Jari Love's Get Ripped! To The Core: Take a deep breath, you're going to need it! This workout is designed to burn calories and carbs fast. To achieve the same results you would have to run a 5K race but now you can do it at home using safe, low-impact techniques.

Get Ripped! To The Core is an all-over toning workout that includes 9 Compound Exercises plus a tough Abdominal Section and a Stretch Segment. Each carefully-designed segment begins with a technique demo plus a review of the weight levels used. Then it smoothly builds in intensity.

For example, you'll start with squats, make them double-time, add the upright rows, pulse them to the music, travel a little - then on to the next segment (often targeting those same muscles in new ways).

To do this workout you can use dumbbells, a barbell, or your own body weight (step is optional). With compound exercises you will not only work multiple muscle groups simultaneously but you will also work your abs the entire time to stay stable.

These exercises are double-duty movements that tone the entire body, burn mega calories, and build strong abs. As in all the Get Ripped! workouts, we demonstrate exercise modifications for people who need to adjust the movements to their own abilities.

Get Triple the Workout in the Same Amount of Time

This workout guarantees faster results by working multiple muscle groups simultaneously! Research shows that compound exercises burn 2-3 times more calories than isolation exercises. You can perform the exercises longer without fatiguing or getting sore as quickly. When you go longer, you burn more calories and shed fat faster.

Benefits of compound exercises: Compound exercises are functional. They improve your ability to perform daily activities like unloading the car and lifting toddlers. Reshape trouble areas like thighs and buttocks as well as sculpt arms and shoulders. Scientifically proven to burn calories directly from your carb stores. This will help you lose weight and burn fat. Develop strong, sleek abs while improving balance at the same time.

About Jari Love: A competitive runner since her teens, health and fitness has always been central to Jari Love, which led to her becoming a personal trainer. However, with increasing responsibilities over time she had fewer hours to devote to training, so she used her knowledge of physiology to create her own training paradigm, customized for a busy parent and business person whose goal was to maintain peak fitness.

Jari based her program on periodization and progression - two elements missing from most current exercise approaches. Get Ripped! is based on the training methods of elite athletes, current research, and her own experience. The workout incorporates progression of intensity that offsets the body's normal adaptation response to exercise.