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Michelle Dozois Bodyfit 360 Energize Vol4 - Thoughts

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Michelle Dozois's  Bodyfit 360 Energize is a 53-minute body conditioning workout inspired by dance and Pilates.  The first half of the workout is your Dance Conditioning segment. In this part of the workout, you are doing four dance combinations.  Michelle teaches the combo all at once. She has you repeat the combo with the opposite lead.  You then repeat the combo on both leads before moving on to the next combo. The Sculpt and Release segment is about 28 minutes of the workout. This segment starts with some standing toning for the legs before moving to the floor to work the upper body. Upper body moves include push ups, planks, super mans, triceps push ups.  After the upper body is the core segment. This is followed by an extended stretch segment and then cool down. DVD Menu Intro Movement Review Full Workout Dance Conditioning Sculpt and Release I wish Michelle had further chaptered this DVD. As it is, you can only select the segments that are...

Michelle Dozois Bodyweight Athletic Conditioning - Thoughts

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Bodyweight Athletic Conditioning is Volume 3 in Michelle Dozois's Bodyfit 360 program. This workout uses a combination of cardio and strength moves to work your body all using a towel and your own body weight.  The workout contains  high intensity moves, low intensity moves, full body moves, floor work, and flexibility moves. Set to up tempo high energy music, the workout moves fast.  At times, I felt like I was all over the place or rather the workout was all over the place.  With that said, it does follow a particular pattern. You are just doing a lot and there is a lot of up and down movements - That is standing up and getting down on the floor. The workout has the following chapter points. Block 1 - Warm up Block 2 - Athletic Conditioning 1 Block 3 - Athletic Conditioning 2 Block 4 - Athletic Conditioning 3 Block 5 - Athletic Conditioning 4 Block 6 - Upper Body Block 7 - Core Block 8 Stretch The workout clocks in at 40:32 and there is a beginner ...

Michelle Dozois Bodyweight Dance Conditioning - Thoughts

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Bodyweight Dance Conditioning is Volume 2 in Michelle Dozois' Bodyfit 360 series. This is a fusion workout - combining dance, fitness, pilates into a series of moves that works the body in several directions and on several planes. There is a beginner modifier who shows a simpler way on how to do some of the more challenging bodyweight exercises. The first part of the workout is the cardio portion. Michelle does several segments in which you keep your heart rate up. The second part of the workouts focuses on strength and flexibility.  Although these two components show up in several of the dance conditioning segments as well. The workout moves fast but I didn't have a hard time following it. You can count on doing each move at least 4 reps before Michelle moves on.  Within, the block you are doing each sequence twice, once on the left and once on the right. The DVD Menu offers the following options: Introduction - ~ 1:05 Movement Review - This is around 3 minutes ...