Boot Camp Body Blast

Denise Austin
Year Released: 2006

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance , Total Body Workouts


Lindsey did a good breakdown, so I'll give you some other tidbits:

Organization: Two 20 minute workouts, titled Strength and other Cardio - EACH contain both strength and cardio. There is a final 10 minute stretch workout which is excellent. The downside of this is there is a brief warmup and stretch preceding both sections and you cannot skip past them.

I did the Cardio portion today and was surprised that my HR got up to 85%. This is in part to the unweighted lower body work that infuses the Cardio segment. This would be a much better workout if it lasted at least 30 minutes. 20 minutes is just not long enough when 5 of that is warmup and stretch. What's nice is there is no TIFTing. Absolutely none. You do the move for a very short bit and you are on to something else. I like that!

I previewed the strength segment and its basically a circuit workout - cardio interspersed with weights. Both cardio and strength each end with abs. I wish you could skip the warmup and stretch in the beginning so that you could smoothly do this as one longer workout.

The stretch is 10 minutes and a separate workout. It is quite good.

All in all this is a solid intermediate workout. I will do it with the sound off to decrease the Denise factor. She says "Train like an ath-a-lete!" Good grief.

Instructor Comments:
Better left unsaid.

Peggy T

02/08/2010