Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31282 in DVD
• Published on: 2002
• Formats: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Great Challenging Full Body, Low Impact, Workout !
I've been using various Beachbody workouts for a little less than a year. In spite of the typical infomercial ad campaigns the programs I've done from them are very effective and straight forward.

I have been exercising for the better part of the last 20 years, and haven't missed a day of some form of exercise in the past 11 years. Lots of years of Yoga, Pilates and Strength training!

Anyway, my wife had actually purchased Debbie's "Slim In 6" program at the same time I got Tony Horton's P90X. After finishing P90X I figured that for "fun" I'd do some of Debbie's programs, thinking they'd be a piece of cake. WRONG! They were actually very tough and humbling!

Slim in 6 works your body quite differently because of the constant low impact cardio type moves that really target your lower body before moving on to the resistance band and floor work exercises.

Keep It Up is under 45 minutes and starts with her standard standing warm ups which move into lots of squat, plie and other moves as well as standing ab work. Also she includes a small bit of kickboxing type exercises.

Then you move onto the resistance band work. She does two sets of a sequence of rows, shoulder presses, curls, and triceps extensions. Believe me, it seems like it's going to be easy but by the time you're thru you'll be pretty fatigued in those muscles.

After comes floor work. you're on all fours and doing various types of leg raises. It's so intense I actually have to alternate legs every few reps, sometimes every rep, because my glutes were burning so badly.

In between the right and left side of floor work you do a long set of pushups (wide), after the second set of floor work you do tricep pushups (elbows in close).

The program ends with some standing stretches and then you're done.

The program also comes with optional ab work (Slim in 6 pack) and stretching (Slim in limber) on the same DVD if you want to add those.

All in all, I've been thoroughly impressed with Slim in 6, Keep It Up and the Slim Series programs I've tried.

If you see my more than 200 reviews here on amazon, you'll see that I'm clearly not affiliated in any way w/ Beachbody (mostly Yoga/Pilates dvd/vhs and book reviews) but I have really benefitted, as has my wife, from these excellent programs.

One word of advice, if you do buy from Beachbody pay in full, not in separate payments as I've heard of people having difficulties with getting extra charges. I've always done it in one payment and so far (knock on wood) have had zero problems.

Of course you could just buy it from Amazon market place or Ebay and not have to worry about it, but I've been really pleased so far w/ my dealings with Beachbody so far though I know there are many folks who have had issues with them.
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motivating but not for a beginner
I have been exercising for years and found this DVD difficult to do on a daily basis. She does a great job with challenging someone for a harder workout, but if you are looking for a classic aerobic exercise session then this isn't for you. If you want to stick to a program and work hard for results, then try it. I didn't see much difference in my body from the DVD, but I still enjoy to do it occassionally.