Lauren Brooks is probably the best known kettlebell trainer for women. She has published two DVDs, The Ultimate Body Sculpt and Conditioning with Kettlebells and The Ultimate Body Sculpt and Conditioning with Kettlebells Volume Two. In this article I will review the first DVD of her.

This DVD is good for both veteran kettlebell fans and new kettlebell users. If you are completely out of shape and don’t exercise much at the moment you might find this DVD difficult, however you can use a smaller kettlebell to make the workout more manageable or do fewer repetitions to start with. Age is not an issue, Lauren Brooks’ training partner on the DVD is a woman in her fifties. If you want to lose weight and tone up, you should consider this DVD.

Two workouts are included. The first is a fifteen minute fat blast workout. This is a perfect workout if you don’t have time for a longer workout or don’t want to exercise for long periods of time. It’s an intense workout that will get your heart rate up to the best fat-burning range in half a minute. The training is divided so that after one minute of work you take half a minute of rest. A counter on the screen helps you count the number of repetitions.

If you want a longer workout, you can double this workout.

The second workout is the forty minute follow up ‘Sculpting and Conditioning Workout’. There are sixty second breaks between the more intense sections where you can stop and rest or do some low intensity exercises.

Also included is the ‘joint mobility section’ which takes you through warm up and cool down exercises.

At the beginning, Brooks walks you through the correct form of fifteen exercises so that you can follow along and check that you have the correct form.

The production of the DVD is not very good, it is low budget and it shows. However, the workouts are of a high standard and Lauren’s instructions are clear and easy to understand, so she shouldn’t let poor production discourage you on its own.