I'm an active beginner. This was one of the first FIRM tapes I purchased and I didn't care for it very much. I'm not a serious "Firmie", but I have found other Firm tapes I like much more. (For example Not So Tough Aerobics and Better Body $ Buns). I liked the description in the Collage catalog and thought it would fit my needs. Particularly because the only floor work is the abdominals at the end.

It was a decent tape for me in my early stages, but I didn't find it fun enough to stick with it. Now that I am a little more advanced, I find it both inadequate as a strength tape and inadequate as a cardio tape.

When I did this tape the other day, I had just done Better Body & Buns the day before and I pretty sore. Therefore, I used light weights and eliminated a lot of the more serious toning sections. That left me with a pretty inadequate cardio workout. One of the step sections was pretty strenuous (on my 8 inch Rubbermaid step stool), but it didn't keep my heart rate up for a long enough period of time.

It really bothered me that the instructors kept saying "low impact aerobics are next", but they would proceed right into (high impact) plyometric jumps!

I know that other people like this tape a lot. And it may be a good workout for people who don't like to separate thier cardio and strength work the way I do. But I wouldn't want anyone to think that all Firm tapes are like this one.

My favorite part of this tape is the music. I like the drumming and light vocals in one section. I'm still trying to figure out what the lyrics are saying!!

I'm not quite ready to put this video on the exchange, because through my one year fitness journey thus far, I have found that my needs and philosopyhy keep changing. So I'm going to give this tape a little longer to grow on me.

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Jennine