Bob harper pure burn super strength free download

So when I decided to give it a try again there was a bit of a dread factor. And it was as hard as I remembered it being! I used 12, 10, 8 and 5 pound dumbbells. I primarily used the 12 pound dumbbells but a few times for shoulder work I had to drop to 8 or 5 pound dumbbells and for the tricep work I primarily used the 10 pound dumbbells. In the future I will have 15 and 20 pound dumbbells handy for lower body work.

But the dumbbells I listed were more than adequate for the upper body work. It is a tough workout! It burns you out! Bob is a slave driver in this workout. He has 3 crew members: Francisco, Stephanie and Helen.

Stephanie does beginner modifications. They are all clearly pain. I have never heard so much grunting and pain noises in a workout as I did in this one. They are pushing through it, drenched in sweat and Bob is on their back as soon as they fail. Maybe I blocked it from my mind because it is so brutal. It is impressive. There are almost no breaks. He gives you a 15 second water break close to halfway through and another when the workout is nearly over. And when the workout was over—I was exhausted, some of my muscles were trembling.

I really need a recovery drink or something for when I do this workout again. Afterward I had a protein shake and was still dragging hours afterward. There are two workouts on this DVD. The main workout which is 67 minutes long and a beginner workout which is 20 minutes long.

However, in the intro to the beginner workout, Bob says that if you are new to exercise, start with this 20 minute workout. And he is right—the main workout is not for beginners. Trust me, even the modifier Stephanie, who is in excellent shape, was dying. So definitely start with the beginner workout if you are new to exercise. I did peruse it and he just gives you basic strength moves: sumo squats, bicep curls, overhead tricep extensions and kickbacks, lunges, front raises, side raises, deadlifts, bent over wide rows, push ups, plank and crunches.

You will see most of those exercises in the main workout, too—but in the beginner workout they are done calmer, less reps, nothing crazy. Recently got a few of them second hand so I'm excited. I did the 20 minute strength workout earlier this month and can't wait to do the full workout! I used to workout a lot then slowed down and fell of the wagon for a bit so I'm trying to get back onto it now.. Yesterday I tried this workout and had to downgrade to the 20 min strength first.

Today I hit it hard! I can honestly say the only other workout that makes me feel this badass is the Chest and Back from P90X Gimme your two cents or your whole dollar's worth. I wanna know your thoughts! This total-body workout focuses most on building muscle while also burning fat.

Most of the exercises are based on using lighter weights and higher reps, so your heart rate is constantly up while building strength. I began the workout with 10 lb weights, which I used for the first set of squats, biceps curls and bent-over rows. When I got to the second set of bent-over rows while lunging , I had to downgrade to 5 lb weights, and stayed with the 5'ers the rest of the workout which was about minutes longer.

I went through plenty of sets of squats, lunges and biceps curls, but the muscle groups that really got the most work throughout the DVD were my shoulders and triceps. Let's just say holding out weights like a "T" for 20 seconds is pure torture.

You spend about 45 minutes lunging, curling, pressing and extending the triceps extensions followed by skull crushers made my triceps absolutely melt , and then comes what I believe it the most difficult part of the workout: push-ups into side t-planks. Holding a straight-armed plank, you do a push up and immediately shift your weight to one arm, while holding the other up in the air, and hold the side plank for about 10 seconds until going back down to do another push up, and shifting to the opposite side, then repeat, repeat, repeat.

All the plank-holding really exhausted my already burnt-out shoulders, and my abs were shaking holding me up. On the DVD, you can hear the girls groaning, crying out for the torture to end, but Bob just pushes them and you!