Reminiscing About Discovering Cathe

Today I did a premix from Kick Max. I kept thinking about the fact that this was my first Cathe Friedrich workout--just back in April of last year. I can't believe it was less than a year ago! I can't believe it took me so long to discover Cathe's great stuff.

When I first did Kick Max all those months ago, I kept up pretty well through the warm-up and the regular kickboxing part. I enjoyed every minute of it, burned some good calories, but felt I could easily handle it. Then she began the blasts. WOW. That was an eye-opener. Suddenly she was leaping up doing air-jacks and tucks and other things I'd never seen before on workout videos. That's when I knew this was no ordinary workout instructor I was watching. (I say watching because I wasn't exactly following her. I was either standing there with my mouth hanging open or trying to do jumping jacks to make up for the other moves I couldn't do.) I can't believe I wasn't too intimidated to try her other workouts, but something made me go ahead and buy an aerobic step which came with her Basic Step and Cardio & Weights workouts. I was able to figure out Basic Step easily enough and soon bumped my step up to 8" and started doing it twice in a row to get a better workout. Then I tried Cardio & Weights and was immediately intimidated again. It's funny to think of now because it doesn't seem that tough to me now (for a Cathe workout), but it seemed killer back then--not even a year ago.

Tomorrow is a cardio day on my rotation. I have step scheduled (yeah, I know, i'm not supposed to step, but I'll do a 4" height or something). Maybe my MatStep will arrive tomorrow! Oh wait, I doubt it--just tracked it with UPS and it doesn't show it getting anywhere yet. Anyway, I'll be careful. I just got a step workout with Seasun Zieger that I'm going to try called Straight Up Step, so that's what I'll try.

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