Legs is a 52 minute strength workout; 6 minute warm up, 41 minute training time and 6 minute stretch. It also includes Bonus Rear Delts, Bonus Barre and 100 Rep Challenge Hip Thrusts. The bonuses will be reviewed at the end. Equipment needed for the main workout: dumbbells, stability ball, Slide N Glide disks, dixie … Continue reading Xtrain: Legs
Category: Shorter DVD Workouts
Cathe’s Core Max
Core Max is part of Cathe’s Hardcore series. It is a multi-workout DVD and contains 3 core workouts. One that uses no equipment, one that uses a stability ball and one that uses a medicine ball and a stability ball. They are all approximately 20 minutes long. Even though I liked these workouts (well, I … Continue reading Cathe’s Core Max
Cathe’s Lower Body Blast
Lower Body Blast is an amazing lower body strength workout by Cathe. Not sure exactly how to classify it. Obviously strength, but maybe strength + cardio? The warm up is actually a cardio step routine and then throughout the floor work (which makes up the majority of the workout) there are “blasts”--plyometric cardio drills. In … Continue reading Cathe’s Lower Body Blast
Cathe’s HIIT workouts
Yay! Another Cathe winner! After BodyMax I was afraid my streak of discovering amazing Cathe workouts that I adore was at an end. Enter Cathe's HIIT workouts. HIIT is an acronym for High Intensity Interval Training, one of the very best ways to burn fat and create an afterburn affect--all in less time than regular cardio. … Continue reading Cathe’s HIIT workouts
Cathe’s Stretch Max
Cathe's Stretch Max is a lovely little stretching DVD. It contains three 20 minute stretch workouts, perfect to add on to the end of a workout when your body is already warmed up. I love to stretch, but I have a really hard time working it into my workout schedule because I put priority on … Continue reading Cathe’s Stretch Max
TurboFire
Overview: TurboFire is marketed as an “intense cardio conditioning” program created by Chalene Johnson. The base kit/program comes with 11 DVDs that contain 13 workouts. You also get a lower body band, a toning band with handles, a fitness guide, a class schedule (calendar) and a nutrition plan. I got the advanced system that includes … Continue reading TurboFire
Jillian Michaels Body Revolution
Overview: Body Revolution is a 90 day cardio + strength workout program. It comes with 15 workout DVDs, a fitness guide, a Fat Burning Meal plan, a 7 Day Kick Start, a resistance cable, a 90 day journal and a book mark. You also get 30 days free to the Jillian Michaels online program. The … Continue reading Jillian Michaels Body Revolution
TurboFire Greatest HIITs
Greatest HIITs is a short high intensity interval training (HIIT) workout. It is part of the TurboFire workout program created and led by Chalene Johnson and sold by Beachbody. Unlike Insanity’s Fast and Furious 20 minute bonus workout, Greatest HIITs is not a good example of what to expect with the TurboFire program. Yes, TurboFire … Continue reading TurboFire Greatest HIITs
Insanity: Fast and Furious
Fast and Furious: 22 minute cardio/interval workout; 6 minute cardio warm up, 3:30 stretch, 11 minutes of training time and 2 minute cool down/stretch. There are various ways to get this Insanity workout. It is offered as a bonus workout when you purchase the Insanity program through Beachbody.com, or you can purchase Fast and Furious … Continue reading Insanity: Fast and Furious
Bob Harper: Yoga for the Warrior
Bob Harper's Yoga for the Warrior: This is part of Bob's Inside Out Method series which is full of intense workouts that I adore. Yoga for the Warrior consists of a 58 minute yoga workout and a 17 minute ab workout. I really love Bob Harper's new workouts (not the ones associated with Biggest Loser). … Continue reading Bob Harper: Yoga for the Warrior