Tuesday - Cathe High Step Challenge/ Marmorat (sp?) stretch

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

This morning's workout was Cathe's High Step Challenge. I haven't done it for a long time and I now realize that this is more "endurance" than strength, so would have been a better fit for last month's cycle -but it was still a good workout and good use of my time! I wanted to do a circuit today b/c I have been eating like a pig the last few days (PMS time.....and I haven't had as much organic dairy as I've been having b/c DH has been doing some of the shopping and unless I write "ORGANIC" he buys regular....I do seriously feel more hormonal from not having my organic dairy....but not as bad as when I have lots of soy which makes me feel terrible) and wanted some extra cardio in with my weight training - well, this one fit the bill perfectly as my HR was up the whole time - so it was a good blend of cardio and endurance/strength. I also wanted to take advantage of the extra energy I had for some strange reason this morning (probably

the extra food! LOL!) !

This one has, I, think 5 cycles - each cycle starts with cardio - simple stuff - sometimes using a short step (fanny lifter), sometimes not - all high impact/athletic. After the cardio is usually a leg exercise then some exercises for the upper body which are sometimes compounded with lower body. Cathe uses barbells, dumbells, body weight and a band for the exercises. Sometimes the band burns more than weights!! At the end is abs/stretch. The ab section is nothing remarkable, standard stuff, I would have liked to see more innovative core work. Overall though, I felt worked out and good and sweaty when I got done with this one.

I added on a short stretch section from a Marmorat (sp?) DVD that I picked up at the Dollar Store - it is called Daily Workout, I think, and has some stretching and some muscle toning exercises on it. I think I did "Saturday" which is stretching for the back, hamstrings, hips, neck, shoulders - it is athletic stretching. The production (voice over) is nothing to write home about, but it was a good add on for some extra stretching.

I'm thinking that tomorrow I'll do yoga to break up my week. This week and next I have to workout on Saturday instead of Sunday - so by doing yoga tomorrow I'll have had three days "On" one day "off" and then three more "on". I have some tough workouts planned - I want to do the BOSU cardio workout I did a few weeks ago (A CIA workout, Double Cardio???), I'll probably do Cathe's Muscle Max (to make up for my more endurance based workout today), and I want to try my mish mosh of Kick Max and Aerobox. I think I'll do that on Saturday b/c I'm eager to try that combo out and I always have a hard time exercising on Saturday mornings!

Anyway, for yoga I'm thinking I'll do Eoin's Yoga for Happiness - maybe the full practice if I get up early enough. I think the full practice is 90 minutes. If, not, I'll probably do magically hips for 60 minutes.

Take care everyone!

Donna

[Guest guest]

hi donna,yeah HSCh is def. more endurance and very TOUGH at that. i have the daily workout with nancy its 4 days of toning and 3 of stretching. its okay but the sound on my is pretty bad so i can barely hear her. good for add-ons way to go on the workouts. kassia