madermouse's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My day with Traci Lords I wanted to jump on the bandwagon (see OFB.com) and give an enthusiastic �yes� for this exercise video: Prevention � Walk your Way Slim. I ended up buying this DVD at Ross for $6.99 and I�ve been using it faithfully about 3 times a week since. You�ll immediately notice the pace is a step-up from Leslie Sansone, with the music at a higher BPM. The set is spacious, the video and sound quality is excellent, the music is upbeat and driving, and the instructor isn�t too irritating. There are 3-levels performed in this video, which makes it a must-have for the long-term exerciser. As your fitness progresses, you can simply utilize the more advanced levels. Or if you�re an advanced fitness guru, you can utilize the lower impact levels on a �light� day. This is a video for people with very little space in their living room, as most of the moves are performed �in place�. The cueing is precise, the moves are easy to learn, and you can bounce between intensities depending on how you feel. At 300 pounds, the beginner moves are a great non-impact way to make me sweat. On the days I feel energetic, I incorporate some of the intermediate moves, scattering them throughout my workout. The level three moves are more advanced and higher impact. (i.e. more jumping and power moves) The girl on this video demonstrating the level three looks like she�s about 20. She�s very bouncy!! My only complaint about this video is that the stretching/warm up segment is a joke. The instructor, Michelle Dozois, only holds the stretches for a few seconds before switching. HELLO!!! It takes more time than 2 seconds to stretch your calf lady!! It pretty much makes the stretching portion of the tape a waste of time. So I often do this workout and then stretch out to "Slim and Limber" from the Slim in Six series. At any rate, I highly recommend this to anyone who appreciates Leslie Sansone, or other low-impact aerobic videos. This isn�t the only DVD I bought that week, but it was certainly the best one. I also bought one that was labeled �Jazzthetics� and it showed three normal looking women on the front in some regular exercise pose. On the back it said it was choreographed by some fitness professional blah blah blah, and then it said a fun, non-impact aerobic series. Here's a link if you're interested in reading more about her: (you'll have to cut & paste as I don't know how to do the hyper link thing yet in diaryland, sorry) http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1042/1042952.htm?SHOW=1&TYPE=2&ASSN=20499 Anyway, I knew something was wrong when when I turned it on and immediately heard 70's porno music in the background. Bow chicka bow bow.....bow chicka bow bow... The camera is really fuzzy too. Then a girl with long blond hair comes out in a skimpy SKIMPY outfit and she sits on the floor. The other two people come out in equally skimpy outfits (hey guy � you can see EVERYTHING through that spandex!!) and they sit on the floor beside her. Without warning - they start gyrating and doing all these improvisational dance moves that have nothing to do with aerobics or jazz or �thetics� (which I�m assuming has to do with athletics). And there is no instruction, but instead some sex-kitten voice says out of nowhere "Transition" every time they do a different move. Transition??!?! Transition to what?!?!? Then my husband walks in and says, "OMIGOD - That's Traci Lords!" I'm like, "Traci who?" and says, "Traci Lords the porn star!" and he's laughing his ass off and there I am with egg on my face. My question to him is: How did HE know her!?!? My second question is: Isn�t that a little misrepresentational to sell an exercise video hosted by a porn star in which no traditional exercises are performed? Not only that, but she wasn�t anywhere on the cover. The cover was completely normal looking. Grrrr... At any rate, my husband said I should sell it on e-bay to fifteen year old boys. Her nipples were showing through most of the time, and about 20 minutes into it, they did like 20 crotch shots and 20 sweaty breast shots and any 15 year old boy has a good enough imagination to be very happy with her little performance. 2:59 p.m. - April 15, 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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