Dana Pieper's Everybody Fitness: Kickbox Challenge

Repetitive with little to no kicking
I was really excited to get a new kickboxing DVD, but I have to say I was a little disappointed with this one. There are a few things I liked (see list below), but the routine had little to no kicking! Kickboxing to me is about 50/50 with punching and kicking. You use your knee, but I was sad to see there were little to no kicking combos. For the price I bought it at, it's not worth it. I don't think I'll use this workout again anytime soon, but maybe in the future? It's not a terrible workout since I did enjoy it at first. It's very repetitive though with a lot of punching and doing the same movements over and over again. Also, you might need to hit pause every once in a while. My feet were starting to hurt at some points since there was a lot of stepping and jumping.

Pros:
-I really loved the routine with the weights. My arms are actually sore today! That was probably my favorite thing out of the routine.
-It was nice to see different types of people doing the...

NOT For Every Body or Everybody
I love kickboxing so I jumped at this opportunity to try a new vid. Sadly, this is going into the "in a few months maybe...maybe never" pile. Unfortunately, the instructor moves at breakneck speed (even her background exercisers have a hard time keeping up) with only OK cueing. And don't let the overweight woman in the back fool you...she's clearly in better physical shape than a lot of people despite her weight. If you are a beginner you will have no hope of keeping up. The warm-up was fun and left me with high hopes of things to come. However, the instructor moves into a severely awkward stretching segment that I will skip if I ever do this workout again....the cues were awful and the moves made it difficult sometimes to look at the tv for guidance. When the awful stretch is finally over, you move into the first half of the program which focuses on upper body moves using light hand weights. The Good: this section will fry your shoulders in a good way. The Bad: the cueing...

A Keeper Work-Out
What I really enjoyed about this work-out is that the first segment of the dvd utilizes light weights. I like that I am getting both an arm, leg, and cardio work-out in at the same time. After tiring the arms out, the second segment of the dvd drops the weights and is focused solely on kickboxing and cardio. Dana is a great instructor and this work-out is for everyone.

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