Aerospace Savage - Thoughts

Savage is a workout featuring Michael Olijade Jr. It clocks in at about 55 minutes. The workout consist of boxing drills, jump rope drills and squat drills. Each round features these three disciplines and there are four rounds.
The warm up is about 3 minutes and as warm ups go, I didn't care for it. Michael does tell you if you are not warmed up enough to do more. The Savage workout does not have a cool down. There is a second workout on this disc called Serene (reviewed July 11, 2010) that you can do for your cool down if you like but it is a 30 minute workout.

The set is a boxing ring that has a chair in corner, a water bottle on the floor and it's dark. At one point, in one of the rounds or at the end of the round, Michael tells you to keep moving but he goes and sits in the chair that is in the corner. I thought that comical.
The music, I think is pretty good. The workout is choreograph pretty precisely with the music.
When Michael does the boxing speed drills, the music is right in sync with his punches.

The workout is narrated or voiced over; and the narration is very much in sync with what is going on in the workout. Michael uses a clock in the upper left corner that appears and disappears throughout the workout. When it appears it tells you how much time you have left in that rounds The rounds vary in their length. As you progress through the rounds, the jump rope sections get more intricate, the boxing drills also get more intricate as well as pick up speed and tempo. For the squat section, you perform a different type of squat in each round.

Round 1 - about 11 minutes or so
Starts up with jumping rope - basic, side to side, on one foot.
Then you go into Boxing drills. You only throw 2 punches (the jab and the cross or power punch)
This part uses light hand weights. First you work in Southpaw position and then you move to Orthodox position. (You switch between the two during all four rounds). In round 1, if you throw as many punches as Michael, you would have done 390 punches.
This round concludes with squats. These are traditional squats that you do slow and then fast. You are doing almost three minutes of squats.

Round 2 - about 18 minutes or so.
This round is long. You start the workout with boxing drills. First with hand weights and then you later drop the weights and you do speed drills. You are working in reps of 7. Over and over again throwing a jab and power punch. By the end of this round, if you did all the punches, you would have done 1345.
After boxing, is jump rope and this is followed by squats. The squats in this series is step squats.

Round 3 - about 11 minutes.
Start of with boxing drills. This was my favorite section. Mostly because Michael adds the upper cut and hook. So there is more variety in this round of boxing. Light hand weights are used in this round as well. Punches thrown 784.
Next is jump rope, followed by squats. The squats in this round is side to side jump squats.

Round 4 - about 9 minutes.
Starts with boxing - combines the speed combos from round 2 and round 3. By the end of the round, 882 punches thrown.
Next is jump rope (super intricate but not long). This is followed by in and out jump squats.

I didn't come anywhere close to doing all the punches. Had I, I would have done a total of 3401 punches. This workout is highly, super, extremely repetitive. Michael does tell you that is how you build your skills and that you shouldn't expect to do the whole workout the first time out. In fact, he said it could take 6 months to master the workout.

I did not like this workout. During round 2, I came very close to stopping and chucking the workout. Round 2 felt so long and repetitive and all you are doing is 2 punches for what it seems like forever. Even round 3 which I like the best is still repetitive. I definitely did not care for the leg work which is just a series of squats and the jump rope sections are just okay. I guess I couldn't find the fun factor. On a positive note, I burned almost 400 calories and I do like listening to Michael. I think he has a nice voice.

If you are a person who is looking to build endurance then this workout may be for you.
2 1/2 stars