I modify this workout quite a bit, mostly to make it more kickboxy (and to make the choreo flow smoothly using correct form).
I'll follow Diane's lead and cut and paste from a previous post of mine about this workout:
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Here's what I did (I may change things up a bit when I do it again, but this worked well). Some changes were so the workout flows better USING GOOD KB FORM; others are to reduce impact, and others are just to replace moves I thought looked really silly.
1) right after the warm-up, when Amy turns to the side and does a front kick-back kick, turn front two side kicks to the same side, I sub alternating side kicks while turning to the front for the 2 side kicks.
2) when Amy does three alternating side kicks, followed by two mighty silly looking jump kicks to the same side, I substitute a side lunge/side kick for the two kicks (so: kick right-left-right squat left, kick right).
3) for 3 alternating side kicks into a jump front kick, I just keep doing alternating side kicks.
4) FOr her "body-body" punches (to what, an 8-foot tall body?) followed by an uppercut and 'jaw breaker, I do a front hook, back uppercut 2x.
5) for the knee, 2-count machine gun (does that even count as a ' machine gun" ?) followed by 3 drop kicks (I just don't like the look of those), I do a knee, 12-count machine gun, hold.
6) Any time there is a jab, rear hook, I either did a jab-hook both of the front, or a jab-cross. One could also do a jab-rear upper cut.
7) I changed the strange high punches (still fighting that 8' tall opponent, I see), I do a regular jab.
8) I do the thrust punch, kick with the kick coming off the front leg (seems smoother and more powerful that way).
9) for the down-up-down punches moving forward, followed by a jump kick, I do a non-jump back kick on the moving up (more space-friendly, and adds in some back kicks) and a non-jumping front kick on the moving back.
10) I did the " kick-walk-walk" move as an actual walk because those hoppy ' walks' Amy and crew do look mightly sillly.
11) for Amy's high-low alternating elbow strikes, I stay on the same arm and do two half-time strong rear elbow strikes.
12) For the elbow back/front double into 6 kicks, I turn the front whatever it is (what IS it supposed to be?) into a hook.
I might have made some other little tweeks, but I can't read the rest of my notes!
(Oh, does doing a ' boxer's SHUFFLE' instead of a ' boxer's SHAKE' count as a modification? LOL!)
I enjoyed the workout more than I thought I would on previewing, but that's with my changes, and with watching myself in the mirror much more than I watched Amy (though I couldn't miss some cringe-worthy and/or snicker-enducing sights, like the strangly bent-over ducks--because of Amy's height?--the wild-looking back elbow strikes, and the rabbit-punching speed bag arms.)
I skipped the core band work and the bonus bag work, because even without those two, the workout is over 70 minutes, and I felt well worked out (I think if I had followed the moves as-is, I would have been much more frustrated and felt less worked out...at least worked out ' right' ). (END OF QUOTE)
I pretty much got the moves the first time out (though some I didn't get until they were repeated several times, and I was modifying as I was working out, because I refuse to do a hook off the back arm,, or other moves that don't make sense).
I have Hi-Lo extreme as well, and though I find Amy's adding on a series of moves without warning rather annoying, I'm sure it will annoy me less the more I do it.
I have her "A-Team Bootcamp," from her first series of workouts, and really like it. She has really made improvements in her presentation from series 1 to series 2, though, and if whooping is something you find annoying, it might get on your nerves (she does quite a bit in A-TB).
