Weight work only? No cardio?

J

JamminX3

Cathlete
I was surprised to see a post on another board stating that the poster had experienced a significant amt. of wt. loss, during a month's time, while on a PS/S&H rotation with minimal cardio. Has anyone else here had that experience? Not necessarly wt. loss, but getting smaller? I'm an ecto/endo and have a hard time putting on muscle mass. I'm pretty sure that my lack of muscle is the reason that I gain wt. so easily. Any ectos lose wt. with lots of heavy wt. work only?

Robin http://www.smilies-world.de/Smilies/Smilies_klein_1/flower.gif
 
No experience here but would be interested in anyone's comments. Since I can no longer do high impact to keep the weight off I was hoping doing the weight tapes would help me. Currently I have the S&H tapes and PH. I am just not sure on rotation of those
 
Yep. I posted on another thread that I hit a new weight low today. I haven't done a lick of cardio in two weeks. Weights only. I really hate cardio and have to be very motivated to do it.

Works for me.

I read Tracie Long saying on the Fitprime board that she did no cardio getting in shape for the Tortoise and Hare videos. She looked amazing on those.
 
i had to cut cardio out for a while because of an achilles issue and also noticed no weight gain - slight loss actually - i was worried but it almost seemed to help with the weight loss. hmm, weird.
 
I'll bet it was for MIS. She looks the most muscular and cut in that one to me that she has in any of her videos. My husband noticed that too.
 
I also have a question: How many times a week do you lift weights? What do you do on your non-weight days? (I have a terrible time taking time off...)

P.S.: Just ordered my first Cathe: MIS. It should be here any day now!
 
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Kathy, I'm lifting wts. 6 days/week. Just doing one body part per day. It's easy with Cathe's videos. The S&H videos are long, and breaking it up is the only way I can stand it. 30 min. of slow lifting is my limit and in the S&H series, that's one body part. Then, I could either tack on a whole PS video to 3 days and do 3 days cardio or (and this is my plan) just do one body part of the PS series per day also, and tack on abs and a short cardio 2-3 days/week. Around an hour or so per day.

Example:
Mon- S&H Chest and PS Back, Floor Legs
Tues-S&H Shoulders and PS Biceps/short cardio
Wed-PS Standing Legs and S&H Back/Abs
Thurs-PS Chest and S&H Triceps/short cardio
Fri-PS Shoulders and S&H Biceps/short cardio
Sat-S&H Legs and PS Triceps/Abs


Robin http://www.smilies-world.de/Smilies/Smilies_klein_1/flower.gif
 
Thanks! Sounds interesting! I may give it a try, and then get more Cathe videos if I like this one (MIS). I know I'm ready to do something different.
 
I have always been a typical ecto; tall and thin with very little muscle. After having two babies, I became very flabby and my midsection and rearend were much larger than before (my legs/arms stayed skinny). I started doing cardio 9 years ago and was fairly successful at losing most of the fat, but was still loose/flabby.

Over the past few years, I've gradually upped the strength work and cut back on cardio. My arms and legs have much better definition, and I haven't gained any weight. My waist is smaller and I look better in my clothes because I'm much firmer. This has especially improved since adding S&H to my rotations. It has also helped to not eat fast food, big desserts and drink sodas. Otherwise, I eat pretty much what I want.

I don't think anyone should cut cardio out completely because of the heart health benefits, but I don't think it needs to be done 6 days a week, either. I find that 2-3 days of cardio and 3 days of strength work are good for me.

Sandi M
 
Robin,
I was wondering if you could give me any advice on what tape I should buy (if any) to improve weight loss and firming up. I currently have cathe's slow and heavy series and power hour. I also have winsor pilates tapes (just got). I have never really done a rotation so I am new to this. It seems that doing s&H and PS is a lot in one sitting-do you find it to be? Also would you suggest purchasing MIS or PS to improve upon my collection and also how would I rotate and for how long? Any advice would be appreciated
 
Robin,
I was wondering if you could give me any advice on what tape I should buy (if any) to improve weight loss and firming up. I currently have cathe's slow and heavy series and power hour. I also have winsor pilates tapes (just got). I have never really done a rotation so I am new to this. It seems that doing s&H and PS is a lot in one sitting-do you find it to be? Also would you suggest purchasing MIS or PS to improve upon my collection and also how would I rotate and for how long? Any advice would be appreciated. Any comments from anyone else is also welcome!!!!
 
