This is a versatile and extremely useful DVD. It contains the footage from two other Karen Voight workouts, one a circuit workout and the other a yoga workout. On this DVD, the footage has been arranged into daily half-hour or so sections which represent strength work, cardio and two yoga stretches.

I think the strength work is the weakest. I have always found Karen’s upper body work sketchy, and circuit workouts are not known for being intense in the weight work. If I were using the DVD as planned for a week’s worth of routines, the strength work here might be a nice recovery week, but otherwise it didn’t do anything for me.

The cardio was low-impact and fairly fun. I am a choreography klutz and this felt like it was on the upper limit of my complexity threshold---I stumbled in quite a few places, but I suspect that if I did the workout more often, I might learn the moves. I would say it is about on par complexity-wise with some of Kathy Smith’s work.

The yoga sections were both nice. One was a power yoga type of workout, and the other was a very nice athletic stretch. I had been sorry that Karen’s Pure and Simple Stretch was not available on DVD and I was happy to find I liked this one just as much.

Overall, this DVD is definitely a keeper.

Joanna