What To Expect In A Work Out DVD

By Beth Prager

The wide array of work out DVD content is no different from that of work out videos. The only difference is that some of the DVDs allow you to do the exercise with or without the cheesy music (and with or without the instructor's eventually-annoying voice). They will all be at least 30 minutes of the instructor demonstrating the fitness movements, but they won't all have the same mannerisms and degree of intensity as other instructors on other work out DVDs.

There are so many different fitness instructors that you will find when you pop the DVD in. There will be male instructors, female instructors, group instructors--all with different styles and personalities that show through the TV. It is definitely a wide assortment that ranges from a pleasant-sounding woman with plenty of positive feedback on your appearance to a no-frills-sounding man with nothing but tough love for your last 60 seconds of intense ab crunches.

If you are lucky and have gotten your hands on a decent work out DVD, you will feel either at ease, or pushed to your limits. The instructor on the screen will be in a staged area that will appear to be a dance studio, an industrial-like gym, or a beach on some island.

Most likely, there will be a group of other men and women alongside and behind the fitness instructor following the work out moves. This is to show you that you are not alone as you exercise in your home fitness center.

This is also to provide you with the opportunity to relate to at least one or more of the people moving to the instructor's commands. There will be some exercisers trying an easy version of a movement, while there will be others trying a rather difficult version.

You might notice that in some work out DVDs, there is absolutely no sweating going on. Just happy smiles and glowing cheeks, but no sweat to be found. You might notice the opposite in other DVDs, where everyone is drenched from head to toe in sweat and struggling with some moves. That is all the decision of the director and producer to portray to you.

Overall, you will get a much better return of investment (or ROI for you business geeks) with paying a low flat amount of money for an entire work out DVD set, because the more you use it the cheaper each use will be. Eventually it will cost you pennies to exercise for an hour, as opposed to paying a large down payment for a gym and continuously paying monthly fees, gas refueling and commute time.

What's also neat is the ability for you to change the exercise regimen up to your liking. You know that you may get bored with one part of the program, and you may like the other parts better. Or, you may fall in love with the entire program (and love the fitness results so much) that you will end up using the entire set of DVDs all over again. - 31525

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