Charlie Brooks - Before And After Workout (DVD)

...be, sort of similar to Charlie so I needed some kind of help. I had flicked through Heat magazine around Christmas time and noticed the list of fitness & workout videos, I narrowed it down to 4 Colleen McLoughlin's dvd, Davina Mccall, Jordan or the Charlie brooks dvd. After looking on DooYoo and Ciao for some help I then went to Amazon and the Charlie Brooks one looked more like my kind of thing. I didn't want to pay £13 for it though incase I didn't ...
...is a pink cover with Charlie from a sideways view on the left hand side, looking worn out with a bit of a stomach and then to the right her face on with a toned stomach looking, tanned, happy and in good shape. I believe that there has been no cutting off by digital editing but this is true. The back cover is a little note from Charlie. The DVD consists of approximately 5 ten minute workouts, some run a little over. At the menu section, you can play ...

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Review of Charlie Brooks - Before And After Workout (DVD)

Charlie Brooks Before and After Work Out DVD Most people will know Charlie Brooks for her character Jeanine Butcher in Eastenders a few years back, since then she has had various roles in other drams but in 2005 after the birth of her daughter Kiki, she released this before and after workout DVD. I have never been one for these sorts of DVD and have always thought it better to head off down the gym. After seeing so much about this DVD and Charlie ...
...no difficult moves. As Charlie Brook's says at the beginning of this section it doesn't really feel like exercise but you are actually working your body. By the end of the section I am getting pretty hot and feeling myself getting there! 3) Combat - This is my next favourite and this section really does feel as though you are working out your whole body. Lasting for 10 minutes as all the other sections but working a little harder with lots of leg ...

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...customer reviews, it seemed that Charlie Brooks' Before and After DVD came highly recommended and at £6.48 from amazon seemed well worth a try. I'm sure we all know Charlie Brooks as super bitch Janine Butcher from Eastenders. Not someone ever known for a super skinny figure, after having a baby she found it difficult to shift the excess weight. For this DVD, she's teamed up with Personal Trainer Dee Thresher (who also helped Eastender's Sonia to ...
...6 weeks. The photo's of Charlie before and after on the front cover are very inspirational - the after shot looks great! Ok, she has very bad posture in the first photo and it's not a flattering angle, but in both she looks like a normal person rather than a model which makes it feel really attainable to the average slightly overweight person. The workout takes place in a warehouse type building filled with all things hot pink and girly, and is split ...

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Review of Charlie Brooks - Before And After Workout (DVD)

...it was the fact that Charlie had lost 2 stone from doing this workout so I thought I just had to give it a go!! I paid full price for it (£16.99) as it had just been released but now they are selling much cheaper and of course there is always amazon, Ebay etc. which are reasonably priced. The front of the DVD is very attractive and shows you Charlie's figure before embarking on the workout, and after she had been doing the workout for a little while. ...
...a go. WARM UP Charlie and her instructor Dee are in a light, airy and very pink studio which is very girly. They are wearing white and pink outfits and Charlie looks extremely toned, tanned and very slim - this inspires me even more! Charlie is very smiley and enthusiastic and the instructor takes us through some basic dance moves which she says will be also used in a later section. We also do stretches and a few squats. The warm-up lasts quite ...

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...I decided to but Charlie Brooks as i had looked at others and it seemed more my cup of tea. I like to dance and the iamge on the front really caught my eye. Damn she looks good now! I couldnt help but feel a pang of jelousy but i have to admit it made me want to buy it. Ok so onto the dvd itself. The menu gives you the option of playing the workout in full or you can choose chapters to work out to. I started off with the whole thing and just watched ...
...with ease and chats to charlie as though they are good friends. The warm up is combined of a bit of disco moves and some salsa moves as well. It is fun relaxed and while your thinking and getting the moves right you will be burning calories and not knowing it. Disco Not my favourite but it includes moves we saw in the warm up and again while you are concentrating you dont realise your burning fat. Its fun and the more effort you put in the more ...

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Review of Charlie Brooks - Before And After Workout (DVD)

...can see the changes which Charlie Brooks went through on the DVD cover. It is not like other workout DVDs where the individual was always a model or a size 0! It made me think if charlie can do It so can I. The DVD had a number of sections each of which are different and target different areas and fitness requirements. The sections are: warm-up disco combat high intensity pilates cool down Each section lasts for about 10 mins - but it sure ...
...the burn! With regards to each section The warm-up is great and definately gets you going. For a non-dancer at first I got a little confused and was worried that if I was getting lost in the warm-up how on earth was I going to do with the rest of the DVD, but trust me stick with it and it becomes second nature. The disco section is good and definately more workout based than dance based - you could not do this on the dance floor at your local ...

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...surprisingly it's an ex-eastenders actress. Charlie Brooks played Janine Butcher in the gloomy soap and went off to do other things. She has a baby and gained some weight but this fitness dvd shows how she shed the pounds and shifted over 13,000 copies in one week. JAAAANNNNNNIIIIIIINNNNNNNEEEEEEE! Now I've generally just been doing a basic workout for a few months, I've lost a nice amount of weight doing weights and general basic exercises. But ...
...the shelves. For starters Charlie Brooks comes across as very down to earth and likeable. This puts you at ease and the whole workout is tinged with a nice sense of humour. This dvd also shows you a before and after. You see Charlie with the weight and then see her looking pretty good after sticking to the workout and a controlled diet. So guys and girls the results are there to see. The workout is divided into five sections. These take in a warm-up, ...

