- Rating: Ideal for Beginner to Advanced Level with appropriate modifciation/weight selection
- TIME SAVER FORMAT! This DVD contains five, 10-20 Minute Flexibility and Strength Workouts
- Chapters inlcude warm up, upper body, lower body, core, and flexibility
- StrEndurance and Iron Girl will BOOST your Overall Body Strength and Conditioning!
- DVD Format: All Regions — Music On/Off Option
Product Description
Join Coach Troy Jacobson (The Official Coach of Iron Girl and creator of the Strendurance Workout Series) and a cast of fit and motivated women from Team Iron Girl for a short and effective muscle strength building and toning routine designed to supplement your aerobic sport training activity and improve you results. This DVD contains five awesome workouts of approximately 10-20 minutes each designed to maximize your muscle strength safely and efficiently. Depending on your current level of fitness, you can choose to do one or several of the workouts contained on this disk! Chapters Include: Dynamic Warm-up: Get loose and avoid injury with this short and effective sports performance dynamic warm up. Upper Body: Improve Upper Body Strength and tone with a series of basic exercises. Lower Body: Get Strong and Toned Legs and see your cycling and running improve! Core Builder: Strengthen and Tone your Mid-Section! Flexibility: Cool Down and Stretch with… More >>
Spinervals StrEndurance with Iron Girl DVD
As a consultant and a 40 year old single parent mother with limited time aspiring to better last years triathlon times I found this DVD just what I needed to improve my overall conditioning in a timely manner AT HOME!! The workouts were well suited to a beginner like me – last year I completed my first 2 triathlons. There are four workouts around 15 minutes each – core, upper body, lower body and the flexible warrior portion geared more for female triathletes. I found if I just pushed the menu button on my DVD player I could skip to the various workouts quickly and depending on how much time I have I can do my 1,2,3, or all 4 of the workouts. I didn’t need allot of fancy equipment to complete the workout. It was no nonsense and easy to follow – not allot of bouncing around or hard to follow moves, you can watch the DVD with or without music, and Troy’s instructions were very, very easy to follow. The only criticism I might have is that I would have liked just a little more information on good form while completing the exercises. Otherwise I loved the DVD and am planning to look for more from the Irongirl series or Troy Jacobson!!
Rating: 4 / 5
I have several of the Spinervals cycling workout videos and they are must-haves for any cyclist, triathlete, or spinning fan. They’re quality productions and Coach Troy Jacobson is a terrific coach.
Then, there’s the Iron Girl workout. This is just bad – no way around it. As in all of the Spinervals videos, the first segment is a person-by-person introduction of the athletes in the video. Not bad with Spinervals because there are only 3-4 folks, the intro is one sentence for each, and it’s done while you’re on your bike warming up. Basically, it’s filler until the hard work gets going. In this one there are 7-8 women and they each get about a minute in front of the camera! This is before anything has started, so you just stand there looking at them. It’s a HUGE waste of time when you’re ready to work out. And, no – you can’t FFWD past it. It’s part of the opening segment.
Coach Troy is outstanding with cycling but awful with weight training (at least in front of a roomful of women.) He counts every rep from 1-20 from off-camera, so it’s just shouting numbers over the video of women doing an exercise. He doesn’t do the exercises himself so you have no idea what the correct from looks like. The ladies are smiling and attractive, but woefully out of sync and none of them use proper form anywhere – they don’t even do the moves the same way!
I’m going to return this one for something more motivational, easier to follow, and better choreographed. If you’re considering Spinervals, buy it – you won’t be disappointed in the least. They are great. These Iron Girl workouts are a bust.
Rating: 1 / 5