Cathe Friedrich

Fun, challenging, exciting and innovative are just a few words, used over the past 18 years, to describe Cathe Friedrich's Step N Motion exercise videos.

Cathe is a long time ACE certified group fitness instructor and also holds other specialty certifications in the health and fitness field. She has been teaching aerobics for 26 years and has taught over 10,000 aerobic classes. In 1988, she produced her first video, Step N Motion I. The publics response to the video was so overwhelming that, in 1989, Cathe immediately went back to the studio to produce Step N Motion II and III . With the success of her first three videos, Cathe became well known in the video exercise world as the creator of the Power Stepping, fitness trend.

Cathe is a pioneer of the home exercise video industry. Her videos are geared towards advanced fitness enthusiast and she is a mentor to aerobic instructors worldwide. Cathe is continually praised for her unique style, choreography and her dynamic power moves and is noted as one of the best video aerobic instructors to date.

At the age of 43, Cathe remains very enthusiastic about her future in the video exercise industry. She continually focuses her time and energy on designing innovative, challenging and fun workouts and writes fitness articles for many health and fitness print and web based magazines.

In addition, Cathe's website is another great achievement for both Cathe as well as her loyal fans. With a totally a interactive website, featuring the Ask Cathe, Video Questions, Open Discussion and FitMom's Forums, Cathe keeps in close contact with her strong following of exercise friends. Her website also offers a variety of areas to visit including a section on health and fitness suggestions, information on past and present Step N Motion Videos, a place to order her exercise videos and a video section to view all of her fitness videos before you buy. Started over 8 years ago, Cathe dot Com currently averages well over 8 million hits per month

Over the past 16 years, Cathe's award winning aerobic workouts have been featured in the Shape, Oxygen, Self, Health, Fit, Consumer Digest and Fitness magazines. In addition, Cathe's workouts have aired nationally on Discovery's  Health Channel and can be currently seen on Discovery's FitTV three times a day.

By keeping up-to-date on new trends in the exercise industry and getting to know her audience Cathe has maintained her status of being the best aerobic instructor on video. Cathe is the mother of two young boys Eric (age 7) and Kyle (age 5) both of which are active in sports and enjoy numerous outdoor activities.

Cathe has just released 4 new workouts on DVD. This brings the Cathe video library up to more than  80 videos and DVDs making it one of the largest privately owned fitness workout collections in the world and the leader in DVD fitness productions.