Morning Maniacs -
This morning I did CIA Criss Cross Cardio with Sherri Jacquelyn. The entire cardio portion is only 47 minutes with warm-up included and the Caopiera segment is 20 minutes. If I had more time this morning, I would have repeated a couple cardio sections to make it a bit longer. I only had time for about 12 minutes of the Caopiera.
I really liked this workout and of course, I like Sherri, as I mentioned last week. This is classic kickboxing with bouts of higher impact cardio in between to keep the heartrate up. This reminded me of a Cathe kickbox but was slightly different. A lot of the combos were easy to catch on to, but she did about 3 that were different and harder to follow. This was only my first time doing it, so I'm sure I'll pick them up after a few times.
My favorite part of this is a combo where you do a jump and duck back (quickly) and then a jumping kick to the front, 3 jabs, and a cross-curved finger strike (to the throat) move. It was so much fun....I could have done this part forever. (Which reminds me - the first time I looked at the time ...I was 40 minutes into this workout...so I'd give it a good fun factor rating).
There is a good balance of kicking, punching and combos combined with just enough high intensity to keep my heartrate in the 140-160's. They do show a modifier doing a lower impact version if you choose to do so.
It ends with a standing ab segment with punches across the body and down. Very unique. Then the capoiera segment (some of it is familiar from Turbo Jam) is like the one move Chalene always does in TJ (can't remember the name) with moves that sort of mimic front kicks and back kicks (sort of) and side lunges. It didn't feel too difficult, but my HR stayed in the 120's and it was a lot of balance work. We'll see how my butt feels tomorrow. She says its gonna be sore (but it's already sore...LOL).
Nicole - The new kickboxing tape I got was the older CIA by Sherri Jacquelyn. I liked her so much after doing this Criss Cross Cardio last week that I emailed Greg at CIA Video and asked him which older workout of hers was better.
Charlotte - I'll try and email you from work later. Have fun at day 2 on the job.
Hi to everyone else!
Have great workouts everyone. I'll try to check in from work, but my boss is on this kick where I've been working in her office doing a project with her and she's on my back cuz my work's not caught up (cuz I was on vacation). I'll try to pop in though.
This morning I did CIA Criss Cross Cardio with Sherri Jacquelyn. The entire cardio portion is only 47 minutes with warm-up included and the Caopiera segment is 20 minutes. If I had more time this morning, I would have repeated a couple cardio sections to make it a bit longer. I only had time for about 12 minutes of the Caopiera.
I really liked this workout and of course, I like Sherri, as I mentioned last week. This is classic kickboxing with bouts of higher impact cardio in between to keep the heartrate up. This reminded me of a Cathe kickbox but was slightly different. A lot of the combos were easy to catch on to, but she did about 3 that were different and harder to follow. This was only my first time doing it, so I'm sure I'll pick them up after a few times.
My favorite part of this is a combo where you do a jump and duck back (quickly) and then a jumping kick to the front, 3 jabs, and a cross-curved finger strike (to the throat) move. It was so much fun....I could have done this part forever. (Which reminds me - the first time I looked at the time ...I was 40 minutes into this workout...so I'd give it a good fun factor rating).
There is a good balance of kicking, punching and combos combined with just enough high intensity to keep my heartrate in the 140-160's. They do show a modifier doing a lower impact version if you choose to do so.
It ends with a standing ab segment with punches across the body and down. Very unique. Then the capoiera segment (some of it is familiar from Turbo Jam) is like the one move Chalene always does in TJ (can't remember the name) with moves that sort of mimic front kicks and back kicks (sort of) and side lunges. It didn't feel too difficult, but my HR stayed in the 120's and it was a lot of balance work. We'll see how my butt feels tomorrow. She says its gonna be sore (but it's already sore...LOL).
Nicole - The new kickboxing tape I got was the older CIA by Sherri Jacquelyn. I liked her so much after doing this Criss Cross Cardio last week that I emailed Greg at CIA Video and asked him which older workout of hers was better.
Charlotte - I'll try and email you from work later. Have fun at day 2 on the job.
Hi to everyone else!
Have great workouts everyone. I'll try to check in from work, but my boss is on this kick where I've been working in her office doing a project with her and she's on my back cuz my work's not caught up (cuz I was on vacation). I'll try to pop in though.
