First Love and VF Connection - Page 2

Sabresfan · 02-17-04, 10:32 AM

I actually starting working out with tv shows. I started with the Fitness Pros on ESPN and a year or two later they also started having Crunch workouts on ESPN and I did those also. I can't even remember my first video, I had some WW ones a long time ago and Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland.
I found VF while doing a search for exercise videos. It was just kinda dumb luck that I ended up here, I wouldn't have even thought about looking for a messageboard about exercise videos.

Megan · 02-17-04, 11:41 AM

Same here, Sabresfan. Just googled for fitness videos and came across the main VF site. It's funny that I never thought to look for a forum on video fitness before, because I have been very active in forums for other interests.

I got my first fitness videos only about a year ago, when I found Crunch Boot Camp, Bellydance Slimdown with Neena and Veena and two of the NAC videos (Interval Challenge and Body Parts) at local discount stores. This was after a failed attempt at joining a gym. I picked up a few more locally after that, but didn't really expand my collection until last September when I got back into videos after a summer break, found VF, then collage video and the rest.

SharonNYC · 02-17-04, 12:06 PM

My first videos were actually audios: Jane Fonda's Workout(1982) and later her New Workout. I did one or the other of these almost every day until I got my VCR in 1989. Bought a few actual vids. Jane Fonda's Complete Workout and her Workout with Weights introduced me to weight training and choreographed cardio. Added Margaret Richard, Kathy Smith and Cher's New Attitude. And then I found some yoga vids in 1991/2(?).

Found Collage at about that time and tried some other things and when the Internet developed into a more user-friendly medium for information in the early 90s I thought there had to be a way to find more videos, more options. Eventually I found it with VF -- but I think, oddly enough, I got to VF through a link from Wendy's French language site in around 1996. Couldn't believe my luck -- or the throughness of my searching techniques.

Josee D · 02-17-04, 01:25 PM

The first video I fell in love with was Step Reebok the video . A friend of mine had lent it to me. Wow! I just could not believe it! I did it over and over again.

At some point in 1996 I came across the VF link via an internet magazine "Go girl", I think WWWendy was writing reviews for them. The a hole new world open, I discovered Karen Voight! I think Your personal best is the first video I bought as a result of discovering VF.

ARTYGIRL · 02-17-04, 02:12 PM

My first video was "Callanetics," before there was even an idea of a consumer-oriented thing called "the Internet"! Later, though, I acquired Jane Fonda's Step and Abs and Keli Roberts' Ultimate Step and fell madly in love with step aerobics. I still love those two workouts, and still do them sometimes, although now that I'm a Catheite, I'm amazed at how easy they seem. They used to feel so hard!

I don't really remember how I found VF. I think I was looking for video reviews online and Yahoo! or Google came up with it. I checked in, found all these great people having such fun, lively discussions, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Marie

suebella · 02-17-04, 02:21 PM

...two to three months before I ever found the forum. I think the first thing I read on the forum was the yoga crosstrainers check in and I was fascinated.

I've had videos/and now dvds for seemingly forever. I had Jane's record back in the day and my first strength training was Kathy Smith's "Secrets To.." series.

First yoga was Rodney Yee's "Yoga For Meditation."

Aaaahhh....memories.

bdandy3 · 02-17-04, 02:25 PM

My first workouts were Tamilee Webbs Thighs of Steel & Abs of Steel...and Jane Fonda's step aerobics tape.

I found VF by accident..searching for something video fitness related and stumbled across it..and what a ride it has been!

Rhae · 02-17-04, 02:46 PM

My first videos were not my first loves--Total Body Aerobics something or other--very hard to follow and could not figure out what she was doing, so gave up on that for a while. Eventually, a friend gave me some tapes that I could follow (she wasn't using them and never got "hooked" on videos like I did) Buns of Steel 6, and Denise Austin Fat Burning Blast-2nd Section. This got me to subscribe to Fitness or Shape to come up with new routines and ideas, and here they had a listing of favorite fitness websites that included VF. For a couple years all I did was read reviews and learn that what other people liked was not necessarily what I like, and that's when I started reading the forums for more information and finally posted a couple of months ago.

