Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• VHS Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Run Time: 35 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304235860
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,392 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

All of the Crunch videos have high energy and give a good workout. Best Arms and Abs is no exception; however it doesn't have the same careful explanations as some. Teacher Faith Scarinzi certainly gives it her all in trying to motivate, but she doesn't spend enough time on style or on how to do the specific exercises properly. For example, you need two sets of weights for this workout--one set under three pounds and one set three pounds or heavier--but it's unclear in the first workout which set you're supposed to be using (the lighter ones, it turns out). Also, the camera occasionally shifts away at an awkward moment, making if difficult to see movement is being performed. Yet, these reservations aside, the workout Faith leads is certainly going to help you develop some muscles. After the brief warm-up, there are four sections alternating work on arms and abs. Obviously, the farther into the half-hour program you get, the more challenging the exercises are, but they can certainly be taken at your own pace, using a weight level with which you're comfortable. The pairing of the two body parts on this one workout is nice, but if you want some serious ab work, consider Crunch's Washboard Abs instead. --Jenny Brown

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great workout!, May 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Crunch: Best Abs & Arms [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a great workout! The first time through, I thought I wasn't working - but the next day I could FEEL how hard I'd actually worked. After a month of doing this video about 3 times per week, I see a noticable (visable) difference in my arms and I can feel how much stronger my abs are.

Some of the moves and exercises are on the intermediate level, but I believe anyone could do this video (with some minor modifications to take it down to beginning). Buy this video if you want great arms & abs - it WORKS!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip, January 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Crunch: Best Abs & Arms [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I didn't find this to be a good workout video. I often felt lost and had to rewind to understand what exercise we were doing next and how to do it. There was poor explanation, you have to learn by watching and then doing. This could take multiple watchings before the viewer understands. I would skip this video, I've used much better ones.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not too good, August 15, 2003

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Jess "Jessica" (Pittsburgh, Pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crunch: Best Abs & Arms [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've seen alot better videos out there. The moving the legs and arms were not effective exercises and the abs section is not challenging. I'd skip, this is the worse review I've ever done.