What is TurboFire?
TurboFire is a high paced mostly cardio workout from Chalene johnson. It seems to be an evolution of TurboKick and TurboJam, the idea is to mix kick-boxing, dance moves, and great music for a "fun" workout experience. It claims to be able to burn up to 9x the amount of calories than regular workouts. This is probably mostly due to the HIIT workouts that are carefully weaved into the entire program.
Schedule and time
At first you're looking at a 40 minute time commitment that can balloon into 60 minutes 6 days a week for 8 weeks. There are some sculpting exercises with the included which use resistance bands witch are much more intimidating than they appear at first glance.
What's included?
Your Standard "DVD only" package you'll get the 12 workouts spanning 5 DVDs (in a nice little book). If you have the complete package you'll also have the thigh firming band as well as a resistance band. If you go for the challenge pack you'll also get a free month of Shakeology and 30 days of the team beachbody club. All of these come with a 90 day money back guarantee if purchased from a coach.
Flexibility
The first thing I noticed about this program is it's immense flexibility. Because it focuses on cardio it can be paired with other workouts if you just want to put in the extra burn. The stretching is for the most part a completely separate video which means you can do your cardio, then a strength workout followed my either TurboFire's stretch or another of your choosing. There are also many alternative schedules that allow for total fitness newbies to the super elite. At any time you can fall back to the modified routine to dial back the impact (while keeping intensity). Even better is the optional "Starter Pack" that introduces new users the moves in TurboFire.
Speed and HIIT
The speed of this program seems to be a double edge sword, it is both awesome (because it burns calories like crazy) and confusing as all get out (no seriously, watch Fire 45 and see if you can keep up the first day). Over the course of the workout Chalene will throw new routines at you but typically using the same Kick boxing style moves factoring in jumping to increase difficulty. The "Fire Drills" or HIIT sections of your typical workouts add a huge boost of burn where you are supposed to go all out for 1 minute and then rest for the same. Personally I enjoy fire drills not so much because of the added burn or how HIIT helps your heart but because of that rest! OMG the rest!
Pricing and Availability
Beachbody Workouts are supposed to only be available through your beach body coach (if you don't have one I'm more than willing to volunteer). However it's widely known that you can typically purchase Beachbody products on ebay, Amazon, and the like. I won't bother with ebay prices since those change so frequently and are typically bootleg anyway (which don't include important equipment you need to complete all of the workouts).
Amazon: $144.80
Amazon (Starter Pack): $45.90
BeachBody coach: $159.80
BeachBody coach (DVDs Only): $79.90
Beachbody coach (Starter Pack): $39.95
Wrap up
I didn't mention much about Chalene herself in this review but I'm saving that for another post, she also moonlights as a motivational speaker which allows her to bring her unique talents to this series as well as her other ones. With Chalene's at the helm I can typically get a good 10cal/min burn from most of the fire workouts which is pretty significant for a 30+ min workout. If you have a bodymedia Fit then you are looking at most of the Fire Workouts to be at least 80% Vigorous and significant moderate levels for the sculpting. All in all if you're looking to loose weight you can't go wrong with this workout....if you can keep up. If you are a fitness newbie I suggest checking out the Starter Pack and use that schedule for a while to build stamina and get used to the choreography. Even now, when I'm tired the routines can be very confusing, however I am never disappointed with the calorie burn I get from TurboFire.
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