Hannah Watermans Body Blitz DVD

Treen

Has anyone tried Hannah Watermans Body Blitz DVD and is it any good? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Don't want to waste £12.97 if its not any good.

TIA

Treen

fluffykins13

I really like it although it is quite hard work and you do sweat! Go onto Amazon and read the reviews of it there - there are quite a few and they go into quite a bit of detail.

LilyAllen_2

I'm not a fan to be honest and her voice very annoying!!

Prefer Davina Fit, 4 sections in half hour slots. I do one bit most nights.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Bet you could get a body just like a star's (heavily airbrushed) body on a fitness DVD.

Be a showbiz person down on their luck, missing the attention that makes them feel so alive.

Get someone to wave £100K in front of you, promise increased profile on chat shows, gossip mags, a resurgent career, etc, etc.


All you have to do is act a part for 9 months - the part is a public gym bunny with a secret, sad side of a melancholy anorexic (with plenty of access to slimming clinic medicines, personal trainer, and a lot of plastic surgery (tummy tuck, lipo, augmentation/uplift with teardrop implants so it isn't obvious). Then all you have to do is wait for the royalties and appearances on GMTV.

It'll work. Maybe not for long, but it'll work in the short term.

Unless you are housebound, you'll probably find it more fun (and safer) to do proper classes where you can be supervised and advised by a trained professional.

LilyAllen_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Bet you could get a body just like a star's (heavily airbrushed) body on a fitness DVD.

Be a showbiz person down on their luck, missing the attention that makes them feel so alive.

Get someone to wave £100K in front of you, promise increased profile on chat shows, gossip mags, a resurgent career, etc, etc.


All you have to do is act a part for 9 months - the part is a public gym bunny with a secret, sad side of a melancholy anorexic (with plenty of access to slimming clinic medicines, personal trainer, and a lot of plastic surgery (tummy tuck, lipo, augmentation/uplift with teardrop implants so it isn't obvious). Then all you have to do is wait for the royalties and appearances on GMTV.

It'll work. Maybe not for long, but it'll work in the short term.

Unless you are housebound, you'll probably find it more fun (and safer) to do proper classes where you can be supervised and advised by a trained professional.

I think that's true of most of these celeb/soap star dvds but that's another reason why I bang on about Davina. She's been consistently the same size for quite a few years.

I also do the odd class as my gym to mix it up but prefer a vid as I can roll out of bed, spend 40 minutes bouncing about in just my sports bra & leggings and no one will judge me for my poor coordination!

Bargain_Rzl

LilyAllen wrote: »

I also do the odd class as my gym to mix it up but prefer a vid as I can roll out of bed, spend 40 minutes bouncing about in just my sports bra & leggings and no one will judge me for my poor coordination!

Well, quite

On a related note, can anybody recommend an exercise mat suitable for doing DVD-led routines at home on laminate flooring? Most of the inexpensive ones have a lot of negative reviews for not being non-slip or providing no padding at all. Was looking at this one though - any thoughts?

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002201&langId=-1&searchTerms=DAVINA+EXERCISE+MAT

It looks good but no reviews as yet.

beachbeth

I was watching a programme the other day (I think it was This Morning?) and they were reviewing all the new fitness dvds that had just come out. Hannah Waterman's came out the favourite. I don't know if this helps but there was a man, as well as women, trying the dvds out.

Edited to say I found the link:

http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/healthandwellbeing/healthkick-dvdtesting/

GotToChange

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Bet you could get a body just like a star's (heavily airbrushed) body on a fitness DVD.

Be a showbiz person down on their luck, missing the attention that makes them feel so alive.

Get someone to wave £100K in front of you, promise increased profile on chat shows, gossip mags, a resurgent career, etc, etc.


All you have to do is act a part for 9 months - the part is a public gym bunny with a secret, sad side of a melancholy anorexic (with plenty of access to slimming clinic medicines, personal trainer, and a lot of plastic surgery (tummy tuck, lipo, augmentation/uplift with teardrop implants so it isn't obvious). Then all you have to do is wait for the royalties and appearances on GMTV.

It'll work. Maybe not for long, but it'll work in the short term.

Unless you are housebound, you'll probably find it more fun (and safer) to do proper classes where you can be supervised and advised by a trained professional.

Jojo - your cynicism is understandable - but, forgive me - rather stating the obvious as opposed to a review of the DVD...

Although I totally disagree with airbrushing (who in their right mind is taken in by it anyway and I feel for those who actually ARE airbrushed; it must be awful to have two different "reflections"), in the case of this DVD, there is no air-brushing at all; she looks on the cover pretty much as she appears on the DVD itself. She is enthusiastic and yet doesn't pretend to know it all; I think anybody's voice becomes irritating after a few viewings (I find the same with Davina) but she actually doesn't talk so much - is obviously working too hard.

As with anything, it will work if persisted with. As a fitness junkie and (many years ago) RSA/YMCA aerobics instructor, I find it effective and achievable and certainly feel it's effects and am prepared to overlook the minor annoyances (such as Day-glo fitness wear).

Not everybody wants to go out of their house to some soul-less gym or overpriced tie-in leisure centre membership. I forget who I am quoting when I say "I am particular who I sweat with".

I give it 9 out of 10 and 4*.

Bargain_Rzl

GotToChange wrote: »

Not everybody wants to go out of their house to some soul-less gym or overpriced tie-in leisure centre membership. I forget who I am quoting when I say "I am particular who I sweat with".

:T :T

Coincidentally, I ordered myself a copy of this DVD yesterday. Literally about half an hour before this thread began. (I'm not a fitness-DVD collector at all, this is the first one...)

The problem I tend to have with the gym is motivating myself to go in the first place (it's a 10-15 minute walk from my office during the week, and a proper trip out if I want to go at the weekend). Once I am there, I really enjoy it. And because I'm on PruHealth and they're scrapping their cheap gym deal, I know I'm not keeping my membership on after my policy renewal in September, so home fitness is definitely the way to go (and I don't have the space for any fancy equipment).

jenniewb

I used to be a member of a website that had fitness videos for you to work out to. Everything from cardio aerobics to weights and you could chose what to watch and participate in, it was £20 a month and you could watch as many as you wanted or you could pay something much smaller to watch one at a time and pay for each, sort of like renting.

Not sure if its all changed since as I've not used the site for a few years but here is the link if its any help.

GotToChange

To be honest, I think that there is enough free stuff on the www to never have to pay a bean (I don't know if my own prior knowledge may make it easier for me to put together an effective programme from what I see and read so I'm not pre-judging anyone else either way....) - and I find anyway that there should be some effort made to stick with a programme - however annoying the instructor/presenter (another plus for the HW DVD - she does not at any point claim to be an instructor and always defers to her trainer's knowledge).

As part of the training to be a teacher of aerobics/exercise to music, one of the core principles is that improvement takes place over time* (typically 6-weeks before stepping up a level of weight/number of reps etc) so stickability is an important factor.

It also gives a sense of achivement to become "better" at a routine - again, this doesn't happen with pick & mixing it from YouTube or wherever.
(Admittedly, three times a week for six weeks of Davina/Hannah/Colleen/Camilla/Rosemary/Mr Motivator or even lesser known instructors of aerobics/yoga/pilates etc etc is going to be a bit much - it is the nature of DVD; they will say the same things throughout and you get a bit sick of it - best just to tune them out once you know what you're doing...)

x

*And common sense anyway, I don't mean to sound pompous there.