Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Uav Corporation
• VHS Release Date: January 2, 1997
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304353464
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,767 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

More intense than Kathy Ireland's other workouts, this 62-minute video aims to "take a giant leap" and get your body to an athletic performance level that lets you do the sports you enjoy. This workout for advanced exercisers is based on cross-training moves that athletes use for conditioning, including plyometrics: explosive jumping moves that add intensity. Onscreen exercisers with Ireland include her mother, who sometimes demonstrates modifications. A couple of problems may detract from your enjoyment of this video. Although music is playing, Ireland is off the beat more than she is on. When she cues "right" or "left," she invariably demonstrates the opposite (she is facing the viewer and should be cueing our directions, not her own). Get past these annoyances, and this workout will challenge you. It alternates aerobic sports-conditioning segments using moves like lunges, high-knee jogging, and "plyosquats" (jumping jacks that land in a wide-legged squat position) with upper-body strength segments using dumbbells. The aerobic segments are exactly the same each time and may not satisfy you if you like variety. --Joan Price

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Make room!!!, September 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Kathy Ireland's Advanced Sports Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a varied, challenging workout.

My biggest gripe is that nowhere on the box is it advised that one must have a living room the size of a ballroom to fully execute all the moves!! A little frustrating!! One also need a weight bench & basic weights. Furthermore, Kathy's baby-soft, sex kitten whisper is even MORE annoying than those ultra-perky cheerleader-type exercise trainers (you know what I mean!!!)

I exercise almost everyday. I used this video just one time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good strength but need more cardio challenge, March 29, 2002

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Karen (Salem, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kathy Ireland's Advanced Sports Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was not greatly pleased with this tape which should actually be for beginners or intermediate level people. The strength portions of the tape were ok challenge wise but I did not like the cardio section. It was really slow and it didn't get my heart rate up high enough or for long enough because she only does them for like 5 minutes and then goes into another strength section.
The tape starts out with a really long talk from Kathy Ireland and then she goes into introducing all the people who will be working out with her (really weird). This is followed by a quick warmup and then she slowly goes through the cardio circuit which will be repeated 3 times throughout the tape. The circuit is then brought up to tempo and lasts about 5 minutes tops. Then there is 3 different strength exercises for the shoulders, the cardio circuit is repeated, 3 strength exercises for the chest, the cardio circuit again, 3 bicep/tricep exercises, then a cool down.
Good for beginners but not for the advanced who really want to get their heart rate up. Plus the fact that her own routine is too hard for Kathy and she is out of breath most of the whole way through is kind of ironic. Also she doesn't know where the beat is in the music and her friends constant chatter is annoying. It is strange at the end when they all shot water from their water bottles at each other and some guy we don't know comes out and hugs Kathy. Kind of a strange tape but hey, if you're a beginner stick it out because the strenght moves should be beneficial.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for inner thigh and glutes but not much else., December 26, 2007

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BAGS (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kathy Ireland's Advanced Sports Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Like the other reviewers said, if this is for advanced exercisers, why does the instructor give so much beginner information on form? That would be my biggest gripe about this, that a lot of time is spent giving pointers that beginners can use but intermediates already know. Also, I think the faster tempo reps on the weight exercises are too fast. Instead of flailing my arms about trying to keep up, I do the reps at a slower, more controled pace. She does so many reps that even at a slower pace I get all the reps I need.

All the weight work is upper body. All the cardio is lower body. Not my style. I felt it worked my inner thighs/glutes but not much else.