This is my new favorite strength video. I love it! Can't wait to do it again and again and again.

Gretchen's review gave a fine breakdown of the video, but I just want to add that I think the exercises flow together extremely well.

The warm up seemed a little short to me. But I had already done the step section of "2 the Max", so I didn't have to worry about it.

From there, it is all strength work and it is fun! There are new variations on some of the old faithfuls. The curtsy-dips and cross lunges were very interesting and I'm still feeling where they work the muscles just a little bit differently. There is a new variation for leg presses, too.

The ab work is short and, to be honest, I'm not sure how "safe" it is. There are a lot of lower ab twists, followed by upper ab crunches and rotations. I guess the rule of thumb should be, if it doesn't feel right to you, don't do it.

Then there is a short stretch which is the only part I really didn't like. But, I hardly ever like a video's stretch and usually prefer to do my own.

All things, considered, this is a GREAT workout!

Instructor Comments:
As (almost)always, the FIRM instructors are superb.

Laura (LCC)