Re: Re: Lift to Lose Upper Body

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I don't have that one. Did you like it? (If you already reviewed it, let me know and I'll look for it, I'm very behind on posts and emails right now).

I like her a lot. Her workouts are pretty straightforward but she always makes them fun. More "barky" than "perky" sounds about right except she isn't intimidating at all and she can be very goofy. Most of the time the goofiness doesn't bug me but sometimes she gets kind of high pitched in her "enthusiasm" and that does but it doesn't last long at least. This DVD is great because you can do a total body workout in 48 minutes or you can just do upper or lower for 20 minutes (abs/core is 8). I usually do the entire DVD together but needed to do shorter workouts this week so the 20 minute time frame worked well.

Re: Lift to Lose Upper Body

I just did my first Kathy workout last night -- "Great buns and thighs," a step aerobic. I think I've been doing too much aerobics and not enough weights lately, so i think I've soo if they have this one at my library, too.I kind-of liked her -- she seemed more "barky" than "perky." I don't know if I'll get a workout tonight. We have a church meeting at our house, and I know it's not clean enough yet.Indyrose>> I pulled out Kathy 's Lift Weights to Lose Weight and did the first workout, Upper Body. It is 20 minutes but what I'd forgotten, since I hadn't done this in 2 years according to my log, is that there is no warmup. So, I grabbed a random workout and did the warmup off that and then did the Kathy workout. I'd forgotten how much Kathy yells and screeches in this one. She's really on fire and goofy. Moderately annoying but that's especially compounded by the loud music and flashing lights on the American Bandstand type stage. At least the backgrounders aren't miked. This is part of the Timesaver series and in one other workout, that I got rid of, the backgrounders whoop & holler and all kinds of stuff. Anyway, besides those complaints, this is a pretty good workout. One thing I like about this one is that you have the option to do a strength building workout or an endurance workout by following "track 1" (heavy weights only 12 reps of most exercises, strength building) or "track 2" (lighter weights, more reps plus pulses, endurance training). She shows both on the screen and the on screen cues to stop if you're doing track 1 and stretch, then pick up your weights again are very good. I've never done track 1 before and now, my only legitimate complaint about this as a workout is that she tells you to grab your heaviest weights for track 1 but goes through the reps so fast that using truly heavy weights is really difficult. I definitely went lighter than I could have for some exercises because I'd start heavy and realize I couldn't keep pace and use good form. I like to stay with the video and not just go slower on my own so I lightened up and was a little frustrated. This is a 20 minute workout so she does need to go quickly but I'd prefer less variety of exercises instead of going faster. Two highlights of it I liked were the pushups section was very challenging and the tricep dips were a total killer. Those are usually not that bad for me but there are so many! and, with the general speed of the entire workout, your muscles definitely get exhausted quickly. It isn't a great workout but it isn't bad at all either.> > I did the 8 minute abs/core "bonus" workout on this DVD afterwards. It was pretty good. Not great but a decent enough add-on. Tomorrow I'm planning to do probably the same warmup (it worked), the lower body LWTLW workout and the abs again. I might add a 10 minute stretch workout too since there isn't much in the way of stretching on this DVD either. > > >

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Indyrose, in general I really like Kathy's workouts, but as said, in some workouts she really " lets loose " and almost hyperventilates it seems, and she is famous for having really dippy background exercisers that egg her on.

That said, I like her workouts themselves very much and she seems like a sweet person.

 

I don't have that one. Did you like it? (If you already reviewed it, let me know and I'll look for it, I'm very behind on posts and emails right now).

 

I like her a lot. Her workouts are pretty straightforward but she always makes them fun. More " barky " than " perky " sounds about right except she isn't intimidating at all and she can be very goofy. Most of the time the goofiness doesn't bug me but sometimes she gets kind of high pitched in her " enthusiasm " and that does but it doesn't last long at least. This DVD is great because you can do a total body workout in 48 minutes or you can just do upper or lower for 20 minutes (abs/core is 8). I usually do the entire DVD together but needed to do shorter workouts this week so the 20 minute time frame worked well.

