Kelly Coffey-Meyer''s 30-Minutes to Fitness "Plateau Buster"

(#1 Hall OF FAME REVIEWER)NOTE: I received a free review copy of this DVD from the instructor.

Kelly Coffey-Meyer has become perhaps my very favorite instructor. Not only does she now teach in the town where I grow up, but also she''s about my same age (mid-40s), and I just really click with her low-key, down-to-earth style. With PLATEAU BUSTER, Kelly has developed new workouts which will mostly likely appeal to intermediate exercisers like myself who want to kick things up a notch by performing heavier weight intervals with higher impact cardio drills.

Kelly works out here with two of her usual background exercisers, Sam and Lori, plus a new modifier, Noelle, who performs all of the cardio moves low-impact. The Main Menu offers options for Introduction Workout One Workout Two Stretch Premixes and a Music On/Off option. Kelly cues viewers to use a heavier and lighter set of weights; during the second workout, she mentions that she is using 12# and 7# weights (I used 10# and 5#, but may have been able to go heavier in some spots). She also uses a mat for the Stretch and Bonus segments. I have broken down each section in detail below, adding approximate times in parenthesis.

**WORKOUT #1 (28.5 minutes)**

This workout begins with an approximately 5-minute warm-up. Kelly starts with a march that moves into a knee/kick combo on either side. This is followed by a jog/shuffle combination, first throwing the arms up, then shrugging the shoulders down to loosen up the traps. Kelly then moves into side-to-side steps, adding a chest pull and hamstring curls. She also performs squats, moving into a rear lunge with a floor touch. Kelly finishes the warm-up with low jacks to full jacks, repeating the entire series of moves once. She starts the weight work with the heavy weights. In general, she tends to do two moves with the dumbbells followed by a cardio interval. The first strength exercise is a squat to either side with a shoulder press on the rise up. Next comes a step to the front with a reverse fly. The first cardio begins with a squat jump and moves into 30 seconds of jumping jacks. Going back to the heavy weights, Kelly cues a side lunge with a lateral raise followed by a plie with a biceps curl. For the next cardio series, she does a sort of toe tap/knee hop (kind of like a hitch kick) followed by fast repeater knees. At this point, she moves on to the lighter weights. The first move is a combination lunge front with punch/squat back. Next, she drops one of the dumbbells for "stir the pot." That''s it for the light weights, but then the ENTIRE weight series is repeated from the first heavy weights exercise. At the end, Kelly performs a quick (