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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Way To Start Building A Foundation Of Cardiovascular Fitness!, November 25, 2007
This program, Sweat 1-2 by Tony Horton and Beachbody is part of a complete synergistic program designed to take anyone from being out of shape to being in great shape.
The program starts w/ Sculpt 1-2 which is alternated with Sweat 1-2 every other day plus one rest day.
There is also a nutrition plan involved, so if you're eating poorly and expect to continue to do so and get great results you'll be sorely disappointed.
Of course it's still better to exercise even if you eat badly than NOT to exercise, but you will seriously limit your results plus you won't recover as well from the workouts with poor nutrition. Believe me, these are REAL workouts that require real commitement and effort but all aspects of rest and recovery are important components as well!
That being said, Tony does ease you into the workouts and gives many options, especially with the 1-2 programs, for modifications of the exercises. He's not trying to kill you, but you are trying to build a fitness base.
You start off with warm ups, then do Yoga, Standing Ab work, X-Work (which is footwork based around an X pattern (actually it's more like a plus sign) and then you move on to kickboxing type work.
The program is followed with an Ab ripper 100 program which is an effective short ab routine.
As with all of Tony Horton's programs, they are straight forward and hard work. No magic bullets, just a simple format that works if you actually do the work.
The Power 90 programs are the earliest of Tony's programs w/ Beachbody and were definitely low budget endeavors compared to P90X which was done when they had more money to invest in production.
Still, Power 90 is very effective and quite challenging.
I do want to mention that during the X-work there are some high impact moves so be aware of that, BUT Tony does show modifications for that and encourages folks to work at their own pace.
If one commits to this (or really ANY exercise program) and you clean up your nutrition you'll get results. If you don't make any effort then you won't make any changes.
Tony, by the way, is a bit of a character so be prepared. As one person wrote in a review I read elsewhere "Sometimes Tony's funny and cute and sometimes you want to smash him in the face with a brick!".
I find him mostly funny, but some may find his personality to be less to their liking.
Still, even if you can't stand him but do the workouts anyway, you'll end up loving what YOU get out of it.
I do highly recommend this and Tony's other programs and even recently bought the Power 90 set for one of my brothers because I know how effective they are.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An awesome workout!, June 20, 2007
Couple this with the Power 90 Sculpt! 1-2 and you've got a great workout routine. It tones you up very nicely and makes you stronger for sure. I've tried a lot of workout videos, and the Power 90 series is definitely one of the best I've found. I recommend it to everyone, although it can get strenuous at the beginning, so don't feel you have to graduate to 3-4 after 45 days. Take it at your own pace and work up to theirs and you will see results!
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