Billy Banks new stuff
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Sorry, haven't tried his Bootcamp. I just wanted to reply to your remark that he was erratic and unequal on each side years ago---he still is! I tried one of his newer DVDs (the Energy series) and the class is still counting out loud (too annoying for me), he breaks off in the middle exercising and starts wandering around the too-crowded set and then he doesn't do equal reps/sets on each sides. I just can't get past these pet peeves, so I've stopped doing his Tae Bo.
Yeah, I laughed too, at his Bootcamp title as I thought of Cathe's (kick butt) Bootcamp title! That's unfair of me to laugh since I haven't even seen his Bootcamp workout---it might be tough. But somehow I don't think it's as tough as Cathe's!
Yeah, I laughed too, at his Bootcamp title as I thought of Cathe's (kick butt) Bootcamp title! That's unfair of me to laugh since I haven't even seen his Bootcamp workout---it might be tough. But somehow I don't think it's as tough as Cathe's!
I love Billy. It's his workouts that annoys me. I bought the Bootcamp DVDs and had to sell them. It was horrible. Maybe Cathe spoils me too much, but I found them to be easy and downright dull. I even fell asleep during the floorwork. I wish I had something positive to say but I don't. This purchase was the biggest waste for me since the start of the year.
I bought the Bootcamps and sold the instructional & beginner, but the Advanced is okay for a change. Definitely not as intense as Cathe, but as far as resistance band workouts go, it's allright. I have to travel for work a few times a year and can't always make it to the hotel gym, so I take this w/ me and do it in my hotel room.
The Ab Bootcamp is an all around great ab workout. It is right up there w/ any Cathe ab routine, and P90X's ab ripper. I love it!
The Ab Bootcamp is an all around great ab workout. It is right up there w/ any Cathe ab routine, and P90X's ab ripper. I love it!
kathryn
Cathlete
I just wanted to reply to
>your remark that he was erratic and unequal on each side years
>ago---he still is! I tried one of his newer DVDs (the Energy
>series) and the class is still counting out loud (too annoying
>for me), he breaks off in the middle exercising and starts
>wandering around the too-crowded set and then he doesn't do
>equal reps/sets on each sides. I just can't get past these
>pet peeves, so I've stopped doing his Tae Bo.
I've tried to like Tae Bo (because I'm always on the lookout for advanced kickboxing workouts), and hoped beyond hope that some day Billy would learn to do each side equally. I've NEVER seen a Tae Bo workout that counts sides equally (and I'm beginning to suspect that the same side get short shrift). I had the Bootcamp workouts, did the ab one (not bad, but again, one side gets 4 sets of an exercise, and the other side gets 2! WHY oh WHY doesn't Billy let Shelley do the counting for him, and LISTEN TO HER!!). Previewing the other workouts, I saw the same imbalance. And in one workout, the thought of "o.k., when are we going to do that move on the other side" bothered me through the WHOLE WORKOUT---he never did X move on the other side!
I can't remember which workout it is (maybe "Cardio Circuit 2"?), but one workout actually was balanced...for the first 12 minutes! I was hoping it would continue, but it didn't.
Some people don't mind Billy's "spontaneity," but I see it more as "lack of planning." I think if you were to do primarily TB, you might end up with a muscular imbalance (especially if my perception that one side ALWAYS gets worked less than the other side is true). I also don't like his "double time" moves, which I find too fast for safety (and his "6-count" moves that he still does an 8 count for... and his bad cuing at times, that throws off even his background exercisers, then he kind of makes fun of THEM for not catching the change).
That being said, I do think Tae Bo has value...in teaching young children to count to 8..bwa ha ha!!:+
>your remark that he was erratic and unequal on each side years
>ago---he still is! I tried one of his newer DVDs (the Energy
>series) and the class is still counting out loud (too annoying
>for me), he breaks off in the middle exercising and starts
>wandering around the too-crowded set and then he doesn't do
>equal reps/sets on each sides. I just can't get past these
>pet peeves, so I've stopped doing his Tae Bo.
I've tried to like Tae Bo (because I'm always on the lookout for advanced kickboxing workouts), and hoped beyond hope that some day Billy would learn to do each side equally. I've NEVER seen a Tae Bo workout that counts sides equally (and I'm beginning to suspect that the same side get short shrift). I had the Bootcamp workouts, did the ab one (not bad, but again, one side gets 4 sets of an exercise, and the other side gets 2! WHY oh WHY doesn't Billy let Shelley do the counting for him, and LISTEN TO HER!!). Previewing the other workouts, I saw the same imbalance. And in one workout, the thought of "o.k., when are we going to do that move on the other side" bothered me through the WHOLE WORKOUT---he never did X move on the other side!
I can't remember which workout it is (maybe "Cardio Circuit 2"?), but one workout actually was balanced...for the first 12 minutes! I was hoping it would continue, but it didn't.
Some people don't mind Billy's "spontaneity," but I see it more as "lack of planning." I think if you were to do primarily TB, you might end up with a muscular imbalance (especially if my perception that one side ALWAYS gets worked less than the other side is true). I also don't like his "double time" moves, which I find too fast for safety (and his "6-count" moves that he still does an 8 count for... and his bad cuing at times, that throws off even his background exercisers, then he kind of makes fun of THEM for not catching the change).
That being said, I do think Tae Bo has value...in teaching young children to count to 8..bwa ha ha!!:+