Workout Manager 2.6.1

We have just released beta 2.6.1 of the Workout Manager. With this update we have added the ability for you to print your STS Fitness DVD workout card from a PDF file. This should solve the problem that many of you have reported with the font being too small for you to read on your card. You also may continue to print your card without using a PDF file just as you did before if you prefer. We have also added the time duration of the DVD to the workout card. If you notice any problems please let us know about them in our support forums.

Before

A few years ago, I had some tradgedy in my life, and my once fairly healthy and active lifestyle went for a loop. After I stepped on a scale at the doctors office, I realized I had gained fifty pounds without much effort at all! Of course, I knew I had put on a few, but that was CRAZY!

So, I started from the beginning… tracking my food, and working out. I started slow with Leslie Sansone’s Walk Away the Pounds dvds. Then I did some Billy Blanks Tae Bo workouts.

Slowly I built up to the point where I had completed the P90X program with Tony Horton. Now, though, most of the workouts I do are exclusively Cathe’s. Cathe is one of the most challenging fitness instructors that I am aware of. She is a real pro. Her cueing is impeccable and her instructions are clear. She is always friendly and motivating.

After

So, with Cathe Friedrich workouts and CLEAN eating, I have managed to lose 50 pounds. I have also developed a love of exercise; it is no longer such a chore!
I have a healthy BMI, but I think like most women, would like to lose “just ten more pounds” LOL! But, I am pretty happy right now, to just feel great and know that I am so much healthier. My skinny jeans that I hung onto are too big for me now, so that is GREAT!

beta 2.6 Workout Manager

We have now just released beta 2.6 of the Workout Manager. We have fixed a few bugs in this release, but the main new feature is the ability to add notes to any exercise on your STS workout card.

We have also made a change concerning the note and pencil icon. Formerly, the note and pencil icon was what you clicked to edit your 1RM. Now you click the note and pencil icon when you want to add a workout note for an exercise. To edit your 1RM you just need to click on the calculator icon that we have just added. The only drawback with the new feature for adding notes is that the note will appear for every workout that exercise is used in the STS series. You cannot make a note for an exercise for just a specific date at this time. We’re curious to see if this is really problem, so please let us know. We can make the “add a note” feature” date specific, but it is going to take a lot of work. Before investing the time we want to first see if and how you use this feature. As always we welcome feedback in our support forums.

July 2009

Hi Everyone! This month is all about targeting our Butt’s and Guts. While one total body workout as well as some cardio will be added weekly to support overall fitness, the focus will be on what many of us would agree are our trouble spots: Butt’s and Guts. Eat clean in addition to this rotation for best results.

Enjoy!

WEEK ONE:

Mon….Butt’s and Guts

Tues…Power Max

Wed…..Muscle Endurance

Thurs…45 minutes indoor/outdoor cycling

Fri…..STS Plyo Leg disc of your choice

Sat…30 minute interval run and Ab Ciruits Pilates Based

Sun: Off

WEEK TWO:

Mon….Leaner Legs plus Only Stability Ball Abs in Butt’s And Guts

Tues….Mega Step Blast

Wed….Gym Style Legs

Thurs…Imax 2

Fri…..Muscle Max

Sat…KPC

Sun…..OFF

WEEK THREE:

Mon….Strong Legs and Abs

Tues….Rhythmic Step

Wed….Legs and Glutes plus Ab Circuits plates and Weights

Thurs….Cardio and Weights

Fri…..45 minute interval run on treadmill

Sat…..Power Hour

Sun….OFF

WEEK FOUR:

Mon…..4DS Kickbox in its entirety

Tues….Step Max

Wed….Pyramid Lower Body plus Ab Circuits No Equipment

Thurs….45 min indoor/outdoor cycling

Fri…..STS Plyo Leg Disc of your choice plus Ab Circuits yoga based

Sat…..Pyramid Upper Body plus 30 minute power walk with optional 10 pound weight vest on.

Sun: OFF

I’m a bit surprised to find myself not just contemplating writing a success story about myself, but actually doing it. I’ve read many such stories over the years, and my story pales in comparison to many I’ve read. But I suppose the key is that it is MY story, and that, of course, makes it important to me.Mine is not a story with a beginning and an end as I consider myself to be on a successful journey as opposed to having done anything as wonderful as achieving full-out success. But here is my journey.

