PeakFit Challenge Review:Cardio Interval Burn Review

Retro Cupcakes: Made these cupcakes for a dinner party with friends. The cupcakes & buttercream were both vanilla chai. I just made random decor that I liked and matching cupcake wrappers with my die cut.  ( Custom cakes by Lindsey Lu. Phoenix custom cakes. Specialty Cakes Phoenix. Arizona custom specialty cakes. Specialty cupcakes phoenix. Custom cupcakes  Phoenix wedding cakes. )

Today's Tip: Diet Food - Jicama

Also known as yam or yambean, this Mexican turnip is a great source of fiber, says Dr. Jaime Schehr, a registered dietitian in New York City. “This plant is great for weight loss due to its high fiber to sugar ratio (a whopping 32g of fiber per medium jimaca—that’s almost an entire day’s worth). They are also a good source of potassium, an essential mineral in maintaining water balance in our body.” Read more on Self. 

Weekend Tubing: We also went tubing again with friends and our poor relaxation station bit the dust- or water? It started to lose air and we had to get out early :( luckily we were near a port but unfortunately DH had to hitch a ride up to our car. Ugh- what was really lame about the whole thing was that last weekend - we went tubing, had 1 car up top and 1 at the bottom, everything all planned out. Except our friend forgot his key so we were locked out and DH had to hitch a ride LOL...two weekends in a row. We have come to the conclusion the river is not for us and we threw our damn luxury tube away. Along w/ the disposable camera we took a ton of pics with- grrrr. But we so love tubing- so we are in search of a new hobby....So heres the one pic we got of DH & friend with our phone.....

Today's Review: PeakFit Challenge Cardio Interval Burn
Michelle Dozois, 2011 ***** (5 of 5 stars)

This is a 65 minute mostly kickboxing cardio workout. Michelle leads in a spacious white/ hardwood room with a group of background exercisers. You wont need any equipment for this workout. Some modifications are shown.

The workout is structured that you start with a basecamp move, move into ascent and then climb and finish with almost 30 seconds of peak intensity. You perform five 10 minute intervals for two rounds each (a total of 10 peaks). The majority of the exercises are kickboxing inspired and Michelle does a great job of blending high and low impact into this heart pumping workout.

Exercises include: lots of good punch & kick combos (nothing complicated though), hi tuck jumps, triple run, shuffle, hitch kcks, torso twist, double step touch to floor touch, hi knee fence hoppers, skaters, jacks, scissors, bob & weave, bang the drum w/ a hop, hi knee run, sprints, and pendulum jacks.

I rate this a low advanced or very high intermediate cardio workout. The sequencing of the exercises building in intensity allows you to keep going for the duration in this workout. My heart rate stayed high the entire time but I didnt get what I would consider anaerobic at any point. A great challenging but do-able cardio workout. Not for beginners, thats for sure! Michelle does a fantastic job in this one- and all the exercises were easy to catch onto but not boring at all.

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