My wife is an intelligent woman with a Master's Degree and a teaching certificate. That being said, she has driven me nuts over the last couple of days insisting we get some exercise DVD called "Hip Hop Abs". She saw the infomercial on TV and was so impressed by the workout, which promises "NO SIT-UPS...ONLY DANCING TO THE LATEST HIP HOP BEATS", that she taped it and had to show it to me. And I watched it as people who had six-pack abs proceeded to dance like Freedom Williams with of course one or two really uncoordinated softbellies planted way in the back, presumably for posterity sake.

This thing costs $80 (or as my wife insists, ONLY four payments of $19.99). Lord knows I need to lose some weight but I just believe that if the will is there it can be done the old-fashioned way, without infomercial gimmicks. Should we just plunk down the money or do y'all think that it's a bunch of hooey?

GottaLetitgo said:

Is it gonna make you dress like a twat and teach you that one foot on the kerb one foot off walk?

If so.....slide on by

gene gene the dancing machine never lost a pound. i'm just sayin'...

GottaLetitgo said:

For her, yes, but for you, no, if you can't dance.

If you have no desire to dance around your house to hip-hop, don't bother.

But if you do, it looks like a great workout. I've actually considered ordering it myself except I don't have the room in my apartment. One of my favorite ever gym classes was mostly dance stuff to fun music, but it was actually an INCREDIBLE core workout. And a bazillion times more fun than doing crunches all the livelong day. That's the point of these 'gimmicks', making excersize somewhat interesting so you actually DO them, instead of dreading them.

Anx said:

No! No, no, not six! I said seven! Nobody's comin' up with six! Who works out in six minutes? You won't even get your heart going... not even a mouse on a wheel! Seven's the key number here! Think about it! Seven-Elevens! Seven dwarfs, seven, man, that's the number! Seven chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eating lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch! You know that old children's tale from the sea! It's like, you're dreaming about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brei time, baby!
Step into my office! Because you're fuckin' fired!

at least there was some "exercise" involved in this gimmick. i hate hate hate hate hate those commercials advertising the "miracle diet pills" that melt the fat off you without any exercise at all. those are geared toward us fat lazy americans who can't manage to get up off our collective asses and actually WORK to lose weight.




that being said my miracle pills should be arriving within the week.

CarrieMpls said:

As a dancer...well, I play a mean harmonica.

The thing that scares me about this is that they promise that you can lose up to 6 inches in a week. 6 inches! That sounds unrealistic to me. Also, where exactly do those inches come from?

GottaLetitgo said:

you mean it makes you shorter?!?

GottaLetitgo said:

This is hip hop dude they all have small penis complexes hence the crotch grabbing.....what they mean is you will lose 6 inches off the old fella so you will be nearer to their size .....

Can you afford to lose that much?

GottaLetitgo said:

plunk it down! do it!

it's for a good cause. any fitness motivation is well worth the money.

and then, once you have the DVDs we at the ORG will look forward to seeing pics/clips of your hip hop abs

hip hop rabs

mdiver said:

Yes, we can.

Damn.

You're gonna look really good in her pants now.

Imago said:

Imago said:

I can barely fit into mine lately but yes her maternity pants were real comfortable.
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Well, do you have to purchase it "together"? Why can't she just buy it for herself & as she's doing the workout & looking goofy, you can make fun of her

http://www.youtube.com/wa...QcM3d1ZrPM

GottaLetitgo said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...dX_OBUeHb4

CalhounSq said:

Yeah, I mean I'm just looking at it as a non-necessary budgetary expense but it's not like I never have any of those of my own. I just can't believe how bad they suckered her. She has probably said the phrase "hip hop abs" like 500 times in the last week.

I think they are using subliminal messages and my wife's brain has somehow been turned to mush.

Check out the web site...if you dare!

http://www.beachbody.com/...itemID=239

I just saw the commercial for this.

It looks like it could give you those tight, sexy abs you've always wanted, without all that effort & pain of crunches. And it's just so fun! The music gets me pumped!

I saw the infomercial Sunday. They got me too. I havent ordered yet,But I've visited the website like 8 times since Sunday. It looks so much fun,and they dont use corny aerobics music. And I love to dance

Im gonna wait,I just KNOW they'll mark it down to 39.95 one of these days.

ThreadCula said:

omg, I'm so waiting too! I loved the infomercial!

CarrieMpls said:

Yeah I bought the Winsor Pilates set when it came out and now you can get it for less

Why not just dance to hip hop in your livingroom and save 80 bucks?

Stymie said:

exactly!!!!

that's what i did after i saw the commercial -- for real!!! i wanted to buy it immediately, but knew it would be foolish to do.

then i put on a prince cd and started dancing, mimicking their ab focused moves. i did that on Sunday, and I tell ya, yesterday, I FELT THE BURN!!!!