Abcentric - Tracy Anderson - Metamorphosis by Tracy - 4 DVD Set

I really admire Tracy a lot, and have successfully completed and reviewed six of her previous videos. But I am concerned about what would happen to a woman who got ahold of Metamorphosis who was already prone to an eating disorder. (Note: you can find copies of the Dynamic Eating Plan online.)Tracy makes big promises about how your body will change during her 90 day program, but only if you commit to her eating plan and do 30 minutes of dance aerobics combined with 30 minutes of muscular structure work six days a week.Basically, her "eating plan" is baby food and green juice. I’m not a nutritionist, but I did type every last ingredient into the computer and determined that the diet is less than 1,000 calories a day and contains barely any protein. The puréed foods plan alternates every other week, but the off weeks aren’t very different in caloric or nutritional content.Now, I’ve made homemade baby food before. I’ve fed it to my actual babies. But at the same time, I also breastfed them with high protein, high fat, organic, breast milk.Okay, forget the diet. What about the exercise? I honestly do love TAM, and have been doing it six days a week for the past eight months. Metamorphosis was a nice change of pace from Perfect Design, because it was only one hour a day instead of one and a half.But here’s the problem. All of that dance cardio was really hard on my 30+ year old body. I’m not overweight, I have a BMI of 19.8. Still, every time I bounced I felt pain in my Achilles tendon. It got so bad that my calf hurt when I was sitting in a chair, or completely still.I took a week off from TAM when my family went to Walt Disney World and the pain went away even though we were walking twelve miles a day. When we returned from vacation, I decided that instead of doing the high impact dance cardio every day, I would alternate it with Zumba, which is lower impact.I felt really guilty, because Tracy’s whole shtick is that you’re not supposed to do anything else but TAM. But what does it mean to be “healthy”? To starve yourself? To be in pain?Diet–scratch. Dance cardio–scratch. At least I was doing the muscular structure workout six days a week. But it was tough, especially for me. You see, in the Abcentric routines Tracy has you spend about twenty minutes in some sort of plank position, with a lot of your weight on your wrist. One of my wrists is really weak because it has two titanium plates in it. Gulp. So now I’m on week five of the muscular structure videos and they are becoming harder and harder. I can complete about 85% of the thirty minutes. At that point, my wrist just can’t do it any more.I've heard the Metamorphosis Omnicentric program is easier to do. I've thought about switching over to that, but in the meantime I'm back to Zumba and pilates.

If ANY trainer tells you not to lift weights heavier than 3 lbs and to train in a hot room, run for the hills. Tracy Anderson is a fitness industry joke. I don't know a real trainer (Joe Dowdell, Valerie Waters, Chad Waterbury... the list is VERY long) who doesn't view her as an industry menace. Her absolute lack of understanding about the SCIENCE of fitness is alarming. Steer clear of anything associated with this individual. You can do A LOT better - But you'll DEFINATELY need to lift significantly heavier weights than three pounds to get there.