Beachbody 22 Minute Hard Corps DVD Workout Program Base Kit - Tony Horton, Cardio, Resistance Training and Core Exercises, Video Workouts, 2 Fitness DVDs, Nutrition Guide

I just finished the 8 week program today and thought I’d write my review. Here’s what I thought…About me: I’m a 49 year old male and feel that I’m in okay shape. I’ve done many workout series in the past including P90X, Insanity, UFC Fit and RIP:60. By the way, I’m not a BeachBody Coach.For this workout, I did the schedule as written and didn’t miss a workout (including the extra core workout on the cardio days). I didn’t do any additional exercises outside of this schedule either. For the nutrition part: I followed a Paleo diet during the whole 8 weeks and was fairly clean throughout (only had a few cheat meals/drinks here and there).I was a bit skeptical that a person could get good results by working out only 22 to 33 minutes a day, but thought it was worth a try since I’d prefer shorter workouts. With that said, I lost 11lbs in 8 weeks (from 177lbs down to 166). I’m now a believer!22 minute Hard Corps is one of my favorite work out series. I liked the military style of the workouts and it never got over the top with the drill Sargent stuff. Tony was great in the series. He cut out the banter that was in P90X - making the workouts fly by. He also made the workouts more efficient. The exercises were easy to learn and used compound movements – incorporating multiple muscle groups in a single exercise. The resistance days were my favorite. I should also add, that I never experienced any joint pain or fell sick during the 8 week program.I believe the magic in these shorter workouts is more on the psychological side than with the exercises themselves. The fact that the workouts are shorter made it less painful to do every day, and easier to complete the entire program instead of quitting half way through in failure. I no longer dreaded working out after I got home from work. I even did the optional core workouts on the cardio days. I’ve always skipped them in other workout series. I figured I had no excuses this time since I’m still only investing a total of about 30 minutes of my time per day. Plus by week 3, I started to see my abs, which has never happened before. Abs may start in the kitchen, but they end on the mat!The downside to the shorter workouts is that you probably have to be more honest with your nutrition to see progress. If I wasn’t as strict with my diet, I don’t think I would of have gotten as good of results.Overall: great workout!

22 Min Hard Corps is a solid basic workout program. Workouts are a mix of cardio and resistance workouts with a few weights (the "sandbag" is the promo prop but almost any dumbbell/weight will do) roughly 20mins each. The program features American service veterans along with some personalities. This is a bit of a marketing ploy of course but anyone who has been in the military will recognize many of the exercises from general physical training. Thus the branding fits the routines and is a nice motivator. As usual Tony brings some fun and humor to the workouts.Is it good? Any workout routine is relative to a person's fitness level (and goals). If you are out of shape or do not exercise regularly I think this is a very good program. If you are already in good general shape I would characterize the routines as on the lighter side. Just as with military PT you need to do more than just PT. But this is not a knock on the workouts. As Tony always says, "Modify, modify, modify." This applies to 22Min Hard Core. If the routines are too easy push yourself harder. Go faster, more reps, better form. Use higher weight. Strap on a weight vest and/or ankle weights. Go for 30 or 40mins. The exercises are almost all classics or modern takes on classic exercises. There is nothing phony about the program. Even unmodified, for someone in good shape it makes for an excellent "recovery" program. I rotate it in after BeastX and P90X and find it a nice change of pace and appreciate the abbreviated time. This is a 20 min routine after all. It simply is not going to be the same as an hour P90X workout with eight sets of max pull-ups.Use your head and take advantage of what the program has to offer. You'll be satisfied.

I completed day one so far. And here's how it went.First of all, "22 minute" workout is slightly misleading. The very first day, it recommends you do TWO workouts, the cardio, which IS 22 min, AND, the abs, which is about 10 minutes. You could certainly skip the abs, but hey, I plan to follow the recommendation. So expect a slightly longer day. I see on subsequent days, only one workout is mentioned, and I bet that's 22 minutes.The workout is challenging, but not omg impossible. The hardest workout I've ever done is Insanity Max 30, followed by Insanity. If you've done those, the cardio should be doable for you. I'm not saying it's easy. I got a good sweat out of it. The burpees are HARD, because there are three sets of them. Very minimal jumping, nothing full out insane, you can't compare this to Insanity. Keep in mind this is only day one. If something changes, I will definitely update my review. If you're a complete beginner to exercise, then you'll find it hard. But, as with anything else, you have to stick with it.Now, for the abs. Wow. They are HARD. And I found it more challenging that Shaun T's abs workouts with Insanity, believe it or not. So I think this is really going to be good for your core.Overall, very solid. Seems like if could definitely get you into shape, and definitely maintain if you already exercise.

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I am glad that I got this program, I can see the results 3 weeks in, dropped almost 5 kg in 3 weeks following the exercise and the nutrition guide, not strictly though. I cannot do chin-ups as I don't have pull-up bars, I just used my dumbbells as a modified move, and also the nutrition guide recommended to follow plan of 2400 - 2600 calories a day which is plan 5, rather I followed plan 3 which targets 1800 - 2100 calories a day because I know that I need to drop some weight, and also because my body will require more calories as I progress with the program so it will happen that I shift to plan 4 later on..1 thing that I don't like is how that put the program into 2 DVDs, I would have preferred to burn it all on 1 DVD, because now everyday I have to swap between the DVDs, and the video quality is not FHD or even HD, thumbs down for that, but I still love it ..