Best Exercises Videos For Weight Loss

Exercise videos can help motivate and guide you in your fitness regimen, reports the Mayo Clinic, and can create a gym-like training environment within the privacy of your home. Not all exercise videos are alike. Though what's best for you often comes down to matters of personal preference and style, fitness experts have chosen several top-performing exercise videos.

Results Fitness 10 Days to a Better Body

Cardio workouts help use up excess calories to trim your weight. Results Fitness' exercise video was ranked by "Health" magazine's fitness editors as the best video-based cardio workout. They loved that the on-screen trainer, Cindy Whitmarsh, kept the exercises varied and fun to combat boredom. The video revolves around two 30-minute segments, and also includes a meal plan.

Billy Blanks Tae Bo Amped

The editors of "Fitness Magazine" picked Billy Blanks' workout video series as the best way to "blast mega calories" to help you lose weight. It features multiple video titles, like the "Fat Burn Accelerator" and the "Jump Start Cardio," that are designed to work together to tone your body and slough off fat. Blanks also offers on-screen tips for nutrition, dieting and general weight loss.

The New Method Pilates Precision Toning and Sculpting

Pilates helps burn calories and also improve muscle strength, but can be hard to learn on your own. "Real Simple" magazine's fitness editors chose The New Method's pilates DVD as one of the best weight loss videos. The DVD features two 45-minute workout sections aimed at sculpting and toning both your upper and lower body.

10 Minute Solution: Tone Trouble Zones!

You don't need to do extensively long workouts to burn calories and help lower your weight. If you only have a few minutes, "Fitness Magazine" recommends 10 Minute Solution's exercise video as the best quick fat-burning workout. As its name suggests, the video's workout sessions are split into 10-minute portions designed to target specific areas of your body, like your thighs.