Like other Rosemary's fitness workouts she has a number of different people working at various levels. When i first started this particular workout six years ago (on video back then) i was very unfit and so followed the lowest level. It was a great way to ease myself into exercising without feeling useless because i couldn't possibly do the medium to hard levels. However, it does give you an idea of where you can get to and gives you goals to work towards. I soon managed to reach the harder level and felt a lot fitter and that i'd acheived something.
So once again at the beginning of this year, after four years of not doing any sort of exercise (due to changes in my life) other than a few sit ups every morning, i bought the DVD version, since i no longer owned a video player.
Here's what you'll find on the DVD:
INTRODUCTION There's the usual intro with warnings and advice when not to workout (specific medical conditions and pregnancey). Then you will see Roesmary in her studio,
giving a short explaination of the sections and her advice on how to combine them.
WARM UP The 10 minute warm up gently eases you into the start and covers all the necessary stretches before the real work begins.
FAT BURNING WORKOUT This is the main workout and takes approximatly 20 minutes. It starts slowly, following the pace of the warm up and builds up to a couple of faster tracks, before a warm-down track. You will need plenty of room to move about and you might want some water to hand. Some of the moves take some practice. Even though i had done the workouts before, when i started again this year there were some bits that just went too fast and resulted in me messing up the moves the first few times.
ABDOMINALS This 10 minute (approx) workout starts off on the back doing things like sit ups and then goes onto press ups, as well as some other exercises. I just do this striaght on the floor, but you may want to use a mat and maybe a pillow.
HIPS AND THIGHS Another 10 minute (approx) workout which includes squats and leg raises. For this you will need plenty of room as well as either a chair or stick (old broom handle works well). It can be quite tiring when you first do it, but again you can start from a lower level.
COOL DOWN STRETCHES This is a really short section (5 mins), which is really gentle and relaxing at the end of any of the above sections. All you need is a bit of floor space (and if you want a mat).
CIRCUIT TRAINING This is demonstrated by one of the females, who shows you the lowest level, two other men (one is Rosemary's husband the other runs one of her classes) who both do an intermediate level and finally the male from the other setcions who works at the highest level. I haven't actually done this section, but it certainly looks good. Depending on what level you do you will need a mat, chairs and a rope (but just for jumping over, not skipping).
INSPIRATION There's the usual insipration section where Rosemary talks through how much weight each of the demonstrators have lost. I think this has been done quite well, as they show the old snapshot with the demonstrator next to it doing one of the moves in the video.
Rosemary has five females and one male helping her with the main workout, all doing different levels. Rosemary gives comentry throughout the workouts giving encouragement and helping you to keep in time. It also helps when you can't see the screen. The camera tends to be centered on Rosemary, although it will often cut to either the lower level or the harder level demonstrators, especially when she mentions something they are doing. The workouts are set in a nicely decorated studio, but this doesn't detract attention from the demonstrators.
In the corner of the screen there's a countdown timer, which starts again at the beginning of each section. This is really useful, especially when i start to get tired, but see there's only a couple of minutes left.
I love to just do one or both of the Abdominal or Hip and Thigh workouts. They are extremely useful if you have particular problems in these areas and are good if you don't have enough time to do the fat burning workout. Also it's fairly easy to skip through to the particular section that you require.
Personally, i really like the music, but obviously it's a matter of personal opinon. They are, from what i can tell, mostly eighties tracks for example Whitney Huston's 'I Will Always Love You'.
If you've have any of her other workout DVD's you may find some similarites, but if you like her, like me you'll enjoy this different format.
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