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30 Minutes to Fitness Meltdown features two very distinct workouts.  Each workout clocks in right under 28 minutes each. Workout one is a dumbbell/barbell workout that takes you through a series of three rounds.  The dumbbell exercises are compound or dynamic in nature. You are doing the dumbbell exercises for 1 minutes. The barbell exercises are power moves.  You do each of the power moves for 10 reps.  There is one body weight exercise.  At then end of round 3, Kelly throws in a finisher exercise. Workout two is tabata boxing.  There are 6 rounds featuring three boxing complexes. In each round you have a right lead and a left lead. After you do both sides, Kelly throws in a cardio based exercise before moving onto the next round.  There are bells that sound that let you know when you are approaching the end of  the 20 seconds.  Bob and weave is your 10 second transition move. There are bell sounds that signal this as well. The be...

Rockout Knockout is one of the newly release Cathe 2013 workouts.  It is a kickboxing martial arts inspired workout. One thing I want to say is these new workouts come in some good high quality DVD cases.  Just something I notice right away. I think I had some other workout's flimsy case in my hand which is why I notice the difference. So, the DVD menu for Rockout Knockout is: Introduction Pla y Chapters   - Warm up   - Kickbox Cardio   - Cardio With Gloves   - Kickbox Combos   - Stretch   - Bonus Heavy Bag Premixes   - Rockout Knockout + Bonus Heavy Bag (65:02)   - Timesaver # 1 (38:33)   - Timesaver # 2 (36:16)   - Timesaver # 3 (43:33)   - Timesaver # 4 (43:15)   - Scrambled # 1 (55:17)   - Scrambled # 2 (65:02) Equipment Audio Settings   - Normal Mix   - Instrumental Music Mix   - Vocals Only Mix I did the Rockout Knockout + Bonus Heavy Bag premix and I thought th...

Rapid Fire 3:  Rock Steady Rock Hard is a 65 minute workout if you do the whole workout.  I did not do the whole workout.  I skipped the section on Weights. The other sections of the main workout I did do. My favorite part of the workout is definitely the blocks of Kickbox Combos.  There are four blocks total.  Within each block, you execute the moves on the left lead and then you repeat executing the moves on the right lead.  Each combo included kicks, punches, and intensifier moves such as plyos. The tabata section was okay. Susan takes you through a series of four moves done twice through. You switch the lead leg second time through. You are doing 20 seconds of work with a 10 second break. There is a clock that pops up during this section. A set of weights are used in the abdominal section.  This section was okay.  Lots of oblique and lower ab work. The ab section is about 10 minutes. The DVD is well chapter. The top menu is broken down...

So this is my second time doing Susan Chung's Rapid Fire: Kick, Box & Core Burn and I like it a lot better this time around than the first. If you do the workout in its entirety, it is very long - about 95 minutes long. I don't have a Heavy Bag. So I didn't do that part of the workout. I also skipped the Floor Core/Abs section. There is a Standing Core Ball Work section and I did do that. There is a warm up and as warm ups go, it is okay. After the warm up, comes Shadow Boxing of which there are three rounds. Susan uses light hand weights and she also uses the layer approach, adding punches as you go a long. So for instance, in the first round, she starts off with 4 punches and by the end of the combo you are doing 14 punches. You do this several times through before moving to the other side. After Shadow Boxing, is Kickboxing. There are three segments here as well. This part of the workout requires endurance in the hip flexor area of the body. I felt the kicks...