Maximum Intensity Strength - Cathe Friedrich

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On Wednesday I did Cathe's Maximum Intensity Strength. This is very

good muscle endurance workout. The legs section was tough, and

seemed to take up half the workout. It was quite cool in the

basement that day, and I was sweating like crazy during the squats

and lunges. Again, I didn't get through all of the reps for these

two exercises, but I'm improving - I probably completed 80-85% of

them. The box says this one is 60 minutes, but it felt longer than

that, heh. She seemed to do less stretching in between sets, compared

the Pure Strength series, though.

One thing I liked was there were usually only two sets of each

exercise. I was also pleased that my copy of this workout on VHS

is in very good shape – no popping or static or big variations in

sound. I had quite a bit of DOMs in my legs from this workout, and a

little bit in the rest of the muscles. I would have liked two days

rest between this workout and Muscle Max, but that didn't happen.

But, I still got both of them done so it worked out okay in the end.

Break down:

Warm up

Squats

Hover squats

Lunges

Plie squats

Quarter deadlifts

Reverse Lunges, with pulses, from the step

Push ups

Barbell chest press

Dumbbell flyes- these three are done as a tri set – 1 set push ups, 1

set chest press, 1 set flyes – then repeat sequence

Dumbbell lat row

Barbell bent over row, alternating grip

Reverse delt flye

Upright rows

Overhead dumbbell press

Dumbbell lateral raise

Bicep curls – crazy 8's style – 8 reps bottom of curl, 8 reps top of

curl, 8 reps full range with slow count on negative

Hammer curls

Alternating dumbbell curls

Lying barbell French press (skull crushers)

Close grip barbell presses

Triceps dips, with barbell on lap – I did overhead French press

instead

Triceps kickbacks

Abs – crunches, obliques crunches, reverse crunches – with no rest

and lots of pulses and holds

Stretch