So with Retro Workout Week complete, I was planning to head to the cabin by Friday morning. I haven't been there in over a month, and it's time to get back to my garden adventures.
Well, instead, I stayed local and spent the weekend hanging with my bff, who was in need of moral support as she sends her one & only son off to college in tomorrow.
We spent Saturday afternoon in the pool chatting about just about everything. In those rare, brief, cherished hours, I mentioned how doing the 1985's Jane Fonda New Workout last week brought back memories of jogging around the family living room with my sisters and cousins and slapping high fives to each other like the participants in her video.
My best friend is many things. She is a good listener. She is loyal. She is forgiving. She is funny. She is truthful.
But she has never quite understood my little addiction to workout videos. While I love them as a convenient, engaging way to exercise, she pretty much loathes them.
That being said, as we drifted around aimlessly in her pool, she does follow my blog, and she did mention that she took a particular liking to one of my VHS tapes from 1993, not long after the son she is now seeing off to college was born.
All she really knew was that it was a Cindy Crawford workout.
OK, since I own all three, I asked the key questions to identify which video workout she was talking about.
Here you go:
Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body
Her first workout video, now on DVD, was released in 1992. In it, she is guided by her fitness instructor Radu, and there are two intense 40-minute workouts, plus a 10-minute routine for days short on time.
The video stirred a little controversy, but, of her three workouts, it is my personal favorite and one I still work into my rotation often. The complaint was that she raced through some of the exercises too quickly and with unsafe form, but, like most reviewers indicate below, those familiar with exercising knew to do the moves in a controlled manner.
In the 20 years I have done this workout, I have never been injured, but I do get sore still.
And of all the videos I own, CC seems to be the only one who actually stops to drink water throughout the workout.
Her personality is wonderful, the music is great, and the settings are pretty cool. And judging by most reviewers below, this workout still delivers.
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Cindy Crawford: Next Challenge
This is the workout my friend liked best out of all the videos she has been forced to witness. She's seen everything from Denise Austin to Cher to Jody Whatley ~ and this workout video is the only one I think my bff has ever actually done.
In 1993, again with Radu, CC clearly heeded critics' complaints and they produced an hour-long total body workout that targets every body part with special attention drawn to doing the moves safely.
When I have an hour, I sometimes choose this good, solid athletic workout with more great music and unique settings. (But, I would still probably do the first workout from '92 with my own twenty minutes of cardio beforehand.)
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Cindy Crawford: New Dimension
This time, CC went with Kathy Kaehler, who produced 4 workout videos with another super model, Claudia Schiffer. Released in 2004, it is separated into three workouts ~ a 12-minute starter, a 16-minute one that is a little more intense, and a 40-minute total body workout using weights.
This gets mainly positive reviews below, but I haven't used it as much as her first two. But I definitely recommend it for those new to working out or as a good post-partum re-entry back into the world of workouts. With its pretty settings and calming blue lighting, it is not at all intimidating, and, again, her personality is completely down to earth.
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Have a wonderful Sunday :)
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