Recent content by jgoycoolea

Special K - but to it I add cooked quinoa and blueberries.

Dear Cathe, I am loving the new Low Impact series. How you manage to keep putting new twists on old exercises and keeping the fun and fresh is amazing. You are truly an innovator! I did Turbo Barre upper body muscle endurance yesterday. I never thought I'd see the day when you would have...

I have had the CTX series since it came out. I do it every so often. It hasn't gained too much dust. Every time I do the triceps I am asking myself "What did she say?" At the very beginning of the triceps when Cathe starts into the close grip tricep presses with the barbell, she says "Knuckles...

That was great! Thanks. --Jeanne

Besides the obvious Cardio Hiit DVD,what other Cathe work could be considered Hiit? For instance, the Cardio Core Circuit express circuit premix? Or the IMax 3 all 10 blasts only premix? The Kickmax Blast challenge? Cardio only of Shock Cardio Circuit Blast? What about 4DS Bootcamp? Or do you...

When you do the double leg bar work of Lower Body Blast, how high up on your toes do you go? Are you all the way up on the toes only, or are the balls of your feet still on the ground? Any thoughts on what one position does vs another? And if you keep both heels on the ground do you feel like...

I love BM2! I love the music, it just makes me want to step. And I love the choreogrpahy in it to. It is so fun! It is also easy to modify to lower impact on those kind of days. I have a lot of Cathe's and this may very well be a favorite. It is standing the test of time.

The talk of air jacks and tuck jumps, combined with my having done CTX 10 10 10 today, inspires me to share a high impact move I sort of made up and do in place of moves I don't care for. I do plyo heel digs (a la 10 10 10) laterally over the top of my 10 inch step. How come we never see plyo...

Tuck jumps are way harder for me, especially when you bring your knees up. In one dvd Cathe brings the feet to the butt in a tuck jump (I think its Kick Max) and they are a little easier. So easiest to hardest to me: 1. Air jacks 2. Tuck jumps, feet to butt 3. Tuck jump, knees up But...

4DS had step and upper body circuit. Definitely LIS and upper. Maybe HIS and upper. There may be bootcamp and upper body too. I forget.

I find that I have a greater motivation to work out when I think about working out as a positive action--that is I am strengthening and defining my muscles and increasing my cardio capacity, as opposed to some negating action--I am working out just to undo the chocolates I ate. Such a frame of...

I just did LIS circuit followed by LBB tower work. I felt fondly nostalgic to read "Gin Miller." She taught me how to step 20+ years ago on tv. My husband had made me a wooden step to see if I would like it before we bought one. I then bought the Reebok step and it is still going strong...

An exercise and its variations done in PUB and Intensity Series Bootcamp--you lie flat on the floor holding a weight in your hands and sit all the way up while simultaneously lifting your legs up. In PUB Cathe alternates a "tap tap" with the legs moving quickly with a "partial crunch" and...

If that's what I wanted to do, I'd just do it on that day too. I've never had anything go horribly wrong. I'd take the chance.

First and foremost, I belive it is important for your workout to be meeting your primary goal which for you is to include yoga, be it for mental recuperation of muscle lengthening or whatever. So congrats to you on not doing something different because perhaps (I don't want to put any words in...