I am reviewing this workout after trying it one time.

For reference, I am not much of a kickbox fan. I probably do a kickboxing workout, once or twice a year (usually, Kick, Punch & Crunch.) I didn't care if I really liked the MMA workouts or not.

I did like the Kickbox workout. I'm not that picky though, so I don't know how kickboxing fans will like this. I can see how those that were mostly looking forward to the MMA series might be disappointed that these are shorter and not super intense. It seems like Cathe made an effort to include a variety of intensities, and made the MMA workouts more moderate. So if you have all the Shock Cardio that's fine, but if you only really wanted MMA, it could be disappointing.

The warm-up on this one is good and very straight-forward - just punching and kicking (no hi-lo stuff), which I liked. There are 3 combos with 3 short drills. (This seems to be the format all the MMA workouts.) The drills are pretty short, just one move (kick or knee up) repeated for a while on each side.

There is no impact in this one. She does do that bouncy-jumping on one foot thing when she is doing the kicking drills, but it is not necessary. You can just keep your foot still or go up on your toes. (That is what I did because my legs were tired from doing Circuit Blast the day before.)

I liked the combos. There were two things I haven't seen before (but again, I don't kickbox much.) One was a head crunch thing that I liked, and then she had a turning move in the 3rd combo that was really kind of fun, once I got it. The cardio with the warm-up was only 35 minutes.

I found the intensity to be pretty moderate. It felt similar to me to KPC and other kickboxing I've done. However, since it was short, it sort of felt easier, just because when you finally start to feel it, it is over.

The core section was really nice actually. Every single move was different and new. Maybe not completely "new", but each at least had a new twist to it, so I really enjoyed it, and thought some of it was pretty challenging.

As I said, I can see why some would be disappointed with this one, but since I'm not a huge kickboxing fan, and just like it in short spurts - I'm pretty happy with this.

Lisa C