Project: You - Full Body Circuit

Kathy Smith
Year Released: 2005

Categories: Circuit Training (cardio and weights)


This is the total body routine from the Project You set by Beachbody. It is an hour long and alternates strength sections with cardio sections. Most of the cardio was cribbed from the other tapes: a bit of side to sides, a bit of kickbox punches, toe taps, that sort of thing. The cardio tends to alternate a few reps of low impact, then a few reps of high impact. I enjoyed them.

The strength work is in paired body parts, and you do two sets of 16 for the most part (1 set each, then a second set each). Most of them get a pulse set too at some point. It felt like a well-organized routine and I liked having a recognizable pattern to follow as far as structure went.

This workout felt very long at first, but I got more into it during the second half and the time flew by. The cardio breaks made the workout feel shorter. I was surprised I have been enjoying the cardio in this series so much as I found Kathy's part cardio workouts a bit hard to follow. But Project You so far has been great for me.

The weight work here was a tiny bit on the dull side though. It was fine, and there were only two sets of each so it was not a big deal, but I have strength workouts that to me have a higher fun factor. I felt this way about the other strength work from Project You too :) Fine, but nothing special. I did enjoy the cardio quite a lot, but it is quite similar across the kit so be warned about that :) There are not as many 'different' workouts as you might be thinking.

As far as a final verdict on Full Body Circuit, it was not my favourite workout ever, but it certainly was not terrible. I would do it from time to time, but for regualar use, the fun factor just was not there for me for some reason.

Instructor Comments:

Joanna

02/26/2005