Body Max is the most awesome exercise video on the market!!! It is very high intensity and high impact. It is full of fun complex choreography. Cathe doesn't teach the moves slowly, because she feels that just doing the video over and over will be enough for you to learn it. Then when you do get it, you don't have someone breaking down moves you already know.

The video starts out with high intensity step that has alot of high impact. You might need to lower your step height on this one. My heartrate was in it's target heartrange within minutes of the workout. So Cathe does not waste a minute! I recall some of these moves from Step Heat( heel toe jack), A step( Step Max), Step Fit( step knee and back it up and kick). This choreography is so much fun. The music is the best upbeat music I've heard in stepping. It is MusicFlex.

The next part is a circuit using the step and lower body toning with a barbell and weights. Cathe starts out with a short step section using power and then she goes into a really really high impact power section to make your heartrate soar. Then you do toning for your lower body using your step. She does dips off the step with heavy weights. Then it's back to stepping with more power moves. The music is great and upbeat and really motivating. Other toning moves are , squats with barbell, lunges, plie squats, static lunges. My oh my! These are very tough combined with high intensity stepping. I even hear Cathe kinda gasping for air as she is doing some high impact moves.

After the circuit section, you do a small cool down with some stretches for your calves, hamstring, hip flexors.

Then you aren't finished! You do upper body work. This is the order, chest( chest press with dumbells and barbell and lots of pushups with very little rest!), back, shoulders, biceps, triceps. Then you do abs. The ab section is very very tough. I love it though. Then you do a very nice short floor stretches to some really nice soothing music.

The set is bright and colorful and Cathe is so friendly and cheerful. It is a pleasure doing her video's. It is so much fun even though it is very tough work!

You WILL see results using this workout with consistancy. It works your heart to the max and your muscles to the max! Total body. No other workout gets better than Body Max!!!!!

Instructor Comments:
Cathe's cueing is wonderful. She really is breathing hard and sweating away with you. It is like a live class. My favorite part is when she says," Is that you I hear breathing at home?!!" Cathe is my favorite cardio workout!

Mandy Lee