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Pyramid Pump is an optional total body workout that is included as part of Cathe LITE series. I really like the first set of pyramid workouts (Pyramid Lower Body and Pyramid Upper Body) that Cathe did a number of years ago as part of her Intensity Series. This workout is essentially the sequel to that. In this workout, you work up the pyramid in term of your weight selection and then back down the pyramid - ideally starting and ending with the same weight selection. At the same time, but in terms of rep count you work down the pyramid and then back up the pyramid. So you get a double whammy. As you increase your weights, you decrease you reps; when you increase your reps, you decrease your weight selection. Essentially you are doing 5 sets of each exercise group.  The  upper body has two exercises per muscle group.  For the lower body, Cathe chooses a lot of single leg exercises and as Cathe always says "what you do to one side you do to the other. If you do the...

  Pyramid Lower + Upper Body Combo Premix is a premix that comes on  the Pyramid Lower Body and Pyramid Upper Body DVD.  The premix is called Bonus Combo and it is 54 minutes in length. The Bonus Combo workouts features the "Up" pyramid exercises from the two workouts. In the main two workouts, Cathe takes you up the pyramid where you do less reps and more weight.  She then takes you back down the pyramid where you do more reps and less weight. I like the two main workout a lot.  This is the first time that I have tried the Bonus Combo Premix and I like this one as well. In this premix, Cathe does two lower body exercises before moving on to do one to two upper body exercises. I noticed that I wasn't as efficient as Cathe and crew in changing out my barbell weight.  There were a couple of times when I messed reps and had to reverse the DVD.  Cathe repeats the Leg Press exercises twice and the Bonus Combo does not include any floor work....