This DVD is a nice compilation of 5 short advanced workouts. It is modeled after the CTX series which provides cardio workouts followed by a short weight lifting routine for one or two body parts. I think it would be a great value for many, but as an owner of the other Body Blast workouts, it seems unnecessary for me to own.

All 5 workouts include a warmup and cooldown stretch and clock in between 38 and 48 minutes. The workouts you get are:

~ Step routine and Chest/Triceps (Step Jump & Pump)
~ Step and Hi/Lo routine and Back/Core (Step Blast, SJP Hi/Lo)
~ Step routine and Biceps/Core (SB)
~ Kickboxing Routine and Shoulders (Kick Punch Crunch)
~ Legs and Abs

I put the source of the cardio sections in parenthesis.

Most of the workout pieces come from the cardio tapes of Body Blast series (SB, SJP, KPC) along with Legs & Glutes. There is a tiny bit from Supersets, and nothing from Push Pull. There is some bonus footage (approximately 5 minutes per workout), which is what helped me decide to order this DVD. The bonus footage is all strength work, and mostly straightforward.

The cardio sections are taken intact from the original workout. There is not really much mixing up, like there was on the Terminator DVD. I think if you wanted to create a similar rotation it would be very easy to do a shorter cardio section from the original workouts and then just tack on some weight work and get a similar rotation.

The DVD has music options (louder, normal, lower), a Mix and Match menu, and a Workout Blender. However, the Blender (and the Mix and Match) only allows you to pick parts from that a single day's workout, which I think is a flaw. It would be more useful if you could pick from all the parts on the DVD and create your own workouts to your liking.

The one workout that looked interesting and different enough from the original was the Legs and Abs workout, but one workout alone was not enough reason for me to keep this DVD. If there had been an easy way to put together all of the strength segments into a complete upper body workout, it might have been more enticing for me to keep this.

I know there are many who bought all four DVDs who can find a use for this one because they like being able to have these short options on one DVD. It just isn't worth it for me personally. I prefer variety, and these workouts would not feel different enough from the originals.

I would still recommend this DVD to someone who didn't purchase all of her Body Blast workouts, especially if you only do Cathe cardio in small doses. I think it would be a great compliment to the Supersets/PushPull DVD. And if you can only afford one DVD this is probably the one I would recommend, because you get a bit of everything on it. There are lots of possibilities from this DVD beyond the 5 workouts, if you are willing to program your DVD player. It is a great value when standing alone, just not a great value as part of the total Body Blast Package, IMO.

Lisa C