 times a week, and only 2 of those are the full 45 minute cardios. Check out Cathe's rotations. She gives very good rotations which allow you do incorporate cardio and weights in the same day. She really does usually only put each body part once a week, so I sometimes will switch an all cardio day with a circuit training day (Circuit Max, Body Max, Boot Camp, Cardio & Weights). The longest workout I've done has been just under an hour and a half. That doesn't happen too often.
 
You don't have to work out each body part twice a week. There are many, many ways to work out. I know quite a few people on this forum who've seen results working out each body part only once a week. This gives the body time to recover. Check out the rotations forum to see what others are doing to meet their fitness goals. I've gotten so many good ideas from there, and not just from Cathe's monthly rotations. Good luck.

Pinky
 
I work out four times a week and do cardio and weights each time. I don't really like the "one body part a day" concept - I like to do a full-body workout each time, so I generally do each body part for about 5 minutes. In doing cardio and weights together, you really don't need to do the warm up for the weight work if you just finished cardio, so that saves some time. Also, for most cardio, I don't do the whole warm up, maybe a couple of minutes. I usually end up working out between 1 1/2 hours and 2 hours.
 
I'm no fitness expert, but I like to do cardio everyday for 30-60 min per day 6 days a weeks. I'll do a cardio ( MIC, KPC, step) on M, W, F for an hour(and add on ab work) and a circuit like Gauntlet or Viper workout on T, Th, Sa to get both cardio and the weights. It's more efficient that way for me.
Lorrie
 
I try to do 4 cardios a week and work each body part twice (abs more like 3X). Some cardios are short, some long, some intense, some intervals, some not. It takes an hour or an hour and fifteen minutes 6 days a week. If I have to give something up, it's a cardio. Three is enough for me some weeks.
 
I do cardio 4 times a week & like Mogambo I vary it--Cathe tape one day, 3 mile run another, elliptical/bike at the gym for yet another......

I train each body part once a week, basically 3 lifting workouts (back/biceps, legs/shoulders & chest/triceps, w/2 ab routines per week thrown in somewhere).

However, I don't know if this makes a difference but when I was in college I trained each body part twice a week & that's when I gained all the strength I have today. Ever since I've basically been maintaining.
 
I'm one of those people who needs to do a lot of cardio to keep my weight where I want it, so I do cardio 5-6 times per week, and usually split upper & lower body and work both 2 X per week.

This is how I do it - we'll take this week for instance:

Sunday - Circuit Max (no upper body weights - just lower body), and the cardio only from High Step Training Advanced
Monday - rest
Tuesday - Stepworks in the morning (at 5:30 AM!) and tonight I'll do upper body weights and abs while watching Dr. Phil.
Wednesday - Imax II (5:30 AM)
Thurs - (day off from work so I'll do extra) Bodymax (the whole thing) and the lower body weights only from MIS
Friday - (day off from work) Step Jump & Pump/Step Blast mix - that 90 minute nasty one
Saturday - MIC - all of it

Yeah, that's a lot, but I have two family gatherings to go to, and I'll eat more junk than normal. It's what you call damage control. I refuse to be one of those people who gain weight over the holidays.

You just have to plan it, write it down, and do it.

Easy, right?! ;)
 
Here's an example of how I do it:

Saturday - Cardio + PUB or S&H upper body (or some other upper body work)
Sunday - Cardio + PLB or Lower Body Sculpt (or some other lower body workout)

Monday - off
Tuesday - PUB
Wednesday - Cardio
Thursday - PLB
Friday - Cardio

That's an hour on the weekdays, and 2 hours on both Sat. & Sun. I get 4 cardio workouts in and work both my upper and lower body twice in a week.
 
This is Great! You gals (guys?) have given me some great information! I have been on other boards before, including ones invovling finances and love/relationships, but I have NEVER been on such a friendly board! Everyone seems happy to share information. It must be the self esteem you get from doing Cathe workouts! Thanks!
 
I'm too lazy to come up with my own routine or rotation so I started doing Cathe's rotations & I absolutely got excellent results. I tweaked a little here & there but made a commitment to do the same kind a workout she planned out for us & it was great!


Marla:)
 
Hello, I have two basic rotations. One is like someone else who posted whereby I do pure cardio 3 days a week and endurance/circuits three times a week. I love that rotation because I feel like I get a lot of cardio and still keep toned.

My other rotation is to do weights as an upper and lower body split with added cardio. I'm on this now. This month my weight split has been with the pyramid workouts. I've decided to stick to just one system of weights to see progression if there is any (and there is!). Anyway, I've been doing PUB 2X a week, PLB 2X a week, and then doing 2-3 sessions of cardio. Ex: Sun-run/walk for an hour, Mon-PLB, Tues-PUB, Wed. -Cardio of choice (I did Step and Intervals this week), Thurs-rest, Fri-PLB, Sat--PUB. I also add in walking when possible and during this week I did a CTX cardio (10-10-10) after PUB on Tuesday.

It's harder to plan rest days with this rotation. I generally just like to do an hour of official exercise on any given day. There's more weight work with this rotation, but I can tell I'm getting stronger since I've moved up weights on PLB. Also, my DOMS are recovering faster than the beginning of the month, so I can tell my body is getting used to this system! I did this to get ready for the hardcores. In January I plan to use the Terminator dvd for a lot of my circuit/endurance workouts and then do kickbox and biking (i.e. lower impact workouts) for the pure cardio days. Then when hardcore comes out I can use it right away!
 
Using MIS, I have split it doing upper one day, lower the next, with cardio added each day. You don't have to do it as a total body workout. Same goes for BodyMax.
Diane Sue
 
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