Circuit Max

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 2000

Categories: Circuit Training (cardio and weights)


If you're looking for a workout that won't kill you "Cathe style", will keep your heart rate up and give you a decent workout, this is the vid for you. She does intervals of cardio and light weight work and the entire workout is designed to keep your heart rate up which for me, it succeeded in doing. There are 5 or 6 cycles of cardio/weight work. As far as complaints, if 80's bothers you, don't watch this vid. You may have to be rushed to emergency for sheer repulsion! The music and the hi/low is VERY 80's and like someone else on this site put it, very uninspiring (think Maximum Intensity cardio). She does however, do a few kickboxing routines and a step routine which I was quite impressed with because of how tired they got me and how much I enjoyed doing them, but I realize that's subjective. I also didn't care for how much floor space was necessary at the beginning when she does sort of a mini hi/low routine w/the warmup. I was all the way into my hallway tripping over stuff to try and keep up with her. So to sum it up. Music and hi-lo are very boring, 80's and annoying. Step/kickboxing cardio routines were great as well as the weight work. Workout is challenging without being murderous and does the trick. I'd keep it and I'd do it again.

Instructor Comments:
Cathe's her usual upbeat self in this video. If you know Cathe, you know that she doesn't change much from one vid to the next.

Evelyn Jenkins

05/12/2008