Tracie
Long: Longevity - Defining Shape/Staying Power/Step Forward
(2014/Shelter Island DVDs)
Picture:
C Sound: B- Extras: C Main Programs: B-
Tracie
Long is the latest star within the exercise genre of special interest
releases that is issuing work in what we might consider a subgenre
and the three new releases from her, Defining
Shape,
Staying
Power
and Step
Forward
bring our total over about 11 years to just over two dozen such
releases. It is not the boom period of the 1980s when VHS and Jane
Fonda ruled the category, but these re effective enough and not bad.
Again
I am no exercise expert, but from my experiences, these are pretty
solid workouts to get rid of fat, tighten flab and even build muscle.
The programs did not stay with me after looking at them, but I would
recommend these as much as any I have seen in the last few years and
it also reminds us how hard it is to put any series of these out and
make them stand out. Compare to others on this site and see for
yourself.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image can have motion blur and be
mixed in playback making it one of the weak entries in exercise
releases, but the PCM 2.0 Stereo on each disc is a plus sounding
better than most we have covered in the category to date. Extras are
two extra exercise segments per disc that add up to an average a half
an hour of extra work, but that's it.
-
Nicholas Sheffo
