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Tracey Mallett: Quickblast Method 4-pack

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I like this DVD. It has a warm up, 3 lower body work outs, 4 upper body work outs. Blast on ball work out, and cool down stretch. The work outs are 6 minutes long and you can pick and choose your work outs. You'll want to get the stability ball that's suitable for you. And a set of 3 and 5 pound weights. And you'll need a mat. I'd get the ball and the weights after I buy the DVD. It's challenging, but it can be fun.

These 6 minute workouts are GREAT!! If you get both DVDs, this one and Tracey Mallett's 6 Minute Quick Blast Method-Total Body Calorie Burn you can break your workouts out in the morning and night. Do the warm ups and fast paced ones in the morning to get you going, and do the abs or the mind-body in the evening to relax and get TONE! Start with just one each in the morning and night.. and you'll find yourself wanting more because you will start to see results and want it MORE!!

Combine this with the food plan from her book: Sexy in 6: Sculpt Your Body With the 6 Minute Quick-Blast Workout and get AMAZING results.. Holiday fat.. GONE! DONE!! I'm ready early for Summer this year.. and ALL around (with the exception of maybe 1 month around the holidays... hehehe).

I have both of Tracey's Quick Blast Workouts, Toatl Body Calorie Blast and Toatl Body Fat Burner, They have become my favorite workouts.
I was able to do the complete DVD'S the first time I tried them.
I am 59 and have been working out from home for many years and have a collection of other DVD'S , but Tracey'S are now my favorite.
I have two left feet and during the cardio of some other workouts, I would get frustrated because the moves were either too difficult to follow or too hard. With Tracey, she makes the cardio easy to follow and there are no tricky moves and she makes them fun.
I wil be doing these daily and alternating them. I look forward to more of her workouts.
Great job Tracey, keep them coming, because there a lot of us who want cardio, but want it to be easy to follow, yet efective and you made that happen.

this a kick butt workout. even after one 6 min segment i was tired. i got this set along with the book and they really go well together. the book has a week schedule of what workouts to do for your body type. the nice thing is you fit them in when you can. this is a must for moms who want to get back in shape and feel short on time. i love that the moms in the workout are real, not perfect models. it is realistic and fun!

I'm an advanced exerciser and have lots of experience with workout DVDs. I like to try new ones to add variety to my collection and I only keep the ones that are perfect. Well, this one is one of those. I had tried a couple of older videos with Tracy and didn't like them at all. So, I was hesitant with this one, but couldn't ignore all of the 5-star reviews. I'm glad I didn't. This workout (playing all) is pretty intense, and I admit I used much heavier weights than Tracy and her team, but it was a blast. I felt completely worked out in a good way. What I also really liked is that she always did a group of 3 exercises and then repeated them 3 times. So, if you didn't get it right, or the weight was too light the first time you could then adjust it in the next 2 sets. Awesome workout!!!

I hate to be the odd one out but I tried this dvd after reading all the 5 star reviews and was disappointed. This is my first Tracy Mallett dvd - my current favorites are Tanja Djelevic, the Core Fusion series, and I just tried Jari Love which is awesome.

I don't consider myself to be a particularly advanced exerciser, but I didn't find the 6 minute workouts very challenging, especially the upper body. I suppose I need to use heavier weights (I used 5 and 8 pounds as recommended for advanced exercisers). I had to string together quite a few segments to make a decent workout. In addition the production value is low - the music is awful! Instead of compelling music, there is constant chatter and giggling from Tracy which I found pretty annoying. She's trying to be motivating but it didn't work for me (though it's impressive that she can chit chat about trivia absolutely NONSTOP through all the exercises without getting out of breath!). Finally, I know some people like to see "normal" people in these videos, but I like to see people that are in really good shape. The background cast is definitely made up of real, non-professional exercisers, but it's discouraging to see people that have been doing this program for six weeks and look like they're in worse shape than I am - it doesn't provide alot of incentive to stick with it!