 

 

 

 

Re: Lift to Lose Upper Body

 

I just did my first Kathy workout last night -- " Great buns and thighs, " a step aerobic. I think I've been doing too much aerobics and not enough weights lately, so i think I've soo if they have this one at my library, too.I kind-of liked her -- she seemed more " barky " than " perky. " I don't know if I'll get a workout tonight. We have a church meeting at our house, and I know it's not clean enough yet.Indyrose>> I pulled out Kathy 's Lift Weights to Lose Weight and did the first workout, Upper Body. It is 20 minutes but what I'd forgotten, since I hadn't done this in 2 years according to my log, is that there is no warmup. So, I grabbed a random workout and did the warmup off that and then did the Kathy workout. I'd forgotten how much Kathy yells and screeches in this one. She's really on fire and goofy. Moderately annoying but that's especially compounded by the loud music and flashing lights on the American Bandstand type stage. At least the backgrounders aren't miked. This is part of the Timesaver series and in one other workout, that I got rid of, the backgrounders whoop & holler and all kinds of stuff. Anyway, besides those complaints, this is a pretty good workout. One thing I like about this one is that you have the option to do a strength building workout or an endurance workout by following " track 1 " (heavy weights only 12 reps of most exercises, strength building) or " track 2 " (lighter weights, more reps plus pulses, endurance training). She shows both on the screen and the on screen cues to stop if you're doing track 1 and stretch, then pick up your weights again are very good. I've never done track 1 before and now, my only legitimate complaint about this as a workout is that she tells you to grab your heaviest weights for track 1 but goes through the reps so fast that using truly heavy weights is really difficult. I definitely went lighter than I could have for some exercises because I'd start heavy and realize I couldn't keep pace and use good form. I like to stay with the video and not just go slower on my own so I lightened up and was a little frustrated. This is a 20 minute workout so she does need to go quickly but I'd prefer less variety of exercises instead of going faster. Two highlights of it I liked were the pushups section was very challenging and the tricep dips were a total killer. Those are usually not that bad for me but there are so many! and, with the general speed of the entire workout, your muscles definitely get exhausted quickly. It isn't a great workout but it isn't bad at all either.> > I did the 8 minute abs/core " bonus " workout on this DVD afterwards. It was pretty good. Not great but a decent enough add-on. Tomorrow I'm planning to do probably the same warmup (it worked), the lower body LWTLW workout and the abs again. I might add a 10 minute stretch workout too since there isn't much in the way of stretching on this DVD either. > > >

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I'll look forward to reading your review when you get a chance to do it. Don't worry about being a newbie to videos, your opinions are just as valid as anyone else's, and interesting too since they are a "fresher" take perhaps!

