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Disc 2 of Jessica Smith's Walk Strong 3 8-Week Program is Cardio Cross Train. This DVD has three workouts. Cardio Step Jam Boogie I.T. Cardio Hit! Cardio Step Jam uses a mini/high step.  This is optional.  This workout is essentially a steady state workout. If you use the step, that will increase the intensity.  Jessica takes you through various patterns up, over and around the step.  The moves are a cross between dance and athletic. The choreography is simple and very easy to follow.  There is some single leg work and a little bit of plyo work. Boogie I.T.(Interval Training) is your higher intensity workout and contains many level changes throughout the workout.  You are walking and/or jogging in parts of the workout  There are coordination style drills and there is a mixture of athletic and dance style moves.  There are intervals where you take  it up a notch. The intervals are: Knee to Elbow Hops Skater Skiers 180 degree t...

Disc 2 of KCM's Build & Burn workout system features Lower Body Tabata and Kettle Bell Kickbox fusion. Lower Body Tabata clocks in at 26:31and uses a pair of dumbbells and a band.  There are some exercises where you use your own body weight. After the warm up, you move into the workout where you are doing each exercise for 20 seconds.   Each move is repeated for four sets.  Rest are kept to a minimum. Kettle Bell Kick Box Fusion clocks in at 26:14.   Kelly alternates kettle bell moves with kick box moves.  All moves are performed for 30 seconds and for 2 sets. On many of the moves, prior to the move starting Kelly counts you in with a 4, 3, 2, count. Throughout the workout, Kelly offers tips and modifications you can do. There are two other cast members but no one is really showing any modifications.  Super up tempo music in this one.  You can uses a dumbbell in place of a kettle bell. Disc 2 contains 10 premixes ranging in time from 1...

Rock'm Sock'm Kickbox is one of two cardio conditioning workouts in Cathe's ICE series. The workout is 48 minutes in length. The workout contains a mixture of punching drills, kicking drills and cardio blast. This is mostly a drill base workout with marching in between the exercises to transition to the next side or next move. Typically you are performing moves on one side for a series before switching sides and performing the same group of moves.  Then you move on to the next series of move. The workout is set to a pretty good sound track that is up tempo.  This is the type of workout that I normally love but something was missing. I have done this workout twice and even the second time through I felt something was off - that there was a lack of flow.  For instance, while  I enjoyed the warm up,  the conditioning kick drills that followed the warm up started off with side reach lunges that felt completely out of place.  I also enjoyed the punchi...

Karen Voight's Sleek Essential consist of three 50 minute workouts.  In the set that I have, each 50 minute workout came on its own DVD. Sweat Effect is your cardio workout. The cardio is mostly kickboxing inspired and it takes up the first 35 minutes of the workout. The choreography in the kick box segment is easy to follow.  Karen teaches you the pattern on the right and then she repeats on the left. Following the kick box segment are a butt/thigh segment, abdominal segment and cool down stretch. When Karen went into the butt segment which is floor based, I wasn't expecting it because I knew there was another DVD focused on Strength and Toning. Plus I was enjoying the kickboxing and I would  have like to see the kick box portion extended. The different sections of the workout are: Warm up Twist & Punch Bob & Weave Lunge & Lift Jump & Kick Butt & Thighs Abs with foam roler Stretch Strength Effect is your sculpting workout.  I...

Kickstart Your Metabolism is approximately a 65 minute workout featuring Chris Freytag as the lead. The workout is inspired by Kickboxing moves which show up throughout the workout. The sections in the workout are: Fat Blast Ab Attack Body Sculpt Bonus: Express Kickstart With the exception of Express Kickstart which clocks in at 8 minutes, the other segments clock in at around the 15 minute mark. The workout does include a warm up and cool down. Fat Blast is your cardio portion of the workout and it features a really simple routine featuring kickboxing moves (bob&weave, jabs, knee thrust, hooks, upper cuts). Very few of the moves are used in combination. Most of the moves are standalone moves that you do on one side and then the next.  I thought this segment very boring. Ab Attack  starts off with standing core.  The first portion continues the cardio with side to side jabs, hooks, squats, and strikes.  A long series of knee pulls and core rotation...

