This workout has been a useful and convenient addition to my collection. I have the DVD, which includes the entire Pyramid Lower Body Workout, as well as pre-mixes that include Up the Pyramid Only, Down the Pyramid Only and a total body combo. Each set of each exercise is also chaptered individually, so you can skip ahead or program workouts to your specifications at will.

Structurally, this workout is comparable to Joyce Vedral’s Definition workout, but it is longer and better produced. Minus the ball work, the upper body workout is about half an hour but Cathe moves at a slower and more careful pace than Joyce does, and her instruction and form are far superior. Each exercise gets 5 sets, but since you only do 2 exercises per body part, the time flies by. These are classic moves that would be familiar to most exercisers at this level. My only complaint was the fact that the rests are almost non-existent. The workout moves at a fairly brisk pace, especially for a Cathe tape.

The strength routine is followed by some of the most difficult ball work I have ever seen (although to be fair, she does show non-ball modifications), including the now-famous “Pike” move where, for the second time in my entire life as a vidiot, I sat there stunned, so out of my league that I could not even decide how to modify the move into something I actually could do. I have since decided that Cathe is either an alien, a robot, or else she has magic powers of some kind, so I can enjoy this perfectly nice upper body strength workout and skip the supernatural display of powers guilt-free :-)

Joanna