Customer Reviews

Denise Austin: Body Makeover Mix

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3 star:		(2)
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Denise Austin hosts an excellent fitness DVD designed to help one quickly get into the habit of a solid, fat-blasting exercise regimen! "Body Makeover Mix" (49 min.) offers three 15-minute workouts for toning one's muscles: Upper-Body Sculpt, Lower-Body Sculpt, and Ab & Core Conditioning (which includes standing moves and some mat Pilates). A custom workout interactive option and a music-only option enhance this excellent muscle training DVD. A worthy additions to any fitness library, and highly recommended.

I liked the new routines. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for some new spins on daily work outs. Lower body was fairly easy while the abs and upper body were more challenging.

I thoroughly enjoy this dvd. The exercises are specific and targeted so time is not wasted;she gets right down to business. Each 15 segment is just enough to fit into a busy day. Denise has definitely improved over the years.

This is a challenging and innovative strength training workout. For those who don't like Denise's chirpy style, she is much calmer and more subdued in this DVD. The workout is divided into 3 parts: upper body, lower body and core. The time went by quickly and I was never bored. I will use this DVD often!

This video is great for anyone who, like me, has limited time to work-out. The 3 15-minute workouts are just the right length to allow me to get in some exercise without having to tie up my entire evening. The short lengths also make it more likely that I'll keep up my work-out regimen.

On the days I don't want to do cardio but still feel like exercising, this is a great workout. I love that it seems to target my muscles deeply, even though some of the movements seem small. The legs workout I can definitely feel later. I bought one for my mom also.

I purchased this video from Target yesterday not sure if I should take the risk but I did and I am glad. I was concerned that it would be just a run of the mill toning/weight workout without interesting/fun movements. I am happy to say that I had nothing to worry about.

The workout has many flowing movements I have yet to see in a workout. Many are ballet and Pilates inspired. Lots of movement....fun and inspiring movement. I am very confident that I will enjoy this workout and it will be a nice addition to my collection.

The only thing I am not thrilled with is the music. The trailer played a very different kind of music that is not on the DVD at all that is more inspiring and fun.

But it is still a wonderful, fun, flowing toning workout that is worthwhile to have.

I think my favorite thing about this workout is that you can choose to do just one of the workouts or choose which ones will play so you don't have to go back to the main menu for each workout.
The arms and legs sections are well done, you can see what is happening at all times, the stage is well lit, and Denise and her workout buddies are dressed so that you can see everyone easily. I like the upper body portion as you can make the exercises easier or harder by changing the amount of weight you use - although she does not give you much time to change if you want to use a different weight for different exercises so you have to plan ahead a bit. I found the lower body section to be somewhat challenging, but I can't say I ever really broke a sweat doing it. Both sections used exercises I haven't seen before, and some that are not used very often in other videos which is great!
The abs portion I'm not so thrilled with. There are exercises in it that the beginner cannot, and should not do, and she does not offer modifications for most of them. This portion almost begs the beginner to quit from low back injury or sheer frustration. It kind of surprised me that Denise doesn't have this section fleshed out a bit better since this is in no way an advanced workout, one would expect that beginners would pick it up. I would have given this dvd 5 stars had it not been for this section.
I have only owned a few of Denise's videos over the years, but she seems a bit subdued in this one. Her voice is calm and mellow, and she almost reminds me of a yoga instructor in this one. I found her very pleasant in this workout. Whether or not someone else would like it would depend on what they like in an instructor. If you like super perky instructors or ones who are barking out orders (I gotta admit, depending on my mood sometimes I want someone who is more extreme than she is here), then you're not going to be happy with this one.

This is an excellent video for overall body toning. For 45 minutes, you can't beat that!

What I noticed first about the video is she uses new exercises. She uses weights in the upper body section which tend to tone a combo of muscles with each exercise instead of 1 muscle at a time.

The lower body section uses a lot of ballet movements using a chair for support and then takes it down to the floor for more exercieses. They are very comfortalbe movements, not too challenging.

The abs section is pretty decent for new exercises as well as overall toning using light hand weights.

This is NOT Rigorous toning, but easy toning.

This is one of the best fitness videos I've tried, and I've tried oh so many. Denise is my favorite instructor for several reasons, but I love how consistently motivating she is. I appreciate her calm, reassuring style, especially these days when more and more instructors are going the gruff, tough love direction. The intimidation route doesn't appeal to me at all. This video is great because the workouts are simple yet effective, and I don't have to dress in head to toe gear to get it done. I do this in pajamas and bare feet when my kids go to bed! You can't make excuses for not doing at least 15 minutes of this each night. This video is suitable for all levels and requires only a light set of hand weights.