I wasn't impressed with this workout. No weights were used for the toning and doing squats with no weights is a waste for me since I use heavy dumbells. The background to this video is a boxing room. I also thought it was strange that there was no stretches.

This video is very high impact and for me, I HAVE to have a good calf stretch for the warm up and cool down. This video has only a Tai Chi type warm up so don't get any good stretches before such high impact moves. The moves are squats, lunges, dips, lunge dip combo with hamstring curl, ski squats, side kicks. I was impressed that Lisa is a 5 degree blackbelt karate but I wish she did more kicks! There is some boxing and jabs at the end of the kicks.

She also does a lot of high impact for the aerobic section and counts too much. This was annoying. She also explains the move too long which can get tiresome if you do the video over and over. She also does 3 sets of pushups on her toes which was impressing and tough. One good thing about this workout is that the music is really upbeat but I am going to put this video on the exchange because for me there is too many (-'s) than (+'s) in this workout. After doing this working, I didn't feel like I was in a good mood compared to when I finish a happy Cathe Friedrich tape.

Instructor Comments:
How cool can you be?? I really didn't like the way Lisa acted. So masculine in her speech and in her body. Yes, she is very toned but the "I am so tough and cool" attitude went way overboard. Her cueing wasn't good either and she doesn't stay on the beat of the music which drove me crazy.

Mandy Lee