Les Mills Combat - Kickstart 30

This is one of the workouts from the set Beachbody released a few years ago. As with any Les Mills workout the music is recognizable with lyrics. This is something that really can make a workout fun for me, especially when the choreography is set up to work with the lyrics and/or beat. I really love that, and this one had it. It’s led by two instructors who trade off sections Rach and Dan, they have a variety of background exercisers and one of them is the modifier. There isn’t a ton to modify in this one though, swapping jump kicks for step kicks and remaining stationary where others are moving, keeping kicks lower, that’s about it. I felt that this moved a little more slowly than I wanted to. I found myself ahead of the moves (which is unheard of, behind yes, ahead no) because I was unintentionally speeding them up. Perhaps with the music louder option I would have been keeping better time. I suspect this one is meant to be the beginnerish of the set, get you used to the moves and then pick up the pace later on in the rotation. I don’t remember the others in the set feeling slow but it has admittedly been awhile since I’d done any of them.

Instructor Comments:
Dan and Rach are chipper and upbeat with an Australian (New Zeland?)accent. They often sing along with the music and Dan mugs for the camera a lot. They can be corny too, but I think that makes them likeable. Favorite quote: If you have no guard, you are unarmed (about keeping guard up throughout moves).

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