Cert: Cat.no: GVD 022 Running time: 52 minutes Year: 2001 Pressing: 2001 Region(s): 2 (UK PAL) Chapters: 48 Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo) Languages: English Subtitles: None Fullscreen: 4:3 16:9-enhanced: No Macrovision: Yes Disc Format: DVD 5 Price: £14.99 Extras: None Producer: Marty Ehrlich Director: David Wohlstadter

Meet Anna. She smiles.

She's a gorgeous Russian blonde and as fit as a butcher's dog and now tennis star-cum-model Anna Kournikova has released her own fitness programme entitled Basic Elements.

In this 52-minute workout, she takes you through your paces starting with a few warm-up routines, then three sections devoted to the upper body, two to the lower body and finally a cool down session. Hands up all those who'd quite like a session with Anna Kournikova's glistening, tanned lower body?

She also provides extra tips along the way about nutrition in the form of power breakfasts, dietary guidelines, high fibre diet and diets in general.

With so many classic, freeze-frameable moments, how can you turn down this DVD?

Skydiving practice was a late addition.

No alarms and no surprises, the picture is presented in 4:3 fullscreen and it's a fairly clean video transfer although artifacts do rear their ugly head from time to time. The average bitrate is 6.5Mb/s, occasionally peaking over 8Mb/s.

The sound is plain stereo and is mostly used for dialogue and synth backing music, the sort that might accompany a video game.

Where Granada have really gone to town on this disc though is the chapters since there are 48 covering the 52 minutes on view, which is one for each element of the programme plus opening and closing credits. However, there's nothing at all in the way of extras, sadly.

Work that upper body!

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.