Strength Factor Express

I really enjoyed Gay's Step Factor Express and Hi-Low Express, because they're efficient and do the job--pack a punch in about 30 minutes. Strength Factor Express does the same thing.

Background is the recent Sara's City (it has a new name but I just can never remember the acronym) one of random post-modern glass shapes flanking a golden brown wood paneled parquet workout floor (it reminds me of the tiny "dance" spaces they have at corporate banquet halls). Music is generic enough that I just didn't notice it.

Typical of short-and-sweet strength workouts, she does compound moves. You start with knee-ups on the step combined with hammer curls. Then one-armed rows combined with rows where you square your shoulders at the end of the move. Other moves include:

• a brief set of back lunges/hammer curls into knee-ups,
• side lunges off the step, combined with side leg lifts and upright rows
• a side-lateral/row/tricep kickback combo,
• a bicep curl/Arnold press/side lateral combo
• planks on the step combined with "jacks"
• and that "handstand" move where you squat with your feet on the step, then thrust your legs up behind you
• Crunches for abs; oblique crunches using a weight on the shoulder, crunches with the legs in a V shape in the air, side lateral crunches also on the ground