Cathe Friedrich’s Basic Step + Body Fusion Step Aerobics Workout DVD For Women – This Is A Great Starter Video For Beginners To Learn How To Do A Cathe Step Workout

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Cathe Friedrich’s Basic Step + Body Fusion Workout DVD

Cathe Friedrich’s Beginner Basic Step DVD Contains 5 Workouts

This Cathe step aerobics DVD targets the beginner/intermediate exerciser, and if you’re new to Cathe should be your first purchase from us. The workouts included with this DVD are:

Basic Step

This Cathe Friedrich workout was designed to help the beginner exerciser that is new to Cathe and to step aerobics. Basic Step is a 35-minute basic step routine that will hold the interest and truly challenge the beginner stepper for many workouts to come and is the official training DVD for all Step Company steps. While creating this workout, Cathe made sure that basic steps were introduced, taught, and put into combinations in a way that made the beginner have to focus and think, but not overwhelm them.

Unlike teaching a live beginner class, where each and every workout can change to provide a further challenge to the participant, a DVD workout does not have that flexibility. For this reason, Cathe has chosen to teach the moves but not overteach them, thereby giving the beginner stepper a new challenge to work towards every time they do the workout.

Here is the breakdown: The warm-up of this workout is about 6 minutes and contains basic steps, V-steps, alternating knees, repeater, corner-to-corner moves, rock horse, L-steps, A-steps, turn steps (horseshoe), leg extensions, charleston kicks, and stretches. We immediately go right into the first combination. Since this first combination comes right out of the warm-up, Cather teaches it a little longer than she typically would consider doing. This helps to establish confidence in the beginner stepper. After completing the finished product, we do a perceived exertion test. The second combo is a little more complex and will probably take the beginner a couple of tries to master. We introduce knees around the world, cha-chas on the corner, and rock horse along with some other moves. After completing combo two we do another perceived exertion test and a light cool down. This step aerobics DVD for beginners’ workout concludes with a stretch.

Body Fusion

Cathe Friedrich’s Body Fusion step aerobics video is approximately a 50-minute workout. After the warm-up, you will go into your first step aerobic segment which features moves from videos past taught with a longer breakdown and more repetition than the other two upcoming step combos since you are just freshly out of the warm-up. This segment is about 10 minutes long. Now your first weight segment will do squats with overhead presses and lunges with side and front lateral raises for approximately 5 minutes (light breaks in between).

Step combo two is a little more complex than one but still on the level of intermediate. It again is about 10 minutes long and features moves from other videos. Weight segment two features lunges off the back of the step and then later bicep curls standing on the floor. The biceps curls end with a little balance option of doing them while standing on one leg.

Step Combo #3, totaling about 8 minutes, is the same level of complexity as two but has more intensity added. Weight segment three includes deadrows and deadlifts and then moves onto dips and push-ups before completing with a stretch.

Abs: 10 Minute Core Conditioning

This core workout features a stability ball as well as intermediate level abdominal and core exercises.

Upper Body Sculpt: 20 Minute Upper Body Conditioning

This workout will tone all of the major muscles in the Upper Body: Back, Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, Biceps. A stability ball, light hand weights, and a tubing strap will be used in this workout. Heavier weight can be substituted if preferred.

Lower Body Sculpt: 20 Minute Lower Body Conditioning

This workout will tone all of the major muscles in the Lower Body: Quadriceps, Hamstrings, Glutes, Buttocks, Outer and Inner thigh, and Calves. A stability ball, light hand weights, and a tubing strap will be used in this workout. Heavier weight can be substituted if preferred.

Basic Step + Body Fusion Workout Times

Basic Step

Total – 30 minutes

Body Fusion

Total – 50 minutes

Abs: Core Conditioning

Total – 10 minutes

Upper Body Sculpt: Upper Body Conditioning

Total – 20 minutes

Lower Body Sculpt: Lower Body Conditioning

Total – 20 minutes

Add Step Training to Your Routine

Step training is a cardiovascular workout you can do at home with minimal equipment. All you need is a step platform and at least twenty minutes to fit in a step workout. If you’re just starting to exercise, step training is a great way to get started, and if you’ve been exercising for a while, step workouts are a fun way to vary your routine.

With step training, you can enjoy a low-impact workout that’s not hard on your joints but still improve your cardiovascular fitness and burn a significant number of calories and body fat. Expertly choreographed DVDs and high-energy music make the experience even more fun.

Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can increase the intensity and work your entire body by choosing a DVD that combines step training with other exercises like step boot camp or step circuits that alternate stepping with strength-training intervals. With step-circuit workouts, you can work your upper body, lower body and cardiovascular system all at the same time.

Equipment Needed

StepLight DumbbellsTubingStability Ball

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Take a look at some of Cathe’s other Step Workouts!
Low Impact Step is a 40 min., beginner to intermediate, routine that is both fun and easy to follow. Total Body Sculpting is a 30 min., beginner to intermediate weight workout that will help shape and tone your muscles while burning fat and calories. Cathe’s all-step workout will have you tapping your toes from warm up straight through cool down. It features a high-energy rocking soundtrack along with super-fun choreography. The impact might be low, but the fun factor and intensity are way high! If you love step choreography this is the step workout DVD for you! We will build and execute advanced step aerobic combinations that will make you feel like the “boss of your workout” by the time you’re done! This at-home step dvd puts the fun back into your step workout! Mambos, cha-chas, and other creative footwork are taught at a steady-state pace, making this choreography-driven workout one that you’ll reach for time & time again. This dvd is the perfect choice for steppers who love a high energy, creative routine, but without the movements being too “dancy”. It contains fun rhythmic movement patterns sprinkled with intensity blasts to give it more of an interval appeal.

About Cathe Friedrich

Cathe Friedrich is a certified professional group fitness instructor who has been teaching fitness classes for over 30 years and was inducted into the Fitness Hall of Fame in 2011. Cathe has over 20,000 hours of teaching experience and owns a large Gym in New Jersey where she continues to do what she loves – teach group fitness classes and help as many people as possible reach their fitness goals. Cathe started producing exercise videos about 30 years ago with the goal of bringing the same gym quality workouts her clients at her club enjoy into the privacy of your home. Today Cathe has produced nearly 600 workout videos. Whether you’re interested in low impact, kickboxing, HiiT, metabolic, strength & toning, lower body, upper body, total body, step aerobics, bodyweight & bands, hi & low impact cardio, stretching, interval, bootcamp, core training, and circuit high-intensity workouts Cathe’s selection of engaging and empowering fitness DVDs are fun and challenging.