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Challenge #5 is almost here....starts on the 23rd.

Challenges are now eclectic...everyone is doing whatever they want and posting for encouragement on the Challenge thread:

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Hope you'll join in....

Hello Everyone....I Am in !!!!

Hope everyone is getting their next challenge / rotation ready....
it's almost here
2010 Challenge #4 April 18 thru May 22

Mistic posted a great rotation for Challenge #4
-check it out on a post dated 03-31-10

Or, do whatever works best for you.

Either way - We're in this together.
Hope you'll join us on the 2010 Challenge #4 Thread:

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Terri

Edited by: SMILES4383 at: 4/13/2010 (10:48)

Challenge #3 starts tomorrow.

The Challenge Thread continues and is located

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Can't wait.

For Fitness I'll be using Mesocycle #3 and a variety of Cathe Cardio for my plan.

For Nutrition I will be continuing my 4x/day plan dispersed using the Diabetic Exchanges as follows:

8 Protein (vegetarian)
6 Bread (includes starchy veggies)
6 Fat (includes nuts & fatty veggies ie: olives,avocados)
6 Fruits
6 Veggies

T.

Oh wow! I can't believe an additional 20% - that is great! Thanks!

sometimes they're up to an additional 20%.

I forget what I purchased, but it was an item already on 30% discount....so it was a great buy.

Question - I don't have a Facebook account, and I don't think I'd have time to check it often enough if I did. For those that do and are a fan of Facebook - are the discounts that she has worth having one and checking it once in awhile? I DO need some stuff! (I just got the postcard in the mail for her March discounts - yeah! I'm also getting emails with her discounts.... I just don't have time to be posting here, there and everywhere!

Thanks for all of the advice! I received the MMA Fusion but I'm waiting for the other two MMA videos to come in. Then I'll start with the kickboxing.

Thanks again!

~Ann

Check out the Cathe Choreography Forum

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Ann: The Kickboxing dvd workout seems to be an introductory workout, which I needed, to learn the different moves and segments (of whatever she calls them). Once you get that down a little, it's fun to move on to the Boxing workout. (I have even gone back and forth on the 2 and gotten a great workout.) I haven't tried the Fusion workout - I need to get the 1st 2 down before I move on the the Fusion - I figured it was harder - but I'm not sure.

Unfortuately, I can't print any excel or work docs for the sheet. But, I'll get by with my own workbook! Thanks for the link!

I just purchased all three of the MMA workouts. Any advice? Thanks!

~Ann

I found this link on the Cathe Forums.
It has a little bit of everything for worksheets, record keeping, and even some recipe planners.

fitfig.com/tools/

There are no premixes on TravelFit but it would be fairly easy to break it apart if you wanted to. I used it once on my last business trip and it was effective. :)

I LOVE that one......It's going to be my go to workout on days when I don't feel like doing a full out weight training workout.
Don't get me wrong....it is NOT easy....but it is a good overall workout. I mean, you KNOW you've done something CATHE. :o)

Thanks for the info.
I had seen some threads about the shock cardio workouts as everyone was receiving them, but haven't come back to check out comments on them. Too many projects and hobbies lately.
I did get Travel fit as well. Also still in the cellophane, but I'm glad to have that one for traveling.
Are there pre-mixes on there? I guess I could pull out travel fit and do just upper body. That actually sounds like fun for something new.

Kimberly,
Here is a link that lists all the SCS DVD's and comments from Cathe Fans who have tried them.

Did you get Travel Fit?
It's a great one too!!!

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I found the MMA Kickboxing to be the least intense of the Shock Cardio so far. Cathe does have a thread on her website where she lists them according to intensity and I think that one was the first or at least down there on the intensity scale. The only step I have done so far was the Atheltic step, I don't have the time to take to learn Step Moves right now and it takes me awhile to get the step routines. AS was very cardio challenging not so much on the choreography though. It is easy to pick up and I have read that SM is much less demanding than AS but harder to pick up the choreography.

I did Cardio Core Circuit and was surprised on how hard that one hit me! Man those cardio drills sure do add up. I was really dragging by the 4th one. The Core part I could handle but that cardio sure did whip me!

I know, that is how I convinced myself it was ok not to do any weight training - after all I was running a lot. Feels good to be back to the weight training even if it is just 2 days a week, and shorter workouts.

I'd try one of the step workouts then. ;) I still haven't tried any of the HIIT workouts. LOL I wouldn't call training for a marathon slacking... but I know what you mean!

Doing well here, just been MIA on pretty much all things sparkpeople lately. Doesn't help that I was a major Cathe Slacker for the entire month of December either because this is the sp forum I'm most active on.
I've been training for a marathon - which is why I haven't been doing Cathe. I finally got better and for the last 2 weeks have done some Cathe upper body and abs on my 2 days that I'm supposed to cross train.
I ordered the Shock cardio and they are still not even out of the cellophane. Can't wait to try those, but it won't be until after the marathon at the end of February. Any suggestions as to what to try first -I'm sure I'll want low impact not too hard at first.
Have a great day everyone!

So how is everyone today???

