I'm biased towards Body Rev - I'm on Workout 4 and loving it. I have the Firm Express but only sampled a few of the workouts and didn't feel motivated enough to do a rotation.
Body Revolution:
- about 30mins each
- rotation is 6 days/week (for 13 weeks) - 4 weight workouts, 2 cardio
- weight workouts are designed as splits - front body/back body
- in the weight workouts there are 4 cardio intervals at 1min each
- straight-up athletic moves
- no choreography, nothing to remember, no chance of tripping over your feet
- she does 12-15 reps of most moves at a deliberate pace - no throwing or swinging the weights, you can go heavier and slower.
- there's a great cast of amazingly fit and good looking people ... eye-candy galore (helloooo David
)
- the cast is mostly in sync but it doesn't feel overly choreographed
- Jillian will show modifications by having someone go faster (on cardio moves) or use heavier weights. Sometimes she'll show or tell you how to modify down
- Jillian walks around giving form pointers, joking with her peeps and motivating you - she's unscripted and natural
- there's a bit of whooping by the cast, sometimes they count down the last 10secs, but it's not annoying at all .....
Firm Express workouts are:
- 20 mins each
- choreographed routines, scripted lines
- fast moving almost frantic
- difficult to go heavy on some combination moves
- cardio intervals are 8secs with 12secs recovery
- designated modifier doesn't always modify
- whooping is high-pitched (hello Rebekah)
- rotation is one month 3x/week - 3 types of workouts - cardio / cardio-sculpt / sculpt ... all have cardio intervals
hth