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Jillian Michaels - 6 Week Six-Pack (DVD)
by claire405 I have several of Jillian Michaels' workout DVDs. I mainly got into them because of brilliant reviews from friends and very high ratings on Amazon. I now have Killer Buns and Thighs, Ripped in 30 and this one 6 week six-pack and they are all brilliant and really make you sweat. I cancelled my gym membership 6 months ago and have never ... looked back. These workouts are better than any classes I have done at the gym and are a fraction of cost and time commitment. I have to start by saying - don't expect a 6 pack in 6 weeks. To be fair, Jillian doesn't even have a 6 pack in the picture on the front of the box, so I don't think it's meant to be taken literally. She does look very toned, which is inspirational and after completing the program, my abs looked similarly toned. Jillian's workouts are not for the faint-hearted. She's very shouty in a bootcamp style, which I find to be very motivating. And oh my god, did I ache for several days after the first time I tried this! The workout follows the tried and tested high-intensity interval training style. You start with a total-body warm-up then a series of fat-shredding cardio-circuits and muscle-toning core exercises. With both standing and floor-based work, the exercises are simple, but challenging and require no more equipment than a couple of hand weights. The first half of each workout is done slowly to enable you to learn the moves then you repeat it in double time. Each exercise is only performed for no more than a couple of minutes, which means it's easy to suck it up and hold out to till the end of each one. Jillian always seems to pick the right time to tell you there's only a few seconds left when you think you can't hold out for any longer. She spends a lot of time pointing out the common errors in the moves, which really helps to achieve correct form. The workouts end with a full series of stretches. Once you are ready to move onto something more challenging, you can move onto the second workout. At 35 minutes for a whole workout, it is hard to use the excuse of not having enough time to fit it in and these workouts really gave me the results I was looking for. Read the complete review |
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Moneyball (DVD)
by thedevilinme Star - Brad Pitt Genre - Sports biopic Run Time - 133 minutes County - USA Certificate - 12A Awards - 6 Oscar nominations Blockbusters - £3.00 per night Amazon - £4.75 DVD (Blue Ray £7.49) ------------------------------------------------ Baseball is sacred in America and so ... they rarely make a bad film about it, 'Moneyball', yet another homerun. Recently there was a semi subtitled film called Sugar that was harsher that looked at the gentle exploitation of players from South and Central America in the American leagues but apart from that it's all been reverential stuff. Moneyball was the first baseball movie to get a 'Best Feature Film' Oscar nomination since Field of Dreams, 22 years ago. Alas, as good as American sports movies are they rarely win those Oscars and this failed on all six nominations at the Kodak theatre. With Aaron Sorkin doing the screenplay and Brad Pitt at his charismatic best it really should have got the nod somewhere, a lovely film. Pitt would also receive a best actor nomination for his performance in a leading role in the rather eccentric 'Tree of Life', a 2012 double nominee. He has come along way since being the token totty in Thelma & Louise! Moneyball was the name given to a factual book by writer Bill Smith that narrates the journey of major league baseball team the Oakland As on a record run of wins, using a revolutionary system of picking good and effective players on the cheap to beat the big teams, pioneered by head coach Billy Beane and his computer nerd sidekick Peter Brand. Beane was a young college baseball prodigy that looked to have everything back in the day but just couldn't cut it in the big leagues, a quietly spoken but forward thinking guy clearly more at home managing teams. Now known as 'Sabermetrics' (Society for American Baseball Research Metrics), the idea was for the financially handicapped Oakland A's, who had the lowest salary constraint in baseball back then, to try and find value in players no other teams, coaches and scouts had spotted and so exploited, Beane trying to find a competitive advantage that doesn't involve buying in the star players that the As owner could never afford anyway, Oakland's budget $100million less than the top New York teams, down at $38m. The premise is for Brands complex computer algorithm to cough up the best players they can get cheap from the 22,000 or so still playing ball that the Beane knows will produce a certain average in each position. Beane came upon this idea after discovering Brand working as a low level analyst at one of the other clubs with his brain full of this stuff and just waiting to be unleashed on the field and so offers him the job to deploy his math's at the As to rebuild his team. The controversy of the film is what is not actually in it, the reasons why some of the players were never playing major league or considered for it, that of performance enhancing drugs. Like the word 'oil' is too sensitive to mention on our major broadcasters during our many embarrassing incursions into the Middle East, steroids are not mentioned in Moneyball, yet many players were on the 'juice' at the Oakland A's at that time and we can only presume the players coming in many also have been, this well documented now in the sport