Lisa Marie demonstrates Switch Lunges
I was introduced to the dailyhiit website by Jason from Geek and Gamer Fitness. He is a user of the website, and was asking if anyone else had tried the workouts. This seemed like a perfect opportunity to check out another source for free workouts!
This site is a part of the BodyRock.tv site. Apparently the DailyHiit series was created in late 2012, as the next generation of their online workouts. DailyHiit provides a calendar with a different workout every day, with names like hiitreps, hiitlean, hiitcombat, etc.
There are several hosts, depending on the workout series. Lisa Marie (pictured at left) hosts the workouts I used for this review:
Scream and Shout – HiitReps # 3
I like how much information they provide for each workout. There are demonstration videos, with step-by-step instructions. There are realtime workout videos, with timed exercises where appropriate (30 second intervals, for example. If you need even more instructions, some workouts have photo galleries, such as this one for the Scream and Shout workout.
Image gallery for a workout
With all this detail, and under the instruction of these attractive hosts, what’s not to like? Well, what I don’t like is that many of the workouts consist of 4-10 exercises, repeated as many times as you like. This is essentially one circuit from a workout program such as Beachbody’s Insanity. For example, the Scream and Shout workout consists of four exercises, a “burpee challenge” in which 3 exercises are burpee variations. The search feature of the Workouts page does not include workout length as a search criteria, so I found quite a few of these shorter workouts before I stumbled onto the My Booty Rocks workout, with 18 exercises. Don’t get me wrong: They are all challenging, but some might be a little too much of a good thing.
Many of the workouts require no equipment, which is very nice. The others use items which are available from the website, including a “sandbag” (which is a two-handled bag filled with sand), a Lebert Equalizer (looks like a senior walker, used for upper body exercises) and so on, available from the DailyHiit Shop. The site is so well designed, I can’t blame them for selling stuff as part of their revenue model, in addition to advertisements. (Interesting to see Insanity and P90X on there!)
Take a look around the site, and see if you can find a host and/or workout style that you like. Leave me a comment below, or in the Facebook group.
