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10 Minute Solution Pilates Perfect Body is lead by Suzanne Bowen. The five 10-minute workouts are: Pilates Perfect Belly Pilates Perfect Buns & Thighs Pilates Perfect Arms Pilates Perfect Silhouette Pilates Perfect Stretch Pilates Perfect Belly is your ab/core workout.  Suzanne starts this series with breath work.  This is followed by c-curve, pilates 100, upper crunch, rock crunch, criss cross, cork screw series, crossing stretch series, plank drop up dog, and grass hopper. Pilates Perfect Buns a nd Thighs was my favorite workout on the DVD.  The exercises:  side series (up down leg lift, posse, three point, crab legs leg lift,  hamstring, circles, inner thigh series) bridge series (single leg lift, static leg lift, pulse up) and kneeling hip circles. Pilates Perfect Arms uses a set of light weights.  The exercises here are shoulder shrugs, arms lifts, side circle arms, hug the tree, scissors, front raise, triceps into front raise, a...

10 Minute Solution Slim & Sculpt Pilates is lead by Suzanne Bowen.  This workout utilizes a resistance band in all the segment and each segment actually clocks in under that 10-minute mark. The workouts are: Lower Body Pilates Upper Body Pilates Pilates for Abs Total Body Pilates Pilates for Flexibility Lower Body Pilates started off with some hamstring stretching and then move into the following exercises typically alternating lead legs:  single leg work, frog, side leg lift, 3-point lift, inner thigh, donkey kick, reverse plank leg lift and bridge pulse. Upper Body Pilates   workout packed in a lot in 10 -minutes. You perform the following moves:  shoulder circles, zip ups, bug, boxing, bicep curl and hold, straight arm back lift, lat raise, circle front and back, draw the sword. paint under the stairs, bicep press up, chest press, and beach ball press. Exercises in Pilates for Abs include Pilates 100, roll down, oblique roll down twist, roll l...

10 Minute Body Transformation 2nd Edition by Jillian Michaels is very similar in concept to Jillian's first 10-minute workout DVD. The DVD Menu : Workouts Workout Recommendation Set Up More From Jillian You will find the workouts on this DVD listed under workouts and they are: Warm Up HIIT/Plyo Hard Core Animal Style Lift Yoga: Stretch & Strengthen Cool Down The warm up and cool down are around 2 and 1/2 minutes each.  Each of the workouts clocks in at just under 11 minutes. In HiiT/Plyo you are doing 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of recovery. The moves are Squat Jack, Rock Star Burpee, Long Jump Hop Back, Sumo Scissor Hops, Star Jumps, Jumping Lunges, Knee Touch Jumps, 180 Touch Down, Side to Side Jumps and Skater Hurdles.  You repeat all exercises for a second set. Hard Core is an ab focus and core workout.  There are 9 exercises:  (1) lunge psoas stretch, (2) standing crunch/cross crunch, (3) boat sprawls, (4) V ups, (5) plank taps,...

Jillian Michaels 10-Minute Body Transformation workout contains five 10-minute routines plus it include a 2 & 1/2 minute warm up and cool down. The five workouts are : Calisthenics Kickbox Blast Booty Boot Camp Pilates Power Cardio Burn Calisthenics is a body weight workout that actually clocks in at around 11:30.  Jillian does 9 exercises for approximately 30-seconds.  She repeats the exercises for a second set. The exercises are Lunge Lunge Squat Ninja Jumps Blast-off Push ups Supermans Rolling Bear Front Kick Shooters Plyometric Thrusters Dips Wheel Press Up Kickbox Blas t is a kickboxing and mix-martial arts inspired workout. In this workout, Jillian takes you through several kicking and punching combinations. You do each combination for 30 seconds. After doing each combination once, you repeat the whole series for a second set.  Jillian does not change lead sides during the second set. Booty Boot Camp clocks in at just over  11...

Thin In 10 is a workout DVD that accompany The Thin In 10 Weight-Loss Plan book written by Jessica Smith and Liz Neporent. This DVD contains five roughly 10-minute plus workouts. The DVD Menu Introduction Cardio Quickie Strength Shot Total Body Band Core Conditioning Stretch & De-Stress Play All Cardio Quickie is an interval workout that alternates 40 seconds of low intensity movement with 20 seconds of a higher intensity of work.  At the lower intensity Jessica says you should strive to be at around a level 6 and for the higher intensity move strive for an 8 level of effort. The moves in this workout are: 1. Side to Side Hop Through + Reach for It 2. Single arm swim arms + Double arm swim arms 3. Walk forward & back +  Run in place 4. Step Punch Front + Scissor Jacks 5. Figure 8 Lunge + Figure 8 Skate Strength Shot is a strength workout that uses your body weight for resistance.  Jessica  recommends a mat for the floor segment. You ar...

