Why Use Aerobic Videos ?
To motivate, motivate and motivate.... thats why! Aerobic videos do this wonderfully. My husband and I have decided that it is time to start doing more exercise. We walk on a regular basis; however this tends to be the time that we catch up with each other regarding what we have done during the day. We also have our two Labrador Retrievers with us so we are starting and stopping with them. We both want low impact activity for our joints. We decided we would look into aerobic videos to see if there was a program that would benefit both of us. We wanted an exercise routine that we could do together so that we could keep each other motivated, and also so that exercise would not be taking up too much of our time together. It was very easy to find the aerobic videos section at the local media store. The health and fitness section was huge. It seems that every athlete, movie star and television personality has come out with their own aerobic videos.
We started going through them. We were planning on exercising in the bedroom area. We have a VHS player in that room so we could disregard the DVD’s. We also could set aside the aerobic videos that were high impact. We still had many to choose from. We both know that it is important for us to stretch our muscles well to maintain flexibility and to warm the joints before using them, so we wanted a tape that included stretching. We wanted to exercise when we got home from work and before we ate dinner, so we looked at aerobic videos that were 45 minutes or less in length. It too us several minutes of searching before finally the sales person came and asked if we needed help. We explained what we were looking for. The cost of the aerobic videos was not tremendously high, but we did not want to purchase more than one to see if we liked them.The sales clerk suggested that we check with the library. People will donate tapes that they are no longer using and the library will let you check them out, as you would a book. What a great idea that turned out to be. We went to the local library and were surprised with the number of exercise videos, and other videos that were available. There were step aerobic videos, dance aerobic videos, music videos as well as nude or sexy or water aerobic videos. Also were pregnancy videos, tons of celebrity ones like Carmen Electra and several free low impact videos. We could have rented most of them for free but we wanted our own copy to keep for a long time. We were determined to make the most out of our commitment to get fit. >>>My husband wanted to get the nude videos, said that would be enough motivation :)<<< The librarian explained that people donate when they convert to DVD’s or when they no longer want the tapes. We picked out 3 videos that we had seen at the store. We tried each one and decided that we liked the work out that features walking in place along with weight training using light hand held weights. My husband could use heavier weights to get a more vigorous workout. As a result we took the tapes back to the library and explained that we had found the one that we wanted to purchase. The librarian suggested going to the second hand store in town and look through their video section. She stated that many people donate a variety of videos to sell. We took her advice and found that the second hand store had 2 of the aerobic videos that we were interested in plus several others. They were priced at $2.00 each so we bought several of them so that we could have variety to our workouts. Aerobic videos have turned out to be a very inexpensive way to increase our cardio vascular activity. I hope you found this article informative and that you are sufficiently motivated to get some exercise videos to start your fitness regime with your very own fitness training instructor course all from your living room. Procrastination is the killer of motivation, not sure who said that but its very true.
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