Cross Train Express: Leaner Legs

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 2000

Categories: Lower Body Strength


Nobody will say this is an easy workout. But I might be the only one who will say I don't care for it. I just don't find it appealing. I do get a good workout, but it seems like overkill. Admittedly, my legs are my better part, so perhaps I'm not in touch with the "real world" when I call it overkill. But it seems to me a waste of time to do 75,000 squats. After all, what benefit can there be after number 25,000 :)

The warmup is completely inadequate and a recipe for muscle cramps. I do about a half-hour of cardio before I do this tape to make sure my legs muscles are hot and the blood is flowing well. You start off with squats, and in the first 5 minutes, you do about a bzillion of them. Throughout the rest of the workout, you do some other things too, such as lunges, calf raises, deadlifts -- but you go back to the squats and variations thereof a lot.

Don't get me wrong -- this is definitely a workout that will leave your legs trembly and weak. But I can get the same effect with other tapes without having to feel like I'm working instead of working out.

Annie S.

02/11/2001