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Cardio Leg Blast is disc 6 in Cathe' s Xtrain series. It is 56 minutes in length. This workout alternates cardio power leg exercises with strength leg exercises.  There are 12 rounds and you are pretty much moving from exercise to exercise.  You get brief rests as Cathe explains what is coming up next and as you are setting up for the next exercise by collecting or putting away your equipment. Dumbbells, Step with Three Risers, Dixie Cup and Firewalker Loop are the equipment used in this workout. There is not a countdown climber (which would have be nice in the Cardio section) but this workout does have the subtitles that tell you the exercise you are doing. The DVD has 20 premixes and four bonus workouts. I like this workout better than Disc 5 Legs 3 & 1/2 stars

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...

Super Cuts is disc 4 in Cathe's Xtrain series of workouts. It is almost 46 minutes in length and features a variety of equipment and exercises. The best part of the workout is that you really don't repeat an exercise.    However, the are some moves (mostly for the lower body) that you will do the exercise leading with one leg and then switch to the other. Tons of equipment:  Dumbbells, Slide N Glide Discs, Dixie Cups, Firewalker loop, and resistance tubing.  I a not a fan with working out with the tubing so some of those exercises I replaced with dumbbells. The workout really moves from one exercise to the next.  There are times when Cathe will take a bit of time to set up the next exercise by "demo-ing" the upcoming exercise.  For the most part, though, the exercises are back to back. I love the set.  The outside scenery is urban picturesque.    The music is okay, lots of vocals. gave the feeling that you were working ou...