10 Minute Solution - Target Toning for Beginners

10 Minute Solution - Target Toning for Beginners is fifty-three minutes and was released on DVD on September 21, 2004. Your hostess\instructor for this video is Cindy Whitmarsh. At times she reminds you of the annoying aerobic instructor who goes and five and four and three and two and ten more. You just want to slap that person across the face and teach then how to count correctly. Cindy workouts seem to follow a pattern; you do four practice ones, then eight singles (a little faster), and then another eight more. The one main strike she has against her is her directions. When she tells the viewer to go left, she goes right and when she tells the viewer go right, Cindy goes left. Also, a few times she tends to go a little too fast for beginners. Here how the segments break down; by the way they are all ten minutes long.ThighsCindy does these routines in the Thigh segment. Half squats, hip flexor stretch, alternating squats, alternating squats with three pulses, slow repeater, the slow repeater went a little too fast for me and found it hard to keep up with, lungesArmsHand weights are needed for this exercise. Cindy starts without hand weights doing alternating reaches. After some warm-up stretching, she gets the hand weights and with the arms at a 90 degree angle, she does lateral raises. Next are biceps raises that are followed by hammer curls. Next she is in a chair stance and does arm curls; though she never mentions them by name. When she is done standing up, Cindy sets the weights on the ground and does some arm stretching. Then it is down to the floor for some push-ups. Cindy does two more floor exercises, one without hand weights and one with hand weights. She does not name either one and I have a hard time putting them into words. She ends the segment with some arm stretching.BunsCindy begins this segment with alternating toe taps with the arms coming forward. Next are single leg squats with the arms coming forward and later she add pulses to them. Next come the hip extension exercises. Cindy then goes to the ground in a cat stance for bent knee raises. When both sides are done, Cindy repeats the exercise but includes three pulses pre bent knee raise. Next it is on her back with the knees bent for some hip raises. She ends the segments with pulses in the hip raises.AbsCindy brings her arms forward at a 45 degree angle and begins torso rotations. Next is alternating arm reaches. Then it is down to the floor in a modify cat stance for some stomach pull ins. Then it is on Cindy's back with knees bent, for some light stomach crunches. Pulses are added later to the stomach crunches. Next the knees come if for contract and lift exercises. There is another one after that one which is hard to describe. Cindy next does the right elbow to left knee and the left elbow to right knee exercise. She finishes with corpse stretch.Power StretchA towel is needed for this exercise. Don't let the name scare you; the stretch is really simple and easy to do. She does five minutes standing stretches and five minutes of floor stretches. The stretches that Cindy does are: high lunges, hamstring and calf stretches, half spinal twist and triceps stretches.The thighs stretches are the hardest of the five. Also warning to people with bad knees, the Thigh and Buns segments have a lot of knee bending. Also during the workout Cindy Whitmarsh sounds a little and acts a little like Miss Sally from Romper Room. 10 Minute Solution - Target Toning for Beginners gets a B+.DVD FEATURESCreate A Personalized WorkoutPick One WorkoutA) ThighsB) ArmsC) BunsD) AbsE) Power StretchPlay All

I absolutely love this video you get to pick which workout you want to do that day the instructor is amazing! she walks you through each step and is very encouraging she gets you really motivated making working out fun definitely worth the purchase for someone who hates to workout with great results would definitely purchase again

I bought this video because I like the 10-Minute Solution videos. They work well for me for a variety of reasons. I'm usually tired when I get home and after eating my evening meal, I have little desire to do a heavy workout. After a long walk, I can come home and do 10 minutes or 20 and feel virtuous about my exercise for the day. I've always liked that you can do one or all segments on these videos to customize your workout. I like Cindy Whitmarsh, too, which is another reason I sought out this specific video. She encourages without being over the top bubbly. I also wanted a video I could use hand weights with, and these workouts lend themselves to that. I'm sure that for someone who works out regularly with weights, that this is just a fluff workout, but for someone like me, who has a sit-down job and is older, this is perfect to get me off my duff and make me do something helpful for my body.As always, the 10 Minute Solution quality is consistent. I've had many, many of their videos and I like all of them.

This video is great. I didn't find the instructor annoying. I do agree that the power stretch could be a bit better. The stretching in general throughout the DVD is not great - a physician once told me to sustain all stretches for at least 8 seconds. Many times I noticed the instructor only holding the stretch for a few seconds. So that's why I knocked off a star in my rating. Other than that, I think this workout is really, really good for beginners. Those who want an intermediate video shouldn't necessarily pass this up, though... the instructor gives many options for making the workout more challenging. In my opinion, this workout should be used in addition to some aerobic activity, because none of the ten minute sections raise your heart rate at all. I try to walk 30 minutes a day on a treadmill and then add 2 or 3 sections of this video, alternating every day. I love how it's broken up into ten minute sections and you can customize your workout. I feel a lot stronger and more fit after only a week of using the video!

I like this. Im not really a beginner but I haven't worked out in a long time. I like the 10 min because I don't have much time to workout with a job, kids and house etc... This is easy to follow, simple moves and you can ad weights to make it harder. The dvd is in sections so if I only want to do arms, I can pick arms which is nice. Or if I had time I could pick arms thigh and abs and that would be a customer workout. Easy to get through and she is not anoying at all, she is pumped up but not (screeming or over energized anything along those lines, she won't make you turn volume down). Nothing is strenous or high impact like arobics or anything, it is strengthing, but I still get a heart pound and I have broke a sweat the first week. It is getting easier now, so if I have time I do it twice until I am ready for a more intense workout. But im not there yet. :)

I was so glad to fine this "video" again. It's old but it works. When I found a DVD on-line I was thrilled because my old VHS machine is out of sorts and is now trying to eat all my old tapes.KathyLethbridge,AB CanadaPS I love Cindy! She is such and inspiration and has been over many years. What are you up to now?

This workout is dangerous unless you're experienced. There is no warm up or cool down. They don't even take 60 seconds to show you how to do the moves properly, how to align your body so that you don't strain or what not to do to avoid injury.

This is a basic, no frills complete workout with only 1 instructor to watch and great camera coverage to ensure your positioning is correct.Easy to follow routine and a fabulous workout....Anyone can do this!

Although this is for beginners, by adding additional weight you will feel the workout. Cindy gives excellent instructions on technique. Her voice and patter can be a bit annoying but overall a good workout for beginners.

This DVD is five sets of routines - Abs, Thighs, Buns, Arms, Stretch - with a really positive trainer Cindy. The individual workouts are handy if you only have a spare 10 minute and can only manage to do one, or alternatively mix and match to suit your daily routine or fitness programme. Not much space needed but a towel recommended for the stretch section and dumbbells for the arms. Very achievable, with suggestions to make it easier or a little more demanding. Definitely recommended.