How Hard Do You Like Your Workout DVDs to Be?

Is it just us, or have you guys also noticed that workout DVDs seem to be getting tougher and tougher these days? That the aerobics routines where you dance and bounce around have been traded out for high-intensity interval training where the sweat pours and your heart pounds loudly in your ears? Sure, you can [...]

Review: Jari Love’s Get Extremely Ripped! 1000 Hardcore (And If It Burns 1,000 Calories!)

Let’s put it this way. There is a reason I avoid step classes—they mentally and physically kick my butt. If it wasn’t hard enough to do every repetition to the best of my ability, they throw in an “up-down-hop-back-forth”…then another “up-down-two-hops-back-forth.” I mean, tell me this isn’t as mentally tough as it is physically challenging? [...]

Review: Jillian Michaels Extreme Shed & Shred

Just when we think Jillian Michaels can’t top her past workout, just when we think she couldn’t possibly have any more fitness tricks up her sleeve, she goes and creates another DVD that has us begging for mercy. This time it’s Jillian Michaels Extreme Shed & Shred. And it does not—I repeat does not—disappoint. It’s [...]

Review: Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30

Not that Jillian was playing before, but in Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30, she certainly isn’t playing. She’s fired up, and in four 30ish-minute workouts that go from slightly hard to “OMG, Jill, why do you hate me and my muscles so?” you’ll get one of the closest experiences to training with Jillian on The Biggest Loser Ranch [...]

The Real Cycling Deal: RealRyder Class

We recently sent one of our manliest-of-men writers, Mark Arana, to try a RealRyder cycling class in L.A. Below are his thoughts on how tough the workout was and if it’s a good fit for all of the Fit Bottomed Dudes in the house! —Jenn There’s only one way to sum up a RealRyder cycling class: It’s [...]

So Which Is It? Sending Mixed Fitness Messages

We get sent A LOT of workout DVDs. Like, they’re taking over an entire room of my house at this point. So when I say that one DVD (or set of DVDs in this case) caused me to have a full-out Oprah “aha moment,” you know it’s serious. But that’s what Georges “RUSH” St-Pierre’s RushFit [...]

We’ll Take Bob Harper’s Ultimate Cardio Body Any Day

I’m not sure what it is about this workout DVD that strikes me so. On the one hand, I feel like it’s a bit of a cheesy “We want you” Uncle Sam paradoy for fitness. And on the other? Bob’s dreamy eyes enticing us to try his new workout DVD Ultimate Cardio Body. Which, of course, [...]

Taking a Stop at The Fit Pit

We hadn’t done an FBG On the Scene bit in awhile and we thought it was high time we got out there again to show you some of the hottest and most fun exercise classes. After all, part of being an FBG is to always keep things fresh to keep you challenged, which was definitely the [...]

The Bar Method Burns Like a Mother

You know which athletes are bad asses? Ballerinas. (Um, did you see Black Swan?) And you know what exercise professionals are ridiculously strong? Those who teach fusion ballet classes. Like those who teach The Bar Method. Read on for a three-part review on these workout DVDs that combine ballet bar fitness (although at home you can just use [...]

Are You Cross-Training? Why You Should Be

How would you like an exercise program that banishes boredom, improves your fitness, develops new skills and prevents injuries? Sounds like an infomercial, but it’s not! It’s cross-training, and you can do it whenever and wherever you are in your fitness journey. Read on for the skinny on this beneficial activity. What Is Cross-Training? Often [...]

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