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Amazon.com: "Do you want to get toned to the bone?" shouts Richard Simmons. "Yes!" his class yells back. This half-hour video comes with a "Tonin' Cord," rubber tubing with handles, used for muscle strengthening in place of weights. First Simmons gives instruction for using the tubing correctly and effectively. Then he warms up his class, who happen to be instructors from his exercise studio, Slimmons. (It's great to see fit instructors that aren't all slender.) The toning class uses the tubing to create resistance to work the legs, chest, arms, shoulders, and back. The exercises are varied and effective (sometimes enabling you to work two muscle groups at once), and the tubing gives enough resistance to make the workout challenging. This is a different style than the Sweatin' to the Oldies series--no live band or oldies music, a small class of instructors, more instruction of technique, and much better cueing. Richard shines as an instructor here. The class ends with a set for the abdominals (without the tubing) and a relaxing stretch. If you want to strengthen without free weights and with a warm, motivating instructor, Richard's your man. --Joan Price Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-02-01
A Good Workout
This is a good workout that requires the use of toning cords. Looks deceptively easy, but gives a good workout! It's around fourty minutes long, and I like that like most of his videos, he includes a variety of people of different sizes and at different levels of fitness. Makes you feel more at ease and like you're at a "real" workout, not working out with taped "models". Plus, it gives you the opportunity to view the workout at different levels of intensity, so you can modify it to your own situation! Just wish they would release all of these workouts on dvd! Rating: 
Date: 2008-01-29
RIPOFF! Seller sent a copied tape of a golf tournament!
Since Amazon shipped this item, I thought it was safe to purchase the Tone and Sweat tape used. It was a total RIPOFF! The seller had copied a golf tournament on the TONE N SWEAT cassette, so there was only about twelve minutes of the original programming.
What was available of the workout was good, but this is terrible. Amazon ought to ban this seller! I'm sending this back to Amazon today! Rating: 
Date: 2008-01-09
toning was supppose to be included
i was very upset! I was suppose to get the toning band and i didn't? WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO EXERISE WITH A STRING I"M UPSET II didn't get what I paid for Tone and Sweat video.
emma miller Rating:
Date: 2006-09-16
GREAT FOR THE OUT-OF-SHAPE LIKE ME!
The good thing about this tape is that he works all your body parts---legs, arms, back, abs, and chest. So you're getting a complete muscle toning workout. Unlike his faster paced, electrically charged aerobics workouts, he moves more slowly in this tape. The exercises are more concentrated on the different muscle groups. I haven't exercised in a while, but I could still keep up without feeling behind or out of breath. And, there's always that Richard Simmons energy and gentle tone of encouragement throughout the video to keep everyone going. As Richard says, "Don't Give Up!" Rating:
Date: 2005-01-03
Great Toning Workout !
I've been using this tape for about 5 months and think it's not only a great toning workout, but fun to use. My husband bought it a few years ago and when I wanted to lose weight and get toned up, I decided to give it a try - with great skepticism. I'll admit I was wrong - this is a great tape and Richard Simmons is inspirational, motivational and just funny.
This tape uses toning cords and is about 40 minutes in length. While people criticize his lack of queuing, this particular routine is fairly simple and moves slowly enough through the exercises that when you use it the first time or two, you don't miss but maybe one repetition while watching to see what to do. After you've done it a few times, you don't need the advance queuing and it's almost a relief not to have a lot of queuing.
I'm now in the process of buying other Richard Simmons tapes/DVD's because his routines are fun and he's inspirational and motivational.
Since using his tape - in addition to a treadmill, I've lost weight and am seeing results in toning in areas of my body that I've never been able to reach - like my back and shoulders and have more upper body strength. I've had the worst arms in the world my entire life, but have watched them get tighter and now begin to get some defintion - this is major! I'm also using his Blast and Tone DVD, which uses weights, and recommend that as well.
I really recommend this for anyone who wants to start an exercise program but may be a little reluctant to start out with weights - or anyone who wants to tone. I'm a Simmons convert - and I was a tough sell. It's fun, the time goes by quickly and you'll feel and see the results if you stick with it!! |
