Reebok: Long and Lean

Petra Kolber
Year Released: 1998

Categories: Athletic Stretch , Total Body Workouts


This tape is a combination of stretch, toning and yoga-ish poses. It is an outstanding production as most Reebok tapes are. You start off with a sort of warm up group of poses, breathing and stretching. Then you move into lower body toning. The lower body toning is basically lunges and standing leg extensions. The leg part and following stretch are meant to help your balance as well. After lower body is the upper body which consists of pushups, tricep dips and an exercise that was like a shoulder push up. After upper body, you do abs that is a combination of yoga type ab exercises and traditional ab moves. This is followed with a final stretching/posing segment. I felt relaxed after doing this tape but not necessarily worked out. The toning is not challenging or long enough for me but it might be for someone who hasn't done weight lifting. One complaint that I have about the tape is that they do the same pose/stretch between every segment. I got tired of it. It did give me a chance to perfect my form but after doing this several times, I found my mind wandering off to other thoughts. I give this tape a B.

Instructor Comments:
Petra does a nice job of leading this tape. She is encouraging and really makes sure she describes the modifications for each exercise. There are two exercisers along with Petra. One that demonstrates the beginning moves and one that shows more advanced poses.

Joyce Thurman

01/09/1999