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...persevered and found it fun. Charlie Brooks is someone i recognized from Eastenders so seeing a big difference in the way she looked was encouragement even if i did have that niggling feeling that the before and after pictures weren't all about weight lose but about clever photography,oh well :-) Music Not my type of thing at all,but after i started to get used to the routine i could turn it down. Eating Plan-Something that seems to appear in ...

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...honest i couldn't see how charlie brooks had toned up and lost the weight (you get to see charlie before and after) in 6 weeks, as i didn't think the exercises were gong to "make you sweat" and get great results as much as it claims too. How Wrong Was I ! i'm not a stranger to exercise, used to go to the gym about 3 times a week and do a fair bit of walking, but when i actually worked through the dvd for the first time i was shattered and sweating ...
...and work through the dvd about 3 times a week, after about 10 days, i felt noticable "slimmer" and toned and had bags of energy. The first time i done this i admit there were a few of the routines that i didn't get straight away and instead of rewinding the dvd back, i just improvised slightly (!), but the second time round all the moves came naturally and was easy to get on with. and the third time round i was automatically doing all the bits that ...

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I've tried a few fitness DVDs and this has been the best so far. As the bright pink cover suggests it's quite girly, but not to the point of that being a problem. It's split into several sections, which is great because you can mix and match depending on which ones you like best and how much time you want to exercise for. I never stuck with any DVD before, but this is great because you can adapt it to suit your fitness level. It's really tough and ...
...got it, so I did the warmup on its own every day, and 3 times a week I added one of the other sections on to the end. That way I built up my fitness level gradually and the difficulty increased as I got fitter. The moves aren't difficult because they're really well explained and demonstrated, while the whole DVD has a friendly, encouraging tone. There's also a feature with a suggested diet plan. I don't know how effective that is because I didn't ...

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This DVD starts off with Charlie Brooks telling us how she used these exercises and "a healthy diet" to lose all the weight she put on during her pregnancy. They have a clip of her before she started exercising and was being weighed and measured, then again when she was halfway through her goal, and then at the end when she achieved her target weight. The DVD has five sections - each lasting approx 10 minutes. In each Charlie does exercise while ...
...At the end Charlie recommends your follow this exercise plan at least 3 times a week to see results. There is also a Healthy Eating Option section which has loads of recipe suggestions for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. Overall this I found this to be a good exercise DVD, and the fact that I have used it more than once should prove the point! No major weight loss though but definitely feeling more toned Good Luck I brought this DVD from ...

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5 sections: Warm Up, Disco, Combat, High Intensity, Pilates. Warm Up: Fantastic, introduces you to moves due to follow, ends with stretches. Disco: Huge fun, well explained and great for toning. Combat: Very difficult in a good way, hugely effective. High intensity: Short, but very intense. Pilates: Relaxing but still hard work, I'm post natal and noticed huge results even after the first time. This DVD is brilliant. I've tried them ALL, and this DVD is hugely different because she doesn't start off looking all size 8 perfection, ending up the same way. Shows step by step her transformation (hugely motivating), and introduces you to the diet she followed also. Well worth the money and effort!! GO OUT AND BUY IT NOW. ...

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Review of Charlie Brooks - Before And After Workout (DVD)

...I found very encouraging. Charlie is very familiar with the moves as well and I really felt that this was a routine she had been following, unlike some celebrity DVDs where it's obvious they meet the trainer only on the day of shooting. The DVD is split into five ten minute sections, which is great if like me you get easily bored. The trainer is very down to earth and there is a good rapport between her and Charlie. The DVD gets straight down to ...
...a presentation of the diet Charlie followed, which is really good with some useful recipes. 1. Warm-up This is a bit difficult to follow at first, but I just jogged or marched in the bits I got lost in. It definitely warms you up! 2. Dance I used to go to keep fit dance classes so I found it a bit boring. It is more like keep fit than dance, but as it is only 10 minutes it's still good for getting your heart rate going. 3. Combat This is great ...

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...and after. We hear how Charlie had put on 2 stone as a consequence of pregnancy and is desperate to loose the weight, so enter the fitness trainer to help her get rid of it, and sure enough 12 weeks later charlie brooks has lost the 2 stone and looks bloody amazing,very inspirational.So, having just has a baby myself i thought "why not?" The work out consists of 6, 10 minute workouts: 1. WARM UP 2. DISCO 3.COMBAT 4. HIGH INTENSITY 6. COOL DOWN ...
...thinking, "hey this is ok not to strenuous" ha, the combat is all about punching an kicking you then know that this workout must be working, it is with sheer horror that the next section is called 'HIGH INTENSITY' I didnt think that it could be more intense than the combat section! By the end of the High Intensity workout i am like jelly, and dripping with sweat, so quite looking forward to the cool down and pilates. I always thought Pilates was ...

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...before and after bits of charlie (what an amazing transformation!) made me think it would be worth a go. And it was. It is easy to follow, and as it is split into five sections (warm up, dance, combat, high intensity and pilates), it doesn't drag, and the easy rapport between Charlie and trainer Dee makes it feel like exercising wth mates. While it never feels like ridiculously hard work, it has really toned my thighs and bum (i think this is the ...
...of squats here), and my belly (the pilates bit, which has some great alternative to those pesky sit ups we all love to hate). There aren't any really complicated steps to learn, which is a good thing as the one possible downside is that Dee doesn't spend long explaining any of the moves, it's more a case of look and learn, but that doesn't really matter. There is also some diet advice for anyone looking to lose weight. Overall, this really is about ...

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