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THE FIRM: TOTAL BODY SHAPING MIX

Description: The Firm: Total Body Shaping Mix features Heidi Tanner, Tracie Long, Allie Strickland, Nancy Tucker, Pam Cauthen, Jennifer Carman, and Dale Brabham while they lead this aerobic weight training workout to tone the entire body while burning three times the fat of aerobics alone.

Reviews (15):

I Love It!
Reviewer: Anonymous 01-06-2002
This workout is a great mix of cardio & sculpt all in one! My only gripe is that sometimes the transitions are too fast so I have to hit the pause button.

Tough & Thorough
Reviewer: Anonymous 11-20-2004
This is a challenging workout & it definitely kept my heart rate up.

Poorly Done
Reviewer: Anonymous 05-10-2002
This tape is poorly put together. The instructor tells you to put your weights down & then another instructor tells you to pick them up. You could injure your back by just putting your weights up & down so frequently!

Love It!
Reviewer: Anonymous 03-17-2002
I love this tape! I especially like the aerobic intervals as well as the tough floor work. The ab section is great too.

Well Balanced
Reviewer: Anonymous 01-07-2002
I liked the balance of standing & floor weight work.
It has good editing & the workout flows well from segment to segment.

My favorite Firm workout...
Reviewer: Teedums Roseville, MN 03-07-2005
This is one of the many "Firm Parts" videos, which is a compilation of several videos. In this workout you will
see sections of Firm Strength, Firm Cardio, Super Sculpting,
Super Cardio, Fat Blaster, Maximum Body Shaping and even a couple of sections from Firm Basics Sculpting with Weights. This workout is 67 minutes long but I find the time goes by
really fast. It is mainly a strength workout with 3 or 4
cardio sections mixed in. It does a good job of hitting
all the muscle groups, you will see leg presses, squats,
lunges and dips for lower body, and military presses, french
presses, tricep kickbacks, bicep curls, one arm rows, etc
for upper body. There are also a few sections of ab work
at the end.

I think this workout was very well put together, I will give
it 5 stars even though I actually skip a couple of the cardio
sections to shorten it up just a bit. But that is just a minor
adjustment I make to it. I am afraid some of these Firm videos
will disappear, I hope that doesn't happen though. This one
of the workouts that I would purchase a 2nd copy if it were
to ever go out of print. I like it that much. Highly
recommended.

Too Choreographed!!!
Reviewer: Anonymous 07-24-2003
I am a FIRM Believer. I have a number of the tapes and use the Body Sculpting System 1 religiously. I must say that I didn't like this video at all. I actually sold it after one use. The moves were too choreographed and the cueing is awful. In addition, proper form was not emphasized in a majority of the segments. If you didn't know, the video is a compilation of the best of the Firm's Body Shaping Series. So if you think that it is 1 hour of Tracie Long, WRONG!!! There are at least four different instructors and everyone is not the best teacher!! Tracie Long is the best! Her segments come from the Firm's Maximum Body Shaping tape. Save your money and purchase that!!!

Great for beginners, good easy day for advanced
Reviewer: J. Rosenberg "fleta" Maple Grove, MN United States 03-05-2003
This workout is fun and effective for beginner to immediate exercisers. The moves are simple yet fun and very effective. This video uses The Firm's time proven technique for combining weights and aerobics to deliver fast effective weight loss. As an advanced exerciser I do own this tape and I use it on days when I want to have a simpler workout for variety. The workout can also be modified by using heavier weights to make it more suitable for the advanced exerciser.
As always variety is key when working out. Check out all the firm workouts and combine them for maximum weight loss.

Great Total Body Weight Workout!
Reviewer: Pamela Grow Philadelphia, PA USA 11-29-2002
Generally I am not fond of the Firm's compilation tapes (this video was derived from several different Firm workouts), however this one has come to be one of my favorites. It works the entire body, with an emphasis on the glutes (plenty of the Firm's tall box presses, LOTS of lunges, squats, hip extensions & table work). I use fairly heavy poundage and find I get a most thorough workout. As an aside, this is NOT a cardio workout -- the minimal cardio work appears to have been included more for "fast muscle twitch" and as recovery for the next set of weight workout. Highly recommended. If you're new to weights, the Firm Beginners or Maximum Body Shaping used with light weights would be perfect.

Tough toning, easy cardio
Reviewer: J. England "jazzy9230" Tucson, AZ 10-13-2002
The toning in this video includes pretty much every muscle group in the body--back, abs, arms (biceps and triceps), shoulders, thighs, buttocks--very effective if you want to firm up. The instructors make it very clear how the moves should be performed and show you what NOT to do. The cardio is mostly low-impact and not very challenging, which is the major criticism I have of this video. Most of the higher impact moves include alot of power jumping, which gets to be repetitive after a while. There are also quite alot of segments that have lunges, which are effective, but really, how many lunges can one person stand?
I have to wake up at 5 in the morning to have enough time to do this before work (it's 67 minutes long!) but it's well worth it. You'll see the difference!

A great workout, but a bit long
Reviewer: Kelly Fritz Garrow Wauseon, OH USA 08-19-2002
Maximum Body Shaping is a wonderful all-over body workout mixing weight training with low-impact aerobics. It has a running time of 67 minutes, which I find to be a bit long. Sometimes I fast forward through a couple of the sets, not because I can't finish the workout, but because I don't have the time.
This video has an excellent (very tough) section of floor work that is great for the inner thigh and gluts. Heidi Tanner is a machine and doesn't let up over some of these very long sets.

This video is for the intermediate to advanced exerciser, although beginners could do it with little or no weights. It is very challenging and I use it to gauge my fitness level as I continue to get in shape.

Great total body work-out!
Reviewer: Anonymous 06-09-2002
This tape is just what the title says. It's a mix of instructors and moves, to shape your total body. It's great on variety, and keeps you moving without getting bored. The only down side may be for people with lots of Firm tapes already in their collections. This tape features a couple of new sections by Tracy Long, but the rest of the tape is spliced from other Firm videos (the Crosstrainers mostly). I'd suggest getting this tape only if you don't have the other two. Then it would be perfect to get the best of several work-outs in one.

Excellent and safe workout
Reviewer: Melanie Conty New York, NY United States 06-01-2002
I love this tape. I'm just getting back into shape and was doing Susan Harris's body sculpting, which is also excellent, when I decided to incorporate this one as well. The varied segments and instructors keep things interesting and make the 67 minutes seem like only 20, and I never sweat so much as I do during this tape. Afterward and the next day I don't feel sore so much as really flexible and good.The exercises seem extremely effective, I can already see results after three times, yet they are not impossible to do. And there are just enough repetitions ... not too few, and not so many that it becomes grueling. I highly recommend this tape!

Best workout ever!
Reviewer: Anonymous 04-02-2002
I have tried several tapes but this one will make you work every minute of the workout. Got me into shape within 5 workouts! It's a must have video. The Firm really knows their stuff.

Wow!
Reviewer: Rebecca Shirey "Becky" Ohio 03-23-2002
I've only used three of The FIRM's workout videos, but out of those select few, Total Body Shaping Mix is my favorite. If I didn't have to vary my workouts I'd use this one everyday! This tape is exactly what it says it is, "a Total Body Shaping Mix", which is great. I always come out the next day feeling very sore. The only downside is, there's only about 5 minutes of ab work, which is one of my favorite areas to work on. Oh well though, I love this tape!

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