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Les Mills On Demand Body Combat #59 clocks in at just over 31 minutes.  The presenters in this workout are: Dan Cohen Rachael Newsham Pernilla Blomquist Mika Kankainen. However there are a lot of other cast members on stage that come in and out depending on the round. The segments featured: 01a Upper Body Warm up 4:10 01b Lower Body Warm Up 4:30 2 Combat 1 4:03 3 Power Training 1 5:06 4 Combat 2 5:22 5 Power Training 2 6:00 I enjoyed the upper body warm up in this one as it featured blocks and strikes. Combat 1 was led by Mika and Power Training 1 by Pernilla and both of these were high energy fast past segments especially the Power Training. Again the workout, just ends after Power Training 2. 3 & 3/4 stars

Power Sculpt 2 is the 2nd sculpting workout in the Piloxing system. This workout too is a short one clocking in a little bit longer than the 1st power sculpt workout. Viveca leads two other cast mates and us at home in working the butt, thighs, and abs. The cast is working out on a circular raised platform.  Like the first power sculpt workout, this one does not have a warm up nor does it have a cool down. You are pretty much working in the same positions but you are doing somewhat different exercises than those performed in the first workout. So there is a table top segment, a bridge segment, lying side segment and abs segment. Expect lots of pulses, high energy music and very little rest. Another good one and another one that would be great as an add on if you wanted some extra lower body and ab focus work. 3 & 3/4 stars

Piloxing Power Sculpt 1 is short, sweet and intense.  It clocks in at just over 16 minutes. It is a floor base workout in which Viveca works your butt, thighs, and abs. There is not a warm up nor a cool down. The first group of exercises are done in the table top position with back leg pulses, knee shootouts, knee reaches, side hamstring curls, side leg pulses. Of course what you do on what side you do on the other. Then Viveca takes you into the supine position where you perform a series of  bridge exercises. Next segment has you lying on you side for outer thigh work. The last section works the abs and here you do a variety of upper and lower crunches.  There is also some bicycle and scissor work. I felt the burn on several of the exercises. This would be great as an add on workout. Along with Viveca, there are two other class participants.  The music is the same up beat music that was used in the Piloxing Round workouts. 3 & 3/4 stars

Les Mills On Demand Body Combat # 62 clocks in at 29:47.  This workout is lead by Dan Cohen, Rachael Newsham, and Andres Vesga.  The segments are for On Demand Body Combat # 62 01A - Upper Body Warm up 4:41 01B - Lower Body Warm up 2:52 02 - Combat 1 - 3:43 03 - Power Training 1 - 4:15 04 - Muay Thai - 7:51 05 - Core Conditioning - 4:48 Usually I think the Muay Thai segments are too long but I like this particular Muay Thai segment.  This workout ends after the Core Conditioning segment, so the ending is a bit abrupt. Yeah, I like this one. 3 & 3/4 stars

Piloxing Round 3 clocks in at just around 51 minutes.  It follows pretty much a similar pattern as Rounds 1 and Round 2. The warm up moves are the same as Round 1 and Round 2. After the warm up, Round 3 starts off with a boxing segment and then follows with a standing Pilates segment. This pretty much became the pattern boxing followed by Pilates.   In Round 3, there wasn't as much dance and the dance that there was included Pilates.  Some dance moves were used as transition within the segments as you went from performing the moves on one side to the other side. The boxing in Round 3 is more drill based than combo base but contains foot work so you are not just standing in one place throwing punches. The standing Pilates had a lot of balance work on one leg. There was less arm work in Round 3 compared to Round 2. Rather I should say, less arm pumps but there were quite a few arm holds. There is not a modifier in the workout but for couple of the moves, Viveca showed a mod

Piloxing Round 2 is approximately 50 minutes long.  Viveca takes you through a warm up that is similar to the warm up in Round 1.   After the warm up, you enter a boxing cardio segment where you perform boxing drills and boxing combos that included fast football feet, twisting core work, and directional jabs. In the Pilates block you work your arms with lots of arm pumps/pulse type moves and you work your legs with leg lifts. The word here is elongation.  Viveca uses it a lot.  The Pilates block also contains lots of balance work.   After Pilates is the cardio dance segment. The cardio is high in the dance segments.  The music is fast and in some spots you are definitely doing the moves at tempo and with lots of flair. You repeat blocks of boxing, Pilates, and cardio dance with different moves until the cool down.  Between the boxing and Pilates segments, Viveca will give you a moment to "take it down"and get your breath before moving into Pilates. The single arm an

Piloxing Round 1 is 54 minute workout set to high energy music. The workout starts with a warm up that is about 4 minutes.  It then moves into the main part of the workout where you are alternating boxing, Pilates and dance movements.  The workout concludes with 4 minute cool down. The boxing combinations are fast pace with lots of reps but simple to follow. Double jabs, single jabs, jab-cross-hook-upper are examples of the punches in the boxing combinations. The Pilates segments are standing Pilates so expect quite a bit of balance work as well as core work. There are also a high amount of reps in the Pilates segments.  I felt the music was too fast for the Pilates segments; at least it was for me. The dance segments felt more like transitions or recovery, although the moves were quite fast. It was the time when you shook out (thawed out) the body, loosen it up a bit. Viveca and the cast are wearing the 1/2 pound gloves which she wears throughout except of the cool down. Th

Another system. This one is called Piloxing and it is brought to us from Viveca Jensen. Piloxing is a combination of pilates, boxing and dance.  The Piloxing System is a five disk 60 day system. The Piloxing system comes with a program guide, nutrition guide, a 60 day rotational calendar, weighted gloves that are 1/2 lbs and the 5 workouts - each on their own disc. The discs come in a standard DVD case with an insert. The workouts  which I will review in future blog posts are: Piloxing Round 1 Piloxing Round 2 Piloxing Round 3 Power Sculpt 1 Power Sculpt 2 The program guide  is an eight page folded pamphlet that details what the program is all about.  The nutrition guide is 32 pages and contains general health guidelines, a sample menu and recipes.  The rotational calendar can be wall mounted. Suggested workout rotation is: Day 1 - Piloxing Round 1 Day 2 - Power Sculpt 1 Day 3 - Piloxing Round 2 Day 4 Power Sculpt 2 Day 5 Piloxing Round 3 Day 6 Recreation Day Day 7

Les Mills On-Demand BodyCombat #64 is a streaming workout that clocks in at 29:59.  I have been trying to resist the streaming movement but I got as a gift for Christmas a year's subscription to the Les Mills On Demand service. Les Mills On-Demand contains a variety of workouts from different programs. Most of the programs looks like they are a shorter version of the original workout that was produced.  I think of the on-demand version as pre-mixes. The program directors for the BodyCombat series are Dan Cohen and Rachael Newsham and in BodyCombat#64 they are the only presenters. The segments that make up this workout are: 01A Upper Body Warm Up 4:58 01B Lower Body Warm Up 4:31 02 Combat 1 2:10 03 Power Training 2 5:54 04 Combat 3 3:09 05 Muay Thai 7:57 I really like this one.  It was short and to the point and full of high energy.  I also enjoyed the majority the music tracks. The streaming was fine for this particular workout.  Also, the workout moved seamlessly

March 2016 Monday - Piloxing Transform Your Body System Tuesday - Les Mills On Demand Body Combat Wednesday - Cathe Lower Body Thursday - Core Rhythms Friday - KCM Circuit Workouts Saturday - Rest Sunday - Treadmill