Product: High Impact Aerobics [VHS]
Rating: 2.0
one of the worst hi-impact cardio tapes i've ever done
bought this on ebay because i'd already purchased other tapes and the shipping was therefore free if i bought another one (the tape itself was only a dollar so it was better to buy another one than to pay for shipping) - i've never reviewed anything on amazon before; since there were no reviews for this tape, i had nothing to go on. i figured this was a good pick since it was "high impact" (what i was looking for) - i should've chosen something else. you get three ladies and a man on a beach (which is an indication of the horrible production values - i believe they chose the beachfront because they couldn't afford a studio or gym to film in; from all indications, they also could not afford professional cameramen or aerobics instructors who knew what they were doing). i've made it through allegedly "tough" workout videos before without any problem - the entire power 90x series, karen voight's energy sprint, etc. so, i don't give up easily and off the bat, the problem here was NOT the intensity level. still, i turned the damn thing off after 20 minutes because all they were doing was hopping up and down with a few kicks thrown in (poorly cued). i have never felt more like a bunny rabbit. another tape that i disliked for similar reasons was Denise Austin's "high energy aerobics" (i'm not a huge Austin fan, but some of her tapes aren't bad; this one is very old, before she really got her shtick down, and just terrible), but it's not nearly as bad as the nautilus one. the instructors have zero personality - it now just strikes me that perhaps the producers filmed it on a beach because they just grabbed the first four skinny, tan seventeen-year old lifeguards they saw and asked them to hop around and smile for forty minutes.i don't care what your goals are - this is not the tape for you (unless perhaps your goal is to get good at jumping rope without ever using one).