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Tone & Tighten is just over an hour in length. In this workout, Brooke leads you through a series of toning exercises (some of which has a cardio emphasis). Brooke uses light weights and/or your own body weight to provide resistance for each exercise. Each exercise is performed for one minute or 30 seconds for each side. Some of the exercises she does are: criss-cross lunge, plie punch front, arabesque, W shoulder press, biceps curl, kickbacks etc. Now the DVD menu breaks up the workout as follows : warm up lower body upper body core cool down However, I felt the lower body and upper body segments blurred together because many of the exercise in these sections consist of compound exercises that worked both the upper and lower body. Also a couple of the exercises in the lower body section only worked the upper body. The workout does moves at nice pace. Brooke takes time to stretch between several of the exercises. Brooke is pleasant. The set is decent. The music is mostly back...

Brook Burke's Strengthen & Condition workout is about 60 minutes in length. It features a warm up, lower body section, upper body section, core and cool down. Brook is joined by Celebrity Trainer Greg Joujon-Roche and the two of them take you through a series of toning moves. Most of the moves are done using your own body weight and isometric contractions or holds.. A few of the exercises does utilize dumbbells. You are doing each exercise for 60 seconds or if there are sides, 30 seconds per side. This is a workout that could have utilized a clock in the corner of the workout. Many times I felt Greg's counting uneven especially when he had you do one side and then the other. The DVD is chapter and you can select any of the segments to do as a standalone workout.. The warm up and cool down are about 4 to 5 minutes. The other segments are about 15 minutes give or take a minute or two. The DVD gives you audio options. They are: Music and instruction Instruction only Musi...