Leslie Sansone Walk At Home The Big Burn 2 miles of Intervals

 I picked this workout because I wanted a nice simple 2 mile workout. Apparently, I missed the memo about the jogging intervals. This was not a nice simple low key Friday workout! 

The workout begins with the four basic steps which are marching in place, side steps, knee lifts and front kicks. Once you go through a fiveish minute warm up, you start doing other things like moving your arms around. This workout also included kick backs, tap outs, double knee lifts, double side steps, doing sidesteps while moving forward four counts and backwards four counts, walking forward two counts and backwards two counts, jogging forward four counts and backwards four counts, and knee lifts and front kicks with a bounce in the middle. 

There were three jogging intervals. Each one lasted about 90 seconds to two minutes. You start off by walking forward and then backwards quickly. You then transition into jogging. I didn't jog nearly as quickly as they did, but I still picked up the pace and picked up my feet. During these intervals, Jo gets picked to do the modified workout. She did not jog or do the bounces between the knee lifts and the front kicks.

This DVD had several of the "old crew walkers" including Mary Kaye, Jo and Linda. It also included Steve who I've seen before and Brittany who I have not seen before. Overall, I enjoyed the workout, but there were some annoying aspects of this one. Steve is just never in sync with the rest of the walkers. Maybe it's because he's like three feet taller than them or maybe it's something else. I just know that he constantly draws my attention because I'm not in sync with him so I feel like I'm off, but then I realize he's not in sync with anyone. I find it really annoying that whenever a guy is in a workout, she seems to constantly be talking to them. The most annoying thing though was about the set. In the back of the studio there were two windows where you could see cars driving by. The movement in the background was annoying.  

This workout did not have mile markers and I don't recall hearing her announce the halfway point. She did comment when we had made it to the two mile point. After that, she slowed down the pace and brought us into a cool down. She did talk about the importance of getting your heart rate down and suggested to continue walking if your were still breathing heavy. The cool down was pretty standard and included some deep breathing as you stretched you arms up over your head. It also included a leg stretch. 

Below are my BodyMedia and Nexercise screen shots. The big blue blob on the left is my workout. The rest of the blue blips are me walking around at work. I was looking for a low key workout to end my week, but I was pretty happy to get 19 minutes of vigorous activity.