Product Description

Includes a 16-page booklet of “Eat to Win” tips and nutritious recipes from Cooking Light!

A full-solution program to help you lose weight fast!

Whether you are just starting out on a weight loss plan, or have tried everything and can’t lose those extra pounds, Weight Loss Cardio Sculpt offers everything you need to reach your goal.

By incorporating both cardio and strength-training into two unique 20-minute workouts, you’ll work more efficiently, lose more body fat, and rev up your metabolism. Your body will then work to burn calories around the clock, giving you the ultimate edge to reach your weight loss goals.

Successful weight loss also means healthy eating, so we’ve included a advice and recipes from Cooking Light, the magazine dedicated to helping you eat smart, be fit, and live well. We’ve also included a bonus section of easy and fun exercises you can do throughout your day to increase your calorie burn. It’s all laid out for you and designed to fit into a busy, hectic lifestyle. You CAN finally lose weight--starting today!

Violet Zaki, an international fitness expert and certified instructor, teaches at Equinox in New York City. Her emphasis on proper technique and defined fitness goals--as well as having fun along the way--have earned her an enormous following.

BONUS: Ab Challenge (8 min.)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6169 in DVD
• Brand: ACORN MEDIA
• Released on: 2008-12-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 50 minutes

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The Washington Post Express
Fat, meet your match: fitness guru Violet Zaki.

Your Exercise DVDs blog
One of the best aspects of this DVD is Zaki's personable way of teaching.

Customer Reviews

My new favorite workout!
Violet Zaki is one of my favorite video instructors and she really hit this one out of the park. The workouts are fun and innovative. I love that she switches up the cardio and doesn't repeat the same intervals over and over. It keeps the workout exciting and doesn't allow you to drift off.

In addition to the great workouts, the chaptering is fantastic. You have the choice of doing everything (warm up, both routines and cool down), or you can pick just one workout, or you can pick either workout with warm up and cool down. The options are already broken out for you so there's no fiddling around to program your set.

Each routine includes strength with cardio intervals and she uses combination moves for double duty effect. Some of these moves are more on the intermediate/advanced side and require good balance, but there is a background exerciser who uses modifications throughout so even someone relatively new to exercise should be able to follow along. I love the yoga-influenced cool down; it's 9 wonderful minutes of stretching and letting go. (Note: The cardio sculpt workouts are about 20 minutes long so adding the warm up and cool down make for a longer, approx. 30 minute, workout.)

There's also a bonus abs routine. Again, she doesn't disappoint. It's around 8 minutes and includes some (optional) weighted work as well as toe dips (a personal favorite) and ends with a nice little stretch. Included with the bonus features is a 5-minute preview of the Weight Loss Pilates workout. It's probably one of the most useful previews I've come across as it makes a nice little add-on to the abs.

Zaki manages to be tough but encouraging. Her warmth and personality really shine through and, IMO, she is unmatched at creating challenging, yet doable, workouts.

A Standout--excellent workout & functional DVD!
Love it...will enjoy a long shelf life in my streamlined DVD workout collection, making for high returns on the price and my efforts to exercise.

First, I'm a big fan of Violet Zaki, following her innovative workouts on Exercise TV and in her Self DVD's, though this may be her best to date. She's personable while still economical with her commentary and helpful in her instruction...so encouraging but "gets down to business" without the annoying fluff talk other instructors too often overuse. I'm actually inspired to work hard and not let her down, as if I'm in her class, which proves more motivational when I travel and workout in my hotel room (the chaptering is very functional in this regard too, when short on time).

Second, as advertised, it's an efficient, dynamic workout, full of multi-tasking exercises that challenge more than one muscle group at a time, along with balance and coordination, intensifying calorie burn. Yet, I think it's still accessible to all fitness levels given the modifications. I plan on working my way up the intensity curve by increasing poundage on the hand weights (probably substituting straps when I travel), range of movement, and pacing. IMO, good DVD workouts are challenging but structured so that the user can build on them, extending their usefulness, which Violet inherently seems aware of in how she designed this workout.

Violet's website suggests "Cardio Kick," also from Acacia, will soon be out too...can't wait!

Violet Zaki has changed my life!!!!
Violet Zaki is infectious! I spent the last 15 years buying workout DVDs only to have them collect dust while I sat on the couch and watched television. Until someone suggested that I get a DVD taught by Violet Zaki - then everything changed. She has the most amazing energy, and although extremely challenging, her DVDs make you want to finish each workout and never give up. I always find time to complete my workout, even if I don't do both 20 minute workouts in one sitting. Some days I do them both at once, other days I will do one in the morning and one before I go to sleep, and sometimes I can only find time to complete 1 portion of the DVD in a day. However I can fit it in, I make sure I complete both 20 minute workouts 4-5 times per week. The combination of cardio and scuplt really gives you a completely balanced workout. I have seen major changes to my body since I have started working out to Violet Zaki DVDs, and Weight Loss Cardio Sculpt is just the newest (and quite possibly my favorite) edition to my collection. If you already work out, I would definitely recommend adding Cardio Sculpt to your routine. If you don't work out, this DVD would be an amazing introduction to the fitness world. You will have fun during your workout, feel so good about yourself afterwards, and see results. I don't know what I would do without Violet Zaki's workouts!