I have to write a review for this video because when I first watched it, I thought it looked easy. Well I was wrong. I am used to doing the Firm with heavy weights and this video challenged me even though they only use a step and light weights and a excercise ball.

She starts with a long warmup and goes into leg work using the step. Its like the tall box work but using the step instead. I felt it right away in my quads and then she has you do more pulsing where you start to feel it in your butt as well. There is one incredible excercise where she has you do a stationary lunge with your back leg on the step and then she has you lean all the way forward and pulse. Ouch! This is a burner as Pam Cauthen would say. Then she has you do zillions of squats. She shows you how to squat against the wall with a ball. I tried it and felt it more in my quads then my buns so I went back to using 10lbs and squatting on the floor. She also does some excercises for skiing moguls. Its a hop squat excercise that really puts the finishing touches on the final lower body excercises.

The upper body exercises uses light weights with a lot of reps which is so different from the Firm and yet you still feel the burn. Lat rows, upright rows, overhead presses, biceps and then tricep dips using the step. she shows you how to do other excercises like one arm french press and then some final set of pushups that really kill. She does at least 4 sets of pushups with different variations. This is the best pushups excercises I have seen in an excercise video. She shows you how to use the body ball for pushups and I liked this one right away. She also does this very hard hover pushup which she calls, "bitchin" and boy is it ever tough! I could barely do it.

She finishes off with a great ab section which you can really feel and a great standing cool down with no music which I found weird at first but then really appreciate the quiet of it.

The video quality is so so for the high price of the video. Nothing like the Firms. It's like taking a gym class home with you. Nothing fancy, no sexy appealing clothes, no sexy breathy " talking". Just an excellent instructor giving you an excellent workout with a great humorous personality. I give this workout an A . It would be an A+ if it was a better video quality

Mandy Lee