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The Method for Beginner s is led by Tracy Anderson. This workout is designed as a spring board for people to the Tracy Anderson Method. This DVD contains two workouts: Intro Part 1 and Intro Part 2. Intro Part 1 uses ankle weights, wrist weights, dumbbells, and a chair.  The workout starts off with a series of stretches and then moves into a mini arm segment. Tracy concludes the workout with a weighted dance routine.  I found the weighted dance routine quite enjoyable. Tracy does give lots instructions. She does not mirror cue. Workout 1 is just under 29 minutes in length. Intro Part 2 uses a mat, hand weights and a chair.  It clocks in at 32 minutes. There is a 2 minute introduction before Tracy starts the workouts.  The workouts starts with a series of stretches, moves into arm work, then there is weighted arm work where Tracy uses 3lbs weights and does 10 reps per exercise.  Next comes chair work.  The exercises in this segment are performed f...

I will not be reviewing Insanity Max:30.

Dance + Cardio is part of the Tracy Anderson Method. This DVD has two workouts: Dance + Cardio 1 & Dance + Cardio 2. These two workouts contains absolutely no cuing.  None.  Not even a breakdown segment. Now, I will admit you don't really need a breakdown segment because the routines are very repetitive. In Tracy's introduction, she tells you that "you are repeating stuff over an over" or something in that respect. So after awhile you can sort of guess  what is coming next. Really you are just following along as best you can.  You can count on missing the first few reps of any new sequence. I am sure a couple of times I came up with my own moves. There is impact:  jumping, jacking, hopping, & skipping. I actually enjoyed workout 1. I felt workout 2 had too much toning and there was less dance. I also like the music in workout 1 more. Workout 1 clocks in at 30:22.  Part of that is the introduction. Workout 2 clocks in at 25:47. Dance...

Precision Toning is led by Tracy Anderson and it contains four targeted routines to sculpt the body. Tracy is the only cast member. The routines are: Precision Toning Arms (16:17) Precision Toning Legs (14:17) Precision Toning Butt (15:10) Precision Toning Abs (14:16) Tracy takes you through each routine offering tips along the way. In workout 1 (Arms) Tracy gives a brief (1:40) introduction to her overall method.  After the introduction, Tracy takes you through a warm up.  I could not tell when the warm up ended and the workout started. It is continuous series of moves.  10 minutes into the routine Tracy introduces a series of standing weight work. This is followed by a series of  kneeling weighted exercises . Legs is workout two. The segment uses a chair. You are doing 25 reps per exercise. You do all the exercises on one side of the body before moving to the other side. The workout  intermix live cuing withe voice over. During the exerci...

Cardio Dance For Beginners Mmmm - where to start, Well this DVD contains four 15 minute cardio routines. The DVD gives you the following options: Play All Dance 1:  The Basics Dance 2: Get Moving Dance 3:  Cardio Connection Dance 4:  Cardio Blast From a choreography standpoint I do not want to say the dances are progressively harder, however I will say that as you move from Dance 1 to Dance 4 there is more impact and more jumping.  Tracy introduces each dance segment prior to the segment starting. So there is about 45 seconds of chatter before each dance. Essentially each dance is one long combinations and you are really just following along.What you typically do on the left you do on the right however this is not always the case. Tracy tries to cue but doesn't really do a good job. To make matters worse there is no real or consistent pattern so it is hard to say what it is coming next. And sometimes what is coming next is a move you had not seen before...

Mat Workout For Beginner contains three 25 minute workouts. The DVD has the following options: Play All Mat 1:  Full Body Beginner Mat 2:  Chair Mat 3:  Full Body Intermediate Each of the workout starts with an upper body sequence. Mat 2 and 3 use a set of hand weights during the upper body portion. Some of the notes that I took during this workout were: ** Tracy does not mirror cue, The cuing is lacking in the upper body sequence but in the lower body (chair and floor) it is decent. There are occasions when Tracy takes the time to demonstrate the upcoming move during the lower body portion.  Tracy also counts out the reps for you. Most of the time we are doing 20 reps. Towards the end of the sequence, Tracy ups the reps to 30.  Some of the reps are quick and Tracy will tell you to catch every other rep. For the lower body sequence (in each of the workouts) Tracy will do a series of moves for one side of the body before moving on to repeat those ...

Hello All and Happy New Year Welcome to January 2015 This month I will be doing Tracy Anderson and Shaun T workouts plus treadmill and stretching on Sundays. The Tracy workouts have two to four workouts per DVD so I am dividing them up across multiple days. Shaun T workouts come from the latest Beachbody release Insanity Max:30.