The FIRM: Cardio Sculpt Blaster with Lisa Kay

For those days when you just cant find the time for a workout, Cardio Sculpt Blaster comes to the rescue! This successful workout keeps you motivated with interesting new moves! Popular FIRM Master Instructor Lisa Kay leads you through a fun and exciting mix of cardio exercises, both on the floor and using The Body Sculpting System. This exciting new workout delivers maximum fat burning and motivates you to move, move, move! By concentrating on these exercises you will sculpt and blast your body, while shrinking your problem areas.

The Firm: Cardio Sculpt Blaster DVD
Lisa Kay, Step Cardio, The Firm

Cardio Sculpt Blaster is a short cardio workout led by Lisa Kay. This workout is from The Firm’s Body Sculpting System 1. Since I started my Firm journey with Body Sculpting Basics followed by Body Sculpting System 2, I ended up slowly buying BSS1 workouts individually. I did not like this one as much as I liked my BSS2 workouts but I did enjoy it. It was easier than the BSS2 workouts I had been doing so I looked at this as a recovery day cardio workout. And it continued to feel that way when I did it this morning. I still enjoyed it, I still broke a sweat and got a good cardio workout but nothing super intense. None of the step choreography was complicated either. Overall a great little cardio workout. I finished it off with Fat Blasting Bursts, a 20 minute workout from The Firm’s Time Crunch Cardio DVD (will be reviewed soon) and got a great 53 minute cardio workout.

And I have to say something about these titles. Returning to the Firm I am finding them so confusing! They are all so similar! I am glad I am finally blogging about them–now I can rely on this blog to help me tell them apart.

Cardio Sculpt Blaster is 32:30 minutes; 2:30 minute intro, 4 minute warm up and 2:30 minute stretch. Equipment: Fanny Lifter (or high step that raises to 14 inches) and 3 and 5 pound dumbbells. Warm up is done on the floor (no equipment). There is a beginner modifier.

Circuit 1: Cardio on the floor (no equipment),

Circuit 2: 6 inch step and 5 pound dumbbells. Below are the moves in the order they appear, but you repeat all of them multiple times,

Step w/ heel dig on step; add bicep curls
Straddle step; add an upright row
Lunge side to side off step; add alternating tricep kickbacks to side
Tap back off step w/ back rows
Squat side to side on floor; add hammer curl; add 3 pulses at bottom of squat

Circuit 3: step cardio on 6 inch step,

Circuit 4: Fanny lifter (or high step) at 14 inches and 5 pound dumbbells,

Hold DBs at shoulders and alternate tapping toes on top of step; add overhead press; add a squat pulse to side (on floor); squat side to side, staying low
Repeat 1 on other side of body
Repeat 1 & 2

Circuit 5: step cardio on 6 inch step,

Circuit 6: step @ 6 inches and 3 pound dumbbells (I used 5 pound dumbbells). Below are the moves in the order they appear, but you repeat all of them multiple times,

Grapevine side to side; add pushing arms forward then pulling back (rhomboid pinch)
Step touch side to side; add bicep curls
Step w/ knee lift, 2 on floor and 2 on step

Circuit 7: cardio on the floor–this is very easy cardio, bringing your heart rate down before the stretch.