Leslie Sansone: Walk at Home - 5 Day Slim Down - A Mile Each Morning

This is one of Leslie's most basic and versatile workouts yet. For those accustomed to Leslie's DVDs, you should know that this one features Leslie solo in every segment. I rather like seeing Linda and JoAnn and Carol in the other workouts, but Leslie's jokes and chatter really grow old when you've done the same workout umpteen times. This workout is straightforward. Leslie talks all the way through, giving her usual good cues, but there are no jokes and little to no giggling. A welcome relief if you plan to do it often.Unlike the earlier 5-mile workout, there are no walking aids such as hand weights or stretchy band. The first mile is Leslie's basic walking steps. The second mile focuses on the upper body and arms. The third mile focuses on legs (with some squats). The fourth mile focuses on the abs and waistline. And the fifth mile is a "fast mile" but with only one brief section of "boosted walking," which is optional.This is also versatile enough both for beginners and advanced walkers and for short or long workouts. Like Leslie's earlier 5-mile workout, each individual mile can be done separately, or they can be done in combinations of 2, 3, 4, or 5 miles. And unlike the earlier 5-mile workout, this one has separate warm up and cool down segments. If you do 1 mile a day (each one is 12-14 minutes) plus the 5-minute warm up and 9-minute cool down and stretch segment, you have 5 different workouts of less than 30 minutes each, one for each day of the week. If you do the warm up, all 5 miles, and the cool down, it takes an hour and 22 minutes.I usually prefer to walk outside than to walk in front of the TV, but when I'm pressed for time (as is usual during the work week) or the weather's bad, there's just no better or faster low-impact workout than Leslie Sansone's. Fortunately, I have a fairly large library of her workouts, which provides variety. I've been doing them 3-4 times per week for several years now.This is a very welcome addition to my workout library. It would also be a good place to start if you've never tried one of Leslie's workouts before.

introduced to leslie's walk at home program about 2-3 weeks ago, it has been a perfect low impact exercising program for me who is mostly at home.. finally i can do a workout that i can actually follow steps to and keep up with, there are no over complicated moves to make me feel uncordinated or any that make fall behind..most important, my knees do not start hurting after only five minutes like my upright bike and elliptical were doing, so i actually now look forward to exercising everyday knee pain free! i started with the walk at home quick & easy part one on youtube, next day did it and part 2 and got this dvd on third day and am now up to being able to do the warm up, day 1 classic walk, day 4 trim your tummy, day 5 speed walk and the cool down, all in a row in one day..that is pretty good considering i rarely exercised!highly recommend this dvd, i chose it over others because of a review i read but, mostly because i wanted kinda like a one on one experience for now, it is just leslie in this dvd so there are no distraction from others exercising with her like in other dvds..eventually i will try those too but, for starting out, i think this one is best.. the breakfasts making part was even interesting to watch too.also got the walk away the pounds dvd, have not used it yet but, its a one on one dvd too and you use light hand weights with that one so probably a good choice to get that one to use after using this one..

I wake up early every morning to work on my website before my boys get up. Since I had my second son (almost 7 months ago already) we have been on a health food kick, my husband has lost a whole pant size, JUST by changing his eating habits...jerk! Haha. So I have decided to start working out. For a month I was using the Fitness Videos On Demand from Comcast (I would do a 20-30 min cardio + a 5 minute abs), and doing the slim fast diet..I might have lost 2 lbs...My only result was that my pants were no longer uncomfortable tight. I got this video Monday morning, I had already done my workout for the day so I put it away until Tuesday. Tuesday I did the first 2 miles..I felt great, it was easy, a great pace, and best of all, I got to look outside at the rain and get a great walk in. Wednesday I decided to do the first 3 because the first 2 were easy enough...again it was a great pace, but I could definitely feel it was working. Now it's Thursday, and I just decided to go for it, I did the ENTIRE DVD in one session. I FEEL FANTASTIC!!! Its not to fast, its not to hard, it worked EVERY muscle in my body! I showered, and I while getting dressed I made an amazing discovery, not only are my pants no longer uncomfortably tight, but they are now loose!!! I am (or at least was a month ago when I really started to diet) out of shape, this is a GREAT way to get back into a good steady work out. It's pretty low impact, gets your heart rate up, and if you do the whole thing at once you WILL get results! (I even cheated on my diet and ate quite a bit of quacamole and chips yesterday-what can I say, I'm human!)I would highly recommend this dvd for anyone who is just getting started on their weight loss journey, ANYONE!