I think this program is targeted mainly for beginners, and for people that are having trouble staying motivated to exercise. If you're already serious about exercise there are more professional trainers out there to work with in my opinion.

Note: I continued to give this one a try and did it a few more times. I've finally had to put it away for good. Tracy's cheerleading just doesn't work for me. Its very, well Richard Simmons. Now those were very popular videos so that really works for some people, but not for me. She shouts things like "this really works your booty so you can wear that bikini bottom!" I'd prefer something more low key like "you should be feeling this in your glutes right now." If it was a really fantastic workout I'd just put her on mute and do it anyway, but there's nothing really outstanding about it. The notion that you can exercise for only 6 minutes a day is just plain silly - she mentions briefly at one point that you should do more than one segment if you have time, but the DVD doesn't really go into any detail about this. I'm assuming the book that goes with this DVD talks more about the appropriate length of time for working out.

This is my first review I write about a fitness DVD, although I have nearly 50 DVDs at home. I am a perfectionist - I can't say it in other words - and my workouts need to be perfect. Most DVDs are unbalanced (for example too much biceps, no triceps) or the intensity moves from extremly high to boring in the same session.
Well, I'm lucky because I found the perfect workout for me! Tracey's workouts couldn't be better.
First I was very sceptical because of the length. How can I get a good workout in 6 minutes? It is possible! You will sweat, your muscels will burn! Big promise.
I mix an match both DVDs and train 24 minutes a day, 6 days a week. The effects on my body are dramatic. I am so happy, that I found a way to get fit, although I am a busy mother of a three years old daughter. My abs look better than before my pregnancy and I feel fantasic!
I also love Tracey's book. It's like your best friend is talking to you and tells you every secret about nutrition and training you always wanted to know. Tracey is very likeable, friendly, and honest. ... and I assume she is a perfectionist as well :-) Thank you Tracey!

I love Tracey's 6 Minute Quick Blast Method DVDs. The workouts are challenging but only six minutes long. Each segment works the total body, so you really feel it even though it's only 6 minutes. I like how the DVD is set up so that you can pick the segments you want to do. I mix it up and do about 3-6 segments each day. When I have more time, I do more; when I have less time, I do less. But I always have time to do at least 1 or 2 segments. I also really enjoyed meeting Team Mallett. Doing the workouts with real women who aren't professional fitness experts, but people just like me, is really inspiring. Hearing about their successes makes me want to keep going. Get the book and the DVDs. You won't be sorry.

UPDATE: For some reason, Amazon won't let you review the set separately from the individual dvds. My detailed review which I get to in a minute is for one dvd, Total Body Fat Burner, in her 4 dvd set (Tracey Mallett: Quickblast Method 4-pack). The individual dvd gets 4 stars but as for the SET, I'd give it 2 stars. I'd save your money and only buy Tracey Mallett's 6 Minute Quick Blast Method-Total Body Calorie Blast and Tracey Mallett's 6 Minute Quick Blast Method-Total Body Fat Burner, as the other 2 dvds in the 4 dvd set are NOT worth your time or money. The 2 I mentioned however, are very good, and buying them separately saves you $18 from if you bought the 4 disc set. Trust me, there is a HUGE quality difference in the 4 dvds included. Do not waste your money on the set.

Here is my review just for the Total Body Fat Burner dvd:

I got this dvd as part of a 4 dvd set of Tracey Mallett's QuickBlast Method workouts. I tried the Rock Hard Abs & Buns and the Dancer's Body dvds before this one (both also part of the set) and was very disappointed in those two, and therefore not too hopeful when trying this. However, I was pleasantly surprised. This is leagues above the others and a solid workout.

The dvd is obviously aimed at those who have limited time in their day and particularly mothers. It's made up of a series of 6 minute segments and everyone demonstrating the workout with Tracey on the dvd is a woman who supposedly lost weight from Tracey's method (and all but one or two are mothers who wanted to lose baby weight and are very busy). They are all in average shape, versus most workouts where they are all in excellent shape. This is probably a positive for some people and a negative for others. As for me, it was somewhat discouraging seeing people in worse shape than me doing the exercises, knowing they've been on the program for 6 weeks. However, none of them are in bad shape and some of them had lost a significant amount from the program (I believe the highest was around 80 pounds).

