Customer Reviews

Gilad's Ultimate Body Sculpt Series - Cuts and Curves

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This DVD consists of a warm-up, 39 minutes of toning for upper body and lower body and a 6 minute stretch. In the first half of the toning you'll alternate between upper body and lower body doing squats and lunges for the legs and concentrating on the shoulders, biceps, and triceps for the upper body. Gilad and his class use an x-ertube (a resistance band with handles). He says you can use your own body weight or dumbells but doesn't have anyone showing that modification and he really should have.

The second half of the workout is mostly upper body working shoulders, biceps ,triceps, back and chest using 2 sets of weights. Towards the end there's a short segment working calves with upper body. The workout ends with push-ups and chest flies. As usual, Gilad is motivating and provides many form pointers. My only complaint is that you can't select the resistance band and weights sections separately. You can individually select the warm-up, entire sculpting section and the cool down. Overall, I loved the beach setting and thought the exercises were very effective

I love Gilad, but I have to say, in this dvd, he isn't as much fun as he usually is.
Here is my list of Pros and Cons. PROS: It is a good solid workout, especially good for tricepts and bicepts. He is good at cueing the exercisise and showing correct form. I like using the bands with the leg exercises. He has a great exercise for the calves. Cons: NO ABDOMINAL EXERCISES in this dvd. The music is almost non-existant. If you like to work your back out (traps, lats, rear delts and rhomboids) you may find the back exercises too easy and not enough reps- I did them with both arms to make it harder. He doesn't have anyone showing modifications for absolute beginners-though the exercises are not that complicated. But overall a decent workout.

Well, let me start by saying this: It was back in September, 2006 that i suddenly realized "Man i've let myself go.." (An 8 yr. old daughter & 2 yr. old son later) i was at 213 lbs. my heaviest (scary i tell you!)

It was shortly after that i discovered Gilad and his workouts on fit tv, he is motivating & fun, but i am sometimes sore from his workouts. I DO feel very invigorated after doing them, no matter how sore i am!

Well, long story short.. i've been doing the workouts & have gone from a size 18 to a 14 AND i am continuing to do them to get much lower than what i'm at now (180 lbs. currently..)

IF you stick to doing the workouts you WILL see results, though i must say.. for me it's a long road. (BUT a road that i look forward to going down & STAYING down!) So, if you really want to get to your goal weight try them & have FUN !!

I like this dvd a lot. It is aimed mainly at the upper body. The first part he uses a band and the second is weights. But I would recomend doing half of the workout at at time, my shoulders were sore for almost three weeks afer this workout. I would have liked the cool down or warm up to have more stretching of all the muscle groups.

I just tried this DVD this morning! Wow... I was expecting to be sore tomorrow, but I can tell you that my rear end is feeling it! I have been working out rigorously for the past 7 to 8 weeks and this one worked me hard... in a good way. Gilad is a GREAT instructor. He actually inspires you to want to do each movement well and keeps you focused on the muscle being worked and your posture. I love this workout and am looking forward to purchasing more of Gilad's DVDs. The previous reviewers are unto something with Gilad! Worth every penny :-)

Love Gilad! You will definitely see results in a few weeks time. If you are not sore, than there is something wrong with you! In one month, I have noticed increased strength and endurance. I wish he included abs but the core video is great too.

This video is as promised. It is strictly a toning video to create cuts and curves. No abs, but that was strategic so you'd buy the Core & More video (which I think is well worth the buy). My triceps didn't like that band too much! OOH That was tough! Gilad likes to lunge a lot too so be prepared for that. I like Gilad's style -- it's definitely suitable for a man or a woman. There is no dancing involved! It has been offically added to the weekly routine.

It's packed with one full hour of serious strength training! I think it's phenomenal, but it takes time to build the endurance to complete the full hour. I enjoyed every exercise, and I sure feel it afterward. The setting keeps you motivated as they do their exercises on a beach, with the backdrop being the ocean. I think this DVD is filmed in Hawaii, but I'm not sure. I try to workout to this DVD once or twice a week.

Gilad is wonderful not only to look at but the workout really does the job. I have a number of his workouts and I would recommend him to anyone that wants to tone and firm your whole body.

This is part of set of three dvds. All excellent. This one is for scupting and uses weights and a resistance band. Don't worry, if you don't have a resistance band you can use weights instead, no biggy. Also don't count on getting your heart rate up, like I said this is a scupting workout, so consider a jog/walk on the days you use this one if you want cardio too.

This is not a difficult workout, but I would suggest, expecially to beginners, to watch it first so you know what you need to do and as always with excercises watch your form so you don't injure yourself.