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Following on from the fourth in the Tae Bo series, which focused on abs and glutes, Tae Bo 5 Active offers a challenging 30-minute basic workout followed by a demanding one-hour advanced session. In the world of home fitness there are workouts and there are true workouts. Anything that bears the name of Billy Blanks is the blueprint for a true workout. Take up Billy Blanks at home and your mates will wonder what super-gym you've joined. The seven-times World Martial Arts Champion and part-time action movie star has developed his own fitness system, Tae Bo, which blends elements of martial arts and boxing in an upbeat aerobic dance style. Anyone unfamiliar with the Tae Bo moves can start with the instructional session that comes at the end: this runs through all the basic moves very clearly.
Every Blanks workout comprises an introduction, a warm-up, a workout and a cool-down. With a live recording featuring a wide range of ordinary people who look extraordinarily fit thanks to Blanks' tough, no-nonsense attitude, there is plenty of incentive right from the beginning. But as the warm-up goes into lunges, it's clear that this regime is not for anyone less than serious about fitness. The basic workout combines Blanks' best moves for an all-round cardiovascular session. The advanced session is much faster, with intense work on both the upper and lower body, including floor routines to work on the abs and glutes. This is hardcore fitness. --Lorna V
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Tae Bo 5 Active offers a challenging 30-minute basic workout followed by a demanding one-hour advanced session. In the world of home fitness there are workouts and there are true workouts. Anything that bears the name of Billy Blanks is the blueprint for a true workout. Take up Billy Blanks at home and your mates will wonder what super-gym you've joined. The seven-times World Martial Arts Champion and part-time action movie star has developed his own fitness system, Tae Bo, which blends elements of martial arts and boxing in an upbeat aerobic dance style. Anyone unfamiliar with the Tae Bo moves can start with the instructional session that comes at the end: this runs through all the basic moves very clearly.
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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I've been doing TaeBo for two years and think this DVD is a really excellent one to get if you don't have any other TaeBo DVDs. The first workout on this DVD is a basic workout but is slightly more challenging than the other basic workouts as Billy seems to have taken all the good bits from the others and stuck them all together. Its definitely more of an allover workout than the 3 on my other TaeBo DVD, which do less legwork than this one, and it is a bit faster paced too. I still haven't tried the Advanced workout on this DVD as I've only had it for a few days, BUT I have done the Basic one then followed it with the Abs and Glutes section of the Advanced workout (chapter 48 if you're interested!) Tiring but well worth the effort! If you're in any doubt, TaeBo is fun to do and really works - I lost a stone within the first two months of doing it and have kept it off. Try it out, you won't be disappointed.
43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
I have been exercising to Tae Bo 3, Tae Bo Gold, and Tae Bo Abs since January 2002. Tae Bo has really toned up my flab. The new Tae Bo Active is an excellent workout. The DVD consists of a live basic 30 minute workout followed by a advanced workout.
There are loads of new moves on this challenging DVD, so you are not repeating previous workouts. I am still mastering some of the moves! I have stuck with Tae Bo because Billy Blanks makes it such good fun that I never get bored and want to give up (I have loads of tapes that I have tried a few times and stopped because they are so boring).
I have lost several inches all over, but have only lost 4lbs. The most notable improvement has been to my "saddlebag" thigh area, and the tops of my thighs. Tae Bo has done me the world of good.
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
I've been a Tae-bo fan for two years now, and this one is pure perfection. Brilliant Billy gives us fitness addicts two great new routines: one short (around 30 minutes) and one long (about 50-55. The short version is more strenuous than previous tae-bo videos, and it had me out of puff in no time,with some great new combinations and a new twist to the speedbag punch. The advanced long version combines a rigorous workout for the upper body, followed by some fantastic floor routines for those hard to reach places (think abs and glutes here). The warm up and cool down feels like part of the entire routine, but Billy also incorporates some great stretches at the beginning and end of the routine.
These routines have some tricky moves in them : lots of punches, combinations, and cool kicks. This is a superb video in which Billy puts you through your paces. Its great fun, though if you are new to Tae-bo, start with the earlier ones, and work your way up to this one. If you're dying to get your hands on a new work-out routine, which works you in all the right places, then tae-bo is the one for you. If, like me, you are already a Tae-bo devotee, then, what are you waiting for...? Billy has really worked hard with this one: number five is truly the most fun you will ever have, while really putting your fitness to the test. Despite my daily Tae-bo basic workouts, and twice weekly advanced, I felt Billy's latest offering really work every muscle! Fantastic, and one which I know will have me running to the video machine to do again and again !
These routines have some tricky moves in them : lots of punches, combinations, and cool kicks. This is a superb video in which Billy puts you through your paces. Its great fun, though if you are new to Tae-bo, start with the earlier ones, and work your way up to this one. If you're dying to get your hands on a new work-out routine, which works you in all the right places, then tae-bo is the one for you. If, like me, you are already a Tae-bo devotee, then, what are you waiting for...? Billy has really worked hard with this one: number five is truly the most fun you will ever have, while really putting your fitness to the test. Despite my daily Tae-bo basic workouts, and twice weekly advanced, I felt Billy's latest offering really work every muscle! Fantastic, and one which I know will have me running to the video machine to do again and again !
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good quality
Good picture, wanted to buy this brand new but purchased used as could not find it new but well worth it.
Published 19 days ago by CVT
5.0 out of 5 stars
tae bo 5
i have not yet looked at the dvd my self but my freind cousins have looked at it and say it is very nice
Published 1 month ago by beverley
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great workout!
This workout DVD is great. The Basic workout, which will still get you in a sweat, is great to fit in when you come home from work. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2006 by E. Graff
5.0 out of 5 stars
I LOVE Billy Blanks
I really do. This was the first of his workouts that I bought and I now have an extensive library.
The reasons he's so great - he's cheesy but it's rather sweet - he... Read more
The reasons he's so great - he's cheesy but it's rather sweet - he... Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2006 by L. Haycox
5.0 out of 5 stars
the Answer
It was difficult for me to regain a human shape after my first child. I found other videos boring and a chore to have to work through them - then I bought this DVD and it saved my... Read more
Published on 22 July 2004 by M. Chand
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tremedous Tae-Bo
I got this DVD mainly because of the number of workouts on it. Previously I had only done Tae-bo:Future of Fitness and wanted a challenge and a new workout. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it love it love it
I just want to reiterate what the others have written in their online reviews. I started out using Tae Boe Abs and glutes in the summer, and to my astonishment, after 3 weeks, id... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2004
4.0 out of 5 stars
same content- different sleeve
Recently, i purchased 2 Tae-bo DVDs, the first being this one and the other being the title "Tae-Bo: Energise". To my astonishment i was confronted with two nearly the same videos. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2004
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not very good
I bought this video having owned the Tae-bo 2 video and needed something a lot more advanced. I did get the advanced bit, it was almost too fast, perhaps dangerously so (as I... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2003 by L. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
A truly up-lifting workout!!
WOW! I'm new to Teo-Bo but thankfully not new to exercise. You've got to be pretty fit just to take on the basic workout. Read more
Published on 15 May 2002
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