Now, as I mentioned above, these are total body workouts that aren’t technically “total body” because the majority of the strength workouts focus on large muscle groups: back, chest and lower body. The strength workouts are all total body workouts. There are no isolation workouts that focus on specific muscle groups. If you buy this program hoping for more Body Beast you will be disappointed. Summary: The first, most obvious thing about this program is that it is not Body Beast #2. Here are the Hammer & Chisel workout cards. Just like all Beachbody fitness programs, they have created workout cards that anyone can download for free to keep track of the weights you lifted. So they have recipes and each recipe’s “nutritional” info is also broken down by container color however, that is the only nutritional information you get. So over all, pretty cool! But with that said, using containers only can make for some pretty boring meals. It also has plans to maintain weight and to gain weight as well based on the container plan. Using their lists of foods that fall under each color/category I should automatically be eating the proper amount of calories and nutrients to lose weight. For instance, if I wanted to lose weight, I would fall under Plan A which means that each day I could fill my green container (veggies) 3 times, my purple container (fruits) twice, my red container (proteins) 4 times, my yellow container (carbs) 2 times, my blue container (healthy fats) once and my orange container (seeds and dressings) once. And based on whatever category you fall into, you eat however many containers of each group that your category directs. Each color represents a food group: veggies, fruits, proteins, carbs, healthy fats, seeds and dressings. All of the containers are different colors and sizes. By using the containers, they are taking calorie and nutrient counting out of your hands. ![]() ![]() Tho I didn’t follow the food plan I actually think it is a nice set up that can teach people portion control. And that is as important as the workouts for achieving a chiseled physique. What they did spend a lot of time on was the nutrition. Which is weird because they usually give you all kinds of scientific data. I have my theory (which I mention in the reviews and the summary below) but I’d love to read their reason. I really like that part of the literature Beachbody usually provides and after doing the workouts, I’d really love to know the reason they did primarily “total body” workouts that aren’t technically total body workouts. I’m pretty irritated they didn’t go into the science behind the workouts. To make this a bit more understandable, the “hammer” workouts are led by Sagi and the “chisel” workouts are led by Autumn. One 60 day Hammer & Chisel rotation, one 30 day Hammer rotation and one 30 day Chisel rotation. It does give you 3 different rotation calendars. The literature you receive with this program is actually pretty scant compared to many Beachbody fitness programs I have purchased in the past. It seemed like a great collection to piece workouts together to equal my hour in the morning. The main workouts are anywhere from 23-44 minutes long and the little add ons (abs, a short cardio and short lower body bonuses) are 11-19 minutes long. One thing that attracted me to this program was the length of the workouts. In addition, I ordered the deluxe workouts and got 5 more, for a total of 19 (or 21) workouts! Initially I had wanted to do the entire 60 day rotation, but I have so many other workouts to try I decided to sample each workout at least once. For the base kit you get 14 workouts (16 actually–2 bonuses but they are not part of the program, they are from the trainers’ other programs), the usual Beachbody literature, 7 color coded food containers and a shaker cup. In fact, when I received it and went through everything, I was a bit overwhelmed. But once I had sampled ICE, I was ready for Hammer & Chisel. I did not get to it right away however since I had also just received Cathe‘s ICE series and that was my #1 priority. I had to wait several months before it went on sale the beginning of December 2015 and I ordered it the day it was available. I was familiar with Sagi, but I had not done any of Autumn’s workouts nor was I interested in them. They initially announced it via a cryptic trailer several months before it was released and showed it was led/created by both Sagi Kalev and Autumn Calabrese. When Hammer & Chisel was first announced I was so excited! I loved Body Beast so when I saw Sagi was coming out with a new strength training program I planned to purchase it as soon as it was available.
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