As it says, Great Glutes is all about legs. It is not, however, a heavy lifting program. Cathe relies on body weight, lighter weights, bands, and repetition to work your legs to exhaustion. Your heart rate definitely goes up in the beginning with the intent of burning fat. And your heart rate will stay up - because you're in agony!
After a 7 minute warm-up, Cathe leads you through 16 minutes of compound exercises. These are a lot of squats and lunges, with and without weights. Interspersed throughout are hammer down lunges to keep your heart rate up. These also use the legs like crazy and you quickly get tired of them! You then do work with sliding disks - side lunges, back lunges, and curtsy lunges. Ouch!
Next up: work with the stability ball to really work your bum and inner thighs. I don't have a ball so I always find a way to improvise. You then move to floor work where you will experience horrible pain doing leg raises of several variations. Oooouuuch. If you're not completely incapacitated after all that, there's a bonus section, using a chair, doing legs lifts. There is then a 7 minute stretch.
This workout is 55 minutes in length. It works every portion of your lower body. Cathe uses 8-pound weights but I use 12s regularly to get more out of it. Lift as heavy as you can to get more from these exercises. Equipment needed: dumbbells, sliding disks, stability ball, chair, firewalker band (loop), and a mat.
Bottom Line: This is not Cathe's most advanced lower body workout but it's a great intermediate video.
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