The instructions are clear and Petra reminds you that you should focus on quality of exercise not quantity. This is often refereed to as keeping good form or technique. Not only quality of exercise give better results but it also reduces injury and makes the exercises more enjoyable.

Strength training for women explains how strength training not only tones the body to give you healthy and athletic curves rather than fatty ones, but it also explains that strength training increases your metabolism so that you burn at quicker.

The DVD provide 6 separate workouts which last from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. This ensures that no matter how hectic your life is you can still fit in a workout. The workouts:

• Upper Body Workout (10 minutes)
• Lower Body Workout (10 minutes)
• Total Body Workout (20 minutes)
• Strength and Balance Training (20 minutes)
• Abdominal and stomach exercises (5 minutes)

Petra performs the workouts with 2 assistants, one of which performs modifications of the harder exercises which can help if you are very new to the exercises.

Exercises performed in the upper body workout include bicep curls, dumbbell rows, tricep kickbacks, diagonal raises, push ups and a variety of other exercises. The lower body workout includes all the main strength exercises, such as squats, lunges and calf raises. These produce strength and help tone thighs, buttocks and the core.

The 20 integrated workout combines upper and lower body for a full body workout. This is great if you want to give yourself a full workout. This starts off very aerobic before moving on to some light weight dumbbell exercises.

The strength and balance workout is the most dynamic of the workouts and will provide a great fat burning workout that will tone bums, tums and thighs.

This DVD is called Strength Training but many of the exercises are quite aerobic, especially in the main 20 minute integrated workout. If you want a real strength training DVD that teaches you how to safely and effectively use heavy free weights and resistance machines to build strong, athletic muscle, then this DVD is not for you.

However, if you are looking for a refreshing new full body workout which also includes separate upper, lower, abs and balance workouts so that you can split your routine across the week then this DVD does provide. You can increase the weight of your dumbbells to make this more of a strength workout.

All you need to follow all 65 minutes of these workouts is a chair and a pair of dumbbells. If you perform one of these workouts 3 or 4 times a week you will get fit and start to tone up and strengthen your body. A strong body is a healthy body and this is something that many women neglect. If you want to start strength training for the first time then this DVD is a great place to start.

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Source: Step-by-Step Strength Training by Petra Kolber – Fitness DVD Review | Bums Tums and Thighs

Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred has been a huge hit in the USA, and is now available here in the UK.

The 30 Day Shred combines intensive cardio workouts with strength training with focus on building a super strong core through abdominal exercises.

Jillian believes that you can lose 20 pounds in 30 days with her 30 Day Shred. Burn the fat off!

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Camilla Dallerup Dance Workouts:

• Warm up
• The mambo and cha cha workout
• The jive workout
• The funky workout
• The calorie burner
• Cool down

All the dance workouts are well explained and performed to excellent music.

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“In just 20 minutes you will feel fitter, healthier and you will be one step closer to getting your dream body, whatever size you want to be!”

This is Coleen Nolan’s latest fitness DVD. Is it a reall high energy session. Coleen has teamed up with GMTV’s Deanne Berry to develop this Let’s Get Physical workout that is designed to fit easily into your daily routine.

The DVD consists of 4 separate 20 minute workouts with some classic 1980’s pop hits. Each workout has its own warm up and cool down.

Coleen Nolan’s Workouts

• Neon Dance Out - A classic 80s dance off designed to really get you moving
• ‘80s Cardio Blast – High energy, high fun, flab attack
• The Leg Warmer Workout - Hit the dance floor! This will get you moving to some fantastic 80’s music
• Tone It Up – All over body toning with some retro 80’s moves – just for fun!

This DVD is ideal for all if you that love the 1980’s dicso tunes and working out to high energy club mixes.

Please note that wearing 1980 aerobic clothing is not required, or recommended!

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The DVD comprises of 4 training routines, each 30 minutes long. The workouts are designed by Davina’s own fitness instructors, Mark and Jackie Wren.

