Butts & Guts

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 2006

Categories: Lower Body Strength


Beth everything down well, so I will offer some general impressions.
I LOVE this workout. It is challenging without being TOO tough. Many lower body workouts favor the quads, but this one gets the glutes as well. The standing segment utilizes a pair of light dumbells, a barbell, a high step, and a resistance band. The exercises include traveling lunges, squats, one-legged squats, deadlifts, and my personal favorites, firewalkers and low-pulse lunges. We hit the floor for outer thighs on the stability ball, followed by glute/hamstring bridge on the ball. Butt raises on the step with ankle weights, inner thighs, and butt work on all fours round out the routine. Cathe begins a very thorough ab segment with a weighted roll down/up/punch combo. Using weights isn't my preferred method of working the abs but only 2 more exercises with weights follow- weighted obliques and controlled crunches. We drop the weights for bicycles, more oblique work, crunch variations and plank work. Lower back rounds out the core work.

Instructor Comments:
Cathe is great as always. She is professional and encouraging. She offers up form pointers. Cathe is a great lead. What more can I say?

Melissa P

03/02/2012