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I actually felt like phase 3 was a vacation. LOL. I think it's because there were less days that challenged my cardio endurance. Like, even if I'm lifting really heavy for upper body, I still do not get as out of breath as I do during actual cardio routines. Lower body days are the exception to...

I enjoy yoga's spiritual and physical benefits. The encouragement to slow down and breathe deep through difficult poses and stretches just helps calm my nervous system. That's part of the original point of yoga is to develop the skill of calming oneself through difficulties. Do I lose my sh!t...

@Cathe Friedrich so cool of you to respond - I was wondering if you might try a mini screen down in the lower left or right corner that just has one camera that is always focused on you while the full view has the flexibility to switch between you and your participants. I don't do any film work...

No - if you're using cathe's weights it varies from 28 at the very beginning to 10-16-ish. It's kind of all over the place. So, if you're choosing to go really heavy, you'll have to pace yourself.

This was one of my download purchases from the holiday sales. I really loved Cathe's energy during this workout. Music was great, too. Definitely hit the upper body good. Did this in place of an earlier planned STS 2 upper body workout today. If you're following along with Cathe in this workout...

I don't think the service is better or worse based on your operating system, to be honest. It more likely has something to do with connectivity with your ISP or maybe WiFi, or perhaps issues on Cathe's servers or with their ISP. For someone living in the contiguous US, I'm more tempted to point...

I thought they said they were only releasing this as an entire series... well, at least in DVD form? Maybe I misunderstood.

I downloaded this during holiday sales and did it for the first time this morning. It was a nice alternative fill-in for what I had originally planned for the day: Mishmosh premix from STS 2 Body Parts Triceps & Body Parts Chest. I particularly appreciated the alternating moves with the chest...

The lag and dropped connection issues smack in the middle of a workout are also why I am reluctant to re-sub to OnDemand. Had it happen to me a couple of times and it's just flipping frustrating. Especially when you're very warmed up and then end up cooling down almost completely as you try to...

Did this for the second time through - this time I had notes ready and felt like I went sufficiently heavy. I really enjoyed this workout - super glad I downloaded it. It's a fun change-up to do everything uni-laterally. I really enjoy the close grip bench press/pec fly combo towards the end - I...

Makes sense - I did it in Numbers, @Peaceful Rainbow :)

Hmmm - it's got a lot of compound moves and although heavy, she keeps the pace at a pretty good clip with very brief rests between exercises so it definitely has a metabolic cardio effect for me. Your sis may be in better shape than me - but ask her about them burpees... ;) I guess if one's...

This is what I've come up with for my fill-in rotation for now. I was noticing after doing a lot of predominately heavy strength work that I was starting to miss doing occasional strength endurance. Also had an "uh oh!" moment when I recently did some lower body floor work that some of those...

This. I'm jaded, though, from having worked with far too many sales people. Overpromising to get their money ASAP is par for the course. Yes, I trust we'll get our beautifully-orchestrated and cultivated series. It's just not something for me to actually make plans around until I have the DVDs...

These sales are definitely forcing me to test my will power. I had a bunch of stuff I put in my cart yesterday but ultimately decided to dump it. I'm getting to the point now where I have several new workouts I've not even touched yet, and that frustrates me because it makes me feel like I'm...

Just finished out PUB as the companion today. I did a new approach with some of the exercises where I stayed pretty heavy on the "up" portion, but when we were dropping back down in weights, I went much lighter than what I started with to do a sort of "finisher" concept. Oh - except on the...

Cathe's had a few knee surgeries in the past, too - not pointing fingers and blaming those exercises as culprits, but I don't imagine they particularly helped her knees, either. I think Cathe was in her 30s when doing that series, though - less risk of injury, perhaps. But yeah, my knees never...

Oh, I'm not complaining about the soreness - for me it's a good indicator that I've hit my muscles thoroughly. That's not to say that the only effective workout is one that gives you DOMS, of course. Anyway, I do modify part of that floor work. My knees will NOT tolerate the single-legged hip...

Yep, I have most of those workouts and know they have floor work in them, too. The issue with a lot of those is they're more endurance-based strength work rather than full on heavy strength training. I suppose I could consider PLB to be endurance-based given the volume of reps in it. (52 reps...

Nope. I was referring to Intensity series' Pyramid Lower Body.