Davina - Power Box and Tone Workout DVD

Hello. I’m sooo excited…

I love the fact that you loved Toned in 10 so much and some of the results you’ve sent me have been truly amazing! So, I’m back with my brilliant trainer Sarah, with an awesome new fitness programme Power Box & Tone. It’s a really upbeat workout which focusses on boxing style movements to build strength and tone. It’ll work your whole body, but with the emphasis on building fitness and has aerobic intervals to make sure there’s some essential fat-burning going on.

The workout is formulated using blocks so you can work out to a full class or break it down into smaller sections depending on how much time you have. At weekends and on days when you’ve got more time, add on the lovely stretch and mediation to your workout and feel the tension disappear.

As always there’s a great warm up to get you ready to work out a wonderful stretch to work out to complete your routine. Don’t push yourself to hard if it hurts – but do try to work out three times a week and it won’t be long before you’re up to speed.

I really hope you love it and get loads out of it!!! I genuinely think you’ll have so much fun you won’t even notice you’re getting fit. Can’t wait to see your results! Davina xx

This DVD has 8 sections:

Warm up
Core & glute activation
Jab
Hook and upper cut
Footwork
Combo box
Cool down/stretch
Morning gratitude

Each workout is around ten minutes, and as Davina mentions in the intro, the warmup itself is quite intense so if you’re a beginner that might be enough on its own!

I’ll be honest: I was wondering how you could make an entire workout dvd about boxing that wasn’t just one boxing routine followed by… another boxing routine with slightly different moves. This dvd is different because it splits the boxing into different types of moves.

The Jab workout focuses only on the jab/cross move and variations of this – it’s tough and it hurts! Likewise, the Footwork section is based mostly on legs – and that one hurts too!

The DVD has a 5-minute introduction, where Davina explains about the DVD and gives an interesting rundown on the techniques of punching and keeping your abs engaged, which is very useful and informative.

After the intro, there are 8 workout sections, as follows:

1. Warm-up: This is 5 minutes long. Throughout the warm-up, there are excellent arm and leg stretches, which are good for getting the lower body warmed up. You will find that your arms actually ache as you hold and stretch them above your heart, but this ensures that you are thoroughly warmed up and certainly is a workout in itself. To avoid injury, you must do this section!

2. Core and Glute Activation: This is 10 minutes long and you are not required to wear shoes. I love this section as it is great for tightening up your core which in turn will help you balance and get a flat stomach and a slim waist. It is also good for strengthening the knees.

3. Jab: This is 8 minutes long and is mainly upper body, although in the last exercise there is low-impact jumping. This would be a good stress buster, but great for the arms, core and waist. If you have suffered a lower body injury, you could actually adapt this section slightly to being a chair workout as you can still burn calories doing upper body exercises alone. Sarah also wears weighted gloves, which will help you tone up your arms and burn more calories.

4. Hook and Uppercut Combo: This is 8 minutes long and incorporates the whole of the body, as although there are a lot of hooks and uppercuts, you are using your legs by doing the exercises, which also incorporates the core and waist area. This will get you puffing and is good cardio. Use weighted gloves for more of a challenge.

5. Footwork: This is 8 minutes long. It is a cardio-based workout using the legs, core and waist. If you have problems with the IT Band in your leg/knee area then the exercises in this section are actually good at stretching out that problem. This is good for getting you puffing and burning calories.

6. Combo Box: This is 10 minutes long. It is cardio-based, if you are doing this on carpet, please make sure that you lift your feet properly as you could torque your knees. If you're a beginner and a recovering advance exerciser, it will get your heart pumping, it is a sneaky one as it is easy to do, but it does get you puffing and sweating. I really enjoyed this section.

7. Cool DownStretch Out: This is a lovely 10-minute-long section. It does cool you down and stretch you out thoroughly. Davina's favourite move is a "mermaid stretch" and I have to agree with her it is great. There is also a lot of "downward dog" based movements in this, which is great for stretching out the core and the knees. This is also a good section to help with your balance, which is one of the areas I have to work on personally.

8. Morning Gratitude: This is 8 minutes long. This section is taught by Davina and is a yoga-based session. I did love this and I'm quite flexible and so was able to do the moves, however if flexibility is not a strong point for you, then you will need to work at this, but it will be worth it as you will feel more suppler in time. Keep with this section as it is very relaxing. Both Davina and Sarah gave 3 things that they were grateful about, which I felt was a nice touch. We do need to be grateful for the good that we have in our life especially our bodies, we must appreciate what an amazing job our bodies actually do for us and how we need to stop taking them for granted

Davina and Sarah have a good connection. Sarah is an excellent trainer and explains things thoroughly. All the workouts flow really well together and are not confusing. Some of the sections sneak up on you cardio wise and I did sweat and got out of breath on some of the moves.