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                               August 2023 Monthly Rotation For August, I will be doing CoffeyFit  RAW  & RAW Timesaver workouts at the beginning and end of the month. In the middle of the month, I have BODi Andrea Rogers' Xtend Pilates workouts on tap.  Michelle Dozois cardio and iFiT treadmill workouts complete the month. 

December 2022 I have a 5K race plan for the 10th.  Sundays continue to be treadmill followed by a stretch. For December, I will just be doing 2.5 miles. I will be doing BeachBody Fire & Flow workouts. They just release this series from VIP Early Access. I actually thought they would hold it until January to release it but was glad to see I could do the workouts for my December rotation. I will be starting the month off with a couple of Michelle Dozois workout.  

Be Empowered is disc 2 of Michelle's One on One with Michelle series. It contains the following workouts: Total Body Workout (30 min) Core Challenge Workout (19 min) Mobility Workout (10 min) Total Body Workout is a strength workout that combines upper body and lower body exercises. Michelle's takes you through a series of four circuits. Each exercise is perform for two sets.  There are three to four exercises per circuit. There is not much down time in this workout as Michelle moves from exercise to exercise at a steady pace. Two sets of dumbbells, a light set and a heavy set, as well as a single heavier dumbbell are used in this workout. Core Challenge Workout is a 360 degree core workout in that it works all areas of the core region to include back, hips, lower abs, and obliques. Some of the exercises in this workout included a beast hover, several series of planks in a variety of position, reverse crunches and traditional crunches.  Michelle also includes su...

Be Moved is the third disc in Michelle Dozois's One on One with Michelle series. This DVD consist of two workouts: Cardio Strength Cardio Burn These two workouts are reminiscent of Michelle's Peak 10/Challenge system. Cardio Strength clocks in at 36 minutes, 30-minute workout plus a 5 minute cool down. In this workout, Michelle takes you through three blocks. In each block you have a base/recovery period, an ascent, a climb and a peak. The ascent period is your sculpting series. The climb is your cardio and then peak is your burst. After the burst you moved into recovery and start the next block. Like her other Cardio Strength workouts, this workout does not feature a traditional warm up. Michelle uses the first block in the workout to do the workout.  Oh and each block features two rounds. So you are repeating the moves twice. Second time through, Michelle changes the lead side. Cardio Strength uses the same cool down as cardio burn. Cardio Burn clocks in at 26...

  One on One with Michelle is a three disk strength training program that includes seven workouts.  Each workout is under 30 minutes. Disk one is Be Stronger . This DVD includes two sculpting strength workouts. The workouts are Upper Body Workout and Lower Body Workout. The Upper Body Workout clocks in at 26 minutes.  Michelle workouts the upper body in groupings. The first group is back and chest.  Second group of exercises focuses on shoulders.  The next group focuses on triceps and the last grouping is more shoulders and then it adds biceps work. The Lower Body Workout clocks in at 30 minutes.  There are two sets of the exercises and Michelle changes the lead leg for the second set. This workout contains standing and floor work. Both workouts are super east to follow but challenging. Michelle gives mini breaks throughout but for the most part you are moving from one exercise to the next. The warm up is short and the cool down even shorter....

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...

March 2017 Monthly Rotation I will be doing a combination of The FIRM and Michelle Dozois with a little bit of Amy Bento Ross thrown in. I may try to stick in some more Jessica Smith workouts as well as I have a few new ones that I have yet to do. The FIRM workouts are the Pink FIRMs, Zip Trainer workouts and FIRM Express Workouts. Oh I am also planning to do a couple of Essentric workouts on Saturday as Active Recovery. For Michelle, I will be doing her Pure Strength and Pure Cardio workouts.

