Who's doing Tracy Anderson's Metamorphosis?

:happy: I love Tracy Anderson :happy:

oh, and let me start by saying Tracy bashers need not reply.. I dont care about your negative opinions! I'm happy with her

She sucked me in with that darn informercial playing early in the morning so often. I ended up buying her older 2008 mat workout and fell in love. Some complain of her lack on instruction blah blah blah. I prefer this! I hate trainers that blabber through the whole freakin' workout. It takes a few times or more of doing the dvd to really catch on to the moves and how many reps she does (it's good to watch the dvds through without doing them, count reps, watch how she's doing things) but once you get it, you realize how genius it is and revel in the fact that she's ACTUALLY doing the whole workout with you- not hovering over some model pointing out what they're doing- oh and not blabbering on through the whole thing. I added that dvd to my weekly routine, doing it maybe a couple of times a week, sometimes three. Over the past month and a half I KNOW that that dvd is why my love handles are smaller and my tummy's shrinking and my butt's shaping and lifting. YEAH!

That being said, I bared down and forked over the $100 plus shipping to QVC for her new metamorphosis system (i reccommend using them- while shipping was slow (didnt come for about 2 1/2 weeks) they included a bonus dvd- the first continuity dvd of her set) and today did the very first day of the hipcentric dvds. I liked it a lot!! I burned 376 cals in 73 minutes (and got up to max 170 beats per min). That includes a 6ish minute warmup and cooldown (which I had to come up with on my own- she doesn't have a warm up and cooldown! I was like "what...?" these things are vital for not being super sore and getting your heartrate down slowly at the end.... so i wish she would've included that... I ended up using the warmup and cooldown from her mat dvd though so it worked out fine so that's a big con) the dance cardio 30 min dvd and the first day of the hipcentric muscle work (also 30 mins). I felt like having done her mat workout for the last month and a half prepared me for her style and lack of cues (which of course i like once you get used to her moves- i dont like trainers that blabber through the whole workout) - it wasn't as much of a shock as some reviews complain about, ya know? I really liked the muscle work- it kicked my butt (and hips and thighs, haha)! The dance cardio made me feel so silly though. I'm the epitome of a white girl with no rhythym and her dancing is lots and lots of bouncing, fast feet. I was really happy to be doing it in my apartment by myself... haha) Really hard to catch onto for a non-dancer.... but I ended up probably only doing a few of the same moves as her- the rest of the time I was just bouncing around like some teenager at a rave. lol. I'll get better at it and I'm confident I'll come to like it even more. The perfectionist in me comes out when I can't get something like that right. Gah. Overall, B+! I enjoyed it, still had to watch the tv most of the time though so that I didn't get lost because she doesn't cue movement changes didn't explain form much (but once again, i'll catch on. The camera did a great job of catching different angles of everything, also above so i'll get 'em better next time) and honestly I dont know that I could do that dance cardio every single day and enjoy it (maybe if you're a dancer you'd enjoy it more.. but I don't like dancing much, cuz I suck at it! haha) so I might end up swapping that half hour out for some other intense cardio dvd maybe every other day or something- we'll see how it goes. I'm not going to follow her diet- I disagree with it as many others have. I don't want to eat as little as she suggests, I'd get too bored with the same foods and be more likely to binge. I'm continuing with my own high veggie and protein, some good carbs and fruit diet that's been working and making me feel healthy so far. So while she does have her cons, she's got a heck of a lot more pros! and who's perfect anyhow?

Anyways I just thought I'd give my opinion since there hasn't been many posts about her and lots of frusteratingly negative people who probably haven't even seen it or given it a try, just going off the opinion of some stupid reviewer. Those of you who just want to bash it please go read someone else's post and leave me alone in my happy little tracy anderson world! I also just wanted to see who else is doing it, figured we could support each other!

Thanks,
Starla