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February 2026 Workout Schedule   Sundays - Treadmill & Mobility Stretching Week 1 - Cathe's Lift, Move, Restore Functional Fitness workouts Week 2 - Cathe Lift, Move, Restore 2 Elevated workouts Week 3 - AeroPilates workouts performed on the Pilates Power Gym Week 4 - AeroPilates workouts performed on the Pilates Power Gym

Fitness Training For Functional Aging with Jessica Smith contains two workouts.   DVD Menu Introduction ABC Routine (running time 29:46) Functional Strength (running time 29:30) End Credits Play All  

"Welcome to the Revolution" Tracie states at the end of each of these workouts. The Revolution being a "different" way of training or the foray into functional fitness type training. Functional Foundations is a workout set that consist of two workouts: Core Strength and Core Cardio. They were made in 2004 and during this time it seemed like "functional fitness" was the new fitness buzz word of the day. I thought and I think I was hoping that functional fitness was a passing fad but no, it is still around today - not always called functional fitness but certainly with the elements of functional fitness. Well these two workouts are led by Tracie Long and definitely as far a functional fitness home DVDs workouts go, Tracie is one of the leaders, and she is superb in these workouts as well. Core Strength is a 50 minute workouts. It uses a stability ball, mat, and various weighted dumbbells. This is a strength, balance, and posture workout. There is almost n...

Better Burn Better Buns is a functional fitness workout that is 55 minutes in length and it is led by Tracie Long. The workout uses a rag or you can use a paper plate or gliding disc to work the lower body. There are about 4 sets of lower body work using the rag. There is also some standing single leg isolation work. The types of moves that you are doing are leg lifts, zig zags, single leg squats, push lunges, standing shootouts.. - all using the rag or your own body weights. No dumbbells are used. The workout also has medicine ball cardio and core sets. I thought the medicine ball routines fun. However, they are repetitive . You are repeating the same group of moves about 8 time through but I find this is typical for a Tracie Long workout. The moves are simple , repetitive and allow for full execution and the majority of the time you have cool music that you’re performing the move to so the repetitiveness of it doesn’t bug me. Some of the cardio moves, are hurdlers, X marks the spot,...

Strength in Movement is a Tracie Long Training workout and it is led by Jen Carman. Clocking in at just over 55 minutes, Strength In Movements uses dumbbells (light, medium, and heavy) and a medicine ball to work you through a series of functional fitness type exercises. Along with Jen, there are two background exerciser – one showing beginner type modifications and the other showing more advanced options. There are parts of this workout I really like a lot and parts I didn’t care for at all. There are three cardio segments and each cardio segment uses a medicine ball. The medicine ball is also used in the warm up and in the active stretch segment. Two of the med ball cardio routines I didn’t like. I felt they lack flow and Uummph, but one I really thought flowed well. The weight segments are what I like the best about this workout and that is unusal for me because usually the weight work in Functional Fitness workouts is what I like the least. I love how all the moves worked with the...

  Endurance For Movement is a 60 minute total body workout and it is led by Tracie Long.  The DVD cover states "We Train For The Way You Live" and "..... we wipe away the 'old school' style of training".  I agree that this is not your traditional style of training or I will say it is not my traditional style of training. This workout is functional fitness at its best.  I say that even though I am not a fan of functional fitness but even after all these years of having this workout, I still find it a very unique workout and not one that I like doing but after I have done the workout I feel accomplished. There are many segments in this workout and as you move from segment to segment Tracie takes time to give a mini introduction to the segment.  I like this because it gives you time to set up for what is coming next. So the segments roughly break down as follows: warm up, core warm up, core, cardio, weight work, legs, upper body, core, cardio, push ups, lower ...

Finally, we have new workouts and a new series from Tracie Long. The series is called Longevity and the first workout in the series is called Defining Shape . Defining Shape is a 50 minute sculpting/weight and balance workout. I say balance because there were lots of balance moves used in this workout. The sculpting moves are a cross between traditional exercises and functional fitness exercises. Everything flowed really well and the exercise were completed right in tune with the music. The workout itself moved fast. Before I knew it, Tracie was saying let's stretch. Before that, you had a floor section in which you work the lower body doing traditional leg floor work. Prior to going down to the floor, you had as series of standing toning sections that work the legs (i.e. squats, dead lifts and lunges) and upper body (i.e shoulder presses, bicep curls, rows etc). There were also push ups. Tracie is phenomenal. She really has to be one of the top 5 video lead instructors out ...