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Disc 3 from KCM's Build & Burn offers the following DVD options: Intro Trim and Tone Intervals Premix Credits The Intro also appears on disc 1 and disc 2 and it is a one minute and 39 seconds in length. Trim and Tone Intervals is the workout and it clocks in at 24:35.  Kelly slows down the tempo in this workout quite a bit. You are performing most of the moves in a very control manner.  This workout alternates cardio athletic moves with weighted dumbbell moves. You are doing all moves for two sets.  Kelly does offer variation on some of the moves. There are two premixes on this DVD: Cardio Only (14:48) Dumbbells Only (15:06) Trim and Tone Intervals - 4 stars 

Disc 2 of KCM's Build & Burn workout system features Lower Body Tabata and Kettle Bell Kickbox fusion. Lower Body Tabata clocks in at 26:31and uses a pair of dumbbells and a band.  There are some exercises where you use your own body weight. After the warm up, you move into the workout where you are doing each exercise for 20 seconds.   Each move is repeated for four sets.  Rest are kept to a minimum. Kettle Bell Kick Box Fusion clocks in at 26:14.   Kelly alternates kettle bell moves with kick box moves.  All moves are performed for 30 seconds and for 2 sets. On many of the moves, prior to the move starting Kelly counts you in with a 4, 3, 2, count. Throughout the workout, Kelly offers tips and modifications you can do. There are two other cast members but no one is really showing any modifications.  Super up tempo music in this one.  You can uses a dumbbell in place of a kettle bell. Disc 2 contains 10 premixes ranging in time from 1...

Disc 1 of Build & Burn features two workouts. They are Cardio Core and Upper Body Superset. Cardio Core clocks in at 27:39 and it features an optional step.  Kelly alternates  cardio moves with core based moves. All the core moves are functional and/or body weight exercises.  The cardio moves are athletic in nature. With each move you doing two sets of 30 seconds on and 10 seconds off. There are two other participants. The participants show various modifications throughout. Upper Body Supersets   contains two exercises per body part.  You are performing each move for three sets and you are doing 8 rep per set.  The workout starts with shoulders and then moves on to biceps, triceps, chest and back.  After back, Kelly takes you through 4 rounds of a 30-second burnout.  This workout clocks in at 26:20. The workout uses a bench and variety of dumbbell. There are 8 premixes on this DVD that range in time from 14:38 to 30:13. Cardio Co...

Build & Burn is Kelly Coffey-Myers first workout system.  Building on her 30-Minutes To Fitness workouts, Kelly develop 5 workouts on 3 DVDs.  Each workout is less than 30 minutes. Each DVD comes with many premix options. Build & Burn also comes with a 7 day meal plan. I really like the set for this group of workouts.  The set is clean, crisp and bright.  I also enjoyed the music in all the workouts. I will review the workouts in a separate blog post.

Disc 4 of Jessica Smith's Walk Strong 6 Week Total Transformation System contains your recovery and flexibility workouts.  The first workout is Dynamic Stretch . This workout is a slow moving total body stretch workout. I thought this workout was more of a static isolation stretch workout than a dynamic stretch workout. There are parts where Jessica includes some flow type movements but there is not a lot of it. The first 15 minutes of the workout is standing and the second half of the workout is floor based.  A mat and towel are used in this workout. The second workout is Prehab Routine .   This workout uses a chair, towel and mat.  Jessica states that this workout is focused on working the joints.  This is a total body workout that hits all the muscle groups that normally don't get worked out.  Jessica methodically moves through various rotating, stretching, and range of motion type exercises.  She starts with the neck and moves on to the...

Disc 2 of Jessica Smith's Walk Strong 6 Week System include the following workouts:  360 Abs, Brain Fitness Fun, and Barefoot Fusion Sculpt. 360 Abs starts off by doing approximately 10 minutes of cardio.  After the cardio, Jessica picks up a single weight for the toning segments.  There is a standing segment and a floor segment. A mat is also used. Brain Fitness Fun is a 30-minute steady state cardio workout that adds in brain teasers. The brain teasers come in the form of using multiple limbs in opposite ways at the same time. Jessica takes you through multiple mini-combos that she repeats before moving on to a different set up brain teasers.  Throughout the Brain Fitness Fun workout, there are pop up messages that display various tips and information about the brain and how fitness enhances brain functionality. Barefoot Fusion Sculpt is a ballet inspired sculpting workouts.  Jessica uses compounds moves that she repeats twice through for mo...

Disc 3 of the 6 Week Total Transformation System is your sculpt and strength DVD. This DVD contains three workouts.  The workouts are: Total Body Training Upper Body Strength Lower Body Sculpt Total Body Training combines upper and lower body movement.  Almost all moves are compound in nature.  Jessica uses a set of heavy and light dumbbells. For most exercises you are doing the moves twice through changing the lead side.  On some exercises, Jessica will add variation to the move.  So usually the leg part of the exercise is the same but the arms might be different. Upper Body Strength also uses two sets of weights.  It includes exercises for the five upper muscle groups plus abdominal exercises. Most of the exercises are isolation exercises and you are doing two sets. Lower Body Sculpt consist of a mixture of compound and isolation exercises. There are also standing and floor based exercises. Along with using two sets of dumbbells, this wo...

Disc 1 of Jessica Smith's Walk Strong: The 6 Week Total Transformation System includes a Welcome to the Program and two cardio workouts. Workout 1 is Cardio Party and along with Jessica there are six cast members.   Jessica states that some of the cast members are community members.  Cardio Party is a steady state cardio workouts with more of a dance flair.  There is a variety of musical rhythms and genres.  Jessica does quite a bit of clapping in this workout. Jessica always takes you back to the base move of walking in place. She then tells you what you are going to do and then you do it. This workout does not really have a warm up but it does have a cool down stretch. Interval Mix is a high energy walking and functional strength (in the form of planks) workout.  In Interval Mix, Jessica takes you through four interval rounds.  Within each round, Jessica increases the intensity as she progresses through the round. Starting with a power walk,...

Jessica Smith Walk Strong 6-Week Transformation System consist of ten 30 minute workouts on four discs. Disc 1 contains an eight minute Welcome to the Program segment.  Jessica also includes two written pamphlet. One pamphlet welcomes you to the program and includes ten tips on how you can get the most out of the program. The other pamphlet unfolds into a 6-week wall calendar. I will review the workouts in a separate post, but all workouts include a beginner modifier and a count down clock

December 2017 Monthly Rotation I am going to try to do a better job at getting the reviews out this month than I did last month. The workouts that I did not do, I will try to do them as add-ons sometime this month if there is time which hopefully there will be as I built in an extra rest day. For December, we have Jessica Smith Walk Strong 1. I just got Walk Strong 3 in the mail so figure I needed to do Walk Strong 1. Although, I guess it does not matter much as I have already done Walk Strong 2. The other DVDs I have on tap are a couple from Essentrics, Michelle Dozios new one and a few yoga workouts. Almost all workouts are around the 30 to 35 minute mark. This year has flown by and I am guessing this month will not be any different. Happy Exercising Everyone.