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Release clocks in at around 58 minutes.  Leah and Suzanne gives a brief introduction to the workout and then the workout begins with the warm up and moves into the standing work.  This is a narrated workout. Leah does the narration. Suzanne shows modifications throughout. Workout concludes with  relaxing stretch, followed by meditation time. DVD Menu for Release Play All Workout Selection Play All (Music Only Option (No instruction)) Workout Selection (Music Only Option (No Instruction)) The workout sections are:    Introduction Standing Work Floor Work 1 Floor Work 2 Stretching with Relaxation  Warrior clocks in at around 60 minutes.  Suzanne and Leah take your through three segments that include standing, mat work and flexibility training.  In this workout Suzanne does the voice over and she is also the one performing the modifications.  Workout concludes with a stretch.  This is followed by 10-minutes of relaxing/meditation time. DVD...

Dance Off Fat Fast featurs Leah Sarago.  Leah takes you through five 10 minute dance inspired workouts.  Four of the workouts are cardio and one of the workouts is sculpting. Leah teaches the dance workouts in a layered approach breaking the routine up into two blocks. You learn one block, practice that block.  You then learn the next block and practice it.  Towards the end of the 10 minutes you combine both blocks for three repetitions before the workout ends. The sculpt workout consist of a series of toning moves for the legs, arms and core.  You are doing the exercises on one side of the body before transitioning to repeat the moves on the other side of the body. The transitions moves incorporate the whole body evenly. Some of the dances I enjoyed and some I did not.  The music in a lot of the dances was blah.  My favorite segment was the sculpt segment. The workouts are : Simple  Slimdown - 3 & 1/4 stars Fat Blasting Flashback...

Ballet Body Core is a 45 minute workout in which you do about 10 minutes of standing toning and then about 30 minutes of floor toning and ending with a stretch. Like the lower and upper Ballet Body workouts, Leah used voice-over in this workout; and the voice-over is done very well. The standing sections alternates between expansive moves and smaller pulsing moves. The floor work includes a set of side planks performed in various positions (knee in, leg straight out).  Leah also includes several sets of exercises for the lower and upper abs.  You also go onto all fours and do what I thought were some interesting exercises.  Supermans also show up. All movement is set to the beat of the music.  I think this is my favorite out of all of Leah's Ballet Body workouts. The DVD offers the following optons: Play All Music Only (No instruction) 4 stars.

Ballet Body Upper Body clocks in at around 45 minutes and it is essentially divided up into two parts, a floor plank section and a standing light weights section. For the plank section, there are full arm extended planks, side planks, front elbow planks, side elbow planks, and reverse planks.  In these various plank positions you do several exercises altering the tempo or rep pattern throughout the sets.  In the plank segments, the shoulders are getting worked constantly.  The standing weight segment uses hand weights.  Leah recommends 2 to 5lb dumbbells.  There is a lot of shoulder work in this section as well, but also there is some chest, rear delt and triceps work.   Circles and more circle - there are a lot of sets where you are circling the arms in one direction and then you reverse and circle in the opposite direction. This workout was challenging for me. I had to take lots of breaks. Also in this workout, I didn't think Leah's voice...

Well as voice-overs go,  Ballet Body Lower Body Extreme Muscle Elongation is one of the best.  Really, the narration is right in sink with what Leah is doing.  This workout requires a mat and some type of barre (chair) that can be use to assist with balance or the ballet exercises that appear throughout. The first part of the workout is one long standing series of moves mostly using the barre.  Every once in a while, Leah will release the barre and workout without it.  You work all parts of the leg - calf, hamstring, quads, glutes, inner thigh, and outer thigh.  There is a lot of isometric training and a lot of working up on your toes.  All the moves are choreograph to the beat of the music.  I like this.  I found it much easier to follow what Leah was doing and I felt I was able to go longer into each set because of this.  Often with ballet type workouts, I have to take more breaks than other type of workouts. The second part of...

Ballet Body by Leah Sarago has the following DVD menu options: Play Full Workout (75 minutes) Warm up (5 minutes) Upper Body Workout (20 Minutes) uses light dumbbells Lower Body Workout (20 Minutes)  uses a barre Core Workout (20 Minutes) Cool Down/Stretch (10 Minutes) Instructional Segment (12 Minutes) There is also a 3 minute introduction to the workout. Except for the Instructional Segment, Leah is the only cast member. During the Instructional Segment, Leah has Daina, show different modifications for the core, upper, and lower body exercises that you will see Leah perform in the main part of the workout. At 75 minutes, I did think the main workout long but you can choose to do just a couple of the individual workouts or even parts of those individual workouts. While the workout as a whole moves from exercise to exercise without stopping, the DVD does contain chapter points (segments) that allow you to move forward to a particular point on the DVD. In the U...