Top Five Fitness DVDs for Women

Don’t have a gym membership? Need to get a good workout at home? Bored with your usual routine? How about picking up one of these workout DVDs and changing it up.

Let’s count ’em down, in no particular order.

5. Leslie Sansone’s “Walk At Home – 5 Mile Fat Burning Walk (2008)” is for the beginner who needs to start slow, this DVD let’s you complete 1, 2, 3, 4 or all five miles. Leslie is easy to follow and mixes up the movements with a variety of walking steps, kicks and knee bends to keep you going! This is a great workout for those rainy days when you can’t get out of the house. You can find this DVD on Leslie Sansone’s website www.walkathome.com which offers community support, DVD, weekly newsletters and special discounts if you register. Amazon.com also carries the DVD for an amazing low price.

4. Got Yoga? Denise Austin does in her popular DVD “Fat-blasting Yoga: 21 Days to a Yoga Body”. This DVD combines all the best cardio and strength moves for a total body workout in one hour. The DVD is broken into ‘chapters’ so you can customize your workout with 45 minutes total of Power Yoga movement for fat burning and 15 minutes focused on core strength and conditioning. Great for flexibility, core strength and fat-burning! This DVD is available on Amazon.com as well as Denise Austin’s website.

3. For your abs, hips, thighs and buns pick up a copy of Denise Austin’s “Hit the Spot Pilates”. Seven targeted workouts make it easy for you to customize your workout and is for all fitness levels from beginning to advanced. Three 10-minute abs and waistline workouts, one 10-minute hips, one 10-minute thigh, and one 10-minute buttocks workouts total to an hour of body-slimming. Feel the burn and get those trouble spots in shape with this DVD. This DVD is available on Denise Austin’s website and Amazon.com.

2. Wanna dance and have fun while getting in shape? Then you can’t go wrong with Richard Simmons’ “Disco Sweat”! This workout is low impact so it’s easy on the joints and a lot of fun. Richard incorporates easy to follow dance moves and interval training for 50 minutes of fat-burning fun. Injecting his own brand of humor and a great song track makes this a fun workout for just about anyone! Available on Amazon.com.

1. Finally, slow things down and strengthen your core with Denise Austin’s “Pilates: Mat Workout” that entails two 20-minute workouts. The first workout focuses on leaning out your muscles without putting stress on your back or adding too much bulk. The second workout combines Pilates movement with Yoga stretching to sculpt muscles, increase flexibility and leave you in a relaxed state of mind. This DVD is available on wwww.amazon.com as well as Denise Austin’s website.

Happy Exercising!