Kickbox FastFix is a Jillian Michaels' DVD.  The DVD contains three - roughly 21 minute workouts that are Kickbox inspired.  Workout 1 focuses on the Upper Body, Workout 2 on the Lower Body, and Workout 3 focuses on the core. Each of the workouts feature 4 circuits.  Within each circuit, Jillian takes you through a Kickbox Combo that features lower and upper body moves.  The other moves in the circuits are traditional and some functional exercises. Expect push ups, situps, squats, bent rows, planks, mountain climbers, suicides, and butt kicks as they all appear. So the DVD Menu has several features: The Set Up option lets you choose English,,Spanish and/or Subtitles There is a W orkout Recommendation that is advertising how to reach Jillian, More from Jillian tells you about Jillian's other products Kickbox Tutorial is a 14 minute one on one session with Jillian. This is an introduction to Jillian's Kickboxing. Overall I didn't really like this wor...

Amy Bento’s Body Box is a kickbox inspired interval workouts.  Along with a warm up and cool down, there are 4 kickbox combinations and 4 intervals.  The intervals consist of resistance type exercises. Some of the interval exercises used dumbbells for resistance and others use your own body weight for resistance. After the end of each interval, Amy add a recovery move that you do for about 8 reps. The intervals and recovery exercises are: Interval 1 :  horse jump into squat overhead press with dumbbells Recovery 1 :  parry block into cross punch Interval 2 :  air lunge into standing seated windshield holding dumbbells Recovery 2 :  alternating side block Interval 3 :  bridge crawls into push ups, leaning bridges from the kneeling position Recovery 3 :  Bow outs Interval 4 :  alternating low squats jump into push up, bridge punches Recovery 4 :  high cross alternating lunge back The intervals/recovery are around 5 to 6 minute each. Th...

While Kickbox Burn has Patrick Goudeau's name on it, the main workout  is lead Heather Corndorf. The workout consist of a warm up (co-lead by Patrick and Heather), 4 Kickbox Burn Rounds, a Cool down and a bonus abs sections.  Patrick lead the abs section. I did not do the abs section. The DVD menu allows you to: - Play All - Create a personalized workout - Pick one workout The following are elements of the workout: - lots of knees (pulls and strikes) - lots of running (fast foot, high knees) - lots of fast (double time) repetitive drills - each round features plyo jumping moves - each round features a kickbox combo - what you do on one side, you do on the other side - there is not a beginner modifier This is a super high energy workout.  The  tempo is mostly fast pace and that starts in the warm up. In the warm up, you are running and jacking.  Patrick starts this off and half way through the warm up, Heather takes over and continues the worko...

Rapid Fire 3:  Rock Steady Rock Hard is a 65 minute workout if you do the whole workout.  I did not do the whole workout.  I skipped the section on Weights. The other sections of the main workout I did do. My favorite part of the workout is definitely the blocks of Kickbox Combos.  There are four blocks total.  Within each block, you execute the moves on the left lead and then you repeat executing the moves on the right lead.  Each combo included kicks, punches, and intensifier moves such as plyos. The tabata section was okay. Susan takes you through a series of four moves done twice through. You switch the lead leg second time through. You are doing 20 seconds of work with a 10 second break. There is a clock that pops up during this section. A set of weights are used in the abdominal section.  This section was okay.  Lots of oblique and lower ab work. The ab section is about 10 minutes. The DVD is well chapter. The top menu is broken down...

Criss-Cross Cardio is a reacquired workout for me. I bought this workout a few years back when Advanced Workouts was having a huge sell on CIA Video workouts. When I got the workout and previewed it, it didn't appeal to me, so when I was off-loading workouts trying to wean my collection, this went by the wayside. So why do I own this workout now. I think it was a review, somebody had mentioned how much they like this workout. I started thinking to myself "that I really didn't give it a fair chance". Plus, CIA workouts are getting harder to find. So I decided to get this one again while I had the chance. And, I am glad I did. The workout is about 64 minutes and stars Sherri Jacquelyn. I don't know much about her. Reading the back of the DVD cover she has been in previous CIA workouts. Criss-Cross Cardio is predominately a kickboxing workout with some mixed martial arts. The mixed martial arts comes in the form of Capoeira which is a Brazilian form of martia...

