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Get Started Richard Simmons [VHS]

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This is a great tape for anyone who is trying to lose weight but is having trouble doing it. The exercises are very easy to follow and you don't feel like you're ready to fall over at the end from exhaustion. I have asthma and this is the only tape I can do because it's not straining on my lungs and it gives me a very good workout. Even if you need to lose fifty pounds or five pounds this tape is wonderful. No more excuses for not getting into shape, even if you have health problems. God Bless you Richard Simmons.

This tape is excellent for beginners. I didn't have any trouble keeping up with the moves, but it got my heartrate up. It's not too intense, and I enjoyed doing it. I'm not a big fan of exercise tapes, because the moves are usually difficult and I feel completely exhausted afterwards. This tape isn't like that at all. If you are beginning a weight loss/better health program this tape is for you!

You just can't go wrong with any video that Richard Simmons does! I have found all of them that I have tried to be even more fun than the last. Perhaps it's becuase he's actually 'been there', he seems to easily give back motivation that can get lost over a period of time. He makes you want to take inventory and get healthy! The video is a small investment when you're talking about your health!

I decided to try this tape having read the other reviews of it. Normally, I don't care for Richard Simmons because, for me, he's just way too far over the top. In this tape he is actually calm. The one criticism I have, and it is minor, is he forgets to consider mirror-image, that is, his right is our left.
He initially tones the body and then does a light aerobic workout. I found as I was beginning that just doing the toning part helped. As I got stronger, I was able to do the aerobic portion.
You do need to watch the whole tape once and from then on, only back up to where you take your initial pulse so you avoid the insipient mush. But in this one its not spread fully throughout the whole tape. And there is not the silliness that irritates me with other tapes I have seen.

This video is exactly what is in the title. It gets you started on eating healthy and exercising. I purchased this tape based on the reviews and felt a little misled so let me clarify a few things. The first half hour or so of the tape is of Richard introducing people who lost weight, then how you need to eat to lose weight, how the body gains fat, foods and the food portions that are good and not good for you. So after listening to basically a nutrition lesson, then he moves into the exercises. Now I was looking for a tape to help me slowly get back into exercising since I just had my second baby. I kept overdoing it and getting sick so I wanted something easier. This tape is perfect for that because Richard moves very slowly through each exercise and they are extremely easy to follow. However, they were a little too easy for me. The thing about the reviews is that I couldn't tell if they were written by a 400lb. person or a 160lb. person. I'm only 20-30 pounds over my ideal weight. I'm not really heavy so I was a little disappointed in the cardio part of the video, which is so easy that at first I thought the video didn't come with an aerobic part. I do enjoy how Richard incorporates toning, stretching, and some cardio all into one. I give this video five stars because it does follow the title, Get Started. If you are obese it will work you for a while. If you're only trying to shed a few pounds without overdoing it too fast this is only a good video for about a week or two, then I would recommend getting a more challenging one and using this video for the days that you feel to lazy to exercise but know you need to do it. It's so easy that I would totally use it as a pregnancy video too (if you are at a good weight and in good health). Also, Richard has a rep for being bubbly and cheesy. He is serious through this whole video which I found more annoying than his perk. And if you can stand some of the poor camera shots, the bad music, and the girl in the background flipping her hair around then you'll do good with this one.

I have had this video for years and have used it throughout the years to get me going. I will have just about worn it out and will have to buy a new copy. Great stretching exercises to get me going in the morning. I get up early (4am)to do it - I can now follow with my eyes closed - just listening to him! Love ya Richard!

This video is great for those who do not know where to begin. The first 15-20 minutes is a nutrition class and you meet some of richards clients who have lost a great deal of weight. the last 40 minutes is the actual aerobic portion. This is a very slow aerobic video so if you have been flustered in the past on keeping up you do not have to worry. I found the video not as advanced for me but I enjoy it because I am using it as my warm-up before I do my treadmill so I pop this video in and warm-up for 5-10 minutes then go to treadmill for my fatburning part. Richard is not crazy in this video he is quite tame in personality. Hope this helps!!

The main reason I decided to go with Richard Simmons as opposed to ALL those many other fitness gurus out there is that he's been on the other side of bad health and obesity. He is FOR REAL and very encouraging when it comes to eating right, exercising, and relating to how hard it is to live healthy and to lose weight. His motto is always to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and DON'T GIVE UP, one day at a time. When we see Richard today in 2006, he is high energy, electric, and talks fast. But in this 1994 tape, he looks less hyper, is more low key, and talks slower and softer. He understands and comes across as very sincere in his desire to help people to get on the road to good health through nutrition and exercise. The beginning part is basic food knowledge that everyone should know. The exercise part seems like Richard Simmons in slow motion. And he always includes people to exercise along with him in his videos who are overweight and dealing with the Battle of the Bulge too, so I don't feel alone. I'd rather exercise with these real folks than those skinny, shapely, muscular, model-looking aerobics instructors (most people don't look like them anyway). This tape is very inspiring and encouraging and has got to be the absolute bottom line easiest exercise video for the most out-of-shape person on the planet!

If you have been a couch potatoe, this is the video to get you up and starting to move. It is very low impact. I have arthritis in both knees and hips, and this video lets me move and not be in pain. I would reccommend this to everyone. I had this tape a long time ago, and lost it when I moved. I was very happy to find it again.

i am looking for the exersice moves for this exersice program i have the cassett tape but i can't remember how to do the moves so i would love to get the moves if possable thank you