Crunch: Master Class Sculpt

Nancy Popp
Year Released: 1997

Categories: Total Body Workouts


This video was very entertaining to watch. It is like taking a live class with a lively bunch of women exercisers. It is a total body weight workout. The background exercisers are in incredible shape. It is inspiring just to watch them. They look so incredibly toned and are wearing really skimpy exercise clothes but nothing untasteful.

This is an beginning to intermediate tape. The standing toning is done without weights. I used weights to make it more tough. Some of the exercises were squats, plies( with this sex pulse exercise), dips, leg inner thigh sweeps and leg outer thigh lifts. Nancy always puts in some fun combo to keep it fresh. Nancy always does a good job at explaining form and what exercise you are going to do. She also talks back and forth with the background exercisers and laughs and always says,"oh ya!" a dozen times. After the standing leg work, you go down and do outer and inner thigh work.

Then it's back to doing upper body with combinations like overhead press to French press to bicep curl. Then there is shoulder and back work too with kickbacks. Then you go down and do combinations of chest press, chest flies in a interesting way. Nancy does a super job of covering all areas of the upper body. Great for a beginner since she does 3 sets of each combo.

Then you do abs. This is a very good ab work. She does fun things like crunches with clapping and you roll your fists as you come down. Very unique and gets you mind off the burn. This was the best part of the video.

The music is VERY upbeat. I recognized some songs from Keli Roberts Ultimate step video and Keli's Circuit video. Very upbeat songs that I love. This workout just covers everything for someone just starting out in the exercise world. It is not advanced although the ab work is very challenging. During the cooldown they focus in on all the other exercisers faces so it's very entertaining. I thought Crunch did a good job on this video. Even though it was too easy for me as an advanced exerciser, I had a good time working out to this video. Nancy made it fun!

Instructor Comments:
Nancy does an excellent job on explaining each move as well as has great form. She does say "Oh ya", or " Ya" A LOT!!! It gets kinda repetative. Must be a nervous habit since Greg Twombly does the same in CIA. Nancy wears this strange black, see through lace outfit that Cher would wear. It didn't seem to fit the "Crunch" setting. Nancy is stunning though with a very bright smile. She does an awesome job at keeping the combo's fun so you don't get bored.

Mandy Lee

07/10/1998