Product Description

The Trainer’s Edge Video Series was designed to bring the benefits of one-on-one training with the masters of the fitness industry into anyone’s home. These talented and experienced trainers work with celebrity clients, professional sports athletes and other trainers to guide them to achieve weight loss, a tone body and overall optimal fitness. They are the trend setters and the source of what is new and innovative in fitness today. Petra Kolber designed this 40 minute cardio workout with effort intervals that boost the intensity for maximum calorie burn and weight loss and focuses on strength segments to tone and shape the body. The program is a cardiovascular workout designed to make the most of your time and maximize your results. Petra Kolber is a Reebok University Master Trainer © and an international presenter best known for her creativity and common sense approach to teaching. Consumers know her from her many award winning fitness videos and television shows. In her own life, she has used exercise to help her overcome cancer and views fitness as an indispensable tool for health and well being.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26104 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-10
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 38 minutes

Customer Reviews

Interval Training is Good
Ladies, The advice professional trainers are giving now, is to break up your workout routines. The body is very smart on adapting to exercise workouts, the body is a wonderful, efficient machine. Do you struggle to lift your arms or drive, NO, there is no effort 'cause it is a routine task you do over/over/over. We must, I repeat, we must challenge our bodies out of the routine mode. Unfortunately, as we age, the metabolism slows down, it crawls after 45+ years. Look at most of the female (35+) shapes in the grocery stores & malls. 80% have large waist & flabby arms. I used to walk, spring - fall in my 30's. Of course I had the same old walking routine (easy going pace), sure it kept the pounds off when I was in my 30's, but not my 40's. Waist got bigger and arms got fat & flabby, and I had bra back flab, yuck!
Well, I got introduced to weight training (1x, now 3x week) & using Leslie Sansone DVD's. Over two years I lost 25 pounds and my waist is trim and so are my arms/shoulders/back. I went from size 14 to 8-10. And of course I eat better, food is energy for my body, not a license to pig out. I do admit to chocolate, hey I am still a woman with hormones! No barbie weights from me.....challenge to increase 10lbs to 15 lbs on each arm for certain exercises. I want my metabolism to burn like a furnace! Now I am looking to cardio interval training to shake up my indoor walking routine. I now understand the concept of 'challenging the body', which is also good for the brain as well.

Petra's personality does not work for me
Petra Kolber has demonstrated 3 levels of intensity: with her as the least intense and the 2 back ups as medium and hard respectively.
If you are an apartment dweller, this is not recommended because she uses floor space: grapevines, wide strides.
I have a personal issues with her old fashioned perkiness. I use her work-out if I want a break from my favorites.

I tend to use the DVD more often for the bonus John Baptiste 1o minute tune up yoga. Salutations, upward dog, downward dog, Warrior 1, 2, forward and reverse triangle.


Other Trainer's edge dvds:
Killer abs and back with Michael Olajide

Other work-out dvds:
Madonna Grimes Afro Latino Moves
Bodywisdom Perfect Core
Billy Blanks (Boot Camp Elite, Mission 2 Maximum Power, Get Ripped Series 1 and 2
Kukuwa Dance Work Out
Stripilates
African Healing Dance with Wyoma
Jeff Costa's Cardio Strip Tease Workout Vol. 2
The Firm - Jiggle Free Arms ~ Firm-Transfirmer Series
Dance with Lisa: Red Hot Salsa Made Simple ~ Lisa Nunziella
Samba Party Workout 2 - Brazilian Carnival Grooves ~ Samba Dance Workout
Natural Journeys On the Ball Pilates with Lizbeth Garcia
Balance Ball for Beginners by Suzanne Deason

BAD
I shut the DVD off after less than 5 min and tossed it in the thrift shop pile. The coordinated steps were impossible to follow. I will stick with Leslie Sansone as she is easy for the average person to follow.