Michelle Dozois: Your Best Body Circuit

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A 57-minute toning and cardio circuit combo featuring Michelle Dozois.

Intermediate exercisers – you will get quite a workout with this DVD! You will need two pairs of dumbbells (2–10 lbs., depending on your ability), a mat and the exercise band that is included in the DVD case.

Give Michelle Dozois an hour of your time and she’ll give you a workout you will feel the next day! And she’ll keep you interested throughout with a wide variety of exercises and cardio segments that ramp up traditional moves. There is no doubt that this workout is effective — it’s part of the “Your Body Breakthru” series that Dozois used on her own clients, many of whom are seen in these DVDs. You even get to see them relate their stories in one of the bonus segments. To get those results, Dozois includes many combo moves with both dumbbells and the exercise band, plus some plyometric (jumping) moves during the cardio part of these circuits (there are seven circuits altogether). There is a modifier to show you less intense options, so if you’d rather keep your feet on the ground, you do have a choice. I have just a couple of minor complaints about this DVD — Dozois tries to squeeze in so much that you feel a little stressed out jumping from cardio to mat to dumbbells to band. And it does take awhile to get the band just right the first few times you do the workout. There is a shorter “express” version of the workout, but I found it missing too many parts — you would work one side of the body and the other would be missing. Frankly, there are other half-hour routines that were designed for half an hour. I say stick with the hour-long workout. Trust me, the time flies by and you’ll feel like you’ve accomplished a lot… because you have!