press. Pro baseball makes cycling look like it only took aspirin for headaches! But you don't get money to make potential Oscar winning movies if you promote or mention the benefit of performance enhancing drugs in your movie and so that was tipexed out. The star Giambi brothers of the Oakland A's who played under Beane were even involved in the BALCO scandal. Baseball, like cycling, hid all its dirty needles and carried on the charade. ---Cast--- * Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics * Jonah Hill as Peter Brand, Beane's assistant general manager * Philip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe, the manager of the Oakland Athletics * Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg, A's first baseman * Casey Bond as Chad Bradford, A's submarine relief pitcher * Stephen Bishop as David Justice, A's outfielder * Royce Clayton as Miguel Tejada, A's shortstop * David Hutchison as John Mabry, A's utility player * Nick Porrazzo as Jeremy Giambi, A's outfielder * Robin Wright as Sharon, Beane's ex-wife and mother of Casey * Kerris Dorsey as Casey Beane ---Plot--- Peter Brand: ".....Okay. People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players; your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs....." --------- General team manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) was close to winning the division but can't get his owner to buy the players he really needs to push on and win the league next season and so get a shot at the play-offs and so the World Series, the best of seven championship game. In fact the owner wants to sell his best players, which means to their rivals. To replace those guys its going to be tough, the other owners aware of the A's lack of financial clout, 'the runt of the litter and so organ donors for the bigger clubs', as Beane puts it. Billy is so keen to keep what money they have on the field the players even have to pay for their own soda in the locker room. So enter the rotund computer geek Peter Brand (Jonah hill), a statistical analyst at the California Angels, who Beane poaches when looking to sign one of their players. Agitated and bumbling, Brand explains his thesis to Beane in the Angels car park and employed by Beane as the Oakland As assistant manger soon after, the plan to deploy his player identification algorithm to build a new team with undervalued and underrated players, and not necessarily like for like, Beane and Brand prepared to buy three average but efficient guys to cover the one position over the season. The idea is to play baseline tennis. Just keep the ball in play and you will be hard to beat and so no need for dazzling passing shots. This seemingly crazy plan raises major heckles with the head coach Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and the established scouting team as the computer screen spits out some surprise names they should sign, including the rather odd underarm pitcher Chad Bradford (Casey Bond) and a worn-out minor leaguer with a dodgy arm, Scott Hatteberg (Chris Pratt), to play the key position of first base he has never played before. Peter Brand ..... ..............'It's about getting things down to one number. Using the stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no one else can see. People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that. Billy, of the 20,000 notable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team of twenty-five people that we can afford, because everyone else in baseball undervalues them...... As the regular season gets underway it doesn't seem to be working, winning just 3 out of the first 14 games, the coach and scouts threatening to quit if Beane doesn't change his ways. But there are a lot of games in the baseball season and Beane and Brand are determined to make a system work they believe in and once Hatteburg starts to get to grips with first base slot and the team bond, things begin to swing their way and the World Series is not as impossibly far away as it seemed just a month ago. Billy Beane: If you lose the last game of the season, nobody gives a sh*t. ---Result--- As I said, America don't make poor sports movies and especially good at baseball ones, their religion, this a real treat. Director Bennet Miller is not in the business of delivering Rocky or Days of Thunder all over gain but a film more about the nuance and structures of sport, how the people behind the scenes function and live for their sport, the love of the game. In fact the Love of the Game is the name of the third and least scene film in the Kevin Costner baseball trilogy, and on a similar themes and also a must see. With the best use of actual archive footage in a sports movie yet, Moneyball keeps you engaged from the opening frame to the honest resolution, especially if you are unaware of what actually happened then, as Miller peels back the layers to this entertaining and interesting story on when baseball changed in America. With salaries out of control in British football we could well see something similar here. Brad Pitt is phlegmatic and engaging in the lead and clearly doing his Robert Redford thing, even putting Phillip Seymour-Hoffman in the shade, certainly Pitt's most likeable turn on film. Sports and Pitt fans alike will love this and it looks great for a surprisingly low budget of $20 million that did an impressive $112 million back in the multiplexes. It's always nice when a good factual and intelligent sports book gets to be made into a likewise movie. Liverpool football club owner William John Henry also gets a cameo as he plays himself as the Boston Red Sox owner that