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Get Lean by Shape contains four individual workouts that all clock in at around 22 minutes or less. The instructor for this workout is Yumi Lee.  In each workout, Yumi demonstrates levels or progressions that show how to make the workout easier or harder. Each of the workouts features two modifiers. One modifier shows beginner moves. The other modifier is showing advance moves. Yumi is performing the intermediate moves. The DVD offers the following options: Program Intro - Yumi Lee Cardio Fat- Burning Total-Body Sculpting Metabolism Boost Abs Express Routine Interview Cardio Fat Burning clocks in at over 22 minutes.  Yumi leads you through a kickboxing combination followed by a cardio interval. Moves are perform on the right, you do a cardio interval, and then perform the moves on the left. Yumi teaches each move in slow motion. I actually found this annoying because I thought she performed too many reps at the slow pace. Once the tempo pick up, you do perform ...

Sh'Bam #22 is an on-demand 30 minute workout.  This workout has been dubbed "Cardio in Disquise" and the presenters are Rachael Newsham and Tauvaga Benjamin Siolo. The Tracks are: That's What I  Like - 3:09 Whoomp (Supadupafly) - 3:02 Worth It - 3:40 Shawty Get Loose - 3:26 Firestarter - 3:07 Fist Pump, Jump, Jump - 3:41 Blow Me One Last Kiss - 4:46 You Don't Own Me This one was okay. Not my favorite but there were some good parts. My favorite segments were Worth It and Firestarter.   Rachael is always fun and Tauvaga was good to as a presenter too. 3 & 1/2 stars

Amped-Up Cardio 30-Minutes To Fitness DVD contains the live workouts that Kelly filmed at her Fitness Conference she had this past spring. The DVD contains two 30 minute workouts that are similar in nature. Both workouts share the same warm up.  There is a mixture of boxing, athletic cardio , plyometric drills and floor based plank core moves The DVD offers the following options: Workout One Workout Two Premixes     Combined Workouts (56:05)     Combined Workouts - No Drills (43:41)     Workout One - No Drills (23:09)     Workout Two - No Drills (23:51)    All Drill (21:48) Credits I did the combine workout and it was challenging. Mostly because of the floor based drills that occurred right after doing the plyometric drills.  Most of the drills you are performing twice through.  Some of the drills are butt kickers, squat shuffle heel kicks. squat thrust (burpees) , and plank jacks. T...

Saw this workout in Walmart and decided to pick it up to keep with the country theme workouts I have been doing this month. Zumba Country stars Kass Martin as the lead.  There are four other cast members hanging out with Kass in the Zumba Country workouts.  The DVD contains two workouts and offer the following options. Crazy Country     Voice On     Voice Off Burn it Up      Voice On      Voice Off Crazy Country is 32 minutes in length and features the following tracks: Cotton Eye Joe A Good Man Little Miss Honky Tonk Devil Went Down To Georgia Bubba Shot The Jukebox Something That I like About a Honky Tonk Sin Wagon Eatin' My Heart Out Waterfall Burn It Up  clocks in at around 28 minutes and features the following tracks: Hey Doctor Tie It Up Make You Mine I Play Chicken With The Train All American Country Girl Long Way To Go Hold My Hand If I were to compare these w...

Dance Mash-Up is the bonus workout that came with the base Country Heat system.  Dance Mash-Up clocks in at just over 19 minutes.  This workout includes Autumns favorite moves from the previous routines. The format is the same. Autumn teaches two moves and then combines those moves before moving on to the next group of moves. The workout concludes with a 2-minute cool down. I think I forgot to mentioned in the other workouts is that the Country Heat series does include a modifier in all the workouts. Dance Mash Up  - 3 stars Overall opinion of the whole series.  All the routines were very easy to follow and do.  I like the fact that all the workouts were around 30 minutes or less.  It makes the system a great way to get 30 minutes of cardio in or to get your steps in for the day. There is not much variety.  The routines seemed pretty much the same across the board and there is a good bit of repetition within each routine. Autumn and the...

Country Heat Disc 3 contains:      Dance Routine 5 - Trail Ride      Dance Conditioning Workout      Bonus: Night Crawl      Bonus:  21 Day Fix - Dirty 30 Dance Routine 5, Trail Ride, clocks in at under 26 minutes.  The tempo has picked up in this routine.  I believe Autumn introduces 3 or 4 new moves in this workout, otherwise, the  moves are repeats from the other dance routines.  Autumn uses the same format in this routine as her other dance routines. Dance Conditioning workout is a 24-minute workout that combines the dance cardio moves that Autumn has introduce in the other Country Heat workouts with  body toning moves.  In this workout, you are simply "following along" with Autumn. She will call out a move, You did it for a few counts and then you move on. Night Crawl is just under 3 minutes. And really, in my opinion, it is the only routine where I felt...

Country Heat Disc 2 features the routines Down and Dirty and Bring The Heat. Down and Dirty clocks in at just over 27 minutes.  This workout follows the same pattern as the first two workout but about half way through, the tempo increases and you are performing the moves at a faster paste. Some moves that were in routines 1 and 2, show up here. There is a cool down. The cool down occurs at the 2:35 mark of the workout. Bring the Heat clocks in at under 28 minutes.  The same teaching pattern is used in this workout to teach the routine. Autumn introduces one move - she will tell you to watch her and after she shows you the move, you perform the move 8 times through. She then tells you to watch her perform the second move and then you perform this move 8 times. Autumn will then demonstrate how she wants you to combine both moves and then you will do the combine move 4 times before moving on to the next group of moves.  Bring the Heat's cool down occurs at the 2:12...