Product Details

• Actors: Cindy Joseph, Robyn Stuhr
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Acorn Media
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00014TCR2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,212 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Muscles tighten in your 50s, inhibiting the full range of motion and making a regular flexibility program more important than ever to improve posture, prevent injury and relieve stress. This fact-filled flexibility guide and workout is uniquely designed to address your changing body’s needs and to inspire you to get in the best shape of your life.

DVD BONUS FEATURES include tips for creating a personal fitness plan, Keeping Fit Fundamentals, suggestions for beginners, participant biographies and glossary of terms.

A complete flexibility workout and much more including: insights into the importance of flexibility training in your 50s; exercise tips for achieving maximum results; 40-minute core routine; introductory Pilates and yoga workouts; and Keeping Fit Fundamentals, a Q&A session with medical experts Lisa Callahan, M.D., author of The Fitness Factor, and Lillie Shockney, R.N., author of Breast Cancer Survivor’s Club.

Cindy Joseph, one of today’s most popular print and television models, began her modeling career at age 49. She shares her enthusiasm for exercise and for the amazing potential of life in your 50s.

Robyn Stuhr, administrative director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, is a certified exercise physiologist with 20 years of experience in sports training.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Model & A Jock Doing Yoga . . . ., January 5, 2005

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S. Atman (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Flexibility [VHS] (VHS Tape)

These are not your average fiftysomethings. One is a model with an obvious facelift, the other is a cyclist who keeps opening her eyes very wide as if she's having shock treatments. Both are in phenomenal shape, and both talk as if they're speaking to retarded children. (I'm fifty-five, I am not stupid!)

The video begins with a lot of "tips." Things most people know at fifteen and probably have taught by fifty. For example, we get a nice shot of what a calf is. (Body part, not farm animal.) We're told that if a stretch is too difficult, we should back off. Duh. (Again, I'm aging, not stupid.)

The stretching is basic Iyengar Yoga. That would be fine if (1) it were very simple Yoga for those of us with arthritis and other problems and, (2) if detailed information about how to do each posture properly was given. It isn't.

Just as the viewer has decided to be spoken down to and has gotten into the stretching (Yoga), the two women on the tape decide to give us a taste of Pilates, and then what they actually call Yoga, which is what we've been doing for an hour already. ???

Although the stretching and other work is all right, the women thankfully aren't twelve and bubbly, and the music is only repetitive enough to peel the enamel off one's teeth, I'm not happy with this video. I do a lot better with Rita Moreno's "Now You Can!" and the Living Arts Yoga series.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I'm so very disappointed!, February 7, 2007

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JAR - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Flexibility (DVD)

This is absolutely the most annoying exercise video I have ever viewed.

Too much talk! I just couldn't get pass the chatter. The narrator is condescending lecturing as if talking to 5 or 6 year old children. The constant babble is a turn off when one is trying to exercise. I kept watching, and hoping but by the time I reached segment 6 I was fed up! I hit mute! Without the chatter the video might be somewhat useful -- don't know.

Chattr aside -- keeping fit in your 50s is a very very basic intro to body-sculpting. If you have never exercised it might be for you. If you want a good work-out video this video is not for you.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect after a fatigue-filled menopause, September 15, 2007

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K. K. Tamenne (Pittsburgh PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Flexibility (DVD)

Since I am on the other side of a fatigue-filled menopause, I am now in horrible physical condition and find this DVD perfect for someone in my condition. Every single muscle in my body aches. I have tried all sorts of different yoga DVDs and find them too difficult (at this time) for me. I think it's a good place for me to start.

I also have to say that I don't find them talking to me like I am stupid. I think they are talking to those who have not had much experience with yoga, pilates, and exercise in general, and, last buy not least, the elderly.

The worst thing I can say about this is that that in order to miss all the talk, I have to FF to the right spot. I miss the old VHS tapes, where you could turn it off and start right at the place you want. If there is a way to do this with a DVD, I would love to know.