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  WHFN KickButt! Crunch Time is a 40-minute total-body pilates-cardio-yoga-weights fusion workout led by Tamela Hastie. DVD Menu Play Full Workout Select Tune Equipment List First Time Tips Credits There are 17 select tune segments.  This workout is a remake of Anna Benson's Fitness Favorites FitPrime Crunch Time with Susan Harris .

WHFN (Women's Health & Fitness Network) KickButt! Strong Bear is a 52 minute workout led by Keli Roberts. DVD Menu Play Full Workout Select Tune Equipment List First Time Tips Credits. The DVD is extremely well chaptered. Select Tune allows you to choose a particular workout segment, of which there are twenty. This series has one of the best sets I have ever seen. This workout is a remake of Anna Benson's Fitness Favorites FitPrime Strong Bear with Tracie Long.  

Fast Cheetah is Volume 7 in the Original FitPrime series of workouts. It is a 55 minute workout and it is lead by Tracie Long. This workout was designed as a cross-trainer to Strong Bear. Where Strong Bear was "slow + heavy". Fast Cheetah is "fast + light". It uses lighter dumbbell weight and the tempo of the music if faster. This workout contains a lot more cardio than Strong Bear. A lot of the cardio is functional fitness in nature and often features a medicine ball doing sports drill type combinations. There is also a kickbox and tall box climb segment. Fast Cheetah uses the non-dominant principle of training in which you train your weaker side first. This set also features the mirror backdrop. Tracie works out on carpet that looks like it might be 5 X 8 in size. I wasn't crazy about the construction of this workout. It was just okay. I did like the music and of course Tracie is great as usual. But I am giving it a lukewarm 3 stars.

FitPrime Strong Bear is Volume 6 in the Original FitPrime workouts. This workout is lead by Tracie Long and it is 53 minutes long. There are no other cast members. Strong Bear is a muscle shaping workout that features non-dominant training (training your weaker side first). It is a total body training workout in that it hits all muscle groups using various functional fitness and traditional type exercises, but there is not much cardio. The workout uses a dowel, high step, ankle weights and dumbbells. The set is small in size but very busy. There is a mirror backdrop that lets you see how the exercise looks from the back. I like this workout. A few of the exercises were challenging. The pace is slow and methodical and was designed to allow you to go heavy with the weights. 3 & 3/4 stars

From The Ground Up Tuesday's workout was FitPrime From The Ground Up. This workout is led by Heidi Tanner. It is mostly a heavy weight workout with light cardio burst. Some may call it a Cardio Sculpt workout. Many of the cardio sections are kickbox based. This workout focuses on Non-Dominant training. This means you work your weaker side first. Heidi does the whole workout without shoes. Along with weights, the workout uses the tall steps and it clocks in at around 53 minutes. I really liked this workout. I found it to be solid. I give it 4 out of 5 stars. CrunchTime FitPrime Crunch Time was my Wednesday workout. This workout is led by Susan Harris. I think Susan is one of the all time great instructors. This workout can also be classified as cardio sculpt and it includes a yoga stretch section. It focuses on non-dominant training and uses light and heavy weights and the tall step. The workout moved really fast and the 45 minute duration was over before I knew it. I r...

Steamin Cardio This is also my second time doing this workout. I have had the Original FitPrime workouts for years but never got around to doing them until last October. FitPrime Steamin Cardio is an Anna Benson workout and it is led by Kelsie Daniels. Kelsie is absolutely fantastic in this workout. She is so precise in her cueing and in how she performs each exercise. The music is absolute devine and really propels the workout. It is music that you can get really involved with. Most of the workout is synchronize to the music. Steamin Cardio uses the tall step and light weight in some segments. Other segments, include sports drill, kickboxing, latin flavor dancing. The workout has a short core and ab workout. I really love this workout and I am giving it 5 out of 5 stars. Running time is approximately 52 minutes.