Before

to get more exercise as a way of stress relief. The next day I walked to the nearest discount store and purchased two videotaped exercise sessions. And thus began my journey as a video fitness enthusiast.

I started working out with Cathe in 1998. I remember previewing the first workout of Cathe’s I bought which was Power Max and thinking to myself ‘I’m going to die doing this!’ I didn’t die. Instead, I loved every minute of it, and I’ve been an enthusiastic purchaser and user of Cathe’s workouts ever since.

I’ve had some physical setbacks along the way. In November 2000, while talking on the phone, I sneezed. And with that sneeze, I managed to hurt my back so severely I couldn’t walk for days and wasn’t able to drive for nearly two months! I thought my Cathe days and high impact aerobics were over. I continued to do strength training, but the aerobics seemed impossible. But early in 2002, I felt able to start doing some of the aerobics, albeit without a step. Finally, after a couple of months at that level, I moved to a four-inch step, then a few months later was back to a six-inch step. By late 2003, I was adding impact back to my routines. I became the Queen of Modification for certain moves that I didn’t feel I could do, but I grew stronger nonetheless. I remember going for a long hike in the mountains of Switzerland in the summer of 2004 and thinking how that would have been impossible if I hadn’t enjoyed working out with Cathe so much and persisted in tryi ng to rehabilitate myself enough to do her workouts again. I felt triumphant in that moment.

But life is a roller coaster. I continued to work out over the next couple of years. But in February 2006, another tumble came, this time it was literally. I was running up the stairs in my home, tripped, fell, and dislocated my left shoulder. While I felt this was a tad more respectable way of injuring myself than sneezing, I still was somewhat embarrassed to be so incapacitated in such an innocuous kind of way. I remember laughing about it with the doctors and physical therapists.

But the laughter didn’t last for very long because my shoulder refused to heal. By late March, I was suffering spasms in the arm that were so painful, I literally could not move my arm away from my body. The doctors were baffled. The pain got so bad, I couldn’t even ride in a car because the bumping motion of the road sent me into the kind of spasmodic pain that made me want to cry.

So the doctors set me up with a complete course of pharmaceuticals-muscle relaxants, valium, anti-inflammatories, etc. And, finally, in early June, they diagnosed my condition as frozen shoulder. Of course, by this time, I had lost pretty much all movement in my left arm. I had been in constant pain for nearly four months. I hadn’t left the house except to go to the doctors and grocery store in four months. I was tired.

I wasn’t a candidate for the rather simple surgery that can be done to help alleviate frozen shoulder since I have never had full range of motion in my shoulders. So the only solution was to manage the pain, work with a physical therapist, and wait out how long it was going to take for the shoulder to decide it wanted to work again….if it decided it wanted to work again.

At the time, my husband and I were living in Germany. In August, six months after I dislocated my shoulder, we learned we were going to move to Alaska. Talk about culture shock! We moved in September. The result of the medicine cabinet full of drugs I was on, plus the complete lack of working out for six months had, predictably, added some pounds to my frame. But that had nothing on what happened during my first winter in Alaska!

I received my new Cathe DVDs of the 2006 series (Butts and Guts, Body Max 2, etc) shortly after arriving in Alaska, and I was determined to do what I could to work out. But it wasn’t easy. My arm was still painful. I was afraid of falling off my step bench. I couldn’t do any strength training. And then I was enduring the longest, coldest winter I’ve ever experienced. I had already been housebound for five months of 2006 due to my arm. I was housebound again for another five months due to the Alaskan winter. I didn’t have a car that first winter, and, trust me, venturing out much at -25 or, worse yet, -40, just wasn’t in the cards. So while I was attempting to work out as best I could, nothing I did working out was ever going to be effective at combating the amount of peanut butter, chocolate, and wine I consumed to-as I thought of it-get me through the winter.

In some ways, at least physically, I just kind of gave up. My arm wasn’t really showing any signs of improvement. I was overweight. And while I still enjoyed working out, that was countered with the constant fear of hurting myself. Even my physical therapist didn’t have any words of encouragement for me. And I told myself (pathetically) that all of this was all right because I was at that time 41/42 years old, and ‘these things happened to people my age’. I’d gotten myself through a bad back injury just a few years before, but this one seemed like something I was just going to have to live with as best I could.

