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MM10 Power - Accelerate Metabolism is one of three DVDs in the Montenegro Method series and is lead by Marta Montenegro. The DVD contains 4 athletic style sports influence workouts. The workouts boast 10 exercises in 10 minutes. None of the workouts are 10 minutes. All the workouts clock in at between 12 and 14 minutes. This usually annoys me - when the makers (i.e. producers, instructor, lead) can't tell time but in the case of Marta's workouts I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt. What Marta is doing is actually giving you 10 exercises and each exercise you do for 1 minute or if you have two sides - 30 seconds per side. Accounting for all the transition between the exercises is why the workout goes longer than 10 minutes. All the workouts use weights/dumbbells except for workout 4. Workout 4 was my favorite section, followed by workout 3. The 4 workouts would make good add on workouts. I only felt I got a warm up in workouts 3 and 4. Mostly though all 4 workouts j...

Montenegro Method MM21 Endurance Burn Fat is led by Marta Montenegro. This workout DVD consist of three 21 minute circuit workouts. Each of the circuit workouts feature a series of approximately 6 exercises done three times through. As you move through the circuit, the exercise get progressively more challenging. For example the first time through you are only doing a series of side lunges, the second time through side lunges with a knee lift, the third time through, a side lunges with a leg lift. As you move from exercise to exercise, you are doing each exercise for a minimum of 30 seconds. On some exercises, you are doing a full minute. The point of the workout - hence the title - is to build endurance. ( Marta does this by doing lots of repetition .) What I didn't like about the workout - 1) There is not much of a warm up or cool down to speak of 2) And this is with any workout that has time mentioned in its title - "THE WORKOUT SHOULD BE THE TIME IT STATES IN THE TITLE...