Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88668 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: SPRI
• Model: BG-TBR
• Released on: 2005-01-27

Features

• Includes red and green Xertubes, green Xering, door attachment, and detailed instructions
• 20 strength-training exercise possibilities, including squats, lunges, bicep curls, shoulder presses, lateral raises, and many more
• Step-by-step, easy-to-to use instructions with photo demonstrations
• Portable and easy to tote to the gym, office or even to take with you on vacation
• Strengthen, tone and define both your upper and lower body - and drop pounds in the process

Amazon.com Product Description
Celebrity fitness trainer Bob Greene has teamed up with SPRI, one of the leading manufacturers of rubber resistance exercise products, to create a 5-piece versatile strength training program, designed to strengthen and tone upper- and lower-body muscles, increase flexibility, and reduce body fat. The set includes two durable Xertubes, one Xering, a door attachment, and easy-to-follow instructions with photo demonstrations of 20 strength-training exercises. The flexible Xertubes allow you to choose the right amount of resistance for your workout, while offering progressive resistance levels for multiple uses and fitness levels.

Set includes red and green Xertubes, green Xering and door attachment

The Xering will shape your legs and improve overall lower-body muscle tone, and includes rubber grips for added comfort.

This is the perfect set for the beginner looking for a fitness program to strengthen and tone muscles, or for anyone looking for a low-impact full-body exercise regimen. Further, for people with a hectic schedule and always on the go, Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover is light and portable and can easily be toted to the gym, the office, or even on vacation. With the numerous benefits of strength training - increasing muscle tone and flexibility, losing weight, and reducing body fat, to name a few - this set will allow you to do squats, lunges, bicep curls, shoulder presses, lateral raises and many more effective exercises to improve overall body strength and fitness.

About Strength Training
Strength training is generally regarded as exercise with weight machines, medicine balls, dumbbells, or any other fitness activity that uses body weight resistance, such as resistance bands or sit-ups. When combined with regular cardiovascular exercise and healthy eating, it is part of the formula for an overall healthy body and lifestyle. On its own, strength training can provide tremendous benefits, including increasing strength, toning muscles, improving flexibility, reducing stress, increasing metabolism, and reducing body fat. While cardiovascular exercise provides great benefits for the heart and circulatory system, strength training provides a low-impact, full-body workout to increase muscle strength and overall body fitness for a complete exercise system with maximum benefits to the entire body.

About Bob Greene
Author of the national bestseller Get With the Program and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. Bob is also a contributing writer and Editor for O, the Oprah Magazine and has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Bob's philosophy on nutrition, exercise and weight loss is based on following good common-sense advice to make - and maintain - healthy lifestyle changes. Bob created the Total Body Makeover Series to provide a fun, effective and convenient way to incorporate exercise into your daily routine.

What's in the Box?
Red Xertube, green Xertube, green Xering, door attachment, instruction sheet

Customer Reviews

Excellent and Fun
The Kit is just what I needed to start my at home workout program. Can't say enough about the lay out of the workouts and the bands. I also recommend the Backsmart fitness Plan, I have been using both of these workouts and Green's other books and making great progress!

Disapointed
I loved Bob Greene's book and find his sensible approach to fitness and diet work well for me. But I was disapointed in this purchase. The exercise bands seemed very short and hard to use. There was not enough information included with the bands. One exercise has you step on the middle of the bands and hold an end in each hand, then raise your arms. Well, I am nearly 6' tall and I felt like I was going to snap the bands. I literally could not lift them high enough to do the exercise. I also could not find a number to call to ask about the problems I was having. I emailed the company that manufactures the bands, but they never responded. So, the bands remain unused and I have moved on to free weights. I feel like it was a waste of money.

One major flaw-- did no one test this before it was approved?
I chose this product over the gazillions just like it for two reasons: Bob Greene's name and the fact that it had illustrated exercizes.
Bob Greene's name didn't pan out-- these bands arent any better than all the rest and the kit isn't any higher quality.
Which brings me to the major flaw-- the illustrated exercizes were obviously not reviewed by anyone who exercizes!
The illustrated exercizes don't tell you which exercizes work what muscles. Sure you can figure some out.... but not all of them. I'm moving my arms. Fine. Am I working my shoulders? My biceps? What muscles?? I have to wait for the burn, and I can't be sure I'm doing it right.
AND these exercizes are printed on both sides of the same paper@! How rude! So, in other words, if you plan on taping up the paper and working out looking at the page you have another think coming. You have to flip the page over between exercizes.

Final Thought: Despite the Bob Greene name this is no better- and in fact not as good as-- than most of the other products out there.