FlowPower Review – Is It Right For You?

FlowPower is a 15 minute workout that promises to help anybody, at any fitness level, get a customized workout with real results. Here’s our review.

What is FlowPower?

FlowPower is a workout that claims to be the ideal choice for beginners, intermediates, and experts. With just 15 minutes of work, you can lose weight using the FlowPower system.

FlowPower has appeared on TV in recent weeks, so you may have seen its infomercials popping up. It’s part of the As Seen On TV family of products.

By following the system, you can transform your body in as little as 8 weeks by blending together strength training exercises, cardio, and other techniques.

The workouts can also be completed with no extra equipment required: so if you have 15 minutes of free time at home, then you can follow along with FlowPower.

The FlowPower workouts were created by personal trainer Jesse Lipscombe.

Let’s find out more about how FlowPower works.

How Does FlowPower Work?

FlowPower works by combining intense strength and cardio training with yoga and tai chi. Together, these three workout systems promise to give you maximum results in the shortest possible amount of time.

Remember how I said FlowPower is available for people of all fitness levels? That’s where the level system comes in. FlowPower uses something called Balanced Maximum Progression, also known as Maximum Lean Muscle, to push people through the levels. The levels look like this:

-Level 1: Jesse introduces you to the program and starts by teaching you the most basic versions of FlowPower’s signature moves.

-Level 2: You’ll increase your heart rate by kicking into full cardio flow.

-Level 3: These simple yet challenging moves promise to turn your body into a “fat burning machine”.

FlowPower is oddly vague about its exercises upfront. You won’t learn much about the program from its infomercials or online sales copy. We don’t know the number of exercises included in the program, for example, nor do we know how the program adjusts to people of different body weights and training levels.

However, if you read between the lines of FlowPower, you’ll realize there are some common trends between this and other training programs.

For example, the company describes how moments of high intensity “are immediately followed by restorative, nourishing moves.” That’s high intensity interval training, or HIIT, which is one of the hottest fitness concepts on the market today.

FlowPower and High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

With HIIT, you exercise at near-maximum intensity for a short burst – say, 10 to 60 seconds – and then rest for a similar period of time.

The main difference between FlowPower and traditional HIIT is that the rest periods emphasize yoga and tai chi-based moves. Other programs might just make you stretch during downtime.

There are a couple problems with FlowPower’s HIIT: HIIT isn’t suitable for everyone. People with mobility issues or low fitness levels may be physically unable to move at anywhere close to their maximum intensity for short bursts.

FlowPower also claims that HIIT is linked to faster recovery times, although it doesn’t link to any research that indicates that, and we couldn’t find any research on our own.

FlowPower and Balanced Maximum Progression

FlowPower also throws around terms like Balanced Maximum Progression and Maximum Lean Muscle. These sound like neat terms, but in reality, it’s just a fancy way of saying you’re progressing through different levels of the training program based on your fitness.

That progression is something we see in almost every workout program on the market and it’s certainly not unique to FlowPower.

FlowPower and Fat Burning

FlowPower repeatedly emphasizes that it helps your body continue to burn fat for hours after your workout is over. In reality, that’s something that occurs with every type of moderate exercise: your body needs to spend calories to repair your muscles, so there’s almost always some type of post-workout fat burning going into effect.

With that in mind, there’s no evidence that FlowPower burns fat after exercise more effectively than other HIIT workouts.

One final thing to note about FlowPower is that the workouts can last as little as 15 minutes. Ideally, you’ll choose the 60 minute version of each workout for maximum fat burning. If you choose the 15 minute version, then your results aren’t likely to be as revolutionary.

About Jesse Lipscombe

FlowPower was created by Canadian personal trainer Jesse Lipscombe, a former high jumper who once tried out for the Olympic team. Since leaving the high jumping world, Jesse has become an actor while also launching two personal training companies, including P.H.A.T. Training Inc. and Wevive Fitness.

With both of these companies, Jesse claims it’s his goal to help implement “active and healthy lifestyles in all people.”

FlowPower doesn’t claim to have any specific personal training qualifications. However, he does claim that he has spent over a decade perfecting and optimizing the moves in FlowPower.

FlowPower Pricing

FlowPower is priced at two payments of $49.95 ($99.90 total).

During your purchase, you may be offered to purchase a nutritional supplement called Matrix, which is also made by the creators of FlowPower.

Your purchase comes with a 60 day refund policy, minus shipping and handling charges. To contact customer service and request a refund, call (877) 373-7110.

What’s Included with FlowPower?

FlowPower comes with two core products:

-FlowPower Fitness Plan: Tips and techniques that help you get the most out of your FlowPower program.

-FlowPower Nutritional Guide: Nutritional information and healthy meal choices to complement your weight loss routine.

Should You Use FlowPower to Lose Weight?

FlowPower is a high intensity interval training program that emphasizes using yoga and tai chi moves between workouts. The program appears to strike a good balance between high intensity training and rest periods, allowing you plenty of time to recover while still maximizing your fitness results.

However, FlowPower provides very little information about its actual exercises upfront. This makes it difficult to determine if the program is catered to ultra-beginners (who may have trouble performing traditional HIIT) or those who are in relatively good shape and just want to trim down.

If we had to guess, FlowPower appears to be targeted towards beginners and those who are fairly out of shape.

At this high price, it would have been nice to see more in-depth information about the program and the science behind it. However, if you’re a beginner interested in HIIT who wants to lose weight, then FlowPower may help you.