Women’s Health Perfect Body Workout with Amy Dixon Review and Details
Women’s Health developed a series of fitness DVDs developed by leading workout experts and contributors. Each of the workouts in the series are designed to give you a great workout, target trouble spots, burn calories, melt fat all while delivering a fun, easy-to-follow routine.
Women’s Health Perfect Body
workout led by popular trainer
Amy Dixon
leads you through a three part workout designed to blast calories, strengthen the muscles and tighten the core. Perfect Body Workout, with a total running time of sixty-nine minutes, consists of three workouts: a high-energy cardio routine, a total body strength training workout and a thorough abdominal routine. From the main menu, you can select any of the individual workouts or the pre-built complete workout. The total body workout consists of a warm-up (seven minutes), cardio and cool-down (twenty-five minutes), strength and cool-down (twenty three minutes) and core and more (ten minutes). Amy Dixon is joined by five background exercisers; a beginner modifier is available throughout the workout. The only equipment needed for the workout is a light set of dumbbells. An exercise mat may be used for the core segment depending on your workout surface.
Women’s Health Perfect Body begins with a thorough, dynamic warm-up to prepare the body, muscles and joints for the workout. The cardiovascular workout begins with a three-part athletic sports drill sequence that mimics skating, tennis and swimming inspired moves. Breaking down each drill separately, Amy gradually gets the heart rate up before finishing up by stringing the drills together into a finished product. The second half of the cardio workout consists of kickboxing. Here Amy builds kicking and punching combinations on one side of the body before repeating the entire sequence on the opposite side. The strength portion of the workout uses multi-joint, combination exercises to maintain an elevated heart rate. Amy uses many exercises that incorporate both the upper and lower body simultaneously while also engaging the core and adding a balance challenge. Many of the moves also add a rotation element to further engage the core and target the obliques. In the core workout, Amy begins with several crunch variations to hit the abdominals from all angles. She then transitions to plank work before concluding the workout with targeted lower back exercises. The workout concludes with a cool-down and stretch.
Women’s Health Perfect Body workout is an easy-to-follow, complete cardio, strength and core workout. Amy Dixon is a fabulous instructor with a great on-screen presence. She is warm, friendly and encouraging throughout the workout. She cues exceptionally throughout the workout and offers excellent form pointers and modifications. It is a great workout that exercisers from all fitness levels can benefit from.
Disclaimer: Two Belles was not provided with a copy of Total Body Workout to review. It is a great workout, by a great instructor, from a great company that we chose to feature. We received no compensation and were under no obligation to review it. R etail value is $11.99.
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Great review! This looks like a good, balanced workout. I also like Amy. Another workout going on my “wish list”! Thanks!