Davina McCall - My Three 30 Minute Workouts (DVD)

...making some use of the Davina workout i had bought.

Having always been a size 8 before i had my kids i found being a size 12 strange for some time and at one point was really very unhappy about my body i know alot of women feel like this and the mothers in here can understand what its like to find yourself with a totaly different body after having children. I wasn't a fan of going to the gym, i did try it for about 6 weeks but i lacked ...
...i wanted so i gave Davina a go and Charlie brookes both are fantastic but this is a review about the Davina workout so we will keep to that.

BLOWING DUST OF MY WORKOUT GEAR~
So with my eldest in nursery at the time and my youngest having a nap i thought yes perfect time to try it out.
The actual dvd starts with the intro this is davina having a talk to you about how exercise changed her life and how she belives that by ... more

September 06 my brother was getting married and i was to be maid of honour so with that in mind and it only being june i thought i would start actually making some use of the Davina workout i had bought.

Having always been a size 8 before i had my kids i found being a size 12 strange for some time and at one point was really very unhappy about my body i know alot of women feel like this and the mothers in here can understand what its like to find yourself with a totaly different body after having children. I wasn't a fan of going to the gym, i did try it for about 6 weeks but i lacked the confidence to keep going because of the way i felt about myself so the perfect thing for me to try was a dvd workout, after trying a few "oldies" i decided they where not doing what i wanted so i gave Davina a go and Charlie brookes both are fantastic but this is a review about the Davina workout so we will keep to that.

BLOWING DUST OF MY WORKOUT GEAR~
So with my eldest in nursery at the time and my youngest having a nap i thought yes perfect time to try it out.
The actual dvd starts with the intro this is davina having a talk to you about how exercise changed her life and how she belives that by doing 30 mins 3 times a week and eating a good diet will help you lose weight and keep it off .It has the comic of davina that you would expect and she makes it all sound like its going to be as easy as ringing a takeaway.
Once you have seen this once there really is no need to watch it again.

So you then have a main menu where there is an easy to follow layout you also have the option to shut davina up and have mainly music, i would not recomend you do this untill you know all 3 workouts like the back of your hand.
Below the list of workouts there are extras listed these are

• Davina's ten quick and easy meals
• Outtakes
• Big brother behiind the scenes
• Big brother that bikini moment (she does a whole interview in a bikini)

All very easy to follow and read with a nice background and music in the background.

WORKOUTS~

Pump~
This is my fave! now there's 3 people on this dvd Davina and her two trainers Jackie and Mark who are married and i must say are very nice people and they dont expect you to be like rambo lol.
So Jackie is the person talking us through the pump workout she also does the workout as she talks you through, its nice and easy to follow and unlike alot of workouts you can keep up without getting totally lost. Mark and davina follow her lead.
It starts with a warm up session where you stretch out all the muscles to have them nice and loose for the actual workout. When i first started the dvd i didnt feel and stretch on certain warm up exercises but after a while i started to understand more what jackie was saying about what position you should be in and then they all worked very nice. Thats the great thing with this dvd and thats, that jackie and mark talk you through almost every detail and explain the way things should feel and not feel.
So after the warm up you go straight into fat burning, Hurrah i hear you say lol these mini fat burn sessions last for about 2/3 mins and they are purely to get the heart rate up and start the fat burning for the rest of the work out, you do however do more than one fat burn session they have small sessions here and there to keep the heart rate up.
I found these great fun as its easy and quick but starts vital fat burning and pumps up the heart, you will do star jumps and knee lifts it all varys really but its all fun and good to do.
Than we go into the workout and this changes all the way through making sure it targets every area of the body but i find this workout to be a killer on the legs, with ballet squats and lunges that goes on for a while to the point where even davina struggles dont be at all suprised if your legs are pretty much useless the next day.
There is a section where they use small weights i dont have these but have used heavy objects and its worked just fine but if you have weights great if not you may want to buy some but like i say i never did.
After sessions of leg, arm, fat burn we go onto the floor for some good old tummy stuff!!! now i had 2 c sections with my boys so my tummy is pretty much well.....crap really to the point where the doctor said i could do with physiotherapy i find all tummy exercise a nightmare and hard to do and at first this was the same but what i did find was that just as it got to much we would stop and have a break and after a week or two i found i could keep up with davina without finding my tummy giving in.
There is also some great bum exercises in this workout (yay) work a treat and are so easy to do you wonder why they dont add more into the workout.
At certain parts of the workout mark does an easy option for you to follow if you find the normal one a little hard, at first this is a great help.

