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     Super Sculpt is a 30 Minutes to Fitness Workout led by Kelly Coffey Meyer. Along with Kelly, there are two other cast members.  Workout 1 is a split workout. The first 15 minutes is sculpting with light weight. The second 15 minutes is step.  Workout 2 and Workout 3 are tabata style workouts done in two groups of three rounds.  The rounds are band work, light dumbbell work and jump and/or step ups.  Within each round there are 8 segments. Usually the last segment, Kelly uses it as a rest cycle. Workout and workout 3 are the same except for the jump/step up rounds.  The DVD Menu Intro Workout 1 Workout 2: w / Step Jumps Workout 3: w/ Step Ups (special premix) Premixes      Drill & Step 1 (20 min)     Drill & Step 2 (20 min)     Quick Fix 1 (15 min)     Quick Fix 2 (15 min)     Quick Fix 3 (15 min)     Drill, Step, Drill (35 min)     Band & Bo...

Strong Body Stacked Sets:  Lower clocks in at just over 38 minutes.  This workout uses the giant sets concepts meaning you are doing several exercises back-to-back with very little rest.  Cathe calls this stacking the exercises one-on-top-of -the-other. In this workout, there are two rounds.  Each round contains 5 exercises. You do all 5 exercises and then repeat the grouping before moving to another group of five exercises. The workout moves fast. There is very little rest. I definitely had a cardio effect going on.  The rep count varies.  The equipment list include barbell and dumbbells.  Good soundtrack. DVD Menu Getting Started Play Chapters Basic Premixes  (total 6) Timesaver Premixes (total 6) Scrambled Premixes (total 5) Bonus (6 Pack ABS #1, Pyramid Pump Shoulder, Extended Stretch #1) Audio Settings 3 & 3/4 stars

Sculpting Rx by Kelly Coffey-Meyer is a 30-Minutes To Fitness DVD that contain two 30-minute sculpting workouts.  The DVD Menu Intro Workout 1 Workout 2 Premixes     Workout 1 & Workout 2 (60:35)     Workout 1: One Set of All Exercises (21:44)     Workout 2: No Cardio Core (26:57)     Workout 1 & 2: Intervaled Body Parts (38:46)     Cardio Core and Floor Finisher (18:45) Credits I did the Workout 1 & Workout 2 Premix and really I didn't care for combining the two. On their own, I think both are good sculpting workouts.  If you do the workouts separately, workout 1 clocks in at 35:55 and workout two at 30:44. Workout 1 is a sculpting workout with the emphasis on heavy lifting.  Essentially, you are doing three circuits. Each circuit consist of two body parts and you are doing three exercises per body part for 10 reps each.  First circuit you are working biceps and legs.  Second circui...

Slim Sculpting is one of Kelly fall 2014 workouts. The DVD offers the following menu options: Introduction Workout One Workout Two Premixes Credits Workout One and Workout Two share the same warm up but they each have their own cool down stretch. This is a Kettlebell workout that uses a Tabata format.  There are four rounds for each exercise. I believe we were doing each exercise for 30 seconds with a 15 second rest. There was not a clock down count which was a bummer. I did both workouts.  In workout two there is one move called the Plank Hold. Two of the cast members do this move with there hands on the floor. Kelly and another cast members hold there plank holding onto the kettlebell. I tried Kelly's version and crashed to the floor twice trying this move.  Kelly does state that she "does not expect everyone to do that version, she is just showing you want you can do if you are able" . Clearly I was not able. I had DOMS in my thighs and butt after this w...

