The cover of the Tri Trainers says Special Advanced Edition. I must admit that I felt that this Firm wasn't as advanced to me. I felt that the Firm Parts Not So Tough Aerobics and Tough Aerobics is harder.

This workout uses the 8-10 inch box,a dowel, a 12 inch tall box and light weights. There are only 2 four limb weight sections. One taught by Lisa Kay and one taught by Nancy Tucker. Not much weights used in comparison to Firm Cardio (aka. Strongheart). Allie Strickland does the warmup/stretch (3 minutes) and then does 3 cardio segments which are grapevines mixed with plyo hops and what she calls "Bunny Hops" where you jump back and forth. Her other higher impact moves are skate hop, jumproping and kicking out hopping. Oh, she also does a similiar move to a high impact section from Firm 3. Kinda like a rocking horse move. Lisa Kay does the box aerobics. This gets very boring to me since I'm used to jumping twirling all over my step with a Cathe Friedrich tape. She also does some easy four limbed moves with light weights. Squats with over head press. But using light weights on a squat do nothing for me. Lisa also leads the back work and what she call's plank moves which is sorta like a pushup but easier. She also does pushups and ab work. The ab work is very good. The Firm always using really fun choreography for ab work that makes it unique. One move I like is the rock and lift move where you do a crunch and lowerbody crunch at the same time and then you lift your legs up and do an oblique twist. The music to the ab and back work is excellent! Similiar to the second set of tall box work in Firm Hare workout for you Firm Fans who know the music by heart. Also the back work in All Cardio is the same type of music that is in the Tortoise when Tracie Long does the hamstring/tricep stretch after the dips but they change it a little.

Nancy does a new Firm exercise called "Tall Box Climb". It is not the Leg press. You don't use any weights. You use a 12 inch box and step up and down like box aerobics but the beat to the music is much slower and it is only done for a minute or two. She then does some dips off the short box using a dowel and a weight. As you dip you do an overhead press, bicep curl and pull the weight back and squeeze the back. She then does a few lunges on the step as you do delt raises. Not too many.

The music was excellent in this video. I call this video the Firm Angels video kinda like Charlie's Angels because it was the first Firm video to have 3 instructors.

The transition in between instructors works well. But I felt that this workout wasn't as tough as the Firm Cardio (Strongbody).

I felt that adding another Firm video with it made it right for me. Either adding Firm Tough Tape or doing Firm 5 with it was just right. This way you can get some tall box work and use heavier dumbells.

This video is very high quality film making. Excellent colors and music.

Instructor Comments:
Allie Strickland does a wonderful job at instructing. Her cueing is great and she is just having so much fun! I liked her the best out of the three instructors. She has such a great smile. I'm so happy that she teaches the hi/lo.

Nancy Tucker has a very southern accent and talks so much slower then say Jayne Poteet. I am still getting used to it. She is VERY tan and with her yellow top, she looks even tanner. She has a very sweet disposition in this video. She is very toned and muscular.

Lisa Kay does a good job on the box aerobics segments and ab work. I felt that she wasn't as good as the other two at teaching. She keeps scrunching up her eyebrows like she is in pain.

Mandy Lee