Guest guest Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm thinking about using Cathe's Slow & Heavy workouts as the basis for a January rotation with the intention to see how lifting heavy (especially slow & heavy but just heavy with low reps is good too) affects me. I want to work out 5 days/wk (Mon-Fri). Of the 5 days, on Mondays & Tuesdays I only have time for at most about 35 minutes. Mondays I could do more later in the day but normally don't want to. Here's the questions: 1. Can I do each of the Slow & Heavy full workouts one right after the other Wed-Fri? I'd be doing strength training on consecutive days but different body parts. Monday & Tuesday would each be 20-35 minute cardio workouts. 2. I see the Slow & Heavy workouts can each be broken into 2 separate workouts (Biceps & Triceps for example can be two workouts, each slightly less than 30 minutes when you include warmup and cool down for each). That would make for 6 workouts, each right around 30 minutes. I could possibly make myself workout 6 days/week and do Monday and Tuesday as each a pure strength workout (each 1/2 of a Slow & Heavy workout), then Wed-Sat (or Wed-Fri + Sunday) I could do a 30 minute strength and then cardio or possibly cardio+abs. This would be hard for me to do. If I miss a workout it means I might miss a body part that week. Some days where I plan for strength + cardio I might have to do a shorter workout and might end up doing cardio only once a week because of that (instead of a minimum of 2-3) or miss a body part and do just cardio. What do you think about either of those two plans? Do you have any other suggestions for how I could use these workouts in a 5 day per week plan? I do have quite a few other Cathe strength workouts too, if you could suggest others or premixes that are also heavy (but not necessarily slow) that I could sub in to get all body parts in one week but with shorter (45 minutes tops) workouts, I'd love to hear those ideas too. I'm trying to stick with Cathe to use these more than I have so far but am open to to other instructors too. I hope I'm making sense. I should have gone to bed at least an hour ago but we were watching The Wizard of Oz with the kids and then I wanted some quiet time after they were gone to bed. I'm super tired now. The funny thing is, I didn't intend to stay up this late and I didn't even really want to watch it at first but when your 13 year old boy child says "I love The Wizard of Oz, let's watch this!" when you're looking for (short) Christmas shows to watch together, you sit down & watch the Wizard of Oz again! Wow!! What a blessing!! It was really fun to watch again too as it turned out. But now, I'm super tired and starting to babble. Need to sleep... just hope I don't dream about flying monkeys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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