Crunch Total Resculpt

Kendell Hogan
Year Released: 2006

Categories: Total Body Workouts


An intermediate-level sculpting video, with signature Crunch look. Airy, bright hardwood-floor room apparently set in a city high-rise (though I think the "city views" may be fake). Typical 20-something It girls backing up Kendall, but they seem less fake and annoying than those in some previous Crunch videos.
Didn't notice any outright gaudy outfits or mugging for the camera (standard-issue bare midriffs and some navel rings). Music is familiar to anyone who has done a lot of workout videos, Dynamix, that soundtrack from Caribbean workout, and techno/house muzak, playing very softly.

Kendall leads you through a methodical routine for lower body and upper body. Stiff-legged deadlifts. Lunges and knee lifts that eventually combine together. STationary lunges with pulsing squats. Plie squats. Regular squats with front raises. All of these are great, and if there had been more reps of them, the overall workout would be more intense.

Upper body includes bicep and hammer curls, with a variation on the Crazy eights theme. Tricep kickbacks and overhead press, and a rather tough shoulder series with front raises, military press and pullback combined at the end. These were tough with 8 lb weights, but I found 5 lb weights to be too light for the other exercises. It was strange to me that the gang NEVER seemed to adjust their weights.

There were also standing rows for the back (8 lb weights were too light for these) and pushups and flies for the chest. No ab work per se.

A decent 45-minute light sculpting workout. If you like Crunch workouts, this isn't bad to add to your collection.

Instructor Comments:
Adorable and professional. He manages to sound constantly enthusiastic without being forced. Excellent cuer, easy on the eyes, great instructor. I still wish he would make an advanced-level video--cardio or sculpt!

acey

02/09/2006