Jessica Smith Walk On 21 Day Weight Loss Plan - Thoughts

Walk On 21 Day Weight Loss Plan includes four 30 minute walks on two DVDs.  Along with Jessica, there are two other cast members. Once cast member shows beginner modifications and one cast member shows advanced variations. 
Jessica gives you a basic workout schedule on the back of the DVD.

Disc1
Day 1: Cardio Core Walk clocks in at around the 31-minute mark.  The workout is filmed outside.  Throughout the workout, Jessica takes you through a series of walking combos with various exercise moves (many inspired by kickboxing) that target for the core.
There is a bit of a dance flair to this workout as Jessica incorporates the grapevine, cha-cha, and mambo.  Towards the end of the workout, Jessica incorporates some very targeted core moves for the abs. So there is less walking during this segment.

The music is great in this workout. It is high energy and gives the workout a really cool and fun vibe. This workout probably has my favorite group of tunes out of all of Jessica workouts.

Day 2:  Low Impact HiiT Walk is also around the 31-minute mark.  This workout is filmed in doors.  In this workout, you work in 5 minute blocks. The first 3-minutes is steady state and the last 2-minutes is where you take the intensity up a notch. There is definitely a tempo difference between the steady state and intervals.  There are five intervals.   Each interval has two moves. A bell sounds to let you know you are entering the interval.
The interval moves are:                               
(1) Jumping jacks and knee runs
(2) fast in-out steps/jacks and skaters
(3) squat reaches and cross punches
(4) swim stroke pulse squats and side shuffle with circle arms
(5) knee pulls and boxer shuffle with overhead punch

I like the music in this one as well.  There is a warm up and cool down that run about 4 to 5 minutes each.

Disc 2

Day 3:  Tred and Shred is an interval workout that combines cardio and strength moves.  Jessica interweaves walking, recovery transition moves, and sculpting exercises in a circuit style workout.  This workout is filmed outdoor and is set to a steady state tempo.  For most of the resistance exercises, the feet is constantly moving.   Workout uses a pair of dumbbells and has a decent soundtrack.  Tred and Shred clocks in at over 31 minutes.  
Please see attached spreadsheet for a list of exercises


Day 4:  Stride, Stretch, and Relax is designed to be a recovery workout. The workout is divided into three parts. The first segment is stride.  It is steady state and it is about 15 minutes of walking. This is to warm up the body and prepare it for the stretch. The stride segment does include quite a bit of arm work.
The second part of the workout is the stretch segment and it features athletic and yoga inspired stretching moves.  The stretch segment includes dynamic and static stretching and is about 12 minutes in length.
The last part which is relax and it is about 5 minutes in length. This part is mostly stretching the head and neck while you incorporate deep breathing.  Jessica includes visualization in this segment as well.
I like the fact that the recovery workout was not an entirely stretch workout.  This workout uses a chair and is filmed outside. This was my least favorite soundtrack.

Summary
Jessica does include an Introduction to the system on disc 1. She also tells you for Day 5 to take an active rest day and then repeat the cycle until you reach day 21.
I really like these four workouts.  Out of all of Jessica's Walk On/Strong workouts, this group here is probably my favorite.
Cardio Core Walk - 4 stars
Low Impact HiiT Walk - 4 & 1/2 stars
Tred and Shred - 4 & 1/4 stars
Stride, Stretch, and Relax - 4 stars

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