Max Interval Sports Training
Well this is one hell of a work out!!
55 minutes of high intensity sport including Boxing, Football, Basketball, Gymnastics and Track & Field.
As Usual we start of with a warm up, but today the warm up made me feel like a 6 year old girl!! it was constant skipping rope exercises, and i HATE skipping with a passion. But once all that is out of the way and the important stretches are done, We start off with Boxing, and i must say this is my favourite part of the DVD! Its a shame its right at the beginning as it is quite fun and not too hard on the cardio side, and maybe would have made a nice 'rest' about half way through the DVD.
When we get onto the Football side of the routine, things go up a gear and alot more cardio is involved!
Football wide sprints, Drop push ups and Plank Push ups to name a few.
I found this quite challenging, but the way the DVD is set up, you get so much encouredgement from all of the people on the DVD and also Shaun T gives little motivational quotes every now and again.
At one point i stopped for a quick drink and the next thing i heard was Shaun T shout
"What the hell you doing? you dont need a break! Get back over here"
And i instantly put down my water and got back to it, just like he was in the room prodding me with a stick to get that extra 10% out of me.
Basketball... I Love Playing the sport, but i hated it in this DVD but i have a reason!
As i am 6'3 and the room i am doing insanity in, cant be more than 8 foot high.
So when i jump, i have to be alert to not headbutt the ceiling, which isnt ideal, but thats what ive got to work with so its tough.
Gymnastics is a write off for me, im about as flexible as a 2 pence piece!!
i was crying out in pain whilst doing the ab exercises, and felt like my arms were going to snap when doing the complicated stretches and planks, but i held in there and managed to keep my arms in tack long enough to get to the Track & Field section.
Now Track & Field is getting into Shaun T's stomping ground, so no surprise really that he pushes you to your limits with ladder runs, which is basically sprint for 15 seconds, rest for 15, sprint for 30 seconds and rest for 15, sprint for 45 and rest for 15 and then sprint for 1 minute flat out with everything youve got!
than you go back down the ladder to 45 seconds and 30 then 15.
This was great fun when all of the People on the screen run into the middle into a big huddle and just go for it flat out. It really makes you push yourself that extra bit more.
This add on DVD is great fun when you get the hang of the moves, but maybe it would have been better as 5 seperate DVDs and more exercises for each sport, but you cant complain as this is a great work out, and you can expect to burn anywhere over 600 to 1000 calories (not bad for an hours work).
I would thoroughly recommend this workout! If you are on the fence, just take the plunge!
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