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The Best Back Strengthening & Stretching Exercises by Victoria Sarquisse's TangoFlex Method. This DVD includes workouts that are designed to strengthen and stretch  your back.  There are four main routines and one bonus routine.  All the workouts feature Victoria.  She is the only cast member.  The set is airy.  The music is faint and used as just background.   Victoria  takes you through each routine offering tips and suggestions. The workouts move slow. You are often holding a particular position or stretch for an extended length of time or you are doing a high amount of reps for a particular exercise. The DVD menu is a bit funky or at least when you go to choose a particular workout, it is. Several times I chose a workout I was not intending to choose. You can select Play All or you can select Choose Workout. Routine 1 - 22 minutes Routine 2 - 27 minutes Routine 3 - 17 minutes Routine 4 - 19 minutes Bonus Routine - 12 minutes A mat is...

  STS 2.0 Body Parts Back + Body Parts Bicep s DVD Menu - Body Parts Back     * Getting Started + Equipment     * Preview     * Play     * Bonuses     * Chapters - Body Parts Biceps      * Getting Started + Equipment     * Preview     * Play     * Bonuses     * Chapters - Premixes (There are 9 pre-mixes ranging in time from 28:52 to 86:08) - Audio Settings (Normal Mix or Vocals Only Mix) Body Parts Back clocks in at just over 42 minutes.  Equipment used includes a step/bench, dumbbells, STS bars, tubes, barbell, and mat.  In the warm-up, Cathes uses a tube and a set of dumbbells.  Cathe mixes barbells, dumbbells, tubing and body weight exercises in this workout. Between the weighted exercises, Cathe gives you a minute's rest.  Throughout the workout, Cathe or the cast shows variations for some of the exercises. Body Part Biceps clocks in at 37:30.  In ...

Low Impact Swea t is the second cardio workout that is part of Cathe's ICE Series.  The workout consist of two low impact workouts and when done in its entirety clocks in at just over 46 minutes. Cardio 1 Workout is floor based and uses a mat as a marker.  Cardio 2 Workout uses the step.  Cathe has two risers on her step and in both workouts for some of the exercises, she uses 3 and 5 lb dumbbells. Also, in both workout you are doing a series of moves; first with the right lead and then with the left lead. For the most part you are doing 16 reps per side for each exercise. There are exercises that have more than 16 reps. Cathe gives you a recovery period between each exercise. I like the step part of this workout more than the floor part. Speaking of which, Cathe does cool you down after the floor part before moving on to the step section. Low Impact Sweat has  seven basic premixes, sixteen timesaver premixes, and ten mishmosh premixes.  The bonuses ...

Back & Biceps is a 52 minute workout.  The cardio portion of the warm up is 2 & 1/2 minutes.  The stretch portion of the warm up is 6 & 1/2 minutes.   The pattern for this workout is two back exercises, followed by two bicep exercises. There are a total of 24 exercises with a water break after exercise 12. The exercises are time based. One thing to note about the time, when Tony has a left and right side to do, the times are not even. It is not just this workout; I notice the uneven times in other P90X workouts as well. As an example, the time will pop as :42 for the left and then for the same exercise it will show :44 for the right.  So when you see two times on the worksheet, that is why. The last exercise is a drop set bicep curl exercise and there are four rounds and thus four different times.  The majority of the exercises are pull ups or some form of it and bicep curls. The workout concludes with at 2 & 1/2 minute cool down. Equ...

This is my second week of P90X workouts and it starts with disc 5, Legs & Back . There are 22 exercises.  For every two leg exercises, there is one back exercise. So the pattern is - do two legs and then 1 back exercise. There are a variety of legs exercises but all the back exercises are pull up/chin up exercises. There is a cardio warm up followed by a stretch.  Then you move into the 22 exercises, each of which has a time associated with it. Sometimes you are doing as many reps as you can and at other times, Tony gives you an exact rep number he wants you to perform.  A stretch cool down concludes the workout. While I was sore after this workout and felt the challenge, I really didn't care for a lot of the exercises in this workout. The workout clocks in at around 59 minutes. Equipment used:  pull up bar,  bands, weights. 2 & 3/4 stars

Your Healthy Back is a specialty workout that is designed to increase the strength and flexibility of your back. The workout is right at 30 minutes.  During this 30 minutes, Kelly takes your through a warm up, about 12 exercises, and a cool down. For each of the exercises you are doing at least two sets for each lead side.  On some exercise, Kelly will alternate the moves for one set instead of doing a second set that concentrates on each side. The exercises Static lunge Airplane - There is a picture in picture (pnp)modification shown Side Leg Lift into Squat -  (pnp) modification shown Caterpillar - (pnp) Supermans Plank hold Side plank into  hip rotation (pnp) Bridge single leg thread under (pnp)  This was my favorite exercise. Crunches Table - single arm thread through Table - Opposite arm/leg extensions Round the spine Kelly is the only cast  member in this workout.  There is a picture in picture function that shows modificatio...

Chest, Back, & Shoulders is disc 1 in the Xtrain series.  I honestly don't know the purpose of numbering the disc especially when you can purchase the workouts individually.  Anyhow, this workout clocks in at just above 51 minutes. The workout starts with a warm up. The first 1/2 of the warm up, Cathe takes you through a series of dynamic moves that were upper body focus.  The second 1/2 of the warm up, you pick up a set up light weights and then you go through a series of exercises for the upper body. So there are eight rounds.  In each round you start with a Chest exercise, this is followed with a Back exercise and then lastly a Shoulder exercise.  Then you repeat this sequence for the remaining rounds however, each of the following rounds you are doing a different exercise. or sometimes it is the same exercise with a variation such as on a incline or with tubing instead of dumbbells. Equipment used:   Stability Ball, Mat, Dumbbells, and Resista...