I preordered STS when it was first announced. I lived with hope that, some day, my arm would get better. But when my husband and I learned in April 2008 that we would be leaving Alaska for California, I cancelled my preorder with no intention of purchasing again. I just didn’t think I’d ever be able to fully use the program as I still couldn’t do anything with my left arm with weights.

But I kept reading the Cathe message boards about STS and watching the video clips when provided. Maybe it was the warm weather of California, but shortly after we arrived, my mood improved, and I started saying to myself ‘It’s time to get back into the game of life’. I started doing some light weight work with my left arm-biceps and triceps only to protect the shoulder. And those STS clips looked so appealing to me. In the fall, I decided to preorder again. I can honestly say I’ve made many decisions in my life, but unknown to me at the time, the decision to preorder STS again turned into a life-changing event.

The effect of knowing that I spent that much money on an exercise program that I knew full well I wasn’t fully capable of doing at that time in my life was profound. I started working out harder, and testing my left arm to see what it could do. I started lifting much more with my right arm as well, pushing it for the first time in 2 ½ years.

As 2008 ended and the release date of STS started showing up on the nearer horizon, I decided that I was tired of living under the layers of fat. I was tired of living with the words ‘I can’t’ in my head. And I was tired of thinking of myself as a 43-year-old woman who had to settle for anything other than the best I could give.

So I decided I was going to give my life the best I could give once again. The impetus behind this was, without a doubt, STS . I, to put it simply, wanted to be able to see my results. I figured I had spent enough for the program that it would be a crying shame to not see something of an outcome at the end of it.

It started in January 2009 with weight loss. Some great posters on the Cathe message boards pointed me in the direction of another website (myfitnesspal.com) that would track my calories. I decided this was going to be my way of losing weight.

I am 5′2″ tall, and started out 2009 weighing 143 pounds. I had been about 155 at the end of my first winter in Alaska. I set my goal for 120 pounds because I figured this was reasonable…and the lowest weight I had been since I was about 26.

I lost the first ten pounds by the time STS arrived on my door step. I was amazed at how my body was responding to proper nutrition.

And then there was STS . Words cannot possibly describe what this program has done for me. I opted for the six month rotation because I hadn’t been lifting regularly for some time. And, again, this decision became life-altering.

It is very hard to put into words what has happened to me over the past five months since I started my weight loss journey, and over the past four months since I started STS . But I have been transformed, both inside and out. I remember thinking to myself after I lost those first ten pounds-poised to start STS as I was–that I ‘wanted to take this old body out for a spin to see what she had left in her’, and that’s what I’ve done. And what a ride it has been!

Regarding weight loss, I’ve gone from 143 and size 10 to 105 and purchased my first size 0 a week ago! And I have never felt healthier. I say this because I’m eating cleaner than I ever have in my life. I’ve read book upon book about proper nutrition and the food industry, and, for the first time in my life, feel totally and completely in charge of what I am eating. And I am loving the results, not just in my weight, but in my energy levels, how my stomach feels after a meal, and simply knowing that I’m not just blindly walking through life unaware of what I’m doing to my body.

Then there is my fitness journey. This part of my story literally brings tears to my eyes. When I started doing STS , I could barely do push-ups on my knees because my left arm was still felt so weak and tight. But I worked on it-boy, did I work on it during those eight weeks of Mesocycle 1! I am still limited in the number of push-ups I can do on my toes, but the key is…I can now do push-ups on my toes! And a double-digit number of them at that.

I couldn’t hold myself in a plank in February for more than a few seconds. Now I can get through most plank sessions on any Cathe DVD I try….and that includes my most recent triumph of being able to hold a side plank on my left side for about 30 seconds. Is it perfect? By other standards, no. But being able to push myself up on that arm and hold my body weight for that long feels absolutely perfect to me right now.

There are too many changes to detail. I am lifting nearly as much weight with my left arm as my right in biceps and triceps. I’m doing chest flies with my left arm, albeit light still. But I’m doing them. I’m even doing overhead presses with my left arm, something which amazes me to do. And my right arm just keeps getting stronger and stronger. There is muscle in these arms, and I can actually SEE it. That was my aim, and it is happening.

