Montenegro Method MM10 Power - Thoughts

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 just jump right into the moves.

Some exercises are more challenging than others but I thought the main emphasis of the workout was building muscular endurance.

You can try to keep up with Marta's rep count and tempo, but essentially I thought you were really working against time.

If fact I think Marta should have added a countdown clock to the workout so you could tell how long you had to do a certain move.

Marta wasn't counting out reps so you are waiting for her to call time.

I felt there is a "deadness" to the workouts - no life. This is the type of workout that you know is good for you to do but you dread doing.

3 stars out of 5.

You can click on the worksheet for a larger view of the exercises included in each workout.