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Cathe's Metabolic Total Body is one of seven workouts that is part of the ICE series. Metabolic Total Body clock in at 47:53. Almost all of the exercises are compound multi joint exercises where you are working both the lower body and upper body simultaneously. The awkwardness was kept to a minimum.  I say this because depending on the combination of the moves, the compound exercise can be cumbersome to do. But the exercises in this workout flowed pretty well with each other. Because of the exercises are compound in nature, there is a cardio effect however the pace of the workout was moderate I felt the tempo of most of the exercises slower than I am used to with Cathe workouts. There also seem to be more time between the exercises and more stretching after an exercise. There are seven basic premixes, four timesaver premixes, and six mishmosh premixes. The bonuses are ICY Core 1, Muscle Meltdown Chest and a Blizzard Blast. Of the seven main workouts in the ICE series, ...

  Every year Cathe comes out with new workouts. This year the workouts focus on the intermediate exerciser hence the name of the series - Intermediate Conditioning Extreme or ICE for short. The series comes with seven workouts.There are: Two lower body workouts:  To the Mat: Legs & Glutes, Chiseled Lower Body Blast One upper body workout: Chiseled Upper Body Two total body workouts:  Boot Camp Circuit, Metabolic Total Body Two cardio conditioning workouts:  Low Impact Sweat, Rock'm Sock'm Kickbox All the workouts have tons and I do mean tons of premixes.  The ICE series also include twelve bonus workouts.  The bonus workouts range any where from 10 minutes in the  length to 22 minutes in length. There are two bonus core/ab workouts. Five bonus workouts that are called blizzard blast. These are geared towards the advance exercisers. There are also five body part workouts. Cathe calls these bonus workouts Muscle Meltdown.   Each o...