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Sh'Bam #15 clocks in at around 47 minutes.  Like 14, there is a 30 minute version to 15 as well. The presenting team for Sh'Bam #15 is: Rachael Newsham Kimmo Jukuri Asa Berggren The tracks in 15 the 45 minute workout are: 1    Get Lucky    3:07 2    Turn The Beat Around    3:24 3    Switch    3:11 4    She Wolf (Falling To Pieces    3:30 5    Work    3:30 6    Not Myself Tonight    4:21 7    It Must Have Been Love    3:00 8    Talk Dirty    2:53 9    Land Of a Thousand Dances    2:38 10    Put Your Hands Up    3:25 11    Antidote    5:59 12    Treasure    2:35 I have done both the 30 minute version and the 45 minute ...

There are several programs that are part of Les Mills On Demand. Sh'Bam is one of those programs.  Sh'Bam is a dance workout that is kind of in your face.  It features mostly club style dance done to a variety of music genres.  It is cheeky. It's sassy and most of the dances are a lot of fun. The workouts are often lead by Program Director Rachael Newsham. She normally has two to three people joining her in teaching a dance. Each dance is taught to a song. You often start out with a basic move and minimum or half time tempo and as you repeat the move, you increase the intensity, the movement and the speed. So Sh'Bam #14 Features the following tracks.  Times  are approximate: 1    Let It Roll    3:06 2    Maria    4:13 3    A Little Party Never Killed-Nobody, All We Got    4:00 4    I Kissed A Girl    3:08 5    #thatP...

Les Mills On Demand Body Combat #59 clocks in at just over 31 minutes.  The presenters in this workout are: Dan Cohen Rachael Newsham Pernilla Blomquist Mika Kankainen. However there are a lot of other cast members on stage that come in and out depending on the round. The segments featured: 01a Upper Body Warm up 4:10 01b Lower Body Warm Up 4:30 2 Combat 1 4:03 3 Power Training 1 5:06 4 Combat 2 5:22 5 Power Training 2 6:00 I enjoyed the upper body warm up in this one as it featured blocks and strikes. Combat 1 was led by Mika and Power Training 1 by Pernilla and both of these were high energy fast past segments especially the Power Training. Again the workout, just ends after Power Training 2. 3 & 3/4 stars

Power Sculpt 2 is the 2nd sculpting workout in the Piloxing system. This workout too is a short one clocking in a little bit longer than the 1st power sculpt workout. Viveca leads two other cast mates and us at home in working the butt, thighs, and abs. The cast is working out on a circular raised platform.  Like the first power sculpt workout, this one does not have a warm up nor does it have a cool down. You are pretty much working in the same positions but you are doing somewhat different exercises than those performed in the first workout. So there is a table top segment, a bridge segment, lying side segment and abs segment. Expect lots of pulses, high energy music and very little rest. Another good one and another one that would be great as an add on if you wanted some extra lower body and ab focus work. 3 & 3/4 stars

Piloxing Power Sculpt 1 is short, sweet and intense.  It clocks in at just over 16 minutes. It is a floor base workout in which Viveca works your butt, thighs, and abs. There is not a warm up nor a cool down. The first group of exercises are done in the table top position with back leg pulses, knee shootouts, knee reaches, side hamstring curls, side leg pulses. Of course what you do on what side you do on the other. Then Viveca takes you into the supine position where you perform a series of  bridge exercises. Next segment has you lying on you side for outer thigh work. The last section works the abs and here you do a variety of upper and lower crunches.  There is also some bicycle and scissor work. I felt the burn on several of the exercises. This would be great as an add on workout. Along with Viveca, there are two other class participants.  The music is the same up beat music that was used in the Piloxing Round workouts. 3 & 3/4 stars

Les Mills On Demand Body Combat # 62 clocks in at 29:47.  This workout is lead by Dan Cohen, Rachael Newsham, and Andres Vesga.  The segments are for On Demand Body Combat # 62 01A - Upper Body Warm up 4:41 01B - Lower Body Warm up 2:52 02 - Combat 1 - 3:43 03 - Power Training 1 - 4:15 04 - Muay Thai - 7:51 05 - Core Conditioning - 4:48 Usually I think the Muay Thai segments are too long but I like this particular Muay Thai segment.  This workout ends after the Core Conditioning segment, so the ending is a bit abrupt. Yeah, I like this one. 3 & 3/4 stars

Piloxing Round 3 clocks in at just around 51 minutes.  It follows pretty much a similar pattern as Rounds 1 and Round 2. The warm up moves are the same as Round 1 and Round 2. After the warm up, Round 3 starts off with a boxing segment and then follows with a standing Pilates segment. This pretty much became the pattern boxing followed by Pilates.   In Round 3, there wasn't as much dance and the dance that there was included Pilates.  Some dance moves were used as transition within the segments as you went from performing the moves on one side to the other side. The boxing in Round 3 is more drill based than combo base but contains foot work so you are not just standing in one place throwing punches. The standing Pilates had a lot of balance work on one leg. There was less arm work in Round 3 compared to Round 2. Rather I should say, less arm pumps but there were quite a few arm holds. There is not a modifier in the workout but for couple of the moves, Viveca sh...