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Signature Series Vol. 1 is a 50 minute workout led by Tracie Long.  The workout is broken down into three segments. 1. Mobility Exercises 2. Weights & Cardio 3. Floor work & Stretch The workout starts with 15 minutes of mobility work. Some exercises are performed standing and some, you are lying on the floor. This segments features range of motion exercises for the spine and hip area.  You really just jump right into this segment and I did not feel quite warmed up for some of these moves. The next segment is Weights & Cardio. In this segment, Tracie includes lots of multi-component compound moves.  In almost all exercises you are working the upper and lower body at the same time. Towards the end of this segment, there is a cardio focused segment where you are dong a bit of jumping. The floor work segment contains a lying side leg lift/ shootout series.  In this series. Tracie uses ankle weights.  This is followed by core and plank work. ...

  Butts & Guts is a 77 minute workout that focuses on the butt (lower body area) and guts (abdominal core area).  Not a great workout title name in my opinion. The workout is divided into a standing section, floor workout section and an abdominal section.  The floor work section is further divided into floor work using the stability ball and floor work using ankle weights. The standing section consist of essentially two rounds of doing the same group of exercises.  The reps are fairly high.  The standing leg portion is approximately 32 minutes in length.  The floor work is about 20 minutes. I did not do the abs segment but that segment clocks in at 14 minutes. The DVD also features four bonus segments which are: Stability Ball Abs Sit N Stands Leg Press Glutes Squeezes The DVD also contains the following premixes: Standing Glutes & Ab Timesaver 49.5 minutes Overall Legs 65 minutes Leg Blast 47.5 minutes Floor Work & Abs 5...

Cathe Legs & Glutes is probably my favorite Cathe Lower Body Workout. It clocks in at about 51 minutes. It uses the high steps, dumbbells, barbell (but just for balance - I used my dowel), and ankle weights. It also uses no weights or your own body weight for several exercises. Many of the exercises have a cardio factor to them. I was thinking the workout could be called Legs & Cardio or maybe Cardio Legs. I know my heart rate got up there on several exercises. There is a little bit of everything in this workout. You are hitting the legs from all angles - quads, hamstrings, outer thigh, inner thigh, calves, and glutes. There is standing work and floor work. Toning, sculpting, and power moves are included as well. The workout moves quickly. You don't get a lot of rest in between the sets or even between the exercises. I think Cathe is going more for endurance than strength with this workout. What I probably like best about the workout ---- is the soundtrack. There are m...