Okay, I'm back
I'm not sure what is on the website, but there are 7 separate tapes (I chose VHS). Three are just cardio - they range from 32 minutes to 36 minutes long, so they are what you are supposed to do first before a strength workout.
He has alot of his newer boxing-type moves in the cardio tapes, which I'm not all that comfortable/familiar with, but one of the tapes doesn't have that many of those punch-jab type moves, so I do that one more frequently.
The strength tapes are : Chest & Back; Hips, Thighs and Buns; Abs; Shoulders and Arms. I already to alot of upper body work with my other step routines, so I hardly ever do the Shoulders/Arms nor Chest/Back. However, the Abs routine and the Hips Thighs and Buns are killer!
The strength tapes are also relatively short - 15 to 20 minutes only.
The idea is to get a great workout done relatively quickly, with doing a cardio tape first, then choosing a strength tape.
Gilad suggests a workout routine with starting slowly at first, then building strength and endurance. He has a suggested schedule for each day of the week.
Also in the System is an "eating guide" which tries to simplify good eating by color coding foods - there are pages of foods listed, in order from good ones (green) to okay occasionally (yellow) to bad stuff (red) (refined sugars, refined flours, bad fats, etc.)
There's also a blank booklet that's to be used as your personal workout schedule/log. There was a CD rom also, but I had trouble with it with my Mac computer, so I never used it.
Was it worth it? for me, yes. The workout tapes are solid and proven strength builders.
Hope this helps!
btw, my unfortunate weight gain this summer happened 'cause I just about ceased to exercise, a big change from exercising 5-6 times a week. I also ate kinda whatever I wanted. I guess I got off lucky 'just' gaining 20 pounds. I can still squeeze into size 13 jeans, but it's not all that pretty
