Review: Focus T25 Alpha Cardio

I will be reviewing these workouts daily as I go along. This was my first day with this workout, and it was honestly quite enjoyable and fun.

So I finally got started on Focus T25 this morning, and let me tell you, I. Am. BEAT!

This is a completely different setup from Insanity for anyone else who has done it. I did Insanity for the first time in February, and as anyone who has began that workout, after the first day you are sore all over. I did a two week stint of no working out between my rounds of Insanity, and was already sore again just from two weeks. After I finished the second round, I started running, and after two weeks of that, I am back to Shaun T kicking my ass on a daily basis.

So here we go: I wasn't really sure what this was going to be like whenever I pressed play, but it was definitely in a way similar to Insanity, but at the same time, extremely different. Over the 25 minutes of working out, you will do the exercises in 30-second spurts, which definitely helps to keep the monotony at an all time low.

There isn't a warm-up. There are, however, workouts in the beginning that steadily progress into the sheer force and power of this workout. You will start at a very mild pace (bringing knees up for example) and moving faster into different variations of the workout (high knees, etc.).

In the middle of the workout, about ten minutes in, there is a "Burnout" I believe it was called, where you do a selection of the workouts you just did, only much more intensely. You do this again near the end of the workout.

One thing that I was NOT expecting was the hand/foot coordination during some workouts. One in particular was left foot forward/right foot back, then bring to the middle, then swap the foot placement, and then bring your feet and hands outward twice, then repeat. I'm sure after a few go-arounds, it will become much easier. For me, this particular move was comparable to the side-attack move from Insanity (took me weeks to get it down right without messing up constantly). By the end of the workout, I had to make 5, 5-10 second breaks.

I have done two rounds of Insanity, as I said earlier on, and I didn't have to make as many stops in that workout. This particular workout from the Alpha month is a definite workout on the legs, I was extremely sore by the end of it, and hoping that soreness doesn't resonate into tomorrow.

There is also a 2-minute cooldown stretch after the 25-minute beatdown. I would suggest to anyone that has to take even the slightest break during this behemoth to use the cooldown stretch to your advantage.

Overall, I feel as if I got exactly what I would've gotten from Insanity in a much shorter amount of time, maybe even a little more. This is much more of a muscle work than the cardio that it says it is called.

I would give this particular workout an 8.5/10