Strength & Endurance(RevAbs)

It’s finally a new phase and I’m glad to say I needed something new as I was getting a little bored with phase 1.  Don’t get me wrong it’s still a workout but doing the same 5 workouts for 45 days gets a little tedious.  This workout is a quick 38 minutes and focuses on some new moves and some combined old ones.  Just like the other workouts you have 3 rounds of Revabs and each round intensifies until the last round which is the spice round.  In this workout you have 6 different  exercsies in each round.  They consist of :

Wood chopper, Renegade Rows, Side Squat, Hoebel Curl, Queda de Quarto, and Martelo Combo.  The names are different because Brett comes from Brazil and I think he has to add his little flavor of words into the mix. 

So after you have a quick 3 minute workout you start out with Wood chopper and it really does work your love handles.  It is a front lunge with a rotating twist to each sideusing a heavier weight.  So you hold the weight like a baseball bat and as you go into your lunge you swing down towards the floor.  On the way back up you just switch legs and come down and swing to your opposite side for a total of 24.  I use 20 pounds and can barely get through the whole 24 reps. 

Renegade row is next and one of my favorites.  Pick some weights and get into push up positionas if your going to use the weights as a push up bar.  On your way up from the push up you have to lift the weight up one by one for a 1 count.  So its down for a push up and then lift your right arm for a shoulder crunch and then lift your left side.  You only do six but that’s all you need for this to work.  This workout always reminds me of P90x cause Tony Horton always used push up bars to get more depth with his workouts. 

Sidesquat is next and is self explanatory.  Start in the upright position and squat to each side ( Left and then Right) for a total of 12.  It gets more challenging with weights but if you squeeze your stomach every time it works more. 

Hoebel curls are another favorite because sometimes I never feel like I get an upper body workout anymore.  So throughout this whole program I have been using 20 pound weights and that is my standard for all workouts.  Take a set of weights and curl them up then above your head like a U shape, then back to the center and down for a 1 count.  I can’t remember how many times but I haven’t finished this one as 20 pounders are a little too much. 

Queda de Quatro is next and is very challenging but good thing I consistently did Ab Ripper X because it’s quite the Ab workout.  Start off in bridge and then transition to a seated position without your butt touching the floor.  It’s pretty much impossible not to touch the floor unless your arms and abs can hold up.  So once you get the hang of it your pretty much going from a seat to a bench all in one move.  It’s not as easy as it sounds and no I can’t finish everyone of them.  Im close to accomplishing that but keeping my balance is hard enough. 

Martelo Combo is the last exercise of the RevAbs workout and lots of Kenpo X moves here.  You start out doing these crazy speed skaters/sidesteps which leads into 8 butt lunges which leads back to side steps and then Kenpo kicks.  This is a cool exercise as it works several areas but if your not paying attention then you get lost very easy. 

So remember that if you don’t like repeating exercises then don’t get this workout because it happens a lot.  Brett takes a more simpler approach to his workouts and intensifies them after each round.  The last round is always the Spice Round and he really cranks up the intensity.

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