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Cathlete
As I was preparing to select my workout for today, I decided I wanted to do a cardio-focused one, since I had done High Step Challenge yesterday. I knew I didn't want to do an interval workout, since I'd done IMAX 3 ony a few days ago. So I looked and looked at my DVDs, waiting for inspiration to strike.
Then I decided to look down, onto the shelf where my Cathe VHSes are hanging out. Well, why not pop one of those in - I haven't done them for ages! The earliest workout I have that is all cardio is MSB from '94.
Like many of her early works, this one is divded into three separate sections. As I worked through the first one, I remembered when I was new to it (and Cathe - this was the second workout of hers that I dared try), and how very, very tough it was for my on my 4" board. Now I was going through it on 8", and while I felt my heartrate was rising, it wasn't really pounding in me. I was starting to think that, perhaps, I should tack on another workout later in the day, to be sure I got a good sweat in.
As we came to the end of the first section, she had us do a heartrate check. While I didn't feel I was working all that hard, I counted 27 beats, which fit right in to the prescribed range for my age. Then we went on to section two, with "more high impact." Okay, here we go. Several side-ups and continuous over-the-tops. Now several alternating knees where she teaches us (!) hop-turns. By the time the whole combination is put together, I'm ready for this to be our last run-through. (It's in this section, too, where she says one of my favorite Cathe-isms: "I know you're not low freaks!")
Ah, but of course, here's the traditional closing section (the "leg and bun burner") with the step turned vertically. A long series of A-steps, ricochets (eight-in-a-row per side), dynamic outer-thighs, power-Ts, and an overly long lunge section (boy, do I recall the days when lunges were the meanest, hardest things she threw at me - and I would just cringe and have to stop hopping!) eventually had me spent.
Yes, I could do this workout with success - no need to pause the tape or modify the moves - in a way that I only dreamed I could do earlier in my fitness career. But I was dripping sweat by the end, begging for the cool-down (complete with a choreographed routine - I'd nearly forgotten about those!), and in no way did I feel like I had taken a too-easy primrose path for my cardio today.
Yup, that young Cathe (with an equally young Cedie and Rhonda, among a class of seven particpants) could still make me work a smidgen harder than I thought I could, and appreciate the challenge. *After* I was done, of course.
Thanks, Cathe
Then I decided to look down, onto the shelf where my Cathe VHSes are hanging out. Well, why not pop one of those in - I haven't done them for ages! The earliest workout I have that is all cardio is MSB from '94.
Like many of her early works, this one is divded into three separate sections. As I worked through the first one, I remembered when I was new to it (and Cathe - this was the second workout of hers that I dared try), and how very, very tough it was for my on my 4" board. Now I was going through it on 8", and while I felt my heartrate was rising, it wasn't really pounding in me. I was starting to think that, perhaps, I should tack on another workout later in the day, to be sure I got a good sweat in.
As we came to the end of the first section, she had us do a heartrate check. While I didn't feel I was working all that hard, I counted 27 beats, which fit right in to the prescribed range for my age. Then we went on to section two, with "more high impact." Okay, here we go. Several side-ups and continuous over-the-tops. Now several alternating knees where she teaches us (!) hop-turns. By the time the whole combination is put together, I'm ready for this to be our last run-through. (It's in this section, too, where she says one of my favorite Cathe-isms: "I know you're not low freaks!")
Ah, but of course, here's the traditional closing section (the "leg and bun burner") with the step turned vertically. A long series of A-steps, ricochets (eight-in-a-row per side), dynamic outer-thighs, power-Ts, and an overly long lunge section (boy, do I recall the days when lunges were the meanest, hardest things she threw at me - and I would just cringe and have to stop hopping!) eventually had me spent.
Yes, I could do this workout with success - no need to pause the tape or modify the moves - in a way that I only dreamed I could do earlier in my fitness career. But I was dripping sweat by the end, begging for the cool-down (complete with a choreographed routine - I'd nearly forgotten about those!), and in no way did I feel like I had taken a too-easy primrose path for my cardio today.
Yup, that young Cathe (with an equally young Cedie and Rhonda, among a class of seven particpants) could still make me work a smidgen harder than I thought I could, and appreciate the challenge. *After* I was done, of course.
Thanks, Cathe
I pulled out Mega Step Blast today, I'm adding some of the older step routines to the LIS rotation. So excited to see this post 
