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The Firm: Ultimate Fat Burning Workout |
  It grows on you |
| I have been using the firm ever since the put out the wooden stepper. The first time I tried this video I got a little lost with the choreography, so I put it back on my shelf. Then I felt bored one day and I decided to give it another try and it grew on me. As an aero/tone video it is fairly balanced but not as heart pounding as their other videos. I use heavier weights to get a more challenging workout. I do enjoy it now because it gives me a break from my more intense videos (.e.g. Jillian, Jackie). - posted by Gilda on 1/23/2010 |
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| One of my favorite from Alison! |
| I love this workout. I do it on days when I need to slow things a bit but still wanna get my body moving and get a good workout. It's low impact, toning and there's a kickboxing section which is my favorite. Alison's teaching style is great and motivating. A keeper! - posted by Ms. Dee on 1/19/2010 |
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| Always in my rotation |
| I really enjoy this video. I go to this on days when I simply can't do Allison's Bootcamp Maximum Calorie Burn, but I still get a good workout. The sculpting segments actually raise my heart rate more than the cardio. To me this is an efficient, total body workout, and I always feeling great after doing it! - posted by Jessica on 12/26/2009 |
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| Pretty good..mixed feelings |
| While I do like most of this workout mainly for cardio, I do find the second dancy segment of the video to be waaaayyy to easy. I usually have to run in place (butt kicks, knee ups) to keep my heart rate up during this. But the rest of video is very good especially the kick boxing at the end. You will definitely burn calories and get in some light toning. Nice to have in my rotation but not an immediate go to. Also, if you pop in a separate ab routine at the end it really feels like a complete workout. - posted by Stefanie on 12/22/2009 |
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| I love this one and here is why |
| First, off, those writing negative reviews, keep in mind this is lower impact. If you would like it to have more impact, you can always add hops or plyos in areas of this workout. I do that if I want to "UP" the intensity of this workout, thus making it more advanced. I also use heavy weights, so this also "UPS" the workout. I love this one as it is all compound moves. I love to work lower and upper body at the same time. Saves time, and works everything, so I do not have to do an hour long, just weights, video. Alison is spot on with her cuing and there was no dread factor. Great job! - posted by Jill Sherry on 9/30/2009 |
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| Love It, Love It, Love It! |
| First, let me say learning choreography is challenging for me. The instructor on this video has such superb cueing that it was very easy for me to learn. When I first previewed the dvd, I thought she talked a lot, but then I realized 98% of everything she said was instructional. Second, this workout was tough! My butt hurt for 2 days after I did it. Third, it is so much fun. It is my new favorite dvd and will be in constant rotation. It's just all around great! - posted by Michelle on 8/8/2009 |
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| cardio subpar |
| Like many firm workouts, I enjoy the strength training, and applaud the attempt at an interval structure, but the cardio always! falls short. It's lame and pointless in my opinion, esp. the first cardio portion on this one. When I do this workout, I skip over the cardio and head straight to the weight parts, (not easy since it's not pre-programmed btw) but the weight part always feels worthwhile...and I like Alison's style (her bootcamp is awesome) If I didn't already own this workout, I would not (and usually don't anyway) give it a second glance among my other options....pick pump jump and jab or cardio bootcamp or even burn and shape over this one. - posted by amber on 7/21/2009 |
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| like it |
| I like this workout - it is fun and easy to follow along. This is my go to dvd when I am not sure what type of exercise I want to do as it has both cardio and weights. I keep most of the moves low impact as I don't like jarring my knees to much! I would class myself as a beg/inter and have been working out 4-6x's a week since feb09. This maybe a challenging workout for a total beginner, but for someone who is getting back into exercising it is do-able. - posted by Sarah on 6/25/2009 |
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| Just ok. |
| I have several of Firm videos and I think that this one is one of the easier ones. I love love love Allison, but a lot of the moves are very repetitious and seem to go on forever. I think it would be good for beginners, but I don't understand how it got the advanced rating. - posted by Kristi on 6/25/2009 |
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| The tite says it all. |
| This has to be the best workout. I would say the ultimate but it would get that title only if it was longer. This is my go to cardio no matter what. I absolutely love this workout and Allison is great at cueing minus the one mess up in the beginning (unless they fixed it because it does have a different cover than when I bought it). The warm up puts you in the zone. I love the fact that after the warm up she goes into "four-limb" and makes it have a cardio effect. The dance segment was tough when I started doing it because I didn't understand the footwork but now I understand the "low impact but still in the zone" effect that it has. This DVD still puts my heart rate in my target zone and it still makes me sweat and I have been doing this forever. What I am going to do is what most people don't do when leaving reviews. I'm 5'8" 178 (right now)coming from 180 but I don't look it. I put that because I feel it will give people an understanding of where you are at physically when doing these workouts. I classify myself as intermediate because of my years of working out but some beginner stuff still kicks my butt so I just thought that information might be useful. - posted by D. Rayford on 6/4/2009 |
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