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This box set, if you can see beyond some of the eighties clothing, the senior stretches, and the erotic yoga, is actually pretty good.

GOOD -- It has aerobics. Yes, aerobics, and a few hours of them. Not tae-bo, pilates, power-yoga, but hard core, totally late-eighties, aerobics. I can't find them anywhere on the market, except here. Aerobics were my initiation into the world of fitness, so for me those programs bring back memories. They have been (rightfully) replaced with safer methods, but why take everything so seriously?

GOOD -- It has something like tae bo, which is good too, and that is far less dated than the super '80s aerobics sequences. The kickboxing segments are called ''kick butt'' and ''tai fit.'' Both of them have outstanding instruction.

BAD -- It has ¨stretching for the elderly¨ -- really, it is called ¨more alive¨ -- I guess if you follow the exercise routine, you will be 'less dead'. Yes, that is kind of disturbing, if you are awake and alive enough to see why.

BAD -- There is a yoga sequence, which is a total perversion of everything yoga. It is an erotic portrayal of the blond yoga student (Jerry Hall) theoretically working under a more experienced Indian lady who knows yoga. The student has blue eyes, and bright lipstick.

BAD -- The introduction totally paints her whole body with henna, which turns into a pattern on her eighties sweat pants. She sits in a lotus position, and she morphs into 'some-sort-of-oriental-symbol.'

I was horrified at this approach to teaching Yoga.

I don't see any compensation postures, reps, or flow in the sequence. But I guess that really wasn't the point of the video, so why bother with the yoga part anyway?

It attempts to teach yogic breathing; Jerry Hall inhales, and her eyes sink back in ecstasy. The camera zones in on her eye-lashes here, and stays there. I really wonder if the camera man and the director weren't freelance guys that had been in the pornography industry too long.

EXCUSE -- as I see it, the programs aren't as awful as people are claiming. The mixture is as terrible as the presentation. ''yogacize'' and ''kick butt'' are on the same DVD. Totally inappropriate. Imagine confusing the steak sauce with the hot fudge, or eating cole-slaw with sushi. bla!!!

GOOD -- I say that the tai-kick, and the awkward aerobics are the strengths of this totally random series. Really, this is the rocky horror picture show of the fitness industry.

I've never left a review before - but this one is so bad I just had to keep others from wasting their money. My 10 year old decided to start some daily exercise. When looking at DVD's she decided that this would be a good starting point so she could get a variety of different options and then decide what she liked the best. She was most interested in the "More Alive" and "Fat Burners" programs. Not only are ALL of the programs EXTREMELY dated, but the "Fat Burners" looks like it's the 50th copy made of the same video tape - not even watchable (due to the static) in some areas - and on my copy the "More Alive" program has been replaced by the "Tracy Lords program" - which can only be described as disturbing. This program was NOT listed on the cover. My $20 would have been much better spent on one QUALITY (this century)fitness DVD.

I bought this dvd because I found it for $9.99 and thought for over 12 hours of workouts that was a great deal - I checked the release date and it was 2002 - so I wasn't worried. I put in the first tape, though, and wow!! Talk about outdated! I had a really hard time getting past the little things (like hot pink shiny workout outfits and girls with short bangs curled and hairsprayed) - still - I figured I'd give another workout a try and I couldn't even get through the intro. - it was a segment talking about backcare that was simply outdated and too much to take...waste of money.

I was very excited when I first saw this set. So I bought it not thinking that these were programs so outdated, if I did I never would have bought it. The cover information is very misleading. It gives all these great programs that you can workout with but nowhere on the cover or back does it say that these are all programs 15 years old or more.

This was a good idea, put 10 different types of workouts on one dvd set. Nice concept, right?? Well they ruined it by using the oldest most generic videos, that probably didn't sell back in 1988. I only watched the beginning of most of them. There were some Funky Aerobics on one of them and they had some funky outfits to go with them. The TaiFit is not nearly as good as Billy Blanks TaeBo. I watched more of the Jazzthetics than anything, because it was so funny. Obvious Traci Lords thought so too, because I noticed her laughing in some spots. And I wouldn't recommend doing sit-ups like she did, I think she was trying her best to make her chin touch her chest.

I recommend not wasting your money on this dvd set and instead build you a 10 best workouts slowly. Maybe buy Kathy Smith Kickboxing now and a Taebo later, etc.

I was so excited when I bought this DVD because I thought that I was getting a good value. Boy was I in for a shock! I like to sit down and watch the workout tape before I actually do it and to my shock and horror, this was not a new workout series, not even within the last 10 years. Boring, yawn!

This DVD is very poor and is somewhat dangerous in places. I have other DVDs such as Tae-Bo, Kathy Smith's kickboxing workout and Karen Voight's circuit training - ten best is not a patch on any of these. The cueing on some of the workouts is terrible. Some are so old and include bouncing stretches - anyone who is currently into exercising would know that this brings a risk of injury.
The Tae-Fit workouts dont really get your heartrate going like Tae-Bo but seem to be the best and most recent workouts on the DVD. The front cover lead me to believe it was a dvd with new workouts - not based on 1980's style moves!
In all, a poor purchase and I am returning my copy soon!

(...) TCheesy and very low budget are the best words to describe these DVDs. The instructors are a big joke, especially the guy on the "Fat Burning" portion who is wearing neon orange tights that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination (and he is scrawny and hairy, also)...not a pretty sight. Then you've got Traci Lords doing aerobics in a teeny tiny bikini, which may appeal to some but that's not something I want to watch! I think the director forgot to tell her that this isn't a porno (she closes her eyes and breathes heavily quite a bit).
I basically put each DVD in and watched the first few minutes of each one and that will be the last time they are ever near my DVD player.

This is a sad set of fitness videos. They are full of late 80's to 90's videos (that probably were not even popular in their day.) and are packaged as if they are the best new set of videos out there. The picture quality is very poor and the content quality is even worse. The only thing this set has going for it is the number of different workouts it has.

I agree with everyone else. This is very dated and cheesy. I was so excited when I bought this - thought the concept was good. I bought this at a Name Store, and it was one of the few workout videos they had on the shelf that wasn't yoga. So I am very disappointed that this is all you can get out there. But on the fat burners dvd - there is one workout that has funky aerobics, hot bods and baby boomers aerobics. The Hot Bods and baby boomers are 30 minutes each and they are pretty good. You have to ignore the outfits, though. I laughed my behind off, I did one of the other aerobics programs and I had to stop after 5 minutes and just sat there and laughed. My 3 year old came into the room and asked what the weird girl was doing on the tv. It was actually a man in a one piece black leotard with a white belt!!