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10
Minute Solution: Target Tone for Beginners
Anchor
Bay, 2004
List
Price: $14.98
Amazon
Price: $12.99
Review
by Sheri Ackerman
Equipment needed: Floor mat, light hand weights
Favorite Feature: Compared
to other fitness gurus, instructor Cindy Whitmarsh takes
a slightly different approach on almost every exercise making
the "same old exercises" targeting "the same
old body parts" feel fresh and new again. A refreshing
break from the highly predictable standard approaches showcased
in other do-at-home workout programs.
Could Live Without:
"Can ya do another 8? I know you can!" Too much,
too often!
The
10-Minute Solution: Target Tone for Beginners is
one in a series of 10 minute workout programs offered for
sale at most major retailers in DVD or VHS formats. Target
Tone for Beginners is designed to help you shape up
your abs, thighs, buns, arms and shoulders; 10 minute solutions
for every part of your body that can be done one at a time
or all together. You're encouraged to custom create
a homework out geared towards your needs and goals. Each
10-minute workout has a short warm-up and cool-down tailored
to the body part you'll be working out in that segment.
10-minute Thighs: Squats,
lunges and various isolation moves are used to work the
thighs (primarily, the quads). To ensure you're working
the correct muscles and to avoid injuries to your knees,
pay attention when the instructor tells you where, on which
foot or which part of the foot, you should be bearing your
weight.
10-minute Arms: You
will first use a set of hand weights (instructor uses a
5-pound set as do I) to work your shoulder and arm muscles.
Then, unlike many upper body workouts, you're taught a series
of mat based exercises.
10-minute Buns: You
will take to the mat in this segment for exercises that
focus on the glutes including rear leg lifts from a rather
indelicate (but effective) position.
10-minute Abs: Planks
and standard crunches are included but for this segment
you'll start out standing, unlike the usual abdominal
workouts that mainly focus on crunches.
PowerStretch: A series
of stretches, both standing and on the floor, that stretch
out a little of everything and a whole lot of legs.
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