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Approximately 64 minutes in length, Cardio Metabolic Intervals is Disc 10 in the Cardio Karate set and it features Gay Gasper as the lead. Backing up Gay are three cast members. One cast member shows modifications during the pull up exercises. Pull ups do show up in all five pods; and they are followed by a set of push ups. Like the other two workouts that used the center mount pull up bar, so does this one. However, Cardio Metabolic Intervals was much easier to follow than Extreme Martial Conditioning 1 and 2. This mostly had to do with the fact that Gay and Cast were not jumping up to the pull up bar and jumping out of it into horse stance. In Cardio Metabolic Intervals, there were boxes position to the side. When it came time to do the pull up, the cast would go and get the boxes and position them under the pull up bars, hop up and do the pull ups. When they were done, they would put the boxes away before proceeding on to do push ups. I think the pull ups were tough for Gay. S...

Disc 7 Cardio Kata is approximately 57:22 in length and features Gay Gasper as the lead. There are three additional cast member in this workout besides Gay, for a total of 4. I think 4 is too many. There is this big support beam on the floor that one of the cast members kept having to work around depending on the move he was performing. The format for Cardio Kata is slightly different. There are 4 pods and within each pod there is an Intensity round. So it is kind of like a Hi Lo workout or if you do Cathe workouts, similar to when when she does a "blast"after one of her combos. For that reason, this workout definitely could have benefited from a few pre-mixes. One premix would be just the Pods sans the intensity round. Second premix would be just the Intensity Rounds without the Pod combos. Third premix would be all the pods combined plus warm up and cool down. I know. I know. Wishful thinking. I am surprise JB Berns (the creator) didn't think of this. I love the...

Disc 3 of the Cardio Karate workouts is Extreme Cardio Interval. This workout features Gay Gasper as the lead. Along with Gay, there are three Cast Members. The workout is about 58 minutes. This workout contains a warm up, 6 pods, core and a cool down. The worksheet breaks down the moves in the pod. There is not a lot of times spent on breaking down the pods. You learn them and you move on. After you have learned all 6 pods, you get to put them altogether in a super sequence in which you run through them 4 times. This was my favorite part of the workout. I really think this workout could have benefited from a premix. It would have been awesome to have the warm up, all the combo pods, and the cool down as a mini workout to do. There is a bit of up and down in this workout - where you are going to the floor. Both Pods 3 and 6 feature a series of plank work. I felt Gay was distracting. She would stop to give form pointers. She would stop just to talk into the camera. Sometimes t...