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Essentrics Body Sculpting Series is lead by Sahra Esmode-White.  There are three workouts on one DVD.  Sahra states that each workout is a total body workout but each workout has a particular emphasis. The workouts are: Ultimate Leg Sculptor Ab Flattening & Waist Shaping Arm Blast & Posture Boost Ultimate Leg Sculptor workout includes standing and mat work. After the warm up, Sahra takes you through a series of Essentric trademark exercises which included lunge reaches (simulated elastic pull downs) and figure 8s. A plies series follow. This puts you at the 9 minute mark of the workout. You then move to the floor for a series of table top leg exercises.  Donkey kicks, leg lifts, hamstring curls, leg pumps and side kicks are the exercises.  There is also lying side leg work. In this section, Sahra alternates working the outer and inner thigh and glute area using traditional Essentrics lengthening exercises.  The workout concludes with seated ...

  A Little Obsessed is a 5 Day program that is touted as an intro to the longer 80-Day Obsession program. Both programs were created by Autumn Calabrese. A Little Obsessed consist of five 30-minute workout. The workouts are : Day 1:  Total Body Core Day 2:  Booty Day 3:  AAA Day 4:  Cardio Core Day 5:  Legs These are on-demand workouts. The whole system comes online including program material (nutrition plan, tracker sheets, workout calendar and a spotify playlist). None of the workouts have music. Autumn tells you to download the spotify playlist. Also, none of the workouts had a timer, countdown clock or subtitles.  I am used to that with BeachBody workouts and I missed that. The warm ups are the same for each workout. The workouts have a beginner modifier. In Day 1:  Total Body Core, there are 10 exercises. You do all 10 exercises for 15 reps per exercises.  Then you repeat all 10 exercises for a second set.  The exe...

Grand Total Vol 1 Going Strong is a 45-minute metabolic sculpting workout.  The workout is divided up into 8 chapters. Some of the chapters are interval based The chapters are: Warm up Power Step Split Squats Fast Cardio Squats Upper Body Floor Work Stretch This workout uses a club step and dumbbells. The workout starts with about a two minute stretching -slightly dynamic warm up.   The power step segment is one of your intervals. Tracie mixes power step work with weight work. Some of the exercises are power jumps, plank burpees, dead lift row, split jump squats, and side squats. The split squat segment is mostly strength training. You are doing a series split squats along with push up step outs, french press, brake squats and plank work. In fast cardio you are using the top of the step.  In this segment, you are working on and around the step.  The squat segment requires the use of a prop (some type of step, box or chair). You are doing single leg...

March 2018 Monthly Rotation Another month has flown by. I have a 5K race this month. Workouts I have plan include: Kelly Coffey-Meyer Cardio Pump and Build and Burn. Autumn's A Little  Obsessed. Michelle Dozois,  a Tracie Long,  Essentrics, and  Body Combat Les Mills On Demand workouts. I am still working my way through the 3-Week Yoga Retreat workouts.  Did not get very far last month.