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SHAPE YOUR BODY WORKOUT - DVD MovieAt a time when we know so much about choosing safe, effective exercises, reissuing Cindy Crawford's 1992 best-selling disaster,
Shape Your Body, is inexcusable. Swimsuit-clad Cindy puts herself through flings and gyrations that show off her body but aren't any good for anyone else's. She presents one after another of the exercises that fitness professionals threw out of their routines two decades ago because they're ineffective and risky to back and joints. Her alignment is! awful; her control nonexistent. She rounds her back and flings her leg into high kicks. She does squats letting her knees go way past her toes. Even when the exercises are decently chosen and performed, she does them much too quickly, relying on momentum instead of muscle power, such as two-second bent-over rows. Trainer Radu, who designed and coached this workout, should be sentenced to an eternity of fast donkey kicks, leg swings, and trunk circles.
This "toning" video would be a joke, except that you really could get hurt following it. In fact, when Shape Your Body first came out, fitness expert Peg Jordan, author of Fitness Instinct, appeared on CNN warning viewers about the risks of this video. "I received a call from a chiropractor who had treated 12 patients' back injuries from that video alone!" she recalls. If you've got to have this one, watch it only, don't do it. --Joan PriceCINDY CRAWFORD:NEXT CHALLENGE - DVD MovieThis 19! 93 video is a one-hour workout combining stop-and-start cardio! moveme nts that are athletic (no dance) with muscle endurance moves with and without light weights. The cardio section uses moves like jogging, jumping, leg swings, and power moves such as fast lunge combinations, squats with jumps, and karate kicks. The lower body strengthening moves include variations of lunges and squats using body weight. The upper-body weight exercises are varied but done too quickly--it's easy to rely on momentum. Some of these exercises are oddly chosen: a number of the exercises that are supposed to work the chest fatigue the shoulders and back long before the chest muscles feel anything, for example. You'll certainly feel the many sets of ab exercises, however!
After the fitness experts panned Cindy Crawford's 1992 Shape Your Body because of its risky moves, this one was planned under the supervision of C. Thomas Vangsness Jr., M.D., Chief of Sports Medicine at the University of Southern California. Crawford doesn't fling her body as ! she did in the first one (why didn't her trainer teach her not to do this in the first place?), and she explains how to do the exercises properly. A glossary of exercises at the end emphasizes correct form. This is certainly better than Shape Your Body, but unless you're wild about Cindy Crawford, you can find workouts conducted by real fitness instructors that are better designed and demonstrated. --Joan PriceCINDY CRAWFORD:NEW DIMENSION - DVD MovieWhen model Cindy Crawford wanted to trim down and firm up after the birth of her baby, she chose trainer Kathy Kaehler, who had gotten herself back in shape after gaining 80 pounds with her twins. This program includes two short, easy workouts and one long one. Workout A (12 minutes) is a light-intensity routine, mostly stretching with some strength moves such as lunges and abdominal curls, nothing strenuous, with bland background music.
Workout B (16 minutes) includes cardio moves that are very simple a! nd low-impact, such as knee lifts and marching, no choreograph! y. You c an use light hand weights if you want to add intensity, although your shoulders might fatigue before your large muscles. Workout B also includes strength moves such as squats, lunges (while picking up playing cards for a balance challenge), crunches, and pushups. Workout C is a full-body workout consisting mostly of muscle endurance with some segments of cardio. The cardio is more complex and intense than in Workout B, but not dancy--combinations of marches, squats, and kicks, for example, with or without hand weights.
The production is full of visual stimulation: constantly changing views--color or black-and-white, clear or grainy, insets, beach scene or workout room--and changing camera angles. The workout doesn't stand out as exciting, but it is solid, and if you saw Crawford's awful first workout video many years ago, you'll be thankful that she traded in Radu's unsafe, poorly designed routine for Kathy Kaehler's safe and sane one. --Joan PriceMeaningful Be! auty is the complete anti-aging skin care solution created by Cindy Crawford and designed to diminish the various visible signs of aging. This amazing system features an exclusive age maintenance formulation created by Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh. The secret ingredient in this extract is a super rare melon found in remote region of France. This melon has a super antioxidant property that makes it stay fresh much more longer than any other ordinary melons. This patented melon extract was previously only available to Dr. Sebagh's exclusive list of patients who pays thousands of dollars for every visit. But now Cindy Crawford has brought this amazing solution to everyone with the Meaningful Beauty line. Using the super antioxidant formula, Meaningful Beauty helps shield the skin from further signs of aging and improve natural collagen production to reverse the signs of aging. It smooths the appearance of visible fine lines, brighten the complexion, and diminish skin roughness and redness in as little as four weeks.
