Workout Videos

Hi!

I really love Leslie Sansone's workouts. They can get a bit boring after a while, so I have a rotation of some. I find her most beginner ones (the ones where you do a mile in like 20 minutes) to be the most physically boring, but she actually chats more in those. She rarely changes up her music, too, so you really only need a small library of her to rotate for a few weeks before you start putting in her DVDs with a groan. I also like The Firm and sometimes Petra Kolber, but they might be too intense for you. Back surgery can make it tough to pick something that will work for you as well as Leslie. I'd suggest anything that is mostly aerobic where you never have to do any floor work. I try to avoid floor work in general just because once I get down there, it's a bit like torture to hop back up and cheerfully finish the routine (by then I'm generally cursing the instructor into oblivion). Try looking around on www.collagevideo.com I think there are some specialty type videos that will help you out. Even if you don't purchase DVDs from there, it's a great site to preview more than a few seconds of each video and people generally give decent reviews.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

Why not just put on some music you like and free dance non stop for 30 min or however long you want. Then you know you don't have to make moves that make you uncomfortable. Sometimes I would rather do that than try to follow a video.