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Amy Bento's Slo-Mo Strength Challenge |
  Slo-Mo Bento is best for me |
| I am 59 years old. Just started weight lifting for weight loss and fitness. This video is awesome. Strait-forward and to the point. Great warm-ups, just enough challenge to get my interest. Reps and progression are very do-able for me. Exactly what I need, someone to count for me and encourage me to keep going. Feminine enough and serious enough for women of all ages. Covers all phases of muscle workout. Thanks!! - posted by Jennifer on 4/7/2011 |
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| Best body sculpt video ever! |
| Love this video, and bought it without even knowing who Amy Bento was. She is now up there with Cathe Friedrich in my book! Great workout especially if you have the time to do all four segments. Love the variations in her chest exercises, and the legs and glute segment. My butt looks ten times better after doing this video once a week for the past two and a half months. I also do Cathe Friedrich Butts and Guts once a week and the two combined will have you looking really great from behind! Highly recommend this video. - posted by Jeanine on 1/25/2011 |
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| Pretty good |
| It is a good workout although a bit on the boring side. - posted by Jane on 12/30/2010 |
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| Amy Bento's Slo mo Challenge |
| I really enjoyed this workout. It was quite a challenge but what I liked most was that there is the option to work on specific body parts or you can also use the pre-made workouts. I am used to doing the p90x workouts which is a little too much so this is a great one for when I'm not doing those. I haven't belonged to a gym now in over 10 years now. I workout 5 days a week doing cardio and strength training dvd's like this one and I am in the best shape I've ever been in. - posted by Susan on 8/19/2010 |
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| West Chester |
| Super good. I love it!!! Nice explanation of the exercises, easy equipment to use. Great! - posted by Linna on 4/15/2010 |
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| Not my favorite |
| I have several of Amy's workouts and absolutely love them all except this one. She is very creative and does some different moves but some of them are very hard to keep proper form and it gets repetitious. It will definitely challenge your muscles and I have given this one a few chances but it does not keep my attention. - posted by Wendy on 3/29/2010 |
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| Had it for months - still in regular rotation! |
| This is an excellent strength tape. I use it once a week and alternate with Cathe's strength workouts. The concentration on slow movement is excellent, I usually do the Shoulders,Bis,Tris workout and it exhausts all my muscles, especially my shoulders. My last fitness goal was upper body strength and between Amy and Cathe I now have developed GREAT strength (I've doubled the weight I use) and definition - my triceps are really cut and my shoulders are awesome. - posted by Erica on 1/15/2010 |
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| Solid overall strength training |
| I have several of Amy's workouts, and this one I love just like her others. I am an advanced exerciser and have gotten fantastic results in the last year doing total body strength training 2 days a week, HIIT cardio 2 days a week and yoga 2 days a week. I work out with high intensity for maximum results, except on yoga days. Like her other dvds that I use, Amy has several awesome premix options on this one that can easily make this a whole body weight routine. This dvd is awesome and is why I don't need to go to a gym-working with weights the way Amy has constructed this dvd is like having a personal trainer. This is absolutely perfect for me. If you want a solid strength program that you can adapt to a whole body routine or a split routine and easily increase the challenge as you develop your fitness level, this dvd has it all! Plus you can't beat the price. - posted by Theresa on 10/5/2009 |
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| great video |
| I have been enjoying Amy's slo-mo video for several months now. I like it that she broke it down into separate parts of the body, this way, I am not sore all over, just upper or lower body at a time. Sometimes it's a little boring, but the results that I am getting keep me going. I also got her cardio workout, but it's too advanced for me in terms of the combinations (she changes them too fast), but the intensity is good... - posted by Faye on 8/6/2009 |
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| A Nice Change of Pace |
| It is slow for a reason. Sure, it might be boring and repetitive, but the rewards come to those who are persistent. After doing this video for a month, I can finally handle heavier weights on my weakest muscles and can switch back to my other videos with the heavier weights.
SMSC includes many unique exercises not found in other videos - I'd say about 1/2 of them are unique and the rest are classics with a twist. Even though many of them use equipment that I don't have, I can easily modify them for the few pieces of equipment I do have. I get DOMS lasting more than a few days, but it's all good, even though in some cases I can't quite lift as heavy as Amy does. The lower body workout is especially intense and gets me sweating. And compared to Cathe, Amy is a real bargain in the price department.
However, some of the exercises are difficult to execute with proper form. A: it is easy to work a different muscle than what was intended, say chest instead of back, and B: it is very easy to injure yourself - particularly in the wrists and lower back in my case. I think on my copy one of the preset programs is cut short.
Being a former Firm video user, IMO Amy treads perilously close to the "too much fun" line. That's fine for a cardio video, but for a weight training video of this caliber TOO much fun inevitably leads to distraction, subsequently tempting me to slack off and/or risk injury. This is the main reason why it doesn't quite earn the 5th star in my book. But she pushes you to get through the sets (if you're the kind of person who needs to be pushed - but I prefer to push myself, thank you). On the other hand, I enjoyed the music - it made me want to move. That being said, it is a valuable addition for the veteran weight training exerciser. - posted by S on 4/4/2009 |
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