Envy Girls - Workouts for the Spots That Really Count
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Actor: Envy Girls 4-Disc SetBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- From the producers of Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease
- Envy Girls 4-Disc Set: Starring Eliana, Natasha, Vala and Yvette
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1; Number of discs: 4; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007; Run Time: 128 minutes
DVD Reviews of Envy Girls - Workouts for the Spots That Really Count
DVD Review: Unneccesary Flaws on Otherwise Sound Workout
Summary: 4 Stars
I've had this DVD for about eight months now, so I felt it was time to review it.
I was very excited to try out these workouts as they were designed by Michael Carson, the man behind Carmen Electra's Fit to Strip DVD, which is an amazing workout.
I thought this could only be better but sadly, it fell short due to a few flaws that just can't be ignored.
Firstly, the fact that the four workouts are on four DVD's. It would have been much easier and more logical to have placed all four workouts on one DVD. The packaging they come in is also rather cheap and one of the DVD's has the tendency to slide out and as a result has become scratched.
Next, there are some serious issues with the sound. Judging by the special features, the crashing waves on the background of their on-location Mexico shoot were very loud. So what did they do? Drown it out with music. That's fine, except they forgot to make the voices of the instructors louder as well. I have to turn my volume all the way up and it's still difficult to hear.
Then there's the picture, which inexplicably shows up in a box of blackscreen. Not widescreen format, but an entire box of black surrounding the picture. This is rectified by using the zoom button on my DVD's remote but I imagine if you didn't have a zoom button, this would be annoying. You have to rezoom every time you move from section to section as it is.
My next criticism is in regards to production. As I've stated, the workouts were shot on a beach in Mexico, which is beautiful (if unneccary). The bodies of the girls doing the DVD's are also beautiful, obviously BUT the cameracrew seems so taken by the beauty of the beach and the girls that they seems to focus on them instead of the exercises. Various camera angles from a distance make it difficult to see the form, random close-ups midway through an exercise; all unneccesary and irritating. This is very different from Fit to Strip where the camera stayed in pretty much the same position for the entirety of the workout.
Another disappointing difference between Fit to Strip and Envy Girls is that Michael Carson isn't leading the workouts, the girls are, and while he clearly taught them well in terms of form, they're not so adept at cueing and they all seem somewhat bored. You can change the voiceover track so that it's him talking, which I did at first. You can also see him explain proper form for some of the moves in the special features.
That being said, the main workouts themselves are excellent. All four areas (buns, abs, legs and arms) require one set of handweights and a mat.
The buns workout is paced well and you definitely feel it where you're meant to, as opposed to other buns workouts I've done where I'm struggling to make myself feel it in certain places. The standing and the matwork are on par with one another.
The abs workout is incredible. Lots of standing ab work, which is a nice change from most workouts of this kind. As I said before, you will use your handweights in each segment and the abs segment uses them a lot. Because of this, you get quite the arm workout which I feel somewhat detracts from the goal because you stop concentrating on your abs and start concentrating on your arms. My solution to this is to not use the weights and just make fists on certain exercises, namely the ones that involve holding the weights above your head, to give my arms a break. The matwork is good as well, though sometimes I just do the standing work and supplement the matwork with the Perfect Abs DVD. The girl leading this one definitely seems to be "going through the motions" and she has a rather dry delivery, which can be off-putting.
The legs workout, by contrast, has a very upbeat girl leading and because of this you forgive the fact that there are some repeat exercises from the buns workout. This segment seems to go by the fastest, for some reason.
The arms workout is a killer in that I have never been able to get all the way through it. Very intense. It's possible that it's just me but luckily, arms aren't a trouble spot for me so the fact that I can't do it all doesn't bother me. I do as much as I can. The girl leading this one is nice enough but there is one very distracting thing about her; her breasts. They are clearly not what Mother Nature gave her and so obviously so that when other members of the household have passed by the television as it's played, they have commented. Due to the aforementioned close-ups, they are not so easy to ignore.
Each segment begins with the same warm-up and while it's probably a good one, it's very difficult to follow because the camera won't stop moving around. Therefore, I don't use it and warm-up with something else before I start. The music on the warm-up as well as on the workouts themselves is rather blah and uninspiring so after going through it once or twice with the narration, I now watch it on mute with my own music. This works out best for me.
So, I have to take half a star off for all the technical issues and another half a star off for the slow pace. All in all, I think the workout themselves are good for their targets and you can easily integrate them with other routines. Hopefully, Michael Carson's next project will be less lacking.
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