Preventoin Kick Start Your Metabolism - Thoughts

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 rotations are also included. Chris takes you the floor for some plank work and side crunches.  This segment was okay.

Body Sculpt uses a set of weights and a mat.   Some of the exercises in this segment are reverse lunges, squats, side lunges, double arm rows, plie series, bicep curl series, push ups and front lunge. There is an interval simulated jump rope segment.  This was my favorite segment of the workout.


As a side note, there are two background exerciser both of which have made there own workouts, Jessica Smith and Cat Chiarelli.  Cat shows beginner modifications.

The DVD includes a Introduction and Kickbox 101 segment.  The Kickbox 101 segment just features Chris Freytag teaching kickbox moves.
3 stars

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