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The Yin Yang Fusion Workout. I have had the DVD for ages. I thought I had done it before but did not find a review for it.  I did it this week as an add-on.  The DVD contains five 15-minute workouts.  All the workout had a martial arts influences.  The DVD Menu Introduction (1) Cardio:  Expansion & Contraction (2) Total Body:  Strength & Flexibility (3) Lower Body:  Rhythm & Balance (4) Core:  Power & Flow (5) Relax:  Movement & Stillness Play All Guillermo Gomez leads workout 1 Cardio Expansion & Contraction .  This workout is kickboxing based.  Guillermo teaches a combo that  he repeats on the right and then the left.  This workout reminded me of his longer Fat Burning Kickboxing workouts.  Very easy to do and follow. Guillermo is the only cast member in this workout.  3 & 3/4 stars Total Body Strength & Flexibility is lead by Jessica Smith.  This is a body weight workout ...

July 2017 Monthly Rotation. The first week of July I am going to treat as an Active Recovery. Then I am going to embark on a 21 day rotation. The rotation is : Sunday - 4 Miles Treadmill + Stretch Monday - Cathe FitTower Workouts Tuesday - Guillermo Gomez Kickboxing Cardio Wednesday - Tracy Anderson Design Series Thursday - Chalene Johnson Turbo Fire Friday - More Cathe Workouts Saturday - Rest Day

Martial Fusion Fitness Kickboxing is a 58 minute cardio kickboxing workouts. Along with Guillermo, there are two other cast members however there is not a beginner modifier. The warm up is 8 minute.  In the warm up, Guillermo introduces basic steps, punching and stretching. In the main part of the workout you do a series of drill base punching and cardio moves, alternated with kickboxing combos. The punching moves are jabs, hooks, and uppers. Cardio moves are jumping jacks, cross jacks, jump rope, double side shuffle, and grapevine. Some of the kickboxing combos include : Four Jab Cross + Step Knee + Round kick Upper - Hook - Cross Double Jab - Cross - Jab Jab - Cross - Hook - Upper - Front Kick The workout pretty much moves non-stop from move to move. There are transition moves such as boxer shuffle or side steps.  There are also 3 sets of  squats interspersed throughout the workout. The cool down/stretch is about 6 minutes in length.  In this ...

Fat Burning Cardio Kickboxing is lead by Sensi Guillermo Gomez. Guillermo takes you through a 60 minute cardio kickboxing workout. Guillermo warms you up with punches (jabs, hooks, uppers) and lower body stretching and hamstring pull backs. After the warm up, Guillermo starts to build the first part of the combination routine and he continues to add on to the combo throughout the workout. So there is really only one combo.  You perform this routine on one side and then perform it on the other side before moving on. In between building the combination routine, Guillermo throws in cardio moves such as jumping jacks, jump ropes, criss-cross jacks, and speed bag jog.  He also adds in lower body work such as a long series of squats, series of knee pulls and a series of knee front  kicks. After each cardio or sculpting move, Guillermo picks the combo back up and continues to add to the routine.  The workout is non-stop for pretty much the full 60 minutes. Guiller...

Kickboxing Cardio Burn is about 62 minutes in length. The warm up and cool down are about 5 minutes each. This workout is pretty good. To be honest, I was dreading it. I thought 62 minutes of triple jabs, knees smashes and vsteps , I am going to go crazy. Yes there are triple jabs and knee smashes but no vsteps . This workout has more variety than many of Guillermo's other workouts. Although it only features one combo that Guillermo builds up throughout the workout. So even though you think you are done with the combo, Guillermo keeps coming back to it - all the way until the cool down. There is a decent lower body kick section, that feature knee smash, front kick, crescent knee and then the roundhouse. There is a lot of repetition, mostly drill based. Double jacks, jump ropes. speed bags, criss -cross are some of the moves that show up between learning and doing the combos. The choreography is very basic and easy to follow. The soundtrack that Guillermo uses is full of ene...

Kickboxing Cardio Dance . This DVD contains four sections. They are: Tutorial - ~8 minutes Cardio Dance - ~ 34 minutes Martial Fusion Bootcamp - ~17 minutes Cooldown - ~ 10 minutes The dance in Cardio Dance. You have mambos and you have grapevines into a a spin. That really is all the dance there is. Guillermo does do a V step and step touches which you can make "dancey" but both of these moves are staples in his other workouts as well. As far a kickboxing - triple jabs into upper cut and a knee smash. That's it. The Kickboxing Cardio Dance does have a warm up that contains some stretching. Martial Fusion Bootcamp has a little bit more kickboxing. Jabs, Cross, Upper Cuts and Roundhouse kicks. Jump ropes, jumping jacks, squats, and push ups all show up in the Boot Camp workout as well. Both workouts are simple and very easy to follow. Not a favorite. 2 & 3/4 stars

