Adventures in At-Home Fitness: Personal Training With Jackie: Power Circuit Training

November 24, 2009 at 4:12 pm, by jbrown

Work Out’s Jackie Warner looks more buff than ever on the cover of her new fitness DVD, which made me a little afraid of what torture might lay in store for me when I finally tried the routine. But it’s actually quite doable for us mere not-super-sculpted mortals. The moves themselves are easy to follow—think arm kickbacks, squats with alternating leg kicks, reverse crunches, etc. But because Jackie leads you from one exercise to the next with no rest in between, the intensity level is, well…intense. (Seriously, if you don’t make it all the way through the workout the first time—or the fifth, or the tenth—there’s no shame in that. The woman is hardcore.) The good news is that the payoff for this sweat-fest is pretty sweet. Because there are no rest periods, you get a calorie-scorching, full-body strength workout in just 40 minutes. And on the days you’re really short on time—basically every day from now until January 2010—you can just do the 15-minute express version or break up the main workout into quick upper body-, lower body- or abs-only segments. Intrigued? You can buy Personal Training With Jackie: Power Circuit Training (and see a clip from it) here.