X-Train Legs and Butts & Guts/Differences?

[Ivy]

I was doing Butts and Guts for the last 4 weeks and started X-Train this week. Can anyone tell me the key differences between X-Train legs and Butts and Guts? I really gained a lot of leg strength with Butts and Guts as well as I've started to get my booty back and I don't want to lose that. I'm thinking of incorporating Butts and Guts into the rotation.
Thanks

 

[lisa_la_machina]

I find all 3 to be endurance workouts (B&G, XTrain Legs, XTrain Cardio Leg Blast). They are all great and each offer something different and unique. I can't imagine how you could go wrong by enjoying all 3 of them in a rotation.

B&G uses a barbell and overall uses heavier weight loads than XTrain Legs. XTrain CLB can get on the heavier side with weights, but there aren't as many reps or pulses as there are in B&G.

B&G doesn't have any cardio, neither does XTrain Legs, but XTrain CLB alternates weights with cardio so you get the benefit of contrast training.

XTrain Legs is more of a toning workout, IMO, but that doesn't mean it's not challenging! You can go heavier than Cathe with your weights, if you like (she uses 5s or 8s, IIRC). XTrain Legs works muscles that I find often get overlooked in other workouts, and has lots of functional moves that are beneficial for someone with an athletic lifestyle.

No core work in XTrain Legs or CLB.

Random analysis, but in short, I don't think you'd lose your booty at all, especially if you included B&G and an XTrain Legs workout in your rotation each week. Just allow enough recovery time between workouts.

 

[maddiesmum]

I really like Xtrain legs. The moves with the gliding discs can be brutal. They change up your average lunge into something else! You go deeper into that lunge and struggle harder to get back up due to instability. You don't need weights or very heavy weights with these for the move to be remarkably effective. Any time you have an injury, your physiotherapist is going to make you do these! So, it makes sense to include them regularly in your program as a preventative measure against the risk of injury. I really like them. They can be strong, powerful and yet graceful movements.

I have been to physiotherapy many times in the last 20 years despite doing regular lower body weight training with Cathe's DVDs. her older style lower body training with the barbell --squats, plie squats and front and rear lunges-- were not enough to prevent hip pain and double patellafemoral syndrome (runner's knee in both knees simultaneously). The newer approach to training legs that Cathe employs --Xtrain Legs, Great Glutes and Lean Legs and Abs-- is seen as 'light' by some because there's no barbell in sight and the weights are light, but as the poster above said, they are working the legs from more angles, including more of the glutes muscles beyond just gluteus maximus and are so incredibly useful to round out your program, increase overall athleticism and prevent injury. We need to go beyond the barbell, especially as we age, I think.

Clare

 

[Ivy]

Good information!!! Thanks, looks like I will keep all three in my rotation, it seems healthier that way.
Thanks Again