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Body Design is a long workout. I specifically schedule it for today because I knew that I would be off from work. It clocks in at 81 minutes, and I did all 81 minutes, and yes it felt that long. The DVD is chaptered so you don't have to do the whole workout or rather you have options to jump round and do what you want. The breakdown is : Warm up Design 1 - Lower Body Design 2 - Chest and Back Design 3 - Triceps and Biceps Design 4 - More Legs & Shoulders Design 5 Abs Cool Down. Now Patrick, tells you that you can pick and choose which sections to do, thus designing your own workout. I just think with the way he has it set up, it would be difficult to get a complete workout in. This is an interval workout and many of the sections contain some type of impact move. Squat thrust and mountain climbers both show up. A lot of the impact moves comes from moving on and off the step. Along with a step, Patrick uses a body bar for sculpting and balance moves. For most of the worko...

MM10 Power - Accelerate Metabolism is one of three DVDs in the Montenegro Method series and is lead by Marta Montenegro. The DVD contains 4 athletic style sports influence workouts. The workouts boast 10 exercises in 10 minutes. None of the workouts are 10 minutes. All the workouts clock in at between 12 and 14 minutes. This usually annoys me - when the makers (i.e. producers, instructor, lead) can't tell time but in the case of Marta's workouts I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt. What Marta is doing is actually giving you 10 exercises and each exercise you do for 1 minute or if you have two sides - 30 seconds per side. Accounting for all the transition between the exercises is why the workout goes longer than 10 minutes. All the workouts use weights/dumbbells except for workout 4. Workout 4 was my favorite section, followed by workout 3. The 4 workouts would make good add on workouts. I only felt I got a warm up in workouts 3 and 4. Mostly though all 4 workouts j...