Baywatch Power And Strength

Donna D'Errico, Bret Johnson
Year Released: 1998

Categories: Total Body Workouts


This is an intermediate tape. There's a good mix of exercises. There's different lunge combinations, squats, calf raises, and upper body weight lifting. Sometimes the lower body exercises alternate with the upper body ones. Sometimes they are done together, for example, squats with bicep/overhead presses. The weight lifting sections alternate with sport sprints. These sprints include skating, boxing, jumps, etc. At the end, we do pushups, flys, and ab work. The ab section is very good. I also like the music. It's a nice change from other tapes. It's a mix of blues/rock. The setting is a Hollywood nightclub called House of Blues. It's too dark for my taste, as dark as the warehouse type settings. The workout is only 35 minutes so it's too short for me and the aerobics are not too long or difficult. But then I would consider myself an advanced exerciser and would combine this with another tape. Cuing could be better but the exercises are simple so it's not difficult to follow. I wish we had time to switch from one set of weights to another. I don't like when videos use the same weight sizes for all the exercises because different muscles need different size weights. I would rate this tape a B- or C.

Instructor Comments:
Like most celebrity instructors, Donna mostly smiles and provides encouragement. She mostly is used to sell the video since I never heard of Bret before. I think the music drowns the instructions. I didn't like Bret's cuing. I think he's more of a personal trainer than an aerobic instructor so he doesn't have the charisma or motivational quality of a good instructor. Sometimes he makes us stand while he demonstrates the next move.

Helen Stephens

09/23/1998