Recent content by Kellyro77

Old thread revised - I decided after my initial questions to just go ahead and use any of the three LB STS 2.0 workouts when it came down to the Body Parts phase of her rotation. Was nice to do in case I was getting bored with only doing Body Parts Legs. All were effective. @Debinmi good call...

Nice work, Nabbe! I'm impressed you squeezed it into her existing PDF formatting (did you catch that it has a file title in Acrobat that says "ICE User's Guide"? Not a complaint! I giggle at this because I've been seeing that in a few of Cathe's official User's Guides - they occasionally forget...

Grrrrr - thank you for bringing this up. I've not heard anything from CS about it given I was asking them about this very thing after I first purchased all three mesocycles. I'll reach out again.

Thanks for the tidbit on rest periods - makes sense they'd be long for the squat rack legs. I'm expecting something akin to XTrain's Cardio Leg blast for the Plyo Legs workouts, so yeah - not much rest there! I did notice the warmups in STS are pretty brief. I honestly feel barely warmed up at...

Thank you! Agreed on so many of your observations/preferences,@Debinmi I saw this quote the other day and loved it: For Sanity, Not Vanity. I have a feeling that for most people, our attention shifts from aesthetics to just general physical well-being as we progress through life. So much...

Finished Meso 2 today - whoop! I'm happy to have another rest week coming up. A few things I learned during this mesocycle: 1. Referencing a barbell racking calculator is super helpful for planning out my plates setup. Each week after I finished a given workout, I'd make any adjustments to my...

Here you go: User's Guides

She does that with the last set of calf raises, too! She says "let's do 10 slow ones" when, to me, her pace isn't "slow", it's just standard. Yes, she does some quicker pulse ones after, but those ones that she said were supposed to be "slow" certainly were NOT. Remembering this series came out...

Confession: So, I do not like the pace Cathe keeps in the Meso 2 leg workouts. Considering I'm challenging myself with pretty heavy weights, I feel like she reps everything out a bit too fast - especially when she sometimes actually chooses to do some exercises faster - for the "Shock" factor...

Offhand, Cathe's STS 2.0 series has weighted hip thrusts / glute bridges in them: STS 2.0 Giant Sets Total Body STS 2.0 Lower Body 1 STS 2.0 Lower Body 2 STS 2.0 Body Parts Legs There may be some others - if so hopefully others will list them.

I posted this in the Low Max thread where this was asked - copying to here (seems like a better fit for the question :) )

Welcome back! If you're starting from ground zero, I'd recommend the following progression: (This is also assuming you've got your doctor's clearance) Lift, Move, and Restore series Lift, Move, and Restore Elevated series LITE series ICE series XTrain series I'd follow her simple one- or...

Yeah, that's Meso 2 - and I do recall Denise saying "I have the lightest bar" - so, I think she fesses up to not having a challenging enough weight. I have to admit seeing some of the lighter weights the guys were using during the Muscle Endurance phase sometimes got me feeling a bit resentful...

Thank you - this was helpful, too. And you're right - I'm not in that wonderful phase of "Newbie Gains" - which, when I look back at when STS first came out, this was a pretty new concept to a lot of Cathe's followers - I think a lot were doing workouts more in the muscle endurance category (me...

Resurrecting this old thread as I'm finding it super helpful in relation to what I've been experiencing right now with Meso 2. I recently went through and charted all my 1RMs to a spreadsheet - it's helpful for me for a complete overall look at my 1RM results instead of scrolling and clicking...