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Janice - never heard of it but am exceptionally interested in it. I may have to check out the DVD! Hope it's chaptered as finely as Cathe's!

A-jock
 
WOW! That looks very intriguing, I might have to check into that myself. If you get it, let us know how it is. ]

:) Marcia.
 
Janice,

Wow! Looks interesting. If you purchase it, please let us know. My credit card is calling out to me!!

Take care,

Iris

:D
 
I may be wrong but it looks like our very own honeybunch won that auction with the buy it now feature!(great deal) If it was her hopefully she'll give us a full report , to fire up the credit card or not}(

PS I emailed the seller to see if they will be getting more in, I'll let you know if I get a reply;)
 
Got a reply , what a nice guy!
If you want to buy this in dvd or vhs it's available, email Ken Directly at [email protected]

The price is $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping, you can refer to it as item #3620423842 on ebay. When I sent my paypal I used the SERVICES feature to get it to go through immediately when I used the auctions it wouldn't work, it would come up error, just thought I'd let you know!
Looking forward to this, this sounds interesting!;)especially at 50% off :p
 
dvd or vhs

I should have noted that if someone orders off of Ken tell him which you prefer vhs or dvd, since the ebay item was for a vhs but he has both!
 
feedback at VF

a thread at VF over a week ago http://205.214.68.83/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31392&highlight=Elite+Forces

one reply was
This set is better than I expected.
The workouts are divided into basics (teach basic moves like punch, jab, kicks), combo (combine toning by using your body weight or light weights and cardio), shadow boxing ( drills of jabs, punches) and cardio (kickboxing).
The music is techno. For DVDs, you can pick the audio to play just the music or the music with Max (a guys who read the scripts for all the combos in the workout).
These workouts give me similar feeling to SS maybe because it has the time clock and also the workout description from time to time (in case you want to tune Max out so you know what is coming next).
Katrina's kickboxing forms are not that great IMO...but the background exercisers are not bad. One person also shows the low impact version.
The workouts are kind of short...about 45 mins including stretching.
 
RE: feedback at VF

Thank you so much Francine for looking into it for me. The workout link really intrigued me, but I know it would really tick me off if it ended up being more "adventure" than "workout", you know what I mean. I thought other Catheites may be interested. Really had never heard of it before.
I bet that Ken guy is glad you contacted him, cuz now he should get extra business from here!!:) Let me know about it!

Janice
 
RE: feedback at VF

Janice, I've seen posts about the "10 best workout" DVDS (separate DVD's) at videofitness, and I've owned a couple of the kickboxing videos that are in the pack. Most of these are old workouts (80's maybe?), many are mediocre (definitely NOT the "best" workouts). The kickboxing workout (Kick It I and II and Tai Fit) are o.k., but not up to par with Powerstrike or Tae Bo. I THINK this set also includes some workout led by Tracie Lords, who gives all her instructions in rhyming couplets!

I've also seen this set for sale at Best Buy for around $12. Bestprices.com is offering some of the DVD's "free" (for $6.95 shipping) for a limited time.
 
Best of 10

Hey Janice, not familiar with that WHOLE set, but through experience of some of those videos they are not all that! You will be better off creating your own Best of 10 Fitness workouts with what you already have ;)
 
RE: Best of 10

Hey Francine - you are bad! I was not going to buy any more workouts, but since you recommended it - I couldn't help myself! Plus that software sounded awesome so I ordered that too!

Jeez, its not even my birthday!

hehe
 
bad girl

I have been a very bad girl and have fired up my credit card bigtime this past month! I haven't done this dvd yet, I just purchased it or do I know what the software consists of yet other than what the website said, for 50 % off I couldn't resist the good deals;)

I also just purchased the bodywedge21 for when I travel to train clients in their home,you can check it out at www.bodywedge21.com The BodyWedge21 is $119.00 and it comes with an instructional video as well as the Power Sculpt video .You can purchase the additional videos /DVD's that consist of Kick It (interval kick boxing strength training) Bottom Line ( Abs & Butt) or the advanced Balance Training combination strength and cored exercises. These sell for $19.95 each or all three for $29.95. I got all 3(of course:) It will be airing on informercials in 2 weeks, you can check the website for it's airing in your area! I emailed the producer directly and asked if I could purchase it now w/ the 3 videos, which aren't on the website yet but will be shortly and it was no problem, he was happy too!


My other splurge was for Wendilee's whole collection, www.body-b-fit.com(I'm copying an email sent to me on the breakdowns)

Here is a list of all the videos that have been released and that will be released between now and 12/22 of this year!

