Charlie Brooks: Before and After Workout

Fitness trainer Dee Thresher puts Charlie Brooks through her paces in this keep-fit guide. Starting with a warm-up, the guide goes on to demonstrate moves based around disco, combat, high intensity, and a Pilates cool down.
One of the most acclaimed celebrity fitness DVDs of recent times, Charlie Brooks Before And After Workout finds fitness trainer Dee Thresher putting the former soap star through her paces with a series of five ten minute workouts.
Brooks herself claims to have lost a couple of stone using the routines on the disc already, and its easy to believe why. And rather than, as some in the genre choose to do, focusing heavily on the celebrity, this fitness discs puts its firm emphasis on the workout routines. Theyre explained clearly, are straightforward to follow, and theres enough variety to ensure you dont get bored.
The routines are of varying difficulty, and unless youre already fighting fit, its feasible that youll have some trouble with them in the early days. But then thats the point. And because none of the workouts outstay their welcome, theres little reason not to stay motivated. Sure, youll end up working hard, but theres nothing on this disc that outstays its welcome.
Its surprising perhaps to find a fitness DVD that has earned such acclaim, but having followed Charlie Brooks Before And After Workout through, the plaudits are well deserved. So if youve ever been frustrated by a celebrity workout disc thats proven to be more about the former than the latter, then this will be a very welcome treat.–Ann Foster