My first videos I really loved were Keli Roberts Ultimate Step and the one with Cher, I Want Those Arms and Cathe Friedrich Wedding Video because I could do these and not get bored with the TIFT and marching in place of some of the others that I learned with.

toaster · 02-17-04, 03:43 PM

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Originally posted by Sabresfan
I actually starting working out with tv shows. I started with the Fitness Pros on ESPN

Like my neighbor from Buffalo, I started with ESPN shows too--I loved the Fitness Pros (I always found Tracy York a bit too peppy for my tastes though)! I also used to tape Gilad's shows, and my friend and I worked out with him all the time. That was usually during the summers when I was in college; when I was in grad school, I had access to a gym, but I also purchased my first video, one of Tamilee's Buns of Steel series. I moved up here to Rochester in 1994 and acquired a few more videos within the next 6 years or so--another Tamilee, Donna Richardson, and Cory Everson's Get Hard Arms & Shoulders.

I don't remember how I first found out about VF--I think I just surfed on in--but it was probably the late 1990s. I thought that the video exchange was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and I acquired a few more videos around that time. Then around 2001, I decided to give yoga a try, so I again acquired a few more videos, getting up to around 10-12. I had that many until this past summer or so; I got married in June, and after that, I needed something new to focus on, so I choose exercise! Since then, I've made lots of new acquisitions--mostly thanks to very generous VFers--so now I'm up to 32 videos.

Whew, sorry that was so long!

LCC · 02-17-04, 07:22 PM

I started working out with Charlene's tv show...way long time ago. I used to love the Fitness Pros and the Reebok show that rotated Gin, Petra, and the tiny girl who always did latin and salsa...anybody remember her name?

The first videos I remember getting were a Jane Fonda one and Callenetics...on Beta.

My first video LOVE was step. I did Denise Austin's Step, Jane Fonda's Step, Kathy Smith's Step, and Keli Robert's Ultimate Step until I just about wore them out.

I found VF searching for info on some workout I was thinking about ordering from Collage...a long time ago. Whatever software it was using at the time required a user name, and having NO idea what I was registering for, I just put in my work initials (LCC) just so I could see the info on the long since forgotten workout. And, viola! Interesting stuff! Had I known I would practically live here, I might have put some more thought into my user name.

Laura (LCC)

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02-17-04, 10:32 AM
Sabresfan Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Buffalo, NY	I actually starting working out with tv shows. I started with the Fitness Pros on ESPN and a year or two later they also started having Crunch workouts on ESPN and I did those also. I can't even remember my first video, I had some WW ones a long time ago and Cindy Crawford and Kathy Ireland. I found VF while doing a search for exercise videos. It was just kinda dumb luck that I ended up here, I wouldn't have even thought about looking for a messageboard about exercise videos.

02-17-04, 11:41 AM
Megan VF Supporter Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Ontario	Same here, Sabresfan. Just googled for fitness videos and came across the main VF site. It's funny that I never thought to look for a forum on video fitness before, because I have been very active in forums for other interests. I got my first fitness videos only about a year ago, when I found Crunch Boot Camp, Bellydance Slimdown with Neena and Veena and two of the NAC videos (Interval Challenge and Body Parts) at local discount stores. This was after a failed attempt at joining a gym. I picked up a few more locally after that, but didn't really expand my collection until last September when I got back into videos after a summer break, found VF, then collage video and the rest. __________________ Megan

02-17-04, 12:06 PM
SharonNYC VF Supporter Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Brooklyn, New York	My first videos were actually audios: Jane Fonda's Workout(1982) and later her New Workout. I did one or the other of these almost every day until I got my VCR in 1989. Bought a few actual vids. Jane Fonda's Complete Workout and her Workout with Weights introduced me to weight training and choreographed cardio. Added Margaret Richard, Kathy Smith and Cher's New Attitude. And then I found some yoga vids in 1991/2(?). Found Collage at about that time and tried some other things and when the Internet developed into a more user-friendly medium for information in the early 90s I thought there had to be a way to find more videos, more options. Eventually I found it with VF -- but I think, oddly enough, I got to VF through a link from Wendy's French language site in around 1996. Couldn't believe my luck -- or the throughness of my searching techniques. __________________ Sharon (You can get to my sketchblog through my profile page.) __________________________ I'm what I am, and what I am, Is back on Boogie Street. Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson "Boogie Street" 10 New Songs. (I have a professional/personal relationship with an instructor who produces video and book material relevant to this site.)