After this you go into a cool down session where again you stretch all the muscle out so that in theory it wont hurt the next day but if like me its all a bit of a body shock it will hurt a little the next day.
Overall great easy workout to do, davina keeps it fun by talking to you through the workout and jackie and mark have a little banter with her aswell.

Cardio box~
The second workout is done by mark as its basicly a bit of kick boxing with other workout moves.
Again you start with a warm up session to get your body ready for whats to come, its all pretty much the same as the pump warm up but with longer stretches in places like your legs and arms as they get alot of use in this workout.
Again after the warm up you go into fat burning mark keeps the little sessions of this all skiping, and it really does get the heart going and gets that fat burning away.
We then go into the cardio box part, and i must say its great fun and good for stress aswell.Lots of kicking and punches put into a routine that at first you may find a little hard to do but after a while its great and easy to keep up with but still effective.
After a good long session of cardio box we then go onto the floor to do some press ups and tummy exercies again all great to do with jackie showing you an easy option and mark and davina going flat out, it makes you feel good to know that if you cant keep up with mark and davina you dont just have to sit and watch you can do the easy option with jackie.
After all the kicking,punching and skiping you have the cool down session and again its just stretching the body out so that it wont hurt to bad later on.
All in all another really fun workout to do that only last 30 mins but has so much in it you feel like you just did an hours worth.
Also davina has a great skiping story in this lol you will see if you buy it.

Core stability~
This workout is all abot the insides because as davina puts it, "if they dont work the outside wont work" again this workout is talked through by Jackie.
I find this the hardest workout, not in terms of being puffed out because there is no part in this workout that really gets you puffed out, its hard because position is key and trying to hold certain positions is hard enough without trying to keep your body all inline.
It really is difficult in parts and in other quite easy but overall very effective.
This workout has that yoga/pilates feeling to it with a twist in parts and you can really feel it working, some of the tummy exercises i felt working after just one or two where as sit ups had the same effect after say 10/20, they look easy but they really do work the insides very well.
The cool down session in this workout is the best thing on the dvd in my opinion lol you lay on the floor and go right through your body and stretch out every single part of it, jackie talks in a very calming way and you have your eyes closed and can here the low music in the background, if anything you may never get up, at one point i did 2 workouts one after the other and almost fell asleep in this cool down its that relaxing but it makes you feel very refreshed and relaxed when you do get back up a great end to 3 fantastic workouts

OVERALL~
Fantastic, you only need to do it 3 times a week but i found it that fun and rewarding that i was doing it 5 times a week and when i didnt do it i actually missed it *honest to god* in the few months i did it my weight dropped by almost a stone and the plus was i didnt diet at all, infact i ate an awful lot of rubbish and still lost a great chunk of weight i loved it because iam the worlds worst dieter and i refuse to do them so for me to eat rubbish and still lose the weight i was very impressed.
Davina makes this workout very fun and at many times has you laughing or smiling, even if you have seen it loads it has the same effect.
The trainers jackie and mark are brill, they take it at just the right pace for those of us who are a little unfit because they have the easy option it means its a great workout for all leval of fitness.
I loved this workout and now iam pregnant iam missing doing it but ive just found out she has a pregnancy workout in the shops so i will be buying that.
If like me you lack the confidence to go to the gym but want a good workout then i really recomend you buy this becasue it really does make working out seem like fun and not like a chore.
Davina, jackie and mark have done a fantastic job on this dvd.

The price is normally around the £15 mark i got mine from woolworths for £16.99 you can pick it up at play.com for £13.99 but try ebay you may save yourself a few pound. 

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