Exercise videos and DVDs: Are they worth their weight in gold, or do we buy they with high hopes, only to see them end up as dust-catchers on a shelf?

Recently, I've started working out again with my trusty Pilates video: Stott Pilates 22-Minute Mat Workout. This particular title is from 2001, and I'm not sure if it's even available anymore, but the Stott Pilates line is still around. I really enjoy this particular video because it's truly a beginners workout; even with my out-of-shape arms, legs, and core, I can still perform the marjority of the excercises.

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Back in the early 1970s, I remember seeing Jack LaLanne on television, wearing his trademark body suit and a big smile. For those of you too young to remember Jack, he is widely known as the “Godfather of Fitness,” and he touted the benefits of exercise (or ‘calisthenics,’ as it was known in those days) back when such information was treated with suspicion, even by doctors.

Says Jack on his Web site, “People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me – they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.”

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