Customer Rating: 
Summary: An intense 3-mile workout!
Comment: This is one intense 3-mile workout! I liked the variations on regular moves--the cross-over knee lifts use muscles you didn't know you had, the lunges with the WalkBelt were demanding, the grapevine/knee lift combination asks your muscles to quickly move your body around.
The nice thing about Leslie's workouts is that once you learn the techniques, you can adapt them to pretty much any of her other videos to increase the intensity. The variations in this workout are definitely going to be incorporated in the other LS workouts I do.
At the end of Mile Three she says you can use the WalkBelt in Mile Two and just adapt to the moves. To me Mile Two is the most intense mile in ANY of the LS workouts I own (and I own a lot, including the 4-Mile Express and the fairly new 5-mile). My new fitness goals are: 1. Get through Mile Two without collapsing, and 2. Once I can do that, add the WalkBelt.
I just got this video yesterday and did the workout last night. I liked it so much I've bought a second copy to keep as a spare. This video is going to get a lot of use from me. (P.S. I'm 60 years old.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: More than just a walk...
Comment: 7/12/06
I have Leslie's first ever Walk Aerobics tape, which I have been working out to since the beginning of June. Wanting a little more variety, I purchased the 1,2,3 workout, and I am happy that I did.
I have never worked out consistantly before. I've done other workout videos, but they were so hard to follow, I ended up feeling like an idiot. Leslie is encouraging. She lets you know that it's okay if you mess up, but the moves are so simple that you can't mess up. It's so easy to follow, but by the end of that 3rd mile, you find yourself sweating like crazy!
I've noticed subtle changes in the shape and tone of my body. I have lost about 8 lbs, and my clothes are fitting better. I have more energy, and I feel great.
The best part about these tapes is that they are so easy to follow, and if some of the moves are too easy, you can motify them to fit your level of fitness. I tend to run in place during some of the easy walking parts between kicks and knee lifts. I also do the workout everyday, so I am able to mute the tape, and follow it while listening to the radio. It's that easy.
All in all, this is a great workout tape to start out with. If you have ever felt like an idiot because you couldn't follow a routine, give this tape a try! You might actually look forward to working out, like I do.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Oldie But Goodie
Comment: This is one of Leslie's older workout videos, but there is still plenty of smiles, activity, motivation and new moves to go around. I am especially inspired by the "grandma" in the group. If she can get up and move that body, so can I! Mary Kay introduces some new routines, but she doesn't give time for transistion and I lost my place more than once. In time, I am sure I will catch on. It's still a great workout and therefore turns from old to gold. Five stars for Leslie!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun easy workout. I lost 12 pounds!!
Comment: I love this video. You can do 1, 2 or all 3 miles. Lots of variety in the steps, much more so than her Walk Away the Pounds Tapes. Leslie and Mary Kay are very encouraging. I lost 12 pounds doing this workout. One of my Favorite Leslie Sansone workouts.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Enjoyable as always, quirkier than most..3 miles well spent!
Comment: A slight variation on most of Leslie's videos, in that it takes place in her actual living room & she is joined by perhaps half a dozen walkers of varying ages, differing costumes & no real cohesiveness. They are acknowledged but not encouraged to participate in the chatter. Some of them seem ill at ease, & the overall quality of the camera work is a bit more amateurish & home movie-ish than one might expect.
Still, a great warm-up to the 3 miles, a slightly more subdued & businesslike demeanor from Leslie...all's on the up & up...until the second mile, which is given over to one of the Walkaerobics instructors, Mary Kay, who emerges from her fellow background walkers & proceeds to demonstrate a frenzied, almost sadistic, CERTAINLY challenging workout for a full mile. Whoa!!
While I appreciate shaking up the formula now & again (& Mary Kay is one impressive broad with her boundless energy & exaggerated & innovative moves), she doesn't quite have Leslie's gift of reaching the widest possible audience & making this sweat-inducing challenge seem accessible. But she's inspiring in her own way.
Leslie returns, bringing the proceedings to a satisfying cool-down & stretch. Even with the jolt of the middle portion, it's a great & well-spent 3 miles. I think it dates from 1998 & looks relatively contemporary, has pleasant, beat-driven instrumental music & less emphasis than usual on posture/benefits of exercise/talk of fluid & muscle activity & joints & other fitness jargon.
Overall a fun presentation & worth owning, I think, for an occasional change of routine.
I love Leslie Sansone & actually appreciate her cheery chatting...she has a spiritual, joyful quality that shines through the script as well as genuine kindness & determination.
Track this down & enjoy!
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