Extreme Makeover Fitness – Weight Loss Workout for Beginners
Extreme Makeover Fitness - Weight Loss Workout for Beginners
- From the hit ABC series EXTREME MAKEOVER comes a DVD that gives you the power to unlock your potential with workout programs that can fit any lifestyle or busy schedule. Choose the workout that best fits your lifestyle: Weekly Workout -- for maximum results, Time Crunch Workout -- shorter workouts for busy schedules, Customizable Workout -- for specific problem areas you'd like to focus on. Fe
Expo Biggest Loser Daily Meal Planner Magnetic Dry Erase White Board (1770993)
- Easy to use for daily meal planning
- Convenient to keep on your refrigerator or kitchen counter
- 11 x 14 Inches Aluminum framed dry erase board includes 1 Expo original fine tip dry erase marker
- Erases cleanly and easily with a dry cloth or Expo eraser
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Not really for beginners…,
The features of this DVD are very simple to navigate. You are given a choice of doing a full workout or a ‘time crunch’ workout. There are 7 workouts in all, one for each day of the week. Each daily workout gives you an upper-body, lower-body and ab workout. There is plenty of cardio and muscle toning, as well as a bit of yoga-type stretches in the cool-downs. You should expect to devote anywhere from 35-45 minutes on each daily workout.
“Time crunch” workouts are more target-specific (upper-body, lower-body or abs) and take approximately 20 minutes each.
There is no ‘real’ warm-up on these workouts. I started with Mondays’ workout, and was disappointed to see that they immediately started by jogging in place and doing lunges and thigh exercises. There were no instructions to have previously warmed up or stretched, but I would recommend it.
These workouts are not for any beginners that I know, but more like ‘intermediate.’ Expect to sweat, and burn, and to hate Bob. Overall I really enjoyed the workout portion of this DVD.
I was expecting this DVD to have stories about the three women pictured on the back of the cover (one of whom is featured on the front.) However, their stories are only briefly mentioned, with before and after photographs. There is a section with style tips that features Autumn, one of the guests from Extreme Makeover, that was mildly helpful.
I wouldn’t recommend this workout for severly overweight people, but for people with 20 or 30 pounds to lose, it’s perfect.
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|Good .. But Several Concerns,
I am relatively new to the “exercise video scene”, but I got hooked on workouts after discovering Kathy Smith. In order to avoid become bored with my routine, I decided to spice up my collection with several other videos. What appealed to me most about this video was that it advertised several different “daily” workouts as well as assorted extras. I figured with seven new routines to do, there was no way I could get bored.
Well .. they do have seven exercise sessions, but they are just different combinations of the same nine “snipets”. There are three workout categories (Abs, Upper Body, and Butt, Hips & Thighs) and for each category there are three choices (cardio, toning, cool down). Thus, the nine snipets.
Here are the main things that concerned/disappointed me:
1. As I mentioned, there is actually very LITTLE variety in this video. The silly comments the girls make to the instructor about “taking it easy on them” are cute ….. the first time.
2. The screen will suddenly shoot to split screen, or even TRIPLE split screen right while you are counting your reps. The main problem here is that they put up the two or three screens OUT OF SYNC. This was very disturbing and distracting. On one mini-screen the girl is counting “seven” and on the other mini-screen the guy is counting “nine”. I totally lost track of my reps on numerous occasions. In addition, one will have their leg up, the other has their leg down, etc. Much more distracting than it sounds.
3. Each of the nine “snipets” are quite short .. about 10 minutes. They do not “flow” into each other. After one finishes, you have to wait for a menu screen to come up, and then listen to set-up instructions, etc. again for the next workout. The constant start/stop was also distracting and seemed to make me tire out faster.
4. There are not enough reps in each exercise. I guess I got spoiled by my Kathy Smith “Peak Fat Burning” tape. She does each exercise over and over again. On this tape, most exercises only have 10 reps. Just when you get in the groove, and get yourself in “sync” with ONE of the split-screens, you are on to another move.
5. There are no modifiers for varying levels. I think on TWO exercises, the instructor briefly says “you can do this type of jumping jack if you aren’t comfortable with the regular way” .. that’s IT.
Now .. there are definitely several GOOD things about this video and maybe these problems just bugged me more since I’m a beginner. You will definitely sweat; the instructor is informative about anatomy and WHY you need to work certain muscles .. and sometimes you might only WANT to exercise for 10 minutes. LOL The exercises range from very easy, to quite tough (especially the abs toning) and my heart rate does get up there. I guess I was just hoping for a nice wide variety of routines, and you won’t find that here.
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|A “visual” queue to help you make the right eating decisions,
Customer Video Review Length:: 3:34 Mins
We can’t always walk around with a food journal or be at the computer entering information into sparkpeople dot com. But we all go in and out of the fridge or a cupboard.
Thus this works best to visually remind you what you should be eating for the day (if you plan out the night before) OR help you track how your caloric intake for the day is going.
The oversimplification of the caloric goals seems to fly in the face of previous Biggest Loser books/videos. Thus instead of doing the calculation use other resources to figure out your goal, then write it on the board.
I’ve read a lot on water intake and realize 6-8 cups is a good place to start and difficult enough for many. I would have liked to see something closer to 10-12 on the board as there is room for it. So where those additional icons could be provides enough space to mark off any “extra” water intake.
You’ll need a calorie counting book and a calculator, especially if you are doing this process on the fly vs. planning things the night before.
If you’ve never tracked your calories there is no escaping it! Like the dreaded “B” word of “budget” for your finances, if you don’t know where the numbers are adding up, you have no way to control it.
What makes this a good item (sorry, not great) is that it becomes a more “in your face” than the food journal many of us forget at home, work, car or bag and then don’t track what we should.
If this helps you control what you eat and know what you eat…then it’s totally worth it!
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|Meal Planning Board,
Meal planner that is a dry-erase board – now that is convenient!!! It is also good for the environment because you don’t have to use paper. This dry-erase board meal planner comes with a dry-erase marker and also a magnet to attach it to the wall.
This dry-erase meal planner is helpful and useful. It has a chart for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner. You are to fill in the chart with your meal description and calorie counter, and add up the total calories. At the top of the board is a very helpful guide that tells you to multiply x7 your current weight, and that is your daily calorie goal. It also has a food pyramid diagram, so that you can check off the ones you’ve eaten, so that you know where on the pyramid you are for the day. It also has a diagram of glasses of water so that you can tick those off, also.
I drink my water from bottles, as you cannot have open glasses at work around computers. But the water glass diagram still does a good job of reminding us to drink the water.
This is a good way of either planning your meals, or keeping up with them (and the calories) after you’ve eaten them. This is an awesome board for someone who needs/wants to lose weight or get healthy or both.
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|Not helpful unless you plan on carrying it with you throughout the day,
This is designed to be left on your refrigerator. However, who eats every meal of their day from the same refrigerator. Anytime you eat at work, on the run, or eat out the thing becomes worthless. There are much better ways to keep track of what you are eating. Whichever method you use please be sure it is portable.
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