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Jessica Smith Walk Strong 3 Disc 1 Foundations & Flexibility

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Disc 1 Foundation & Flexibility can either be your active recovery workouts or your rejuvenation workouts.  The workouts are slow moving allowing you time to focus on the movement and develop a mind body connection. The workouts are: Foundations Deep Stretch Yoga Strength & Stretch Foundations is a slow moving "introduction to the exercises" type of workout. Jessica goes over her most commonly used exercises that she uses across all the workouts  Jessica gives the cast members  form pointers.  Equipment used include a mat, chair, and towel. Deep Stretch has an outdoor setting.  A mat, towel, and pillow are used in this workout.  Jessica and cast take your through various standing and floor based stretches. Each of the stretches are held for several counts.  So you have some time to really get into the stretch.  This is  a total body stretch.  Cast members show different ways in which the stretch can be achieved. Yoga...

Jessica Smith Walk Strong 6 Week Transformation System Disc 4 - Thoughts

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Disc 4 of Jessica Smith's Walk Strong 6 Week Total Transformation System contains your recovery and flexibility workouts.  The first workout is Dynamic Stretch . This workout is a slow moving total body stretch workout. I thought this workout was more of a static isolation stretch workout than a dynamic stretch workout. There are parts where Jessica includes some flow type movements but there is not a lot of it. The first 15 minutes of the workout is standing and the second half of the workout is floor based.  A mat and towel are used in this workout. The second workout is Prehab Routine .   This workout uses a chair, towel and mat.  Jessica states that this workout is focused on working the joints.  This is a total body workout that hits all the muscle groups that normally don't get worked out.  Jessica methodically moves through various rotating, stretching, and range of motion type exercises.  She starts with the neck and moves on to the...

BeachBody Core de Force Disc 3 - Review

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There are four workouts included on disc 3.  MMA Power clocks in at 46:58. There is a Learn It and Work It segment that is about 4 minutes.  This segment teaches you the moves in MMA Power. MMA Power consist of  the standard 2-minute warm up, twelve 3-minute rounds, and a 3-minute cool down.  In each round you are doing two sets of moves that you repeat twice through.  The first set of moves is a MMA combo featuring strikes, punches, knees, kicks etc.  The second set of moves is a spike to get the heart rate up. This is a similar format to some of the other Core de Force workout. MMA Plyo also has a Learn It & Work It segment that is 3 & 1/2 minutes long.  The main workout clocks in at 46:58.  There is a warm up, 12 rounds, and a cool down.  Each of the rounds are 3-minutes.  You are doing a combo move for 60 seconds, a spike move for 30-seconds and then you repeat both moves before you move to the next round.  In t...

3 1/2 Month STS/Shock Cardio Rotation

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