I had mixed feelings about this workout. On the plus, it has some really nice lower body work in it, and I have always liked Tamilee. On the minus, it claims to be a 'total-body' workout and I found the upper body work decidedly skimpy. And the music was lifted straight from one of Tamilee's earlier workouts.

Tamilee dives straight into the workout with no warm-up, beginning with a leg series working the right side. This sequence includes side squats, leg lifts, knee ups, plies and other simple moves. She sticks with each exercise long enough hat I was feeling it, but not so long that my knees complained. The time also went by very quickly.

Following this, Tamilee takes a break for some upper body work. I thought this section was very weak. There were four exercises done for 2 sets of 8 reps each. I do not see how this would tone anything if it was the sole upper body weight work someone was doing. I understand she was trying to break up the upper body work, but I do not think this section was at all useful. I think you could easily substitute ab work here instead.

The workout concludes by repeating the earlier lower body work on the other leg, doing another useless upper body section, and finishing with some ab work. The well-produced dvd also has a bonus 10-minute ab workout, trailers for other Tamilee tapes, a music-only option and a nutrition guide.

A real beginner would find the lower body work disproportionately difficult compared to the basic upper body work, so I think this tape would be best suited for an intermediate exerciser who wants a short and sweet non-weighted lower body routine. The time flies by quickly and if you are prepared to skip the upper body sections or sub in your ab work, you can be in and out in about 25 minutes. I wish the bonus workout had been an upper body option to make this tape a little more complete. This tape is an okay lower body routine, I am just not really sure where it fits into my usual rotation.

Joanna