Walk On: 21 Day Weight Loss Plan 2 Disc Set DVD with Jessica Smith

Just buy it and try it. It's awesome. She is motivating. This is my first Jessica Smith experience. Done these videos 14 times already. Love the rotation.

I'm a fitness DVD junkie. I workout in the mornings, 5-6 days a week. Over the years, I have acquired many of Jessica Smith DVDs. She is one of my favorite 'trainers,' and I never get tired of her. She has just the right amount of cueing and pep talk to keep me going through some of the longer workouts. And, I really feel like I get a good workout with Jessica!

I like Jessica's style. As others have stated, walked to Leslie Sansone for some time but because I get bored so quickly, wanted to find another option that allowed a good low impact workout with some variety (have a bum knee and weak ankle). I did 15 days or so of Leslie's 30 day walk plan but I got bored to some extent. I had to redo the soundtrack (built a custom soundtrack with pop, hip hop, gospel and clean rap) and switched up the rotation to keep it interesting. Nothing against Leslie as I have given her quite a bit of my money in purchasing dvds over the years. Its time for a change.After using some of Jessica's workouts, I saw this and thought to try it out. I am NOT a fan of the price but I went ahead and paid it to get the plan started. I think overall this is a good program. I can't say great as I think she should have created a program that lasted 5 days in the week that covered an extra day to do weights. 1 day out of 4 for strength training is not ideal, at least for me. We are usually told we need at a minimum 2 days a week to do strength training. I think this program is laid out well enough that I will complete the full 21 day rotation; however, I can see myself getting bored with this by month 2 or 3.If a rep from Jessica's company is reading this, as someone who subscribes to her channel, I think she has enough of a catalog of good workouts that she could easily create a 90 day workout plan. As someone who has an MBA and thinks business, what I know is she is on the cusp of a great business opportunity - there is not a comprehensive 90 day program for low impact - it would be great to show that bodies can change with low impact cardio and weights and meal plan. PLEASE include me in your focus group if you opt to go this route - I will provide you some great feedback. Please consider this as the next best option for expanding your Walk On series. 90 days that mix barre, step, latin step, weights, resistance bands, more standing ab work (which I love - I hate getting on the floor these days due to a bad knee - the standing ab work is great).My favorite part of the walk program is the standing abs (core workout) and the low impact HIIT (although the fast squats are a bit challenging due to my knee). I also use the 15 min workout within this program as well - I average 45 min workouts between this walk program and the 15 min fat blasts.

