A shaggy-haired Jackie Warner’s back on Bravo with a new weight-loss show, Thintervention, beginning next week.
We see you Jeana.
To vicariously live the Thintervention experience, Jackie’s got a couple of workout DVDs on the market. The first, One-on-One Training with Jackie, was shot in 2008. The second, Personal Training with Jackie: Power Circuit Training, was released last year. 
Of the two, One-on-One is the better DVD. It stars familiar faces from the gym including Rebecca and Agostina. The one hour workout is divided into three sections: arms, legs, and abs. Jackie’s not reinventing the wheel; we’re talking lunges, squats, sit-ups, and biceps curls. Each trainer does a different part of the workout as Jackie cues the exercises and corrects form. Most workout videos aren’t very challenging, and on a scale of 1 to 10, this one ranks about a 6.5. Overall, it is a pretty well-rounded and complete strength training workout. You will need about a six by six area of clear space and a set of hand weights. 
Power Circuit Training has different menu options: 40 minute total body, 15 min total body, 15 min abs, 15 min lower body, and 15 minute upper body. The full workout runs 42.54 minutes. No familiar trainers here; never seen these folks before. Jackie leads her usual warm-up for about 5 minutes. The circuits begin with legs, followed by chest, back, arms, and abs. Warner relies on boring (but effective) moves like squats, lunges, and shoulder presses. There are three exercises per circuit; first done slower and longer, then faster and quicker. Jackie actually exercises; sometimes with questionable form. This one did not feel very challenging. Too much of it involved lying on floor. Compound movements would make this video more interesting, effective, and calorie torching. On a scale of 1 to 10, a barely taxing 4.
The idea of spending $100 on workout pants seemed ludicrous. Then one day it became clear why Lululemon is worth the investment. During yoga, your pants may be revealing more than you realize. Less substantial yoga pants are so transparent that the entire outline of your junk can be seen in certain poses. Straight up Penthouse Pet inner-labia bitches. 
Celeb-preferred and now ubiquitous, Lululemon, the pricey Vancouver-based company, has become the fitness apparel choice for runners, yogis, and gym bunnies. This shit ain’t cheap. Choke the price down. 
The thick, absorbent, wicking, compressing, miraculously flattering proprietary fabric won’t reveal your noni, and will flatter your body before you even work up a sweat. With common sense care, this gear last years. Serious durability means no buyer’s remorse.
Start with one pair of pants and marvel at how good they make your ass look, but please don’t become one of those dumbass bitches so intoxicated with the sight of her own ass that she uses these pants to shamelessly troll for men at the gym.
Celebrate the longest day of the year with 108 Sun Salutations.
Nobody wants to smell your stank pits. If you can smell yourself, you smell. Don’t impose your funk on others.
This one’s for the yoga teachers, don’t confuse class with your American Idol audition. No matter how much you love chanting and the sound of your own voice, the whole class doesn’t want to listen to you chant for several minutes. A short chant is fine if that’s your thing, but save the anything over a minute for your personal practice.
Don’t be such a pussy. You are going to feel some discomfort; it’s just part of the process. Sharp pain is not. Take it easy, but don’t give up at the first pang of resistance. Yoga is character building because it teaches you how to cope with discomfort.
So you better like it on all fours because that is where you are going to be for a good part of Perfect Design Series: Sequence 1. Tracy upgraded nearly every aspect of production for this round of videos. From the get, she changed the menu so you can add or subtract music and commentary. The menu also subdivides the workout, warm-up, and her interview segment. The music selections, primarily Spanishy guitar instrumentals, also improve over her first effort.
Tracy biffs it in a few departments. The woman refuses to hold a stretch. Most of this routine can’t be learned; it looks and feels pretty random – especially the arms and the standing abs section. Spending so much time on the knees hurts, easily the first fifteen to twenty minutes of “butt work” is done on all fours. I shudder to think where she built up all this on-her-knees stamina. 
Tracy wants $30 for each sequence or $85 for all three, add to that the dance cardio meant to be done in tandem for $15-$30, and you are over a $100 deep in workout videos. Furthermore, it is super annoying that none of her videos are available on Netflix — as of yet.
In sum, Perfect Design Series: Sequence 1 is an improvement over Tracy’s previous efforts in terms of production and quality. However, you can dress a whore in Chanel and she’s still a whore, and in this case a leg lift, is a leg lift, is a leg lift. If you don’t enjoy spending twenty minutes on all fours doing leg lifts, this video is probably not for you.
We’ve all heard mixed reviews of celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, who claims to sculpt Gwyneth Paltrow, Emily Blunt, Kate Hudson, and many other celebrities. Tracy has three workout videos on the market, Tracy Anderson Dance Cardio Workout, Tracy Anderson Mat Workout, and Tracy Anderson Post-Pregnancy Workout. I have done all three videos several times, and here’s the honest scoop.
If you have stumbled upon reviews of Tracy’s Dance Cardio Workout on Amazon, then you know that she is quite the polarizing figure. People seem to either love or hate this DVD because it is both lovable and absurd at once. It took me several weeks to learn every dance sequence, but now I know the whole DVD forwards and backwards. I would be surprised, however, if most people will take the time to master eight routines. It is akin to cheer-leading camp on steroids.
Between the two Mat videos, I actually prefer the Post-Pregnancy Workout which focuses on the core more than her traditional Mat Workout. The Post-Pregnancy workout includes a challenging leg section, a relatively short arm strengthening sequence, and a long killer ab section. I have never had kids and wouldn’t necessarily consider this video post-pregnancy specific.