It’s not a hard move, but if I am going to hop, my entire foot naturally comes off the floor, not just my heels. She does a lot of her “low impact hops” that are actually very difficult for me. Like most of Cathe’s low impact workouts, what she really means is lower impact than her high impact workouts. Each exercise is repeated twice, a few 3 and 4 times. Low Impact HIIT is 30:30 minutes 5 minute warm up and 4 minute cool down/stretch. Slow mogul plank thrusts + one air jack + lateral shuffles.Sports conditioning complex: 4 long jumps + 8 battle ropes (jump while flinging arms up and down as if flinging ropes) + 8 plie jacks.Wide stance squat thrusts into 2 heel clicks.Lateral hop in a box + 4 later hops with a tuck jump.Squat thrust + forward jump 2x + one regular jack + one air jack + jump rope back 4x.Power scissors with lateral arms (bring straight arms from thighs to overhead as you jump).Wide stance football runs/Competition burpee (lower body to floor at bottom of burpee).Pencil shoots (jumps reaching arms straight overhead).Squat thrust + surfer jumps + 2 jump rope hops.2 lateral taps each side + plyo jack + air jack + tuck jump.Squat thrust + plank jack + one regular jack + 2 touch down jacks + line taps.8 jacks + 8 jump ropes + 4 galloping jacks.According to my FitBit I burned 253 calories and I was in my peak heart rate zone 58% of the workout. Oh, and no snowboarders! Anyone else sick of doing 5,000 snowboarders in a row in every Cathe HIIT workout? Not one snowboarder in this workout. The recovery moves have impact but are not plyometric. And there are also some recovery level moves. You do a combo that might include all 3, plus a few other easier exercises and you only repeat it 4 or 6 or sometimes 8 times. So you don’t just do 8 or 12 or 16 burpees or tuck jumps in a row. What I really liked about this workout is that, even though there are a lot of squat thrusts, tuck jumps and air jacks, Cathe doesn’t rep you out with any of them. This was an intense and fun plyometric HIIT cardio workout. You will repeat every exercise listed below at least 2 times, a few 3 and 4 times. High Impact HIIT is 30:30 minutes 4:30 minute warm up and 3 minute stretch. Oh, and I love, love, love Cathe’s extended stretches. As in, creating an hour long cardio workout that alternates a high impact HIIT exercise with a low impact HIIT exercise. I wish Cathe would create premixes that mixed the two workouts up better. But this has happened before with some of Cathe’s cardio workouts and they ended up growing on me. But I wasn’t crazy about a lot of the exercises–starting from exercises in the warm up. I did like it and I did get a good and intense cardio workout (though not nearly as intense as High Impact HIIT). Finally, I have always been a fan of Cathe’s low impact workouts but I didn’t love Low Impact HIIT like I expected to. I just don’t see the point anymore now that I own a rebounder. But it was still a lot of impact and I do not see myself returning to it very often. Compared to some of Cathe’s other HIIT workouts I’ve done ( Ripped with HIIT, Tabatacise, Shock Cardio HIIT), this was easier and definitely had more of a fun factor. Not as hard as I expected it to be but still an intense workout. High Impact HIIT was a very good workout. I really enjoyed the bonus Pyramid HIIT a lot. The rebounder makes impact so very, very joint friendly (and fun). I have noticed that when I do plyometrics now I feel like a ton of bricks slamming into the floor. Almost all of my cardio in the past 6 months has been done on my rebounder so I was dreading the high impact workouts. This DVD also includes two bonuses: a Pyramid HIIT Bonus (high impact) and an extended stretch bonus. One is a high impact HIIT workout and the other is a low impact HIIT workout. It contains two 30 minute cardio interval workouts. Perfect HIIT is part of Cathe‘s newest workout series, Perfect 30.
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