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Adios, pilates. Gone are the slow, structured "I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum" workouts emphasizing a yoga-based spirituality, and in their place is the latest "it" exercise. Martial artist Billy Blanks created Tae-Bo, the fast-paced, super-sweaty stepchild of kickboxing. Popularized by a sleek advertising campaign heavy on late-night infomercials, and garnering the support of Carmen Electra and Sinbad, Tae-Bo now constitutes a veritable alterna-robics empire. Blanks himself is on the way to superstardom, having appeared on a recent episode of "ER" in which he schooled...
Adios, pilates. Gone are the slow, structured "I doubt I've worked off the calories in a stick of Carefree gum" workouts emphasizing a yoga-based spirituality, and in their place is the latest "it" exercise. Martial artist Billy Blanks created Tae-Bo, the fast-paced, super-sweaty stepchild of kickboxing. Popularized by a sleek advertising campaign heavy on late-night infomercials, and garnering the support of Carmen Electra and Sinbad, Tae-Bo now constitutes a veritable alterna-robics empire. Blanks himself is on the way to superstardom, having appeared on a recent episode of "ER" in which he schooled...
...Tae-Bo advanced workout burns...
...class at age 11. Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself. He won scores of karate titles, appeared in a string of B movies and was born again--in that order. He is a preacher in an athlete's body, and Tae-Bo is his one true gospel. "Tae-Bo is the only exercise that will give you everything you want," he says...
...tell that to Marsha Boysaw, 37, an attorney who works out to Tae-Bo four times a week. Her abs jut out below a damp sports bra as she discloses that she lost 38 lbs. in her first six months of Blanks' vigorous workouts. Jackie Gradinger, 30, a veteran of the treadmill and step aerobics, proclaims Tae-Bo "the hardest workout I've ever done." She too is impressed by its effect on her waistline, but she adds, "I do it mostly for my mind." Lynne Devlin, 37, a preschool teacher who ordered the tapes in January, finds the mind...