Body Blaster Boot Camp
Bare Bellies
Bars, Balls, and Bands - 2 DVD set
Boost Your Butt
After Baby... - 2 DVD set

Back-2-Basics (8/15) 70min
Yoga-Pilates Blend (9/15) 60 min
Faith-n-Fitness (9/15) 60 min
Bare Arms/Bare Legs - 2 DVD set (10/01) 90 min
Kick It! Kickboxing - (11/01) 60 min
Extreme Challenge - 2 DVD Set (12/01) 90 min
New Year New You - 6 DVD Set (12/22) total of 7 hours

All of the DVDs are new (as in there is no compilation stuff)

Here is a brief run down of the workouts


Body Blaster Boot Camp - we have pulled this one and it is only available to trainers - this was the first workout and it is an awesome instructional DVD - it is an actual bootcamp workout from one of my outdoor camps that I recreated for the video - the production quality is not good though and most people just could not get past that unless they were instructors, we are going to reshoot it at some point -
90 minutes - uses the bar exclusively
Cardio intervals
Lunges
Squats
Pushups
Deadlifts, etc.
5 sections - stretching & warm up 10 minutes
standing series - squats, lots and lots of squats - triceps etc. 20 min
floor work - pushups, presses, awesome side lying leg lifts w bar on leg etc 20 min
standing series - lunges - front/side/back - bicep curls/hammers/deadlifts etc 20 min
Abs - great ab section 15 minutes
Cool down - 5 minutes

Bare Bellies - production quality is okay - but not great - shot at studio
35 minutes
Lower Back work - 5 minutes
Obliques - 5 minutes
Bare Bellies - 20 minutes
the best on this is dead bugs - my absolute fav. abdominal exercise
planks, etc.
Cool Down - 5 minutes

Bars, Balls, & Bands - went to digital on this one - prod. quality is 100% improved - amazing difference actually - shot in my studio and at 2 different parks
2 DVD set
4 20 minute sections plus 5 min. warm up and 5 min cool down
Medicine ball, stability ball, bands, and fitness bar
Upper Body - 20 minutes
I have not meet anyone yet that can complete the upper body section yet - 6 different types of pushups on and off the balls - etc. - fun!
chest presses on the ball - etc.
Lower Body - 20 minutes - some really fun hard stuff - the best exercise in here I think is the ball toss up for the inner thighs
Cardio 20 minutes - great stuff - seems simply but gets your heart rate up and kicks your rear - ex. - sit on the stability ball and bounce
around in a circle
Abs & Back - 20 minutes - I am told of the first 3 releases - this is the best section - I love ab work with the ball!!!!
Cool Down - 5 minutes - really neat stretches with the stability ball

Boost Your Butt - 31 minutes - uses the fitness bar - shot at a beautiful park - production quality is increased again - with this one I really feel we are now at commercial quality ( the 1st 2 took some hits because of production quality- BUT we have done this all on our own - no borrowing money - improvements were made as people bought videos and we could afford it - I have always wanted to do this, and one day - I will be very, very successful at it and people will laugh about how awful the prod. quality was on the first two - remember that first video where . . .. but I was upfront about the production quality, that is why they were so inexpensive - all the profit from each tape went right back into making the next one better so my customers have helped support the improvement - most of them have been great about it and our VERY supportive - I have about 40 people who have prepurchased all 21 DVDs through Dec. 22nd - which is awesome - we got to shoot the Yoga Pilates blend on the beach etc. - I think hubby says that by next month I will actual make $1.00 that doesn't go right back into production - I am so excited! not too shabby!!!)
WUp - 3 minutes
Boost Your Butt - 20 minutes - 2 sections - floor work and standing series - some really neat yoga inspired balancing moves that really
work the glutes
lots of new, to most people, variations on traditional type moves -
Abs - some different stuff from the first 3 - I have tried not to duplicate too much - you are always going to have some similarities - bicep
curls etc. - but I keep it to a minimum
Cool - Down 3 minutes

Back-2-Basics - 70 minutes -shoot on a private campsite with a beautiful beautiful lake - production quality went up another notch as the 3rd digital camera was brought in on this one and (yeah) finally, the cordless mike!!!
fitness bar - weights - step - bands
100 repetition count workout - this is so cool

Warmup
2 20 minute sections - 100 reps of one exercise per body in each section - can be done sep. for a shorter workout or both together for a completely fatiguing workout -
I really like 100 rep workouts for plateau busting - not an everyday thing - that would get insanely boring - but it certainly breaks you out of any ruts
ABS - 20 minutes - 100 reps for 8 different ab/oblique/ lower back stuff -

Yoga-Pilates Blend 60 minutes - shot on the beach - truly beautiful - production quality is just awesome
Did 2 sections complete
1 - invigoration - am -
2 -relaxation - pm -
uses the stability ball and a mat -
total body workout but very focused, very controlled, very slow - all about the form (as all pilates stuff is) alot of the stuff in here I, I dont want to say made up, but adapted would be a better word, when I created a Yoga on the Ball class I taught for a local studio -
The ball has so much untapped potential - especially for pre and post natal moms and people with special needs - but, as you probably know, what an awesome core workout anything on the ball is!!!!

