Customer Rating:  
Summary: Very bad instruction
Comment: I got this as a Christmas present. I have been through many workout dvds and this is the worst. The workout was led by a poor instructor. No warm up session provided. Also basic steps of the workout routine were not properly showed. It will not work for beginner. The instructor assumed that audience knows her routine, so she just kept on changing move. It is hard to follow her moves and very frustrating. I would not recommend this workout to anyone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yowza! I've done it 7 times and I'm still lost during many moves!
Comment: I have approximately 75 videos and all range in how I feel about them but this one goes among the bottom. Although the instructor is very likeable, her cues are very poor and, although I've tried to figure out what the next move will be or what to do or how to do it after completing it 7 times...she still has me lost. She also never mentions proper form; yet I could live with that if I could not wind up having to stop my workout and rewind just to get the moves down.
I have decided any dvd with a section that has a tutorial at the end so you can learn the moves is quite poor at assisting you in picking up the moves during the workout. I simply don't have time to "study" and memorize moves when most great videos can teach you DURING the workout with great cues and great instruction.
Dont even TRY to do the quick workout on here with everything condensed...you'll be so frustrated you'll wanna throw the dumbbell at your tv screen. Actually I had the opposite effect...I just stopped and started cracking up because it was so BAD. I rewound the tape 5 times and still couldn't figure out what the heck was going on because she would switch moves so fast that she was already on to something else before you knew what she just did...it was almost comical.
Get our your remote for this one, ladies...you have to LEARN it before you can do it.
If she could get the cueing & instructing down she'd be a WONDERFUL instructor as you can't help but LIKE her...but, although I work out daily to one of my videos I still cringe when it's time to put this one in and I know I'll ebay it soon as much as I keep trying to get the moves down, I usually wind up hopping on my elliptical at some point after giving up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Workout DVD, Love it!!
Comment: This exercise video is great. I like it because:
1. The moves are fun but challenging,
2. It is cardio plus scuplting. I don't like straight cardio so this is great for me. That keeps the workout interesting and the intensity up.
3. I get to make the most of my time working out since lots of the sculpting moves are two or three exercises in one.
4. All I need are two sets of dumbbells (doesn't matter if you don't have the new firm hand weights). Even though I have the Firm Bodysculpting System II, sometimes just moving the steps around can be too much of a hassle.
5. I can do the whole workout low impact if I want to.
All in all I think it is excellent workout, Rebekah is a great lead and there is an express option for when I don't have lots of time.
I would definitely recommend this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good addition to The Firm series
Comment: This is a very good workout for most intermediate and advanced levels. There's a lot of variety within the routines and the instructor is consistently adding in new moves as the cardio sections progress. The Firm has definitely come a long way since its first workout videos released in the late 80's.
The routines here are effective, challenging and varied. However, I would not recommend this workout to someone who is still a beginner. I do wish there was better cuing and instruction in some of the sections. Occasionally the instructor does seem to run ahead without always verbally giving the viewer directions. Although after doing this workout several times, most viewers will probably start remembering the routine a bit more. If you're looking to add a new challenging and interesting workout dvd to your collection, I recommend giving this a try.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Workout Once You Master The Moves
Comment: The complete workout really works me. At first, the moves seemed strange and confusing, but after just a few times, they were easier to manage. The best part of the workout is the midsection. Nothing else has worked my abs like that, the rope being the most clever. The only true weakpoint I noticed was the stretching. I always feel the need to do more stretching afterwords, and I advise others to do this also, add a cobra stretch, quad stretch and sit-and-reach type stretches just to make sure.
|
