Level: Intermediate
Toning emphasis: Abs
Instructor: Cathe Friedrich

You get twelve short abdominal toning segments. Working from every possible angle and every possible position, youll firm your abs with a huge variety of styles and techniques (from old school crunches and reverse curls to trendier Pilates inspired planks and supermans). Each segment is 6 to 12 minutes long. The DVD has lots of versatility you can do an entire 57 min killer sequence or just individual segments. It also includes two segment pre mix workouts (11 to 16 minutes long, they work complementary muscles). As usual, Cathes cuing and instruction is superb. Note: segments are re edited from a variety of previously released videos. 2003.

Customer Reviews (or write your own review): Cathe Friedrich's Ab Hits

One Of the Best
I love using segmented tapes for a quick ab workout. This is one of the most effective. With ten workouts you never get bored. - posted by Geneva on 2/24/2011

Cathe Abs
Although the work is really excellent and expected to be typical Cathe tough & challenging which is why I exclusively keep buying her videos. I was disappointed that most of the sections from this one is snippets from all her previous videos which makes it a duplicate of what I already have. I absolutely loooove Cathe Friedrich but this one was a disappointment for me. - posted by Tracy on 3/24/2010

great set of ab routines
This is a great combination of a wide variety of ab workouts to fill in more ab work in a rotation. I love it. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because the menu is confusing; it's not clear how to find ''ab workout #N''. The person who said it was all crunches did not look at the video! There is plenty of variety. Each workout has a time provided, e.g. 8 mins or 11 minutes, and you can combine the workouts in any way that you choose for any length of time you want. I would definitely recommend this video for ab-oholics like me. - posted by Ann on 6/25/2007

good but not the only ab workout I would have
I agree that this workout is mostly different types of crunches, but it does have nice short and tough segments, and it does cover all of the ab areas (upper, lower, obliques). I'm glad it is not the only ab workout I have though because I think some others have a better mix of exercises and do more to work on the general core. I also have the Kathy Smith Tummy Trimmers one and just got the Denise Austin Belly Blasters too. - posted by Barbara on 11/3/2008

good and quick to add on but old fashioned
I love Cathe's workouts and have used this DVD for years to quickly pick an ab routine I can squeeze in after another workout before I call it a day. There is a good variety especially with the different lengths (other ab DVDs seem to consist of equal lengths of 10, 15 or 20 min routines) and it is challenging, however, I have noticed that Cathe's ab work is not as inventive, original or insteresting as what other instructors have started to come out with. Sometimes I add my own moves to her basic exercises to use the time more efficiently. I also don't get a burn from these, but do feel worked out. If you love the two ab routines on Amy Bento's Abs & Stretch DVD, you will probably find Ab Hits too bland and old fashioned. Another one to recommend is Kathy Smith's Tummy Trimmers. - posted by dusty on 8/26/2008