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Working Out Week 15 of 2014

This week my workouts were all Cathe Friedrich workouts using her various dvd’s that I own.  I have decide to follow her April rotation of workouts for the rest of this month since I am all done with P90X3.  I really enjoyed and toned up so much using P90X3 but I have missed my Cathe workouts.

I began this week with the second week in the April rotation since I missed the first week.  I did have to substitute a workout or two for the month with a different one since I didn’t have a few of them.  I did end up ordering a couple more of her dvd’s at the beginning of the week and got them by Thursday so I was able to use one of those for Friday – Cross Fire.  Below was my schedule this past week:

  • Monday – Flex Train – 57 minutes
  • Tuesday – Hard Strikes (Xtrain series) – 47 minutes
  • Wednesday – Party Rockin Step – 46 min premix
  • Thursday – Afterburn (Low Impact Series) – 54 minutes
  • Friday – Cross Fire – 55 minutes
  • Saturday – Yoga & Foam Roller stretching – 15 minutes

I did not do the workout on the schedule for Saturday which was Supercuts.  I decided after this hard schedule this past week I needed a little break and my oldest son had to be at a band tryout for school at 7 am.

My goal for this week was to try and do all of the workouts in their entirety which is something I don’t always do with the Cathe workouts since there are so many premixes that offer shorter versions of the workouts.  The premixes are still tough but just shorter – like 25 to 40 minutes versus 45 to 60 minutes.  I am so pleased that I was able to do all of the workouts in their entirety except for the Party Rockin Step – I did  a version that was 10 minutes shorter that day.

Party Rockin Step Workout  Kimberlees Korner

Cross Fire was a new workout for me that I had not done yet.  It was HARD!  Lots of cardio circuits and tabatas with and without weights.  You even had to do speed skaters with 3 pound dumbbells – that was a lot hard than doing them without the weights.  I enjoyed this workout a lot and look forward to doing it again – maybe not the entire 55 minutes, though.

cathe cross fire workout  Kimberlees Korner

 

My cat loves Cathe workouts, too.  He especially loves those slide and glide discs – whenever I have them out he sits by them.

Below is a photo of the front and back of my shirt after the Cross Fire workout.  I have not sweat that much in a while – maybe since T-25 or a Cathe workout I did back in the fall.

cathe cross fire  Kimberlees Korner

 

I also decided to get a foam roller this week.  A few people in my facebook fitness group have them and really like them.   I came across a workout in an older Shape magazine I had and that reminded me that I still hadn’t gotten one yet.   I was recycling some magazines and before I get rid of them I like to go through and rip out the articles, or workouts, I want to save and then I store them in 3 ring binder.

Foam Roller   Kimberlees Korner

I used the foam roller and the workout a couple of evenings this past week and on Saturday morning.  I have been walking in the evenings a few times a week with my husband in our neighborhood and this foam roller routine is great after walking.  It really stretches your muscles.

I will be continuing on with my Cathe workouts using week 3 of the April rotation next week.   If you are not familiar with her workouts they are lots of fun and always very challenging.  I also really like that you can see 5 to 10 minute clips of the dvd on her website so you know what you are getting.  I have been using her workouts since 2006 after my sister-in-law told me about them.

I hope everyone had a great week.

Kimberlee