Fitness DVDs are an excellent way to stay in shape without even leaving your house. Fitness Magazine has put together a list of the top 10 fitness DVDs. These videos include core (stomach), cardiovascular, abdominal, Pilates and yoga-inspired workouts. Some of them also involve dancing, weightlifting and stability balls.
Amy Bentos' Hi/Lo Extreme
Fitness Magazine estimates that this DVD can help you burn approximately 500 calories total. The exercise routines in it combine plymetrics (a type of exercise that involves rapid movements to increase muscular power) and aerobics.
NYC: A New You Coming
This DVD uses 3- and 5-lb. weights and an optional step. This workout targets all of your muscle groups, switching from lower to upper-body moves periodically to make the routine more manageable.
Kelly Roberts' Time Saver Workouts: A.S.A.P. Abdominals, Spine and Posture
This fitness DVD involves using a stability ball and targets your core, back and leg muscles. Arm and leg lifts help improve your balance.
Perfect In Ten Yoga
This DVD is ideal for people in a rush. Fitness Magazine estimates that you can burn 30 calories during each 10-minute workout session. It doesn't involve any equipment and is said to improve your posture as well.
Jillian Michaels: The Complete Workout for Beginners
This DVD uses 3- to 5-lb. dumbbells and an optional resistance band. Fitness Magazine estimates that you can burn between 370 to 460 calories during each workout. This DVD comes in a set that includes two discs.
Dance Off the Inches: Sizzling Salsa
This fitness DVD has no equipment requirements. Fitness Magazine estimates the DVD can help you burn approximately 180 total calories. It includes three workout routines that increase your heart rate through the popular salsa dance form.
10 Minute Solutions: Blast Off Belly Fat
This DVD offers a variety of workouts that range from Pilates to crunches, ensuring you do not get bored while exercising.
Get Ripped 1000 With Jeri Love
Fitness Magazine estimates that this fitness DVD can help you burn 1,000 calories. It involves using 10 to 15 pound dumbbells in every 70-minute workout. This DVD gives you no breaks and provides cardiovascular and strengthening exercises to help you get into shape.
Pilates Core Challenge
Fitness Magazine rates this as the best DVD to help you learn Pilates. It has no equipment requirements, and the magazine estimates that this DVD can help you burn 225 calories in every workout. The workouts target all of your core muscles and is designed for beginner and advanced Pilates students alike.
Denise Austin: Boot Camp Total Body Blast
This fitness DVD is ideal for people who have very little time to exercise. You use 3- to 5-lb. dumbbells in every 50-minute workout, burning an estimated 350 total calories per workout. In 20 minutes or less, you can get three workouts that involve strengthening exercises and increase your heart rate.
References
- Fitness Magazine
- National Academy of Sports Medicine Essentials of Personal Fitness Training, 3rd ed; Michael Clark, Scott Lucett and Rodney Corn; 2008
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