Firm Arms & Abs

Karen Voight
Year Released: 1991

Categories: Abs/Core , Total Body Workouts, Upper Body Strength


The title of this tape may make it more appealing to men than women and indeed two of the three video participants apart from Karen are men. But with increasing interest in weights work this is a tape I would heartily recommend to everyone.

It is a clever tape making great use of the incline step, and requiring you to move around very little to accomplish working out a great variety of muscle groups. What I particularly like about the work out is its balance - despite the title it covers not only arms and abs but shoulders and back - a complete upper body work out which is unusual. I feel "nicely" worked out at the end of this tape rather than tired or sore, so I don't do it on a "heavy" day. However it is thorough so it is not a light workout.

I don't really have any criticisms of the tape although the two guys can look a bit dorky, and if you really want to go heavy on the weights then the movements are probably a little too fast.

Instructor Comments:
Karen is in excellent form here with cueing being spot on.

David de Vall

01/03/1999