The second workout on Discounts Workouts Advanced Strength Training Volume 1 Workout 2 clocks in at just under 60 minutes. It is lead by Jen and follows a similar pattern as workout 1. Many of the exercises are the same and Jen may very the rep pattern and number of sets as you proceed through the workout. This workouts uses mostly the barbell, but a pair of dumbbells, a step, and mat are also used. A little bit more about the DVD. You can select either workout 1 or workout 2.  That's it for your selection. The workouts themselves have 5 minute chapter points built in.  So you can jump around within the workout. However, doing so may land you right in the middle of a track. In other words each chapter point doesn't necessarily start at the beginning of each exercise. I like these workouts.  Solid sculpting, decent background music and Jen is pretty good. 3 & 3/4 stars

  FlexTrain is a mixture of compound metabolic high rep weight training and heavy weight work. It clocks in at just under 57 minutes.  The metabolic exercises move from one exercise to the next, whereas with the Heavy weight work, you are often doing these exercises for multiple sets so the workout slows a bit during this portion. Overall Cathe goes from exercise to exercise not resting much.  I created a worksheet for the exercises and most of them are traditional moves that we have seen before.  It is one of those workouts you can just jump in and do.  While I thought the music a bit funky, I did like this workout.   Speaking of the music, sometimes Cathe work with the beat and sometimes she did not. The workout has three premixes: Timesaver #1 - No Core/Abs 47:48 Timesaver #2 - No Disc + No Firewalkers 47:49 Timesaver #3 - No Disc + No Firewalkers + No Core/Abs - 39:00 Equipment used:  band, loop band, dumbbells, discs, mats 3 & 3...

30 Minutes To Fitness Body Shop consist of two 30 minute compound sculpting workouts.  The only equipment needed are a set of light and heavy dumbbells; and a mat. The DVD menu gives you the following options: Introduction Body Shop Workout #1 Body Shop Workout #2 Premixes Credits Music On/Off option There are nine premixes ranging in time from 16 minutes up to 62 minutes. For the most part, both workouts follow the same pattern.  Kelly does one compound  exercise for the upper body.  She follows this with one compound exercise for the lower body.   She then combines elements of both exercises into a super compound move working both the lower and upper body.  Usually you are doing several sets for the individual compound work but only one set for the super compound exercise.  It all adds up to lots of reps. Throughout both workouts, Kelly throws in dynamic body weight exercises that have a cardio element in between all the multi-joint e...

 Les Mills Pump and Shred clocks in at 45:43.  This workout is very similar to Pump and Burn,  except, this workout contains two extra sections. One for legs that feature a combination of the lunge and squat.  The other track is a shoulder track and that features a variety of shoulder exercises. There are seven instructors on stage with I think five different instructors alternating teaching the different tracks. There is a beginner modifier. During each segment you get a brief break towards the end of the track.  This allows you to make that final push to complete all the reps.  There are also built in breaks between tracks which allows you to change the weights and set up for the next exercise. Equipment used is a weighted bar and weighted plates.  A step is optional. I like the sound track in this one.  All the songs really seem to fit the vibe of the workout.  Fun and full of energy. There is a count down timer in the corner an...

Get Ripped is an approximately 55 minute sculpting workout. It features blocks that are based on either an exercise or a muscle group. Within the block the exercises are done back to back and you are doing several reps of each exercise. Within the squat section, you do traditional squats and plie squats. In the chest section, the exercises are push ups and chest press. Back - overhead pullover Triceps - Scull crushers and lying triceps press Lunges are done in the form of dips. Shoulder section contain lateral raise and frontal raise. I like this workout. The soundtrack is pretty good. Jari is quietly motivating and the exercises move at a nice pace. Along with Jari, there are three cast members. The cast members show variation by using either a different piece of equipment or either by modifying the exercise to make it harder or easier. Equipment - club step, dumbbells, barbell, exercise ball, stability ball, and mat.

30 Minutes To Fitness Your Best Body is a muscle endurance sculpting workout. The Main Menu of the DVD looks like this: Introduction Warm-Up Workout One Workout Two Yoga/Stretch Premixes Chapters Credits The reason I tend to post what the DVD menu looks like with Kelly's workouts is because vary rarely can you just push play. There is no "Play All". You need to select the warm up and after the warm up the DVD takes you back to the menu where you can select Workout One or Two. So there is a bit of choppiness with it. When you combine the warm up, one of the workouts and the yoga/stretch segment which serves as the cool down, the workouts are each over 40 minutes on their own An extra 10 minutes is too long for a workout that is suppose to be 30-Minutes. I have gripe about this before so I won't do it here. The Workouts: Both workouts are very similar to each other. There are five rounds. In each of the five rounds you work an upper body muscle group, the legs, ...

