Written by Eva
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Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:26 |
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DVD |
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Englisch |
Running time: |
80 Min. |
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Strength/Cardio |
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Punch inkl. Warm up: |
20 Min. |
Kick: |
20 Min. |
Tone: |
20 Min. |
Crunch&Cool down: |
20 Min. |
Nutrition tips |
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Instruction: |
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Dumbbellls |
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available here
Trailer |
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Clare Nasir is or was a famous "Weatherwoman" on television in Great Britain. She has gained weight during her pregnancy as you can see in the trailer. As she says, she has lost the weight through balanced nutrition and sport. If her before and after photos are correct, all I can say " hats off and respect".
It is an effective total body training. Clare works with two instructors, one of them shows the easier modifications.
In the "Punch" segment the focus is on the upper body. Cardio (jump rop, slow and fast jogging) alternates with box/kickbox combinations with light weights (jabs, hooks, upper cuts etc). Later on they work on the mat. (push ups with rotation, side crunch with weights etc.)
The cardio part of the "kick segment" (focus on lower body) exclusively consists of kneelifts, which alternates with sidekicks, frontkicks and squats. The exercises on the mat with dumbbells are twists from side to side.
The third part "tone" consists of 6 exercises which are performed for 30 seconds each (jabs with dumbbells, jumping lunges with a twist, back lunges , frontkicks etc.) . Most of the exercises are executed with weights. .
The core workout is performed for about 10 minutes. It consists of two rounds with 4 exercises and ends with a plank exercise. The first three exercises are for the straight ab muscles (crunches), dumbbells are used. The fourth exercise is for the obliques (side plank with a twist).
Unfortunately you can´t choose the warm up and cool down seperately. The music is ok, the instructions are fairly poor. At the end you get nutrition tips.
At the beginning of every workout Clare gives short hints about calorie consumption (usually between 250 and 300 calories/workout). A separate info part would have been better, because now you have to listen to this again and again.
Because of the different levelst this DVD is suitable for the beginners and for the advanced.
Although it is an effective and mostly varied DVD I give minus points because of the slightly monotonous cardio part and the poor instructions.
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