Product Description
LEVEL: Advanced
WORKOUTS INCLUDED: This DVD contains three muscle conditioning workouts--Cathe's Power Hour,
Maximum Intensity Strength and Body Max (Body Max contains both cardio and weight training)
LENGTH: Power Hour is 55 minutes; MIS is 75 minutes; Body Max is 91 minutes
EQUIPMENT: Power Hour requires a step, a barbell, and various dumbbells; MIS requires a step, a high step or
stool, a barbell, and various dumbbells; Body Max requires a step, a barbell, and various dumbbell
As with all of Cathe's DVDs, you can easily program your DVD player to choose only the sections of each
workout that you want to do. You can even mix one section from one workout with another.
POWER HOUR is a total body muscular endurance workout is sure to leave no muscle untouched or under
worked. To get the maximum benefits out of this workout, you'll need an adjustable barbell and various
weighted dumbbells, but you can modify the weight load to meet your specific goals and fitness leve. The
workout is tightly choreographed to 10 songs. You'll begin with a warm up song, and then each song
following that will target a major muscle group at a time and work it to exhaustion. To do this, each muscle
group will engage in high repetitions and a series of various weighted movement patterns for the duration of
a song. To get superior results, you'll need to find the most challenging weight possible that allows you to
complete each song yet still maintain good form and alignment. You'll complete the workout with a relaxing
stretch. POWER HOUR creates good posture, improved muscle tone, strengthens your core region (the
body's center of power), and promotes functional fitness.
Power Hour Format: warm - up 5 1/2 min, strength training exercises 40 min., Abs 6 min., Stretch 3
min.)
MAXIMUM INTENSITY STRENGTH (MIS) is a 75 minute advanced muscular conditioning video.This workout
requires the use of a barbell (15 lbs. to 40 lbs.), dumbbells (5 lbs. to 20 lbs.) and a 8 to 10 inch Step. Cathe
has structured the workout to target all the major muscle groups beginning with the larger muscle groups
first. Each muscle group is worked to exhaustion before moving on to the next.
Each muscle group segment begins with helpful form pointers, so you can be sure you're properly performing
all the exercises in this workout, thus promoting further muscle and fitness gains.
This super challenging workout concludes with an intense 10 minute abdominal routine. This workout should
be alternated with Maximum Intensity Cardio (or any of Catheís step aerobic videos) for a complete and
balanced workout.
Maximum Intensity Strength Format: Warm-up with step.....6.5 min., Buttocks/Legs.....18.5 min,
Chest.....8 min., Back.....7.5 min., Shoulders.....7 min., Biceps.....6 min., Triceps.....7.5min.,
Abdominals.....10 min., Stretch.....3 min.)
BODY MAX is a completely different type of workout with the emphasis on aerobics and endurance.
This cross-training workout begins with 24 minutes of simple but intense step aerobics.
The circuit section in the middle of the workout , is approximately 20 minutes in length and will provide you
with a "shock your metabolism" effect since it consists of 5 cycles - each one moving quickly from high
intensity step - to plyo step - to a very brief recovery and immediately into leg work with weights.)
The third section is approx. 20 minutes long and provides an all-out-non stop- upper body-weight workout
that is similar in style to "Maximum Intensity Strength", however, the focus is on endurance and the rest
periods are shorter. And finally, if you have survived this far, Cathe will take you through a 7 minute. killer ab
routine.
The workout concludes with a relaxing stretch.
Body Max is a cross training workout within itself. We suggest you use this on a day that you want to target
and condition every major muscle in your body but also want to get an intense cardio workout.
Body Max Format: Warm-up 8 min., step aerobics 24 mins., power circuit intervals 19 min., cool
down 2 mins., upper-body muscle conditioning 34 minutes., stretch 4 mins.