Refurbished Fitness Equipment: Cathe Friedrich's Power Hour + MIS & Body Max DVD Review

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(More customer reviews)This is one of the best workouts I own.Power Hour is a high rep muscle endurance workout that is chaptered into body parts: Legs (squats), Shoulders, Chest, Back, Biceps, & Triceps.There is also an extra leg segment for lunges.The warm up (5 minutes) is also weight work- lighter weights and not as many reps.The workout itself is 40 minutes with a 6 minute ab segment and 3 minute stretch.An all around good workout.

Body Max is a combination of cardio and weights.There is a light cardio warm-up (8 min.), a 24 minute step aerobic segment with fairly complex choreography, a 19 minute power circuit interval segment (this is tough!), and a 34 minute upper body muscle conditioning segment (warning- she inserts push-ups in the middle of the chest segment when your muscles are already exhausted).The ab segment is 10 minutes! which I think is a bit too long but that's because I hate ab work.There is a cooldown in the middle and a stretch at the end.I really have never done this work out all the way through because it is long and it is a difficult workout to do all at once.I use the muscle conditioning segment as an add-on to some of my shorter cardio workouts and I do the power circuit intervals segment on days when I really want to be challenged and tack on some weight work to round it out.I attempted the step segment once and the choreography was too complex for me to follow and it was really fast paced so I haven't tried it since. If you are already familiar with Cathe's style of step, then you should not have a problem with the step workout.

Maximum Intensity Strength is another total body workout.I have never done this workout all the way through either but I break up the chapters into push-pull type combinations and add them on to my longer cardio workouts.There is a 6 min warm-up w/ step, 18 minutes of leg/butt work, 8 min. of chest, 7 min. of back, 7 min. of shoulders, 6 min. of biceps, 7 min. of triceps, another marathon 10 min. of abs, and a 3 min stretch.

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Product Description:
Power Hour (55 min) is a total body muscular endurance workout sure to leave no muscle untouched or underworked. MIS (75 min) is a super-challenging and intense muscle conditioning workout. Body Max (90 min) is a completely different type of workout with the emphasis on aerobics and muscular endurance.