After

And then there is the lower body transformation. This is not something I focused on, but it is something that has happened without me looking. I have lost nearly 7 inches off my hips, which, for me, is unheard of. I am smaller through my hips right now than I have been since I was a young teen. Even when I weighed the same as I do now some 20 years ago, I was always big through my hips. No more. A combination of the cleaner diet and STS has completely changed the shape of my lower body. I never dreamed it would be possible.

But the better benefit is the strength I have gained. I never felt like I quite recovered fully from that 2000 back injury, so, as I said before, became the Queen of Modification. Well….no more modifications necessary. I’m back to doing all of my step aerobics on an eight-inch step. I’m jumping higher and further than I have in years. And it feels great. Thanks to STS , I have both the core strength and the leg strength to support it, and I don’t feel it at all in my back.

The physical transformation has, predictably, resulted in a complete mental transformation as well. I’m not afraid to workout anymore. I thrive on intensity. I love the challenge of a good workout again. As Bob Harper from The Biggest Loser puts it, ‘It isn’t about the push-up’, and he’s right.

Because while I’m fitter and stronger than I have been….ever….the way I feel about myself and my life has changed completely. I no longer feel like a woman in her 40s who has to settle for feeling pretty poorly (and looking pretty poorly too). I’m now a woman in my 40s who feels, once again, like no challenge is too big. Yes, it’s true, I can do push-ups again, and while that’s great for my chest and shoulders and triceps, it’s even better just knowing I had the strength and determination and the willingness to get back down on the floor and at least try to do another push-up again.

I have goals again. I’m planning on doing STS again early next year with STS Cardio. And by the time I get there, I plan on being able to do more with my left arm. My aim is to be able to complete at least one of the workouts in Mesocycle 1 doing all of the push-ups on my toes.

People have overcome so many more physical and mental obstacles than I can even possibly dream, and I have so much admiration for those who never give up that, even though my obstacle much less imposing than others, I am pleased that I didn’t allow myself to give up either. It would have been so easy to do just that….but it wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun as I’ve had over the past few months.

So there is no ‘the end’ to this story because I’m still working on improving. I’m still trying to get that left arm back where it will go. But whereas my mental dialogue for nearly three years when faced with a physical challenge was ‘I can’t', now my mental dialogue is ‘I can’t wait’.

Hi Everyone! Today is such a fun and exciting day. I’m in New York City with Eggland’s Best top executives, the national press, bloggers and 100 enthusiastic Cathe fans for a media blitz to launch a national campaign to help spread the word that Eggland’s Best eggs are not only nutritionally wholesome, but combined with a healthy and active lifestyle their benefits are in abundance. For instance did you know that versus ordinary eggs, Eggland’s Best eggs are higher in Vitamin E (an antioxidant that helps protects body cells, tissues, and joints everywhere in the body), Omega 3 (essential fatty acids which assist in heart health, brain and eye function) and Lutein (an antioxidant which promotes healthy eye vision) and their eggs are also lower in cholesterol and saturated fat. These health benefits along with an active lifestyle will undoubtedly enhance your overall quality of life.

You might be wondering why I have chosen to partner with Eggland’s Best. Throughout my career I have had several offers to endorse products, but I’ve always declined because I didn’t believe in the product or it was not something I would truly use or wear. So why is it now that I have chosen to endorse a company that sells eggs? Ever since college, when a professor of mine in a nutrition class taught me that an egg in its natural state with its yoke is one of the most perfect and balanced foods you can eat, I’ve always made sure to include eggs in my diet. Not to mention that I had already been using Eggland’s Best eggs for many years because of their nutritional benefits. But to be honest, I really wasn’t aware of HOW much better Eggland’s Best eggs were/are for you compared to other eggs until they first approached me about helping to promote their product. The more I read and learned the more I became aware of how Eggland’s Best sole purpose is producing the highest quality, most nutritious and freshest egg available. They’re as committed to producing the highest quality egg as we are to producing the best fitness videos and that is VERY important to me. Eggland’s Best eggs provide extra vitamin E and Lutein, along with other vitamins, minerals, high quality protein, healthy fats (including extra omega-3) and important antioxidants. Along with their enhanced nutritional value, their eggs are superbly tasty, versatile, convenient, economical and a perfect compliment to a fit and active lifestyle.