RapidFire: Result s is the second workout by Susan Chung. The total workout is 77 minutes in length - which is about 17 minutes too long for me. The great thing about the DVD is that it is well chaptered. The chapters are: Warm up Combo 1 Drill 1 Combo 2 Drill 2 Combo 3 Drill 3 Combo 4 Drill 4 Metabolic Weights Core/Abs Stretch I did the warm up Combos/drills 1 through 4 and the stretch. So my workout was about 50 minutes. And, I like what I did. Susan advertises the workout as containing Unique Kickboxing combinations. I certainly thought the punches were unique. Within each combo Susan uses the layer approach first starting with punches and then adding kicks. The drills are pretty good too. Jumping Jacks, burpees and speed skaters show up. Even so, I still like the drills. Susan combines those athletic moves with various kickbox moves. There is a modifier (Kitty) and an advance exerciser (Chris). I like the way Susan cues. She tells you what you are doing or rather she tells...

So this is my second time doing Susan Chung's Rapid Fire: Kick, Box & Core Burn and I like it a lot better this time around than the first. If you do the workout in its entirety, it is very long - about 95 minutes long. I don't have a Heavy Bag. So I didn't do that part of the workout. I also skipped the Floor Core/Abs section. There is a Standing Core Ball Work section and I did do that. There is a warm up and as warm ups go, it is okay. After the warm up, comes Shadow Boxing of which there are three rounds. Susan uses light hand weights and she also uses the layer approach, adding punches as you go a long. So for instance, in the first round, she starts off with 4 punches and by the end of the combo you are doing 14 punches. You do this several times through before moving to the other side. After Shadow Boxing, is Kickboxing. There are three segments here as well. This part of the workout requires endurance in the hip flexor area of the body. I felt the kicks...

A 65 minute workout, KB2 combines Kickboxing combos with Kettlebell Intervals. There are four combos and four intervals. These are surrounded by a warm up at the beginning and a cool down and stretch at the end. Kickboxing combo sections : The combos are more drill base than routine base.. Certainly, they are less intricate that many of Amy's other Kickboxing workout. I like the combos. Amy does include a couple of new moves that haven't been in her other workouts. In terms of content within each combo, the warm up and combo 1 probably has the most content. The others seem short on content but made up for it in repetition. There is lots of repetition. Also, the combos are super easy to follow. The Kettlebell Sections : In some intervals, Amy uses two kettlebells and in some intervals, she uses only one. Interval 1: High Pull, Snatch, Middle Get up (1 kettlebell) Interval 2: Dual Swings, Dual Cleans, Front Loaded Squats (2 kettlebells) Interval 3: Push ups, Renegade Row...

Janis Saffell's Kickbox Strike Zone is approximately 60 minutes in length. It contains the following sections: Warm Up> Kickbox Aerobics Target Drills Kickbox Sculpt Tai Chi Stretch The Kickbox Aerobics sections contains mini kickbox routines that feature both high and low impact moves. The Target Drills section features partner work and the use of a paddle. Janis has one person holding the paddle in a lunge warrior position. This is to make sure the paddle is held securely and the other person is either punching or kicking the paddle. She then has the two people switch positions. Non-partner modifications are shown. The Kickbox Sculpt section features a series of lunges, squats and the various kickbox kicks. The various punches are also worked in this section. Janis uses weighted gloves in both this section and the Kickbox Aerobics section. Kickbox Strikezone is another one of those workouts that was previously released on VHS and then later put on DVD. So the set is a bit da...

Powerstrike 4 is a 57 minute kickboxing workout that adds karate type elements to the kickboxing moves. Ilaria takes time to introduce you to her workout by going over what to expect and the type of moves (punches and kicks) you will be doing. This isn't really part of the workout and you can easily fast forward through it. I mention it because I think it is very informative and reminds you about form and instructs you on how to perform the elements she will be doing in the workout. The workout starts with a warm up that includes push ups. I actually did the push ups this time. She then moves into left-side drills - or you can call it practice if you want to - of the various punches and kicks. This section requires a lot of endurance because there are a lot of reps. I didn't count them but we are easily doing anywhere from 16 to 32 reps per punch/kick. After the warm up, Ilaria teaches routine one and routine two on the right side. Then we go back to drills on the right side ...

