10 Minute Solution Hot Body Bott Camp - Review

10 Minute Solution Hot Body Boot Camp, well as this is "Boot Camp" of course you expect to have burpees and mountain climbers, and you do, but there is not a whole lot of them.  These moves appear in the first workout and mountain climbers appear in Rock Bottom Sculpt.

The five 10 Minute workouts are:
Hot Body Cardio
Calorie Blasting Drills
Ab Assault
Rock Bottom Sculpt
Better Body Stretch

Hot Body Cardio is a very intense 10 minutes. Even in the transition, Amy the instructor, has you jogging as oppose to marching.  This is the workout that contains the burpees or squat thrust and the mountain climbers.  This section also include tire runs, cross jacks, squat jumps, and one legged jumps.  Amy packs in a lot in 10 minutes.  You really do not get a break.

Calorie Blasting Drills. This workout uses a set of dumbbells and each drill contains, cardio, coordination work and strength training.  I enjoyed this workout up until the last drill which was plank push ups.  I felt this sequence of exercise really stop the momentum of the workout. The cardio portion of the workout is super  short, maybe 10 to 15 second sets.   Amy talks about reacting (moving fast to switch tot he next exercise).  Some of the strength training exercise are lateral raise and dead rows, a superset for the shoulders, and biceps/triceps.  There are four drills.

Ab Assault was my least favorite of the group.  There is standing and floor work and you use a set of dumbbells in this workout. Ummm, I just didn't like the over all flow of this workout.  I did like the kick-out exercise working the lower abs.  But, the plank rolls and mud crawls, as well as some of the standing work, I was not a fan of.

Rock Bottom Sculpt also uses a set of dumbbells.  Figure 8 Weave between the legs and side lunge, single leg dead lift, mountain climbers ( I modified this move), kneel in stands (which are static lunges) donkey kicks, single leg hamstring work, and bridges all appear in this workout.  This workout contains standing and floor work as well.

Better Body Stretch is a very nice ending stretch. It uses a towel.  Amy starts you off in the standing position and the workout concludes with floor work.

Hot Body Cardio- 4 stars
Calorie Blasting Drills 3 & 3/4 stars
Ab Assault - 2 & 3/4
Rock Bottom Sculpt - 4 stars
Better Body Stretch - 4 stars

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