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Tracie Long's Figure 30 Hips Volume 1 is a 30 minute workout.  According to the back cover, it features "a series of athletic and ballet inspired movements that complement the way your hips move, work and play". There is some ballet movement but mostly I felt like it was more athletic based in natured than ballet.   The workout breaks down as follows: Warm up - 5 minutes High Cardio Hips - 10 minutes Sliding Ankle Weighted Hips - 10 minutes Stretch - 5 minutes. I tried this workout before but I could never get passed the warm up.  The warm up requires a bit of thinking and focus. The moves are a bit unusual. There are balance moves that require you to stand on one leg and circle the other leg.  A lot of the moves required a stable core.  I was doing quite a bit of wobbling. High Cardio Hips can be characterized by lots of hurdles, lunges, a great deal of balance work, and split  jumps.  Lots of track and field influences in this workouts....

21 Day Fix targeted workouts DVD consist of two workouts, one for the abs and one for the legs. Both are 30 minutes workouts and feature a modifier. These workouts are part of the Ultimate Upgrade Package. Flat Abs Fix is the targeted AB workout.  This workout does not contain a warm up or cool down.  After a brief introduction, Autumn jumps right in.  You are working the abs from all angles - standing, prone, supine, lying side and seated. There are twelve exercises.  Autumn does two exercises and then she repeats them before moving on to the next two.  In several of the exercises, you start the exercise on one side working for 30 seconds before switching to the other side for the last 30 seconds.  The rest are between 16 and 27 seconds so the rest vary. The equipment used is a single dumbbell and a mat. Barre Legs is the second targeted workouts.  This workout uses the same warm up as many of the other 21 Day Fix workout.  This workout...

Plyo Fix is a "bonus" workout that comes with the 21 Day Fix system. This workout clocks in at 31:20.  It follows a similar format as some of the other 21 Day Fix workouts.  In Plyo Fix, you do six rounds.  Each round consist of two exercises that you repeat twice before moving on.  You do each exercise for about a minute. You do get a rest between each exercise and the rest vary from 20 to 39 seconds.  As this is a "plyo" workout, all moves contain some type of hopping or jumping move. However, there is a modifier for each exercise. Not bad.  3 & 1/2 stars

Disc 2 of teh 21 Day Fix contain the following workouts: Cardio Fix Dirty 30 Yoga Fix 10 Minute Fix for Abs . Cardio Fix and Dirty 30 contain the same warm up moves as Total Body Cardio Fix, Upper Fix, and Lower Fix.  The moves are jog in place, jumping jacks, windmills, side stretches and toe touches. Cardio Fix and Dirty 30 has the same format as those workouts where you are performing the exercises in rounds that you repeat. Yoga Fix is similar to the Pilates Fix workout where you perform exercises as a series of moves.  10 Minute Fix For Abs is also performed in rounds. With this workout you jump right in and it is none stop until the workout is over. Autumn works out with us for the first round and during the second round she gets up to coach the participants. There is a modifier for each workout. There is a music off options. One thing I forgot to mention is that each workout has an Equipment Needed page that tells you what equipment you need for th...

Disc 1 of the 21 Day Fix Workout System features the following workouts: Total Body Cardio Fix Upper Fix Lower Fix Pilates Fix 10 Minute Fix For Abs Overall, all workouts follow a similar pattern which is a series of rounds containing two exercises each and you repeat the round before moving on.You perform each exercise for roughly a minute and you get a 15 to 20 second rest between the exercises. Also, like most Beachbody systems, each workout contains the countdown timer in the lower right corner.  These workouts also contain subtitles that tell you which exercises you are doing and it tells you for how long and/or how many reps.  Love this feature. Total Body Cardio Fix , Upper Fix , and Lower Fix contain the same warm up moves and cool down moves.  Roughly the warm up and cool down runs around 3 minutes per workout.  Also all three of these workout use weights.  Pilates Fix is made up of a series of exercises as oppose to rounds.  Depend...

 21 Day Fix is a Beach Body System that was put together by Autumn Calabrese.  It is comprises of a series of 30 minutes workout and an eating plan that promotes portion control.  To help with the portion control, the systems comes with color coded containers of various size that you are suppose to use to help with the nutrition aspect of the program. With the 21 Day Fix Workout System you get a Start Here Guide which is just a sheet of folded paper.  The guide contains eight individual sections.  There is a mini calendar that tells you which workout to do.There is  a workout breakdown that introduces each workout. There is a "what you need to do" section and an transformation tracker where you can record your before and after stats. The systems also comes with a 3 Day Quick Fix guide which is more nutrition focused that workout focuses.  It gives you a daily meal plan to follow that details what you should eat at each meal.  You used th...

Lean Body Circuits is a 30 Minute To Fitness Kelly Coffey Meyer Spring 2015 release. It features two 30 minutes interval style workouts and both workouts follow the same format. The format is cardio, boxing, lower body, and upper body.  With this format the first two intervals or circuits are high intensity and then the workout slows down a bit when you pick up weights to execute the lower and upper body exercises. Along with Kelly there are four cast members.  There is a modifier.  Also, the voice is back.  The voice calls time when you are nearing the end of the exercise and it is time to move on.  Kelly is having a great time in this workout. Love her energy and enthusiasm.  The DVD Menu: Introduction Workout One Workout Two Premixes Credits There are tons of premixes in this one: Combined Workouts (52 minutes) this is the workout I did Lean Body Weights (27 min) Lean Body Cardio (33 min) Lean Body Hi-Lo (20 min) Lean Body Boxing (20 ...

30 Minutes To Fitness  Cardio Pump is a Kelly Coffey Meyer Spring 2015 release.  Cardio Pump features two 30 minutes workouts. Workout one is a cardio boxing workout that clocks in at 30 minutes.  Kelly extended her cast for this.  Besides Kelly, there are seven cast members. I really like this one.  The music is upbeat and high tempo and full of energy that doesn't feel forced.  The combinations flowed really well together and felt seamless.   There is a kickboxing element to the workout, although I will say there is more boxing than kicking. Workout two is Pump.  It has the same cast as Workout One and it clocks in at just under 33 minutes.  This workout shares the same warm up as Workout one.  In Pump, Kelly takes your through each body part.  There are three exercises per body part and you do each exercise for one set for around a minute.  Workout Two is quite a bit slower in tempo and energy than Workou...