This is an awesome muscular endurance workout. It's very rare that a strength workout makes me sweat. I like to think of BLS as a Pilates styled GWW (Karen Voight), or a Method tape with more traditional exercises and real weights. It's a workout for your entire body. She even hits the front of your calves and lower back, which I wish more videos would do. There's a ton of shoulder work, but not enough biceps, or forearm. If you have wrist problems, you might want to skip this one because there are several exercises you're supported on it (I drop one of my knees to help alleviate my wrist). I don't have a bodybar, but I used my 4 foot, 15 pound barbell and it was perfect. My big complaint is that you can't really up your weights--adding plates to my barbell would not work. It's both standing and floor exercises, a lot of which work several muscle groups at once. BLS is a unique blend of Pilates and traditional strength exercises. It's hard to describe the exercises, but not because it's off-the-wall different, it's just that the exercises are put together very uniquely. This is definitely a keeper for my "endurance" rotations, along with GWW, Target Specifics, Body ART, and Body Max. The music was typical Dynamix, I recognized some from CIA 9908. I highly recommend this tape for your muscular endurance workouts.

Clare was very good at explaining exactly where your body should be positioned. However, I did not like the fact that she didn't always explain which muscle group you were supposed to be working (there's an exercise that I think it should be abs, but I really felt it in my chest).

Emily