I am continuing my WAVE workout rotation with Speed Slimming Sculpt . This workout is 30 minutes and features Allie Del Rio as the instructor. This workout is classic FIRM sculpting. The only caveat being that they don't want you to go heavier than 8 lb dumbbells. Every muscle group is hit. The reps are relatively short and you are moving from exercise to exercise at a steady pace. The only time the pace gets interrupted is when Allie points out Wave specific instruction (i.e. how to mount the Wave, how your feet should be position - that type of stuff) or they are moving to a different segment. Allie does a good job in leading the workout. The music is decent. I really like the warm up. Some of the moves used in the warm up, I recognized from the cardio in Aerobic Body Shaping. As in all the WAVE workouts, you are working on both the stable side and the rocking side. The worksheet I have included breaks that down. I don't have a whole lot to say about this workout. It is sol...

This was another week of Amy Bento workouts. I had to do some substitutions. I was expecting to be doing Amy's two new cardio workouts, but they didn't arrive so I did Advanced Step Challenge 2 and Hi Lo Challenge instead. I absolutely love these two workouts. Both of these workouts are tops in their categories of Step and Hi Lo Aerobics. The music has so much energy that it drives you to keep going even when you are exhausted. I don't do either one of these workouts enough. I am sure that I have reviewed both of these workouts but here is a recap of what they consist of . ASC2 contains 5 step combinations. (Due to time, I only made it through combos 1 -4). Each of the combos are done with the step in the horizontal positions. The combos are athletic but intricate. I remember when I was first learning the routine, I would put the DVD player is slow playback so that I could walk through the moves. Once you get the moves down, that is when the fun really b...

I love Amy. I think she is so innovative in the way she creates her workouts. I cannot say enough good things about Amy's cardio. This week's cardio workouts featured Advanced Step Challenge 3 which I did on Tuesday and CIA 2805 Hi Lo Knockout which I did on Thursday. Now if I do have one beef with Amy's workouts is that they can be so long and I can never fit the whole workout in my allotted workout time which is usually an hour. For ASC3 I did the first four combinations before I ran out of time and with Hi Lo Knockout I did Premix number 4 which consist of the warm up, combos 3, knockout 3, combo 4, knockout 4 and the cool down. Both workout are super fun and full of energy. Now one of the things that I did notice with Hi Lo Knockout and starting with combo 3 as oppose to combo 1 is that the energy wasn't as high or maybe it was the beat in the music at that particular point didn't seem as driving. That, however, didn't last long. I got a super calorie...

Powersculpt is the second workout on Kelly Coffey-Meyer's 30 Minutes To Fitness LIFT workout. After the warm up, it is a non stop 30 minute sculpting workout using dumbbells. Kelly moves from exercise to exercise with precision and efficiency. In the introduction, she jokes (well she wasn't joking) "if you want a break, you will have to pause the remote" and you do. There might have been a brief reprieve as she went to change out weights but the changing out of weights was not done often and when it was done, it was quick. All of the moves were compound in nature and Kelly used the layer approach technique where she started with one move and then added another and sometimes another. So many of the exercises had up to 3 components. Kelly would do an exercise and then she would move on to what she called a "transition move" and then she would repeat the original exercise. That was the pattern for the whole workout. So some exercises you do twice and some only...

Power Hour is not my favorite Cathe total body workout. The only time I put this workout into the rotation is when I want some variety or my rotation needs an extra total body workout. This time around, I put this workout first up in the rotation because when I leave it towards the end, I usually end up substituting it for something else. I think one of the reasons I don't care for the workout is because of the warm up. I feel the warm up isn't a warm up because Cathe uses weights during the warm up song and goes right in to doing sculpting moves. Once you get pass the warm up, it's basically an okay workout with traditional sculpting moves. The only other section that bugged me was Song 7 Biceps. Cathe does one exercise for this whole section - barbell curl. I thought she could have added more variety here - like concentration curls, hammer curls - something. This is an endurance workout, so lots and lots of reps were performed per exercise. I don't think this is ...

