Will I like gym styles if...

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mjd

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...I can't do pushups and don't like band work?

(Am thinking of getting all three in the series)
 
Gym Style Chest has pushups at the very beginning, you could certainly modify or skip them altogether and still get a great chest workout. The band exercises are minimal and used as more of a "bonus burn" at the end of a few exercises. I love the band work in Gym Styles but you could get by without it as well. The Gym Styles are a great set!
 
Can you use Gym Styles as a total upper body workout? I don't like to split up upper body work. I was just wondering if this one has a premix or something that gives a complete upper body workout as an option. Thanks.
 
This one doesnt have a total upper body premix, but you could certainly do both workouts back to back, but b/c of the length, if you were to do that you'd probably want to do the shorter timesaver premixes on each upper body dvd.
 
That one I wont be too good at answering unless I do the workouts again b/c I honestly don't pay too much attention to music unless it's a cardio workout. I dont remember anything about it either good or bad.
 
I've done Chest and Triceps and Back, Shoulders, and Biceps. The music is good...especially on the former. I love the Chest and Triceps music. :)
 
mjd said:
...I can't do pushups and don't like band work?
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You'll eventually be able to do push ups on your toes if you start doing them off your step first. Let's say your step has 4 risers on each side...you start doing as many as you can on that incline.

Once you get good at that, you take away a riser on each side, lowering yourself just a bit. Continue in this manner until you are close enough to start doing them on the floor.

:) I don't want to hear about anyone skipping those push ups! If I have to suffer through them, so you do! :p (Unless you have a shoulder injury or something like that.)
 
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mjd said:
...I can't do pushups and don't like band work?

(Am thinking of getting all three in the series)
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I never do any of the push ups. There's an over-abundance of chest work in this DVD/series, so you can happily avoid them and move on into the three million chest presses and flyes and get a bloody good workout.

As far as band work is concerned, I never do the band work for the back because it just doesn't work for me. I either don't feel it in the right place or the wrong muscles give up too soon and I find it to be an exercise in futility.

I have to say though, that whether you "like" bands or not, there are certain moves that can only be done with versa loops or resistance bands and you should get friendly with them because they make a real contribution to your workouts. "Firewalkers" are one such move, for the lower body, where they effectively target the gluteus medius, a muscle that is hard to reach through most other exercises and not worked at all by squats and lunges.

With that said, I find the tricep segment that works with the band to be quite effective.

You don't ever need to do every move just because Cathe does it. You take out what doesn't work for you, go with what does. However, try to see what band work could do for you because it would be senseless to not take advantage of the unique moves you can do with bands just because of a perceived notion of liking or not liking a piece of fitness equipment.

Short answer: the Gym Styles are well worth having, even if you ignore all those push ups and never do the band work. The lower body DVD is, in my opinion, Cathe's best lower body workout, both standing and floor work. I base all my own, personal-freestyle lower body resistance workouts around this one, when I work out at the park or on my own at home, opting for my own music rather than following a DVD.

Clare
 
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