The 4 training routines target different parts of the body:

• Top Fit – to tone arms, shoulders
• Low Fit – to tone legs, buttocks and thighs
• Kick Fit – Kickercise style workouts that are high impact and high intensity to burn fat
• Aerobic Workout Fit – a heart pumping full on aerobics session!

Each workout is well structured with warm up and a cool down. There is a special section on yoga workouts too to help stretch and relax your hard worked muscles.

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The workout has a bit of an 80’s theme with a pink sports vest and disco style choreography, plus the popular combat moves, with plenty of shadow boxing thrown in. It is energetic and fun, which are the most important aspects of any fitness DVD.

The workout is split into four main sections:

1. Body Warmer–a calorie burning warm-up that’s actually fun
2. Latin Sizzler–easy dance mover and big time fat burning in 15 minutes
3. Bingo Buster–banish your bingo wings and burn fat in 15 minutes
4. Muffin Shrinker–say goodbye to your muffin top with killer toning moves

With this workout Letitia managed to lose two stone in weight and lost seven inches off her tummy and seven inches off her bust.

“I’ve battled with my weight for years–as anyone who saw in Eastenders, or more recently in Strictly Come Dancing will know I tried all kinds of diet but none worked.”

Then celebrity fitness trainer Dee Thresher came up with a routine that combined fat busting interval training with exercises to zone in on the stomach.

“I’ve gone from 10 stone 4lbs to 8 stone 4lbs and finally can show off my waist after years of hiding it. The barrel belly has disappeared–and it’s not coming back! This is the only thing that’s ever worked for me–so give it a go–you’ll love the routine and you’ll definitely get lean!”

Synopsis

Belly fat is notoriously the most stubborn fat and to get rid of it you need a specific and focussed set of routines as well as a targeted diet plan. EASTENDERS’ star Letitia Dean knows the problem and together with fitness wizard Dee Thresher have conceived and tested a stupefying system. Follow Letitia’s exercises, you’ll soon show off a sexy and perfectly lean waist. Letitia’s eating plan is also included.

Letitia Dean’s Lean Routine [2008]
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Carmen Electra leads a fun, flirty workout that will make you feel sexy while you work up a sweat. Carmen brings together hot moves from dance and fitness in a low-intensity workout that will work your abdomen, thighs, butt, and hips.

Working with the best choreographers around, Carmen brings the art of the striptease into your living room.

As volume one of Carmen’s series, AEROBIC STRIPTEASE teaches basic striptease technique, introducing you to the program with a full warm-up and three cardio dance routines.

This DVD is just one of a whole collection of dirty dancing, sexy stripping dance workouts. See the full list below.

Customer Reviews

Gets you into aerobics alright
I am not a fan of aerobics. Tried it twice or thrice in my life and never managed to get into the rythm and quitted soon after. Nonetheless, I enjoy other sports and I am in quite good physical shape.

The DVD – first of the series – is quite good and it is no more than what it advertises: good workout, a bit difficult in the beginning, but the more you practice, the easier it is. At start, was completely lost with all the fast moves, but two or three more practice sessions and I was quite good at it and enjoyed it.

And as of strip, well, it has some interesting moves, but it essentially gets you in shape and puts some extra attitude on top of yours. Do not expect miracles, it will all depend on how you see it. However, got my husband a bit “itchy” with all my training and this was some fun effect!

Ah, important, the DVD is quite short – about 30 minutes – and you will find yourself after two or three weeks practice with some space and need for the second one, as you get easily bored to practice the same two dances + warm up.

Finally!!
Finally a workout that is useful, fun, relatively easy and very encouraging…!!! If you don’t put much into this then it’s true, it’s not a good workout…but if you really put yourself into it and get into the spirit it does make your heart pump and you will feel it!!

