rip:60 Home Gym and Fitness DVDs

A challenging and balanced workout program
I had been thinking about suspension training for about a year and bit when it was an Amazon Gold Box special in December. I was aware of TRX, but when I looked at all the reviews, many cited the superiority of rip60. My purchase decision was based on good price, great reviews for the straps, and the inclusion of 12 DVDs.

The program is 8 weeks long and you workout with one DVD each week. Weeks 1-3 gradually build up in difficulty. Week 4 is a yoga routine to recover. Week 5 is a step up from week 3 in both time and challenge. Week 6 is the most challenging--it is longer by ~10 min, and then weeks 7 and 8 back off a bit from week 6. It seemed to me that weeks 6, 7, and 8 focused a bit more on cardio than strength. The exta workout called lean muscle is a pretty challenging strength workout thats lots of fun, but only 25 min long. After running through the program and the extra DVDs, I find myself repeating the week 3 and week 5 workouts....with some week 4...

Good, not quite great.
I've completed weeks 1-3 and am in the middle of week 4. Here are my thoughts:

1. The product itself is rock solid. I'm not worried about straps breaking on me, they are VERY sturdy. The rotational aspect of them is fairly underwhelming; the straps don't slide that easily, and so the difference between these and TRX are just not that noticeable.

2. The door anchor... meh. You won't have a lot of clearance between the door and your feet with away facing movements, so your feet may bang on the door. The metal portion just below the strap that is the door anchor will also scratch your door up if you don't use the protective cover. Even with that, it still scratched up la quinta's bathroom door.

3. The DVDs: LOTS of recycled footage, which annoys me. You'll be very tired of the warmup and cooldown by week 3. Also, there is quite a bit of plyometric stuff, especially jumping jacks, so if you have issues with high impact, you might not tolerate the...

AWESOME system and workout... but with IMPORTANT warnings
Review originally posted under an identical product listing for Rip60 on Amazon...

AWESOME system and workout... but with important warnings

This is an AWESOME system and workout. The workout covers everything: Balance, Agility, Flexibility, Endurance and Strength. It takes about an hour each time and runs four to five days a week depending on the week. In the time it takes me to drive to the gym and back I can get in a great workout and not leave the house and waste time along with gas and gym membership money. I absolutely love it.

In my opinion, the trainer (Jeremy Strom) knows what he is doing, why he is doing it, and is good at it.

Warnings:

(1) Finding a place to mount this system which has the required space available might be harder than it appears. I don't know if you would have a door would work like it shows in the advertisements and it won't work as well as on the videos (the straps are suspended freely in the videos)...

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