In case you have never heard of T-Tapp, I thought I had better supply an answer here instead of just giving links to the webpage. The official TTAPP site and the sites of the magazine and trainer that I list here do say it better than I can, but I can give a lay-person description that might be easier to swallow.
"What is TTAPP?"
TTAPP stands for Teresa Tapp, the creator of a workout system called T-Tapp, or Better Body Basics for Women.
Here are two links that break down what the moves are like and talk about how the creator of it put them together, what her background is:
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Health and Fitness Magazine Article
At http://www.ttapp.com, there are articles to read about the moves and clips you can download to see parts of the videos. One of the veteran T-Tappers has actually come up with a routine that, if you can download and see the articles and the video clips, you can do to "try before you buy" the tapes. Here is a link to her post on the ttapp discussion forums:
The total workout video comes in instructional, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. There are additional tapes that target specific areas (Point of Perfection videos), an abdominal, glutes, and thighs tape (Hit the Floor), tapes that you can customize your own workout for variety (Mini Max tapes), and really challenging full body workout plus full ab workout combination tapes (Maxi Max tapes). T-Tapp to Tempo, a 40 minute version of the full body workout, was released late last fall. Torso to Tempo is in the works. it will concentrate on the upper body (great for us shortt torso people!) Hit the Floor Harder is also now available. There are Point of Perfection (POP) tapes for many moves also. These take one move or sequence and break it down into minute detail, and are designed to help you more fully understand the finer points of each move. I think there are more than a dozen of these. Teresa has released a new Beginner/Rehab tape which is fantastic, the Basic Plus video contains the moves on the first instructional tapes and adds Hoe-Downs to it for a really nice 15-20 minute start to your day. T-Tapp to Tempo Arms and T-Tapp to Tempo Torso have also just been released, and are awesome for variety. There is a great tape that is sort of T-Tapp yoga, called "Extended Stretching and Linear Alignment", and it will be my next purchase. Fantastic for inner thighs, especially, and it's a fairly short tape. T-Tapp MORE videos are in production, as well as “Step Away the Inches”.
The moves that T-Tapp consists of are low impact, rehabilitative, and great for all ages and fitness levels. The moves combine aspects of ballet, dance theory, tai chi, pilates, and yoga. The theory is to warm up the body, put it into proper alignment , and then fatigue large muscle groups layer by layer. If you work the muscles on the outside layer really hard, you have to use deeper muscles... this is where her knowledge of physical therapy comes in.
Compound complex muscle movement combined with isometric isolation is what really stimulates the inch loss. You are holding your tummy tight, your butt is tucked and tight, your legs are in her copyrighted KLT position (knee to little toe), your knees are bent way deep so they are further out than your toes.. (this incorporates the necessity of having proper knee to foot alignment and knee to hip alignment, and protects your back from injury).. and your shoulders are back way far like someone put ice down your back, with your lats engaged. Roll your shoulders back and down, and you have just activated your latissimus dorsi muscle. Hugely important for loss in the torso. You hold these contractions for approximately 45 minutes while you do 8-10 reps of each move she has, plus stretches and water breaks... and building that core and holding those muscles really really makes you work. It takes a while to get it all going together, but over time you get it. It seems deceptively easy at first, but the better you get at holding those contractions, the more difficult the workout becomes. Do not merely watch the instructionals and then move to the beginner rehab tape. Do the instructionals for as long as you can stand. I did them for a total of 4 months, then I moved to the beginner rehab, which I did for 5 months.
Her workout is also great for your immune system and lymphatic circulation. Lymph vessels are right next to your blood vessels all throughout your body... but unlike the circulatory system that has the heart to pump the blood, there is no heart-like organ to pump the lymph through the vessels. Walking is a great exercise to get the lymph flowing, and many of the moves in T-Tapp are designed for it too.. the muscle contraction and release is the thing that works it the most. Teresa Tapp's mom died of brain cancer at age 29, so Teresa was interested in ways to avoid cancer and to study it as she grew up. She is genetically linked to the same cancer that killed her mother. She actually has a swollen lymph node that drains down to the size of a grape when she is working out regularly, and swells to the size of a walnut when she doesn’t.. It’s her own personal barometer for how well her body is coping with toxins, carbs, and medications. In one of her videos, you can see her lymph node swollen to the size of a walnut! I have personally felt the lymph drain down the sides of my neck and out of my groin area during stretches.. its what her workout is designed to do.. as well as rev up your metabolism and shrink your body as far as inches. I attended 2 three hour workout sessions with Teresa at the Washington DC T-Tapp clinic in December of 2001, and learned a phenomenal amount about the workout from her detailed instruction. I also attended the Safety Harbor Fitness Retreat she hosted this past September, and became a certified T-Tapp Trainer.
