Bests:
I finally "discovered" Cathe this year.
I was just not into her for years, despite trying a couple of her workouts occasionally. Earlier this year, I decided to try some of her LITE and ICE workouts for variety and less intensity for my knee, which was still healing. And then I ended up LOVING those, and through the year picked up more and more of those series along with many of her other series going all the way back. A big part of my resistance to Cathe was an assumption that all/most of her workouts were splits and/or have complex step choreography, which I am not interested in. But with plenty of research, and thanks to all her awesome premixes, I discovered a big variety of workouts which are total body with and without non-complex cardio. I've been extremely pleased with nearly all of the workouts I have done so far. Some of my most favorites are her PHA3, High Step Challenge (or the other high step one, they're both great), and her various bootcamp style workouts. Only one workout I didn't care for, below.
I still have occasional twinges but for the most part my knee has completely healed, it took about 18 months before I could really do cardio without a lot of pain. My injury wasn't even that bad, I tweaked it during a zip-line landing and it didn't even hurt that much, but I developed a baker's cyst and it just took a really long time to heal.
Worsts:
Did not care for Cathe Slide and Glide at all. It's not her fault, but all that sliding work made my lower back hurt a lot. I wasn't super crazy about her Fit Tower Total Body workout either (although I really like the Boot Camp one) although I will revisit and see. But I have discovered so many winners of hers, it's like winning the workout lottery!
Covid has had a negative impact on my eating (and discipline). So much food, so much time
Particularly my junk food intake has increased. Thankfully I instituted IF, and I have time, energy, and motivation to work out for a little longer than I could before with my commute, so it's mostly evened out.