Upon preview only, I like the look of both finisher segments on the Power Splits DVD (which are only about 13 minutes in length.) Though they are meant as a "finisher", they would also be good to add first before the main workout, too! While the Upper Body finisher is boxing and standing ab work, I'm more intrigued with the Lower Body, which has some good mobility work for hips and some nice balance work, too! These are available as one of the premixes to do on their own.
As already described, the strength workouts are pretty basic and each are short on their own. If you're lifting heavy, I suppose that doesn't matter. The Upper Body has five exercises (incline bench presses, skull crushers, seated rows, alternate shoulder presses, and hammer curls.) As mentioned there are three sets of each exercise for chest, triceps, back, shoulders, and arms with maybe 10 to 12 reps of each. Kelly uses her 20 pound dumbbells for most of the exercises, but drops down in weight for shoulders. The other ladies use moderately heavy, but not close to what Kelly lifts...I don't think. What always makes Kelly's workouts great, is her personality. She makes what might seem like a boring workout pretty fun with her comments and sense of humor. The Lower Body has even less exercises (only three) but has four sets of each. She does squats, reverse lunges (lunging back twice for each rep) and deadlifts. Noelle does plies instead of deadlifts which is a nice alternative for anyone with back problems. Again, Kelly tries to make this fun and smiles through it all and giving shout outs to the girls, too!
There is a bonus RAW workout on here (Power Splits) and for myself, I would have to take things much slower. It's a Tabata ladder of doing the exercises for 20 seconds on with 10 second rests. They are compound moves, that take some coordination and practice and more drill oriented. Not my kind of thing, but maybe something to try for a couple reps and maybe improve upon.
The Premixes for Power Split are as follows...
Power Finishers 26:45 minutes
Power Interval Finishers 28:15
Power Upper and Lower Body (no finishers) 32:43
Power Upper (no finishers) 21:29
Power Lower (no finishers) 21:28
I like Kelly's workouts. I like the fact that this isn't a complicated routine for Upper or Lower Body. Everything is very straightforward, even with the finishers, which make a nice addition. And, I can see myself using this quite a bit if my goals are to lift heavier weights with very traditional exercises. Or, just doing the finishers when I feel like a very short boxing routine or bodyweight exercises that get the HR up a bit more. There is no dread in doing such short routines and they are truly timesaver workouts, which I appreciate.
I haven't viewed the Cardio DVD yet.
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Pam
May Focus:
Miranda Esmonde-White Classical Stretch Season 9 (All Standing)
Sahra Esmonde-White Body Sculpting Series, Toning for Beginners, Ultimate Stretch workouts
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