Sahra Esmonde-White Essentrics Body Sculpting Series - Review

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 stretches for the quad, hip, glute and groin area.

 Ab Flattening and Waist Shaping.  The workout starts with an upbeat warm up.  Sahra moves into waist work.  Going around the beach ball, windshield wipers, and side lunge waist sweep reaches are  the exercises Sahra uses to work the waist.  Sahra also includes a series of plies with side reaches to further work the waist and the legs.  Sahra then takes you down to the floor for some traditional ab work. In this part of the workout, you are working upper and lower abdominal and obliques.  There is a series of lying side waist exercises that also include inner thigh work.   Sahra works at a slower tempo to increase resistance.  This workout concludes with an extended stretch performed in the prone and seated positions for the back and core.


Arm Blast & Posture Boost workout is broken up into two segments.  Segment one is standing and segment two is barre.  Sahra starts off with an Essentrics style warm-up.   Exercises to follow include spine and posture stretches, shoulder blast, arm series 1, kicks, waist side work, and arm series 2.  Next come the barre series. This segment uses a chair. The exercises in this segment include:  hamstring and hip stretches, row the boat, spine twist, quad and lower back stretches.

All three workouts are filmed on a beach in Jamaica making for a very scenic set. The music is a selection of upbeat tempos.  I enjoyed these workouts and found a few of the exercises quite challenging.

Ultimate Leg Sculptor –  4 stars
Ab Flattening & Waist Shaping – 3 & 3/4 stars
Arm Blast & Posture Boost - 4 & 1/4 stars

Comments

  1. Tanvir AsifApril 2, 2018 at 10:07 AM

    Well, this is interesting. I know a lot of about posture corrector from this post. Thank you very much.
    posture corrector reviews

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Pro-Form 600 LT Treadmill - Thoughts

Image
The Pro-Form 600 LT Treadmill is HSN and Pro-Form 2011 model treadmill. Each year HSN brings out a new Pro-Form model to sale. On the HSN website the treadmill is called Pro-Form Step Up Personal Trainer Treadmill. The price of this treadmill is $699.95 and the Shipping & Handling is free. I have had this treadmill since May. Assembly is required. It took me and another about an hour, maybe a little less to put it together. The instructions are fairly detail and everything went together as it should. I had the 2007 model of this treadmill, but I like the advertised upgrades so much I decided to get this one. Pre-Program Work outs The 2011 model comes with 16 Pre-program workouts. Of the 16, 4 are distance, 5 are timed, and 7 are calorie burned workouts. The distance workouts are 1 mile, 5K, 10K, and 1/2 Marathon. The time workouts are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 45 min The calorie workouts that are broken down by time are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 40 min, 45 min, and two 60 min ...
Read more

Tony Horton P90X Plyometrics - Thoughts

Image
Plyometrics .  This means you are jumping. This means high impact. Although there were some none or low-impact exercises. The workout is about 59 minutes. The warm is about 9 minute and 30 seconds. Like the other P90X workouts that I have done, Plyometrics uses rounds as well. There are two rounds in which you are doing 4 exercises. The exercise are performed for either 30 or 60 seconds. After each round you get a water break. At the end of the workout, there is a bonus round that includes three exercises that were sports specific. The workout concludes with a 5 minute stretch and cool down. I am including a worksheet of the exercises. This is my least favorite of the P90X workouts that I have done thus far. Plyometrics just felt long.  Although I did think the soundtrack was very good and I burned a lot of calories. Equipment - towel, heart rate monitor 3 stars
Read more

Tony Horton P90X Legs & Back - Review

Image
This is my second week of P90X workouts and it starts with disc 5, Legs & Back . There are 22 exercises.  For every two leg exercises, there is one back exercise. So the pattern is - do two legs and then 1 back exercise. There are a variety of legs exercises but all the back exercises are pull up/chin up exercises. There is a cardio warm up followed by a stretch.  Then you move into the 22 exercises, each of which has a time associated with it. Sometimes you are doing as many reps as you can and at other times, Tony gives you an exact rep number he wants you to perform.  A stretch cool down concludes the workout. While I was sore after this workout and felt the challenge, I really didn't care for a lot of the exercises in this workout. The workout clocks in at around 59 minutes. Equipment used:  pull up bar,  bands, weights. 2 & 3/4 stars
Read more