This is one of the weight workouts in the Beachbody Project You Series. It's 30 minutes in length, and is meant to be preceded by one of the 30 minute cardio workouts in the series, so there is no warmup for the upper body workout. There set is clean and bright, and the background people are introduced in the begining. Kathy gives form pointers but does not teach the moves - you should be familiar with how to do upper body exercises, and therefore this wouldn't be appropriate for someone brand new to weight workouts. She works opposing muscles as you go along. The exercises are straight forward and are supersetted - first she does chest flies then lat rows, then goes back to chest presses and rear flies. The other exercises are (not necessarily in this order) - combination bicep-military presses, bicep curls, tricep dips, tricep kickbacks, overhead extensions, pushups and shoulder raises. After a few sets of upper, you do some core work - Kathy calls them "50's" - it's down to the floor for crunches - 10 each center, than obliques. She does 2 sets of these (splits them in different parts of the workout). She also has you lie on your front and do back raises. The counts are slow in the beginning, and then she speeds them up a little and them does a 3-in-one count. The flow of the workout reminds me of her original LWTLW workout (only not as fast), with core added. The stretch at the end is only about a minute and a half. The time goes quickly as you don't stay on one area for a long time. I like this workout and would consider it a solid intermediate (although with light weights is easily adaptable for a knowledgeable beginner.)

Instructor Comments:
I really like Kathy Smith in all of the Project You workouts so far. She corrects the background exercisers forms, and tells us ahead of time which exercise is coming next.

Jo