Tracie Long Focus Power Up - Thoughts

Power Up is Volume 3 in Tracie Long's Focus Series. The focus here is suppose to be "Intense Metabolic Boost". Okay. Sure.

This is my second time doing Power Up and it is probably my favorite of the 4 Focus workouts.

Chapter 1 - first segment - Brutal. You are doing power lunges off the step. Tracie varies the tempo by adding pulses and knee lifts. One of the features in this workout is that Tracie builds in lots of Active Recovery which after doing the lunges off the step, I needed. The active recovery move that Tracie used was alternating quad stretches. She also did a series of tempo marches.

The rest of the workout went like this:

1. speed skaters

2. followed by more alternating quad stretches,

3. jog on the step with the right lead was next,

4. alternating quad stretches,

5. jogging on the step with the left lead,

6. alternating quad stretches.

7. series of squat jumps

8. an ending stretch that ended the segment.

Chapter 2 did not use the step and started with - 1. Power ups (knee and lunge series) 2. The active recovery move in chapter 2 were squats (first you would squat high and then you would squat low).3. Ice skaters, 4. Active recovery move (squats), 5. Power Jumps Front and march back, 6. Active recovery move (squats), 7. More Ice Skaters. Tracie went through the moves twice. Once on the right and then again on the left.

I have to say I was getting tired of the Ice Skaters. I thought the move was over used.

Chapter 3 was floor work using the step

1. Push up 1 arm extensions

2. Plyo Push ups

3. Stretch Recovery

4. Abdominals - seated crunches, knees in, knees out, leg extensions

5. Triceps dip Series off the step

6. Nice long stretch for upper and lower body

Chapter 3 only clocked in at about 8 1/2 to 9 minutes. It was definitely shorter than the other segments.

All moves including the active recovery stretching is done to the beat of the music. Power Up, in my opinion is mostly endurance type workout. I felt the moves used were chosen to exhaust the muscle group. I personally liked all the active recovering Tracie included in this workout.

Equipment used: Step

3 1/2 stars out of 5