Customer Reviews

Quick Toning: Lower Body of Steel [VHS]

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Structure: 3 15-minute workouts; each has a 2-minute warmup, 11 minutes toning, and 2-minute stretch. Intensity: Intermediate

Setting: a beautiful teahouse in a Japanese garden overlooking a lake

Workout 1: Buns. All exercises are done standing. Tamilee has some unusual variations on the usual lunges & squats. For dips, she has you put a washcloth under your foot (or a baggie on carpet) and slide your leg back, then pull it forward.

Workout 2: Inner & Outer Thighs. Great news - no lying side adductions! Again, all exercises are done standing. She does not use ankle weights but you could add them for some of the exercises. For one exercise, you use the washcloth or baggie again, sliding one leg out in a plie position then pulling it back in.

Workout 3: Legs. She does a lunge with the baggie or washcloth under the forward foot - you slide it forward then pull it back. This exercise made me realize my legs weren't as strong as I thought! She does some calf pumps, then ends with some floor exercises that I've never seen before, that work the hamstrings, shins, and ankles.

I really enjoyed this tape. The exercises are different than the usual lower body work, the setting is beautiful, and Tamilee is a wonderful and motivating instructor.

I have been working out with Tamilee Webb videos for the past 6 years. I have never seen as much results I have had with her workouts. I've never looked better since I started with the Buns of Steel series. She is very motivating and encouraging in her videos.

It is hard to be objective, I keep comparing new videos to the classic ab's of steel. It just isn't on par with that, I haven't found anything that is.... This video has 3 segments that include a warm up and a stretch. Segment 1 is buns, segment 2 works the inner and outer thigh and segment 3 works the front and back of the thigh, the calves and more (the shin).
What I like: 1)The warm up and cool down. 2)My butt hurts the next day, so I know it works.
What I don't like: 1)The excercises are not intuitive (I still don't know if I am doing them correctly). 2)TamiLee has you use a rag or plastic baggie on the floor so you can slide, which doesn't work very well for me (I wear a sock on the carpet). 3)TamiLee sounds like an idiot.
I am going to stick with it for several months to see if my opinion changes, right now I am kicking myself for not getting the original buns of steel instead!

I have viewed and practiced Tamilee Webb's Lower Body of Steel. The exercises are good and I thought they would be harder to do. Now, I have been doing the exercises for about two months and the more I do them the more I like them.