Paul Katami Burn & Build - Thoughts

Burn & Build is a kettlebell workout featuring Paul Katami. This workout uses a high step which Paul often refers to as "the board". Along with Paul, there are three cast members. One cast member is modifying the moves and this person uses a dumbbell instead of a kettlebell.

The workout contains a warm up, seven exercise blocks and an ending stretch. At about 70 minutes, I thought the workout long. Like KettleBell Drills and KettleBell Kombos each exercise is timed. However in this workout the timed exercise are for 90 and 60 seconds. For instance the first two warm up exercises start off with a 90 second timed leg drill. The first two warm up exercises, you do not used the bell or the high step. The warm up is about 10 minutes.

Each of the seven blocks has a particular theme or focus. Cardio focus, core focus, strength & power focus are the predominate themes. You are doing each exercise in each block for 60 seconds. Each block is roughly 7 to 8 minutes. The board or high step is used as either a prop or to do some type of step up/step down move. Of the workout, I think the warm up, blocks 1, 2 and 7 are the hardest. I do like all the modified options that Paul shows with each exercise. For the most part, I did not try to stay in pace with the cast and Paul tells you in any given time drill that we can do something faster or slower than what the cast is doing.

The ending cool down starts off with a light jog and then moves into static stretching. Paul does not use the high step or kettlebell in the cool down.

Paul is a chatterbox. At one point, I thought "he needs to take a breath". He demonstrates a move that he tells you we should know because he showed it to us in the clinic. So one might ask then, "why does he need to go over it in the workout again?" Well probably because people like me don't often do the clinics, we just jump right in.
While his demonstrations didn't bother me in KB Drills and KB Kombos, in Burn & Build it did because this is a long workout; and as it is suppose to be a more advance than the other two, the demonstrations could have been left to the clinic. So yes, this DVD does include a Kettlebell Clinic workout and it is different than the clinic on KB Drills and KB Kombos. The DVD also includes a Core workout.

Back to Paul for a second, I think I have gotten use to the way he likes to stop and point out form. Although, I do think he does too much of this. I mean, he even did this in the cool down stretch segment. In Burn & Build the only time I got irritated with this is when he went back to join the cast members because a couple of times it appears he messed up their rep count causing them to try and get back in sync with him. Just not smooth at all.

The DVD is somewhat nicely chaptered. The main part of the workout is chaptered according to the blocks. So you can skip from block to block however within each block you cannot jump to an exercise. The chaptered blocks are better than nothing though. At least you can easily enough make the workout shorter. If I do this workout again, I would take out a block or two to get the workout under an hour.

Overall I think this is an okay workout. I don't love it but don't hate it either. Of his three KB workouts, this is my least favorite.
3 stars.