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Summary: i like it
Review: During the telecast of the President's inauguration there was a short blurb on Laura Bush. Someone told her that she looked so good and what had she been doing. She said "weightlifting". That was when I decided to incorporate weights into my regular workout.
So, when I saw this video I thought it would be much more reasonable $ than a personal trainer so based on the good reviews bought this video.
I watched it the night I received it and knew right away that I made a good decision. The next day bought my weights and did the workout.
Have done the workout twice now all the way through and I know that I will continue using it on a routine basis 2-3 times/week.
I also workout doing brisk walking/interval jogging 2-3 times/week and intervally do Yoga(GAIAM) and Brazilian Dance.
For the price of the VHS and the cost of weights $30, it is very worth it.
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Summary: Good workout, but.........
Review: Enjoy the workout, but how do you program the DVD? Also, where is the Bonus Stability Ball workout?? It doesn't look like I am the only one who has had such a problem!!
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Summary: Well worth the money!
Review: Great job by Kathy Smith! It's so nice to have some new exercises for a changr instead of the same old thing! I feel great afterward, and love doing it.... This is definitely my favorite video from her!
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Summary: Overall great workout
Review: I am a exercise DVD junkie and this is a great addition to my library. It is a challenging workout and the perfect addition to Lift Weights Volume 1 - this time around you will hone the muscles you have built from using the first DVD. For those who say there is very little weight lifting, well, you can always pick up some dumbells during the squat segment...there you go!! The warm-up is great but the cool downs are a little weak, and like someone else said, the bonus stability ball workout is totally impossible!! But it's nice to have something you can work up to eventually. The standing upper arm routine is totally comprehensive and you will see results after a couple of workouts.
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Summary: Kathy Smith's Timesaver- Lift weights to Lose weight, Vol.2
Review: I am a personal trainer and have been working out for almost 2 decades. I just recently became interested in workout videos. I loved the principles of this workout. The concepts were refreshing. I also like the fact you can program the dvd. I would recommend this to my clients.
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Summary: I LOOOOOOOOVE this workout!
Review: I am new to exercise, having dropped just over 50 pounds in the last year...and I've always hated exercise...until just recently. (Now I work out 5-6 days a week, and I crave it!) I started with the DVD from the weight loss program I was on, and did that for about 2 months until boredom set in. Then I discovered Kathy Smith! Lift Weight to Lose Weight is the 5th Kathy Smith video I've purchased, and is already my favorite. I love the programmable feature--one of my other DVD's was supposed to have that, and it didn't work. I love the squat section, the glute section (OH MY WORD! The glute section!), the standing upper body section (she nearly kills me on the triceps part every time); I haven't tried the stability ball workout yet, so I don't really feel qualified to comment on that. I don't know about anyone else, but when I finish this workout, I feel fantastic! I know it's making a difference...I was sore, GOOD sore for at least two days, the first few times I did the routines. I'm so glad I purchased this one--it was money well spent.
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Summary: 2 days later, and I am still sore!
Review: i bought this tape after reading countless good reviews.
it consists of a good warm-up for about 4-5 mins then starts the legs and buns, at first Kathy shows how to do a squat properly, then moves to doing squats of all kinds for about 7 minutes, that was torture, I must admit, my butt and inner thighs just hurt! then the lunges and plies section started. and in the butt section, there was this new workout, and it consisted of: you hold yourself to a chair and lift one of your legs and lift up the butt, then you move your leg inward for an inner thigh workout, and that was a tough move!!
then did some lunges and back to the other side and do it all over again. Then there is a stretching section.
the upper body workout was 20 mins, i didn't quite get the balancing idea, tough it was though, i really liked this part with the shoulders and upper back, thats what really hurts!
the upper back workout consisted of doing your normal tricep exercises: holding your arm in an L shape and extend so the triceps get a workout, then while your arms are extended, lift up the arms to squeeze the upper back.
Now that was a challenge!! great move!
Then, you keep balancing with one leg and torso is slightly twisted, and do your basic bicep curls, lift arms to the sides for the shoulders, and some other moves, then do the other side, after that you start doing a section for the chest muscles!
(very important, we dont want sagging on the chest! gotta have strong chest muscles!!!!!!!) then after about 20 minutes, you finish and there is a cooldown.
Then moves to the abs for 7 mins, it was pretty tough, because the moves are slow, and you have to concentrate to do them right.
When you finish with abs, there is a short abs cooldown, and voila there is the video. This is a pretty good tape, except that there are too many lunges, i hate lunges! (so it lost 1 star) the lower body could have consisted of some other moves besides the most common ones as lunges and squats, which I know most of us just hate.
Then upper body was good, had some excellent new moves as I already mentioned.
The background people are much more pleasant than LWTLW, there are no annoying background people, the music is very upbeat.
Kathy is also not so cheery as on the first lift weights, as some people didn't care for.
And had cooldowns after every section which the first lift weights didnt have!
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Summary: The ball workout was ridiculous and dangerous
Review: I have a stability ball, and have been doing various workouts with it for several years. Her workouts demanded the equivalent of balancing with one toe on the ball and all other limbs in the air doing a unicycle. I fell several times and ended up turning off the tape and moving to my Pilates on the Ball tape, which is challenging but much better-designed. Boo to Kathy for making the ball seem hard to use.
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Summary: Weight Training With New Intensity
Review: I have been enjoying Kathy Smith's Volume 1 Lift Weights to Lose Weight for more than 2 years. Volume 2 has all of the same elements in a slower more intense format that has given me a new challenge. I was up to 8, 10 and 12 pound weights with the original workout and now have dropped back to 5, 8 and 10 pounds with the intensity of the new routines. The pace is relaxed but the results are great. This workout begins with a warm-up, which was missing from Volume 1 and continues with the lower body routines, the upper body, and finally the abdominals. Lots of stretching in between keeps you limber. I still love the 7 minute bonus abs from Volume 1, and will alternate between both routines. Each DVD is nearly an hour, but can be broken down into smaller increments and done on different days. It's great to have a new workout to enjoy.
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Summary: Fairly good with some technical problems
Review: I have loved Kathy Smith workout tapes/discs for years. I'm glad she did this type of a workout but I have a few issues with it: 1) The lower body section relies too heavily on squats which can lead to an imbalance in muscle development, 2) the abdominal section is not that great, 3) the stretching sections are pretty fast, 4) sometimes I wished for a better view of proper positioning or technique. Technically, there are a couple of problems with the DVD: 1) The main menu is incomplete. Hello! What's the problem here???? 2) Free stability ball workout? I don't think so. At least not on my disk and apparently not on some of the other reviewers' copies either. These kinds of mistakes are foolish in this day and age. I did think that the upper body work out was unique and challenging. I also think that it is fairly easy to scale this workout to your fitness level. She's no nonsense, not annoying, and they keep the silly production stuff to a minimum.
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