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Cathe Friedrich Intensity Series Pyramid Lower And Upper Body DVD
Cathe Friedrich Intensity Series Pyramid Lower And Upper Body DVD


 
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Instructor's name: Cathe Friedrich

Type of Workout: Toning (Total Body)

Fitness Level: Advanced

Equipment Needed: Step Bench, Hand Weights, Barbell, Stability ball

Total Running Time: 108 Minutes

Release Date: 2002

Region: 0 (Worldwide)

Pyramid Upper Body: Designed to increase lean muscle mass, shape, and sculpt the upper body, this upper body workout focuses on the full pyramid system as well as super sets to maximize your potential. As an added bonus, a mix of traditional and non-traditional ab and core work is included with the stability ball to promote better posture and help decrease common back pain associated with poor posture.

Pyramid Upper Body Format: warm-up (3 1/2 min.), upper body weight training (41 min.), Stability Ball (8-min.), Stretch (4 min.) Total = 56 1/2 min.

Pyramid Lower Body: Designed to increase lean muscle mass, shape, and sculpt your legs, this lower body weight training program focuses on the full pyramid system as well as super sets to maximize your potential. As an added bonus, the workout is divided into two parts (standing work and floorwork) which conveniently lends itself to be done on different days if preferred. Also, the floorwork will incorporate the use of a stability ball and ankle weights to uniquely challenge your muscles in new ways.

Pyramid Lower Body Format: warm-up (4 1/2 min.), lower body weight training (28 min.), Stability Ball- Legs & Glutes (13 min.), Stretch (4 min.) Total = 49 1/2 min

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Average Customer Review: Average Customer Review: 4.5 of 5 4.5 of 5 Total Reviews: 4 Write a review.

  1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 
5 of 5 Long time favorite... August 14, 2016
Reviewer: Taramisu from Farmington, MN United States  
One of my all time favorite Cathe DVDs, I like the pyramid format where you change your weights.  I feel that this prevents boredom.  While I have used this workout as presented before, I tend to use the premixes more.  Either the up premix, or down premix or the bonus combo workout which is under an hour, but does not include ball and ab work.  And I only use dumbells for this workout.  I used a barbell years ago but found that it moved fast for changing the weights and I always lagged behind.  I switched to dumbells and that works better for me.  I don't use as heavy weights as Cathe but that's okay.  Excellent workout!

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4 of 5 Good for improving strength July 12, 2014
Reviewer: RedPanda from Australia  
Doing pyramid training on your own can get tedious pretty fast, so it's good to have a coach like Cathe to count your reps and keep you focused. After doing the Upper Body segment for a few weeks, I had to buy heavier dumbbells, so the DVD definitely gets results!

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4 of 5 Muscle Builder July 10, 2014
Reviewer: Bells  
I 100% agree with Bubbles 76's review.  This is a great muscle builder and is set up differently than a lot of other weight workouts.  Fast paced with good moves.  However, the bottom portion does go too fast for me to change out my barbell weight fast enough.  I do have to pause here and there, but the video is great and worth getting.  It has helped that I have TWO barbells and I set everything up the night before and even write down which plates I need for each move.  Great results.

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5 of 5 Great for Strength gains July 5, 2014
Reviewer: Bubbles76  
The purpose of the DVD is to use a pyramid system of weight-training, to strengthen each muscle group in the upper and lower body.  

Pyramid system used:
12 reps at lightest weight
10 reps at moderate weight
8 reps at heaviest weight
10 reps at moderate weight
12 reps at lightest weight

This DVD is great because you can do the usual exercises going up and down the pyramid or you can use the premixes and just go up or go down the pyramid.

I think the exercises chosen were very good for each body part.  Standard stuff: chest flyes, chest press, delt raises, tricep kickbacks, bicep curls, etc.   Isolation work.  The explanations and cueing throughout were good.

One small con: It's a little difficult in the lower body portion to keep up while switching out weights.

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