Customer Reviews

Platinum Series: Abs of Steel 2000 [VHS]

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

This video should be entitled "Low-Impact Aerobics"...because that is all you do the first 30 minutes. The last 15 minutes or so you finally get to the ab section of the video, but it doesn't compare to Abs of Steel Version 1.

I bought this video as a follow up to the Abs of Steel one. I didn't like it much. Most of the video is low impact aerobics, that are hard to follow even if you are used to follow aerobic classes. The toning segment is the only part of the video that is appropriately called Abs of Steel. The segment is quite good, but short and this is what I was looking for in the first place.

I am glad to read in another review that it was hard to follow even if you had taken a lot of aerobics classes, because I kept losing focus when I would get lost. The routine built to a very complicated dance that was too hard to follow without stopping to rewind a bit and finally give up and make up something to keep my heart rate up.
I hated the chatting between the instructors, and I thought the abs section was really too light. If you do a lot of cheerleading-type dance, and you are looking for a low-impact tape, I am sure this is great.

I'll admit that this is a good workout tape. However after about a month, I got bored. Also the tape is long enough to let you burn the calories, but too long if you are a busy person such as I.

This has to be my all time favorite workout video. It combines 30 minutes of low-impact aerobics and a nice lengthy section of strickly ab toning. I bought this video years ago and I used it so much the tape wore out. I've been searching everywhere for another copy. Obviously if you read the package it says half is aerobics and half is toning. The perfect combination when you are looking to lose weight. Combine this video with better eating habits and you have nothing to lose but extra weight!

I bought this tape thinking that I would get an intense abdominal toning session, and instead, there is long stretch of aerobics at the beginning. I am not a big fan of aerobics in the first place, due to the chirping and ranting of most instructors and the idiotic and pointless flailing that it usually entails. Okay, fine. I don't do aerobics, and limit my cardio workout to sensible things like walking or commuting by bike or swimming. This leads me to the second complaint I have about the video, and that is the leader's incessant chatter throughout. Why can't they just COUNT! I find myself actually yelling at them to SHUT UP!! Which, actually works my abs a little harder, so there might be a reason for this annoying banter after all. At one point, the third instructor actually changes the exercise in mid-execution. I thought this was very sloppy. But, I must say, the workout itself is satisfying and produces results, if you can stand it.

I really cannot say enough BAD things about this video. The reason I bought the video in the first place was to work on my abs. The tiny little abs work out they have included after 30 minutes of low impact aerobics was really pathetic. Personally I can't see how the few situps that are included in the work out could have any effect. Just as you are beginning to feel the muscle working the "exericze bunnies" are slamming you around to work something else. The video ended and I was angry. I had wasted 50 minutes of my time on exercizes that are literally worthless. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS VIDEO!

I really thought that this was a great workout for weightloss, because it combined aerobics with toning and I lost 20 pounds in 2 months doing this everyday. I really like it thought it was good and I recently purchased the thigh of steel 2000.

This product works- have used it in the past and had great results! just stick with it, it can seem hard (abs) at first but if you continue you will see and feel the difference!

I owned this tape, along with the other platinum series tapes, when I was a college student in the late 90s. My body looked amazing then. Well...once I turned thirty, my body had gotten flabby and out of shape. I returned to this tape, along with the others, and my body quickly got back into shape. The combination of aerobics/toning gets you faster results. The aerobics will get rid of the layer of fat so you can see the toned abdominal muscles underneath. You really need both cardio and toning to get that six pack look. The aerobics are very dance-like, which I love, because it does not feel like working out and it makes the cardio fun. But if you hate dance workouts and are not very coordinated, then I can see while you would hate this tape. But the workout is very effective and I would recommend it.