You should also know that I take my job of promoting Eggland’s Best eggs very seriously and the company has been fantastic in educating me about their products. They are very proud of the regular quality assurance testings from each of their farms across the country to ensure that every Eggland’s Best egg meets their highest standards. I’ve been introduced to their customer service team and met many other great people in their organization!

Aside from the reasons why working with Eggland’s Best are so important to me, perhaps the biggest story out of today’s event for our Cathletes is “The Cathe Friedrich — Eggland’s Best National Tour” announcement. Until now, our Road Trips were always held at our facility in Glassboro, New Jersey and were limited to 105 people because of the size of our facility. Over the next year we will be holding events for Cathletes in many major cities from the East coast to the West coast throughout the USA, starting with Daytona Beach, Florida in October. This will not only be a great way for me to meet you, but for all Cathletes to meet each other, workout together and have a lot of fun.

Working with a company like like Eggland’s Best will open many doors that weren’t possible before for me and you, like our just announced national tour. I think Eggland’s Best’s commitment with me shows just how far we have progressed in the last 20 years. When I first started in this industry, professional fitness instructors, like me, never had their videos appear in stores and the media hardly ever reviewed their videos. Advanced fitness videos didn’t even exist back then! Nowadays most fitness videos are led by real certified instructors and the days of using actors and TV stars to make exercise videos is a thing largely of the past.

So, starting today I’m here to tell you about why I whole heartedly believe in Eggland’s Best eggs as part of anyone’s daily meal plan and to share with you why Eggland’s Best eggs are nutritionally superior to ordinary eggs:
• 175mg of cholesterol compared to 213mg of cholesterol in an ordinary egg. Clinical tests have shown that people on a low-fat diet who ate 12 Eggland’s Best eggs a week did not increase their serum cholesterol level.
• Higher in Vitamin E, at least 10 times more than in an ordinary egg. One Eggland’s Best egg provides 25% of a person’s recommended daily allowance of Vitamin E. Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps to protect body cells and tissues whether in the heart, skin, lungs, joints or elsewhere in the body.
• 25% less saturated fat than in an ordinary egg. Cutting back on saturated fat is recommended for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels and cardiovascular functions.
• 4 grams of total fat compared to 4.5 grams in an ordinary egg.
• 100mg of Omega 3, compared to only 37mg in an ordinary egg. Omega 3 fatty acids are termed “essential” and are believed to be beneficial for heart health, brain and eye function, infant development, and alleviating hypertension.
• 200mcg of Lutein compared to 135mcg lutein in an ordinary egg. Lutein is an important antioxidant that helps to maintain healthy vision which is important to those who could be at high risk of cataracts and macular degeneration (the elderly and people with diabetes).
• Higher in Iodine. 40% of the Daily Value of Iodine compared to 15% in an ordinary egg. Iodine is an essential element for thyroid function, necessary for the normal growth, development, and functioning of the brain and body.
• A “complete protein”. A single egg supplies about 10% of the protein needed daily, along with vitamins A, D, and B12. Eggs are an economical, convenient, and easy-to-prepare source of high-quality protein.

In closing, I thought you might also like to know about a few of the many awards Eggland’s Best has received from health and nutrition organizations and the media:

*Awarded the Gold Seal for superior taste, appearance and freshness by the American Masters of Taste
*Awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval by the Good Housekeeping Research Institute
*named one of the Best 125 Food for Men by Men’s Health Magazine
*named a Top 100 Food for Women by Women’s Health Magazine
*Awarded the National Health & Wellness Club’s Stamp of Approval for flavor, quality and nutrition

To learn more about the great taste and nutritional value of Eggland’s Best eggs, I encourage you to visit their website -http:// www.egglandsbest.com . To receive brochures, coupons or additional information, please contact EB at customerservice@eggland.com or call 800-922-3447.

Workout Manager beta 2.5

Copy Workout - Figure #1

We have now released Beta 2.5 of the Workout Manager . The main new feature in this release is the ability to easily and quickly copy a workout to any date you like. This is done by following these simple steps:

1. Click on the Calendar date with the workout you want to copy
2. Click on the “Show Details” link in the right sidebar
3. Click on the “Copy Workout” button (see figure #1)
4. Select date you want to copy workout to
5. Click the confirm button and you’re done

This new feature will not only copy the icon of the workout, but also all of the details you may have entered in the original workout being copied. It will even copy your STS workout card information. You can copy a workout within the same current month or to any month you like.

