HSTA or Muscle Endurance?

mommy2

Active Member
Which is more fun and effective between High Step Training and Muscle Endurance? I know they both have leg presses, and I'm okay with that. How's the music, order of exercises, effectiveness, etc.? I'm just planning ahead and trying to acquire these DVDs for an endurance/circuit rotation:

Boot Camp/Muscle Endurance
Imax 2/Cardio & Weights
High Step Training

Any thoughts? Thank you so much! :)
 
Man, that's a toughie. Here is my personal list of plusses and minuses (SP?) for each.


Boot Camp / Muscle Endurance: Boot Camp has 8 total nosebleed cardio intervals about 1:15 minutes long each, with lower body, upper body and core intervals about the same length. Lotsa premixes within BC. Muscle Endurance is a workout that in all honesty I've never done, although some of the lifts look pretty cool. AND, the ab / core routine with med ball is one of my faves. Great bonus premix of BC and ME too.

HSTA has some my favorite step-blast cardio intervals ever. About 2:00 long each. Each of the five cardio blasts is also followed by legs and upper body. Music IMHO only so-so, and you have to get used to the song dialing down to a slower bpm between the cardio and leg work, which can get seriously annoying. Great premixes on this one. No abs / core - booger.


I-Max 2 / Cardio & Weights: IMax2 has some of my other absolute favorite step and interval blasts ever. The song for step/interval-blast #6 sticks in your head for hours, and it's a perfect match of song and drills. Blast #9 will make you cough up a lung, which is why I love it. Many others that also rock. Cardio & Weights for the most part is far too moderate in intensity for my taste, but, as with Muscle Endurance, it has one of my alltime favorite ab / core routines. Not so many leg presses as I recall in Cardio & Weights.

IMHO it's almost a coin-toss between HSTA and Boot Camp for high-octane circuit workouts. Much depends on whether you want step or floor cardio. If step - HSTA. If floor - Boot Camp.

HTH -

A-jock
 

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