Cindy Crawford - Shape Your Body Workout | 
| Actors: Cindy Crawford, Radu
Studio: Good Times Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  156 reviews
Sales Rank: 3674
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: GTED81620D
UPC: 018713816207
EAN: 0018713816207
ASIN: B0000X61VE
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Gaiam Americas Release Date: 01/06/2004 Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
At a time when we know so much about choosing safe, effective exercises, reissuing Cindy Crawford's 1992 best-selling disaster, Shape Your Body, is inexcusable. Swimsuit-clad Cindy puts herself through flings and gyrations that show off her body but aren't any good for anyone else's. She presents one after another of the exercises that fitness professionals threw out of their routines two decades ago because they're ineffective and risky to back and joints. Her alignment is awful; her control nonexistent. She rounds her back and flings her leg into high kicks. She does squats letting her knees go way past her toes. Even when the exercises are decently chosen and performed, she does them much too quickly, relying on momentum instead of muscle power, such as two-second bent-over rows. Trainer Radu, who designed and coached this workout, should be sentenced to an eternity of fast donkey kicks, leg swings, and trunk circles. This "toning" video would be a joke, except that you really could get hurt following it. In fact, when Shape Your Body first came out, fitness expert Peg Jordan, author of Fitness Instinct, appeared on CNN warning viewers about the risks of this video. "I received a call from a chiropractor who had treated 12 patients' back injuries from that video alone!" she recalls. If you've got to have this one, watch it only, don't do it. --Joan Price
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| Customer Reviews: Read 151 more reviews...
 Only if you can keep yourself safe May 25, 2009
J. Hannah (Los Angeles, CA)
I don't really recommend this video to people who are not familiar with safety. It is OLD SCHOOL form as one reviewer has mentioned. I will however say that if you know where to engage, and use total core control, it can be fun and beneficial. Radu and Cindy do not give enough cues on safety and muscular engagement. If you know how to take care of yourself by not pushing and relying on momentum, then take it for what it is---a creative workout (I have seen far dangerous dvd's in today's market). I'd like to see someone come out with a dvd that has Shape Your Body's cinematography and creativity with more emphasis on safety and controlled movements.
 Cindy Crawford May 7, 2009
Rebekah Gregory (TN)
I love this workout video. I had it on VHS for a long time then lost it and was happy to find it DVD. It was shipped quickly, in great condition and a good price.
 Cindy Crawford DVD March 22, 2009
Pamela J. Hensel
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this item well over a month ago and this is the second review I had gotten to do to tell you I still Have NOT received this item. I know the mail can be slow.....but I don't think it has even been sent yet!! Is this item available??? Just wondering!!
 got here two days early February 27, 2009
J. Anderson (Utah)
i was so happy it got here early i used to have this on vhs and my little sister ruined it.. so happy to get it back.. its the best calm work out video ever
It works if you do it properly February 21, 2009
Louise Deo (Melbourne, Australia)
I first got this on VHS when I was 14 and started doing it every single day (the two alternating workouts). I had heard about people supposedly getting injured doing it, and was warned not to do it by friends, but I never had a single problem. I got into amazing shape, my cardio fitness was very good and I felt so good after each workout. My core strength and muscle tone were great.
At 18 I stopped, cause I got lazy, put on a lot of weight and at 28 have just started doing these workouts again. My tips to others would be: do as is advised and drink lots of water and rest between sets and repetitions; only do the number of repetitions you can manage without pain - don't stress because it does get easier and you will be able to do them all eventually; and be sensible. Obviously if you throw your body around like it's made of rubber you will hurt yourself. Do the exercises slowly and carefully, at least until your fitness and strength improve. If you find you cannot keep up with the pace of the video/DVD, just pause it until you can catch up and then resume watching.
These are great workouts you can do almost anywhere and it annoys me when people criticise it. Probably because it's Cindy Crawford people find it easier to pick on it, but I have never been in better shape or felt better than when I did these workouts regularly.
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