After your two minute warm up you start with Lunge Chops which are a great way to get the loving off your stomach.  All you need is a little heavier weight and all your doing is lunging forward at 90 degrees and taking the weight and swinging it across on an angle.  The purpose is to work your love handles and as your doing all 24 you want to focus on squeezing your stomach.  I use a 20 pounder and yes it is very difficult because the crew on TV move pretty fast so watch your weight.   You can use the bands as well because they are easier to manuever during the faster sets. 

Front Squats are next and ladies if you want a tone behind then you will love this workout after 45 days.  The squats are done with knee lifts so your working Abs and your Butt.  This exercise is a short 45 seconds but feels like a few minutes. 

Speed skatersare my favorite from this RevAbs DVD because Apolo Ohno a sports celebrity gets brought up a lot.  I didn’t know who this person was until I was watching the Olympics and he was speed skating.  He took home some medals this year and really was fun to watch.  So this exercise is exactly like skating but your lunging really low and I didn’t think these would do anything but no matter how many times I do this workout my butt kills the next day.  You do 16 with really short fast ones in between the long slow ones.

Sprawls are my biggest struggle and put a hurting on my breathing.  Your in a standing position and you drop flat to the ground and then have to get back up and stand and try doing 15 straight and you will understand why I struggle.  this is a type of exercise that is in the Insanity program.

FINALLY!  Your first break and a quarter of the way through.

Round one is still not over, Brett makes you do one more set of speed skaters and its in the RevZone. RevZone is where you step up even more than what everyone is doing.  Cheasy Yes, Effective Yes.

Round 2 is the same as round 1 but Brett Hoebel throws out challenges to the crew.

Spice Round is the last round and is much more intense than the first two rounds.  These are how he makes it harder:

Lunge Chops-Holding the weight in a different position and making it heavier

Front Squats-Not only do you raise your knees but in this round you have to lift the weights above your head.  I know I make it sound easy but try it with a heavy weight and you will struggle.

Speed Skaters- Brett tries to make this harder but all he asks you to do is go very low on your lunges.  The crazy thing is I still hurt the next day so maybe it’s working

Sprawls- He includes a jump after each one as if jumping up isn’t enough!  I skip the jump cause I’m dying at this point.

One more break and then Speed Skaters for a quick 40 seconds and your done. 

Try and get that kind of workout at the gym in almost a half an hour.  RevAbs is been an interesting journey and I believe that Phase 2 is more challenging then phase 1.  There are many advantages to this program over just doing the Ab Ripper X DVD or the P90x program.

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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Brett Hoebel starts out with a 3 minute warm up which consists of quick stretching and two sets of 30 jumping jacks.  I think the biggest issue I have with RevAbs is the warm up is too quick so I tend to stretch a few extra minutes before I push play. 

 So Round 1 you start out with 2 minutes of frontward lunges with a set of dumbbells above your chest.  So all your doing is stepping forward and bending your legs at a 90 degree angle and coming back up for a total of 15 times.  My first few weeks I used 10 pound weights but after the first few I wasn’t feeling anything so I stepped it up to 20 pounds and man did I struggle.  You can also use the bands as well because they give you more flexibility.  When you start to get good at it Brett wants you to “fire up your abs” meaning on the way up squeeze your stomach muscles for more pain.

 Crossovers are next and it’s similar to jumping jacks but with crossovers you are jumping while crossing your legs over one another and your arms as well.  It’s almost like your hugging yourself but really fast!  This move is done twice before squat thrusts and after and lasts 30 seconds each time. 

 Squat thrusts are my least favorite but I love the feeling when I’m done with it.  When I did Ab Ripper X Tony always used this quote “I hate it but I love it” and that’s how I feel with squat thrusts.  You start in a standing position and jump down to the ground with palms on the ground, elbows locked and back straight.  Push up position without the push up and then jump back up kicking your legs to your waist and standing straight up with hands above your head for a 1 count.  The goal is to do 15 in 30 seconds but it is easier said then done.  I have been able to hit 17 one time but it’s a killer because you just got done doing crossovers.

Here you get a quick 30 second break but Brett still makes you move a little to keep your heart rate up.  He calls it balansa (BAA-LAN- SAA) which is a short sway from left to right that works your love handles. 

After your break you do another 30 seconds of crossovers and the first round is almost over but you have to do one more set of squat thrusts.  This squat thrust involves the Rev Zone which shows a split screen of one person really stepping up the intensity and doing like 25 of these.  CRAZY!

If you still think this workout program is too much for you remember there is a modifier that does all the workouts in modification.  So don’t think you can’t do this.  My wife Lisa has been doing this program for 4 weeks now and she is down 13 pounds with before and after pics coming soon.  She started out with the modified version and is now doing the regular workout. 

So now you have two more rounds that consist of the same workouts but the last round Brett calls the spice round.  The spice round is just a different term for more intense.  These are the same type of workouts but with added intensity.  For example, when you’re coming up on the lunges instead of keeping your dumbbells on your chest, Brett wants you to raise them above your head.  When you’re doing 20 pound weights your arms are hurting very badly!  The squat thrusts are more challenging because in this round he wants you to completely lay flat on your stomach and then stand up throwing your arms in the air.  Try doing 15 of these.  OUCH! 

So the only other things I don’t like about RevAbs in general are the music and some cheese ball lines that Brett says.  If you can block those few things out then you will be fine.  Remember to pick up your recovery drink for these more intense workouts as it will help you recover faster.  For questions please contact me at www.phattyfit.com.  Just don’t wait to see my RevAbs results  in 90 days, get your own!