Sculpt & Define is a 42 minute strength workout that is part of Michelle Dozois's Peak 10 Fit Body Challenge system.  This workout uses a set of heavy weights, a set of light weights as well as your own body weight to work all the major muscles in the body. Most of the exercises are compound and/or functional in nature. You are working in blocks.  Michelle will do a block of exercises before moving on to the next block.  Within the block, Michelle will start with  a basic or single move and then she layers on additional moves creating a series of move. All of the blocks are executed twice, often changing your lead side the second time through. Throughout the workout, Michelle uses a variety of tempos (slow or 1/2 time or at tempo). For the most part Michelle introduces a move at 1/2 tempo and once you have perform the exercise for a couple of reps, Michelle then speeds up the tempo and you  are doing single count. Please see the attach table for a li...

Cardio Core Crusher is a 42 minute workout. It is  a download/streaming only workout and it is a workout that is included in Michelle Dozois's Peak 10 Fit Body Challenge. This workout uses a mat and it alternates cardio and core segments.  The cardio segments are relatively short, at least compared to the core segments. In this workout Michelle works the core from a variety of positions.  Michelle also follows a similar format to her other workouts in the series in that you run through each set twice through changing your lead side the second time through. During the cardio segments you use the mat as marker where you are often working around the mat or across the mat. There are a few standing core sections but for the most part you are going to the floor for the core segments. Thus, this workout contains a lot of up and down movement. Some of the core exercises are: Drop push up with rotation Plie core side reach Plank elbow row + single leg crunch + bicycl...

Cardio Strength Studio V.2 is a download streaming workout that is a part of Michelle Dozois's Peak 10 Fit Body Challenge program. CS-Studio V2 contains 5 blocks that feature strength and cardio segments. You repeat all blocks two times through. During the second run time, you change your lead side.  Within each block your move through your base camp, ascent, climb, and peak. There are bell sounds that signal when you are about to move to the next phase. Block 1 is your warm up and it contains an ascent and climb.  This block does contain floor work and it uses light weights. There is no peak. Block 2 uses heavy weights. There is no floor work and the peak move is air jacks. I really enjoyed the climb in this block. It had some fun dance athletic moves that worked well with the music. Block 3 is your light weights block. It does contain floor work in the ascent segment.  Your peak move is the power hamstring. Block 4 uses heavy weights. It has floor work in t...

Cardio Interval Burn Studio V.1 is a 55-minute high-intensity interval workout. In this CIB version, Michelle takes you through a warm up, 4 cardio blocks, and a cool down. Except for the last cardio block, CIB Studio V1 is set up similarly to the other CIB workouts in that you have a base camp, ascent, climb, and peak.  There are bell sounds that indicate when you are about to transition to the next phase. The base camps are very brief. The peaks are longer than in the Cardio Strength workouts. Block 1 contains floor work and the peak move is a hitch kick back kick. Block 2 contains floor work and the peak move is a power squat power jump. Block 3 contains floor work and the peak move is a figure 8 squat. Block 4 contains floor work, 2 climbs, and 2 peaks. The peak moves are front kick hops and planks to frog jump.  The pattern for block 4 is base camp (very brief), ascent, climb 1, peak 1, climb2, peak 2.  So this setup is different than in other CIB workout...

Flex & Release is around 30 minutes and it is a full body stretch workout.  Michelle starts the workout with a series of neck and shoulder stretches.  Michelle uses a towel to increase the range of movement and/or to control the range of movement as you go through the stretches. For the most part all the stretches are static in nature so you should be warmed up before starting the workout. There are some dynamic stretches in the form of squat pulses. You are performing stretches in a variety of positions:  standing, seated, kneeling, prone, supine and from the plank and sumo positions. For most stretches, Michelle gives you the opportunity to practice the stretch twice per side.  Sometimes there are more reps but you are not staying in any stretch or posture for very long. The workout appears to be broken down into three segments: 1) First segment goes to around the 17 minute mark. 2) At the 17 minute mark, Michelle goes in to a lunge series for the se...

