Figure 8 Fitness Lower & Upper Body Sculpt Workouts - Thoughts

 Lower Body Sculpt and Upper Body Sculpt are DVDs eight and nine respectively in the Figure 8 Fitness System.  They both clock in at under 30 minutes and they both have a modifier to show a simpler version of the move.

Lower Body Sculpt uses your own body weight to get the job done. It features two tempos - the paso doble and the jive.  In the paso doble segments your are sculpting the muscle with squats, lunges, plies, and calf raises.  Of course Jaana adds her dance flair to each move.  In the Jive segments you are getting the heart rate up with cardio.

So essentially Jaana is alternating the paso doble tempo (sculpt) with the jive tempo (cardio) for a cardio leg workout.  Love this workout.

Upper Body Sculpt uses a band (tubing) to add resistance for the upper body.
After the warm up, Jaana takes you through a series of moves that work the five muscle groups of the upper body.

The exercises are:
Double Arm Rows (Single for modification)
Push ups
Double Arm Rows (Single for modification)
Narrow (Triceps) push ups
Lat Pull Down Right
Lat Pull Down Left
Standing Chest Fly with Crunches
Reverse Fly Set 1
Reverse Fly Set 2
Front Raise, Lateral Raise, Upright Row Set 1
Front Raise, Lateral Raise, Upright Row Set 2
Bicep Curl Left
Triceps Overhead Extension Left
Bicep Curl Right
Triceps Overhead Extension Right

I thought this was a nice little upper body workout. I didn't even mind the use of the band.  Probably can thank Jillian for that.

The music is up tempo and it is only used as background music.  For the most part, you are not working to the beat of the music.

Lower Body Sculpt - 4 & 1/4 stars
Upper Body Sculpt - 4 stars