In our next release of the Workout Manager we will add the ability to enter exercise notes to an individual exercise. This is great for entering information like seat position or special instructions. Please keep your ideas and suggestions coming as we do read them and will try to implement as many as we can.

Although this is a testimonial to Cathe, it is more specifically a testimonial to the STS workout series. I have been a certified Aerobics Instructor for 20 years. Not possible you say at age 35? My dad had to drive me to my certification class because I didn’t have my license yet.I have plodded along with my fitness over the years, not ever being “Overweight”, but never really looking the part of an Aerobics Professional either.

Before

I discovered Cathe in 2003, and have worked out to her videos almost exclusively since then when I wasn’t teaching.

Two years ago, something strange happened - I guess you could call it my 30’s, but I gained 35 pounds, my left hand swelled, and I couldn’t get a grip on anything going on with my body. It was time to up the ante! Workout harder! (Notice I didn’t say smarter.) Cardio everyday, combined with alternating upper body weights, lower body weights, 7 days/week - EVERY week. No change. I would cry to my sister and husband that NO ONE works out harder than me, and yet I can’t get a handle on this. (Medically, I figured out the hand thing, but the 35 pounds were still lingering!)

Then STS was launched. I thought, “Cathe has to be crazy!!” Work a muscle group ONCE per week? Cardio on Non STS days? That’s only 4 times in a week! TAKE A WEEK TO REST?!? Cathe is just inhaling funny gas now! I laughed looking at some of the forum comments. Many felt intimidated by Cathe and STS. I thought she was slacking!! But as always, I trust her, so I bought STS and faithfully followed it. Much to my extreme amazement and utter pleasure, I lost 21 pounds in the first 3 1/2 month rotation!

After

Cathe had a comment in her calendar once, “Work Harder, Rest Longer.” This is that, and it works. STS is smarter. I am so much stronger, and I work out harder on my Cardio Days. My form is impeccable again because my muscles are ready to “power it up” as opposed to flailing through an upper or lower body workout after having done an hour of cardio right before. And my body is back to being my body again, while it thanks me for not abusing it so badly EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Oh and get this - this is my favorite part. My knowledge has not changed about anything relating to fitness - but everyone wants to know my “secret” to weight loss now, because I have some semblance of “Erika Hetrick, Fitness Instructor.” I tell them, “Cathe.com - go there.”

STS truly gave me the edge I needed to plow through whatever it was that was going on with me. And as always, Cathe is the BOMB! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

Erika

Congratulations to Erika for being selected as our featured Success Story Spotlight this week. Erika’s is a certified aerobics instructor whose success story is about how she lost 21 pounds using our new STS Shock Training Fitness program in just 3 1/2 months.  Here is just one quote from Erika’s success story…

“Then STS was launched. I thought, “Cathe has to be crazy!!” Work a muscle group ONCE per week? Cardio on Non STS days? That’s only 4 times in a week! TAKE A WEEK TO REST?!? Cathe is just inhaling funny gas now! I laughed looking at some of the forum comments. Many felt intimidated by Cathe and STS. I thought she was slacking!! But as always, I trust her, so I bought STS and faithfully followed it. Much to my extreme amazement and utter pleasure, I lost 21 pounds in the first 3 1/2 month rotation!”

You can now view Erika’s complete Success Story on our http:www.thecathenation.com  home page.  Each week we will select a different success story to be featured in our Success Story Spotlight. If your submission is selected for our “Success Story” spotlight on the www.thecathenation.com home page you will receive a $100 gift certificate that may be used at www.shopcathe.com (presale items excluded).

Success Stories

We would like to thank everyone that has sent in their success stories this week. We have now posted the first 10 Success Stories on our Cathe.com site and have added a “Success Story” tab to the header. Please keep the success stories coming and remember as a way of thanking you for helping us build our site, every entry that meets our minimum requirements will be sent an email confirmation containing a coupon code that may only be used by you and is good for 15% off any of our products sold in our www.shopcathe.com site (coupon good for 60 days. Presale items excluded).

If your submission is selected for our “Success Story” spotlight on the www.thecathenation.com home page you will also receive a $100 gift certificate that also may be used at www.shopcathe.com (presale items excluded). On Monday we will select our next Success Story to be featured in the Success Story Spotlight. To send us your Success Story - Click Here