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 15-Minute Workouts For Dummies
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| Beginning exercisers with busy schedules can shape and strengthen their bodies with four separate 15-minute workouts, each targeting a specific set of muscles: arms, abs, thighs, and buttocks. Altogether, 26 different shaping and strengthening exercises are featured, both standing and floor, some requiring dumbbells (two sets recommended), others using body weight. Skillful instructor Gay Gasper keeps the exercises and instruction simple and unintimidating. Each mini-workout has its own warm-up, and sometimes show both challenging and easier modifications. In the friendly format of the For Dummies books, 15-Minute Workouts for Dummies uses icons to indicate tips, safety cautions, "myth busters" (commonly misunderstood facts about exercise) and vocabulary definitions ("quads," for example) This is an effective and enjoyable way to fit strength training into little segments of time. --Joan Price Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
This was recommended to me as a great workout for beginners, but I was totally lost in the first 60 seconds of the warmup! She keeps adding steps without a whole lot of explanation and making it look easy, which seems a bit baffling considering that she's talking to a bunch of people who think they are "dummies" at fitness!
The ab exercises were WAY too hard! I couldn't even make it halfway through that section. She does give "basic" modifications for some exercises, but even the basics were too hard for me.
To be fair, I think this program is probably pretty good--and I will keep working on it as I progress in my weight loss program--but if you are are a true sedentary beginner and looking for something to get you started, you might want to try something else first.
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Author: Guest
I have *no* coordination, and no time to commit to some of the more intense workouts. It's not in the budget to go to the gym, and with a toddler, a workout is the LAST thing I want to do when I have downtime. All that being said - I love this workout! I can start the tape and feel a sense of accomplishment when I get to the end of one of the workouts - and if everyone in the house is being cooperative, I'll sneak another 15 minute workout, then another after dinner. I like that the first one is very intense (my legs wobbled for a couple of days after the thigh workout) and I break a sweat. The "arms" workout can even be done while seated, and is more of a mild workout when I don't have time to clean up or have to go out and have already showered!
It's a great time saver, and I feel like if nothing else, I'm burning off one (small) bag of chips in just a few minutes!
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Author: Guest
I do not feel that these workouts are intense enough on their own or all together, so I like to do one or two of the 15 minute workouts after doing a floor aerobics video. That way I feel like I got my cardio fitness in, and then I can tone a few areas of my body. This DVD works great in conjunction with other videos you may have.
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Author: Guest
Just getting started this is the 1st video I have tried. Since the word "dummy" is in the title I figured even I could manage.
However, after using the video 4 times a week for 2 weeks I still cannot keep up with the warm up. And I repeatedly have thought the warm up routine is well beyond any beginning dummy. So, I modify and once she tosses in more steps than I can manage I just do the first couple she teaches repeatedly until she is done with the warm up.
The work out portions are much easier to follow and I like the 15 minute time frame-- that is indeed my favorite part. I just remind myself that even I can make it for 15 minutes...
So, good time frame, impossible non-dummy warm ups with easy to follow work out portions...
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Author: Guest
No matter how many exercise videos I try, I keep coming back to this one. I really like exercising to Gay Gasper as she's very motivating without being annoying or complicated. This video let's me get a great work-out in only 15-minutes which really suits my after-work schedule during my hectic work-week. I hope Ms. Gasper will make more exercise videos for us time-crunched people. I especially like how she makes the moves easy to follow without making me wait around for explanation.
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