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The last group of the FitSplit workouts are Mixed Impact Cardio and Pull Day. Mixed Impact Cardio is your drill based high- low workout.The warm up is around 5 minutes and it is mostly steady state cardio.  The mixed impact portion is around 20 minutes. Cathe combines athletic, kickboxing, plyometrics, and drills moves to make up the mixed impact cardio. Cathe offers lower impact modification tips for some exercises. Pull Day is your strength workout. The workout uses the drop-sets technique.  Cathe lowers the reps and she moves from set to set.  For most exercises you are doing three sets. You do get a a chance to catch your breath in this workout, more so than the other workouts. Cathe takes time for equipment clean up which gives you more of a rest.  This workout uses dumbbells, a barbell. stability ball and a mat. You are working back, biceps, and hamstring. There are 3 basic premixes, 5 time-saver premixes, and 4 scrambled premixes. I did Just Mixed Impact Cardio (28:39)

Shred Cardio and Push Day are two workouts that come with Cathe's FitSplit series. Shred Cardio is a step blast workout. The workout starts out with a brisk warm up performed using a step.  Then come the blasts. There are 12 blasts and the blasts vary in intensity. Each blast is a mini drill performed using high intensity moves. You are working on the step, off the step, over the step and around the step. The reps vary but what I found is that for the super high intensity moves you are doing 6 reps per round and most blast had two rounds. There's lots of jumping but Cathe does show how to modify some moves.  Some of the moves you will see are power 3s, power 15, plyo jacks, squat thrust, wide jumps, and swimmers. Push Day is the strength workout.  In this workout you are working chest, triceps, shoulders, calves  and quadriceps. The exercises are performed as supersets and for most exercises you are doing three sets.  Cathe reduces the number of reps as you move thro

Low Impact Cardio and Metabolic Conditioning were the next set of workouts I did as part of Cathe's FitSplit series. Low Impact Cardio contains a series of drill based athletic cardio moves. The rep count varies from exercise to exercise but for most exercises you are doing 2 sets - changing the lead side for the second set.  Last half of this workout uses a disc or rag. I typically don't care for Cathe's low impact workouts but this is by far my favorite of her low impact workouts (well not counting Low Impact Circuit - loved that workout as well). Metabolic Conditioning is an upper body lower body compound workout. There are some isolation exercises but for the most part Cathe combines exercises so you are working the lower and upper body at the same time. There is quite a bit of plank work and along with dumbbells you are using a gliding device.  This DVD has three basic premixes, four timesaver premixes, and 4 scrambled premixes. I did the Just Low Impac

Boxing Bootcamp and Legs & Glutes are two workouts that come with Cathe's FitSplit series. The two workouts can be performed separately or as one workout.  I did each of the workout separately.          Boxing BootCamp   consists of a lengthy warm up, three kickboxing combos and a brief cool down.   In the combos, you are doing traditional kickboxing moves (jabs, cross, hooks, uppers, knees, and a bit of kicking). There are also Muay Thai moves in the form of elbow strikes.  Expect lots of impact as there is quite a bit of jumping. Cathe uses kickboxing gloves.  The music is set to high tempo beat. Each of the combos flow pretty well together and the workout moves quickly, it was over before I knew it. Legs & Glutes is your lower body focused workout.  The workout moves quickly from exercise to exercise and the rest are short.  The workout uses a high step, a disc or glide device, a mat, a loop, and several sets of dumbbells. Cathe varies the rep and tempo patt

Cathe FitSplit series is an update to her 2009 4-Day Split Series. In FitSplit, Cathe gives you 8 workouts on 4 DVDs.  Each DVD contains two workouts, a cardio conditioning focused workout and a strength conditioning focused workout.  Each of the workouts may be done separately or the workouts may be combined into a single cardio strength workout. The DVDs are: Boxing Bootcamp and Legs & Glutes Low Impact Cardio and Metabolic Conditioning Shred Cardio and Push Day Mixed Impact Cardio and Pull Day Each DVD has the following menu options: Play Chapters Basic Premixes Timesaver Premixes Scrambled Premixes Getting Started Audio Settings The Boxing Bootcamp and Low Impact Cardio DVDs include a Bonus Abs workout. There is an online Fit Split Guide that is 42 pages that you can download from Cathe's website. The guide explains the FitSplit system and it gives you specific details on each workout. I will review the workouts in separate posts.

February 2018 Monthly Rotation Wow, did January go by like a flash or what?  I had two planned trips and I also ended up getting sick so any planned rotation went by the wayside. Hoping for a more structure February, although I do have one planned trip over President's weekend. The workouts this month will mostly be Cathe.  I will be doing her FitSplit series and my favorite workouts from Strong & Sweaty.  I have added in kickboxing workouts and a couple of Classic FIRM workouts. I also have BeachBody's 3 Week Yoga Retreat workouts and I am going to try to do those this month as time permits.  Tall task doing all of this I know, so we will see how it goes.