Re: Pyramid Lower Body

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I can't wait (sorta) for tomorrow morning. My butt has been feeling it all day already! I'll let you know how upper body goes (probably on Wednesday).

Re: Pyramid Lower Body

I love the Cathe pyramid series. The leg one is awesome!! I really felt it for a couple of days after.Just wait to you do the upper body!!! So cool! Your arms will burn if you push the weights! Ouchie!

I've been wanting to try this for a while and since I had today off from work (just had to go to school for a presentation by daughter's class was doing, that took 1/2 hour and now I'm free!) I did it today. I have a worksheet that showed Cathe's weights and knew there was no way I could match her, not even close, plus I was using dumbbells instead of a barbell so I was not at all sure what weights to use. When I realized leg presses were first up, I remembered that at most, I've used 12s for those in Firm workouts, but usually 10s so I decided to try 5s, 8s and 10s for the pyramid and ended up using those for all the weighted exercises. For most, they worked pretty well. 5s seemed too light for leg presses but by the time I got to 10s and then back to 5s, I wasn't feeling like I'd wimped out all that much! I still could have gone heavier for the first set of all the exercises though so I will next time. The stability ball exercises on the floor were really killers!! My butt is already hurting from all the glute lifts and I didn't even consider putting on ankle weights for the ball exercises (I noticed they weren't wearing them in the video either, she just suggests that you can do it to add intensity, and jokes about it probably already being intense enough without them). I've got Pyramid Upper Body on the schedule for later in the week and am really looking forward to it!