Still Going Strong: Interval Training With Karen Voight

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Day 76

Energy Sprint is such an amazing workout – it uses your large muscles groups over and over ensuring a real sweatfest calorie burner!

Yesterday I did the Jillian Michaels Back DVD and that kicks butt, but it doesn’t work your butt very much. So today, being cardio day I thought I would incorporate a great butt workout in there too.

Karen Voight’s Energy Sprint is a great butt and leg workout. Your inner thighs will burn during the inner thigh segment – with one foot raised on the step you do plie squats, on and off the bench, which absolutely works those muscles way more than just standard plie squats. But that’s not all, because you spend most of the workout squatting on and off the bench, doing side leg raises, rear leg lefts [for more butt shaping] as well as lunges. All in all you legs will get very tired!

Because I did a vigorous workout yesterday this one was more challenging. My legs felt spent much more quickly than they had on previous times doing the sprints. I was sucking in wind a lot earlier too. This is a great interval workout and the sprints get anaerobic for longer, as they get longer throughout the workout. The first interval is short but by number seven it’s loooooong!

The whole DVD is an 80+ minute workout but I used the menu selector to pick and choose what I wanted which was just the leg work and sprints, with warm up and cool down too.

I was truly thankful for the cool down! If you like stepping and you like interval training this DVD is definitely worth doing.

4/22/08

55:00 [workout time]
20:16 [in aerobic zone 60% -80% Target Heart Rate]
150 bpm [average heart rate]
178 bpm [highest heart rate]
479 [cals burned] – Awesome!