DVD workouts for Overweight People

Honestly you should try the Bigggest Loser DVDs...they are really good and have different levels of difficulty. I have the yoga, bootcamp, cardio max, and power sculpting...they are awesome! BTW...I am at 396 right now with bad knees...so it I can get through...I am sure you can!

The biggest loser videos are a good start. They work for my husband.

try Zumba, no floor activity, all standing up and moving. A few strenuous moves, like kicks but you can modify that.

Leslie Sansone (sp?) Walk Away the Pounds. Her DVD's are great, but my personal fave is Walk Your Belly Flat....now if I could just figure out where my kid put it....hmm....anyways, she breaks them up into miles. Walk your belly flat is a 3 mile DVD, but you can choose if you want to do one or all of the miles.

I'm doing Turbo Fire. I'm now on week 4. I started at 289 and I'm now I'm 277 as of my end of week 3 check-in (7/4). That's 12 lbs in weeks. It is geared more towards women, but there are guys in the video working out as well. Also, it's VERY fast paced and there's a lot of jumping, but there's a person doing a modified version, still fast though. You may want to start with a simpler version, Turbo Jam.

There's no way I could do the P90X or Insanity workouts at the weight I'm at now. I don't have the stamina/endurance just yet. I'll probably try them once I've dropped quite a few more pounds. Good luck!

I have to agree with the other posters that've said P90X is definitely NOT for overweight people, from what I saw when I had my friend's copy it's for people that are already pretty fit and want to get into even better shape.

For me, I started with just walking. I began with a "back yard mile", which was about 20-minutes of straight walking in a circle around my back yard at night, usually just before bed. Eventually I was able to do more and more of these circuits around the yard, and it finally got to the point where just walking around the yard didn't feel like enough for me, so I started waking up earlier in the day (a change in work schedule helped prompt that as well) and started walking my dog for 45-minutes. While I was doing these walks, every chance I got I tried to beat my previous distance (thank you CardioTrainer/Noom for tracking that info for me!) Eventually, I got myself up to about 3 miles in that time.

These 45-minute walks continued until just recently when I increased to 50-minutes, and then today I walked for an hour with my dog, averaging 4.5mph! I also started a Couch to 5K program yesterday, as well as Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred (which might still be a little intense if you're as out of shape as you say). I plan to eventually move on to more advanced exercises (Insanity, I'm looking at you!) when I'm a little more fit. The important thing is plan short-term, achievable goals. Once you hit those goals, that is your new benchmark (meaning you shouldn't do less than that if at all possible) and a new goal comes into view.

Also remember that this journey isn't like a quick walk to the corner store, it's more of an epic quest; there will be victories, set backs (I won't call them defeats unless they result in a revert to previous, bad habits), plateaus, and challenges around every corner.

"Courage is not doing something in the absence of fear, but rather doing something despite your fear." (not sure who coined that, or a similar, phrase first but it's appropriate I think.)

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case and point for me...I started doing turbo Fire and I am wore out after maybe 20 minutes!! I know this isn't the right pace for me but it's fun getting my heart rate up like that and I keep pushing myself to do more....I also have the slim in 6 dvds that I do and the walk away the pounds dvd...those are more my speed....but I have also started doing the couch to 5k!! I am on week 2 workout 1 tomorrow...i'm excited because I think this well help with my endurance and one day i'll be out doing Charlene on turbo fire!!!

I love the Leslea Sansone DVD's. She is awesome. Started off with the twenty minute one work out. It was great. Then I worked my way up to the two mile.

I love Hip Hop Abs. I myself am bigger, currently 307 (down from 313 2 weeks ago), and I also have a bad knee. It gets me sweating and I love the music, and the time really seems to go by fast.