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August 2025 Workout Rotation At the beginning of the month I was still nursing a low back injury. So I tried to stick with  yoga, Pilates, mobility and low intensity low impact workouts.  Half way through the month, the back started feeling better so I added in some modest weight workouts.  

Functional Mobility Fusion is a 41-minute workout.  The first few exercises are designed to warm you up and increase blood flood to the muscle using range of motion and dynamic and static stretching.  After the warm up, Cathe takes you through a series of core, cardio, and strength body weight exercises that are used to bring mobility to various areas of the body. You are working in all planes: lying, standing, seated, kneeling.  Cathe offers form and modification pointers for certain exercises. You do get breaks between the exercises.   3 stars

Anytime Mobility Bonus from Lift, Move, & Restore Functional Total Body clock in at 16:37.   In Anytime Mobility, Cathe takes your through a series of body weight exercises that are designed to increase your mobility and range of motion. Cathe works in a 360 degree plane, meaning, you are doing the moves at various angles and levels (standing, seated, and lying). Cathe states that the workout is not meant to be easy and that you should work through each area as best you can.  I guess that is why I like some moves better than others. But overall, the workout was okay. 3 stars

Mobility 1 + Mobility 2 is one of the recovery DVDs in the STS 2.0 workout system.  This DVD contains two mobility workouts.  Mobility 1 clocks on at 18:56 and Mobility 2 clocks in at 17:24. Both workouts contain both standing, kneeling and floor based exercises. Cathe uses range of motion and dynamic stretching to loosen tight muscles, increase flexibility, and prevent injury.  DVD Menu Mobility 1 Mobility 2 Premixes (There are two premixes) Audio Settings  

Perfect 30 Perfect Flow is one of three DVDs that are a part of Cathe's 2020 Perfect 30 series.  This series does come with a User Guide that you can download from Cathe's website. The workouts on Perfect Flow are: Yoga Strength & Flexibility  Mobility Basics Core Bonus   Yoga Strength & Flexibility has a run time of 31:54. It is fairly slow moving, yet you are not really holding any of the postures for a significant length of time. When I saw the exercise list for this workout (which was only about 10 moves) and saw that sun salutations were first; I thought we were in for a super long segment using this move, but  no, it was not that long.  I enjoyed the balance and hip opener segments.  Mobility Basics is 31:26 in length.  This workout is about range of motion. Cathe would move you in and out of a move repeatedly.  Cathe states that this workout is about helping you identify the imbalances in your muscles and joints. There is a bit of...

Be Empowered is disc 2 of Michelle's One on One with Michelle series. It contains the following workouts: Total Body Workout (30 min) Core Challenge Workout (19 min) Mobility Workout (10 min) Total Body Workout is a strength workout that combines upper body and lower body exercises. Michelle's takes you through a series of four circuits. Each exercise is perform for two sets.  There are three to four exercises per circuit. There is not much down time in this workout as Michelle moves from exercise to exercise at a steady pace. Two sets of dumbbells, a light set and a heavy set, as well as a single heavier dumbbell are used in this workout. Core Challenge Workout is a 360 degree core workout in that it works all areas of the core region to include back, hips, lower abs, and obliques. Some of the exercises in this workout included a beast hover, several series of planks in a variety of position, reverse crunches and traditional crunches.  Michelle also includes su...