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  Metabolic Strength Volume 3 and 4 Volume 3 Well Built is a strength workout and it is 30 minutes long.  Tracie uses compound moves and isolation exercises to work the entire body.  After the warm up, Tracie breaks the workout into three distinct segments. 1. Medium Weights 2. Heavy Weighs 3. Pec Fly Pullover The medium weights segment includes step squats, kick backs, rear delt work.  The heavy weight segment include renegade rows, french press, plies with bicep curls. The pec fly pullover segment is floor based and along with doing a chest fly and pullover, you are also doing core work. This workout is solid. Volume 4 Full Steam Ahead is a cardio strength workout that clocks in at around the 32 minute mark. Tracie uses a medicine ball for increase intensity in the cardio segments and for added intensity with some of the core exercises. There is a good bit of plank work.  Other exercises include a series of kicks, burpees, goblet squat and renega...

Core Movements Volume 3 and Volume 4 . Core Movements Volume 3 The Bottom Line is a core and buns workout.  The workout starts with band walks.  Tracie keeps the bands for floor work. Floor work with the band is performed in both the supine and prone positions. Next comes concentrated core work. This is followed by Turkish Getup series and then a Windmill series.  Tracie finishes the workout by working the hips with mobility hip circle moves and inner thigh adductor work. I enjoyed this workout. Trace really took time teaching the different positions of the Turkish Getup.  I also like the time spent on the Windmill positions. Core Movements Volume 4 Make Your Move is a mobility and stretch workout with.a little bit of strength. Tracie takes you through various range of motion and stretching exercises.  After a strength segment including mobility squats and shoulder press, Tracie moves into stretches for the hip and hamstring.  Tracie uses a chair....

Tracie Long's Metabolic Strength Vol 1 and Vol 2 DVD contains two 30 minute workouts. Coming on Strong is your Volume 1 workout.  This workout is mostly a sculpting with weights workout. In the Bulgarian Split Squats segment, Tracie does include controlled mountain climbers.  The Metabolic Finisher segment contains burpees. The workout ends rather abruptly.  Equipment:  step, dumbbells The DVD Menu 1. Play All 2. Warm up 3. Push Ups/Squats 4. Dead lifts/Rows 5. Bulgarian Split Squats 6. Single Arm Row 7. The Gun Show (Arms) 8. Metabolic Finisher Get Up & Go is your Volume 2 workout.  There is a lot going on in almost all segments of this workout. Throughout the workout, Tracie is using multi-component and compound exercises to move the body if a variety ways.  Tracie uses weights and a medicine ball to increase the intensity and to add power to the movements. There is quite a bit of jumping in this workout. Equipment:  dumbbel...

Tracie Long's The Studio Series Core Movements Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVD contains two 30-minute workouts. The first workout is Brace Yourself.  This is a functional based workout that uses a variety of tools to work through stability and balance core type movements.  The DVD Menu 1. Play All 2. Loop  Band 3. Sliders 4. Core Rotations 5. Back Strengthening 6. Transverse Abdominals Brace Yourself uses a band, disc (or paper plates), dumbbells, and a ball.  Loosen Up is the second workout.  This workout uses a foam roller, yoga block and yoga strap to stretch the body and help increase range of motion and improve mobility.  Loosen Up also includes a Turkish Get-Up segment where Tracie really breaks down the mechanics of this exercise.  This workout also uses a dumbbell or med ball.  This was my favorite of the two workouts. The DVD Menu 1. Play All 2. Hip/Quads 3. Pigeon (Butt) 4. Thoracic 5. Adductors 6. Hamstrings 7.  ...

Grand Total Vol 1 Going Strong is a 45-minute metabolic sculpting workout.  The workout is divided up into 8 chapters. Some of the chapters are interval based The chapters are: Warm up Power Step Split Squats Fast Cardio Squats Upper Body Floor Work Stretch This workout uses a club step and dumbbells. The workout starts with about a two minute stretching -slightly dynamic warm up.   The power step segment is one of your intervals. Tracie mixes power step work with weight work. Some of the exercises are power jumps, plank burpees, dead lift row, split jump squats, and side squats. The split squat segment is mostly strength training. You are doing a series split squats along with push up step outs, french press, brake squats and plank work. In fast cardio you are using the top of the step.  In this segment, you are working on and around the step.  The squat segment requires the use of a prop (some type of step, box or chair). You are doing single leg...