02-17-04, 01:25 PM
Josee D VF Supporter Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Montréal, Canada	The first video I fell in love with was Step Reebok the video . A friend of mine had lent it to me. Wow! I just could not believe it! I did it over and over again. At some point in 1996 I came across the VF link via an internet magazine "Go girl", I think WWWendy was writing reviews for them. The a hole new world open, I discovered Karen Voight! I think Your personal best is the first video I bought as a result of discovering VF.

02-17-04, 02:12 PM
ARTYGIRL VF Supporter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Berkeley, CA	My first video was "Callanetics," before there was even an idea of a consumer-oriented thing called "the Internet"! Later, though, I acquired Jane Fonda's Step and Abs and Keli Roberts' Ultimate Step and fell madly in love with step aerobics. I still love those two workouts, and still do them sometimes, although now that I'm a Catheite, I'm amazed at how easy they seem. They used to feel so hard! I don't really remember how I found VF. I think I was looking for video reviews online and Yahoo! or Google came up with it. I checked in, found all these great people having such fun, lively discussions, and the rest, as they say, is history. Marie __________________ Marie (Artygirl) "A trimuph of art over logic" (Manic Street Preachers)

02-17-04, 02:21 PM
suebella VF Supporter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Paris of the Midwest	Read the reviews at VF for a good... ...two to three months before I ever found the forum. I think the first thing I read on the forum was the yoga crosstrainers check in and I was fascinated. I've had videos/and now dvds for seemingly forever. I had Jane's record back in the day and my first strength training was Kathy Smith's "Secrets To.." series. First yoga was Rodney Yee's "Yoga For Meditation." Aaaahhh....memories. __________________ Suze How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” - Author Unknown, but definitely not me.

02-17-04, 02:25 PM
bdandy3 VF Supporter Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In the desert - boy, is it HOT!	My first workouts were Tamilee Webbs Thighs of Steel & Abs of Steel...and Jane Fonda's step aerobics tape. I found VF by accident..searching for something video fitness related and stumbled across it..and what a ride it has been! __________________ Beth You cannot be good or bad at yoga. Just do what you can and you will reap the rewards. Alan Finger

02-17-04, 02:46 PM
Rhae Exchange Moderator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Montana	My first videos were not my first loves--Total Body Aerobics something or other--very hard to follow and could not figure out what she was doing, so gave up on that for a while. Eventually, a friend gave me some tapes that I could follow (she wasn't using them and never got "hooked" on videos like I did) Buns of Steel 6, and Denise Austin Fat Burning Blast-2nd Section. This got me to subscribe to Fitness or Shape to come up with new routines and ideas, and here they had a listing of favorite fitness websites that included VF. For a couple years all I did was read reviews and learn that what other people liked was not necessarily what I like, and that's when I started reading the forums for more information and finally posted a couple of months ago. My first videos I really loved were Keli Roberts Ultimate Step and the one with Cher, I Want Those Arms and Cathe Friedrich Wedding Video because I could do these and not get bored with the TIFT and marching in place of some of the others that I learned with.

02-17-04, 07:22 PM
LCC VF Supporter Join Date: Nov 2001	I started working out with Charlene's tv show...way long time ago. I used to love the Fitness Pros and the Reebok show that rotated Gin, Petra, and the tiny girl who always did latin and salsa...anybody remember her name? The first videos I remember getting were a Jane Fonda one and Callenetics...on Beta. My first video LOVE was step. I did Denise Austin's Step, Jane Fonda's Step, Kathy Smith's Step, and Keli Robert's Ultimate Step until I just about wore them out. I found VF searching for info on some workout I was thinking about ordering from Collage...a long time ago. Whatever software it was using at the time required a user name, and having NO idea what I was registering for, I just put in my work initials (LCC) just so I could see the info on the long since forgotten workout. And, viola! Interesting stuff! Had I known I would practically live here, I might have put some more thought into my user name. Laura (LCC)