Product review from consumer:

"The DVD is fun to watch. John is interesting and enjoyable. Information is valuable and is presented in an easy to understand format. Their are two handouts that are a great addition to the product that allows you to follow right along with the seminar and take the exercise routine to the gym to try it on your own. This addition is a small but nice touch that makes the entire product a little more practical to the buyer. Going from the product description the item does exactly as it claims in that the “push\pull” logic is presented with clear demonstrations of it in your training sessions. The presentation as a strict beginner level is a mixed blessing. If you’re new to the scene and need a primer for what you’re doing and why then you’ll likely get a lot out of this. The theory portion gives you a foundation to build off of and the demonstrations are presented in a way that if you do the given exercises correctly you’ll probably be able to figure out other exercises because you know what feels “right”.

This DVD is a capture of a live seminar that John gives brand new “shiny’s” trainers or enthusiastic folks starting to think outside the box and wanting to educate themselves on physical fitness.

Picture quality is good displayed on a 42” 480p LCD. There are a few issues in the beginning of John standing in front of the camera during a demonstration and a short period at the very end with some stuttering (which might have been my personal DVD\player). Otherwise video quality is very adequate and not worth mentioning to either extreme. Demonstrations are clearly visible and over all quality is sound.

The DVD content itself is divided in to two large segments classroom and demonstration. The first is a theory portion where students are introduced to program design elements such as setting the core, importance of exercise\muscle balance, and mention on tricking clients into doing corrective exercises (and why they’re necessary) as part of their normal program. As noted above this is an entry-level course so most topics are covered fairly briefly and there’s a fair amount of assumption that a client “will” have X problems VS how to figure out if they have X problems.

The second portion of the DVD is a live run through a sample exercise routine with John going through with normal people and making corrections to form when necessary with explanation where the person is doing something wrong and the person correcting. The workout consists of a group warmup and six supersets w\ a little extra here and there for about 20 total movements. Each movement gets the oral explanation followed by the visual and when the shiny tries it you see that some of them lied…”No you didn’t get it”. This portion is especially interesting due to the sheer volume of corrections that need to be made. That's no knock on the people learning by any means but serves as a reminder for trainers and trainee's to make a special effort to do things correctly and try various explanations so everyone can "get it". Cues, comments, followed shortly by light bulb moments and now everyone is doing cable rotations with the best of them. "

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