Timesaver Cardio Fat Burner

Kathy Smith
Year Released: 1998

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


This video consists of two 20-minute workouts followed by an 8-minute stretch. Without any warm-up whatsoever (a first for Kathy, and not a welcome innovation), you head directly into the low-impact section. It starts slowly enough, but then progressively builds into an add-on routine that really is not that difficult to do or follow. The second workout is high/low and includes “calorie bursts," i.e., intervals. You can do each part separately or go on to do the whole tape. As always, there are exercisers who perform modifiers for varying levels of intensity ("tracks"). Veteran Kathy Smith video viewers will quickly spot crew members from former tapes. There is no cool-down, per se. You just glide to a stop and then slide into the stretch sequence. This video is designed for beginners/intermediates, but would prove too confusing and unsafe for the former and probably too easy for the latter. This is not Kathy's best effort. The companion tape, Lift Weights to Lose Weight, is much, much better. Grade: C+.

Instructor Comments:
Kathy Smith has recently admitted to having exercise-induced asthma. This explains her heavy breathing at several places in this tape. She must have had several puffs from her asthma inhaler prior to and during filming of this video, too. My goodness, she's hyper and whoops and hollers as if she's providing the sound track to a rodeo! Someone must have picked her off the ceiling after filming was over. But she does look like she's having fun and isn't nearly so serious as she was in her Functionally Fit series of videos.

Paula Weber

11/10/1998