Nice workout! It alternates boxing combinations ("power") with standing ballet/Pilates work ("feminine"), plus about 10 minutes of floorwork for abs and butt. Total workout was just under an hour, with a 4-minute warmup/stretch.

Boxing sections seemed shorter than the pilates sections, maybe 5 minutes as compared to 10 (just guestimating). Jab, fast jabs, jab corner to corner with fast feet, cross-body punch (like Taebo), jab-jab-cross-jab-cross-country skis etc. are fun but go by all too fast. There is also Taebo-like standing side crunches, but she then does them at different angles as well.

Pilates/ballet work was quite a balance challenge. For instance, you do leg flutters to the front, side and back and add in arms, so your standing leg gets really worked. There are plies side to side, first- and second-position plies, and standing arm work like flutters and weightless curls and kickbacks (again, compounded with leg pulses).

Floorwork included modified 100, torso twists and punches while in the C-sit, crunches and bicycles (no plankwork!) Butt work included donkey kicks coupled with mini-pushups (felt somewhat awkward to me), fire-hydrant leg lifts and side leg lifts while on all fours.

The setting is a gym with a boxing ring in the background. Music is generic Dynamix stuff, not very loud but audible enough. The backgrounders looked like normal, fit women, no glossy Playboy bunny types.

I felt I got a nice moderate-intensity cardio with light toning workout. Some very creative standing ballet/Pilates work that definitely challenged my balance.

Instructor Comments:
Stylish, European-esque instructor, very lively and "woman power" oriented. Her students whooped a lot in a very practiced way but it wasn't overly intrusive.

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