The initial investment is hefty, $79 for the instructional/beginner set, which includes the two instructionals, the beginner tape, and the Basic Plus workout, along with the written instructions and a few audio tapes. You can sometimes find the tapes on ebay, but the final price with shipping ends up being about the same most of the time. I find the tapes totally worth the money, and I am always wanting to add to my regimen. If you think about what a gym membership would cost per month, the tapes are much cheaper. You can’t buy them in stores yet because they are too new, and they don’t come on DVD. (They do come in the European/PAL video format if anyone reading this lives in Europe.) Some people complain about the quality of the tapes… She was on a pretty low budget when she started and did the original videos for someone else. Some of the tapes were shot in her living room! She has recently re-shot the instructionals, which are available at the TTAPP website. They include a wide range of ages, there are men and women in the new instructionals, and the new camera angles are better at showing the correct way to do the moves. I was not the least bit deterred by the fact that they were not superbly produced and flashy and perfect. The workout and the inch loss are what motivate me, not how expensive the tapes were to film.
After you get to a point where you can recite the form reminders on the Beginner Rehab with Teresa, I would encourage you to purchase T-Tapp to Tempo, and then get Hit The Floor. I did nothing but what was in the $79 set, the instructionals and beginner tapes, for the first 9 months and I lost nearly every inch that way. So don’t think you need to continue to fork out money to see results. I love this workout. I love the results it gives, I love the inch loss, how good I feel, strong, energized, my posture is better, I know infinitely more about my body and how it works and why fat collects in certain areas based on my body structure... It’s so hard to talk about all the benefits of this system, there are so many. There are no other workouts based so firmly in science, and making the body healthier from the inside out, at least that I have ever come across.
A lot of people report chronic pain being lessened or gone entirely if they do this workout faithfully. (I got my realtor in Tennessee started with T-Tapp and she told me that it made her chronic neck and back pain from a car accident 12 years ago vanish as long as she kept to the every other day workout regimen doing a T-Tapp video), people who are diabetic and on insulin have reported that they have had to have their insulin dropped several times in a short span of weeks (one is a personal friend of mine), and a man who attended the Washington DC clinic I was at has gotten increased nerve conductivity in his back after an accident, measurable by his doctor. Aimee Dubuisson of Louisiana started the T-Tapp workout after her doctor told her that her life was in danger from heart problems and diabetes unless she did something fast. She began doing as much of the T-Tapp workout as she could, and today she is off all heart medications and has been downgraded from diabetic to hypoglycemic. One of my friends at church reports after 7 workouts that her arches are strengthening and is walking much better and with less pain. The great thing about Teresa Tapp is that she loves to hear about inch loss success, but health benefits of the T-Tapp workout are what she gets really thrilled about.
Speaking of results.... everyone is different. Your proximity to your goal weight will have an effect on how fast you lose. People with a lot to lose, like I had at 185, tend to lose a lot of inches quickly. BUT, the closer I got to my goal (size 8), my inch loss slowed to a crawl.. because I was getting close to goal. Keep these things in mind as you are waiting for results. Common form mistakes are not bending the knees deeply enough, not pushing the knee out to little toe far enough, not keeping your shoulders far enough back. I lost a total of 36 inches off my measurements from March 2001 to December 2001. I went from a 14/16 to a size 8 doing Weight Watchers and T-Tapp. I lost about 20 inches doing both, and about 15 more not on WW but still doing T-Tapp. I feel better when I am on Weight Watchers or eat cleanly, but it does not seem to have an effect on my weight maintenance or inch loss. Your mileage may vary, and not everyone loses as fast as I have. But that’s my personal story. You can read more about me on the link to the left!
I am incredibly passionate about T-Tapp, my license plate can attest to that! I am currently trying to get together a Raleigh area T-Tapp support group, where those of us that do the videos and those interested can get together once a month to do a T-Tapp workout and share form tips and get to know one another!
I am so glad you were interested enough in TTAPP to come visit my site, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. I love to talk about this program!
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