My second 10 Minute Solution workout that I did in 10 minute intervals was Target Toning with Cindy Whitemarsh. The five 10 minute workouts are: Thighs Arms & Shoulders Buns Abs Power Stretch Overall, I thought all the workouts were pretty solid except for the Power Stretch workout. I was a bit disappointed in that workout. The other workouts featured traditional sculpting moves. Many of the moves were very basic and I would classify this as a basic workout. The only segment that uses weights is the Arms & Shoulder segment. Although the name for the segment is a misnomer because it does include back and chest work as well; and that impressed me that in 10 minutes I hit all 5 upper body parts. The Buns section left with with DOMS the next day and a couple of the thigh exercises were intense as well. The most irritating part of the workout is Cindy. She is pleasant enough and I know she is trying to be encouraging but how many times can you say "You Can Do It." S...

Cathe's Total Muscle Sculpting is part of Cathe's beginner to intermediate group of workouts.It is 30 minutes in length and uses a stability ball and 3lb hand weights. Of course you can go heavier with the weight and I did, but the workout is designed for those new to Cathe and new to exercise. With that said, Cathe uses similar moves and rep counts that you will find in her more advance workouts. You work all the major muscle groups including core. There does seem to be slightly more rest time in between the exercises which Cathe uses to stretch the muscle that was just worked. The tempo of the workout is such that you can go heavier with the weight and Cathe tells you to do just that if the workout becomes easier with 3 lbs. Cathe uses the stability ball for resistance during the leg exercises. On one set I put the stability ball down and grabbed 10lbs weights to increase the intensity. I liked the duration of this workout and one of the things about sculpting or weight ...

The FIRM's Bust and Butt is a 44 minute compilation workout taken from the FIRM Cardio (Power Cardio, Cardio Burn, & Maximum Cardio) series. This workout features Tamela Hastie, Dale Brabham, and Carissa Foster. This workout wasn't originally in my rotation, but after disparaging it a couple of weeks ago, I decided to add it in to see if my thoughts about it had change. Essentially it has not. The workout is okay. It seem much longer than the 44 minutes. It felt like there was a 100 different changes going on with all the switching between the different leads. And, because of all the switching which is very quick, it is a good idea to have all your weights and equipment set out to where you can easily access them. The sets are very short and the reps very quick. The basic pattern is that you will do 8 of something, switch to a different exercise and different piece of equipment and do 8 of something else and then come back to the first exercise. The FIRM typically...

This review is of Kelly Coffey-Meyer's 30 Minutes To Fitness Muscle Definition Workout 1 only. The last time I did this workout, I did one of the full body pre-mixes and while I like the workout, I felt the pre-mix was disjointed. In workout 1, which clocks in at 41 minutes and NOT 30 minutes, Kelly takes you through several compound joint exercises where all the major muscle groups of the upper and lower body are worked. There were a couple of exercises that even worked the core. After the warm up, Kelly started with shoulders, she then inserted a leg exercise, next came biceps, and then a bicep leg exercise. After biceps, Kelly worked your back. In the back exercise, Kelly has you doing this one arm row catch type of move. I did one set with Kelly. Then I started following Lauren (the modifier) for the next set of these. During the third set, I modified once again, this time doing just a traditional 1 arm row. Something about this exercise, just wasn't clicking with me...

I don't want to call Super Sculpting a compilation workout, but it is a splice workout or looks like it from the editing. This workout features Jen Carman, Nancy Tucker, Dale Brabham, and Carissa Foster. Jen and Dale lead you through upper body work and Nancy and Carissa lead you through lower body sets. My intent when selecting this workout was to use it as a heavy sculpt day and surprisingly I found it the tempo and reps to be to quick to go as heavy as I wanted to go. So I back off my weight a little bit. You can still go heavy, just not super heavy. I found the pace between each exercise quick. This is a workout where you will want to have your weight selections already laid out. I was late in starting a few of the exercise because I was gathering my equipment. The thing I probably like the least is the way the workout was splice together. Still a great sculpting workout though. 4 stars out of 5