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For February 2012 I will be alternating Insanity workouts with Cardio Karate . I have had the Insanity workouts since 2010 and just never got around to doing them. I would preview them and then decide I would rather do something else. I have only had the Cardio Karate workouts a little over a couple of weeks. Originally I was planning these for March, but changed my mind. I really want to see what these workouts are all about. Saturday is going to be Active Recovery day - mostly in the form of some extra stretching. I feel my body needs it. Since every workout, with the exception of Dynamic Flexibility, is going to be a new workout for me, I will be doing weekly blog post for the workouts I do that week. I don't have any evening workouts plan for February as I am looking to maximize my rest between workouts. February 2012 Wed Feb 1 - Insanity : Fit Test & Cardio Abs - 47 min Thu Feb 2 - Cardio Karate : Cardio Circuits - 63 min Fri Feb 3 - Insanity : Plyometric Car...

Extreme Calorie Burn could have been called Lean Hot Body 2. Same format but slightly longer, Extreme Calorie Burn clocks in at 67 minutes. I have to say, Patrick annoyed me or maybe it was the camera person. Patrick kept stopping "to coach". I am use to this because he does this in his other workouts. He does this so much in Extreme Calorie Burn that I don't think he even did 1/2 the workout. The part that annoys me is that the camera is on him quite a few times when he does stop which he does so very abruptly. So either I am thinking the exercise is over and I stop too or it messes up my count. There is a warm up, 5 interval blocks and cool down. The DVD has a chapter menu so you can choose to include the ab workout before the cool down, eliminated the ab workout and go straight to the cool down or do the ab workout on its own at a later time. The ab workout is about 10 minutes and it uses a dumbbell. The 5 interval blocks each contain two rounds and each round...

Cardio Coach Volume 5 is 63 1/2 minutes in length if you do the ending stretch. Without the ending stretch, the workout clocks in at a little less than 54 minutes. Following the same levels and zones as previous Cardio Coach workouts, Volume 5 breaks down as : Warm up - 5:18 - Level 1 Steady State 1 - 3:03 - Level 2 Challenge 1- 16:22 - three Level 3 Hills, each hill climb is 4 minutes with a 2 minute rest between hills Steady State 2 - 3:10 - Level 2 Challenge 2 9:37 - six - Level 3 sprints, sprint for 1 minute with a 30 second rest between sprints Steady State 3 - 3:12 - Level 2 Challenge 3 - 7:24 - four Level 4 Treks, each trek is 30 seconds with a 90 second rest between treks Cool down -5:39 - Level 2 to Level 1 Stretch 9:54 Volume 5 also contains Coaches Notes track (4:22) and a Bonus Track (3:25). This is another great cardio coach workout. I love all the tunes but the cool down music. That seems to be the case with me. I feel a lot of the cool down music is a bit sappy. O...

More Cardio Strength is approximately 55 minutes in length. There is no warm up. It consist of 5 blocks that are about 10 minutes in length. Each block is composed of 2 rounds that are around 5 minutes. There is a cool down. This workout follows Michelle, Peak format. That format is: Base camp, Ascent, Climb and Peak. With the exception of the first block, which does not include Peak and really doesn't include a Base camp, the other 4 blocks do follow the format. In the Cardio Strength workouts (this is Michelle's third Cardio Strength Workout) the Ascent level is the strength level, and thus weights are used. Michelle does a lot of compound multi- muscles type exercises. On almost every exercise you are working both the upper and lower body and sometimes the core. The Climb is cardio level - no weights are used. The Peak level is heavy on the plyo. There is a modifier. The Peak Exercises in this workout are : Block 2 - 180 Squat Touchdown Block 3 - Side to Side Jump Sq...

Another winner from Michelle. I am really a fan of her cardio workouts. More Cardio Interval Burn clocks in at 60 minutes, and the time flew by for me. Michelle said something about it being the last block and I was like "really?". There is a warm up, five Cardio Blocks consisting of two rounds each, and cool down. Each round consist of a series of training levels. As you proceed through the levels the intensity and movements increase. The levels are : Base camp, Ascent, Climb and Peak. Base camp is your recovery level. Ascent and Climb are where you increase the intensity. Climb is more intense than the Ascent. The most intense level is Peak. This level features a lot of plyo type movements. The Peak Exercises : Block 1 - Air Jacks Block 2 - Jump Shots Block 3 - Tuck Jumps to a Burpee Block 4 - 180 Lunge Jumps Block 5 - Quarter Eagle to Knee Slapper There is a modifier showing less intense ways to do the Peak Exercises. More Cardio Interval Burn follows the exact same...

Lean Hot Body is a 60 minute Patrick Goudeau Workout. It is interval based - mixing cardio intervals with toning intervals. The workout follows a similar format to some other Interval Style workouts I have. You are essentially doing everything twice through. Once on the right and again on the left. I believe there are five interval blocks for a total of 10 intervals. I was going to break down each of the interval with each of the exercises perform but the workout is not chaptered - which is a big negative. So the next time I do the workout, I will try to take the time to write down what is what. It is a shame that the workout is not chaptered or the main part of the workout is not chapter. You can select the cool down and the abs as separate chapter points. Anyway, as I was doing the workout, I was thinking it would be good to mix and match the sections - to design my own workout by shortening it or repeating some sections or simply just doing the intervals I like best. This workout ...

Cardio Coach Volume 6 is 58 minutes long. Your coach is Sean O'Malley and Sean takes you on a journey through several challenges and steady state intervals. This workout recommends the use of a heart rate monitor. You use the heart rate monitor to keep track of which level you are working at. The levels are : Level 1 Blue - 55% to 65% of max heart rate Level 2 Green - 65% to 75% of max heart rate Level 3 Orange - 75% to 85% of max heart rate Level 4 Red - Above 85% The workout breaks down as follows : warm up - 5:28, Level 1 to Level 2 Challenge 1 - 21:01, Four Level 3 to Level 4 hill climbs, followed by a 1 minute sprint, 2 minutes of rest Steady State 1 - 3:37, Level 2 Challenge 2 - 9:47, Five Level 3 Sprints, Sprint for 1 minute, rest for 1 minute Steady State 2 - 3:05, Level 2 Challenge 3 - 4:04, Level 2 Climb for 1 minute, Level 3 Climb for 2 minute, Level 4 climb for 1 minute Cool down - 3:55, Level to Level 1 Stretch - 6:42 I like Cardio Coach Volume 6 because it has more...