Who is this guy and what is this product?
John Izzo – Moving More Muscles
| Throughout the year, John conducts workshops for personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts alike where he educates and shares information regarding proper exercise programming, corrective exercise, performance improvement, and physique alteration. These workshops are highly recommended to trainers starting out in the field, as they help steer young minds in the right direction to build a successful career as a personal trainer, and to encourage exercisers to use effective exercise techniques to reach their goals. |
What does this product claim?
| Designing exercise programs has never been easier now that the rationale behind them is discussed! A lecture portion discusses the idea behind creating balanced exercise programs and the benefits of incorporating push/pull compound sets including increased fat lows and performance enhancement. The practical details a circuit with intricately designed combo sets. Perfect exercise demonstration, cueing of students, and video quality. Over one hour in length and perfect note-taking format. Easily to become the best standAPART has to offer! Handout included with purchase. |
Where can I get it and how much does it cost?
$28
Review:
Production Quality
This DVD is a capture of a live seminar that John gives brand new “shiny’s” trainers or enthusiastic folks starting to think outside the box and wanting to educate themselves on physical fitness.
Picture quality is good displayed on a 42” 480p LCD. There are a few issues in the beginning of John standing in front of the camera during a demonstration and a short period at the very end with some stuttering (which might have been my personal DVD\player). Otherwise video quality is very adequate and not worth mentioning to either extreme. Demonstrations are clearly visible and over all quality is sound.
Sound quality is good. There’s a warning in the beginning of the DVD that mentions that audio levels would fluctuate, but I didn’t notice any. John’s voice is loud (enough) and clear the entire time.
Layout\Format
The DVD content itself is divided in to two large segments classroom and demonstration. The first is a theory portion where students are introduced to program design elements such as setting the core, importance of exercise\muscle balance, and mention on tricking clients into doing corrective exercises (and why they’re necessary) as part of their normal program. As noted above this is an entry-level course so most topics are covered fairly briefly and there’s a fair amount of assumption that a client “will” have X problems VS how to figure out if they have X problems.
The second portion of the DVD is a live run through a sample exercise routine with John going through with normal people and making corrections to form when necessary with explanation where the person is doing something wrong and the person correcting. The workout consists of a group warmup and six supersets w\ a little extra here and there for about 20 total movements. Each movement gets the oral explanation followed by the visual and when the shiny tries it you see that some of them lied…”No you didn’t get it”. This portion is especially interesting due to the sheer volume of corrections that need to be made. That’s no knock on the people learning by any means but serves as a reminder for trainers and trainee’s to make a special effort to do things correctly and try various explanations so everyone can “get it”. Cues, comments, followed shortly by light bulb moments and now everyone is doing cable rotations with the best of them.
Does it do what it says\Final Thoughts
The DVD is fun to watch. John is interesting and enjoyable. Information is valuable and is presented in an easy to understand format. Their are two handouts that are a great addition to the product that allows you to follow right along with the seminar and take the exercise routine to the gym to try it on your own. This addition is a small but nice touch that makes the entire product a little more practical to the buyer. Going from the product description the item does exactly as it claims in that the “push\pull” logic is presented with clear demonstrations of it in your training sessions. The presentation as a strict beginner level is a mixed blessing. If you’re new to the scene and need a primer for what you’re doing and why then you’ll likely get a lot out of this. The theory portion gives you a foundation to build off of and the demonstrations are presented in a way that if you do the given exercises correctly you’ll probably be able to figure out other exercises because you know what feels “right”.
If you’re more of an intermediate level enthusiast then perhaps the DVD might not present a great deal of new information and hopefully, you’ve figured out some of the major form issues. You might appreciate the interaction from a coach\client perspective or might be able to pick up some tips on how to convey the presented theory, but the item itself wasn’t necessarily intended to present “you” with new and cutting edge super info.
Purchase recommendations would depend on your personal backgrounds and needs. $30 is a pretty fair price. If you’ve got a fair amount of bar time and a strong background then this product isn’t intended for you and you might be disappointed if you’re looking to get technical. If you’re a beginner looking for some training 101 and some excellent demonstrations on some exercises that you might not be familiar with then this is right up your ally.
As a final note, if you’re a member of “Standapart Fitness” you’ll be extended a combo offer which combines Moving More Muscles and Eye of the Trainer for $35
