Are you short on time but in need of an effective, no-frills workout? Check out Jackie Warner’s Xtreme Timesaver Training from the Personal Training with Jackie series.
If you've never seen her, prepare to be intimidated. She's a little more toned that most female DVD workout trainers. Here's a clip of Jackie doing abs. She takes it easy for US magazine:
If you've never seen her, prepare to be intimidated. She's a little more toned that most female DVD workout trainers. Here's a clip of Jackie doing abs. She takes it easy for US magazine:
Xtreme Timesaver is a lot more intense. Like most of her workouts, the Xtreme Timesaver Training makes use of high-rep, isolated muscle movements to burn calories. All you need are a pair of dumbbells and some floor space for the torture to begin.
Jackie’s Xtreme Timesaver doesn’t require a lot of weight resistance to be effective. Rather, it’s the repetitions and positioning that forces you to burn a lot of calories in 30 minutes. For example, Jackie has one Xtreme Timesaver exercise where you do are on all fours, pushing your back leg out while pushing a dumbbell forward simultaneously. I
It’s an easy exercise, until you do it for one minute straight. I can do 10 reps of bicep curls with 35-pound dumbbells. But 10-pound dumbbells were too heavy for me to use on this exercise, so I switched to 8 pound weights. That was still too heavy. What I like about Jackie's DVDs is she has no need to scream or motivate you with high-pitched excitement. Jackie tells you what to do; you do it, and you marvel at how many times she can do it. It’s never the weight; it’s the controlled reps that get you.
And that’s how Jackie works through the entire Xtreme Timesaver DVD. 30 minutes of isolated positions, pushing what seems like small weight resistance that manages to hurt a few muscle groups at a time. Jackie has cohorts in her videos that can show you how to do the same moves with higher or lower resistance. But as a guy, I couldn’t imagine myself trying it without the weights the first time I did it. I’m almost regretting it now, and I still don’t see how my wife does it.
“Oh, you get used to it after three or four times,” she tells me. I’m not sure that I want to find out.
I don't think Jackie is from America. Somewhere, in the heartland of Germany, is a secret facility operated by Volkswagen that has produced Jackie Warner and her non-stop ability to do heavy-weight reps.
If you are burned out from Jillian 
or you are a gym rat but it’s a rainy day, this DVD is perfect for you. If you need a quick lunchtime workout and you have a desk job, Xtreme Timesaver Training is perfect because you aren’t going to want to move much once you’re done.
or you are a gym rat but it’s a rainy day, this DVD is perfect for you. If you need a quick lunchtime workout and you have a desk job, Xtreme Timesaver Training is perfect because you aren’t going to want to move much once you’re done.Having said that, the results are phenomenal. There is definitely an overall fat burn since every major muscle group gets a piece of Jackie. When all the muscles are burning, the calories are consumed at a much faster rate. Multiple muscle group workouts can do that for you. Yes, it’s painful. But it’s doable.
Personal Training With Jackie: Xtreme Timesaver Training from Amazon.