Cathe Friedrich, the Queen of Advanced Workout Videos

Where do I start?!?! I love all her stuff! I think I especially love Cathe Friedrich’s personality, but also her fun choreography and the high quality of the workouts. I love the fact that I can do her videos day after day and not get tired of her. I still use some other instructors, but there are no others who I feel like working out with several times a week.

What I like least: well, this is not a common opinion among Cathe fans, but I don't really care for her high intensity interval step aerobic videos (Interval Max and Imax 2; I have yet to try Imax 3). I prefer the more intricate and challenging choreography of workouts such as Rhythmic Step and Step Blast. That being said, I still do the Imaxes and I know they are great for major intensity on days when that's needed.

So far I’ve talked a lot about her step aerobics, but Cathe offers much more. She also has some of the best weightlifting videos on the market: strength or endurance, 3-day splits, total body or circuits--you name it. I was never very committed to using weights until I discovered Cathe.

And that brings me to one more thing that is awesome about Cathe's collection of workouts--variety. You can really cross-train with just a few of her workouts; weights, kickboxing, step (interval or steady state), and hi/lo aerobics. She also has the best chaptering and premixes I’ve ever seen. You can get an outstanding variety of workouts from just one of her videos. Her music is usually second to none as well. One of my favorite videos is Body Max 2 which has a great 80’s soundtrack. I could go on and on about Cathe and all her great videos, but I’m sure I’ll get a chance to mention her again in another blog entry.

Click here to see her website.

Click here to see a selection of her workouts from Advanced Workouts (my favorite workout video vendor).

Click here to go to her online forum.