This unusual video consists of two separate legs-and-abs workouts. The idea is that you can do them separately (they are 24 and 22 minutes long, respectively) or together. Within each workout, three different fitness levels are shown. Each fitness level uses different equipment, so you could vary your workout with ankle weights, a step, (or ankle weights and a step together) or a rubber band. The first workout, which I prefer, is a standing legs routine. It consists primarily of squat variations on the floor (or off the step). It is nothing like the tall box leg presses in the FIRM. Calf exercises are included. The second workout is a floor routine, but it's not an on-all-fours floor routine like in the FIRM. Here, you lie on your side and do leg lifts, lie back on your elbows and work the quads, lie on your back and work the hamstrings and butt. I didn't really care for it.

The ab routine in both workouts is tough! I really felt it in the lower abs especially. Candice also includes lower back exercises, which I rarely see in other videos.

I rarely do this video simply because I prefer to do total-body tapes. However, because of the thoroughness of the instruction, I think this would be a good tape for beginners, or intermediates who are looking for a light workout (or who don't like the FIRM).

Elaine C.