You must be tired with going to the local gym nowadays. With using treadmill machines that sit still and go nowhere while you stare at a TV, weight lifting machines that have been slathered with one too many smelly folks who don’t clean up, and other disgusting gym nuances, you wonder how you can look and feel your best without dealing with all of this. You also wonder how you can do this for a lower cost, because all of those monthly payments just add up. You’re not a runner, and your road bicycle just got taken to a pawn shop last month. Your expensive one. And you are terrible at sports, too. So, you wonder how a workout DVD could possibly give you results that would improve your sports skills for a fraction of the cost of a gym membership.

If you found me in a previous life, you would have seen me in a gym. But, what changed all of that was the day a big silly trainer came by to tease me at the tricep-dip machine. I finished a set there before he asked a really good question, “Why do you use that machine? I bet you have no clue that over 90% of these machines here are good for nothing. They do absolutely nothing to build muscle. And you could tone your body without lifting any weights. I can show you some working out movements that I got off of a DVD”.

Not only did I feel so much pain in my gluteal muscles than I ever did during the past few years of using the useless machines, but I also felt the most annoyance with the trainer’s constant teasing and distracting in between my exercise repetitions and sets. Add to that the horrible smell of the work out machines and the people there.

Overall, I thanked that bizarre trainer for opening my eyes to a world of happy fitness and health that I did not think of before. A world where I could spend little of what I spent on gym memberships for a set of exercise DVDs I could mix and match, pause and fast-forward. I am kidding, folks. I would not fast-forward through weight-lifting DVD program if I am serious about looking and feeling my best! And neither should you! But, all jokes aside you can see that working out is like meditation–you should be able to do it where you live. You should not have to go to a specific place other than your choosing.

There are plenty of different brands that offer a lot of exercise DVDs, for cardio, for weight-lifting, for toning, for yoga, and many more. You will hopefully find, like me, that within 60-90 days you will achieve so much more than you ever have in one year. With measurable results that you can see (in pictures, measurement tapes, clothes size), you will be moved further to consistently do these programs and see an continuation of results.

For home workout programs that shape you up, check out Beth Prager’s reviews on workout DVDs.