FitByTracey Strikezone - Review

Strikezone is approximately a 60 minute workouts and features Tracey Staehle and Josef Matthews as the leads.

The workout features twelve strikes - see table of contents to the left.

Each strike takes you through a series of kickboxing martial arts inspired moves. In the first two strikes (warm it up and warm it down), Tracey takes you through the "UP" section and here you are warming up your upper body - mostly with punches. Josef leads the "down" section and you are warming up your lower body - mostly with kicks.

Overall, I like this workout. It is a workout where you can really work on your precision. My favorite strikes are 5, 6 & 8.

In strike 7, I felt that Tracey forgot to cue the first 1/2 of the combination. Other than that I didn't really notice any cuing problems.

There was one strike I did bypass and that was strike 9 (Spiderwebs). The spider webs were fun but the pushups that came with them were not.

Between each strike, the workout comes to a halt. That is because each strike is "announce". This can really kill any intensity you have built up from the previous strike.

It didn't bother me though. I just used the time to grab a drink of water and get mentally prepared for the next strike.

The set is some what dark, but lit well enough so that you can see what is going on.

The music is okay. It fits the workout well enough.

3 1/2 stars out of 5, leaning towards 4 stars