Product Details

• Actors: Minna Lessig
• Directors: *
• Format: Closed-captioned, 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: Sony Wonder (Video)
• DVD Release Date: March 21, 2006
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E6EK1K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,505 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

As Health Watch Contributor to the CBS Early Show and star of three top-selling fitness videos under her name already, Minna Lessig is a familiar face to millions of women looking for fitness advice. In addition, Lessig’s weekly fitness column in the Miami Herald has run for over three years. She was the 1997 Miss Fitness USA and has trained athletes including Olympic Decathlon champ, Dan O’Brien and Seattle Mariner, Alex Rodriquez.

Fitness experts Michelle and Phil Dozois designed the exercise segments and sequences, and consulted with the DVD engineers to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the workout mixes. The Dozois are co-owners of Breakthru Fitness in Pasadena, CA. Michelle Dozois has appeared in over twenty popular fitness videos. She is a former National and World Aerobic Champion, certified by A.C.E., Stott Pilates and the Physical Mind Institute.

Product Description

Just answer three simple questions and you could enjoy a different workout EVERY DAY for the rest of your life! 1 MINUTE WORKOUT: Total Body Toning with Minna Lessig is the most versatile and complete workout system ever to be released on one DVD!

It’s as easy to use as 1, 2, 3! This revolutionary DVD prompts you to pick your target area, your level of intensity and your workout length, and then creates a customized and unique circuit-training workout designed to meet your particular fitness goals. With over 115 different one-minute segments in its database, this DVD can create virtually limitless exercise combinations to keep your workouts fresh and help you avoid those frustrating workout plateaus. Even if you pick the same three answers every time, you may still never get the same workout twice! Intelligently designed, each unique circuit-training workout will elevate the heart rate while strengthening the muscles to provide maximum results. 1 Minute Workout also includes multiple warm-ups and cool-downs, as well as ‘Fast Track Workouts’ – a great option on those days when you’re really crunched for time and want to do a quick and effective total body workout. Special Features include a seven-minute Bonus Stretch Segment, Tips and Techniques for each trouble zone and How to Get the Most out of this Program.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The boredom-free workout, July 25, 2006

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This review is from: Minna Lessig - Total Body Toning - 1 Minute Workout (DVD)

This DVD is really the cure to workout boredom. It's over 120+ one minute exercises vary each time to put in the DVD, so you'll even begin to look forward to seeing which one is chosen each time. You can vary both the length of your workout and the intensity - which various time intervals and a beginning and advanced skill level. You can also choose to focus on a specific area - such as upper body, lower body, and total body. I've read some of the reviewers say they didn't find this one challenging, but I found that I did - especially when I played the DVD for at least 20 minutes or more. I liked the options to workout in less time as well, as sometimes it's just a nice compliment to another workout. This DVD offers so much variety I'd say it would fit nicely into any routine.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid workout for beginners to intermediate, April 10, 2006

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This review is from: Minna Lessig - Total Body Toning - 1 Minute Workout (DVD)

The thing which distinguishes a Minna Lessig workout is that her focus is always on using safe exercises to get good results, i.e. become more fit and generally lose weight. Her education in physical therapy and biology is clearly reflected in her approach of challenging, but not overexerting, the body.

The upshot is that this DVD, as with all her DVDs, is optimistic and body-positive in its conception. It focuses on what most people will be able to do in a very small amount of time to get in shape and change their lives rather than just on how the average person's buns, abs, or upper arms are going to look later. The focus is on being patient and on the real, positive changes happening inside the body long before they become visible on the outside.

The minute-exercise concept works well, and transitions are well planned. However, some exercises are necessarily more challenging, e.g. push-ups, than others because they have to be performed more quickly. The level 1 exercises tend to include fewer multi-muscle-group exercises than the level 2 exercises. The concept also seems to be that the better shape you are in, the more you will have to gradually add heavier weights to your routine to challenge yourself and progress. You have to have enough body-awareness to know how your workout feels and ergo how heavy your weights should be. The other part of the workout concept is that form is everything - the challenge for more fit students is not just to perform the exercises in the short amount of time allotted, but to perform them properly. This is where the aerobic element has been built into the workout.

Since the one-minute concept necessarily adds in a few seconds of break between each new exercise, you don't do several minutes' of uninterrupted aerobic exercise. However, the workouts are aerobic, especially on level 2, and even those who are in better shape will be able to get a good workout from this DVD, provided that they select the right level of challenge for themselves and, as Minna might say, really pay attention to their form.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hardly Boredom Free..., January 15, 2007

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I was slightly disappointed by this DVD. Although I like the concept of a constantly changing workout video, this one doesn't have enough "1 minute" segments in my opinion. I generally get the same segments repeated 3 or 4 times PER WORKOUT. It's not a horrible thing, but just don't get too overly impressed by the claims that there are a million workout possibilities contained within this DVD. Are there an almost infinite number of ORDERS these segments could be put in? Sure. But when the segments are repeated multiple times within the same 15 minutes, it kind of defeats an "boredom busting" qualities this DVD might have.