Cathe X10 - Review
I think the workout could have been called XDrills because that is essentially what you are doing - a series of drills for a specified number of reps or time.
X10 DVD options are:
Introduction
Play Workouts
X10: Step Workout 26:12
X10: Low Impact Workout 24:56
X10: Hi/Lo Workout 25:58
X10: Cardio Blast Workout 24:38
X10: Fat Burning Circuit 28:53
Chapters
Warm up
X10: Step
X10: Low Impact
X10: Hi/Lo
X10: Cardio Blast
X10: Fat Burning Circuit
Stretch
Premixes
There are 12 premixes each featuring various combinations of the five workouts. Looking at the premix list it is all or nothing. Meaning that a premix will feature all of a step workout or all of a hi lo workout. For instance, Cathe doesn't take part of Low Impact i.e. just the exercises that used disc and mixed it with say only the sculpting sets in Fat Burning Circuit. Which I thought was bit of a waste because really I can create my own combinations from the chapter points.
Equipment
Audio Settings
Normal Mix
Instrumental Mix
Vocals Only Mix
So the workouts.
The workouts move fast. If you choose to do any of the segments without first warming up, be warned that you are jumping straight into each workout. There is no build up.
The Step workout first starts out with cardio and about 1/2 way through you add weights all using the step. The cardio features the familiar Power 15s. Fast Feet Shuffle, Long Hop Turns, Jacks, Straddle Jumps into Burpees, Power 7s into Hop Turns. The sculpting features uneven lunges, push ups, back lunge with biceps curl, lateral raise with knee lifts.
Low Impact workout starts out with squat digs. This is one of my least favorite moves. Then Cathe takes you into split lunges, puddle jumpers, bent knee switch kicks, lunge kicks, plies with heel lift. Later she adds the slide and glide disc and you are doing burpee push ups with the disc, back lunge with bicep curls, staggered walking push ups and kickbacks.
Hi/Lo workout starts out with power scissors, plyo jacks, air jacks. Again burpees show up. At this point this move is averaging once per workout. Jump turns and sumo wide jumps follow. Half way through the workout, Cathe adds weights. Squats overhead press, Static lunge with clean and press, lunge pulses, one arm upright row into snatch and triceps pushups are some of the weight exercises.
Cardio Blast starts off with plie jacks, box hops, tuck jumps and high knee runs.. Ski hops into tuck jumps, shuffle jumps pumps, ski jumps, forward backward lunge into scissor switches, forward hops, block jacks and burpees round out the exercises. This workout is the only workout that does not use weights.
Fat Burning Circuit alternates cardio with sculpting. Some of the sculpting uses weights and some just use body weight as the resistance. Quarter hop turn jumps and Squat press with abduction starts the circuit. Other exercises are high jogs, tap push ups, air squats, side lunge into shoulder raise tree pose.
I notice that these new Cathe workouts use a subtitle that announce Cathe's dumbbell weight selection. I thought this was unnecessary since Cathe announced her weight selection. Plus I thought a better use of the subtitle bar would have been to display which exercise Cathe was performing and even for how many reps would have been nice.
The music. Oh. The song selection in the warm up sounded absolutely horrible to me. I was afraid that the rest of the workout was going to sound like that but luckily the music improved as you moved through the workout.
When I did the workout, I did the first 4 workouts in one session and later I did the last workout which was Fat Burning Circuit. One of the premixes does allow you to do all the segments back to back which if you do that your workout will be 77 minutes.
My favorites workout was Cardio Blast. My least favorite was Step.
Step - 2 & 3/4 stars
Low Impact - 3 & 1/4 stars
Hi/Lo - 4 stars
Cardio Blast - 4 & 1/2 stars
Fat Burning Circuit - 4 & 1/4 stars
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