Cathe Perfect 30: Perfect Pump - Thoughts

Cathe's 2020 series is Perfect 30.  The series has six 30-minutes main workouts and several bonus workouts.The workouts are spread across three DVDs if you bought the DVD option. You can also get the series as a download.  There is also a user guide that you can download from the Cathe webiste.

Perfect Pump contains the following workouts:

1. Upper Body
2. Lower Body
3. Upper Body Bonus
4. Lower Body Bonus
5. Core Bonus
   
6. Extended Stretch Bonus 

I did Lower Body and Lower Body Bonus first. Lower Body clocked in at 30:48 and the Lower Body Bonus clocks in at 7:39. The workout moves quickly. Cathe uses heavier weight than normal on several of the exercises.  With the exception of the calf raises, the reps for each exercise were between 10 and 12 reps.  Along with dumbbells, a high step, weighted plates and dixie cups were used.  The plates were used just to elevate your toes.  I enjoyed this workout.  I think this is going to be a favorite Cathe lower body workout for me.

Upper Body clocks in at 30:43 and Upper Body Bonus clocks in at 4:52.  This workout also moves quickly. There is not much rest between exercises and even when you do the exercise you are pumping out the reps pretty quickly. On a couple of the exercises, Cathe does tell you to "do every other rep if the pace is too fast".  Several of the exercises use the band/tubing.  There are a couple of body weight exercises and the other exercises uses moderately heavy dumbbells.  I do like the length of this workout. It packed in quite a lot in a short amount of time.

• Upper Body - 4 Stars 
• Lower Body - 4 & 1/4 stars