Rocky Mountain Workout

Personal fitness trainer Colin Cree and a pair of co-demonstrators lead viewers through a series of resistance exercises aimed at conditioning the entire body, using exercise bands, a jump rope, and a chair. Onscreen text lets viewers know what muscle or muscle group is tied to each exercise. While the instruction is sound, the overall production--in an area virtually flooded with high quality product--is weak. The program has an unrehearsed, at times uncertain, feel to it; Cree's co-demonstrators occasionally seem off-count (or, during the jump rope exercise, unable to perform the movements); and portions of the work space are underlit, so that from some camera angles the demonstrators are in shadows. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Pitman)