Faith-n-Fitness this is my thank you video - not to get sappy - and we all have different beliefs, but I believe that God brought us to this point and this was my - " he is awesome" thank you video acknowledging that - :eek:)
60 minutes
low key - lots of floor work, stretching - but I would still rate in intermediate to advanced
lots of compound exercises - plie squats with bicep curls - lunge with rear leg raise as you come up - pushup/jumping/jack to crunch combo - one of my favorites - start with 50of each - rapid succession - then 25 of each, then 15, then 10, then 5, then 3 sets of 1 - it is truly terrible (which means I love it!)
very spiritual warm up and cool down

Bare Arms - Bare Legs - 31 minutes each DVD
Pyramid structure -
weights only on this one
each one has a warm up - 3 minutes - 5 minutes abs - 3 minutes cool down
20 minutes main part -
these are slow count - low rep - full pyramid
arms works pecs, delts, triceps, biceps, upper back etc
legs works quads, hamstrings, calves, inner outer thighs - glutes by extension -


Kick It! Kickboxing - 60 minutes
This has not been shot yet - one of my clients is a certifed kickboxing instructor - teaches at the college -- competes etc.- and is awesome
she is teaching this for me - the outline is awesome - this is true kickboxing - people will need a bag for it - (I wish we could do a
speedbag video but that is probably too specialized - I LOVE my speed bag!) VERY INTENSE - part of why we haven't shot this yet is
we are waiting for my dr. to give the okay - she was worried about the intensity level and my c-section incision - too much information I
know :eek:)

Extreme Challenge - 2 DVD set - 90 minutes
I LOVE THIS ONE - I love all of them - but this one is particularly cool - probably because by this point I was totally at ease with what
we were doing - these were all shot in a short period of time - over 3 months about - this one was just finished actually - outside again -
I love to be outside - and well, it's Texas- we get pretty weather (I enjoy the 105 degree heat - I really do :eek:) from about March to November
so, why not be outside - ?
Warm up 5min - cool down 10 min- abs 15 minutes- the abs are tough, tough, tough - lots of yoga type pilates stuff boat pose with the bar
for a minute, plank with bar along spine, dead bugs, 100 count crunches with 5 different arm positions etc.
Disk one - chaptered by body part - weights are used mostly - some fitness bar stuff - completely take each muscle group to fatigue this
is def. an advanced - advanced DVD
Disk two - is the Cardio Interval Challenge - 2 minutes body resistance move - like side-step squats traveling - then 30 second plyo
squats - then 60 seconds - squat jumping jacks then 30 seconds back to body resistance move - 15 second pause - next cycle -



New Year New You - 7 DVDs - 6 are 60 minutes 1 is 30 minutes
These are about to be shot - they will be chaptered where you get 5 min. warm up/ cool down - the first 4 will have 5 minutes of abs on them - day five wont though because it is all abs - there will be 3 sections per disk - start with slow and heaviest weight you can do for 8 reps - 2 exercises per body part - then high rep low, low weight 2 exercises per body part - then pyramid lowest up to highest and back down 1 exercise each body part (but different exercises then the pyramid one above!) I am thrilled with these!!
Disc 7 - which I just realized is not on the website -will be a cardio DVD -
Five (5) - 60 minute DVDs -
One for each of your 5 exercise days Triceps, Biceps, and Calves Glutes, Delts and Pecs Quads, and Hamstrings Inner - Outer Thighs and Upper Back Core Muscles - Abs, Obliques, and Lower Back*Each day includes 5 minute warm-up, 5 minute cool-down and 10 minutes of Ab work except the Core Muscle day which has 50 minutes of abs. ALL OF THE 60 MINUTE DAYS INCLUDE CARDIO INTERVALS! One (1) - 30 minute DVD - For Day 6 Total Body Stretching


- After Baby...
2 DVD set - 90 minutes - all floor work - lots of talking, modifications, diet, etc - my baby is my weight for most of the video - I love this one - probably because of the cool down with baby section -that both of my daughters are in - has a baby massage etc. - talk about distasis etc. (I always spell that wrong - sorry!) Good balanced postpartum workout - I also have clients that are beginner's that use it as well - -


plans for next year -
Bosu ball
Treadmill
Rebounder DVD
Yoga on the Ball
Total Plyometric -
Body-B-Fit Kid Fit
Workout for 2 - all partner exercises -

I'll let you all know how my investments went}(
 
RE: bad girl

Hey Francine - I've seen some of those on Ebay - they have their own store. But someone told me the production is horrible.

Let us know whatyouthink once you preview them ok?
 
RE: bad girl

Quite a few people at videofitness found the production value of the BodyBFit workouts to be unwatchably bad. It's in a thread called "can we talk about..."
 
RE: bad girl

Okay Janice....be honest here....are you not just interested in these vid's cause you can receive a free "3D Muscle Activity Sensor Scan"?

We all know how you like cool fitness devices and I believe you own them all!!

Very interesting video's

Briee
 
RE: bad girl

Yeah Briee..if I could figure out what it is I would probably want it...

However, these weird vids have me stumped. Then somebody said "software" and I think I am gonna run the other way!!!:) Like I said, I am looking for a workout, not superhero adventure with a hint of porno. Looks like these ones might be catering more to the sci fi men? Dunno. I am letting Francine be the ginny pig. She will tell us like it is as soon as she does the workouts...right Francine????????

I gotta say that the 3D Muscle Activity Sensor Scan did intrigue me though......:):)

Janice
 
RE: bad girl

I have purchased a product through Royalbargins and he is great! Answered all my emails and delivered my product quickly.:)
 

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