Tuesday -Power Hour

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Hi!

I'm finally getting a chance to check in - I did

Cathe's Power Hour this morning. An " oldie " for me -

from 2001, and I haven't done it in quite some time.

I wonder why? I really liked this workout and will

definately try to remember to pull it out more often.

It is an endurance based workout sort of " body pump "

style (although, I've never taken a body pump class).

It is similar to Jari Love's Get Ripped Workout.

Cathe works one body part at a time with continious

movement - and different rep tempos and speeds -

including the dreaded low ends. Most of the exercises

were fairly traditional with the twist being the

varying tempos/rep speeds, etc.. The music is well

choreographed to the workout and speeds up/slows down

as appropriate.

The warm-up is done with light weights doing some of

the moves you'll do in the body of the workout. After

the warm-up it is on to working out one body part for

each segment:

legs (squats, including plies)

chest (push-ups, bench press and flies)

back (deadrows, deadlifts, one arm rows)

legs (lunges - static with lots of pulses and low

ends!)

shoulders (the one unique move was a front raise

holding a barbell plate - a dumbell could be

substituted - other than that, lateral raises, upright

rows, etc.)

biceps (lots of curls with different tempo variations)

triceps (tricep extensions and kickbacks)

abs (some traditional curls - I did some of them on my

ball and some planks and stabilization moves)

The cooldown/stretch was really short and should have

been longer, I added my own stretches briefly.

I expect some soreness tomorrow!

For this one, I lightened my weights since the

emphasis is more high rep/endurance - Cathe does amaze

me at doing squats w/ 40 lbs for a 'lighter weight'

workout - for me, that would definately be a heavy

day!

Oh, a nice feature of this workout is that before each

body part segment Cathe tells you what you'll need and

discusses the proper form for the exercise. Great if

you're new to weight training and also good if you're

experienced as a reminder.

Tomorrow the plan is for moderate cardio or low max

(depending on my energy level). Thursday I'd like to

do one of the High Step workouts - and Friday I'll do

whatever I didn't do on Wed.

Hope everyone has a great day!

P.S. - Darcy, it is awesome that your PT stuff is

working out so well!!

Donna

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