Squeeze DVD

by Tracy Effinger

Product Features

• Advanced Level Fitness Training
• Choreographed and led by celebrity fitness trainer, Tracy Effinger
• Incorporates short pulses and endurance training for maximum resuts
• 60 minute workout as well as pre-mixes
• Helps build long, lean muscle and boost metabolism

Product Description

The Full Body SQUEEZE (60 min.): Fast-paced, head-to-toe exercises. This hour includes a killer arm set, a waist routine, hard core leg work, butt and abdominal target techniques. Plus, Tracys stretching series will leave you feeling longer, leaner, and more energized. The Power SQUEEZE (30 min.):SQUEEZE all you can into this super-concentrated, full-body routine. Minimal instruction makes for the most efficient, and focused workout yet! Custom SQUEEZE: A collection of individual exercises that lets you tailor your routine to meet your own personal goals.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000RYOXSY
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,326 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Video - Spend the $30 bucks...Your Body will look like a Million Bucks., July 14, 2007

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J. LaVelle "LUV2SHOP" (CA) - See all my reviews
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This is a great video if you enjoy ballet/pilates type exercises. The extreme burning sensation is like no other workout dvd I have ever done. My arms were burning lifting two pound weights. The leg workout has a definite "ouch" factor. It hurts but not in a injury-pain way, my leg muscles were burning with so much lactic acid and I am sure that I am going to get excellent results. Last but not least, I did this workout five times and my jeans that I could barely pull up past my lower abs fit perfectly. I am not kidding! This video works and Tracy is a fast efficient and thorough instructor. Don't pass this up!!!!!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly intense yet simple moves, August 20, 2007

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SapphireMoon (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Squeeze DVD (DVD)

If you're familiar with the Bar Method or Lotte Berk Method DVDs, Squeeze is very similar yet much - and I mean MUCH tougher. The workout is divided into several segments for each body part, any of which can be done alone, combined, or performed the whole way through for a one-hour, full-body routine. It also includes a condensed 30-minute "Power Squeeze" routine for when you're pressed for time. The exercises for each part of the body are unique and simple but definitely create a good burn. Consisting of isometric exercises with yoga-based stretches, you'll mostly work in pulses using limited range of motion that works deep in the muscles. Required equipment includes an exercise mat, a set of light dumbbells (1-3 pounds is all you need here to set the muscles in your arms on fire), a chair for balance, and a small exercise ball (you can just buy one of those air-filled kiddy balls for less than $2 in the toy section of any major department or grocery store like I did). The ball is used for the buns, inner thighs and abdominals and boy does it sure rev up the intensity! This is a great workout to alternate with standard concentric/eccentric based exercises as you'll challenge the muscles in a totally different way. The abs portion in the power squeeze routine is especially killer and actually left mine sore the next day (which is typically hard to accomplish). Tracy is an excellent instructor who comes across as straight-forward and down-the-earth. The video switches back and forth between two urban settings - one indoor and one outdoor. The accompanying downtempo/electronica music is well-suited and overall this video is fast becoming a favorite!

Rating: Excellent

39 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Squeezing vs.Tucking: Old school or new school?, September 26, 2008

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TBM Devotee (Lovely East Coast) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Squeeze DVD (DVD)

So. Tonight, I completed Squeeze ...

I should preface this review by pointing out that I am a definite Barre gal and I know Lotte, I know Callan, I know Burr and that means I've been "burned" (remember Burr's "Dance of Fire"?) by the best so for these workouts I have very high standards.

Squeeze begins with some fairly intense arm work. The weights are light - I used 3lbs and it was pretty good for what she did. My issue with her arm work (and a lot of other sections) is that it wasn't really uniform and she seemed a little sloppy in her form (although she gave cues, she just didn't follow her own instructions) and at some point, it seemed as if she was making it up as she went along. There wasn't a lot of variety here and I expected a new "method" ... hey, if she's going to call it Squeeze and describe it as something unique and different, then let's see it.

The Tracy in the DVD had a pretty nice midsection but she looked bloated and pear-ish during the "in studio" shots. Nothing wrong with that if you're a regular gal but when you're a "trainer-to-the-stars" I want you to look the part. I want your look to be inspiring to me. Her arms in the DVD are not the arms on Tracy on the cover shot. Her body didn't look much like the cover shot and that bothered me more than it probably should have but I did purchase the DVD based on her credentials and part of that package is the body she presents on the cover.

The switching back and forth between Tracy "in-studio" during which time she spoke directly to the camera and the "on-the-rooftop-in-Lululemon" wear, all urbanite music video with flowing hair was mildly distracting. The rooftop urban gal sections didn't add anything of value to the workout, just depicted what it would be like if you were, well, on a rooftop pretending to be in a music video.

There was much arm work with a lot of reps but the exercises weren't really challenging in the sense of "something new and novel" but more tiring in the "same-old-arm-rows-but-twisted-sloppily" kind of way. They were tiring because she threw so many reps in with no rest between them but the movements weren't a)crisp, precise and tight; and definitely not b)deep muscle work. She was moving fast but her form and movements weren't consistent or uniform or clean. For a lot of the arm in front of the body work, it was kind of hard to see exactly what she was doing that made the work effective. Why not just add in old school arm work and leave it at that? Forming the "L" formation and criss crossing over the torso during arm work didn't make a lot of sense to me especially when one moment she'd have her arms at one height, the next moment they were at a different height :dunno: but it did engage the muscles. Something to be said for that but there are a lot of tricep exercises out there that could be made even more challenging in these type of workouts but ... hey, she's a professional trainer and I'm not but ... I do know what I like. :p

The "barre" work was not challenging. Burr, Lotte and Callan run circles around her on this. You would have to do a lot more than she did in Squeeze in order to take on the old school dames. Lotte Burke Bonus Blasts would knock Miss Tracy to her knees. It was like a mini-break during this time. Granted, if you've never done Lotte or Callan or Burr, the barre work will be challenging and you will be impressed and you will be sore and you will curse her like a sailor on leave. If you're familiar with the Old School Barre Dames, this will be a respite for you. I will give it to her on the stretching - the stretches afterward were wonderful.

The floor work was interesting. The initial legwork wasn't very challenging and I was beginning to lose interest. Then she introduced what she called the "L" ... Said her clients called it "L" H*ll and then she laughed. That's never a good sign.

This move was challenging and even produced protests from my muscles BUT I'm really not sure how swinging the leg around wildly like that, flexing and pointing and "digging" and scooping and twirling the leg accomplishes anything more than allowing Tracy to show off. That isn't the reaction you're looking for in a workout. It struck me that she wanted a "signature" move and this move is hers. I didn't like it mainly because she didn't set it up the way most instructors would, letting you know what you should be feeling and where or reminders about form. During the wild swinging, it would be easy to allow momentum to carry your leg and I didn't hear her giving any cues here. I had no idea what was supposed to be worked, how I was sure I was doing it exactly right and what the proper form was when the leg began it's worldly travels around your body. I felt this was a let's indulge Tracy move.

The ab work was ok but by this time, I'd already made up my mind that I was sticking with Jillian's Shred (marvelous workout, just outstanding for crazy fast results), Callanetics Evolution and Miss Chalene's Turbo Jam for good measure. Callanetics Evolution and SuperCallanetics ab work by far is unbelievably effective. I didn't really feel the Squeeze work in my abs. Even today, I'm not feeling it.

If I'd not had such extensive work with Lotte, Burr and Callan, this workout would be impressive and I'd think she was the cat's meow. Some of it is very challenging, some of it isn't. Most I didn't like.

All in all, I give it 3 out of 5.