Hardcore Kickbox Circuit is a 55 minute workout featuring Guillermo Gomez and Janis Saffell. It alternates cardio kickboxing sets with sculpting sets. Some of the sculpting sets use light weights. Guillermo and Janis alternates with each leading a full circuit. There are a total of 4 circuits (kickboxing and sculpting). The music is full of high energy. Both Guillermo and Janis cue well. There is a lot of counting down throughout the workout. The moves and combinations are easy to learn, but intricate enough to make it interesting. Both Janis and Guillermo repeat the moves on both the left and right side. I keep forgetting how much I really like this workout and I don't do it often enough. Janis and Guillermo's form is outstanding. You can tell that they really train this stuff. Equipment Used: weights, boxing grips 4 1/2 out of 5 stars

Kickbox Kaliente is a 30 minute workout featuring Billy Kirby. It features Latin techno music and is supposedly a combination of Latin dance and kickboxing. With the exception of the cool down there was very little Latin dancing going on. This workout was unique. When I first started it, I was thinking "What the heck was I thinking buying this?!" By the end of the workout, I thought it was salvageable. Billy does a lot of posing. I mean he literally stops in the middle of the exercise and flexes his biceps or points to camera. Now, there is a whole cast behind him that is still exercising but when the camera is tight in on him, you can't see the other exercisers, so when he stops to pose and does his "Come on, keep it moving" verbiage, I am thinking, "Well, you need to keep it moving too". The moves are very basic kickboxing moves. The combinations are easy to follow. Billy does a lot of counting and he doesn't mirror cue. What Billy does ...

Kickbox Yoga Fusion is a DVD that contains two workouts. The full workout is 50 minutes and it also has an express workout that is 30 minutes. I did the full workout. This workout was boring. It moved slow. I kept wanting Patricia to speed up the instruction. That is not to say her instruction wasn't good. It was very precise and gave you lots of time to practice the move. But as the workout continue to move on, I caught myself snapping my fingers trying to encourage her to move it along. I feel the workouts has more of a punching emphasis than a kicking emphasis. The punching combinations weren't the "same old same old" but they were repetitive. There was also a lot of standing around. So I would classify this kickbox workout as more drill base than cardio base. Patricia is an excellent instructor. She is encouraging and precise in her cuing. She delivers her instruction in a very knowledgeable way. The music was okay. My first though...

CIA 2205 Knockout Hi Low is a 56 minute workout featuring Debbie Burns. The emphasis of this workout is more boxing than kickboxing. However, there are kicking moves added throughout the workout. There workout is essentially divided into two Cardio Knockout Hi-Low combinations. Between the two combinations is a "pulse check break" that is only really about 10 seconds. The two combinations are long, but fun and unique. Debbie definitely puts together some different combinations and different moves that aren't seen in other kickboxing workouts. Like most kickboxing combinations it does work the same combination on the left and on the right. What I notice about this workout, you are almost always on your toes while you are punching and kicking. Rarely is Debbie static. Intermixed with the kickboxing are hi intensity plyometric moves (i.e. Ali shuffle, jumping jacks, plyo hops etc). Debbie Burns is another instructor that I went out online to see if she had any other ...

A Cathe Favorite. Kick, Punch, & Crunch is a high energy kickboxing blast workout. This workout has lots of reps so you can work each move. In fact, endurance may be a factor on some of the moves. I know I felt fatigue in several of the exercises towards the end of each move. You calves certainly get a good workout. After the warm up, the workout goes into medium intensity drills, and that is followed by high intensity drills. After the drills, Cathe takes you through 3 combination routines. This is followed by a brief cool down before you go into Stability Ball Ab work and then a final stretch. My favorite part of the workout were the 3 combinations. I think I like the speed of the combination which allowed you to execute each move without being rushed. I really like the music except the music used during the Abdominal/core sections. The music there seemed out of place. 4 1/2 stars out of 5