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-04-02 AT 07:33PM (Est)[/font][p]Oh, Leggs, it's a good thing you've come to me. I'm an expert! NOT!!!! But, I love to give advice, so here goes. If you're lucky, someone else will pipe in and either correct me or add to my rambling.

I think it all depends on your goals and what works best for your body. Re: Cathe's wt. tapes/series, here's what she says about each one:

PS Series-This series is designed to promote mostly muscular strength.

S&H Series-This series is designed to promote PREMIUM muscular strength gains.

MIS-This workout provides a combination of strength and endurance. Depending on your fitness level, you will pull more in one direction than the other. For instance, if you are new to fitness, deconditioned, or recovering from an injury, you will gain more strength because it will be quite a bit of work to your underused muscles. However, if you are currently very conditioned with weight training, you will most likely feel more endurance conditioning (yet never fully eliminating strength gains) from this workout because of the faster pace of the reps and brief rest period b/w the exercises.

Power Hour-PH is designed to promote ALL OUT muscular endurance, good posture and functional fitness, while improving your muscle tone and strengthening you core region.

As you can see from my first post in this thread, I'm really searching for a way to build maximum muscle mass and lose some fat stores. (about 20 lb's worth). I have a very hard time putting on muscle and since I've been plateaued for a very long time (even tho I switch things around quite often and have cut out ALL junk since the end of Feb.), I've decided that I want to concentrate on building some muscle mass. Maybe *this* will heat up my metabolism. So, I'm putting this question to the Cathe forum. Will more wt. work and less cardio make me smaller? (Build more muscle and therefore burn more calories).

You, OTOH, may build muscles easily and may already have alot of muscle. Therefore, you may (or may not) go another direction. I know that for some a combo of wts/cardio works well. (ie- TheFirm classics). Some folks do really well with lots of cardio and light wt. work. I've been doing the lots of cardio for a while. It ain't working.

I can't really answer your question re: my present plan, cuz I just started it. I don't know if it's too much, yet. I'll let you know. I do know that S&H has made me so sleepy for the last 4 weeks and that adding the PS series will probably make me comatose. (I could sleep on my computer, right now!!)

I have asked Cathe on the 'Ask Cathe' board if pairing S&H with an endurance tape would be better. That would answer your question re: S&H series and PH. A rotation with those 2 would be easy. M,T,W do S&H. Then Fri or Sat. do PH. Do cardio on the other day/s and maybe a short cardio on a couple of wt. days if your body responds better to more cardio.

And re: Cathe's other tapes, you know that you have to change things up to keep improving, so eventually you'll probably want to get her other tapes. Length of rotations is up to you, altho I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) you should always switch up and re-evaluate when you stop getting results or after 12-16 weeks max. Also, there are a bunch of rotations to be had. You can email Kathy S. to email them to you. Let me find the link for that.

Has that helped any????????? Hope so.

Robin http://www.smilies-world.de/Smilies/Smilies_klein_1/flower.gif
 
In the July Prevention magazine that I just got, there is an article called "Fit, Firm, Flexible, Fast - Exercise it all in less time than it takes to watch Frasier." There are four circuits, each of which are followed by a stretch.

"The concept behind this plan is circuit training, and it works like this: You have a series of strength training exercises, which you perform back-back- with little rest in between. Like traditional strength training, circuit training builds muscle, which helps you burn more calories when you're not exercising.

In addition, circuit training gives you a cardio workout. Because you move quickly from one exercise to the next, your heart rate stays up and you burn more calories while you're lifting (traditional strength training has more rest time.)"

"...Research has shown that when volunteers performed circuit training for just 20 minutes, 3 days a week, they imporved their fitness levels by up to 11%. That's about the same cardiovascular boost a similar grou got when they jogged 30 minutes, 3 days a week."

So their you have it. I guess it makes us stretch our minds as to what is necessary in a workout program. We have to keep current and always be smart and logical about our choices.
 
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