he currently is and was. British sports biopic and films tend to be dreadful and you have to go back to Chariots of fire for a decent one so you look forward to American sports movies. The only real problem here is the film misses out all the nasty stuff from the book, like the steroid abuse, the stuff that sent the team on the record breaking run in the first placed. It also suggests Beane built the team from scratch when in fact he kept a lot of the previous season's players. The film wants you to believe it's the math's and the algorithm, and not the 'roids' and corked bats, that made the difference. The latter would be a very different movie. American filmmakers are not prepared to destroy the wholesome baseball myth that the American dream is supposed to be about. ------Ratings------ Imdb.com - 7.6/10.0 (128,435 votes) Metacritc.com - 87% critic's approval Rottentomatos.com - 95% critic's approval ---Critics--- Empire Magazine -"You don't need to understand anything of baseball to get behind this, a chest-swelling story about second chances and flipping a finger up (even a giant foam one) to The Man" The Telegraph - 'Two features into his directing career, Bennett Miller has managed to refresh not only the traditional biopic, but the inspirational sports drama as well'. Movie Metropolis -'Jerry Maguire just got some overdue company with Moneyball, which features Pitt and Hill in perhaps their most likable roles'. Movie News - 'It seems odd that a movie based on a non-fiction book that is very heavy on statistics and number crunching could be an enjoyable, engrossing, and wonderful piece of cinema, but this movie is the proof'. = = = = = Special Features = = = = = - - Bloopers - - Behind the scenes silliness from cast & crew - -Deleted Scenes - - Quite a few - - Photos - - = = = = = = = = = Read the complete review |
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Davina - Ultimate Target (DVD)
by purplekimmy I bought this video for myself, as a boost to get myself in shape for my upcoming wedding next year. I love Davina, I think the amount she laughs and generally seems to enjoy herself is uplifting, and if there is ever a time that I need to feel uplifted, it is when I am exercising my butt off. I had a bit of a run through of ... the DVD, purely to see what torture I was about to put my very unhealthy body through, probably not one of my better ideas but I thought at least it wouldn't be a surprise. I then decided that the best place to start with the DVD was the place I felt I was having most issues, the BINGO WINGS!! I got dressed appropriately and with water and dumbbells in hand, I pressed play and got ready for one of the most gruelling workouts I have ever put myself through. I have been using this video now (on and off) for eight months or so, I was ill in the middle of the year, and with emergency hospital stays etc, I had to gave it up for a little while. I have only just really got back into the fitness routine, but I have found with the right diet and this exercise DVD, I have noticed an improvement in my health and general look. I have a more positive outlook also, now I can actually see some changes in my shape etc. I find when you are putting yourself through hell, until you actually see shape or weight changes; it all seems a bit worthless, especially when you really make yourself sweat and you are sore the following day. The day after my first workout, I could hardly move, walking up and down stairs, was not even funny, but over time that has eased and in general all the workouts are all a bit easier. I cant do the whole DVD straight off, and I do have to give up occasionally. On the DVD there are two self-contained 30 minute workouts, a fantastic abs routine and three target workouts to focus on those problem areas. Fabulous fat burner - A bit of funky cardio using some Latino moves Brilliant boot camp - Squats and toning galore Target Abs - Tummy toning Target Workouts - Three short but effective routines, targeting 1. Bingo wings 2. Summer shoulders 3. Bikini bum Davina is my new God, as how she can do all those exercise's and still laugh, smile and joke is beyond me. Awesome woman, awesome DVD, very much recommend it. If you have the willpower to get up and actually do it. Read the complete review |
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Genre: Sports - Fitness / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2013-01-07 at Go Entertain / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2012-12-03 at Go Entertain / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2013-01-07 at Metrodome Distribution / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports - Fitness / Fitness DVD / Exempt / Actors: Davina McCall ... / DVD released 2012-12-10 at 2entertain / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports - Fitness / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2009-12-28 at Anchor Bay Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / To Be Announced / Actors: Andy Murray ... / DVD released 2012-11-19 at BBC World Wide / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / Exempt / Actors: Seve Ballesteros ... / DVD released 2007-10-08 at Lace DVD / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2012-10-29 at Go Entertain / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Genre: Sports / Fitness DVD / Exempt / DVD released 2012-11-19 at Lace DVD / Features of the DVD: PAL |
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Studio: Ilc Media / Fitness DVD / Release Date: 13 Oct 2008 / Run Time: 198 minutes |
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