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	Carmen Electra: Aerobic Striptease – In the Bedroom [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) Buy used from: £23.51
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	Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease – Vol.5 Hip Hop by Carmen Electra
	Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease – Vol.4 The Lap Dance by Carmen Electra
	Carmen Electra: Aerobic Striptease – Vegas Strip [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) Buy used from: £11.16

Motivating and fun

After watching Mr Motivator’s fitness series on Channel Health called ‘The Fitness Zone’ I became a real fan. The majority of the 11 approx. 7-minute long sections on this DVD remind me a bit of the ‘Fitness Zone’. The fact that you can mix-and-match the sections to create your own workout is really a plus.

There are some nice warm-up sections in a dance aerobics style, and I also enjoy the sections on ‘bums’ and ‘legs’, which feature a good selection of muscle toning exercises for the legs and bum. There is also a good ‘upper body conditioning’ section on this DVD, which can be done with or without weights.

However, I was quite disappointed with the ‘tums’ section. This section only shows 2 or 3 tums exercises, but then it features exercises to strengthen the upper arms and the inner thighs instead.

The ’stretch’ section was also a bit disappointing. It is very short and I would have liked this to be a longer section, as stretching before and after exercise is so important.

The camera work is sometimes a bit strange, e.g. when Mr Motivator explains an exercise for the legs (you have to put your foot like so and so and you knee like this…) and the camera just shows the heads and shoulders of Mr M and his exercise group! It helped me to watch the whole DVD before attempting to do the exercises.

Generally speaking though this DVD is fun and it makes fitting exercise into a busy day easier, since you can choose if you want to do just 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one hour etc. I do hope that Mr Motivator’s exercise videos will be released on DVD as well in the near future. One of them is bound to have a proper section on ‘tums’ (I hope)!

Mr. Motivator [2006] by Mr. Motivator
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Another celebrity fitness video, this time from the young popstar Claire Richards from the band Steps. Claire put on a lot of weight after leaving Steps, and realised that she had to do something about it.

The video is split into five sections. The “Fat Attack” refers to the combat / kickboxing techniques that are used to spice up the workout. As with many workouts at the moment, their is a strong element of boot camp / martial arts movements to work the whole body in an energetic and fun way.

1. Engage Your Body Warm Up: A motivating and all round routine that prepare the body for the combat techniques ahead. This includes stretches and simple choreography to get you in the ‘zone’.
2. Fat Assault Aerobics: This section will have you burning away more calories than you thought possible. Improving cardiovascular fitness, you will also experience gains in your coordination, muscle strength, posture, agility and flexibility. The fat will simply not survive.
3. Combat Manoeurves: An intense yet empowering choreographed workout. A combination of strikes, kicks and punches are taught effectively, enabling you to maximise your workout and ultimately attain the results you want faster. This is high energy stuff and leaves you feeling incredibly motivated.
4. Target and Tone: A variety of toning exercises for the whole body that encourages core stabilisation. Build stronger and leaner muscles as you improve posture– there are simply no areas left uncovered.
5. At Ease Cool Down: A superb end to the workout, raising self-esteem and leaving you completely energised. Stretching exercises will increase your flexibility and reduce stress levels to promote general well-being and vitality.

A message from Claire Richards:

“Hi, I’m Claire Richards from Steps. Last year I looked in the mirror and at 15 stones I didn’t recognise myself, it was a far cry from my days in Steps when I was a size 10. Like most women, changes in my life led to me putting weight on and before I knew it I looked like another person in a fat suit, and I knew things had to change. So I made that change! Thanks to my great new work-out ‘5 Step Fat Attack’ I have lost five stone and am back to looking like me again–now you can do it too! The work-out includes great fat-busting exercises that will have you losing the pounds and having fun with easy to follow routines to your favourite Steps tracks. So make that change today and take the right steps back to looking like yourself again–it’s never too late to get back to the woman you were!”

Customer Reviews

Awesome
This came along at just the right time and already it has done what it says on the label … thank you. Just apply a little effort and you will achieve your dream figure in no time.

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5 Step Fat Attack with Claire Richards from Steps [2008]
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