Re: Lift to Lose Upper Body

I didn't watch the entire workout, since I was pressed for time, but from what I saw, yes, I liked it. I'll be doing the full workout before it goes back to the library. My only criticism would be that she works one side of the body too long before switching off to the other side. That may just be me, though. I've only been doing videos since October, so my critiques should be seen with that in mind. Her cuing was pretty good, I thought.Indyrose> >> > I pulled out Kathy 's Lift Weights to Lose Weight and did the first workout, Upper Body. It is 20 minutes but what I'd forgotten, since I hadn't done this in 2 years according to my log, is that there is no warmup. So, I grabbed a random workout and did the warmup off that and then did the Kathy workout. I'd forgotten how much Kathy yells and screeches in this one. She's really on fire and goofy. Moderately annoying but that's especially compounded by the loud music and flashing lights on the American Bandstand type stage. At least the backgrounders aren't miked. This is part of the Timesaver series and in one other workout, that I got rid of, the backgrounders whoop & holler and all kinds of stuff. Anyway, besides those complaints, this is a pretty good workout. One thing I like about this one is that you have the option to do a strength building workout or an endurance workout by following "track 1" (heavy weights only 12 reps of most exercises, strength building) or "track 2" (lighter weights, more reps plus pulses, endurance training). She shows both on the screen and the on screen cues to stop if you're doing track 1 and stretch, then pick up your weights again are very good. I've never done track 1 before and now, my only legitimate complaint about this as a workout is that she tells you to grab your heaviest weights for track 1 but goes through the reps so fast that using truly heavy weights is really difficult. I definitely went lighter than I could have for some exercises because I'd start heavy and realize I couldn't keep pace and use good form. I like to stay with the video and not just go slower on my own so I lightened up and was a little frustrated. This is a 20 minute workout so she does need to go quickly but I'd prefer less variety of exercises instead of going faster. Two highlights of it I liked were the pushups section was very challenging and the tricep dips were a total killer. Those are usually not that bad for me but there are ! so many! and, with the general speed of the entire workout, your muscles definitely get exhausted quickly. It isn't a great workout but it isn't bad at all either.> > > > I did the 8 minute abs/core "bonus" workout on this DVD afterwards. It was pretty good. Not great but a decent enough add-on. Tomorrow I'm planning to do probably the same warmup (it worked), the lower body LWTLW workout and the abs again. I might add a 10 minute stretch workout too since there isn't much in the way of stretching on this DVD either. > > > > > >>

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I read somewhere that she's turning 60 this year too!!! She's amazing!! I want to be as fit as her when I'm 60! (And as enthusiastic too, but hopefully in my own usually, at least slightly, more toned down way.)

Re: Lift to Lose Upper Body

I just did my first Kathy workout last night -- "Great buns and thighs," a step aerobic. I think I've been doing too much aerobics and not enough weights lately, so i think I've soo if they have this one at my library, too.I kind-of liked her -- she seemed more "barky" than "perky." I don't know if I'll get a workout tonight. We have a church meeting at our house, and I know it's not clean enough yet.Indyrose>> I pulled out Kathy 's Lift Weights to Lose Weight and did the first workout, Upper Body. It is 20 minutes but what I'd forgotten, since I hadn't done this in 2 years according to my log, is that there is no warmup. So, I grabbed a random workout and did the warmup off that and then did the Kathy workout. I'd forgotten how much Kathy yells and screeches in this one. She's really on fire and goofy. Moderately annoying but that's especially compounded by the loud music and flashing lights on the American Bandstand type stage. At least the backgrounders aren't miked. This is part of the Timesaver series and in one other workout, that I got rid of, the backgrounders whoop & holler and all kinds of stuff. Anyway, besides those complaints, this is a pretty good workout. One thing I like about this one is that you have the option to do a strength building workout or an endurance workout by following "track 1" (heavy weights only 12 reps of most exercises, strength building) or "track 2" (lighter weights, more reps plus pulses, endurance training). She shows both on the screen and the on screen cues to stop if you're doing track 1 and stretch, then pick up your weights again are very good. I've never done track 1 before and now, my only legitimate complaint about this as a workout is that she tells you to grab your heaviest weights for track 1 but goes through the reps so fast that using truly heavy weights is really difficult. I definitely went lighter than I could have for some exercises because I'd start heavy and realize I couldn't keep pace and use good form. I like to stay with the video and not just go slower on my own so I lightened up and was a little frustrated. This is a 20 minute workout so she does need to go quickly but I'd prefer less variety of exercises instead of going faster. Two highlights of it I liked were the pushups section was very challenging and the tricep dips were a total killer. Those are usually not that bad for me but there are so many! and, with the general speed of the entire workout, your muscles definitely get exhausted quickly. It isn't a great workout but it isn't bad at all either.> > I did the 8 minute abs/core "bonus" workout on this DVD afterwards. It was pretty good. Not great but a decent enough add-on. Tomorrow I'm planning to do probably the same warmup (it worked), the lower body LWTLW workout and the abs again. I might add a 10 minute stretch workout too since there isn't much in the way of stretching on this DVD either. > > >