Customer Reviews

5 Day Fit Weight Loss

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This DVD consists of five 30 minute workouts:
1) starts with a lot of yoga/pilates then a little bit of martial arts. I found the instructor to be a little too calm somehow. For people who like very soft spoken instructors, this might not be a negative, though. Though the cuing on the pilates/yoga warm up section was pretty good, I did find the martial arts part to be confusing. I felt like I needed a little more information about form.
2) a walking in place routine. This one could be good for light workout days, but it wouldn't be enough for me on days that I really want to sweat. I liked the instructor, though.
3) a dance workout...includes a few different sections. First, she shows a move, then you add that move into the whole routine that you have learned thus far, then you learn a new move, etc. I have no dance background, and I think it will take me a while to learn this. However, it's really different from everything else I have, so it's nice to have.
4) yoga. Instructor is fun and has good cuing.
5) a workout by Tanja Djelevic...I love her, and have several workouts by her. This one is also good and very high energy as always.

You may want to note, I don't think this is new material. You can tell this because some of the sections come to an end and the instructor is obviously still going..I think they are just segments taken from other GAIAM dvds. In all, I think it was useful to buy because now I know some instructors that I like and some that I do not like, which will help me picking exercise dvds in the future. However, I don't think most of this dvd will make it into my rotation frequently, except when I am bored and want to do something different. I will probably use the yoga and Tanja's workout more frequently.

I had to quit the Y since I couldn't afford it anymore, so I went back to getting exercise dvds. This is the first one I bought and absolutely love this. I love that it has several different workouts all with different levels. If I'm feeling exhausted I'll do the walking workout, if I feel like kicking ass, I'll do the budokon workout (martial arts), etc. I have lost 10 pounds since January (didn't lose anything by going to the Y), but of course it helped that I started eating healthier and cutting back on dairy.

This is a great boredom buster. The budakon workout is a real kick-butt workout, leaving me feeling like I'm going to pass out when it's over. Great cueing from the instructor. The cardio portion with Tanja Djelevic was a great head to toe workout and Tanja is an enthusiastic and helpful instructor. The walking workout with Debbie Rocker was good for days when I just needed to get my heart rate up, but couldn't deal with a lot of kicking and jumping.

I tried doing the dance portion with Patricia Moreno, but through no fault of the instructor, just couldn't get the steps down. I'm just an uncoordinated mess. I didn't do the yoga portion, because well, yoga just bores me silly.

Overall, great compact workouts with a little something for everybody. Definintely reccommend the Budakon, the Cardio and the walking, in that order.

After having a second baby I don't have much time to exercise but this DVD helped me a lot to get into shape and speed up my recovery. I mean to return my body shape. It doesn't take too long it is not too shorts. Absolutely great programs I am more than happy with it. Thank you.