I just finished doing all four of these workouts in one marathon exercise session! This isn't the way they're designed ... you're told to do one 30-minute workout per day, but my DVDs arrived loose in the case and I was afraid they might skip or freeze (they didn't) so I wanted to try them all as soon as possible.I'm a long-time exerciser and was probably "advanced" in my heyday but I'm 61 now, so I've slowed down just a bit. That being said, Jessica is a master at showing you modifications so you can tailor her workouts to whatever your level of fitness ... and you can progress using the same workouts, a real plus if you want maximum use out of the same DVDs.All the workouts are similar in that they have three exercisers ... Jessica's mom Debbie doing beginner modifications, Jessica's friend Beth doing more advanced moves, and Jessica staying in the middle. They are also shot on the same "set" ... a lovely house in Miami with an inviting pool, palm trees, and white floor/patio ... and feature a variety of musical selections from "classical" to "country hoedown" to generic workout music I've heard in other DVDs. The music isn't a standout, but everything worked well with the particular exercises you were doing.Day 1: Cardio Core Walk is the most similar to the YouTube workouts I've done. Jessica works at a steady state and the cardio moves focus on using your core and big arm movements to bump up the heart rate. Beth does some higher-impact variations of the moves, but I stuck with Jessica's active but low-impact version since I knew I was in for a long workout session.Day 2: Low Impact HIIT Walk was my favorite. I have a kind of love/hate relationship with HIIT because it's so hard but also so effective. But Jessica's has the least "dread factor" of all the ones I've done. She does five rounds in all ... three minutes of steady-state cardio and two minutes of HIIT. I've done HIIT workouts with much shorter intervals, and I'm not sure what ratio exactly constitutes "HIIT" but Jessica's works for me. Two minutes was just about right to get me completely winded and gasping for air and three minutes gave me enough time to recover and prepare myself for the next go-round. The beauty of Jessica's workout is that she shows such a great variety of moves you can make to get your heart rate up to high-intensity levels. Because I'm pretty advanced, I was following Beth. But good ol' Debbie is there with her modified moves so that if you're a beginner, you won't feel discouraged because everyone else is a clone of the Energizer Bunny. At the end of the five rounds, I felt fantastic!Day 3: Tread and Shred focuses on resistance training but since your feet rarely stop moving, you can't go too heavy with the weights. I used five-pound dumbbells for everything, and felt like that was the perfect weight for me. This workout seems very similar to the old Firm aerobic weight training workouts that I still love. I'm not convinced that this type of workout is all the weight training that you need; personally, if I was following Jessica's 21-Day program, I would add in another day (maybe after Day 1) that incorporated heavy weight training. For example, I don't believe bicep curls with five-pound weights are going to produce the muscle strength that concentration curls with 15-pound weights will. However, if you are new to resistance training, anything is better than nothing. However, if you're new to weight training, I would be concerned about the possible risk of injury with this workout, since Jessica combines strength moves with continuous lower body movement. If you are familiar with how to do these moves, no problem, but there's definitely a co-ordination factor (as Jessica says, "like patting your head and rubbing your stomach") and if you don't know what you're supposed to be doing with your upper body, you might do something physically harmful. Definitely a beginner should use very light or no weights until she feels comfortable with the moves. All in all, though, I was really impressed with the variety of moves Jessica came up with that combined both upper and lower body strength with a cardio factor to boot. This workout was the one that flew by the most quickly for me.Day 4: Stride, Stretch and Relax was a perfect not-quite-recovery day workout. The first 15 minutes basically consist of Jessica's typical but varied walking moves, with the last few minutes of this adding in some non-weighted arm exercises that reminded me of Tracey Anderson ... and produced the same kind of burn! Then, in the second 10-minute segment, Jessica has you do active stretching, first standing (with a chair for balance) and then sitting on the chair. I loved these last stretches because having the chair to support the "back end" really helped me to focus on the stretch in positions like the warrior pose. Finally, the five-minute "Relax" stage had you sitting on the chair and imagining being a statue of ice and then melting (internally and mentally ... you weren't actually supposed to keel over, although I had to disobey Jessica and open my eyes to verify this).All in all, I thought these workouts were fantastic! I simply love Jessica. She is totally engaging, encouraging, instructive, and just genuinely "nice." The fact that she offers so many free workouts on YouTube really motivates me to purchase her DVDs as a way of "thanking" her for her generosity. I am so happy I got these workouts and am definitely giving them two thumbs up and a high five.

I really enjoyed this program. I have finished this one as well as another one of Jessica's programs. Now I go back and forth between the different exercise routines from both sets.

