Product Details

• Actors: Cindy Joseph, Robyn Stuhr
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Acorn Media
• VHS Release Date: April 13, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00014TCRW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,704 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Muscle is the body’s natural heating system. Regular strength training revs up your metabolism and helps protect against the bone loss that naturally occurs in your 50s. This fact-filled strength guide and workout is uniquely designed to address your body’s changing needs and inspire you to get in the best shape of your life.

A complete strength workout and much more including: insights into the importance of strength training in your 50s; exercise tips for achieving maximum results; 40-minute core routine; advanced exercises; and Keeping Fit Fundamentals, a Q&A session with medical experts Lisa Callahan, M.D., author of The Fitness Factor, and Lillie Shockney, R.N., author of Breast Cancer Survivor’s Club.

Cindy Joseph, one of today’s most popular print and television models, began her modeling career at age 49. She shares her enthusiasm for exercise and for the amazing potential of life in your 50s.

Robyn Stuhr, administrative director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, is a certified exercise physiologist with 20 years of experience in sports training.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good workout for fifties ladies, July 27, 2004

By	Granny - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Strength (DVD)

I received this exercise DVD yesterday and used it for the first time today with my friend. She and I are in our mid and late fifties and had been doing a strengthening exercise video together but the VCR died and so we're using the DVD player instead.

I loved this DVD in comparison to the video. The video had a fitness expert leading several every-day type folks in the exercises. I found the other people distracting and they didn't always do the exercises properly and she had to show them how to do them correctly. I got tired of seeing that replayed every time I did the exercises. Also, the expert talked to us between the rep sets. That was fine the first few times, but got tiresome after a while. On the DVD, she goes back and forth between two different exercises rather than having actual rest times. This seemed a more effective use of time.The DVD seemed to be more professionally done than the video also.

I am fairly new to weight lifting so don't have an opinion about slow or fast weight lifting. If you are convinced that slow weight lifting is the only effective way to do weight lifting, you will not want to do this program. She moves at a pretty fast clip. We were sweating at the end of this program and we weren't with the other program. I have read the controversy about whether or not slow movements are more effective. I am not convinced either way yet, so I am going to stay with the faster pace. I liked it much better. I wasn't receiving any of the promised benefits of the slow way after several months.

As soon as I can afford it, I am going to order the flexibility and aerobic DVDs as well.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing - not recommended., March 25, 2005

By	Variety is the spice of workout life! (Zanesville, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Strength (DVD)

The instructor takes up too much time in talking, and in a too-condescending voice, more appropriate for children. Neither of the participants has a good sense of rhythm - why use music if you're not going to keep time? Then, after the workout, no stretch. I would not have bought this had I seen it first - it was a waste of money for my requirements. It gets 2 stars instead of 1 because if you ignore the criticisms above and put a lot of effort into it you can end up with a halfway-decent workout. But any workout should have a stretching section at the end!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for..., February 3, 2006

By	Margo M. Rudd (PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Strength (DVD)

As a very busy fifty-something woman I have found this DVD to be quite helpful. I've used it about 3 times a week for a month, and I am very pleased to report that I have advanced enough to move from 1 lb. weights to 2 lb. weights, which for me is a big improvement. This DVD does not drag the way some other exercise DVDs do, and I find Robyn Stuhr and Cindy Joseph to be quite inspiring (and not the least bit condescending). I plan to continue with this exercise program (who knows, maybe I'll work my way up to 10 lb weights), and, because I am pleased with this product, I intend to purchase the "Keeping Fit in Your 50s" flexibility DVD as well.