On the Go Workouts  is a DVD containing workouts featuring Michelle Dozois. Michelle takes you through six 10-minute workouts. The workouts do not come with their own warm up, however Michelle does do some brief stretching at the end of a few of the segments. The DVD Menu: Play All Intro Warm Up Guide 01 Cardio HiiT #1 02 Cardio HiiT #2 03 Upper Body Blast 04 Lower Body Blast 05 Core on the Floor 06 Flow & Release The Warm Up Guide presents you with six different movements in the form of pictures. Michelle tells you to perform each of the moves in order for 30 seconds.  Once you feel warm, you can start any one of the workouts. There is also a Mix it Up Guide that comes with the DVD. This guide shows you how to create premixes out of the six workouts. The mixes range in time from 20 minutes to 60 minutes. During the HiiT workouts and Upper Body Blast, you are performing each exercise for about 45 seconds and then Michelle gives you a rest. She is usually ex...

This is my first walking working with Jessica Smith. I have done some of her previous workouts. Most of her workouts of late though have been based around walking and her Walk On/Strong programs. 10 Minute Quick Walk Mix contains six 10-minute plus workouts and each workout has a different emphasis. The workouts are: Power Up Walk Steppin Strength Walk Happy HiiT Walk Dance Walk Abs & Arms Walk Buns & Thighs Bonus:  Chair Stretch In each of the workouts, there is a beginner and advance modifier. Jessica does the intermediate workout.  Each of the workouts feature a 10-minute countdown clock.  However, the clock appears after the workout has started and disappears before the workout is over. So each of  the workout is a bit more than 10 minutes. Power Up Walk features a series of boxing moves along with traditional athletic moves. Stepping Strength Walk uses a set of weights. Jessica adds various weighted exercise moves as she continues to ...

Give Me 10 More! is a follow up to Amy Dixon's Give Me 10!.  The "More" version is very similar to the first. The workout come with six self-contained 10 minute workouts.  Each of the workout  include its own warm up and cool down. The DVD offers the following option: Play All - clocks in at 1 hour and 12 minutes Fat Blasting Cardio - 11:04 Total Body Shred - 11:56 Lower Body Chisel - 10:43 Upper Body Sculpt - 11:28 Core Makeover - 12:50 Dynamic Stretch & Flex - 14:11 Fat Blasting Cardio features a series of athletic cardio moves. Amy introduces the sequence with a low impact version and then she does the same or similar move showing impact.  You do the move on the right and then on the left.  This workout was okay. I didn't like the moves chosen as much as I did in the other Give Me 10 workout. Total Body Shred uses two sets of dumbbells and almost all the moves build upon the previous move and are compound in nature.  I like this w...

Amy Dixon Give Me 10! features six 10 minute workouts each dedicated to a specific purpose. Fat Blasting Cardio was probably my favorite of the bunch. It contains two cardio series that feature basic athletic moves set to  fast tempo high energy music. You do each series twice through changing the lead side the second time through. The second 10 minutes is dedicated to Upper Body Sculpt . Amy does throw in some lower body isolation moves with some of the upper body moves. The exercises are: 1.  Bicep Curl with Plie hold 2.  Triceps dip into table top 3.  Cobra 4.  Lateral raise with rotation 5. Single Arm Shoulder Press 6.  Plank with front raise 7.  Push ups Workout 3 is Lower Body Firmer and this was a favorite workout as well.   Exercises in this segment include: 1. Standing Squat Hip Thrust 2.  Lunge Series 3.  Reverse Lunge Series 4.  Wide Dead Lifts 5.   Single Leg Squat 6.  Plie Series...

Cardio Dance Express contains six 10- minute mini dance routines led by Tracy Anderson.   You can choose to Play All or you can choose any of the individual dances. The segments are: Basic Steps Dance Vitality Cardio Party Sweat Fest Calorie Blast Dance Intensity Each of the dances follow a similar pattern. Tracy starts off with an arm warm up and some briefing stretching. This might take the first two minutes of each segment. Then Tracy teaches a mini combo that last for about 5 to 6 minutes. Next, she free styles for a minute or two before taking you into the cool down stretch. As you go into each interval, Tracy takes a moment or two to briefly tell you what interval you are on. Just some notes .  The mini combos contain around six moves that you learn in a layered pattern and then repeat for the 5 to 6 six minutes.  Sweat Fest includes moves you learned in Basic Steps, Dance Vitality and Cardio Party. There is quite a bit of impact in all of the d...

Method Express contains six workouts that are all around the 10 minute mark.  Tracy has you use your own body weight,  ankle weights, and hand weights to train the muscles. She uses a variety of positions such as standing, kneeling, prone, supine, all-fours, and lying side to work various areas of the body.  Most of the exercises had a rep count of either five reps or 10 reps.  There were a couple of exercises in the leg workouts that contain more reps.  For the most part, Tracy counts out the reps as she performs each rep. The cuing was pretty decent. Throughout the workouts, when Tracy would complete an exercise, she will tell you "good job".  She does this quite a bit. The music is mostly background music. In Upper Body Express, the music goes completely off three times.  So you just hear Tracy's voice.  Overall, I really like the individual workouts.    There is an option to Play All and if you do that, the workout is 60...