Tracey recommends doing 3 or so segments a day, fitting them in whenever you can (e.g. 6 min. in a.m., 6 in afternoon, 6 in evening). I like doing the entire dvd in one sitting, which ends up being about an hour. The dvd offers a couple of recommended weekly combinations (programmed in as selections you can play) with 3 or 4 different segments for each day of the week. You can also choose to play a 6 min. segment individually. You can not customize a selection of several segments to play in a row.

The 10 segments are as follows: Warm-up, 3 Lower Body/Cardio segments, 4 Upper Body segments, Ab Blast, and Cool down/stretches. The upper body and ab segments all use a stability ball and the upper body segments also use 2 sets of weights (3 and 5 lb or 5 and 8 lb recommended).

The warm-up is essentially variations on walking. Very basic and didn't do much to really warm me up. I was hesitant at this point in terms of how much I would like the workout. (And if she said "sexy" one more time during the warm-up I probably would have turned it off). Thankfully it got much better.

The lower body and upper body segments are each made up of 2 minute circuits that are repeated 3 times each to make up the 6 minutes. Each circuit has 3 or 4 moves. I found this 2 min. circuit approach to be effective but just a bit boring. Granted, you're only going for 6 minutes at a time (not long enough to squeeze in too much variation OR for it to get too boring), but it's not exactly exciting to repeat each set 3x. There is a countdown clock on the bottom of the screen, which I liked. Each segment works different areas of the lower and upper body which is important to me since I normally do the entire dvd in one workout and wouldn't want to be working one muscle group repeatedly in all of the different segments. For me, each of the main segments was a good intensity level. They were not too easy, but not challenging to the point where I got discouraged or felt like I had to stop. I felt the burn in each muscle group and the lower body segments offered a decent cardio workout as well (the first two more than the third).

The abs section on the ball isn't terribly difficult though it's a nice change from the standard mat work ab exercises. A couple of the moves challenged my balance a bit, but all were doable. This segment is also about 6 minutes but is not done in the 2 minute circuit format. It is a series of different ab exercises that are done once and then not repeated again.

The cool down segment is 4 minutes and offers some basic stretches, nothing I haven't seen before. It's fairly standard.

Tracey's personality will appeal to certain people, and less so to others. She's very encouraging, versus demanding/pushing, and quite peppy and cheery. This is a good workout dvd for ALL levels (though I'd say it's most aimed at advanced beginners), especially those who like shorter segment workouts or new mothers who need a bit of encouragement.

Tracey Mallett's 6 Minute Quick Blast Method is the perfect answer to the fitness needs of a busy person. With 3 kids under the age of 6 (including 3 year old twins) and a full-time work schedule, I have very limited time for exercise, but with the minimal time required for this program I been able to fit regular exercise back into my life and have seen dramatic results in just a few short weeks.

The 6 Minute Quick Blast Method is fantastic. With a lot of variety in the exercises and options to customize the workout based on what you feel like doing that day (e.g., focus on upper body, more on abs, more on lower body, or more total body), you never get bored with it. I would even venture to say...it is fun! The best part is you can break it up and just do 6 minutes at a time, so there's no excuse for why you can't fit it into a hectic day. The exercises are tough enough that you feel like you are really accomplishing results, but they don't leave you exhausted and sore - things that would make you not want to do it again the next day.

Following Tracey's guidelines in her book and the two videos have helped me accomplish great results in less than 30 minutes each day. Before this, I thought I had to work out for an hour a day to get results, and always ended up quitting any program I started as I just couldn't commit to that kind of time. Thanks to Tracey's program, I now have a solution to an exercise routine that I can commit to for the long term, as I know I can find the short amount of time to stick with it day after day.