Saundra

Rock'm Sock'm Kickbox is one of two cardio conditioning workouts in Cathe's ICE series. The workout is 48 minutes in length. The workout contains a mixture of punching drills, kicking drills and cardio blast. This is mostly a drill base workout with marching in between the exercises to transition to the next side or next move. Typically you are performing moves on one side for a series before switching sides and performing the same group of moves.  Then you move on to the next series of move. The workout is set to a pretty good sound track that is up tempo.  This is the type of workout that I normally love but something was missing. I have done this workout twice and even the second time through I felt something was off - that there was a lack of flow.  For instance, while  I enjoyed the warm up,  the conditioning kick drills that followed the warm up started off with side reach lunges that felt completely out of place.  I also enjoyed the punchi...

Chest, Shoulders & Triceps clocks in at 55:45. There is a long -almost 9 minute warm up, that start with cardio warm up moves before going into an extensive stretch segment. After the warm up, the workout alternates exercises  for the chest, shoulders and triceps. There are a total of 24 exercises with a water break after exercise 12.  The exercises are time based and the time varies. Please see workout sheet for the times. The thing that annoyed me about this workout was that all the chest exercises were push ups.  It was that way for the Chest & Back workout too. Is there not another chest exercise? The workout concludes with a 3 & 1/2 minute cool down and stretch. Equipment:  Push up bar, dumbbells, bands, chair 3 & 1/4 stars

Xtrain Bi's & Tri' s is disc two in Cathe Xtrain Series.  It features nine round alternating bicep exercise with a tricep exercise. Along with dumbbells, a stability ball, mat,and medium resistance tubing in used. Most of the exercises are performed for 16 reps.  Cathe states that "your weight should be heavy enough so that by the time you reach the 16 rep it should be difficult. However, if you can't get at least 8 reps, your weight is too heavy." Along with Cathe, there are five other cast members, two of which are men. There are four bonus workouts and 14 premix workouts on the DVD. The workout is almost 46 minutes in length and it is a solid bicep/tricep workout. 3 & 1/4 stars.