I do like it and I recommend it, but it appears to me that it doesn’t necessarily cause weight loss, but it has prevented me from gaining weight when I go on one of my carb binges. I’m happy about that and will always keep a bottle on hand for that reason.

I must warn you though. The directions say to take 3 of these with meals. The first day I did that I had horrible gas all day. I didn’t want to have to stop taking it so I lowered my dose to 2 pills with each carb meal and that actually did the trick. I actually watch my carb intake, my calories, and my fat, but now I can have my carb and eat it too.
Rating: 4 / 5

There is little question that this is a basic “Roman Chair.” You CANNOT get a better exercise for your back, abdomen or lower shoulders.

This will help you do situps and backups. It will strengthen your back and abdomen so that you can easily engage in other more aerobic exercises.

After you get up to about thirty reps on this chair, you will be able to walk better and perform almost any other kind of exercise with ease.

I highly recommend this particular model because it is very well-built, very well-engineered, and, “Body Solid” guarantees it for a lifetime. It is a deal on this listing because you get free shipping. For a heavy piece of equipment like this, free shipping brings this piece within the very affordable range.

I didn’t find the trainer to be too peppy but maybe it’s because I’ve used many exercise videos in the past. I wouldn’t say this workout is super difficult but it definitely works your body and I think if you do it for the recommended 3 days a week, you’ll get results. I’ll update as I continue to use it to let you know my results since this was only my first time using it. I just wanted to write a positive review since I feel like this DVD is much better than the reviews are showing.

The instructions and pictures are great, they’re step-by-step. I read them through before actually trying the first workout. One exercise flows right to the next. But I had to keep stopping to look at the book, during the poses and between one pose and the next. I suppose practicing each individual pose first before trying to put them all together would remedy that. I could handle that.

But I have arthritis in my cervical spine and both shoulders, as well as fibromyalgia. I’m always told by doctors to “do yoga” and that’s why i looked for a book suitable for beginners. The standing poses (like warrior) I can do. But it seemed most of them required that I have a lot of weight held with my arms, putting painful load on my shoulder joints and neck.

I do some weight training and stretch exercises at the gym, but attempting these poses were far too painful for me at this time.