Recent content by rcbinmichigan

I've followed the discussions re: P90X over the last couple of years, and am going to finally do it Jan - Mar, before I start marathon training for the 08 Detroit Marathon. Re: discussions about difficulties in purchasing from Beach Body, what is the current recommendations from you experts...

Does anyone know of a training program for learning how to coach people that they think is good effective? I know of Well Coaches, and I was told to check out intrinsiccoaching.com, but they don't describe their philosophy/training. I emailed them, and got a sales pitch back. I'm not...

Shoulder Presses/Cleans I work at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Medicine clinic, and across the hall from us is MedSport, the orthopedic and physical therapy clinic. Several of the physical therapists over there have told me shoulder presses and cleans compromise the shoulder joint...

Thanks, all, for these suggestions. I will look them up and forward the descriptions to the workshop facilitator for consideration.

Hi, I support a dietitian/social worker at the University of Michigan who leads a 12-week workshop addressing emotional eating. She uses a film clip from a 1990 movie called "Eating," which has white, thin, glamorous, narcissistic female characters talking about childhood food associations and...

Funny--it is all varying musical tastes! I don't like "Pina Colada," "Jessie's Girl," any Michael Jackson song, the Supremes song that starts LG, and esp. esp. esp. the Stones "Under My Thumb" in HSC. I find the Body Blast series music to be less enjoyable, as well as Pure Strength's and...

I would also like to suggest that there could be an optional longer (minimum 10 minutes) warmups and cooldowns, and that the optional longer cooldown hold each stretch for at least 30 seconds. I find I need a longer warmup (although the last series greatly meets that need), and for adequate...

Planks are an excellant, effective move. The ACE article suggest a standing cable pulley crunch, a stability ball curl, and a push-up walk-out (from the push up position, walk your hands forward). I do some BOSU work, actually for shoulder stabilization (I had rotator cuff surgery), and...

Working the muscles in a lot of crunches trains them to be "poochy," and crunches are not an effective ab exercise. A lot of Cathe's ab routines, esp the older ones, are mostly variations on crunches. Doing movements that don't crunch the abs are far more effective in strengthing the core, and...

RE: 20/20- I am a 45 y.o. woman who always does athletic training (i.e., power stepping, running, boot camp) and I am a healthy weight with no health issues (a little post-menopausal abdominal pudge, alas). I work in the U of Mi Preventive Cardiology (incl. cardiac rehab) and am a personal...

Yes! You've made my day with that announcement! I have a 5-disc player and I love mish-moshing my Cathe workouts! Thanks, SNM.

Hi, SNM, will you ever put up the chapter/title breakdown of each workout like you did with the Intensity series? I was hoping it would be in the catalog, though an on-line version is best (so I can copy and paste into an Excel spreadsheet, for a log for each workout). I don't have this...

Sorry, I posted this erroneously in Rotations forum--I've re-posted it in the Open Discussion forum. Please disregard this posting.

Hi, all, and Happy Holidays. I posted this last night erroneously on the rotations forum. Here is where I meant to post this: I'm a long-time fitness enthusiast and clean-eating vegan, with post-menopausal weight I'd like to lose. I'm a healthy weight, but thicker than I was pre-age 35...

Hi, all, and Happy Holidays. I'm a long-time fitness enthusiast and clean-eating vegan, with post-menopausal weight I'd like to lose. I'm a healthy weight, but thicker than I was pre-age 35, could not be a bikini model. I'm healthy, energetic, work out a lot, also I'm currently recovering...