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SHAPE 20-Minute Makeover workout is lead by Elise Gulan.  There are five workouts on this DVD.  One 20-minute workout that actually clocks in at 23 minutes and four-ten minute workouts. I only did the 20-Minute Makeover workout. This workout is an interval workout that alternates body-weight strength moves with cardio burst and low intensity cardio moves.  The cardio interval portion range in time from 2 minute intervals to 4 minute intervals. The Exercises Cardio Intervals (CI)- Knee lifts + pull downs Strength Training (ST)- lunge pulse CI - Knee lift         Side lunge lift off         Alternating touch and throw         Squat Jumps in 2nd ST - Side Knee lift Crunch        Abduction/adduction              leg extension - ronde de jambe         Side windmills CI - Knee Lift + Squat Knee lift       ...

Shape Ultimate Bikini Body Workou t is lead by Dominique Hall.  This DVD contains four workouts. One 30 Minute Total Body Workout and three 10-minute focus specific workouts. I only did the 30 Minute Total Body Workout.  The 30-minute workout is a cardio strength interval workout. It combines cardio burst with strength moves. For most of the strength moves, you are using a pair of dumbbells. The Exercises: Cardio Burst - Football Runs Squat + Lunge Spiderman push ups Lunge Rotation Cardio Burst - Cross Country Deadlift Squat Prone Row Standing Core Curl + back leg lift Cardio Burst - Box corner Curtsy + Leg Lift Military press + knee lift Triceps hip extentions Cardio Burst - Side to side squat hops Side Front lunge Rear fly + leg slide Climbing rope abdominals Along  with Dominique, there are two other cast members. One cast member does show beginner modifications. Nice clean open set.  Music is up tempo techno. 30-Minute Total ...

Get Lean by Shape contains four individual workouts that all clock in at around 22 minutes or less. The instructor for this workout is Yumi Lee.  In each workout, Yumi demonstrates levels or progressions that show how to make the workout easier or harder. Each of the workouts features two modifiers. One modifier shows beginner moves. The other modifier is showing advance moves. Yumi is performing the intermediate moves. The DVD offers the following options: Program Intro - Yumi Lee Cardio Fat- Burning Total-Body Sculpting Metabolism Boost Abs Express Routine Interview Cardio Fat Burning clocks in at over 22 minutes.  Yumi leads you through a kickboxing combination followed by a cardio interval. Moves are perform on the right, you do a cardio interval, and then perform the moves on the left. Yumi teaches each move in slow motion. I actually found this annoying because I thought she performed too many reps at the slow pace. Once the tempo pick up, you do perform ...

On several of the older SHAPE workouts, there is a bonus workout called the 12-minute Total Body Blitz . This workout is led my Tracy York. I have been short on time lately and trying to fit in workouts where I can. So I decided to give this workout a try because I was wanting to do some type of sculpting workout. Tracy does give you a brief warm up and cool down. Between the warm up and cool down, Tracy take you through a series of compound exercises that work multiple body parts at the same time. She uses light, medium and heavy dumbbells to get the job done. My major complaint about the workout is that I didn't think Tracy used the 12 minutes effectively. We did about 4 to 5 exercise combinations total. With each set of exercises, Tracy starts off with a very slow rep count and then half way through the set, she picks up the tempo. The name of the workout is Total Body Blitz. Blitz -get in get out. I think Tracy was very slow in getting in; and as a result I didn...

I did this workout for the second time this past Sunday. Below is a cut and paste from my original review: " Okay Today was a pilates day and the pilates workout I chose to do today was Shape Pilates Workout: Firm Up From Head to Toe with Lizbeth Garcia.Overall, this was a tough workout. I thought I was getting better with pilates. This workout showed me I still have a long way to do. The workout was about 30 minutes and all of it was mat work. The thing I did not like but notice this with other pilates workouts is that there really is no warm up to speak of. It is like they just jump into doing the exercises. I didn't care for the music at all in this workout. It was basically background that wasn't really background. I just didn't find it very motivating. Lizbeth did have some different variation on the moves that I had not seen in other workouts. Besides the lack of no warm up and the music, I like the workout very much and it is going in the keep pile." Sec...