The DVD has three workouts on it.

CARDIO - Steady state walk aerobics for 1.5 miles, 22 minutes. This DVD has a mile meter at bottom of screen as all three do. More energetic than a Leslie workout. Somewhere between Madeleine Lewis and Tami's Cardio Blast. Good motivating music. This DVD also has an AUDIO SETUP: Music and instruction or Music Only.

ACCELERATED WORKOUT - Very energetic more like Tami's Cardio Blast and Leslie's 4 Mile Super Challenge. It is recommended to wear crosstrainer shoes due to the many lateral moves on this DVD. This workout includes 1 minute intervals of high impact moves. This workout is 1 mile, 20 minutes.

BODY SHAPING - This workout is done in intervals of 1 minute weighted segments. If you are working upper body you are also moving lower body. With the exception of triceps. Chris did not move lower body. This workout is not like Leslie's Power Walking. However Chris keeps the intensity up by doing compound moves. This workout is also not like Madeleine's Get Moving where she does the whole walking and then at the end does the toning segment. It is a little of aero walk and a little of toning w/compound moves. This is a 1 mile workout for 20 minutes.

The choreography is low impact for all three workouts. In the Accelerated workout it has 1 minute hi-impact moves. The choreography for all three workouts is the same but with different changes mixed in. For ex: In the Cardio 1.5 mile workout after the 3/4 mile different choreography is mixed in. Also in the Body Shaping 1 mile workout different choreography is mixed in.

This DVD is chaptered for these 3 workouts and the EXTRAS at bottom of this review. However if you only wanted to do one workout without the warm-up you'd have to click on the workout and forward fast through the warm-up. You'd have to do this for all 3 workouts. When one workout finishes it automatically goes back to original screen for you to pick a new workout or not. Except for the last workout. When it ends the credits come up.

The warm-up and cool-downs are the same for all three workouts.

The Body Shaping workout I would say should not be used as your total toning workout. It only has 1 minute of toning intervals. 1 minute of toning w/light weights for me is not considered a good strength workout. However, it is a different type of interval workout and is good to change up workouts now and then.

The CARDIO & ACCELERATED workouts can be made more intense or they can remain low impact. For the exception of Accelerated which has 1 minute intervals of high impact. Again as we all know from other workouts you get what you put into it. Up the intensity or not your choice. This whole DVD is good for not stressing joints. In the warm-up and Body Shaping portion it does include some lunges for those of you who do not wish to do these.

This DVD includes a TARGETED GOALS SECTION. Which includes the following:
GET STARTED
LOSE WEIGHT
FIRM UP
GET FIT
BLAST OFF A PLATEAU
Which ever you pick it will give you a whole week of what workouts you should be doing from this DVD. So you get a different rotation for each of the above goals.

Also the DVD includes SMART WAYS TO LIVE WELL: BONUS SEGMENTS
INCLUDES: 4 MOVES TO BEAT FOOT PAIN
DO YOU NEED NEW SHOES?
PERFECT YOUR WALKING TECHNIQUE

This DVD also comes with an AUDIO CD which is 77 minutes. It comes in the same package as the DVD not packaged separately. The CD contains additional walking workouts.

This is an outdoor CD. However I guess you could get on your treadmill or elliptical and do this. If I had to compare it I would compare it to a Kathy Smith walking CD. I only own two of Kathy's I can't say about others.

The CD has 3 programs: You can create your won customized workout.

10 MINUTES STEADY PACE (MODERATE & VIGOROUS)
Chris gives tips along the way on your pace and breathing and gives encouragement she does this for all the workouts. This Steady Pace has two workouts within it: A moderate walk and then a vigorous walk. You choose which one you'd like to do or do both. The moderate has jazzy music the moderate has a pump it up feel.

16 MINUTES INTERVAL WALK (BEGINNER & ADVANCED)
The beginner cosists of 3 minutes of moderate walk and 1 minute of higher intensity walking. The advanced consists of 3 minutes of moderate and 1 minute of high vigorous walking. Again jazzy type music.

15 MINUTES PYRAMID WALK
This is the challenge walk. You progressively increase the pace. It speeds up every 2 minutes. Then in fast walk mode you speed up for 1 minute until you reach 4.5 miles/hour. Then you work your way back down in 1 and 2 minute intervals. At this time you can repeat the programs or create your own customized workout. So the CD consists of 5 programs if you played the whole thing and did beginner & advanced, moderate & vigorous workouts together.

COMMENTS:
It is a well structured DVD. It has many uses for many moods. Easy to fit into an existing rotation or use the ones they provide. Very well made and the music is energizing no volume problems in this one. The total workout time for the DVD is 62 minutes.
This workout I would rate as beginner-intermediate. The only sections I will use will be the two cardio ones. I would only use this on a day in which I was unable to do my regular cardio workout. Or I was not feeling well or just needed a lite workout due to soreness. This workout would definitely not help me reach my goals of cardio or strength gains. But I keep it because I feel everyone needs to have a lite workout around for when we are not feeling at our best. This fits that bill.

Instructor Comments:
Chris is a very motivating instructor.

Sundari