Cardio Kicks

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 2000

Categories: Boxing/Kickboxing/Martial Arts


Love..Love..Love..Can you tell that I really like this tape? I was skeptical at first whether I would find another kickboxing style tape that I would really like. This tape is awesome. I prefer more choreographed kickboxing rather than the Tae-Bo style. This tape is a happy medium between the two styles. There is good choreography and also a super drills section the best of both worlds.

The kickboxing starts out with a nice active warm up. You're doing low intensity front, side, and back kicks along with jabs, hooks, uppercuts, etc. and lots of shuffles and squat moves to get the legs good and warm Then you do some short stretches and move into the first kickboxing segment.

In this segment the kickboxing is more choreographed. The kickboxing is flavored with Hi-Lo. You do classic kickboxing moves packed into short combo while adding hi-lo spice. You do some nice kicking combos. A really fun 2 front kicks, 2 sidekicks, 2 front kick combo. You also do a fun shuffle with a hope around the world in a box formation. Another small combo is a modified grape/2steps to the side, sidekick combo. My favorite is the jab, cross, knee slam. I really like those knee slams. She does do a lot of jumping jacks and roping in place. But you can easily modify those to heel jacks or even marching in place. She also does some moving knee ups with speed-bag arms. Those moves are not in the order I mentioned but they're in there and their fun :=)

I really found my self enjoying the second section of drills. You do both kicking and punching drills. A lot of the drills contain some high impact plyo moves, but again it's easy to modify if you need to. My favorite drill is the three punches down combo with a plyo jump..WoooHooo! Another drill you do is a three plyo jump moving forward with a jumping jack block back. You do some nice kicking drills doing stationary fronts kicks then you move into the sidekicks. I really also liked the stationary punching drills

I know I'm missing a lot of the other fun moves that she does. But even the first time that I did this tape I knew I was going to love it. It's very fun and intense at the same time. I think Cathe did a great job creating a signature kickboxing video rather than just borrowing from all the other kickboxing videos on the market. I suggest everyone get this video and soon!

Susie F.

09/01/2000