Chloe Ting’s Workouts: Worth the Hype?
We conquered the infamous workout series, and the results are in!
by CAROLINE DELISLE ★ MAY 25, 2020
As summer draws closer, we are starting to search for quarantine-friendly workouts that will have us looking and feeling our best when it’s time to dust off our bikinis. Chloe Ting, a health and fitness YouTuber currently grossing over eight million subscribers, has risen to fitness fame with her various workout challenges. From cardio to upper body toning, Chloe Ting has a workout plan for nearly every aspect of your fitness routine. We decided to investigate whether this fitness guru is really worth all the hype. We spent thirty-nine days of quarantine following two of Ting’s iconic workout challenges. Here are our thoughts!
We decided to start off with the two-week-long ab workout plan! Influencer Hannah Meloche tried it in March and documented her results on her YouTube channel and reported good results, boosting Ting’s popularity. The program does a great job of easing you into the workout plan, starting out light and eventually adding more workouts each day and upping the intensity. Something particularly great about Ting’s workouts is that you feel like your whole body is getting toned-up, not just your stomach. She incorporates upper and lower body workouts into her core routines, giving you an all-over burn. By the end of the workout series, we definitely noticed that certain exercises that were challenging in the beginning became much more doable. She counters your increasing strength with longer workouts to keep you challenged. Ting also includes active rest days with optional smaller workouts to make sure you don’t burn yourself out.
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Right after finishing up the ab program, we took on the 25 Day Hourglass Challenge! It helped that we did the former first, because the added core strength was definitely beneficial going into this new workout plan! These exercises target the inner thighs, glutes, core, and obliques. These workouts tend to be more time consuming, because you are working more areas of your body. Again, this workout plan gradually increases in difficulty and includes active rest days and optional extra workouts, allowing you to tailor it to your strength level as you feel yourself improving. Because it is paired with a lot of lower body work, the amount of time devoted to abs each day is less than in the Two Week Ab Shred Challenge. We would often add her extra core workouts to the prescribed daily regiments in order to keep up the burn and see results!
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Our final thoughts:
Overall, the regimen of Ting’s challenges is a great way to stay motivated and consistent with your workouts! As for complaints, Ting’s narration of the videos is pretty dry, and her background music can get repetitive after a while. We would recommend pairing her video visuals with your own music once you get the hang of the exercises! Having a clearly laid-out plan for the exercises you’ll be doing could be helpful for keeping you on track and motivated with your fitness goals. It is also helpful that Ting does all of the workouts with you via her YouTube videos, providing rests of varying length, a timer for each exercise, and even a graphic telling you how far into the workout you are and how much you have left. By the end of these 39 days, we felt and saw significant, positive changes!