the biggest loser power walk

January 11, 2011

this workout consists of 4 walking type workouts, each are one

mile done in around 16 minutes:

1. bob harper leads class of 'the biggest loser' contestants...

the most basic workout on the dvd but still a bit more strenuous

than other workouts of this type. why cant bob mirror cue on a

video workout?

2. a male contestant leads a cardio+sculpt workout (walking while

using dumbells). while the contestant seems like a pleasant guy,

and it is apparent that he has succeeded in his program there at

the biggest loser, he is not a very good instructor :/ late or

non-existant cues and mistakes, even the class couldnt keep up

with him. he did try to avoid the right/left cueing conundrum

though by saying he was going to step toward the woman beside

him, so that was good. but this woman would chime in with

comments (in one interesting tidbit she said that the BL made

them walk for 4 hours a day, so this workout with the weights was

nice for a change). i guess that she wasnt so bad, but normally

i dont like it when people besides the instructor speak during

the workout. this workout brought my heart rate down, so on to #3

3. thankfully bob comes back to lead workout 3 which starts off

with walk/run intervals. i did these, felt better and then

skipped to the next workout. i expect that the rest of this

workout was ok, but i was beginning to feel a bit bored.

4. oh oh, the contestants are leading the workout again, this

time it is the female. SKIP !!

5. a 5 minute cooldown is provided, but darnit, there are those

two contestants again, and it isnt really a cooldown but some

basic stretches... i skipped this too since i was going to do a

stretch video next anyway.

overall, i wouldnt put out any money for this dvd unless you are

a die-hard fan of the show, bob harper or these contestants.

there are much better videos available in this genre. i do like

the fact that the BL uses the actual contestants in their workout

videos but they should not have them pretending to be trainers

and leading the workouts.... that seems lazy to me.

:*carolyn.

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