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Atletica 3 clocks in at 48 minutes.  It consist of a warm up, three rounds of ten exercises and a stretch. Ilaria describes Atletica as a fitness program that trains the whole body with high intensity exercises. In Atletica 3, you are doing an up (or standing base) exercise and a down (floor base) exercise. In round 1, you are alternating up and down exercises for 1 minute each.  In round 2, you are doing the up exercise for 2 minutes and the down exercise for 1 minute. In round 3, you are doing the 5 up exercises back to back and then you do the 5 down exercises in a row. So expect lots of reps or as many as you can do in the 1 to 2 minutes given per exercise.  And for the most part you are doing all the exercises back to back; with only a real break coming between each round. Most of the exercises use a pair of dumbbells. The DVD menu offers the following options: Play All Introduction Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 credits I didn't like this workout as mu...

Atlectica Vol 4 Body Weight Training.  This workout is 30 minutes in length and includes the following components: Core Work in the form of planks, sit ups, crunches, and oblique work Shoulder and chest in the form of planks and variety of push ups Lot of Burpees.  For the burpees you are doing a total of 5 minutes worth of burpees There are three rounds of burpees.  The first round is 1 minute in length.  The second round is 2 minutes of sumo burpees.  The third round is another 2 minutes but this time you are doing one legged burpees. I didn't find the workout too difficult.  It was doable.  This workout is really similar to an older Ilaria workout called Abs & Pushups Plus. Along with Ilaria there are 4 other cast members.  From time to time, Ilaria would demonstrate a modification but there is not a designated modifier.  This is not a workout that I would readily grab again but with that said, it was okay. 3...

 Ilaria's Atletica Volume 2 is approximately 45 minutes in length. It consist of doing two rounds of total body (compound) exercises.  There are lots of repetition in this workout.  For example, the first non-warm up exercise you are doing for two minutes straight.  The exercise that follows that, you do for six sets of 8 reps. Because the moves are compound in nature working both the lower and upper body, expect there to be a cardio effect with some exercises. Essentially you are doing the same exercises from round 1 to round 2.  Ilaria slightly alters the exercises in the second round. When I first started out, I thought it was going to be really hard. But after round 1, I was like yeah bring on round 2.  If you want a shorter workout you could just skip round 2 and move to the snatches and core segments. The DVD menu offers the following options: Play All introduction round 1 round 2 snatches abs credits I thought the workout was goo...