Workout Format:
I think this is a really great workout, and is easily adaptable on the DVD because it is well chaptered. You can skip ahead to jump to the next chapter if you want to skip the cardio sections or one of the many sections of lunges.

Here is a summary of what each chapter has:
1 – Warm-up, Stretch & Cardio
2 – Leg Press Left & Tall Box Climb
3 – Hover Squats & Side Lunges
4 – Lunge Left & Dip Right
5 – Floor Work – Left Side
6 – Cardio: 4-Limed Aerobics
7 – Leg Press Right & Tall Box Climb
8 – Squats
9 – Lunge Right & Dip Left
10 – Floor Work – Right
11 – Cardio
12 – Sections from several workouts. This chapter is balanced left to right, and contains lunges, dips, squats, and plies. The whole chapter is about 10 minutes.
13 – Bridge work and abs
14 – More abs
15 – Stretch

The chaptering allows you to easily skip the cardio portions. Additionally, it would be fine to skip chapter 12 to shorten the workout by 10 minutes if time crunched.

About me:
I’m low advanced in strength work, but have a harder time with endurance workouts. I’m more intermediate in cardio. I have had Lower Body Split for a couple of years, but I recently did it for the first time in a year or two. It was a pleasant surprise!

My opinions:
In general I think this workout is good because many of the sections are slow enough to lift relatively heavy, and by then end, you have done so many reps that your legs are fried. I have to take many pause breaks to make it through this workout. I think it is a nice workout to crosstrain with Cathe strength workouts because it switches back and forth between exercises opposed to Cathe’s method of doing all the squats, then all the lunges, etc.

Instructor Comments:
The instruction is typical FIRM: relatively straightforward, but they seem to choose some odd names for some moves. After previewing the workout, it should be easy enough to follow along. Although you switch between a variety of instructors, the transitions are pretty smooth.

Catherine O'Neill