One 42-minute circuit-style sculpting workout, and four 15-minute quickie workouts, three targeted and one whole-body. Jackie Warner, celebrity trainer and star of the TV show Work Out instructs.

Intermediate exercisers and up. Warner works you hard and doesn't give you a break. The transitions between exercises are quick, so you will have to be on your toes, along with already having good form. You will need two pairs of weights (I used three pairs), from 3 to 10 lbs., and a mat.

If Warner's celebrity workouts in real life are anything like what you find on this DVD... it's a lot tougher being a celebrity than it looks! These circuit routines are built to wring fatigue from your every last muscle fiber. In between warm-up and cool down, the 42-minute workout is divided into three parts: lower body, upper body and abs. Each part consists of three mini segments geared for a specific muscle group: thighs, hamstrings and glutes for lower body; chest, back, and arms and shoulders for upper body; and upper and lower abs and obliques for the abs section. For each muscle group, there are three exercises, each of which you do for a minute (and by the end of that minute, you are probably begging for mercy), then to wind things up, you do a "Power Burn," where you cram all three exercises into one muscle-exhausting minute. Whew!

 

Warner has picked out sophisticated exercises, some of which will be familiar to most exercisers (deadlifts, for example), and others that only more advanced exercisers will find familiar, such as the Arnold Press, a shoulder exercise that even with lighter weights is murderous. The 15-minute targeted workouts each consist of the segments for one body group, and the 15-minute full body workout takes the toughest move from each muscle group segment for a quick, but highly effective routine. You will definitely need at least a couple pairs of dumbbells for this DVD because the same weight that challenges your chest, for example, will be too heavy for those Arnold Presses, and if you are advanced, you will want to hold weights while you do the Sissy Squats (squats, standing with your heels on top of a pair of dumbbells). Only get this DVD if you are willing to work very hard — and you will appreciate the fruits of your labor.