Cathe Body Max Upper Body - Thoughts

This really isn't a premix. However, Body Max's Upper Body is a distinct section within the Body Max workout. The Body Max workout is the third workout on the Power Hour DVD.
This DVD is chaptered very well and it is easy to pull out just the Upper Body section in the Body Max workout and do it as a standalone workout.
This part of the workout clocks in at over 30 minutes and it is an endurance workout for the upper body. You need to have you weights handy because you are moving pretty rapidly from one exercise to the next. Within each set of exercises, Cathe may give you a 5 to 10 second break before you are back at it.
You are working chest, back, shoulders, biceps and triceps (in that order) and you are doing any where from 3 to 4 exercises per muscle group.
Because the DVD is so well chapter it is easy to tack on the warm up (which is about 8 minutes) and an ending stretch (which is about 4 minutes). This is how I do the workout. So my whole workout time ends up being about 45 minutes for this workout.
The workout uses, the club step, dumbbells, and a barbell.
It is a solid upper body workouts and Cathe doesn't have very many complete upper body workouts. She has a lot of parts or splits. To me this is better than a premix because you don't get all the stops and starts of a premix - in other words no choppiness.
3 1/2 stars