This is from the 10 Minute Solution series – it’s called KnockOut Body, and is led by Jessica Smith. It comes in a kit with the same one pound each, pink weighted gloves that Leslie’s Punch Up Your Walk kit has. I used my own gloves for the workout though, as I’m used to them and I like them.

As usual with these workouts, it contains 5 different 10 minute segments:

Knockout body blast
Fat Attack
Ultimate Upper Body
Kickbox Cross Train
Fierce & Fabulous Abs

Knockout Body Blast and Fat Attack are all kickboxing, with various combos. Jessica cues well and builds the combos slowly, so I found it most of it easy to follow – even though I consider myself rather beginner when it comes to kickboxing. I did get mixed up a few times during Fat Attack, as she has some combos that involve turning backwards and moving around the floor in an L shape. I’m pretty choreography challenged, and as soon as there is turning around involved I’m likely to get lost. But I just kept moving to keep my heart rate up and followed along the best that I could.

Ultimate Upper Body is more boxing, as I don’t think it had any kicks at all. There are different sequences of jabs, hooks, punches, upper cuts, crosses, and high to low punching. And she adds a couple sets of back flyes and push ups at the end (very few of each, though).

Kickbox Cross Train is mostly “sculpting” with kickboxing flavor, with more focus on the lower body. There are some interesting combo moves, like a leg lift with an elbow thrust and a slow side leg lift into a roundhouse kick. The nice thing about the slow pace of this segment is that it lets you concentrate on form – a bonus for someone like me who’s newer to kickboxing. I think I’d like to do this section earlier in the workout next time.

Fierce & Fabulous Abs also has a bit of a kickboxing flavor, as she uses the weighted gloves, and also adds punches to a bicycle crunch. There is also standing twists – which are intensified a bit by the weight of the gloves, standing crunches, different types of planks, and a few more twists on crunches.

Instructor Comments:
This was my first workout wirh Jessica, and I liked her a lot. Her cueing was great, she was friendly, and I would definitely try another one of her workouts in the future.

Sara@mybasementgym