Hier haben wir wieder eine ganz herrliche Workout DVD Box von Sonnenschein Jessica Smith, die jedes Training in puren Spaß verwandelt. Auf zwei DVDs werden insgesamt vier Workouts geboten, die es wie immer in sich haben, aber trotzdem unglaublich Laune machen.Disc 1:Los geht es mit dem "Cardio Core": Debbie und Beth sind mit von der Partie und die drei Ladies trainieren draußen in herrlicher Kulisse auf einer weißen Terrasse am Pool. Allein bei dem Anblick fühlt man sich schon wohl und das Trainieren geht schon soooo viel leichter. Als Übungen gibt es das normale Walking, Heel Dig, Knee Lift, Hamstring Curl und eigentlich alle Klassiker, die man so kennt - aber auch Kickbox Elemente finden hier ihren Platz. Zunächst ist das Tempo normal, dann wird es etwas schneller, bleibt aber immer machbar. Beim Cardio Core soll jeder Muskel bearbeitet werden und Jessica erklärt wieder genau, wofür Cardio Core gut ist und wie die Übungen korrekt ausgeführt werden.Weiter geht es mit dem "Low Impact HIIT": dieses Mal wird in Studiokulisse trainiert und auch hier erklärt Jessica wieder genau, was es mit HIIT auf sich hat und welche Vorteile es für Körper und Kondition hat. Wieder gibt es die klassischen Schritte, die zum Intervall aufgebaut werden und Jessica bereitet einen darauf vor, wieviele Minuten man in welchem Modus durchhalten muss. Natürlich haben es die Intervalle ganz schön in sich (man muss die Übung so schnell wie man kann in einer gewissen Zeitspanne durchführen), aber durchhalten lohnt sich, man wird sich danach bombastisch gut fühlen! Man muss sich beim HIIT pushen, um die Vorteile rauszuholen. Das schöne: HIIT ist für jeden anders und kann ans eigene Level angepasst werden, was auch immer einen so richtig außer Puste bringt. Alle Intervalle sind machbar.Disc 2:Zunächst haben wir "Tred & Shred", was wieder in Terrassen Kulisse präsentiert wird. Hier kommen Hanteln ins Spiel, wobei auch wieder von Debbie die Variante ohne Hanteln demonstriert wird. Das Aufwärmen wird von allen drei Ladies ohne Hanteln absolviert und dann geht's zur Sache - sowohl Arme als auch Beine (dank Squats) werden sehr stark beansprucht. Man kommt also gut ins Schwitzen und das Workout ist wirklich anstrengend, macht aber wie immer sehr viel Spaß.Als letztes haben wir "Stride, Stretch & Relax": wieder sind wir draußen auf der wunderhübschen Terrasse, diesmal mit einem Stuhl als Hilfsmittel. Klingt zwar nach Entspannung, aber auch hier wird gearbeitet! Dreiviertel des Workouts sind ein ganz normales Training, sprich Walking und altbekannte Schritte, wobei man hier merkt, dass die Arme mehr beansprucht werden. Am Ende kommt dann der Stuhl fürs Stretching zum Einsatz, was sich fast schon ein bisschen wellness-mäßig anfühlt, da auch der Rücken und die Arme berücksichtigt werden.Alles in allem hat man hier wieder eine super Workout Box, die für viel Abwechslung sorgt und ihr Geld wirklich wert ist. Mit Jessica lernt man immer wieder was Neues dazu und das ist einfach toll. Fun-Faktor hoch zehn und für Fitness Freunde ein absolutes Muss!

me encanta. Divertido y nada pesado. Aunque no suelas hacer ejercicio lo puedes hacer, es suave y dinámico.Pega: en inglés sin subtitulosson 4 sesiones (2 cds con 2 sesiones cada cd). En dos de ellos se usa pesas.

