Weighted Workout
Karen Voight makes fitness even more accessible by combining precise movements with weights. The setting is a modern studio with tan yoga mats on a wooden floor.  In thirty minutes you work your abs, legs, back and arms. You begin with Pilates inspires moves while holding weights and work your legs in a variety of interesting ways while holding on to a chair.<br /><br />While there are the normal exercises like squats, Karen adapts the exercises for maximum efficiency to save you time. Weights are the focus throughout the first half of the workout with an excellent segment for arms. The short segment on the floor helps you exercise your back so you can see improved posture.<br /><br />The most intense segment is definitely the abs workout, also inspired by Pilates. This very creative segment will have you feeling the burn and looking forward to the stretches that follow. Overall this workout is abs and arms intensive with a focus on sculpting the upper body and strengthening the lower body. You only need a mat, chair and set of 5 to 10-pound dumbbells to complete this workout. I used 5-pound weights and felt this was at least intermediate because of the speed of the exercises and the intensity of the abs workout.<br /><br />~The Rebecca Review