Walk On: Metabolism Booster

Metabolism Booster is another collection of walking workouts from Jessica Smith. This one is a little different though--two of the walks incorporate strength training. It contains 4 workouts--2 cardio + strength workouts, one express total body strength workout and one bonus workout for stronger knees. There is no intro from Jessica explaining how she intends for you to … Continue reading Walk On: Metabolism Booster

The Firm: Power Half Hour

Power Half Hour is a pink Firm and is led by Emily Welsh. It came out around or just after the Firm's CardioWeight System. The CardioWeight System is a collection of workouts that came with a pretty cool dumbbells set. It had inter-changable/screw-on bells and weighted bars. I still use those weights but I keep … Continue reading The Firm: Power Half Hour

The Firm Express

The Firm Express is a 30 day fitness program that contains 12 twenty minute workouts and 2 bonus 10 minute workouts. The workouts in this program are based on a specific HIIT protocol of 8 seconds of high intensity work followed by 12 seconds of recovery, repeated 4 times. The 8:12 HIIT protocol is supposed to … Continue reading The Firm Express

Kick Start Your Metabolism

Kick Start Your Metabolism is another Prevention workout led by Chris Freytag. This is the last of the Prevention/Chris Freytag workouts that I own. I bought this workout a long time ago but I never actually did it. It contains 4 workouts. 3 of them are approximately 15 minutes long and one is 9 minutes long. There … Continue reading Kick Start Your Metabolism

JessicaSmithTV: HIIT for Beginners: Kickboxing Interval Training

Kickboxing Interval Training is another HIIT for Beginners workout offered free on YouTube by Jessica Smith. It is the 3rd one I've done so far and probably the most intense of the 3. It is not an intense workout but a nice little cardio boxing workout. I really enjoyed it. I created a low impact … Continue reading JessicaSmithTV: HIIT for Beginners: Kickboxing Interval Training

Cardio Kickboxing, Triceps & Abs

I am getting very frustrated with this illness. I can't seem to shake this head cold and the Nyquil I am taking so I can sleep (and breathe) at night is kicking my butt. I love my morning workouts but the past few days I have been struggling through them thanks to the cold and … Continue reading Cardio Kickboxing, Triceps & Abs

Walk Strong 3

Walk Strong 3 is the third program in the Walk Strong series from Jessica Smith. Though I will be summarizing the program here and reviewing each of the workouts, here is Jessica's website that gives her own description, a video clip and other information about the Walk Strong 3 program. And here is a page … Continue reading Walk Strong 3

BOSU Cardio Mashup

I was very excited to do Bosu Cardio Mashup. In fact, one of my Christmas presents this year was a bosu ball that I wanted primarily to do Yvette's bosu workouts. Since then I have found a lot more bosu workouts; workouts by Fit Body by Julia and Mindy Mylrea specifically, but some others on … Continue reading BOSU Cardio Mashup

Kickboxing/High Calorie Cardio Blast

Kickboxing/High Calorie Cardio Blast is another excellent and fun workout from Yvette Bachman. This one is primarily cardio kickboxing. It is one of her long classes (71:30 minutes). However the final 16:30 minutes isn't cardio. It is lower body and core work. So if you only have an hour, do the first 54 minutes of … Continue reading Kickboxing/High Calorie Cardio Blast

Cardio Kickbox/Bootcamp

Wow! What a workout! A reader recommended this trainer to me: Yvette Bachman. She owns a studio in Iowa and teaches fitness classes. About 3 months ago she started posting full length workouts. So I had a look and was immediately impressed. I could tell right away that I would really like her workouts but, … Continue reading Cardio Kickbox/Bootcamp