Kickboxing Cardio Power stars Guillermo Gomez and it is 42 minutes long. Guillermo mixes the standard punches - jab, cross, upper cut, hook, with power moves such as jumping jacks and jump rope. Side steps, V step, bob & weave, knee smash, and speed bag drills round out the workout. My biggest complaint about Guillermo's kickboxing workouts are that they are light on the kicking. This workout is no different. Towards the end of he workout he does do a series of front snap kicks, but that is about it as far as kicking goes. Super easy to follow. What you do on the right, you do on the left. Expect a lot of repetition. The DVD has a tutorial section. It also has Bonus Martial Arts Drill Section that feature three separate Martial Arts Drills. A mat is required for the drills. Guillermo provides great instruction during these drills. The set is very nice. A vast improvement over his other DVDs. The music fits the workout - up tempo with lots of energy. In the main workou...

Rockin' Body is about 65 minutes long if you do the whole workout. The menu chapters are: Warm Up - ~ 8 minutes Rockin Body Cardio - ~37 minutes Bonus Toning Abs - ~10 minutes Yoga Stretch & Relaxation - ~10 minutes The Rockin Body Cardio section contains 5 sets of moves strung together for a mini combo. The moves are taught in the layer approach with the right and then left lead. I was kind of annoyed with the combo because none of the moves featured any kicking at all. The only thing done with the legs was a knee smash - I believe that occurred in the 4th set of moves. At the very end of the workout, Guillermo puts in a set of drill based front kicks. The moves used in the combo are very basic. There are lots of reps. Starting with set of 8, then Guillermo cuts it in half and does sets of 4, then he cuts it it half again with sets of 2. It is not a bad workouts, there just isn't a lot of variety and not a lot of thinking to do. The bonus toning and abs section is do...

Slammin' Bod y is a 42 minute kickboxing workout. Although,I will say. there was a lot more boxing than kicking. The workout is divided into three sections. Interval Kickboxing - 24 minutes Cardio Bonus - 10 minutes Stretch & Relax - 8 minutes My favorite part was the Interval Kickboxing section. This segment featured 8 combos. Within each combo, you execute the moves on first the right and then left side. You first start off moving through the combo slowing for four reps. Guillermo then picks up the pace for a set of eight reps. Each combo routine is set up this way. The combos are fairly basic. I didn't find any too hard to grasp. The cardio bonus segments is really just 3 mini combos taught as one long combo. It was okay. The punches and kicks were just as basic or even more basic than the Interval Kickboxing section. Double jab to the front, step knee smash, three jabs into upper cut, V step transition are the moves used in this section. Stretch and Relax is a n...

Kickbox Underground featuring Guillermo Gomez clocks in at around 40 minutes. Guillermo does a series of kickboxing moves that he layers into a combination. All the moves that he uses are very familiar and are combine in a standard way. However, with that said, he does offer more variety in this workout than he does in the previous two videos I have recently shared thoughts on. The intensity is on the lower end of medium. Guillermo does enough reps that you start to feel the muscle fatigue. The music is okay and the set is um ...... There is some funky camera effects going on - I think it is called Sepia. I was definitely liking this workout much better than the other two GG workouts I did. 3 stars.

Cardio & Flexibility is a 30 minute workout. The first 10 minutes is the warm up, the next 10 minutes features a MMA combo, and the last 10 minutes is stretching. Mmmmmm. I don't know what to say about this workout. The workout felt very very basic to me. I was almost bored with it. The workout felt longer than what is was. It was repetitive without being interesting. Some positives of the workout are you do get a decent stretch and Guillermo cues well. The workout is also very easy to follow. Even so, I don't think I am going to be doing this workout too much in the future. I give it 2 stars out of 5 stars.

Martial Fusion Cardio Blast . If you like the jab cross punch, if you want to perfect your jab cross punch then this is the workout for you, because with the exception of a side block, these were the only two punches we did in the whole entire 46 minute workout. This workout, led by Guillermo Gomez, features 4 combinations and quite frankly I hesistate to call them combinations, I think a better turn would be add-ons. Yes. 4 add-ons for one complete combination. Within the whole combination, you do a triple punch, one side kick, 2 knee smashes and some inner arm circles. What does all this add up to - repetition galore. That is not to say that it was a bad workout and that it wasn't enjoyable but you do find yourself wondering "Is this all we are going to do?" The workout was okay for me because I like Guillermo Gomez. Anybody else and I am sure I would have been thinking "What the heck is this?" Now you do get some good stretching in the workout. Guil...