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LIIFT4 - Week One Review

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 LIIFT4 is a weight training program from Joel Freeman on Beachbody On Demand.  For additional product information, please follow my affiliate LINK .  If you have any questions or would like more information, just let me know.  I'm happy to help! First, let's clarify the spelling on LIIFT4.  It's a lifting program, but it has delicious nuggets of HIIT (high intensity interval training) mixed in to the workouts - so that's why the word "lift" is spelled with two "i's".  Clever, huh? This is an 8-week program with four workouts per week.  The workouts are approximately 35 minutes in length.  The only equipment required is just three sets of dumbbells - light, medium and heavy.  If you are just starting out, I recommend 5, 8 and 12 pound weights.   This program is listed as an intermediate program, but the instructor does a good job of queuing form and there is a modifier demonstrating less impactful moves.  I feel this is a very ...

30 Day Breakaway - Results

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30 Day Breakaway is a running and strength training program from Beachbody OnDemand.  Please follow my affiliate LINK for more product information.  And...if you get a hankerin' to order something, please do so on my site so I get a small commission. Full disclosure - I did not finish this program.  I made it through three of the four weeks and decided to move on.  I knew from the first week that I wasn't going to like the strength training in this program.   Let's focus on what I did like, first. The treadmill runs - Oh gurrrl...if you have ever done any running on the treadmill and trying to figure out what to watch, getting bored of watching it, feeling alone and sorry for yourself that you can't run out doors at 5am - then these are for YOU.  Idalis and you run along the beaches and trails of Southern California.  She talks to you like she's your coach and the time just flies by.  There is a good mix of speedwork, tempo and easy runs....