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After doing Jessica Smith's Gentle Yoga workouts I decided to try some of her other offerings on YouTube. She has her own Channel--JessicaSmithTV with lots of free workouts on it. I've been following Jessica on YouTube for a while, but I'd never tried any of her workouts (though I saved a lot of them to … Continue reading JessicaSmithTV: High Intensity Interval Cardio + Abs
Full Body Barre Express is a very intense little cardio workout from Linda Wooldridge. Though it is 21 minutes long the actual "work" period is 16 minutes long. This is another workout that is available both on DVD and YouTube. I own the DVD and there are two other workouts included on the DVD, so that … Continue reading Barlates: Full Body Barre Express
Quick Fix Cardio is a short but intense little cardio workout from Cathe Live. I really enjoyed this workout. She starts out fast, too. There is no pause between the end of the warm up and your first exercise--snowboarders. And since you do 4 sets of snowboarders, she immediately burned my legs out. So I … Continue reading Cathe Live: Quick Fix Cardio
Cardio Core Blast is another excellent cardio workout in the tradition of Cathe's DVD Cardio Core Circuit (the other Live workout based on CCC is also called Cardio Core Circuit). Though set up in the same manner as the other two, it is different from both and I really enjoyed it. In fact, I love how Cathe … Continue reading Cathe Live: Cardio Core Blast
This review is a little different from many of my other reviews. First let me explain what Workout Blender is, for people who don't know. For $19.97 a month you can join Cathe's On Demand streaming service. What this entails is access to every single Cathe workout that is available on DVD--all ready to stream … Continue reading Cathe Workout Blender
Rippedism is an online only, streamed workout program. The program has 3 phases and lasts 60 days total; so the phases (called "Tiers") are each 20 days long. There are 17 workouts in the actual program. 16 of them are approximately 35 minutes long and one of them is an 11 minute abdominal workout. There is also an "Intro/Bonus" workout … Continue reading Rippedism
A second edition! I was very excited when I saw this. I love Jillian's first 10 Minute Body Transformation. It was very well done and it is one of her workouts I return to more frequently than her others. Since it is set up in approximately 10 minute segments, it's perfect to use as an … Continue reading 10 Minute Body Transformation, 2nd Edition
Since I loved B.J. Gaddour's MetaShred 21, I was very excited when he announced the next level--MetaShred Extreme. My husband pre-ordered it for me as a birthday gift. I had already impulse purchased B.J.'s DeltFit Speed Shred and that has been sitting on my shelf for several months. The original plan was to do DeltaFit first, … Continue reading MetaShred Extreme
Focus 15 contains 3 body weight workouts from Mark Lauren. The "15" in the title indicates the length of the workouts, but they are all longer than 15 minutes, even without the warm up and cool downs, and approx. 30 minutes with those. However, just like in his other workouts, Mark demonstrates every exercise you will … Continue reading Focus 15
Riptensity is a body weight training system put out by Men's Health. It was created and led by Gideon Akande. He has a very impressive background but I was most excited because he was a crew member in Meta Shred 21! In fact, he was the advanced modifier! His other claims to fame are being … Continue reading Riptensity