Product Details

• Studio: Cathe Friedrich
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009VEESO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,329 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Training your muscles not only looks hot, but totally increases your metabolism so you burn more fat even while resting! Cathe's Slow & Heavy series really gets the job done, incorporating traditional exercises with a non-traditional slow count to create muscle confusion & electrify your growth and fat burning potential! Includes three full-length Cathe workouts to maximize results.

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent strength building series...., May 28, 2007

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Teedums (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cathe Friedrich's Slow & Heavy (3 workouts on one DVD) (DVD)

This series is unlike anything else that I have or have seen anywhere else. Cathe Friedrich has come up with a workout series that is designed to build maximum muscular strength, using a slower lifting style. This series is great to use if you have reached any fitness plateaus or just want something different to shake things up. This series is broken up into 3 workouts, legs & shoulders, chest & back, and triceps & biceps. Many of the exercises are done in 3 sets of 8 reps, using a 6-2 count. Training in this manner eliminates most of the momentum, which is great for building strength. Each workout also has it's own warmup and cooldown/stretch, plus they clock in at around an hour. For this workout you will need a barbell and assorted dumbells, which can be substituted if you do not have a barbell. A step is also used for some of the incline upper body work.

The first workout is legs & shoulders, starting with a warmup then moving into leg work. You will warmup or pre-exhaust your legs with a set of front lunges before moving into 3 sets of squats, then you will do a set of reverse lunges, preparing you for 3 sets of static lunges. Side lunges are next, again preparing you for a some heavy plie squat work before finishing out with some weighted calf work. Shoulders follow the leg work, gone are the pre-exhausting sets though, just strictly slow/heavy for this and the rest of the upper body workouts. For shoulders you will do front raises, side lateral raises, rear deltoid raises and seated overhead presses. Finishing out this set are a set of side lying external rotations which target the rotator cuff.

The second workout is for chest and back, for chest you will see mainly bench presses and pec flies, but both are done on a flat surface first, then in an incline position. Finishing out this muscle group are a set of slow/heavy pushups. The back exercises include double arm rows, pullovers and deadlifts, plus some non weighted exercises such as supermans and plank work. The planks are tough as they are held for quite a well, they are done in three different positions, though Cathe will give modifications for those who need them.

The final workout is for triceps & biceps. The tricep work consists of seated overhead presses, lying tricep extensions, kickbacks and tricep dips, the dips are especially tough after all the preceding work. For biceps you will do tradition dumbell curls, hammer curls, barbell curls and then some forearm work with barbell wrist curls and reverse curls.

Overall this is a great set if you are looking for something different, it does take a lot of mental focus as you have to concentrate much more on what you are doing. Cathe herself even recommends that this series is done in shorter rotations because it is so mentally taxing. Cathe does a excellent job instructing, she is great at form pointers and well as showing modifications and alternate options. This series is a little older than Cathe's current offerings (2001) but I think it's one of her best. 5 stars for this one.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lordy! This is tough but good :-), May 24, 2006

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Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cathe Friedrich's Slow & Heavy (3 workouts on one DVD) (DVD)

If you want a good workout - you got it with this. This is tough and challenging but WILL give you results for sure.
There are three super challenging workouts here and each targets specific body area using heavier weights than normal, but slow repetitive movements. This is done to really fatigue the muscles and make them work harder. You aren't using momentum but instead concentrating on intensity and that's how you get the results. There is a Legs and Shoulders workout, a Triceps and Biceps one and a Chest and Back. There is no way possible you won't get results if you do this often. It is tough but it's worth it and worth every penny spent. She is an outgoing and motivating instructor and you are bound to love this dvd.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great weight training!, July 12, 2007

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Harri Potter (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cathe Friedrich's Slow & Heavy (3 workouts on one DVD) (DVD)

This DVD is for anyone who's looking to break through a fitness plateau. Throw this video in for a couple weeks and see instant results! I originally followed this series on Fit TV, but made my husband buy me the DVD for a birthday gift. I personally saw results after only a few run throughs. The excercises are incredibly easy and done so slowly that even novices should have few problems. Cathe talks you through the entire process, offering advice and encouragement as you go. She also includes a killer ab routine that never fails to leave me groaning. Her slow counts make you aware of your form and eliminate swinging the weights to get through all those reps. I love this series!