Boot Camp

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 2002

Categories: Circuit Training (cardio and weights)


This workout is very different than anything I've ever tried. The warm up gets you pumping fast with windmills, leg raises, kickbox moves, etc. Then you're onto your 8 cycles. They consist of 1 minute each of: Cardio, Lower Body, Upper Body, and Core work. The cardio segments are doozies - much like the blast segments of either Imax. The lower body work is standard Cathe - low ends, squats, leg presses, lunges, etc. The upperbody work is done with fairly light weight (8# db in most cases) but you are doing hammer curls, overhead presses, flies, for 1 minute, so after awhile, the muscles will feel it. And when I reached the core work, I thought, 'phew - a chance to relax.' Hah! Cathe works the abs and low back like no other. These are tough minutes! The body has to keep changing focus and I think that was another challenging aspect of this workout. You're done in about 53 min., but you are very tired and sweaty after those 53 min. If you have the DVD, you also get the option of doing 'everything but the core work' and then doing all of the core work back to back. This is a fabulous DVD and comes highly recommended from yours truly!

Instructor Comments:
Cathe is super tough and serious, but still down to earth and humorous. Cathe is very 'psyched' on this one. She is focused and energetic and just so inspiring!

ponytail

03/07/2003