High Intensity Interval Training on the Step

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Day 69

I first reviewed this awesome interval workout by Karen Voight [Energy Sprint] on day 6 of my ‘get fit and lose weight plan’ and my thoughts are basically the same 63 days later: it’s a great calorie burner and leg and glute workout.

The first time I did it I burned 450 calories which I thought was very good for 54 minutes, but today I did a little extra and burned an amazing [for me anyway] 572 calories in 64 minutes!!!!

The DVD is broken down into sections so I jumped around the menu picking what I wanted to do and the order to do them in. I didn’t do the abs or the upper body strength training as today was my cardio day. If I had, the workout would have lasted 83 minutes!

I have to say that I was feeling really spent by the end of an hour and I kept my heart rate monitor running through to the end of my stretches and cool down which lasted about 5 minutes. I got a real buzz from doing this workout too. 🙂 You can see by my stats that my heart rate was way up there – my average HR was 153! I was a little out of breath in sections where the sprints went on for 4 or 5 minutes, but I wasn’t sucking in wind or feeling light headed.

I didn’t do much leg strength yesterday so this worked out nicely – I got to do tons of squats and lunges with Karen that really hit my glutes and inner thighs big time. There is an inner thigh sprint section that makes your adductors burn like crazy!

All in all I can’t recommend this workout highly enough for someone who wants to get a real high intensity workout with the added benefit of intervals thrown in – it’s great. Buy it.

4/15/08

1:03:40 [workout time]
17:29 [in aerobic zone 60% -80% Target Heart Rate]
153 bpm [average heart rate] – told you my HR was high!
176 bpm [highest heart rate]
572 [cals burned] – AMAZING!