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Michelle Dozois Bodyfit 360 Energize Vol4 - Thoughts

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Michelle Dozois's  Bodyfit 360 Energize is a 53-minute body conditioning workout inspired by dance and Pilates.  The first half of the workout is your Dance Conditioning segment. In this part of the workout, you are doing four dance combinations.  Michelle teaches the combo all at once. She has you repeat the combo with the opposite lead.  You then repeat the combo on both leads before moving on to the next combo. The Sculpt and Release segment is about 28 minutes of the workout. This segment starts with some standing toning for the legs before moving to the floor to work the upper body. Upper body moves include push ups, planks, super mans, triceps push ups.  After the upper body is the core segment. This is followed by an extended stretch segment and then cool down. DVD Menu Intro Movement Review Full Workout Dance Conditioning Sculpt and Release I wish Michelle had further chaptered this DVD. As it is, you can only select the segments that are listed in the DVD M

Strong by Zumba - Thoughts

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Zumba Strong is a 60-minute high-intensity cardio and toning workout. The toning exercises are bodyweight only - no equipment is used. The entire workout is set to the beat of the music. Often the instructor, Ai Lee Syarief will introduce you to a move at a slower tempo and then she increases the pace at which you perform the move. You are doing all moves at least twice through per lead. There is a warm up and cool down. Between the warm up and cool down the workout is broken up into four quadrants. The quadrants are: Ignite Fire Up Push Your Limits Floor Play Within each quadrant, there are tracks, Each track is a song.  Prior to the start of a track, subtitle bar appears on the left to tell you what exercises you will be performing for that track. Between each quadrant, there is a mini recharge segment that serves as your recovery.  Along with bodyweight moves, many of the moves performed are inspired by mixed martial arts.  The choreography is easy to follow but the

Kelly Coffey-Meyer Sculpting Rx - Review

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Sculpting Rx by Kelly Coffey-Meyer is a 30-Minutes To Fitness DVD that contain two 30-minute sculpting workouts.  The DVD Menu Intro Workout 1 Workout 2 Premixes     Workout 1 & Workout 2 (60:35)     Workout 1: One Set of All Exercises (21:44)     Workout 2: No Cardio Core (26:57)     Workout 1 & 2: Intervaled Body Parts (38:46)     Cardio Core and Floor Finisher (18:45) Credits I did the Workout 1 & Workout 2 Premix and really I didn't care for combining the two. On their own, I think both are good sculpting workouts.  If you do the workouts separately, workout 1 clocks in at 35:55 and workout two at 30:44. Workout 1 is a sculpting workout with the emphasis on heavy lifting.  Essentially, you are doing three circuits. Each circuit consist of two body parts and you are doing three exercises per body part for 10 reps each.  First circuit you are working biceps and legs.  Second circuit you are working back and shoulders and third circuit, you are workin

Kelly Coffey-Meyer Step Boxing 2 - Review

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StepBoxing 2 is a 30-Minutes To Fitness workout lead by Kelly Coffey-Meyer. The DVD Menu Intro Workout 1 Workout 2 Premixes      Combined Workouts (48:27)      Workout 1 with Dumbbell moves (32:20)      Workout 2 with Dumbbell moves (29:57)      Dumbbell Drills only (17:59)      Cardio Drills only (14:33)      Workout 1 without Cardio Drills (24:58)      Workout 2 without Cardio Drills (23:10)      Workout 1 with Dumbbell Drills instead of Cardio Drills (28:26)      Workout 2 with Dumbbell Drills instead of Cardio Drills (26:42) Credits I did the Combined Workout Premix.  The workout consisted of basic boxing moves combined with basic step moves to make a step boxing combo. There were cardio drills after each of the step boxing combos.  The format was very easy to follow.  There were several high impact moves.  At times, Kelly would offer an alternative to the high impact move.  Kelly gave precise instructions throughout. The set was clean and bright. The music was

Monthly Rotation October 2018

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October 2018 The breakdown October 2018 will feature workouts by Kelly Coffey-Meyer, Zumba, Michelle Dozois and Tracie Long. Most of the workouts are 30 minutes or less in length. Days where I have extra time, I planned on doing 50 to 60 minute workouts. I may try to throw in some extra stretching after my treadmill workouts.