I used to do that (enter each exercise and save the workout in favorites.) but that was before sts. There are so many sts workouts that I haven't wanted to take the time to enter them. Plus I use cathe's site to log those workouts now and 1 time logging them is good enough for me.

It seemed less consuming because of the time required to load the DVD go to the menu chapters to figure out all the exercise to add the # of reps, ect than to just type in the DVD name add that as a favorite..any way it seemed that way to me. Haven't tried it yet so I will see....

It is less time consuming than setting up the individual exercises... BUT, once set up as a favorite, it is much easier to just select that.

Ok....now I'm lost.

How is it less time consuming to enter something multiple times than it is to enter it ONCE under FAVORITES and then just add your minutes?

Yep!

Ok Thanks! So when you say you enter yours SHANIHIB you put in the title of the DVD, say STS Disc 1, over and over until it totals 55 minutes? That is a less time consuming idea!

I have entered several, but lately I just put the whole workout in as the exercise and repeat until I've come up to the amount of time worked out (each entry equals 5 minutes.)

I use the Tracker for Cathe. But, I just enter the workout DVD....not the individual workouts.
I just count the minutes and log them in under the Cardio portion of the tracker.

I was wondering about using the Fitness tracker here on SP and what I was curious about if other members of this team have taken the time to enter exercises from Cathe's weight workouts and if so will they be available for me to select of will I have to enter them each individually?

I already use the Workout Manager on CatheNation but that doesn't really list each individual exercise, just the DVD, and I want to start tracking my workouts more intensely. My thoughts of doing it here instead would be to get points for my teams and hopefully not to have enter each exercise individually.

Thanks for you response

2010 is starting out to be a VERY GOOD YEAR......

Happy New Year everyone! I'm kind of eager for this one to be done myself... I want to get to a normal life again (maybe?)

Happy Last Day of 2009 ......may it go quickly

Edited by: SMILES4383 at: 12/31/2009 (00:52)

Speaking of shipping, I still haven't gotten a shipping notice and SNM said not to ask about shipments... I wonder if I should be concerned yet.

Has anyone gotten their calendar yet? Has it begun shipping? I haven't gotten mine and it just occurred to me that it is pretty late for that!

Yup.... BESTIE really surprised me....FOR SURE.

Check out ALL the Shock Cardio Workout DVD's

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Terri: I couldn't believe it when I read that your BFF sent you a weighted vest - wow! I am so jealous - I have to admit! You will be ready for your next round of STS - you are one lucky woman. (A little bit late - but I had to chime in...)

I can't wait to open my Shock Cardio, either. I've been watching the clips on the website and I showed my 15-year-old daughter what "we'll" be doing after Christmas. She said "no way". I said "you'll be watching me, then. I've been practicing my jumps on the step with 2 risers underneath and doing HIIT on the treadmill to get ready!" Woo Hoo! It's great to be 50 be ready for the challenge.

Pauline - NO WAY.....OPEN IT UPON ARRIVAL!!!

Shani - you'll LOVE the vest

Congrats! I'm going to get mine before a trip to Chile and I'm so excited. For once I'll have something that will be conducive to traveling. :)

I just got the notice that my Cardio was shipped. WooHoo! Now I should wait until after Christmas to open it, maybe! LOL!

How cool! I got one for myself for Christmas... I wanted my hubby to give it to me, but he refuses! LOL

Imagine my surprise when I arrived home yesterday and there was a big box sent from CATHE....
I was concerned at the size and weight of the box --- as I knew that the new Cardio Series is not going to be nearly that heavy....and BESIDES, it was way early...

Then, I thought - as I lifted it into the house ....HEAVY.... that maybe they sent me the wrong thing and I was concerned that i would have to take the thing back....UPS is a ways from home and I didn't want to fool with it.

IMAGINE my surprise and THRILL when I discovered that my BESTIE from Georgia had sent me ....

drum roll please

T H E W E I G H T E D V E S T



I am so happy.....it fits like it was made just for me.

My next STS rotation will be SO COMPLETE.

Terri

Don't forget to check out the great FEATURES that Cathe now has on Facebook....

SparkPeople and Cathe -- What a combo !!!

If you haven't checked out Cathe lately.....
now is a great time...

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Great info, thanks!

Cathe on the front page of
Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Cathe Friedrich, 45, co-owner of Four Seasons Health Club in Glassboro and an instructor, had inflamed tissue in a knee from daily hammering in the aerobics studio. DiNubile operated in 2006.

"After 40, the injuries start creeping up faster," she said.

Overuse is one of the main causes. At the same time, the benefits of exercise come from pushing limits. "It's a fine line," Friedrich allowed. "As we get older, that fine line gets finer."

No one is suggesting that boomers trade in their gym shorts for the La-Z-Boy. Rather, they need to change their approach to physical activity.

Friedrich advises the mature members of her classes - more than a third of a recent Advance Step/Upper Body Blast session was well past needing kiddie-care - to stretch, spend more time warming up and cooling down, and take a day off to allow for recovery. She has adjusted her own regimen along those lines."
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Mine is on the way! WooHoo!

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Shipments on THE TOWER have begun.
It's only a matter of time now.

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Another GREAT reason to purchase your Cathe DVD'd from www.CATHE.com

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