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 Kathy Smith - TimeSaver Shaper Ball Workout :: 0738925462
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| Now you can add a powerful new dimension to your workout without ever setting foot in a gym! Not only does the air-cushioned exercise ball help build spectacular abs and a tight, sexy lower body, it provides essential functional conditioning for athletic performance and low back health. Kathy’s new workout covers everything you need to make your exercise ball the most versatile training tool since the hand weight! 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
In my opinion, this stability ball workout DVD was not worth the money! The setting of the workout was just akward and not appropriate. The background of the fireplace and of a home in general was not appropriate and it was even more awkard to see the instructor and her partner exercising on carpet! A studio setting would have been more appropriate. The instructor's partner was also another unusual part of the setting. He would mumble chit chat towards the instructor after she had said a direction and it was annoying because you can't really hear him and it's as if the audience isn't suppose to! Their interaction with one another was also very awkard. When the instructor and her parnter would do a move with required movement of the pelvis, they would not only do the move a little too sexually, but they would have this look on their faces toward one another. Just too awkard! Besides the setting of the DVD, the instructor was not very good. She is too long-winded in her directions and after time of doing this DVD, it would be understandable for one to turn the mute button on. Half of the DVD time could have been cut if she would have been a little more quick with her directions. As for the goods things of this fitness DVD, a person could learn news moves to use with their stability ball and the instructor does explain three different methods (beginners, intermediate, and expert) for the exercise that is being shown. It was simply too awkard and the instructor was annoying, and long-winded in her explanations.
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Author: Guest
Kathy Smith, why on earth did you use a ball too small for your height? Stability balls come in different sizes for your height. Knees should be parallel with hips. There are other ball workouts out there that are better than this one.
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Author: Guest
I just got a stability ball, and this was one of the first workouts I tried. Kathy and her assistant, Michael, begin with a 6 1/2 minute warm-up: moving with the ball held in your hands, stretching using the ball, and sitting on the ball both to open your hips and to get used to balancing. Next comes a 7-minute abs segment which includes a total of 4 exercises: the first three work your upper abs, lower abs, and obliques respectively while seated on the ball, and the final works the side muscles. The following segment consists of a series of back extensions, the first performed face up on the ball and the last last two performed face down; this section is 6 minutes long. The final section, which I clocked at 9 1/2 minutes, focuses on the lower body. I found the hamstring work to be particularly tough as well as the three sets of wall squats (the last two are performed on one leg). The workout ends with a single stretch, no cool-down, for a total of 29 minutes.
There are two things that I really liked about this video: 1) Kathy shows three different levels of modifications for every exercise, so you can make each exercise easier or more challenging, and 2) brief stretches are included between many of the exercises, and these feel so good on the ball. On the negative side, I did not feel that this workout was very intense, as I would have preferred if Kathy had spent less time instructing and more time actually performing the movements. Furthermore, I would have liked to have seen some upper body work included in the routine. Overall, however, this was a decent introduction to ball work and would be good for those who want to build back and lower body strength.
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Author: Guest
I am a real fan of Kathy Smith. Her cuing is always clear and her movements are not too "dancy". In addition, she typically presents helpful and effective exercise education in her workouts. While this was true in this tape as well, I was a little disappointed in the quality of her routine. It appeared more personal and less scripted than most of her other routines, but the energy Kathy usually brings to her workouts (even the yoga workout tape) seemed to be missing in this one. It had a bit too much "infomercial" approach for my taste (a complaint I also have with some of the other popular workout names).
That being said, there are helpful moves and good information in the workout, and I will continue to use it.
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Author: Guest
This not only the most basic video ever made but it is all talking. I felt that the instruction is good but she did not keep it moving, you are always stopping and waiting for her to finish talking before the next exercise begins. I hardly had a work out even if I did the video 10 times back to back.
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