I love this Workout DVD. In my opinion, Jessica has got to be one of the best fitness instructors around today. She has a great personality, gives good clear concise instruction throughout all the workouts, even admits if she has done something wrong and her cues are well timed.The set is interesting to look at as you work out. 1 of the 30 minute sessions is indoors and the other 3 are outdoors, so you don't get bored with the scenery. I am a very visual person, so I like this aspect.Three people are working out altogether, which is great, they consist of Debbie, who is Jessica's mum, and she does the beginner option, Beth, who is Jessica's friend, who does the advance option and Jessica mainly does the intermediate option or a mixture, so you can follow the level of exercises you want to do.This DVD is great for beginner, intermediate and advance exercisers (although it is based on low impact moves – Jessica does give high impact options, with her friend Beth demonstrating these throughout).Based around a 21 day programme, she advises you do one of the workouts everyday with a rest day on the 5th day, then restart the programme again.Each of the 4 workouts are all 30 minutes long, they each include the warm up and cool down in this timescale. The DVD is broken down as follows:Day 1: Cardio Core Walk: As the title suggests you do walking based moves of twisting and moving aerobically, whilst working the abs and waist muscles, of course the legs, hips and upper body get a good workout too. No floor exercises and so if you have a weak neck or back, this work out is ideal for you.Day 2: Low impact HIIT (high intensity interval training) Walk: Although the title says low impact, you can notch it up to intermediate and advance levels like I do, this will really get you puffing, sweating and burning fat efficiently. There are 5 high intensity sessions for 2 minutes and then you go back down to normal intensity. When I first did this I was exhausted and I have been exercising for 25 years almost on a day to day basis. When done regularly you do get used to it and it burns off lots of calories, you’ll know you definitely worked out doing this one, by your red face lol.Day 3: Tred and Shread: This is an interval training session and you will need weights for this if you’re an intermediate or advance exerciser. The workout claims to help you build metabolic rate and help with lean muscle mass. Again it is an interval based training work out. A lot of attention is on the arms and some of the exercises are so intense that I had to rest during some of them, but again after doing it a couple of times, you soon get used to it.Day 4: Stride, Stretch and Relax: This is a lovely workout, but it won’t get you puffing, it is more of a calming workout. It claims to boost your mood, get your blood flowing and stretch tight and sore muscles. It is broken down in three parts. Stride: where you get some light aerobic moves, just to help your heart rate go up a bit to burn calories using leg and arm movements. Stretch: stretch moves for legs and hips whilst you sit on a high back chair. Relax: This is lovely and is based on meditation/visualisation, just close your eyes and visualise what Jessica tells you to, if you can’t keep your eyes closed like Beth can’t on the DVD, then just relax with your eyes open.I highly recommend this DVD.There is another, separate Walk On DVD available – called 15 minute Fast Fat Blasts which you can do in addition to this DVD. (I will be reviewing this shortly, but see link below to the DVD).My only criticism, was the editing of Jessica’s voice on this DVD and the Walk On 15 minute DVD, on all her previous DVD’s and the ones afterwards are fine, but on this one and the 15 minute one she sounds like a Disney character, the producer seemed to have tampered with her voice sound, making it a higher pitch which is sounds odd at first, but you do get used to it. Walk On: 15-Minute Fast Fat Blasts with Jessica SmithWalk On: 15-Minute Fast Fat Blasts with Jessica Smith

Excellent programme pour tous ceux qui souhaitent commencer ou reprendre une activité physique après une longue période d'inactivité. Le programme est basé sur la marche et est doux pour les articulations. Il n'y a aucun exercice au sol et tous les exercices peuvent se faire dans un petit espace. Presque tous les exercices se font avec le dos à la verticale (ou proche de la verticale) et la colonne vertébrale en position neutre, ce qui convient à mon dos (j'ai connu des douleurs dans le bas du dos par le passé).Le DVD comprend 4 vidéos de 30 minutes chacune. On suit une vidéo différente chaque jour pendant 4 jours et on se repose le 5ème jour. On recommence jusqu'au 21ème jour. Le programme est équilibré avec des jours plus intenses et d'autres qui le sont moins :Jour 1 : Cardio Core Walk – effort constantJour 2 : Low Impact HIIT Walk – intervalles à forte et moyenne intensitéJour 3 : Tred And Shred – musculation (besoin d'haltères de 1 à 4 kg au choix à partir du niveau intermédiaire)Jour 4 : Stride, Stretch And Relax – souplesse et relaxation (besoin d'une chaise)Trois modèles présentent les exercices : Jessica Smith présente le niveau intermédiaire, Debbie (la maman de Jessica Smith) présente le niveau débutant et Beth présente le niveau avancé. Il est ainsi très facile de suivre les exercices en fonction de son niveau. Debbie et Jessica montre les versions à faible impact pour les exercices (toujours au moins un pied au sol) et Beth ajoute de petits sauts et augmente l'amplitude des mouvements pour augmenter l'intensité des exercices.Personnellement j'utilise ce DVD dans le cadre du programme #FITIN15 que j'ai trouvé sur le site internet de Jessica Smith.Pour ceux qui souhaitent découvrir sans investir, Jessica Smith propose plus de 250 vidéos gratuites de fitness (aérobic, danse classique, kick-boxing, marche, yoga, souplesse) pour tous les niveaux sur sa chaîne youtube (jessicasmithtv) et des programmes de fitness gratuits sur son site internet (jessicasmithtv "point" com).Après avoir essayé des dizaines d'entraîneurs de fitness différents sur youtube, Jessica Smith est la première à réussir à me garder motivée à suivre un programme de fitness. Sa philosophie est que le fitness doit être un plaisir et la grande variété des vidéos d'exercices qu'elle offre me permet de ne jamais me lasser.

Love how you get 4 different workouts each day then a rest day, routines are brilliant