Cardio Strength Studio V1 is one of the workouts included in the Peak 10 Fit Body Challenge system.  This workout clocks in at under 57 minutes and for the most part it follows a similar pattern as Michelle's other cardio strength workouts. I say for the most part because I did not think this workout had much of a base camp. The base camp in previous CS workouts contain recovery moves to bring the heart rate down before you ramped up again. In this workout, base camp was mostly Michelle and her team high fiving each other after completely the peak.  Then she jumps right into the ascent of the next block. This workout definitely does feature the ascent, climb and peak segments. The ascent is used as your strength segment and all of the ascents use either light or heavy set of dumbbells. The climb is your cardio in which you are jumping, hopping, and/or running.  The cardio segments contain dance, aerobic and kickboxing moves.  The peak is your high-intensity i...

Sweat & Burn is one of the workouts in Michelle Dozois's Peak 10 Fit Body Challenge program. The actual program is 8 weeks and this iteration of the program came with 7 new workouts. A host of supplemental material such a goal setting worksheets, menu options, rotation schedule, and detox guide were also included and available to download. This is not a DVD collection. You only have the option to stream and/or download the workouts. Sweat & Burn clocks in at just under 40 minutes and it is a cardio intense based workout that alters between low and high impact moves.  After a 5 minute workout, Michelle take you through a series of cardio combinations that she breaks down into blocks and repeats 4 times through. The pattern is you do the move leading right, then leading left for twice through. Then Michelle,cuts the reps in a half and you repeat the pattern leading right and then again left for a total of four times. For the most part you are doing 2, 4, or 8 reps ...

January 2017 Monthly Rotation Rotation Breakdown Sunday - Treadmill + Stretching Monday - Tracy Anderson Toning Tuesday - Tracy Anderson Cardio Wednesday - Tracy Anderson Toning Thursday - Michelle Dozios Cardio Friday - Michelle Dozois Circuit Saturday- Rest

Cardio Interval Burn Fat Blaster is the 4th Cardio Interval Burn workout in Michelle Dozois Peak 10 Workout Systems. The workout moves fast and is base on Michelle climb the mountain system. You start out a Base camp (rest-recovery) Ascent (lower part of the mountain - low intensity moves) Climb (moving toward the top of the mountain with higher intensity moves) and Peak (top of the mountain - high impact moves). The DVD menu offers the following options: Introduction Movement Review Play Full Workout (60:58) Play Express Workout (39:40) Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Cool Down As I stated the workout does move fast but there is a definite pattern to the workouts that make the combos easy to pick up.Within each block and even the warm up, you perform the combo on one side and then your repeat the sequence leading on the other side. Usually starting with 8 reps per move and then breaking it down 4 and/or sometimes 2 reps before moving on or repeating the sequen...

Cardio Strength Fat Blaster is the 5th iteration of Cardio Strength in Michelle's Peak 10 workout system. Although, Michelle does have couple of extra Cardio Strength workouts that she never release to DVD. You can find those on FitnessGlo.com. Cardio Strength Fat Blaster uses the same format the other Cardio Strength workouts. There are 5 blocks. The first block is the warm up block and does not contain a Peak Interval.  However the warm up block does use weights.  The other four blocks includes all four interval points; Base camp, Ascent, Climb and Peak. The Ascent segments  use weight. You will need two sets, a heavy and a light pair.  Most of the Ascent segments you are going to the floor for a plank/core move. The Climb is your cardio segment (no weights). The Peak segments are the high intensity high impact segments. There is a modifier that is showing less intense options.  Base camp is your recovery-rest period. If you do the full workout, it c...

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 ...

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 ...

Workout 3 on the Peak 10 Essential 30 Workouts is Pure Cardio. Pure Cardio Essential clocks in at 30:43. This workout is fast pace almost non-stop from beginning to end.  There are seven segments total.  In each of the segment, you do the combo on one side and then you repeat the moves on the other side before moving on. Within each combo, you go from low impact to high impact and back to low impact. I did not think any of the combos difficult to learn. Michelle cues very welly and by the second if not the third time through I had the moves down and then of course the combo gets repeated on the opposite side.  The combos are fast though. This workout was also filmed in Michelle's gym.  The music is up tempo and you are working at the tempo of the music for most of the combination.  The workout does not have the countdown timer but it does feature "the bells". You can hear the bells as each segment comes to an end. I really like the high energy in this w...